Which of the following demographic shifts did not occur in the 1950s?
A) Around 40 million Americans moved from cities to suburbs.
B) Millions of rural blacks moved to cities.
C) Millions of Americans moved from the North and East to the South and West.
D) Total United States population grew less than in any previous decade of the twentieth century.
E) Millions of Puerto Ricans moved to cities.
D
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The Mayan ball game is a feature of:
a. a scientific-industrial society and its secular practices. b. a Stone Age society. c. an agrarian-urban society and its chiefdom and kingdom patterns. d. the beginnings of modern American baseball.
How did the religious beliefs of the Quakers compare to those of the Puritans?
A) Both rejected the Church of England and wanted to separate and form their own new religions. B) The Quakers rejected the Church of England in favor of their own form of worship; the Puritans merely wanted to reform the Church of England. C) Both considered all people equal in the sight of the Lord and saw no need for a learned ministry. D) The Quakers did not seek converts, but simply wanted to practice their own beliefs peacefully; the Puritans sought to convert people throughout England. E) Unlike the Quakers, the Puritans felt that there was no need for spiritual leaders, since one person’s interpretation of the Bible was as valid as anyone else’s.
Which of the following statements concerning the new imperialism and colonialism is accurate?
a. The new imperialism occurred before colonialism. b. Colonialism involved settlement and trade, whereas the new imperialism refers to the domination by a country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country, region, or people. c. Some scholars have identified industrialization as the direct cause of colonialism but not of the new imperialism. d. Both imperialism and colonialism resulted in the massive relocation of European populations to non-European territories. e. none of the above
The slave codes of the American South
A. considered it a crime for an owner to kill a slave. B. defined anyone with a trace of African ancestry as black. C. were rigidly enforced. D. legalized slave marriages. E. banned blacks from attending church.