Question 1
The Battle of Saratoga (1777)
a. encouraged Americans to give up.
b. demonstrated that local militia units were useless.
c. persuaded the French to help the new American government.
d. proved that the British were capable of defeating an American army anywhere, any time.
Question 2
During the Clinton years, the American economy featured
a. its highest unemployment rate in thirty years.
b. a rising standard of living for both the nation's richest people and the nation's poorest people.
c. a rapidly declining stock market.
d. an ever-narrowing gap between the incomes of the rich and the poor.
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