Question 1
What was one common feature of a postwar suburban home?
A) a lack of a garage for the family car
B) a separate kitchen and dining room
C) a second story to add more bedrooms as the child population grew
D) a large living room picture window that made the house appear more spacious
Question 2
Under the policy of salutary neglect, Parliament __________.
A) allowed colonial assemblies to appoint royal governors
B) banned the importation of African slaves to the North American mainland
C) did not meddle in colonial affairs
D) granted American colonists titles of nobility
Question 3
How did developer William Levitt borrow from Henry Ford's automobile industry when planning his communities?
A) Levitt paid his workers twice the average to ensure fast production.
B) Levitt hired armed guards to put down strikers and demonstrators.
C) Levitt used Ford's assembly line-style to develop standardized homes.
D) Levitt would not allow his construction workers to talk on the job.
Question 4
Why were colonial governors so weak?
A) The voting population was larger in Britain, which meant that Americans were not politically
active.
B) Royal governors depended on the colonial assemblies for their salaries.
C) The governors' councils were too powerful, thus making the assemblies reluctant to work
with the governors.
D) Royal governors had to be born in the colonies so they lacked the educational opportunities
available to English-born assemblymen.
Question 5
What was President Zachary Taylor's proposal regarding the issue of slavery in California and New Mexico?
A) admit both as states immediately and let the issue be decided by popular sovereignty
B) adhere to the Wilmot Proviso and ban slavery in all territories gained from Mexico
C) extend the 36 30 line from the Missouri Compromise all the way to the Pacific
D) assign Congress the responsibility of creating two federal territories and determine the issue
of slavery in each one
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