In 1998, the federal budget
A. set a record for deficit spending.
B. saw its first surplus in thirty years.
C. was one-third smaller than it had been six years earlier.
D. had cut military spending in half from its Cold War peak.
E. had paid off the national debt.
B
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A. Pascal B. Hobbes C. Locke D. Boyle E. Newton
Which of the following is true of Chief Justice John Marshall?
a. He made the Supreme Court the equal of the other branches of government in practice as well as theory. b. He refused to accept cases that were politically sensitive. c. He consistently upheld the power of the states in relation to the power of the federal government. d. He upheld the principle of government regulation of industry despite Federalist objections.
By July 1940, the countries of __________ had become puppet republics within the Soviet Union.
A. Estonia, Poland, and Hungary B. Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania C. Lithuania, Finland, and Poland D. Finland, Romania, and Hungary
The panic of 1857 was most significant in its
a. severity as the worst economic downturn of the century. b. duration as the longest economic downturn of the 1800s. c. sectional character and psychological impact, pushing the North and South further apart. d. devastation in the plantation strongholds of the South. e. promotion of national unity in the face of hardship.