Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. In western Europe and Canada, governments provide universal medical coverage for all citizens, but in the United States there was—in the 1900s and early 2000s—no universal medical coverage.
2. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, more than 7 million American families lived in gated communities.
3. In the 1990s, the vast majority of Latinos in America were poor, and the vast majority of Asian-Americans were affluent.
4. By 2001, more than a third of African Americans lived in the suburbs.
5. In 1994, tribal massacres rocked Rwanda, in central Africa. Over 800,000 people were slaughtered and the United States sent in a massive military force in an effort to staunch the flow of blood.
1. True
2. True
3. False
4. True
5. False
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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What will be an ideal response?