Discuss the major demographic trends and settlement patterns of the postwar era
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The population grew dramatically as a "baby boom" developed. War industries prompted many people to move west. White middle-class Americans moved into the suburbs. Levitt's mass production housing and government-insured mortgages fueled housing booms. Shopping centers catered to suburban customers.
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a. Neo-Daoist philosophical treatise. b. Yuan poetry collection, updating the Book of Odes. c. Multiauthored adventure novel. d. Scroll painting.
Which female entrepreneur grew wealthy by marketing a beauty system centered on hair-lengthening, which she linked to racial uplift?
a. Maggie Lena Walker b. Pauline Hopkins c. Madame C. J. Walker d. Victoria Earle Matthews
How did the internal politics of the Eastern European countries and the Soviet Union contribute to the end of the Cold War?
What will be an ideal response?
In the early twentieth century, a principle goal of "Taylorism" was to
A. emphasize the importance of craft and quality in the workplace. B. create a large labor force of highly skilled workers. C. reorganize industrial production by subdividing it into many simple tasks. D. encourage industrial workers to act creatively to solve production problems. E. make industrial workers more independent in carrying out their jobs.