Evaluate the ideals and values of the youth counterculture in the 1960s. Do you share any of its ideals and values? Which ones? Why? Do you think you would have shared its ideals and values if you had been a young person in the 1960s? Why? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER The […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
What do you see as the strengths and weaknesses of the feminist movement? What has it accomplished and what has it yet to achieve? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER The feminist movement has well-defined goals, an underlying ideology, and capable organization. It sometimes suffers from a negative image and an overly influential […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
What is your opinion of bilingual education programs for Mexican Americans in public schools? What is the value of such programs? Why might they present a problem? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Bilingual education is aimed at giving non-English-speaking children an opportunity to learn school subjects in their native language while they […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Who controlled American foreign policy during the 1870s and 1880s? A) the army and navy B) the State Department C) Congress D) the President ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Confederate Constitution did NOT A) limit the president to a single term. B) emphasize states’ rights. C) forbid protective tariffs. D) create a single-house Congress. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
The message of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “The American Scholar” was for American artists to A) challenge Americans’ faith in progress, technology, and human goodness. B) stress the role of reason and intellect in the pursuit of the truth. C) create distinctly American forms of art rooted in the facts of American life. D) investigate the […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
In the 1940s, A) the federal government provided the South with the greatest infusion of money and jobs in the region’s history. B) World War II provided the South with its most spectacular growth rate in its history. C) the federal government stationed most troop training in the South. D) the federal government spent more […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Which one of the following had the LEAST impact on the cost and speed of transportation in early nineteenth-century America? A) turnpikes B) canals C) railroads D) steamboats ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
transcendentalists attempted to apply their ideas to everyday life at ________ , a commune near Boston. A) Oneida B) Nashoba C) New Harmony D) Brook Farm ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
Unlike most early nineteenth-century writers, ________ questioned society’s faith in progress and humanity’s essential goodness. A) Longfellow and Whitman B) Alcott and Fuller C) Emerson and Thoreau D) Hawthorne and Melville ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
