Farmers opposed the gold standard because they claimed that it would
a) cause high inflation
b) undermine the national economy
c) make the currency unstable
d) cause prices for their crops to decline

Which area of russia is volcanically active? a. ural mountains b. baltic sea c. kamchatka peninsula d. volga river

Which statement best summarizes the outcome of the haitian revolution? a. french colonists agreed to remain in haiti to the new countryplan its government. b. france gave up control of haiti, but it forced haitian leaders toallow slavery to continue. c. haiti established a short-lived democratic government, but it wassoon colonized again by spain. d. haiti became independent from france, but the fightingdevastated its economy.

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is