They were supposed to meet the French Foreign Minister,Charles Maurice de Telleyrand, instead he sent three agents Jean-Conrad Hottinguer, Pierre Bellamy and Lucien Hauteval to negotiate a bribe of 50,000 pounds and a loan to the French government before negotiations could begin.
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After the Civil War and 13th Amendment, slavery was abolished from the United States. This left 4 million former slaves or freedmen to fend for themselves while looking for jobs, homes, and educations during the period of Reconstruction.
The Freedmen's Bureau was created by the government to help the freedmen transition. They helped tons of former slaves through meals, healthcare, labor contracts, and the building/funding of schools and colleges.
They attempted to redistribute land (choice C) but most efforts were unsuccessful and it wasn't the main purpose. It was not created for suffrage (choice B) or to help prospective politicians (choice D). This leaves choice A as the best answer.
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C. the settlement of the Neolithic farmers
A. the rise in the belief of life after death
E. the unification of Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt
D. the building of the step pyramid
B. the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza
Explanation:
Neolithic settlements in Egypt appeared even around 6000 BC.
The rise in the belief of life after death is as old as first civilizations that appeared here.
King Narmer unified Egypt around 3100 BC.
Step pyramids, including Djoser pyramid were built during 3rd dynasty, around 2650 BC.
Pyramids of Giza were built during period of Old Kingdom (2575-2134 BC)
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D. Businesses will suffer from decreased sales and profits, eventually leading to closure.
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An economic recession is defined as a significant decline in economic activity during several months in a row, and whose impacts can be seen in economic indicators like unemployment rate or gross domestic product.
During an economic recession, economic activity actually falls, meaning that the amount of either consumption, investment, exports, imports, or government spending decreases, leading to job losses, income reduction, loss of confidence in the economy, closure of firms, and falls in the tax revenue that the government obtains from economic agents.
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There wasn't a victory.the Europeans exhausted themselves. The US only prolonged the conflict for about a year, at which time the Europeans thought that an armistice was the only way to not perish. The real victory came in 1919, when President Wilson went to Versailles to hold court and chop up the map of the world in the image of a racist, imperialist, white, Western European/American hegemony, complete with “reparations” that assured the flow of gold primarily out of Germany, and primarily into the US. Wilson was able to hold the dominant position at Versailles because the US was one nation that was not utterly spent, in terms of men and material and resources.
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