What was the most significant cause of the increase in federal aid to higher education in the late 1950s?
A) influx of non-English-speaking Hispanics into the United States.
B) alarm over the popularity of the nonconformist Beats on college campuses.
C) "war on poverty" that was declared when it became apparent that high-school drop-outs were swelling the welfare rolls
D) discovery that there were more private schools in the suburbs than public schools in the cities.
E) launch of Sputnik, which gave Americans reason to fear that they were intellectually and technologically backward.
E
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A) Relationships between parents and children became more intimate. B) The “Cult of Domesticity” gained ground. C) Families became more child-centered. D) More and more women worked outside the home. E) The use of corporal punishment declined.
Most French salons were run by
a. women. b. members of the clergy. c. older men. d. government officials. e. merchants.
Marx believed all of the following about classes and class struggle EXCEPT
a. a person's class is based on that person's role in the economy. b. class struggle is between those who own the means of production and those who do not. c. though people believe a society's dominant ideas may be universally valid, they actually only reflect the ruling class' economic interests. d. the state acts as an impartial mediator between classes. e. class struggle will eventually end.
In 1943, the battle fought at _____ gave the United States and its allies a foothold in the Pacific
A) the Coral Sea B) Guadalcanal C) Manila Bay D) Guam E) Midway Island