One result of Republican hard money policies in the mid-1870s was
a. the rise of the American dollar against foreign currencies.
b. damage to the country's credit rating.
c. the return to the silver Dollar of Our Daddies as the dominant form of U.S. money.
d. the defeat of a Democratic House of Representatives in 1874.
e. a political turn to the Democrats and the rise of the new Greenback Labor party.
Question 2
The economic status of the average American at the end of the Revolutionary War was
a. better than before the war.
b. probably worse than before the war.
c. about the same as before the war.
d. more closely tied to Britain than before the war.
e. more closely tied to France than before the war.
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