What was the purpose of the "No Child Left Behind" measure?
A) to channel billions of dollars into antipoverty efforts around the world
B) to mandate state testing to evaluate student performance in reading and math
C) to provide resources to low-income families to increase graduation rates
D) to make preschool and kindergarten mandatory for all American children
E) to reform the foster care system in an attempt to prevent child abuse
Answer: B
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Nation building did not work as President Kennedy had envisioned because ___________________.
A. the monetary aid was usually funneled through a self-interested elite and often did not reach the very poor B. Congress refused to appropriate the sums of money needed to make the program succeed C. the Soviet Union gave more foreign aid to the Third World than did the United States D. Communist subversives staged violent protests, which forced many countries to reject the U.S. offer of assistance
How were all liberals in the nineteenth century united?
A. They wanted to strengthen the monarchs in their respective countries. B. They wanted to overturn all conservative orders of their time. C. They wanted more government intervention in the economy. D. They wanted to give upper-class individuals the right to vote.
How did secularization affect the Indian neophytes?
a. Most neophytes became free farmers when the missions were converted to Indian pueblos. b. They were integrated into Mexican society as workers with full citizenship rights and political autonomy. c. Most returned to their former lives while others became part of a floating class of homeless, exploitable laborers. d. They continued to depend on the missions for food and shelter.
The policy of enriching a nation's wealth through direct management of people and resources was known as _____________.
A. mercantilism B. capitalism C. enlightened despotism D. cameralism E. chartism