The Assignment of High Importance to ________ Is NOT One

question 69

Multiple Choice

The assignment of high importance to ________ is NOT one of the major value configurations within the dominant American culture.

• A) leisure and relaxation
• B) work and activity
• C) efficiency and practicality
• D) material comfort

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Definitions:

Investing

The act of allocating resources, usually money, in the expectation of generating an income or profit.

Tea Party

A grassroots Republican movement that emerged in 2009 named for the Boston Tea Party of the 1770s. The Tea Party opposed the Obama administration’s sweeping legislative enactments and advocated for a more stringent immigration policy.

Fourteenth Amendment

1868 constitutional amendment that guaranteed rights of citizenship to former slaves, in words similar to those of the Civil Rights Act of 1866.

Federal Government

The federal government is the national level of government, with powers divided between it and the individual states, as outlined in a country's constitution.