Select the correct answer. What was the purpose of the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) in late 2008? A. The US government raised taxes in an attempt to cover the costs of relief programs. B. The US government paid off the debts on defaulted mortage loans. C. The US government printed more money so people could buy stocks. D. The US government financially rescued failing banks to stabilize a struggling economy.

Which statement in the passage best reflects sumer's opinion of the dred scott decision? a."i speak what cannot be denied." b."[the] judgment was sustained by a falsification of history." b."the opinion was more thoroughly abominable than anything history." i speak what cannot be denied when i declare that the opinion of the chief justice in the case of dred scott was more thoroughly abominable than anything of the kind in the history of courts. judicial baseness reached its lowest point on that occasion. you have not forgotten that terrible decision where a most unrighteous judgment was sustained by a falsification of history. -charles sumner, 1865