How did most american families on the home front respond to shortages of food and supplies during world war ii?
a. they became unsympathetic to the war effort and each other
b. scarcity of goods divided them, and they refused to make sacrifices.
c. their common goals united them, and they were willing to make sacrifices.
d. they united to form protest groups against the us government.

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is

Whose plan centered on keeping the federal budget balanced, instituting tax cuts, and developing public works projects?

What event started the space race and made americans feel their security was threatened a.) alan shepard's suborbital flight. b.) the launch of sputnik c.) the launch of explorer d.) the cuban missle crisis