Question 1
These two 1955 photographs of a suburban middle-class family called What They Have vs. What They Own featured in Life magazine demonstrate that American families __________.
A) moved to suburbs in great numbers
B) relied heavily on credit to maintain affluent lifestyles
C) were made up of a white-collar working father and a stay-at-home mother
D) benefitted greatly from New Deal and Fair Deal programs
Question 2
The increase of wealthy colonists and the flood of new luxury goods to the American colonies was most impacted by __________.
A) greater reliance on goods traded with Indians
B) the self-sufficiency developed by American colonists
C) expanded trade with the British empire
D) the greater role American colonial assemblies took in developing trade policies
Question 3
What did the Seventeenth Amendment do?
A) It made the distribution and use of alcohol illegal.
B) It provided for the direct popular election of U.S. senators.
C) It limited presidential terms.
D) It gave women the right to vote.
Question 4
Why did the artist include both the biblical quotation Thou shalt not deliver unto the master his servant which has escaped from his master unto thee and the opening from the Declaration of Independence that declares all men are created
equal on this image showing the effects of the Fugitive Slave Act? A) to show that property should be returned to its rightful owner
B) to demonstrate that slavery was a violation of both religious and republican tenets
C) to appease Southerners whose slaves had run away to freedom
D) to prove that slavery was a principle believed in by biblical patriarchs
Question 5
The 1944 GI Bill of Rights offered returning veterans __________.
A) low-interest home loans
B) significant tax breaks
C) white-collar employment
D) land grants
Question 6
Goods coming from the American colonies such as tobacco and beaver furs that were involved in triangle trade were known as __________.
A) raw materials
B) luxury goods
C) manufactured goods
D) cash crops