What were the major population trends in the United States at the end of the twentieth century?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. By the 1990s, a majority of Americans lived in the Sunbelt.
2. In the 1980s and 1990s, the Northeast and the Middle West continued losing people to the South and West.
3. America grew increasingly urbanized, a trend that had both positive and negative aspects.
4. The number of elderly Americans continued to rise.
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William II believed that dismissing Bismarck in 1890 would help him secure Germany's deserved "place in the ______________."
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Pretend that you are reporting for a contemporary women's magazine concerning the conditions of women during the 1920s
How would you describe the lifestyle of women in each class of American society, and how would you evaluate the change, if any, in the rights and opportunities for women in that period? What will be an ideal response?
The Munich Agreement of 1938 ceded ethnic Germans living in _____ to the Third Reich—although none of the affected country's leaders was invited to the conference.
a. Romania. b. Ukraine. c. Turkey. d. Czechoslovakia.
What is implied by this 1937 photo shot by Margaret Bourke-White in Louisville, Kentucky?
A) "The world's highest standard of living" was available to all Americans. B) "The American Way" involved excluding some groups from prosperity. C) Owning an automobile was the greatest hope of many African Americans. D) It was not necessary for the New Deal to address the specific needs of African Americans.