Agovernment can try to minimize business cycles by: a. promoting growth during the contractionary phase of the business cycle. c. disregarding new technologies during the contractionary phase of the business cycle. b. promoting growth during the expansionary phase of the business cycle. d. increasing the money supply during the expansionary phase of the business cycle.

The correct answer is A.

Business cycles comprise both expansionary phases of economic growth and contractionary phases of recession.

In order to minimize the size of the oscillations that ocurr since the peak is reached in the growth period until the trough arrives during the recession period, the goverment can use the fiscal and monetary policy mecanisms, but in the opposite direction than the one of the growth trend. This means that a contractionary policy (decrease money suppply) should be used during the expansionary phase, while an expansionary policy (increase public spending), needs to be applied in a recession.

answer: secession

secession, as it applies to the outbreak of the american civil war, comprises the series of events that began on december 20, 1860, and extended through june 8 of the next year when eleven states in the lower and upper south severed their ties with the union. the first seven seceding states of the lower south set up a provisional government at montgomery, alabama. after hostilities began at fort sumter in charleston harbor on april 12, 1861, the border states of virginia, arkansas, tennessee, and north carolina joined the new government, which then moved its capital to richmond, virginia. the union was thus divided approximately on geographic lines. twenty-one northern and border states retained the style and title of the united states, while the eleven slave states adopted the nomenclature of the confederate states of america.

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a

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