Many Americans accepted which of the following beliefs in the 1950s?
a. The diversity within American society means that tension and conflict are inevitable in the United States.
b. Citizens in a mass democracy must always harbor a healthy distrust of their elected officials and questiontheir decisions
c. Americans must work to bring about the moral regeneration of American society.
d. As the United States struggles against the Soviet Union for the future of the world, critics of America aresuspect and perhaps even unpatriotic.
d
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Examine Map 14-1. What factors explain the dominant trend in black population numbers in the American West during the late 1800s?
A) Southern weather prompted black westerners to move to the South. B) Southern food motivated black westerners to move to the South. C) Southern white corporations lobbied Congress to force blacks to migrate westward. D) Southern racism motivated blacks to migrate westward.
President Abraham Lincoln believed that the South should be __________
A) made to pay for starting the war B) placed under martial law for an indefinite period C) brought back into the Union as quickly and painlessly as possible D) remade to more closely resemble the North
The Petition of Right can be characterized as _________
A. Charles I's attempt to placate Parliament B. the long-term result of the English Civil War C. the document that triggered the English Civil War D. Parliament's demands on the king, presented in exchange for voting new taxes
How did science and its related improvements provide a justification for the dominance of England abroad?
a. No group could stand in the way of progress. b. Barbarians would be saved from their barbaric manners. c. It was a divine order for the British to improve the lands in its kingdoms. d. Aside from God's will, it was the need to fulfill the earth's potential. e. All of these