Stock speculation most directly contributed to the great depression by-

a. increasing the worth of only a small percentage of companies

b. artificially inflating the value of publicly traded

c. stocks allowing corporations to make risky loans to consumers

d. pushing regulators to clamp down on financial companies

D. Pushing regulators to clamp down on financial companies

the correct answer is: (1) affected by gerrymandering; (2) not affected by gerrymandering.

gerrymandering is known as a practice that intends to establish a some kind of political advantage for a particular party or group. to do this district boundaries are manipulated. the new resulting district is named a gerrymandering.

in other words, what gerrymandering does is to draw the boundaries of electoral districts trying to benefit the party who is doing it. sometimes, the party controlling the legislature will redraw it so they can maximize the number of districts they are likely to control.

the answer is b hope that