When confronted with strikes in the coal and railroad industries in 1946, President Truman's response was to:
a. freeze transportation and energy prices
b. temporarily seize those industries
c. say government had no role in labor-management disputes
d. break the strikes with unemployed veterans
e. declare martial law
Ans: b. temporarily seize those industries
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Drawing on excerpts from the Bible and classical medical, philosophical, and legal thinkers, Christian thinkers viewed all of the following to be true except:
A. the religious life was held to be superior to marriage. B. a woman's only role was to produce children and then be a confined nun. C. women were depicted as being weaker than men. D. virgins and celibate widows were honored over wives. E. a wife was to be subservient and obedient to her husband.
After the early waves of prospectors removed the surface deposits of precious metals, mining out West was
a. abandoned as unprofitable. b. nationalized by the federal government. c. replaced by the lumber industry. d. taken over by big corporations and mechanized. e. left to poor immigrants to pan for what little metal remained.
Fifteenth-century scholars generally agreed
A. that the world was flat. B. on the circumference and the roundness of the world. C. on the circumference of the world. D. on the roundness but not the circumference of the world.
The ____________ argument is that gender is a situated, negotiated, contested, and changing set of practices and understandings.
a. functionalist b. social constructionist c. feminist d. interactionist