What was the strategy of American industry to encourage consumers to replace appliances and cars every few years called?
A) Planned obsolescence
B) Consumerism
C) Commercialism
D) The "American century"
A) Planned obsolescence
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How did the U.S. government punish Robeson for his views?
A) They placed him under house arrest. B) They revoked his passport and refused to allow him to travel abroad. C) They sent him to prison under solitary confinement and refused to allow him access to an attorney. D) They secretly kidnapped him and sent him to live in exile in the Soviet Union.
Whom did President Lincoln name as commander of all Union forces in early 1864?
A) Ambrose E. Burnside B) William T. Sherman C) George B. McClellan D) Ulysses S. Grant E) Joseph Hooker
During the 1840s and 1850s, American industry
A) manufactured machine tools better than those in European factories B) developed high-grade woolens superior to those of the English C) moved close to the cotton supplies of the Southeast D) relied on European inventors for most technological improvements
Stephen Douglas was only able to assure pass of the Compromise of 1850 by
a. agreeing to drop the provision that California be admitted as a free state b. promising the two South Carolina senators that the next Supreme Court nominee will be form their state c. assuring southern senators that teh first transcontinental railroad would be built in the South d. agreeing to end Reconstruction e. unbundling the parts of the compromise so that each one would be voted on separately