What Was the Most Significant Cause of the Increase in Federal

question 34

Multiple Choice

What was the most significant cause of the increase in federal aid to education and the shift to greater emphasis on basic disciplines in the late 1950s?

• A) influx of non-English-speaking Hispanics into the United States.
• B) alarm over the popularity of the nonconformist Beats on college campuses.
• C) "war on poverty" that was declared when it became apparent that high-school drop-outs were swelling the welfare rolls
• D) discovery that there were more private schools in the suburbs than public schools in the cities.
• E) launch of Sputnik, which gave Americans reason to fear that they were intellectually and technologically backward.

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