Which statement most accurately characterizes the American economy in the 1950s?
a. All Americans experienced unprecedented wealth.
b. Many Americans benefited from unprecedented prosperity, but some segments of the population were left out.
c. Some Americans benefited from unprecedented prosperity, but most were left out.
d. Only the very wealthy benefited from the prosperity of the decade.
b. Many Americans benefited from unprecedented prosperity, but some segments of the population were left out.
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While George Bush's approval rating reached 90 percent after the Gulf War of 1991, ____________________ soon diminished his popularity
A) ?his foreign policy B) ?his response to the AIDS epidemic C) ?a troubled economy D) ?the mounting U.S. national debt E) ?his record in addressing the needs of minorities
The argument over the creation of the Bank of the United States focused on which of the following questions?
a. Does the nation need a central banking institution? b. Should the bank be allowed to issue the nation's currency? c. Does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to create the bank? d. Should the bank be privately owned, publicly owned, or privately and publicly owned?
Which of the following statements about the hard times of the Great Depression is true?
A. Over half the female labor force continued to work in factories. B. Mothers who stayed home found their traditional roles more disrupted than their husbands'. C. For the first time, emigration out of the United States exceeded immigration into it. D. Marriages and births, symbols of faith in the future, increased.
The southern city built up in the first half of the eighteenth century by enslaved African artisans was
A. New Orleans. B. Williamsburg. C. Charleston. D. Savannah.