The correct answer is:
The decision by Congress in 1873 to stop buying and minting silver.
The Coinage Act of 1873, signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant, was a general reform of the laws associated with the Mint of the United States.
The act was later criticized by advocates of bimetallism as the "Crime of '73" because it ended bimetallism in the United States, by setting the nation on the gold standard.
21. The Tet Offensive was a strategic blow for the U.S because it showed the communists did not lose the will to fight. Therefore the answer is B. The offensive was a surprise attack and was large in numbers.
For 22. Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon oversaw the conflict. Therefore the answer is C. Dwight E. Eisenhower was never a president.
<span>For starters, technology developed and now a lot more people could hear these adresses and see them on TV and hear them through the radio and they could be recorded and studied. The Supreme court decisions were important because they decided what would happen to people and their rights. For example, the supreme court first decided that separate but equal was a good doctrine, but later they decided it was unconstitutional. The addresses could affect public opinion to support something that the congress didn't want, and the supreme court would act on behalf of the people.</span>
I think it is unlikely to occur and if it occurs only a small portion of Europe. The printing press becomes a significant factor of the spreading of Protestant Reformation due to the access of information is much easier and effective to transmit around rather than word of mouth. The prints also are easier and cheap to produce.
D is the one, but it is a trick question. Catholic Spain DID try to get the Netherlands to convert to Catholicism and remain under Spanish rule, but it never worked! The Netherlands resisted, and asked for (and got) English help in resisting the Spanish overlords. It led to the Thirty Years War, in which the Netherlands fought back against the Spanish.
Spain tried everything from the Inquisition to bloody reprisals, and the persecution of the Dutch Protestants. The English "loaned" Willliam of Orange to the Netherlands, who defeated the Spanish army.
