During the 1950s, urban areas
a. saw financial resources shifted in their direction
b. increasingly thrived as cultural centers.
c. struggled under redlining policies that hindered lending to urban areas.
d. grew slightly more slowly than suburbs.
e. focused on developing mass transit systems.
c
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Africans in West Africa could be enslaved for
A) punishment for crimes. B) being black. C) fighting against Europeans. D) refusing to embrace Islam.
The purpose of busing programs in the 1960s and 1970s was
A) ?to reinstate segregation. B) ?to reform education programs in certain school districts. C) ?to relieve overcrowding in certain school districts. D) ?to integrate public schools quickly. E) ?None of these are correct.
Which of the following statements best describes the relationship of Pythagoras and the Ionian philosophers?
a. Pythagoras was the Ionian philosopher who believed the primary substance was air and that the sun's rays falling through dense air caused the rainbow. b. Unlike the Ionians, Pythagoras is credited with inventing formal logic. c. Unlike the "matter philosophers," Pythagoras believed in the one True Being, transcendent, permanent, and perfect. d. Pythagoras believed that the nature was not made of a primary substance, as the Ionians believed, but out of mathematical relationships. e. Unlike the "matter philosophers," Pythagoras believed that the mathematical harmony of the universe expressed the perfect thoughts of the True Being.
The second oil crisis spurred by the Iranian Revolution encouraged what action?
a. Military occupation of the Middle East b. Withdrawal from discussion in the Common Market about creating a common monetary unit. c. Economic isolation of Iran by Westernized countries d. Multinational investment in Venezuelan oil extraction e. Further development of hydroelectric and solar energy options