The Panic of 1857

question 90

Multiple Choice

The Panic of 1857

• A)caused bloody riots in which dozens of people were killed.
• B)increased hostility between northerners and southerners who disagreed over the tariff issue.
• C)lasted longer than any other nineteenth-century depression.
• D)caused millions of workers to join labor unions.
• E)all of these choices

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