How was the Social Security Act supposed to provide for old-age pensions and unemployment insurance?
What will be an ideal response?
a payroll tax on workers and their employers was to create a revolving fund
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How did the unbalanced sex ratio of the Chesapeake affect gender roles in this colonial region?
A) Women chose who to marry and often inherited large estates from deceased husbands. B) Women amassed significant political power through property ownership. C) The large number of Englishmen frequently intermarried with Native American females. D) Women were treated as pampered objects who were not required to do hard work.
Which of the following is true of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party of 1964? a. Its delegates were certified as the true Democrats of Mississippi. b. Its delegation challenged the delegation of regular Mississippi Democrats at the Democratic NationalConvention
c. Its delegation was totally ignored at the Democratic National Convention. d. It was composed of white, middle-class racists who challenged the predominately African Americandelegation of Mississippi Democrats.
In the course of the late nineteenth century
a. the birthrate increased. b. the divorce rate fell. c. family size gradually declined. d. people tended to marry at an earlier age. e. children were seen as a greater economic asset.
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of existentialism?
A) a belief in moral absolutes outside of human agency B) portrayals of people trying to come to grips with a world without meaning C) a questioning of the enormous expansion of state power over the individual D) an insistence on individual responsibility and personal choice E) disenchantment with the intrusion of government into every aspect of life