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[06US] Which of the following statements best describes the impact that Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin had on large cotton plantations?

[05US] Read the stimulus (an excerpt from a 1776 letter written by Abigail Adams to her husband John). Use the information below to answer the questions that follow. I long to hear that you have declared an independency — and by the way in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If perticuliar [sic] care and attention is not paid to the Laidies [sic] we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation. This excerpt best illustrates the use of ______.

[09GEO] Look at the following image; then answer the question that follows. Which statement can best be supported by the information on this 2003 map?

[15ECO] If 200 jobs are available and only 100 people are unemployed, what will have to happen according to the laws of supply and demand?

[01HIST] Read the excerpt below from an article by C. V. Wedgwood; then answer the question that follows. The major changes in historical interpretation do not, as the layman often imagines, arise from the discovery of new evidence. . . . [W]hat is most likely to happen is that the historian will find what he is looking for, namely, the documents which will explain and illustrate his own point of view. . . . It is his job as a scholar to form as exact an idea of past events as he can from the surviving evidence. But the instrument with which he looks at the past is modern. . . . It is his own mind. And however much he bends his thoughts toward the past, his own way of thinking, his outlook, his opinions are the products of the time in which he lives. The author’s observations in the excerpt above best support which of the following generalizations about the writing of history?

[08US] One Cold War policy initiated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s administration was _______.

[17PSY] Maslow stated that people are motivated to achieve certain needs.  When one need is fulfilled, a person seeks to fulfill the next.  Which of the following need is the highest one on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs?

[16ECO] 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?

[12GOV] American writer Henry David Thoreau wrote that if a law “requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law.”  What idea is Thoreau supporting?

[01HIST] A historian studying the impact of the Civil War on American society is most likely to ask which of the following research questions?