What basic problem with American society was exposed in the bestseller Progress and Poverty?
a. The gap between rich and poor had grown too large.
b. Government played too large a role in the economy.
c. Races and classes intermingled too much.
d. The middle-classes were no longer the nation’s moral leaders.
a. The gap between rich and poor had grown too large.
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a) automobile b) film c) rubber d) textile
The Glorious Revolution placed _________ on the English throne
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
The main goal of those who participated in the Freedom Summer was to:
A) register black people to vote in the South. B) pay the poll taxes for black people so that they could afford to vote. C) call attention to the deplorable conditions in the segregated South. D) convince Kennedy to propose new civil rights laws. E) drum up support for the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Whose view of the New Deal is portrayed in the cartoon "Uncle ‘Guinea Pig'"?
A) that of Communists who believed that capitalism was dying B) that of ordinary Americans hopeful about the "medicine" provided by the New Deal C) that of members of the Brain Trust as they strived to revive the U.S. economy D) that of conservatives who felt the policies would be harmful E) that of foreign investors wary of the involvement of the U.S. government in the economy