(02.01 LC)How were the French and Dutch colonial projects different from the Spanish?

(05.04, 05.05 MC)Question refers to the excerpts below.”All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”Source: 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution, 1868″The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”Source: 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution, 1870How did these amendments affect African Americans living in the South in the first few decades after the Civil War?

(04.04 MC) Use the data table to answer the following question. Assets (billion $) Liabilities (billion $) Total reserves 3,000 Deposits 18,000 Loan 15,000   Total 18,000 Total 18,000 Assume the required reserve ratio to be 10%. Is the bank holding any excess reserve? If so, then what is the magnitude of the excess reserve?

(03.01 LC) Which of the following components will be included in determining the aggregate demand of a country?

(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, 1845One effect of the sense of American superiority described in this excerpt was

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

(04.01 MC)Question refers to the excerpt below.”In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in the multiplicity of interests, and in the other in the multiplicity of sects. The degree of security in both cases will depend on the number of interests and sects; and this may be presumed to depend on the extent of country and number of people comprehended under the same government. This view of the subject must particularly recommend a proper federal system to all the sincere and considerate friends of republican government, since it shows that in exact proportion as the territory of the Union may be formed into more circumscribed Confederacies, or States oppressive combinations of a majority will be facilitated: the best security, under the republican forms, for the rights of every class of citizens, will be diminished: and consequently the stability and independence of some member of the government, the only other security, must be proportionately increased. Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.”Source: James Madison, from The Federalist No. 51, 1788What argument does Madison make against the Anti-Federalist perspective?

(04.06 MC) Which of the following stands correct about the lags in fiscal and monetary policies?

(03.02 MC) If the multiplier that affects the GDP of a country in response to a change in its taxes is −3, then what is the country’s marginal propensity to save?

(04.07 MC) If an economy is experiencing equilibrium in the loanable funds market with an 8% interest rate, what are the consequences if the interest rate falls to 6%?