Match Each Description with the Item Below

question 82

Multiple Choice

Match each description with the item below.
-John
A. Sutter

• A)was the young congressman who argued that Polk had maneuvered the Mexicans into attacking
• B)was the general-in-chief of the American army during the Mexican-American War and was called the "greatest living soldier" by the Duke of Wellington
• C)was elected vice president in 1840 but took over the presidency without having been elected to the office
• D)was one of the defenders at the Alamo who led the "regular army" soldiers, partly as a means to leave behind a checkered past in Alabama
• E)was the American who captured San Diego and Los Angeles after quarreling with General Stephen Kearny over who was in command of the army
• F)was the secretary of state who negotiated the treaty resolving the boundary between the northeastern United States and British Canada
• G)was known as "the Pathfinder" and became the most enthusiastic champion of American settlement
• in Mexican California and the Far West
• H)called himself the "Napoleon of the West" and suspended the Mexican national congress in the face of Texan rebelliousness
• I)founded a colony of European emigrants in California and sought to create a wilderness empire by putting Native Americans to work
• J)was a Franciscan friar who led the creation of a Catholic mission in San Diego, California

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Definitions:

Frictional Unemployment

The short-term unemployment arising from the process of matching workers with jobs, often seen as a normal part of labor market functioning.

Sectoral Shifts

Changes in the economic landscape that cause resources to be allocated differently across various sectors of the economy.

Structural Unemployment

A form of unemployment caused by a mismatch between the skills held by the unemployed and the skills demanded by the prevailing job market.

Natural Rate Of Unemployment

The level of unemployment consistent with a stable rate of inflation, where labor market is in equilibrium.