Author Question: What did American writer John Keats mean when he wrote in The Crack in the Picture Window that ... (Read 65 times)

bobbysung · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

How did late nineteenth-century imperialism differ from earlier forms of European and American colonialism?

A) Imperialism placed greater emphasis on civilizing nonwhites and non-white Christians.
B) Imperialism relied little on settlers moving to these new colonial holdings.
C) Imperialists had little interest in exploiting the natural resources of their new holdings.
D) People colonized by imperialism were happier than under earlier forms of colonialism.

Question 2

What does the 1850 political cartoon Scene in Uncle Sam's Senate, which depicts Mississippi Senator Henry S.

Foote pulling a pistol on Missouri Senator Thomas Hart Benton, imply about the debate over the Compromise of 1850 in the United States Senate? A) Senators were still willing to compromise over the issue of slavery.
B) Animosity over slavery in the western territories grew at an alarming rate.
C) Conflicts between senators were based on North-South sectionalism.
D) Senators were unified in their opposition to the Compromise of 1850.

Question 3

What did American writer John Keats mean when he wrote in The Crack in the Picture Window that Americans could purchase a box in a suburban development inhabited by people whose age, income, number of children, problems, habits,

conversation, dress, possessions, and perhaps even blood type are also precisely like theirs? A) Suburban homes were made affordable because of standardized construction.
B) Suburban living encouraged mindless conformity and a lack of diversity.
C) Suburbanites usually lived in isolation from each other.
D) Suburban living was limited to the upper class.