Success and upward mobility in late nineteenth-century America were generally
A) more available to native-born, middle-class whites.
B) unlimited and equal for anyone, regardless of background.
C) out of reach for hard-working immigrants.
D) mythic and had no basis in reality.
Answer: A
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As more and more women entered the paid work force, their work outside the home was
A) understood by businessmen and portrayed by the popular press as temporary. B) enabling them to earn almost as much as their male counterparts. C) almost exclusively as domestic servants. D) solely the product of new technologies such as the typewriter or telephone. E) not essential to household income.
Which statement describing the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s is most accurate?
a. It was an exclusively southern organization. b. It proclaimed itself to be the largest nonprofit organization in America. c. Some Klansmen entered politics, but the Klan never endorsed candidates. d. It lost support when a leader was involved in a sex scandal.
The most critical question that emerged in the aftermath of the War with Mexico was:
A. What course the South would take if northerners continued to press the slavery question B. What to do about slavery in the territory acquired from Mexico C. How to limit the president's vaguely defined war powers D. How much to pay Mexico for the territory acquired by force
Which of the following influenced Benito Mussolini's conception of fascism?
A) Muslim Brotherhood B) Social Darwinism C) social democracy D) Keynesian economics