As a result of increased life expectancy in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, ___________
A) greater media exposure to changes in family lifestyles led to higher public awareness of the
"graying of America."
B) the social welfare system went bankrupt because there were fewer native-born workers to pay
taxes
C) poverty increased in the United States
D) Social Security and Medicare payments went up
D
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The federal government created an atmosphere conducive to individual creativity by doing which of the following?
A. The Department of Commerce extended government grants to "invention factories." B. Congress ordered that technical reports be published explaining all newly awarded patents. C. Congress protected inventions by enacting patent laws. D. The Patent Office was authorized to commission inventors.
Which of the following is true of Senators Charles Sumner and Preston Brooks?
A. Their treatise against slavery on economic grounds caused an increase in antislavery sentiment among Northerners. B. By supporting the Lecompton Constitution in Kansas, they sought a peaceful and moderate solution to the Kansas crisis. C. They demonstrated that Northern and Southern moderates could still work together for the national interest. D. They were symbolic of just how emotional the political issue of slavery had become by 1856.
The sit-ins in Atlanta in 1960 resulted in
A) the creation of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. B) the end of non-violent protesters. C) desegregation. D) the election of John F. Kennedy.
The 1889 land rush:
A) opened up the last Indian-controlled part of Oklahoma for white settlement. B) only opened a western strip of Oklahoma not assigned to any tribe. C) forced the Cherokee and Choctaw to abandon their lands. D) was met with widespread violent Indian resistance.