It was difficult for European Jews to immigrate into the United States because of restrictive quotas established in 1924, anti-Semitism, and the impoverishment forced on German Jews by Hitler
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Answer: TRUE
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What does it mean to say that some professions became "feminized" in the late 1800s?
a. Women were much better at certain jobs, such as nursing, and began to dominate those fields. b. Men were no longer capable of doing certain jobs, since they were needed in industrial jobs, so women took their places. c. Only married women were allowed to work at certain jobs, since unmarried women would be leaving their jobs eventually to get married. d. As more women took jobs in certain fields, men left them, and this lowered the status of these professions. e. Many women began to get work as lawyers, doctors, and ministers; and Americans began to accept women in these kinds of work.
Karen Armstrong argues that fundamentalism, whether Christian or Muslim, is
a. essentially modern because of its insistence that religion is reducible to matters of undeniable fact. b. a throwback to a simple faith that society should be a certain way based on scripture and authority. c. proof that pluralism is impossible in the modern world. d. anti-modern because of its focus on ancient texts and behaviors that are rooted in the past.
The change from food gathering to food production that occurred between about 8000 and 2000 B.C.E. was called:
a. the Sedentary Revolution b. the Industrial Revolutions c. the Agricultural Revolutions d. the Neolithic Revolution. e. both c and d.
Many influential Britons wanted to return Canada to France, instead of taking French sugar islands as the fruit of victory, because
a. sugar islands produced more wealth than vast forests. b. sugar islands were easier to govern. c. they feared that with the French gone from North America, the colonists would be difficult to manage. d. all of these choices. e. none of these choices.