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Question 1

Besides the fact that the Great Depression showed the highest unemployment rate of the twentieth century, what other generalization regarding unemployment can be made from interpreting the graph above?
 
  A) Unemployment has been a relatively minor issue in the twenty-first century.
  B) Unemployment has generally been lower during times of war.
  C) Unemployment continued to drop after the conclusion of a war.
  D) Unemployment was higher at the beginning of the twentieth century than it was at the
  beginning of the twenty-first century.

Question 2

During the late twentieth century, most of the interventions done by the United States in Central America and the Caribbean were conducted in order to __________.
 
  A) use the CIA to assassinate Latin American dictators
  B) remove the last vestiges of American imperialism in this region
  C) provide financial assistance to victims of natural disasters
  D) destabilize communist and leftist regimes in this region

Question 3

The Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania came to an end when __________.
 
  A) the rebel leaders were hanged for treason
  B) the conflict was settled peacefully between the rebelling farmers and the federal government
  C) tax collectors gave into the demands of the rebels and stopped collecting the whiskey tax
  D) Washington dispatched the militia against the rebels

Question 4

What was the primary reason during the 1870s and 1880s for the staggering extermination of the buffalo, which reduced their population by nearly three million and resulted in massive piles of skulls sent to fertilizer plants?
 
  A) preventing disruption to incoming trains
  B) forcing the Plains Indians to become dependent on reservations
  C) supplying the East with fashionable buffalo robes
  D) organizing elaborate hunting parties for Eastern and European social elites

Question 5

President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) __________.
 
  A) resulted in large expenditures to create a missile shield that failed
  B) was ultimately thwarted by Congress
  C) emphasized the use of traditional weapons rather nuclear arsenals
  D) was opposed by defense industry leaders



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Answer 1

B

Answer 2

D

Answer 3

D

Answer 4

B

Answer 5

A




RRMR

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Reply 2 on: Sep 21, 2019
:D TYSM


6ana001

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

 

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