The social origins of the tango lay in the dance
A) adopted by Argentine elites who mimicked the French contradanse.
B) introduced by Italian immigrants fleeing armed conflict and crime in their native country.
C) associated with middle-class urban professionals who disdained elite cultural traditions.
D) first performed by enslaved Africans and later by poor people in bars and brothels.
D
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The first mass-circulation magazine for women was
a. Woman's Day. b. Good Housekeeping. c. Godey 's Ladies Book. d. Family Circle. e. New Yorker.
During the Clinton years, the American economy featured
a. its highest unemployment rate in thirty years. b. a rising standard of living for both the nation's richest people and the nation's poorest people. c. a rapidly declining stock market. d. an ever-narrowing gap between the incomes of the rich and the poor.
All of the following were tensions within the abolition movement EXCEPT
a. colonization versus compensation for slaveholders b. patronizing and racist attitude of some white abolitionists toward African American abolitionists c. gradual emancipation versus immediate abolition d. nonviolent action versus violence e. moral persuasion versus political action
In the 1996 election,
A. President Bill Clinton failed to receive 50 percent of the popular vote. B. the Reform Party emerged as a powerful third political party. C. President Clinton barely eked out a victory in the Electoral College. D. Democrats regained control of the House but not the Senate. E. Bob Dole placed third in the race.