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The 2008 economic event called the Great Recession was caused by mortgage lenders approving risky mortgages to buyers with poor credit and widespread foreclosures of these homes led to a stock market crash in which many stocks lost half their value. Barak Obama will take office in 2009 with a $400 Billion stimulus package to kickstart the economy.

Which president expanded the powers of the federal government since the New Deal when Congress helped pass his Great Society programs such as HUD, Medicare, and food stamps.

Which statements best explain President Reagan’s economic policies called Reaganomics.—- Choose 2

__________________________________, was the cofounder of NOW (National Organization for Women), authored Feminine Mystique, and was an activist who encouraged the passage of the ERA or Equal Rights Amendment for women.

Screenshot 2024-04-24 at 2.10.31 PM.png What was the leading geographic cause for the flooding in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina?

“We hate the agribusiness system that seeks to keep us enslaved and we shall overcome and change it not by retaliation or bloodshed but by a determined nonviolent struggle carried on by those masses of farm workers who intend to be free and human.”-Cesar Chavez, Excerpt from Letter from Delano, 1969Cesar Chavez and others were seeking better pay and treatment of migrant workers in America. This boycott was a large part of the Chicano Movement.

When the U.S. spy planes detected Soviets were building missile silos in Cuba, Kennedy’s immediate response was

The election of 2008 was historically significant because __. Choose 3

While I cannot take time off to name all the men in the State Department who have been named as members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring, I have here in my hand a list of 205 that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party, and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department. -Senator Joseph McCarthyThis speech given by Sen. Joseph McCarthy contributed to

How did the League of Nations respond to Japan’s invasion of Manchuria in 1931 and Hitler’s annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938? (Hint: sign of weakness to Japan and Germany)