One major accomplishment of President Mirabeau B. Lamar was __________
A. reducing spending and balancing the national budget
B. paying off most of the national debt
C. obtaining diplomatic recognition from France and Great Britain
D. obtaining a $10 million loan from the U.S. government
C
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Which of the following best describes the Atlantic Charter?
A) It was cobbled together by Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt at Yalta. B) It was a list of eight basic freedoms that included self-governance for all nations. C) It detailed plans for the development of the United Nations. D) It was the basis for the United States' invasion of Iraq. E) It was an alliance among all Western European countries that was designed to protect them from communism.
What was the focus of most laws in the Code of Hammurabi?
a. Holding the upper classes accountable to the lower classes b. Holding the lower classes accountable to the upper classes c. The management of the economy d. Marriage and family e. The behavior of local officials
Little is known about the early Germanic tribes that lived in northern and central Europe and crossed into the Roman empire because
a. any written history about them was destroyed in the sack of Rome. b. no civilization considered the Germanic peoples worth recording or writing about. c. the early Germanic peoples had no written language. d. as migrating tribes, little is known about their culture. e. there is no history of them in the records of the Baghdad libraries.
The sex workers and the organizations in the developed world trying to end human trafficking have which of the following in common?
a. Both see sex work as immoral. b. Both blame the men who buy the services of sex workers as contributing to the plight of women. c. Both pull on the heartstrings of their donors/clients about third world poverty and the plight of women to get money. d. Both understand the lived experiences of poor families in the developing world.