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Question 1

Which of the following ended the Great Migration of Puritan settlers to the Massachusetts Bay colony in the first half of the seventeenth century?
 
  a. religious tensions
  b. economic distress in the homeland
  c. a lack of interested migrants.
  d. Oliver Cromwell's rise to power in England.

Question 2

The banking crisis that began in the United States in 1929 was caused in part by
 
  a. the Federal Reserve Board's decision to raise the discount rate several times during the previous year.
  b. enactment of legislation during the Coolidge administration to impose higher taxes on interest income.
  c. risky loans made during the 1920s.
  d. the collapse of the World Bank.



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