Which of the following describes most middle-class families of the late nineteenth century?
A) Almost no middle-class families were able to afford servants.
B) They lost some of the reforming zeal and moral fervor they typically had before the Civil War.
C) They continued the trend of an increasing birth rate.
D) Children were encouraged to be independent and were often unsupervised.
B
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a. in large measure through the investment of European banking firms. b. exclusively through the support of large numbers of small investors. c. with the help of some of the largest government subsidies ever granted. d. almost totally through the investment of a handful of shrewd millionaires.
Between 1868–1896, the presidency was a(n) __________ institution
A) weak B) corrupt C) strong D) effective
In the first year of his presidency, President Bill Clinton's major goal, a program to assure affordable health care for all Americans, was defeated by
a. a close vote in the House of Representatives. b. a betrayal by liberal Democrats who wanted to punish Clinton for being too conservative. c. special interest groups that were too powerful to be defeated by the health-care task force. d. the fear of the American public that the health-care plan was the first step toward socialized medicine.
The “Hump of Africa” refers to the
A. burden of poverty the continent caries today. B. sites of earliest human evolution. C. set of massive political problems the continent has been dealing with since the end of colonial rule. D. westernmost grasslands and tropical forests that border on the Atlantic Ocean. E. highest peaks of the Atlas Mountains.