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casperchen82

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Henry George believed that the root of social inequality and social injustice lay in
 
  a. stock speculators and financiers who manipulated the price of real goods and services.
  b. labor unions that artificially drove up the prices of wages and therefore goods.
  c. landowners who gained unearned wealth from rising land values.
  d. businesspeople who gained excessive profits by exploiting workers.
  e. patriarchal ideologies that regarded women as inferior domestic beings.

Question 2

Following his infamous duel with Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr in 1806
 
  a. remained the trusted vice president and political confidante of President Jefferson.
  b. resigned the vice-presidency to become a member of the Federalist Party and prepared to run as a presidential candidate in 1808.
  c. was arrested for treason and found guilty of this political crime.
  d. was arrested and found innocent of murder.
  e. conspired with an unsavory military governor of the Louisiana Territory, General James Wilkinson, to undermine the legitimate authority of the U.S. government and expand their new confederacy to Spanish-controlled Mexico and Florida.



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Answer to Question 1

c

Answer to Question 2

e



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