front 1 The flagships business of the heavy industrial economy of the early twentieth century was | back 1 the U.S. Steel Corporation |
front 2 The primary engine driving the U.S. economy of the early twenty-first century is | back 2 scientific research |
front 3 The greatest controversy regarding fundamental scientific research in the early 2000s concerned | back 3 stem cell research using human embryos |
front 4 One of the greatest concerns regarding the continuing success of American science in the early twentieth century was | back 4 that the United States was no longer producing scientists or even attracting top scientists from abroad |
front 5 The most striking development in the American economic structure in the 1990s and 2000s was | back 5 the growing inequality between rich and poor |
front 6 Which of the following was not among the causes of the income gap in the United States? | back 6 The weakening family structure |
front 7 The most dramatic change in the patterns of women's employment from the 1950s to the 2000s was | back 7 that the majority of mothers with young children went to work outside the home |
front 8 Perhaps the most significant sign of the pressures on the traditional American family in the late twentieth century was | back 8 that families were increasingly slow to form at all |
front 9 The increasingly longer lives of America's senior citizens were often eased by | back 9 the ability of the potent elderly lobby to obtain government benefits for seniors |
front 10 The deepest problems caused by federal programs like Social Security and Medicare in the twenty-first century was likely to be | back 10 that the higher taxes necessary to support benefits would create a generational war with younger workers |
front 11 The new immigrants of the late twentieth and early twenty first centuries came to the United States primarily because | back 11 they wanted jobs and economic opportunities unavailable in their homelands |
front 12 The largest group of the new immigrants came from | back 12 Mexico and other Latin American countries |
front 13 The period between 1920 and the mid-1990s will likely be seen as a unique but passing age in American demographic history because | back 13 a majority of people loved in central cities rather than in rural areas or suburbs |
front 14 The primary goals of modern multiculturalists was | back 14 to preserve and promote rather than crush distinct ethnic and radical cultures in the United States |
front 15 The most striking development in American literature in the past two decades has been | back 15 the rise of writers from once marginal regions and ethnic groups |