Inflation can be described as the
A) increase in the sale of stocks on the stock market.
B) increase in the general price level of goods and services.
C) increase in currency in the money supply.
D) increase in the purchasing power of foreign currency.
E) decrease in the salaries of members of government.
Question -2-Which of the following was the ruling by the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case?
A) If facilities are equal, they can be separate for blacks and whites.
B) Segregation is inherently unequal.
C) Black Americans are not included and were not intended to be included under the word citizens in the Constitution.
D) Desegregation must take place with all deliberate speed.
E) The American military must be quickly integrated.
Question -3-The Glass-Steagall Act was passed following the Great Depression, and was designed to regulate the ________ industry.
A) agriculture
B) education
C) banking
D) pharmaceutical
E) military
Question -4-A black man who was among the first to be killed during the American struggle for independence from England was
A) James Baldwin.
B) William Julius Wilson.
C) Crispus Attucks.
D) Martin Luther King, Jr.
E) Hosea Williams.
Question -5-The only federal program the majority of Americans agree should be cut from the federal budget is
A) social services.
B) agriculture subsidies.
C) Medicare.
D) foreign aid to other nations.
E) education reform.
Question -6-Which of the following suggests that economic class and not race has had the greatest effect in determining the status of blacks in America?
A) Gunnar Myrdal
B) Charles E. Silberman
C) William Julius Wilson
D) Ralph Ellison
E) Edward Welch
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