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1 .       Probably the most significant improvement in transportation during the Eisenhower administration was the federal government's funding of the Amtrak railroad network. [Hint]

 
 


2 .       In the 1950s and 1960s, the percentage of immigrants in the American population declined. [Hint]

 
 


3 .       During the 1950s, Americans tended to most admire people who were "rugged individualists." [Hint]

 
 


4 .       The most successful of the new television preachers in the 1970s and 1980s were from evangelical Protestant sects. [Hint]

 
 


5 .       The so-called pop art of the 1960s tended to satirize modern American life. [Hint]

 
 


6 .       One of the two key dilemmas facing Americans in the 1960s was the persistence of poverty in the midst of affluence. [Hint]

 
 


7 .       American society in the 1960s was characterized in large part by consensus, conformity, and stability. [Hint]

 
 


8 .       Technological advances in large measure account for the expansion of the post-World War II American economy. [Hint]

 
 


9 .       From 1948 to 1965, the federal government's policy toward Mexican immigrants was to screen them carefully and allow only skilled workers to enter the United States. [Hint]

 
 


10 .       Educator James B. Conant was notable for his defense of campus protests and the hippie counterculture of the 1960s. [Hint]

 
 


11 .       The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was the most influential radical student organization of the late 1960s. [Hint]

 
 


12 .       One result of the sexual revolution of the sixties was a dramatic increase in the incidence of venereal disease. [Hint]

 
 


13 .       The National Organization for Women (NOW) was organized in 1966 to work for equal employment opportunities and equal pay for women. [Hint]

 
 


14 .       The radical feminists of the 1960s wanted total equality between the sexes. [Hint]

 
 






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