Southerners insisted on admitting Missouri as a slave state to preserve a balance of power in the Senate
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
TRUE
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Why did some people criticize American suburban life?
a. They accused suburban families of snobbery, since only the wealthy could live there. b. They thought the houses were built with substandard materials and craftsmanship. c. They disliked the conformity and uniformity of suburban life. d. They were afraid that a mass exodus to the suburbs would harm city economies. e. They worried about the pollution generated by suburban automobile commuters.
Assume you were a member of a working-class American family during the late nineteenth century. Describe the conditions under which your family would probably have lived
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What happened to Japan in the early 1990s?
A) A financial crash, followed by economic stagnation B) An environmental disaster C) Japan's East Asian form of capitalism, which was quite different from laissez-faire Western capitalism, was exceeding Western models. D) Japan had far exceeded the United States as the world's leading economy. E) Japan maintained its status as a global leader despite its growing conflict with Korea.
What does it mean to say that Americans spoke a “common language of consumption” by the late nineteenth century?
A) People found that the only way they could become truly American was to buy goods made in America. B) Americans were united in a common consumer culture, in which they all could buy the same kinds of goods. C) English became the universal and official language of commerce. D) Because of the new types of work in the United States, most Americans were becoming very wealthy and could afford consumer goods. E) Only native-born Americans bought the new consumer goods, which broadened the gap between immigrants and nonimmigrants in the United States.