"[MULTIPLE-MSELECT] What factors encouraged an increase in agricultural production during the 19th century?<fb>Only the development of the transport infrastructure is referred to as a factor in the text.</fb>
{
	=Railways 
	=Roads
	=Canals
	Fertilizers
	Cheap immigrant labour 
}"
"[MULTIPLE-MSELECT] Which historical period is mainly associated with rapid industrialization?<fb>After the Civil War had been won by the industrializing Northern states</fb>
{
	 1865-85
	=1865-1914
	1914-18
	1940-50
	1945-50
}"
"[MULTIPLE-MSELECT] How would you describe early economic activity in the US?<fb>Controls were few and wages usually very low.</fb>
{
	Tightly controlled
	=Unregulated
	High wage economy
	Highly restricted
	=Profit driven
}"
"[MULTIPLE-MSELECT] Roughly when was the notion of an 8-hour day introduced?<fb>Under President Theodore Roosevelt</fb>
{
	Late 1880
	=Early 1900s
	Mid 1920s 
	Late 1930s
	Early 1950s
}"
"[MULTIPLE-MSELECT] Which American president is generally considered to have been the first to intervene massively in the running of the economy?<fb>With the New Deal in the 1930s</fb>
{
	Theodore Roosevelt
	William Taft
	Woodrow Wilson
	Herbert Hoover
	=Franklin D. Roosevelt
}"
"[MULTIPLE-MSELECT] In which state was the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference held?<fb>Information in the text</fb>
{
	Florida
	Texas
	New York
	New Hampshire
	=California
}"
"[MULTIPLE-MSELECT] What was this conference concerned with?<fb></fb>
{
	Job creation
	Winding down the US war economy
	The division of Europe after the war
	=Monetary management
	How to re-deploy the armed forces
}"
"[MULTIPLE-MSELECT] What is Adam Smith most associated with?<fb> The other issues did not arise until much later in American society.</fb>
{
	=Free enterprise economies
	 Nationalization
	Regional development 
	Unemployment
	State intervention in the economy
}"
"[MULTIPLE-MSELECT] How did the US government react to the institutional financial failures of 2008?<fb> None of the other alternatives is remotely feasible.   </fb>
{
	It nationalized the US banking system
	It encouraged failing institutions to petition for bankruptcy
	It sought international loans  
	=It mounted a huge rescue operation
	 It closed the Stock Exchanges immediately    
}"
"[MULTIPLE-MSELECT] Which group has the highest % of people living below the poverty line?<fb>Information in the text</fb>
{
	Asians
	=African Americans
	Latinos
	Whites
	Native Americans
}"
"[MULTIPLE-MSELECT] What % of tax would a median income family pay in the US?<fb>Information in the text</fb>
{
	0.15
	0.2
	=0.25
	0.3
	0.35
}"
"[MULTIPLE-MSELECT] How would you describe the US balance of trade with other countries?<fb>None of the other answers would be historically accurate.</fb>
{
	In permanent surplus
	Usually in surplus
	Never in surplus
	In deficit since 1920
	= In deficit since 1980
}"
"[MULTIPLE-MSELECT] How does the Federal Reserve Bank try to promote economic growth?<fb>Information in the text</fb>
{
	=By cutting interest rates
	By increasing interest rates
	By issuing more dollars
	By distributing funds to other banks
	By lending more money to the US Treasury
}"
"[MULTIPLE-MSELECT] In which year did the US unemployment rate rise to a high of 9.9%?<fb>Information from Table 10.3</fb>
{
	2002
	2005
	2007
	=2009
	2012
}"