What was the purpose of the "No Child Left Behind" measure?
a. to channel billions of dollars into antipoverty efforts around the world
b. to mandate state testing to evaluate student performance in reading and math
c. to provide resources to low-income families to increase graduation rates
d. to make preschool and kindergarten mandatory for all American children
e. to reform the foster care system in an attempt to prevent child abuse
B
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How did the approach to poverty by reformers like Jacob Riis and Jane Addams differ from traditional approaches?
What will be an ideal response?
In its early centuries, the Holy Roman Empire failed to develop a powerful centralized government because
a. the Emperors were preoccupied with northern Italy and the Papacy. b. the Emperors were elected. c. the main princes were fiercely independent. d. the nobility was able to consolidate its control over local populations. e. all of the above
The failure of Soviet Communism was most apparent in the
a. lack of weapons. b. failure of its space program. c. breakaway of the Ukraine in 1947. d. shortage of consumer goods and housing. e. weakness of its leadership by the late 1940's.
Which of the following is true of the depression of the 1890s?
A. It did not affect the banking industry in the United States. B. It was not felt nationally but was confined to the South and West. C. Its magnitude resulted in large part from the interdependence of various sectors of the American economy. D. Most American farmers were able to escape the depression's effects.