In what ways did World War II have an impact on American women?
What will be an ideal response?
Most students will quickly point to Rosie the Riveter and the WACs. These are certainly good places to start. Record numbers of women were able to find industrial employment, and breaking with tradition, the armed forces expanded the breadth of positions that women were allowed to hold. But stronger students will recognize that most women neither took industrial jobs nor joined the military. They will point to the "V-girls," the flood of families moving to industrial cities, and the rise in marriage and divorce rates.
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During the years before 1860, a "people's literature" arose. Which is false about popular literature?
a. Popular novels praised family values, domesticity, and patriotism. b. Popular novels allowed respectable middle-class women to write for a living. c. Popular novels were often ghost-written by literary leaders like Nathaniel Hawthorne. d. Popular novels were mostly read by women.
In the Book of Mencius, human nature is portrayed as fundamentally
a. evil. b. good. c. ambivalent. d. ethereal. e. ephemeral.
What were the main tenets of Lutheranism, Calvinism, and Anabaptism? How did they differ from one another and from Catholicism? Discuss the most significant individuals and events involved in the rise of Protestantism in Germany, Switzerland, and England.
What will be an ideal response?
The greatest challenge facing the first Washington administration was ________
A) foreign affairs B) waging war with Native Americans C) setting the government’s finances in order D) territorial expansion E) regulating interstate trade