Exam 31: Economic, Social, and Cultural Change in the Late 20th Century

Because of its controversy, the Human Genome Project was ended in 1999.

In 2000 the "dot-com" stock prices collapsed dramatically.

The ____________________ was the first hit program for the Fox network.

Deregulation in the financial services sector in the early 1980s​

Explore the economic changes that transformed American life in the 1990s.

By the end of the twentieth century, central cities

The space program launched by President Kennedy with the goal of sending a manned mission to the moon was the

 By 2000, In 2005, Americans were spending more money on medical health costs than on food.

Describe the nature of, and the reasons for, the major demographic and geographic shifts that occurred in the United States during the second half of the twentieth century.

By the year 2000, 1 in 10 Americans lived in which of these states?

By 2000, 92 percent of homes in the United States had cable television.

The television industry of the 1990s and early 2000s

Unlike cultural critics of the 1950s, analysts of the 1990s viewed mass culture as

The sports industry

In the 21st century, the video screen is the preeminent symbol of American culture.

At the end of the 20th century ____ percent of Americans lived in large metropolitan areas.

Housing suburbs built farther away than ever from city cores been labeled "____________________" by demographers.

The practice of cutting back or trimming the workforce is called ____________________.

The CBS television network replaced traditional comedies with edgier shows during the 1970s.

In 1975, the Federal Communication Commission ordered that the first sixty minutes of prime time must be ____________________ programming.