Keywords R-S

Question 1

Rediscount rates

Answer 1

The interest rates at which banks borrow money from the Federal Reserve Banks.

Question 2

Reparations

Answer 2

War damages to be paid by a defeated country.

Question 3

Secede

Answer 3

To withdraw from an organisation.

Question 4

Secretary of State

Answer 4

US official responsible for the administration of foreign policy.

Question 5

Sectional

Answer 5

Political, economic and social differences between the North and South.

Question 6

Separatism

Answer 6

Keeping races apart. Two separate countries for black and white Americans.

Question 7

Sharecroppers

Answer 7

These were tenant farmers. A landlord allows a tenant to use an area of land in return for a portion of the crop produced on the land.

Question 8

Sino-US

Answer 8

Relations between America and China

Question 9

Speculators

Answer 9

Risk-taking investors with expertise in the market(s) in which they are trading.

Question 10

Spoils system

Answer 10

The practice whereby a political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to its voters as a reward for working toward victory , and as an incentive to keep working for the party - as opposed to a system of awarding offices on the basis of some measure of merit independent of political activity.

Question 11

Stocks and shares

Answer 11

Certificates of ownership in a company.