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True/False Quiz
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Question 1
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Open Hint for Question 1 in a new window		 Probably the most significant improvement in transportation during the Eisenhower administration was the federal government's funding of the Amtrak railroad network.
   
 
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Question 2
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Open Hint for Question 2 in a new window		 In the 1950s and 1960s, the percentage of immigrants in the American population declined.
   
 
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Question 3
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Open Hint for Question 3 in a new window		 During the 1950s, Americans tended to most admire people who were "rugged individualists."
   
 
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Question 4
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Open Hint for Question 4 in a new window		 The so-called pop art of the 1960s tended to satirize modern American life.
   
 
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Question 5
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Open Hint for Question 5 in a new window		 One of the two key dilemmas facing Americans in the 1960s was the persistence of poverty in the midst of affluence.
   
 
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Question 6
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Open Hint for Question 6 in a new window		 American society in the 1960s was characterized in large part by consensus, conformity, and stability.
   
 
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Question 7
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Open Hint for Question 7 in a new window		 Technological advances in large measure account for the expansion of the post-World War II American economy.
   
 
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Open Hint for Question 8 in a new window		 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.
   
 
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Question 9
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Open Hint for Question 9 in a new window		 Educator James B. Conant was notable for his defense of campus protests and the hippie counterculture of the 1960s.
   
 
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Question 10
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Open Hint for Question 10 in a new window		 The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was the most influential radical student organization of the late 1960s.
   
 
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Question 11
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Open Hint for Question 11 in a new window		 Alfred Kinsey's study claimed that half of American men engaged in homosexual activities before adolescence.
   
 
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Question 12
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Open Hint for Question 12 in a new window		 The National Organization for Women (NOW) was organized in 1966 to work for equal employment opportunities and equal pay for women.
   
 
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Question 13
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Open Hint for Question 13 in a new window		 Some radical feminists advocating raising children in communal centers and doing away with marriage as a legal institution.
   
 
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