One striking consequence of the postwar economic boom was
a. the continued exclusion of most women from the workplace.
b. the growing split between urban and rural America.
c. the growing concentration of wealth at the top of society.
d. a vast expansion of the homeowning middle class.
e. the growth of blue-collar employment.
d
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a. California. b. New York. c. Texas. d. Michigan.
What does the following quotation mean with regard to western migration: "The quest for something new would take place in the context of the very familiar"?
a. Families would only migrate to the West after they had sent an individual ahead who would report back to them. b. People only migrated in family groups if they already had family established out West. c. Families tended to travel back and forth between their old homes and their new homes until they felt entirely comfortable out West. d. Most families who traveled to the West had experience with migration before, and thus the trip was nothing new to them. e. People made every effort to keep their migration experience as familiar as possible, including traveling in family groups.
The Thirty Years' War began when _____ in Bohemia rebelled against Habsburg authority
a. Muslim refugees b. ethnic minorities c. Calvinist nobles d. Catholic peasants e. Lutheran priests
In 1860, the value of southern slaves exceeded the investments in banking, railroads, and manufacturing combined
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false