(04.05 MC) Assuming no other change, there is a decrease in the nominal interest rate. How will the money supply in the economy change as a result of this change in the nominal interest rate?

(01.02 LC)Which of the following is true of the Spanish conquerors in the Americas?

(05.04 MC)Question refers to the excerpt below.”Now, therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief, of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days, from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States…And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.”Source: The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863Why did this document have little impact on slaves when it was issued?

(03.08 LC) Which of the following is an example of a contractionary fiscal policy?

(05.02 MC) Use the graph to answer the question that follows.Which point on the graph shows an inflationary gap in the economy?

(05.02 MC) Assume that the citizens of a country decide to save more and consume less due to a natural disaster. How does the movement along the short-run Phillips curve get affected, due to the demand shock in a country?

(05.05 MC) Which of the following statements explains the effects of crowding out in an economy over the long run?

(04.07 LC) The loanable funds market is in equilibrium when

(05.01 MC) Which of the following best explains the effect of a contractionary fiscal and monetary policy on the aggregate demand of an economy?

(05.01 MC)Question refers to the excerpt below.”We have not sought to extend our territorial possessions by conquest, or our republican institutions over a reluctant people. It was the deliberate homage of each people to the great principle of our federative union. If we consider the extent of territory involved in the annexation, its prospective influence on America, the means by which it has been accomplished, springing purely from the choice of the people themselves to share the blessings of our union, the history of the world may be challenged to furnish a parallel…We may rejoice that the tranquil and pervading influence of the American principle of self-government was sufficient to defeat the purposes of British and French interference…From this example European Governments may learn how vain diplomatic arts and intrigues must ever prove upon this continent against that system of self-government which seems natural to our soil, and which will ever resist foreign interference.”Source: James Polk, from the State of the Union Address, December 2, 1845Through the Mexican-American War that followed soon after these remarks, it is evident that “the people themselves” referred only to