As veterans began to return home following the end of World War II, they experienced all of the following except
A) ?a rising divorce rate.
B) ?a serious housing shortage.
C) ?the growth of a consumer society.
D) ?the inability to get loans to buy homes.
D
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The vast expansion of employment opportunities for women in the 1950s
a. led to the advent of the "pink collar ghetto" of occupations. b. created a dual role for women as homemakers and workers. c. fueled a social revolution that raised questions about gender roles. d. included women filling a substantial percentage of the new jobs created in the clerical and service industries. e. All of these choices are correct.
Which statement provides the best interpretation of the sentence from the text that reads, "The diversity of early English colonization must be emphasized precisely because it is so easy to overlook"?
A) Most historians have not realized how similar the English colonies were when they were initially settled. B) The reasons that people settled the English colonies were so complex that they have only begun to be understood recently. C) Settlers of the English colonies tended to overlook the hardships that they would face because they were so eager for religious freedom. D) The experiences of the early English colonists cannot be separated from their experiences back in England. E) The different reasons settlers came to each English colony cannot be considered separately from their experiences once they arrived.
Norman Rockwell's "Rosie the Riveter" poster:
A) mocked working woman for their loss of femininity. B) questioned whether women should be working in factories. C) suggested that men were stronger and more capable than women. D) showed that female war workers could still be feminine.
Filibuster efforts of the mid-nineteenth century
A. used local militias to block American expansion into foreign countries. B. attempted to pushed legislation through Congress using procedural loopholes. C. used delay tactics in Congress to block legislation. D. employed private armies to invade foreign countries.