Quiz Ja-1302 |
Match the person and the description. Write the correct
letter to the left of the description.
A.
George H. Bush B.
George W. Bush C.
Jimmy Carter D.
William Clinton E.
Calvin Coolidge F.
Ulysses S. Grant G.
Warren G. Harding H.
Herbert Hoover I.
Lyndon B. Johnson J.
Ronald Reagan K.
Franklin D. Roosevelt L.
Theodore Roosevelt M.
Harry Truman |
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1. |
This President was associated with scandals at all
levels of government and in private business. Scandals included prominent
industries of the era (the railroads and stocks), Congress (bribes and the
Salary Grab), and the executive branch (including the care of Indians). |
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2. |
This President is associated with the Square Deal
and later the New Nationalism, with his assisting labor as well as industry
in the Anthracite Coal strike, and with his policy of aiding or stopping
trusts dependent on his view of their acting in the public interest. |
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3. |
This Republican offered to return the nation to
“normalcy.” Although he did not profit personally, his administration is most
associated with the scandals that occurred during his administration, such as
the |
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4. |
This man was President at the time of the Bonus
March and Milo Reno’s Farmers’ Holiday Association, when unemployment was
nearly 25%, and when the government shifted from advocating voluntary actions
by business to trying government intervention, such as the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation and the Emergency Relief and Reconstruction Act, to stop
the Great Depression. |
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5. |
In his speech accepting the Democratic nomination
for President, this man promised Americans a “new deal” in their struggle
with the Great Depression. |
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6. |
Using the atomic bomb at |
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7. |
Taking office after John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s assassination,
promoting the Great Society, Medicare and Medicaid being established, Civil
Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, |
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8. |
The following were factors in this president’s
defeat in the election of 1992: Saddam Hussein reemerged as a potent force in
Iraq, making some question whether the president had ended the war too soon;
in spite of the promise of “no new taxes” in spring 1990, by summer the
president considered “tax revenue increases”; and Americans feared that
giving the president four more years would mean a continuation of problems
with the economy. |
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9. |
Campaigning in 1992 as a “New Democrat,” a strong
civil rights advocate, and a supporter of education, he debated not just the
Republican candidate but Ross Perot as well in 1992 and ran against Perot
again in 1996. Placed the 1st Lady in charge of determining a plan
for health care, but failed in the attempt to reform it partly because of
opposition from industry groups. Faced the |
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10. |
Ran against Al Gore for the Democrats and Ralph
Nader for the Green Party, with the disputed |
Quiz Jb-1302 |
Find the letter (a, b, c, d, e, A, B, C, D, or E) on the
map where the described event happened. Then write that letter to the left of
the description, being sure to use capital or lowercase letters.
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1. |
As
the result of the Spanish American War, the |
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2. |
This nation was an
Axis power in World War II. |
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3. |
The
war in this divided country began with the North attacking the South, was
followed by Truman convincing the United Nations to pass a resolution to
repel the North’s attack, proceeded to a stalemate that lasted for years and
that kept the North and South divided at the 38th parallel, and ended (in
Eisenhower’s administration) with nothing in the North and South really
changed. |
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4. |
The
conclusion of the war with this country was over 350,000 American
casualties, almost 600 prisoners of war with some held as long as seven
years, Americans divided in how they chose to respond to returning US
veterans, and the fall—only two years after US withdrawal¾of the part of this
country that the US had supported financially and militarily since the 1950s. |
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5. |
In
the area of foreign policy in 1972, Nixon reopened diplomatic relations with this
country in a dramatic personal visit. |
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6. |
In
October 1973, this country was attacked by |
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7. |
This country attacked |
Match the item and the description. Write the correct
letter to the left of the description.
A.
fundamentalism B.
pragmatism C. Social
Darwinism D.
Social Gospel |
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8. |
The
philosophy known as __________ is
associated with Herbert Spencer and held that "survival of the
fittest," a term Spencer coined, applied to people. |
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9. |
Among
those rejecting Herbert Spencer’s philosophy was this movement that provided
assistance to slum residents. |
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10. |
The
philosophy of ______________ developed by William James focused on practical
solutions to problems. |
Quiz Jc-1302 |
Find the letter (a, b, c, d, or e) on the map where the
described event happened. Then write that letter to the left of the description
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1. |
Among the 1950s
covert actions by the CIA under the Eisenhower administration were events in
this country. The |
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2. |
In
1979, with President Jimmy Carter’s assistance, |
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3. |
One
of the areas that moved toward Islamic fundamentalist governments was this
area previously governed by the |
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4. |
After the Iran-Iraq war, the |
Match the person and the description. Write the correct
letter to the left of the description.
A. William B.
Dwight D. Eisenhower C.
F. Scott Fitzgerald D.
Langston Hughes E.
Charles Lindbergh |
F.
Douglas MacArthur G.
Joseph McCarthy H.
John J. Pershing I.
Mark Twain |
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5. |
Among the most famous of authors of the Gilded
Age is this person who wrote such books as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and who even named the age. |
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6. |
This individual pursued the Mexican rebel Pancho
Villa and later commanded the American Expeditionary Force in World War I. |
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7. |
This individual is representative of the Harlem
Renaissance, a great flowering of African American culture occurring in the
North following the Great Migration of blacks in the 1920s. |
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8. |
Author of The
Great Gatsby, this individual’s work is representative of the
disillusioned youth of the 1920s. |
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9. |
This individual was the leader at the removal of
the Bonus Army from Washington during Hoover’s administration; commander in
the Philippines and of the American forces in the Pacific during FDR’s
administration; leader of Occupied Japan and the commander of UN forces in
Korea during Harry Truman’s administration. His outspoken views on strategy
with |
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10. |
This
individual was commander of the invasion of Western Europe and the leader of
the unified operations at |
Quiz Jd-1302 |
Find the letter (a, b, c, d, e, A, B, C, D, or E) on the
map where the described event happened. Then write that letter to the left of
the description, being sure to use capital or lowercase letters.
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1. |
As a
result of the Spanish American War, the |
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2. |
What
country lost |
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3. |
What
country declared itself independent and thereby became the way for American
vessels to save months of transportation time? |
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4. |
Pancho
Villa of ________ successfully raided |
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5. |
One
of the consequences of the Dust Bowl was that farmers in the Dust Bowl states
(such as the Okies) became part of the growing numbers of migratory workers
thrown off the land and seeking work in such areas as this state’s vegetable and fruit fields. |
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6. |
Adding
to the burden of farmers, the Dust Bowl of the 1930s devastated farm lands,
with winds so powerful that dust was found on ships at sea. The Dust Bowl
occurred in such states as? |
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7. |
Congress
created the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to aid |
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8. |
In
1962 in this country, the Kennedy administration countered Khrushchev in the
most dangerous event of the Cold War, one that could have resulted in nuclear
war. The Soviet atomic warheads and missiles were in this country, but the
Kennedy administration successfully handled the two-week crisis by blockade
of this country, international candor, and careful maneuvering of Khrushchev.
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Match the person and the description. Write the correct
letter to the left of the description.
A. Agricultural Adjustment Act B.
Dawes Act of 1887 C.
Grant’s “peace policy” D.
Resettlement Administration Act |
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9. |
This
policy toward Native Americans relied most heavily on herding them onto
reservations. |
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10. |
The
policy attempted to divide reservations into single farms, planned to use
farm ownership to "civilize" the Native Americans, and made more
land available to whites. |
QuizJe-1302 |
Match the person and the description. Write the correct
letter to the left of the description.
A. Madeline Albright B. William C. Allen Dulles D. John Foster Dulles E. Geraldine Ferraro F. Betty Friedan G. Newt Gingrich H. Ruth Bader Ginsburg I. Henry
Kissinger J. Henry Cabot Lodge K. Joseph McCarthy L. George E. Marshall M. Thurgood Marshall N. Sandra Day O’Connor O. Colin Powell P. Clarence Thomas |
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1. |
This individual was the Presidential candidate for both Democratic and
Populist Parties, and he gave the “Cross of Gold” speech. He served as
Secretary of State, but resigned over |
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2. |
This Republican Senator was not
invited to participate in the treaty negotiations ending World War I. He
successfully led the fight against the |
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3. |
Truman’s Secretary of State was _______. He
proposed the European Recovery Plan, a plan for the infusion of massive
amounts of American capital into war-torn |
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4. |
This Wisconsin Senator’s name became representative of an era of
searches for alleged communists in government and of increasing power for
those who made accusations, regardless of their accuracy. (This Senator will
not be stopped for four years.) |
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5. |
Eisenhower’s Secretary of State labeled the buildup of atomic warheads
and the implied threat of using them as brinksmanship and held that (in the
domino theory) the fall of one country would lead to the fall of others, with
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6. |
The Secretary of State for most of Nixon’s two terms and for the term
completed by Gerald Ford was this individual. He was most associated
with secret talks with |
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7. |
Jimmy Carter’s former Vice President Walter
Mondale was the 1984 Democratic nominee against popular Ronald Reagan. Having
little chance of beating him, Mondale made the symbolic choice of this woman,
a New York Representative, as his running mate. |
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8. |
This
individual was associated with the “Contract with |
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9. |
The Secretary of State for William Clinton, and
the first woman to serve in this role, was this person. |
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Quiz Jf-1302 |
Find the letter (a, b, c, d, e, A, B, C, D, or E) on the
map where the described event happened. Then write that letter to the left of
the description, being sure to use capital or lowercase letters. If you have
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In
addition to |
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In
addition to |
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3. |
In
the 1920s and 1930s, this nation was fascist and led by Benito Mussolini
(Duce) It joined in an alliance with another fascist nation in 1935 and
attacked |
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At a
meeting in |
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5. |
The
Battle of Normandy occurred in this nation. It was the 2nd front
that Stalin had asked for repeatedly. |
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The |
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7. |
This
nation (and its capital) was partitioned at the end of World War II, with the
American, British, and French sections eventually being unified into one country
and the Soviet section eventually being another country. |
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8. |
This
nation was initially part of one of the territories mandated to |
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9. |
The
Islamic cleric Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew the Eisenhower-restored Shah of
this country whose secret police and military used “widespread torture.”
Among Khomeini’s first acts was to stop selling oil to the |
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10. |
In the
late 1980s during the presidency of George H. Bush, this country officially
ceased to exist and broke into its component parts, with those parts showing
strong nationalism and sometimes religious and ethic issues. |
QuizJg-1302 |
Match the person and the description. Write the correct
letter to the left of the description.
A. Madeline Albright B. Betty Friedan C. Ruth Bader Ginsburg D. Martin Luther King E. Thurgood Marshall F. Sandra Day O’Connor G. Francis Willard H. Clarence Thomas |
Thomas |
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1. |
In 1963, this individual wrote The Feminine
Mystique, covering what she called “the problem that has no name.” In
1967, she was elected President of the just-organized National Organization for
Women, a political organization working primarily for the passage of the
equal rights amendment and equality in the workplace. |
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2. |
Representative of the reform in
the Gilded Age and of the strength of the Prohibition movement was this President
of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. |
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3. |
In his second term, Lyndon Johnson
appointed and the Senate confirmed the nomination of the first African
American to serve on the Supreme Court, an individual who had been an NAACP attorney
in the historic cases before the Supreme Court beginning in the 1950s. |
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4. |
Reflective of the changing
political power of women were appointments of women to the Supreme court. The
first was Ronald Reagan’s 1981 appointment of this person. |
Match the item and the description. Write the correct
letter to the left of the description.
A.
Alexander Graham Bell B.
Thomas Edison C.
Joseph Glidden D. J. P. Morgan E. John D. Rockefeller F. George Westinghouse |
Write the correct letter to the left of the item.
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5. |
As Buchanan Duke is to the tobacco industry in the South and as Andrew
Carnegie is to the steel industry, this industrial capitalist, using
horizontal integration in his industry, made his fortune in the oil industry. |
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6. |
Among those in the age of inventors that marked
the Gilded Age, this individual was associated with |
Match the item and the description. Write the correct
letter to the left of the description.
A. Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) B. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
(FDIC) C. Federal Reserve Board D.
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) E.
Social Security Act |
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7. |
To determine the amount of money in circulation, to respond to
cyclical business changes, and to expand or contract the nation's credit,
Congress created this organization during Woodrow Wilson’s term. |
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8. |
To insure bank deposits and to prevent the manipulation of people’s
assets that had helped lead to the Depression, Congress passed the
Glass-Steagall Act that prevented banks from selling stock and that created
this program. |
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9. |
This New Deal program paid $5 per month to young men and $25 per month to
their families. The young men lived in camps and did regional environmental
products such as planting trees, digging ditches, and fighting fires. |
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10. |
To prevent manipulation of the stock and bond market and the
disastrous drain of |
QuizJh-1302 |
Mark the letter of the correct answer.
1. |
Which of the following provided the "final
straw" that led the a. The Spanish herded Cubans into "reconcentration"
camps. b. The de Lôme letter was published. c. The "yellow press" in d. The |
2. |
Submarine warfare and trench warfare were
characteristic of World War I. Using the new technology of the submarine, the
1915 German sinking of the __________ cost 128 American lives and enraged the
American public. a. Arabic b. |
3. |
Which of the following is not true of American
participation in World War I? a. The b. When intelligence tests showed no difference
between black and white troops, the army reconfigured the tests to reflect
prevailing prejudices. c. Americans used convoys to escort shipments of
food and troops to d. The |
4. |
The “Good Neighbor” policy: a. Is most associated with Franklin D. Roosevelt b. Improved US relations with c. Resulted in our renouncing the Platt Amendment in return for our
keeping d. Faced its greatest test in e. All of the above |
5. |
The period immediately following World War II
established institutions that remain dominant today. Which of the following
was created under the National Security Act of 1947? a. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) b. Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI)
c. National Security Council (NSC) d. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) e. both a and c |
6. |
Although covert action and funding occurred earlier, public
involvement of the a. 1940s b. 1950s c. 1960s
d. 1970s e. 1980s |
7. |
The Watergate scandal included these actions: a. Began with a break-in of the Democratic National Headquarters b. Led to the resignation, a first in United States history, of
Richard Nixon whose successor Gerald Ford later granted him a full pardon for
anything illegal he might have done while in office c. Resulted in the release of tapes of Oval Office conversations that
caused the American people to question Nixon's fitness to lead the country
because the conversations revealed Nixon played an active role in attempts to
cover up White House involvement in Watergate, including use of “hush money”
from readily available Republican funds. d. all of the above |
8. |
In the years following Nixon’s impeachment, Congress did these things
to avoid repetition of the problems revealed by Nixon’s actions: a. Congress passed the War Powers Act requiring the president to
notify Congress within 48 hours of deployment of American combat troops and
to withdraw those troops within 60 days if Congress did not endorse the
President’s action b. Congress passed the Freedom of Information Act allowing Americans
to request information on government actions c. The Senate held hearings that showed abuse of power by the FBI and
actions ranging from illegal drug experiments and failed assassinations by
the CIA d. all of the above |
9. |
Background as the governor of Georgia; as President, focusing on human
rights, withdrawing support for repressive regimes in Chile and
Nicaragua, ending US control over the
Panama Canal, negotiating the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt,
and presiding over the Iran Hostage Crisis. Under his administration, the a. Jimmy Carter b. Ronald
Reagan c. George H. Bush d. William Clinton e. George W. Bush |
10. |
Which of these statements was true of the Iran-Contra Affair during
Reagan’s administration? a. The executive branch’s National Security Council (NSC) believed
hostages taken in b. Profit from the sale of these arms to c. The high-level participants in the Iran-Contra arrangements,
including Oliver North, faced no serious legal penalties because Congress
gave them immunities to get them to testify about the operations. d. all of the above. |
QuizJi-1302 |
1. |
Which of the following statements was/were true of the Fifteenth
Amendment? a. It stated that federal and state governments could not abridge the
right of a citizen to vote on account of race, color, or previous condition
of servitude. b. It assured African Americans the right to hold office and ended
voting restrictions. c. Susan B. Anthony supported the amendment even though it did not
provide for women's right to vote. d. Abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass
condemned the amendment. e. both a and b |
2. |
All of the following are amendments to the Constitution that occur in
the post-Civil War era except: a. 13th amendment freeing slaves in the rebellious
territories b. 13th amendment ending slavery c. 14th amendment forbidding the states from denying “due
process” to citizens and declaring citizenship to be anyone born in the d. 15th amendment granting the right to vote to former
slaves (who were male) e. both a and c |
3. |
In the case of Munn v. Illinois, the Supreme Court ruled that __________ were
legal. a. monopolies b. regulatory commissions c. pools d. rebates e. trusts |
4. |
In this landmark 1896 case, the Supreme Court declared segregation to
be legal. a. Brown v. Board of Education
of d. Schechter v. |
5. |
In this decision in 1954, the Supreme Court declared separate
educational facilities to be inherently unequal: a. Brown v. Board of Education
of d. Schechter v. |
6. |
Who
made the statement "I have here in my hand a list of 205 Communists that
were made known to the secretary of state”? Whose methods were revealed to
the American people by having his hearings televised and his actions were
exposed on Murrow’s See It Now
television program? Who was the subject of indirect speeches by the President
of the a.
Dwight D. Eisenhower b. Douglas
MacArthur c. Joseph McCarthy d. Franklin D. Roosevelt e. Harry Truman |
7. |
Television’s influence marked American life. The increasing
intersection of television and political campaigning began in this year with
the Presidential debate. The Democrat, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was a Catholic
who met the issue of his Catholicism head on, by vowing to preserve
separation of church and state. The Republican was Richard Nixon, who had
been Eisenhower’s Vice President. The year was: a. 1944 b. 1956 c. 1960
d. 1968 e. 1972 |
8. |
Which
of the following was a social or technological development of the 1980s? a.
Cable television and alternatives to the major networks became widespread,
with people such as Ted Turner representing the trend b.
Many Americans came to see the nation’s public school system as needing an
overhaul, but they differed as to the methods to be used. c.
The number of single-parent families declined for the first time since the
1960s. d.
both a and b |
9. |
Which
of the following did not signify the deep divisions affecting
the a.
The O.J. Simpson verdict, to which whites and blacks exhibited polarized
reactions b.
The battle over gay rights c.
The Supreme Court’s reversal of its earlier decision in Roe v. Wade d.
Moves to restrict affirmative action, including the 1996 Supreme Court case
of Hopwood v. Texas, a case invalidating the selection method used by
the University of Texas Law School |
10. |
Which events were not
televised? a. Black riots that began in the Watts area of b. Vietnam War c. Watergate Hearings d. White mob violence in e. World War II |
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1. |
Most "new immigrants" to the a. were from Southern and Eastern b. entered the c. were quickly assimilated into the dominant
society. d. were from Northern and |
2. |
In 1890, the Census Bureau announced that a. b. most Americans lived in urban areas. c. d. both a and b |
3. |
Areas investigated by muckrakers for newspapers and magazines (such as
McClure’s) included all EXCEPT: a. Food products regulated by the Department of Agriculture (Dr.
Harvey Wiley) b. Meatpacking (Upton Sinclair) c. City government (Lincoln Steffens) d. Standard Oil (Ida Tarbell) |
4. |
The census of 1920 reported that for the first time a. b. there were more immigrants than native-born Americans in the c. more people lived in urban areas than in rural areas. d. both a and b |
5. |
People who lost jobs in the 1920s were usually helped by a. unemployment insurance.
b. old age pensions. c. federal welfare
programs. d. all of the above e. none of the
above |
6. |
One reason for the shift in the New Deal before the 1936 election was
its critics from the left who had large followings in American. These critics
included: a. Frances Townsend with his proposed pension of $200 monthly for
everyone over sixty b. Senator Huey Long of c. Father Charles Coughlin, the “Radio Priest, ” with his mix of
anti-Semitism, religion, attacks on bankers, and calls for “free silver” d. all of the above |
7. |
All
of the following led to the growth of suburbs after the war except: a.
The G.I. Bill's low mortgage rates that allowed veterans to buy houses b.
William Levitt's building of masses of houses using techniques borrowed from
the Ford assembly line c.
The high numbers of African Americans who found cheap housing in the suburbs d.
The attractions of suburbia's good schools and open spaces e.
The need for affordable houses brought on, in part, by the baby boom |
8. |
The
public grief in response to the assassination John Fitzgerald Kennedy
combined with Johnson’s legendary ability to get things done in a.
Declared a “war on poverty” in a nation with 20% of the people below the
poverty line in 1960 (reduced to 12% by 1970) b. Emphasized community action, encouraging¾with mixed success¾neighborhood groups to play
an active role in federally funded projects, including Head Start c.
Succeeded in pushing Congress to pass health programs¾Medicare for the elderly
and Medicaid for the indigent of any age d.
Succeeded in pushing Congress to pass the Kennedy’s previously proposed Civil
Rights Act and also the Voting Rights Act e.
All of the above |
9. |
Although Reagan’s domestic agenda can be described as anti-big
government, his commitments included: a. not to cut social programs such as Social Security. b. to increase defense spending. c. not to tamper with Head Start or school lunch programs. d. all of the above |
10. |
Which of the following was not true of immigration in the early 1990s? a. Most immigrants were from b. Increased numbers of Hispanics and Asians resulted in the so-called
“browning of c. Legal immigrants averaged 600,000 per year; illegal, from 300,000
to 500,000. d. The state of e. Studies showed that legal and illegal immigrants contribute more
than they use in government services. |
These questions are in some cases based on questions
in the test database for American Passages.
Copyright
C. J. Bibus, Ed.D. 2003-2012 |
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