In order to cope with its population growth rates, the government of mainland China
a. imposed compulsory abortions, sterilization, and fines on offenders on families that had more than one child.
b. implemented birth control programs that only encouraged people to have fewer children, but with no penalties.
c. has done nothing to deal with spiraling population growth rates.
d. has encouraged large families in order to ensure an ever larger cheap labor force.
a
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A. tried to convince the tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy to migrate to Canada. B. tried to convince Native Americans and blacks to forge an alliance and thus take advantage of the Anglo-American conflict. C. hoped to persuade the Iroquois Confederacy to ally with the British. D. worked to bring about a general slave uprising.
Which of the following is true of W.E.B. Du Bois?
A. He believed that the "Talented Tenth" within the African American community should lead in the pursuit of racial equality. B. He agreed with the ideas expressed by Booker T. Washington in Washington's speech to the Atlanta Exposition. C. He advanced the idea that African Americans should arm themselves so that they could adequately defend themselves in a racist society. D. He believed that the problems experienced by African Americans could best be solved by the founding of vocational schools throughout the nation.
During World War I, the Ottoman Empire sought to eliminate which group of people?
A) Armenians B) Serbs C) Greeks D) Ukrainians
In the 1930s, all the following books offered criticism of American society EXCEPT
A. Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathaniel West. B. the U.S.A. trilogy by John Dos Passos. C. The Disinherited by Jack Conroy. D. Anthony Adverse by Hervey Allen. E. Studs Lonigan by James T. Farrell.