Since Europeans tended to define geographic terms and the teaching of history, African Americans had to resist the idea that ancient Egypt was __________
A) not a prosperous civilization
B) not a part of Africa
C) an autocratic society
D) the holy land of Islam
Answer: B
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Many of the most prominent education reformers of the 1820s and 1830s were
A) Whigs who believed that they could organize schools to build a new American culture that was better than the Jacksonian democracy which they thought was too individualistic and unlikely to transmit the kind of moral code essential to a well-regulated national life. B) Jacksonian Democrats who believed they could organize schools that would promote the individualistic, freer, populist, and aggressive America that President Jackson and his supporters envisioned and advanced. C) men because women did not take any significant interest in the moral education of children in the schools or at home. D) Roman Catholics committed to building a public education system in local communities.
Sumerian ziggurats performed the same function as Egypt's pyramids.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
From where did the bulk of the manpower come, to work in the many new factories?
A. from Asia B. from both the rural areas of America and Europe C. from Latin America D. from both the African American and Mexican communities
Why did American cities in the Northeast and Midwest experience the problems of poverty, slum housing, and cultural dislocations with new intensity in the postwar period?
A) These social problems were a byproduct of economic stagnation. B) The manufacturing sector was losing thousands of unskilled and semiskilled jobs. C) These social conditions were the product of an oppressive police force. D) They were produced by children who suffered the neglect of their working mothers.