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6. Which of these factors was not how the war decreased regionalism amongst Americans?

  • 13% of Americans changed their county of residence
  • 8 million had permanently located to a different state, 4 million to a different region
  • 25% of Americans had served in the war and had not returned
  • 10% of Americans left their homes for training camps

7. What was the North like in America?

  • Major racial inequality in towns
  • Contained industrial cities, expanded thanks to wartime defence industries
  • Contained small, rural towns
  • Contained urbanised cities, expanded thanks to wartime defence industries

8. Which of the following was an example of how ethnic minorities suffered in the South?

  • De Jure segregation by law, 14 million blacks and 1.2 million Hispanic Americans were enshrined in this law
  • De Facto segregation, informal segregation which 14 million blacks and 1.2 million Hispanic Americans were subject to
  • De Jure segregation by law, 1.2 million blacks and 14 million Hispanic Americans were enshrined in
  • De Facto segregation, informal segregation which 1.2 million blacks and 14 million Hispanic Americans were subject to

9. What was the direction of mass migration in America?

  • From the agricultural South to the industrial North and from South and East to West Coast cities
  • From the industrial North to the agricultural South
  • From the West Coast to the South and the East
  • From the agricultural South to the industrial North and from the West Coast to the South and the East

10. How many workers went on strike, demonstrating tensions between the rich and poor?

  • 1.4 million
  • 10 million
  • 4.6 million
  • 3.5 million

11. What was the South like in America?

  • Predominantly urban, legal, economic, social and political equality for blacks
  • Predominantly rural, legal, economic, social and political equality for blacks
  • Predominantly agricultural, legal, economic, social and political inequality with blacks
  • Predominantly industrial, legal, economic, social and political inequality with blacks

12. How many Native Americans had incomes way below the national average?

  • 14 million
  • 160,000
  • 350,000
  • 1.2 million

13. Although WW2 helped to decrease prejudice amongst different ethnic groups, which groups still suffered prejudice?

  • Hindus, Buddhists and Sikhs
  • Catholics, Jews and ethnic minorities
  • British-Americans
  • Christians and Whites