Which of the following is true of the $100 million gold reserve that the federal government kept on hand?
a. It gave investors at home and abroad confidence in the nation's economic stability.
b. It was the lowest amount required to meet the government's obligations.
c. It was the result of farmers' demands that they be paid for all purchases by the government in gold.
d. It fluctuated so much in price that by 1893 people had lost faith in it.
a
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a. became greater than in all of Europe. b. had increased to the point of overpopulation. c. had begun to decline from seventeenth-century levels. d. remained tiny compared with the number in Britain. e. was about one-third of the population.
What was Peter the Great seeking when he pushed Russia to expand into the Black Sea and Straits of Bosporus?
a. access to Jerusalem b. access to the Patriarch of Constantinople c. access to African trade routes d. access to Sweden e. access to the Mediterranean Sea
The president credited for ending segregation in the armed forces was
a. Richard Nixon. b. Lyndon Johnson. c. Harry Truman. d. Dwight Eisenhower. e. John F. Kennedy.
How were the ideals of the "beat generation" of the 1950s similar to the ideals of the hippie generation that followed in the 1960s?
A. Both sets of ideals were based on defying what was considered respectable by mainstream Americans. B. Both sets of ideals were based on a limited appreciation for cultural conformity. C. Both sets of ideals embraced some aspects of the college-career "rat race" D. Both sets of ideals suggested that you can easily fit into society if you remain true to yourself no matter what.