18. An obvious defect in the United States' banking system that was
exposed during the Great Depression
O
A. excessive government regulation of banks
O
B. the federal government's ownership of banks.
O
C. an excessive amount of currency in circulation
O
D. the lack of protection for funds deposited by individuals in banks.

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monopolies  came to the united states with the colonial administration. the large-scale public works needed to make the new world hospitable to old world immigrants required large companies to carry them out. these companies were granted exclusive contracts for these works by the colonial administrators. even after the american revolution, many of these colonial holdovers still functioned due to the contracts and land

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they gained control over the philippines, east dutch indies/indonesia, much of new guinea, the solomon islands, guam, and other strategic areas all over the western pacific. japan even occupied part of the aleutian islands, which belonged to alaska.

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