What difference did First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt make in the New Deal?

Prior to the successful detonation of the nuclear bomb, what event did American strategists hope for to bring about a quick Japanese surrender?

A) the defeat of Germany
B) India's national independence
C) the liberation of Korea
D) the Soviet Union's declaration of war against Japan

In "The Workingman's Conception of Industrial Liberty," what does John Mitchell say about wages?

A) Wages need to be tripled for all factory workers.
B) Women should be paid half of what men earn.
C) Workers should be able to provide for their families and themselves with their wages.
D) Laborers' wages should be paid as gold, not silver.
E) Workers should only receive stock options as compensation.

German immigrants greatly enhanced the ethnic and religious diversity of Britain's colonies.

Why did resistance by the enslaved occur mostly in the southeast?

A) It was the only place where Africans arrived in North America.
B) Access to the Atlantic Ocean made it easier to find passage back to Africa.
C) Slaves in the southeast did not have families.
D) The tightening of slave laws led to more restrictions.

What was the unemployment rate in 1966?

A) 1 percent
B) under 4 percent
C) over 9 percent
D) close to 15 percent

How did the role of the national government change during the war?

A) It shrank in size and stopped getting involved in the daily lives of businesses and citizens.
B) It allowed the national market economy to run free, both locally and internationally.
C) It financed manufacturing companies to diversify production.
D) It grew and created several federal agencies to regulate the war effort.
E) It dedicated all of its efforts to promoting racial equality at home.

Which of the following statements summarizes what moral reform groups stood for during the Gilded Age?

A) First and foremost, they wanted to alleviate the living circumstances of the poor and relied purely on "moral suasion" to do so.
B) They wanted to spread Protestantism in other parts of the world and started a missionary campaign that reached all classes.
C) Their main concern was to eradicate the "sinful" activities such as alcoholism, prostitution, and gambling and to "Christianize the government."
D) Above all else, they believed the pursuit of riches was immoral and focused on the sins of corporations over the individual.
E) They exclusively represented the interests of former slaves and failed to gain any members in the white South.

In the early eighteenth century, only one-quarter of the northern urban elite owned at least one slave.

Which of the following best explains the deterioration of the working and living conditions of workers in New England textile mills in the 1830s and 1840s?

A) Living and working conditions deteriorated primarily because of the economic depression of the late 1830s.
B) Working and living conditions deteriorated primarily because of the growing labor surplus.
C) An economic depression led management to focus more on profits than on providing decent working and living conditions for the workers.
D) Competition from English imports was the primary reason for the deterioration of working and living conditions.