The Panics of 1819 and 1837 were both triggered by:
A) a wave of bank failures.
B) state bankruptcies.
C) a stock market crash.
D) government refusal to redeem bonds.
Answer: A
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A) protecting slavery. B) the Supreme Court. C) banning slavery. D) popular sovereignty.
In a cross-cultural study comparing display rules in Japan, Canada, and the United States, Sadfar et al. (2009) found that
A. women expressed powerful emotions more than men in all three cultures. B. Canadians were less emotionally expressive overall than the other groups. C. women expressed the positive emotion of happiness more than men did in all three cultures. D. people in the United States were less emotionally expressive overall than the other groups.
William Henry Harrison
A. was a simple frontiersman with little money or resources to his name. B. died before he took office. C. was a Republican. D. was, in 1840, the youngest man to win the presidency. E. was a renowned soldier and popular national figure.
Ambassador Maxwell Taylor objected strongly to General William Westmoreland's urgent, February 1965 request for the deployment of American Marines to protect the air base at Danang because of his
A. belief that the deployment would encourage reckless action by North Vietnamese troops. B. opposition to the use of American troops in the defense of static positions. C. fears that the deployment would put the U.S. on a slippery slope to larger deployments. D. strong feeling that the U.S. needed to commit a substantially smarter force to South Vietnam.