Which of the following reasons did not contribute to the rise of "King Cotton"?
a. Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin in 1793
b. soils and climate of the new Southwest
c. large shifts in slave populations
d. declines in slave populations that drove mechanical innovation
d. declines in slave populations that drove mechanical innovation.
Economics
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Which monetary policy tool is considered an expansionary tool?
(A) Decreasing the discount rate. (B) Cutting taxes. (C) Increasing the reserve requirements. (D) Increasing government spending.
Economics
A decrease in default risk on corporate bonds ________ the demand for these bonds, and ________ the demand for default-free bonds, everything else held constant
A) increases; lowers B) lowers; increases C) does not change; greatly increases D) moderately lowers; does not change
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