Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. During the economic upturn of the 1990s, the inequitable distribution of wealth in the United States dropped sharply, as the index of inequality registered a democratic leveling out of American incomes.
2. During the 1991 Gulf War, President George H. W. Bush's approval rating reached 89 percent, but the next year, he lost the presidential election.
3. By 2000, more than 10 percent of the American population was foreign born.
4. As late as 1940, a third of American households did not have running water.
5. By the early twenty-first century, more than one in four black men could expect to serve time in prison at some time during their lives.
1. False
2. True
3. True
4. True
5. True
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