Which of the following contributed to the explosive growth of suburbs?
A. television advertising
B. the GI Bill of Rights
C. the baby boom
D. new light rail lines
Answer: C
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
With regard to its origins and organization, the Montgomery Bus Boycott
a. was orchestrated and organized by the NAACP. b. stemmed from the arrest of Rosa Parks, though several other black women had been arrested for the same crime the same year. c. was a secular movement which represented a break from earlier black protests in which churches had played central roles. d. was the brainchild of Martin Luther King, Jr., who inspired several women to court arrest by defying the law to set the boycott in motion.
The suppression of the international slave trade after 1807 led to
a. an expansion in the internal slave trade in the United States. b. the elimination of all slave importations into the United States. c. the rapid demise of slavery in the Caribbean and South America. d. a complete reliance on natural population growth to augment the slave labor force of the cotton-growing regions. e. the widely accepted practice of forced "breeding" of slaves.
Which of the following statements about the black population of eighteenth-century New England is LEAST accurate?
a. Although the number of blacks in the New England colonies increased significantly, blacks remained a very small percentage of the population in most of the colonies. b. Because the number of blacks in New England was so small, the black population there kept to itself and had little social interaction with the white population. c. Most of the black population of New England was concentrated in urban centers rather than the rural countryside. d. Many slaves in New England worked in skilled trades or as domestic servants.