How did technological and demographic changes transform American society?
What will be an ideal response?
Computers and the Internet made many technologies obsolete, changing how Americans worked and played; they also facilitated communication among people around the world and made responding to technological change a permanent condition. The decline of the two-married-parents-with-children family structure prompted debate between those who wanted to reverse demographic trends and those who were sympathetic to the desires of gays and non-marrieds to conduct their lives as they pleased. Disagreement arose regarding whether and how immigration affected the country economically.
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Terence V. Powderly would agree with which of the following statements?
a) Union membership should be open to all laborers regardless of race, gender, or skill. b) Union membership should be restricted to white male skilled workers. c) Labor strikes were the only way for workers to wrest concessions from employers. d) Harmony and cooperation between workers and employers was impossible.
What was the chief reason for Britain's prolonged appeasement of Hitler?
A) The British government wanted a counterweight to France on the Continent. B) The British government and public were paralyzed by pacifism. C) The British government of the late 1930s was strongly pro-German. D) The British government saw Hitler as a way to tame the eastern European troublemakers. E) The United States urged Britain to stay out of any dangerous situations.
The author of the Ecclesiastical History of the English People was the monk known as the Venerable Bede
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The American continents contained very few domesticated animals because
a. agriculture made domesticated animals unnecessary. b. the environment made raising animals difficult. c. natives preferred hunting instead. d. there were few species suitable for domestication. e. while there were many appropriate wild species, they were difficult to domesticate.