All of the following statements regarding early television are true EXCEPT that
A. all three major television networks had started as radio companies.
B. television quickly became the most powerful medium of mass communication in history.
C. in the 1920s there were experiments in broadcasting pictures and sound.
D. the federal government largely kept big business sponsorship out of television advertising.
E. in 1946 there were 17,000 television sets in the United States.
D
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FDR created the Fair Employment Practices Commission to __________
A) ensure equal pay for blacks and women B) control wages in vital war industries C) help unions organize wartime labor D) arbitrate labor disputes and prevent strikes during the war
Which monarch tried to briefly restore Catholicism to official status in England?
A) Henry VIII B) Mary I C) Edward VI D) Elizabeth I E) Richard III
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a. violation of the Tenure of Office Act. b. attempts to limit the powers of military commanders in the South. c. effort to prevent enforcement of the Military Reconstruction Act of 1867. d. attempts to repeal the Fourteenth Amendment.