Students may wish to examine the effect the automobile had on the American economy and culture
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: All students will point to the facts that the automobile was the centerpiece of American economic activity and a quintessential consumer durable good. Automobiles triggered and stimulated production of petroleum, chemicals, glass, steel, and rubber. Culturally, the automobile facilitated the growth of suburbs and allowed some cities, like Los Angeles, to grow. Overall, good students will point out that the automobile helped to homogenize American culture by making the population more mobile.
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Examine the thought of Confucius. What are the basic tenets of this philosophy? How has his philosophy influenced Chinese history?
What will be an ideal response?
One source of problems between the Europeans and the Native Americans was the common European misunderstanding of the Native Americans'
A) sharp division of labor between men's and women's work. B) common language and culture throughout the hemisphere. C) desire to preserve the environment in its purest state. D) idea of communal land tenure.
The most important achievement of Émilie du Châtelet was
A. her discovery of the principles of blood circulation in the human body. B. in demonstrating the transfer of disease through bacteria. C. in providing a model that undermined the Ptolemaic view of the universe. D. the development of a law of inertia. E. her translation of Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica.
Thomas Peters and his family moved from New York to Nova Scotia in 1783 because __________
a) they were loyalists b) they were fugitive slaves c) they were forced to do so by the British d) new laws made their life in the United States unbearable