The correct answer is A) raised interest rates in an attempt to slow down inflation.
<em>Under President Carter, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates in an attempt to slow down inflation.
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When Jimmy Carter took the presidency of the United States the economy was improving slowly. But the Federal Reserve attempt to slow down inflation in the late 70s made the economy of the country to slow more. The U.S, recession of that time had been caused by the oil embargo, so President Carter’s idea to improve the economy of the nation was to reduce the dependence of foreign energy and petroleum.
In the 1800s, farmers have some complaints with regards to the farming business. One of these complaints came out to be the biggest one or the major one that happened in the late 1800s. It was their complaint on extremely high tariff on manufactured goods.
The best answer is Mrs. Crater claims that she would not give her daughter away for anything, when in fact she gives her away for nothing at all.
Explanation
If you talk about the irony of a situation, you mean that it is odd or amusing because it involves a contrast. So when Mr. Crater says <em>"I wouldn’t give her up for nothing on earth"</em>, she doesn't mean it because she even pays Mr. Shiftlet to marry her daughter.
The other answers does not demonstrate the true irony of the excerpt:
- Mrs. Crater asserts that Lucynell can sweep, cook, feed the chickens, and h o. but the girl also is very smart: This can be considered ironic but it is not the irony of the whole excerpt.
- Mrs. Crater is describing all of her daughter’s strengths to Mr. Shiftlet in the hopes that he will marry Lucynell: This is not an irony.
- Crater says she values her daughter more than anything in the world, but then she gives her away for a car: This is not true.
True, in order to make their mercantilist economy succeed Britain needed to import raw materials from its colonies
According to different estimates, between 65,000 and 120,000 sub-Saharan Africans enter the Maghreb (Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya) yearly, of which 70 to 80 percent are believed to migrate through Libya and 20 to 30 percent through Algeria and Morocco. Several tens of thousands (not hundreds of thousands, as media coverage might suggest) of sub-Saharan Africans try to cross the Mediterranean each year.
