How did Asian Americans fare in the United States compared to other minority groups and the white majority?
a. Fewer than one out of two Asian youths graduated from high school, compared to more than three out of four black and Hispanic youths.
b. Asian Americans were more affluent than other minority groups and many members of the white majority.
c. Although Asian Americans had the highest percentage of college graduates of any minority group, they were less represented in colleges and universities than the white majority was.
d. The median income for Asian American families was 20 percent lower than the national average.
b. Asian Americans were more affluent than other minority groups and many members of the white majority.
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According to your text, which of the following best describes the relative impact of Native American and European cultures on each other?
A) Europeans profited extensively; Native Americans gained nothing. B) The influence of European culture was limited to those tribes in immediate contact with colonies. C) The Europeans and the Indians became interdependent. D) Native American culture had no impact on Europeans, whereas European culture totally transformed Native American societies.
Stalin responded to plans for the political and economic unification of the western zones of Germany by:
A) denouncing it in the United Nations. B) allowing East Germany to join the Marshall Plan. C) threatening to use nuclear weapons against the U.S. D) stopping all traffic into West Berlin.
The significance of Octavian's willingness to give up his powers in 27 B.C. rests in
a. the magnitude of his military failure. b. his belief that it created legitimacy and removed his reign from the taint of despotism. c. his hope that the Senate would proclaim him a god. d. the fact that the Senate accepted the offer. e. the fact that it never happened; his admirers later created this myth.
One effect of the emancipation proclamation was that it
A. Immediately freed all of the southern salves B. Gave a moral purpose to the war C. United the Republican Party D. Freed the slaves in the border states that remained loyal to the union