Global problems of uneven economic development, environment pollution, and hunger reflect the need for _______.
[13GOV] What is a major result of the Supreme Court decision…
What is a major result of the Supreme Court decisions in McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) and Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)?
[07US] Which of the following established the practice of le…
Which of the following established the practice of legally segregating White people from African Americans in the South after Reconstruction?
[04HIST] Read the following passage; then answer the questio…
Read the following passage; then answer the question that follows. … The expansion of communications meant that the world got more deeply connected and became “flat,” in Thomas Friedman’s famous formulation. Cheap phone calls and broadband made it possible for people to do jobs for one country in another country—marking the next stage in the ongoing story of capitalism. With the arrival of big ships in the fifteenth century, goods became mobile. With modern banking in the seventeenth century, capital became mobile. In the 1990s, labor became mobile. People could not necessarily go to where the jobs were, but jobs could go to where people were. And they went to programmers in India, telephone operators in the Philippines, and radiologists inThailand. The cost of transporting goods and services has been falling for centuries. With the advent of broadband, it has dropped to zero for many services. Not all jobs can be outsourced—not by a long shot—but the effect of outsourcing can be felt everywhere.… — Fareed Zakaria, The Post-American World, W. W. Norton & Company, 2008 Which conclusion about the global economy is best supported by this 2008 passage?
[01HIST] Use the excerpt below from a Georgia newspaper in 1…
Use the excerpt below from a Georgia newspaper in 1856 to answer the question that follows. Free Society! We sicken at the name. What is it but a conglomeration of greasy mechanics, filthy operatives, small-fisted farmers, and moon-struck theorists? . . . The prevailing class one meets is that of mechanics struggling to be genteel, and small farmers who do their own drudgery; and yet are hardly fit for association with a southern gentleman’s body servant. The newspaper article quoted above could best be used to illustrate which aspect of American life in the late 1850s?
[07US] Study the two photographs below; then answer the ques…
Study the two photographs below; then answer the question that follows. This pair of photographs suggests that the major purpose of the Carlisle Indian School was to _______.
[13GOV] Balancing individual rights and freedoms with the ne…
Balancing individual rights and freedoms with the need for national security has been one of the biggest challenges created by _______.
[14GOV] Which action illustrates the concept of checks and b…
Which action illustrates the concept of checks and balances?
[16ECO] Japan sells cars to the United States, the United St…
Japan sells cars to the United States, the United States exports high technology to Saudi Arabia, and Saudi Arabia exports oil to Japan. Which is a valid conclusion that can be drawn from this statement?
[07US] Read the following passage; then answer the question…
Read the following passage; then answer the question that follows. “… We therefore formulate, and for ourselves adopt the following pledge, asking our sisters and brothers of a common danger and a common hope, to make common cause with us, in working its reasonable and helpful precepts into the practice of everyday life. I hereby solemnly promise, God helping me, to abstain from all distilled, fermented and malt liquors, including wine, beer and cider, and to employ all proper means to discourage the use of and traffic in the same.…” — National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union,1908 (adapted) According to this passage, those who adopted this pledge believed that _______.