The economic mood in the United States just before the stock market crashed in 1929 could best be described as
a. anxious.
b. supremely confident and optimistic.
c. pessimistic.
d. fearful.
e. deeply ambivalent.
Question 2
George McGovern, the Democratic nominee for the presidency in 1972, alienated the traditional working-class backbone of the Democratic party
a. by opposing the closed shop and minimum wage laws.
b. when he advocated an end to the Vietnam War.
c. when it was discovered that he had undergone psychiatric care.
d. by appealing to racial minorities, feminists, and youth.
e. by opposing the power of labor unions.