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History 1306 FINAL

Chapters 17-29

Question	Answer
Which of the following statements about the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 is FALSE?	It attracted such a small number of people that the United States would not host another World's Fair until 1964.
The policy of laissez-faire following in the quarter century after Reconstruction refers to:	Surrendering control over public policy to private interest.
What was the primary cause for the growth of the urban industrial labor force in the late nineteenth century?	Immigration from Europe.
The Gospel of wealth asserted that business success was the outgrowth of:	God's blessing.
In the late nineteenth century, the U.S. government did NOT provide:	Consumer protection laws for the public.
In Santa Clara County v. The Southern Pacific Railroad, the Supreme Court ruled that:	Corporations were entitle to the protection of the 14th Amendment.
Through consolidation, nineteenth-century business leaders like John D. Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan intended to bring more ___ to the national economy.	Order
Which industry pioneered modern management styles in the nineteenth century?	Railroads
The founder of scientific management methods was:	Frederick W. Taylor
The primary cause of the farmer's economic woes in the South and West in the late nineteenth century was:	Overproduction
The doctrine of the New South called for:	Adoption of the northern model of industrial growth, couple with the legend of the graceful Old South.
A leading advocate of the doctrine of the New South was:	Henry W. Grady.
Booker T. Washington encouraged southern blacks to:	Make themselves economically indispensable to southern whites.
The post-Civil War South's economy remained backward because of all but one of the following...Select the EXCEPTION:	The failure to develop a textile industry.
The Haymarket Incident (1886) was significant to the labor movement because it..	Aroused public opposition against labor and contributed to the decline of the Knights of Labor.
Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor, founded in 1881, worked for all of the following EXCEPT:	Organizing unskilled and minority group members.
Chinese Immigrants, for the most part, came to American to:	Accumulate money for their families in China.
Most old immigrants came from:	England, Ireland, and Germany.
The new immigrants differed from their predecessors mainly in their:	Ethnic and religious backgrounds and countries of origin.
The new immigrants came mainly from:	Southern and eastern Europe.
Which of the following statements about nativism is FALSE?	Nativists favored immigration.
Who determined the pattern of urban growth and development in the "private city" of the late nineteenth century?	Profit-seeking businessmen.
The nineteenth-century genteel tradition in American literature dwelt on all the following themes EXCEPT:	Reality
Novelist Theodore Dreiser wrote in the literary genre known as:	Realism
Literary naturalists in late nineteenth-century America pursued the theme of:	The effect of modern urban society on the helpless individual.
Scott Joplin wrote popular music in the syncopated style called:	Ragtime
By the end of the nineteenth century, the sport of ___ was governed by the Marquis of Queensberry Rules.	Baseball
Coney Island became famous as	An escapist adventureland for working-class Americans.
The phrase "you shall not crucify mankind on a cross of gold" referred to:	William Jennings Bryan's opposition to the gold standard in the presidential campaign of 1896.
The term "free silver" refers to:	Putting more money into circulation.
The phrase Mark Twain used to describe the political and cultural climate that existed in America between 1877 and 1900 was the:	Gilded Age.
Lord Bryce, in his "The American Commonwealth,"	Warned that patronage rather than substantive issues characterizes politics in America.
Between 1877 and 1896:	Presidential elections were usually close contests.
Party loyalty among voters during the post-Reconstruction era was:	High for both major parties, because party attachments reflected voters' religious and cultural values.
By 1890, women had full political equality with men only in:	Wyoming Territory.
The Pendleton Act, providing for a federal civil service, was passed largely as a result of the popular outcry over:	The assassination of James Garfield.
The Granger Laws were enacted in an attempt to:	Regulate railroad taxes.
The nation's first federal regulatory agency was created by:	The Interstate Commerce Act.
The key issue diving the two major parties in the late 1880s was ____ policy.	Tariff.
President Grover Cleveland opposed the current tariff because he thought:	The tariff was producing a treasury surplus and tempting Congress to dangerously expand federal activities.
The basic problem of farmers in the last half of the nineteenth century was caused by:	Overproduction.
In the late nineteenth century, farmers in the West and South suffered from all of these problems EXCEPT:	High taxes.
The first national farmers' organization devoted to economic self-help and political agitation for farmers' goals was the:	Grange (the Patrons of Husbandry).
To alleviate their problems, farmers tried all of the following EXCEPT:	Reducing agricultural production.
The farmers' agenda included all the following EXCEPT:	Government ownership of industry.
Coxey's Army marched on Washington to demand:	Jobs for the unemployed.
The widespread enactment of Jim Crow laws that disfranchised and segregated blacks began:	in the late 1890s.
The Mississippi Plan was a scheme to:	Deprive blacks of the vote.
The Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson asserted that:	Separate but equal facilities were constitutional.
President Ulysses Grant wanted to annex the Dominican Republic for all but one of the following reasons. Select the EXCEPTION:	Because annexation had strong support in Congress.
During the 1860s, 1870s, and 1880s, public interest in overseas expansion was:	Limited largely to missionary organizations, Social Darwinists, and a limited number of business interests.
Which of the following statements about the foreign service in 1869 is FALSE?	The post of Secretary of State was regarded as a stepping-stone to the presidency.
All of the following factors retarded interest in expansion EXCEPT:	Opposition from a strongly anti-imperialist press.
In the years immediately following the Civil War, the United States:	Acquired Alaska from Russia.
Those who favored American expansion in the late nineteenth century argued that:	All of the above.
Periodic depressions in the late nineteenth century fostered a belief that expansion would benefit the economy by providing:	New markets to buy up surplus American production.
Who was the author of the influential book, "The Influence of Sea Power upon History?"	Alfred Thayer Mahan.
The basic argument of the "Influence of Sea Power upon History" was that:	Naval power was the key to national greatness.
The "Large Policy" called for:	Construction of a canal through Central America, a powerful navy, and coaling stations in the Pacific.
Between 1885 and 1897, American foreign policy:	Became increasingly belligerent.
The key event that precipitated the overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii was:	A change in American tariff policies that would have cost Hawaiian sugar producers $12 million.
The term "jingoism" describes:	The spirit of warlike patriotism advocated by many Americans in the late nineteenth century.
The main reason the United States declared war on Spain in 1898 was to:	Liberate Cuba from Spain.
Causes of the war with Spain in 1898 include all of the following EXCEPT:	Spain's total refusal to negotiate the Cuban issue.
Those pressed hard for war with Spain prior to 1898 included all of the following EXCEPT:	President William McKinley.
As a result of the Spanish-American War, the United States acquired:	The Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam.
The Platt Amendment:	Authorized the United States to intervene in Cuba's internal and external affairs.
As a direct result of the Spanish-American War, the United States had to fight another war to:	Suppress a revolt against American rule in the Philippines.
Which of the following statements about the Open Door Note of 1899 is FALSE?	It was warmly accepted by the Chinese people.
The 1902 anthracite coal strike:	Marked the first time that a president intervened on the side of workers in a labor dispute.
Henry George and Edward Bellamy:	Were two early challengers of Social Darwinism and laissez-faire.
The Social Gospel movement:	Maintained that people should apply Christianity to address social problems.
The journalist who exposed social evils in American society during the Progressive Era were called:	Muckrakers.
A pioneer in the settlement house movement was:	Jane Addams.
The Niagara Movement, organized in 1905 by W.E.B. DuBois and others, sought:	Political and economic equality for African-Americans.
The Progressives:	Believed that experts should manage public affairs.
At the state level, which of the following was NOT a proposal progressives made to achieve "direct democracy" ...?	Women's suffrage and direct election of Senators.
President Theodore Roosevelt's handling of trusts suggests that he believed:	The federal government should break up large corporations only in cases of monopoly or flagrant abuses.
Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" was instrumental in gaining congressional legislation for the regulation of:	Food and drugs.
As a result of the passage of a federal meat inspection law in 1906:	Federal standards for meat were established.
President Theodore Roosevelt was head of his time in his views on:	The need for protection of natural resources.
Roosevelt's foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere is best characterized by his:	Belief that the United States should intervene in the internal affairs of nations in the Americas when political stability or American interests are threatened.
In order to secure rights to build a canal through Central America, the United States:	Aided a revolution in Panama against Colombia.
Dollar Diplomacy refers to the policy of:	William Howard Taft, who favored economic penetration of foreign markets by American banks and corporations.
Who was the President known for a highly moralistic approach to diplomacy?	Woodrow Wilson.
Which of the following was NOT among the groups that gained the most from Progressive reform?	Racial and ethnic minorities.
The event that caused the decline of the Progressive movement was:	World War 1.
Randolph Bourne believed that WW1:	Would lead to the suppression of civil liberties, kill reform, and increase the power of government.
Which of the following statements about WW1 is FALSE?	The war ended in stalemate.
The event that set off the train of events leading to the outbreak of WW1 in 1914 was:	The assassination of the Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
At the beginning of the war in Europe, President Wilson:	Believed that the United States should be neutral in thought and deed.
The German policy that was most directly responsible for bringing the United States into the war was:	Unrestricted submarine warfare.
Why did the publication of the Zimmerman Telegram convince many Americans that Germany threatened to their national security?	Because it proposed an alliance between Germany and Mexico.
When he asked Congress for a declaration of war in 1917, President Wilson's ultimate goal was to put the United States in a position to:	Influence the terms of the postwar peace settlement.
What was the central agency for mobilizing and managing the American economy during WW1?	The War Industries Board.
To mobilize public support for WW1, President Wilson established the ___, America's first propaganda agency.	Committee on Public Information.
Which of the following does NOT describe the experience of African Americans during WW1?	Most opposed U.S. involvement in the war.
The emergency atmosphere in WW1 resulted in important benefits for all but one of the following groups. Select the EXCEPTION:	The International Workers of the World and the Socialist Party.
For the first time in American history, during WW1 the United States:	Administered intelligence tests to military recruits.
The United States's entry into WW1 in 1917 was:	Decisive to an Allied victory.
In Schenck v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that in time of war, the government could limit the right to:	Free Speech.
The immediate post-WW1 environment in America was characterized by all of the following EXCEPT:	Declining prices.
The attorney general who led the attack on postwar radicalism in 1919 and 1920 was:	A. Mitchell Palmer
Wilson's Fourteen Points provided for all the following EXCEPT:	Creation of a post-war alliance between Britain, France, and the United States to ensure world peace.
All of the following provisions of the Treaty of Versailles helped to set the stage for WW2 EXCEPT:	The establishment of the League of Nations.
In the United States Senate, the most controversial part of the Treaty of Versailles was its provision for:	A League of Nations.
It is likely that the Senate would have ratified the Treaty of Versailles if:	President had compromised with moderate Republicans on some of the treaty's provisions.
Margaret Sanger:	Promoted birth control.
The most important economic development of the 1920s was the:	Rise of a consumer-oriented economy.
According to the 1920 census, for the first time in American history most:	Americans lived in cities or towns.
Henry Ford:	Made cars affordable for the average family.
Alfred Sloan, the president of General Motors from 1923 to 1941:	Emphasized marketing and prestige and introduced the yearly model change and set up the nation's first national consumer credit agency.
Innovations of the 1920s included:	All of the above.
Young women of the 1920s who adopted an original style of dress and challenged traditional societal values were called:	Flappers.
Following the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote, the women's movement divided over:	The Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution.
Prohibition failed because:	Many Americans believed the law interfered with their personal freedom.
He became the national symbol for organized crime in the 1920s:	Al Capone.
Prohibition's strongest supporters were:	Rural residents and religious fundamentalists.
The conclusion of the Sacco and Vanzetti case suggested that:	Many Americans had an unreasonable fear of radicals and foreigners.
This 1925 case involved a Tennessee law against the teaching of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in public schools:	The Scopes Trial.
The immigration legislation of the 1920s regulated immigration on the basis of:	National quotas.
The effect of the immigration quotas set by the National Origins Act of 1924 was to:	Reduce immigration to a trickle from eastern and southern Europe and exclude Asians together.
During the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan:	Opposed Jews and Catholics as well as blacks.
The leader of the first mass movement in African American history was:	Marcus Garvey.
Which of the following statements is most consistent with the philosophy of Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association?	Blacks should separate themselves from corrupt white American society.
The Harlem Renaissance refers to:	The movement of African-American artists, poets, and writers who expressed their pride in being black.
All of the following characterized the writing of the "Lost Generation" EXCEPT:	Anxiety about a decline in religious faith.
When Warren Harding called for a return to normalcy, he meant:	Turning away from Europe and away from the programs of the Progressive Era.
This political scandal involved a cabinet member in President Harding's administration:	Teapot Dome.
Which of the following best describes the administrations of Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge?	The business of America is business.
Republican leaders in the 1920s believed that the government should ___ big business.	Cooperate with.
The most important problem faced by the Democratic Party in the 1920s was:	A serious split between urban and rural wings of the party.
In 1928, Al Smith was the first presidential candidate of a major party who was:	A Catholic.
Serious problems in the American economy by 1929 included all of the following EXCEPT:	High unemployment.
Part of the reason for the stock market crash was:	The buying of great amounts of stock on margin.
A major cause of the Great Depression was:	The inability of wages to keep pace with production increases.
Woody Guthrie:	Was one of the finest American balladeers of the twentieth century.
Woody Guthrie regarded music as:	A weapon in the class struggle.
Compared to other industrialized countries:	Depression-era unemployment was higher and lasted longer in the United States.
By 1932, ___ percent of the nation's families did not have a single employed wage earner:	25.
The Great Depression:	All of the above.
President Hoover responded to the Depression in all of the following ways EXCEPT:	By instituting large-scale public works programs.
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation reflected President Hoover's mistaken assumption that the Depression was caused by:	The lack of consumer demand for manufactured goods.
What was the event in 1932 that ensured President Hoover's defeat in his reelection bid?	The callous treatment of the Bonus Army.
Just prior to his election as president, Franklin D. Roosevelt had been:	Governor of New York.
When he became president in 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt offered the American people all of the following EXCEPT:	Confidence and optimism.
What was President Roosevelt's first action against the Depression?	Closing the nation's banks.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation:	Guaranteed individual bank deposits up to $2,500.
The First Hundred Days refers to:	Roosevelt's first hundred days in office when he pushed 15 major bills through Congress.
Leading government administrators and advisors during the New Deal were mainly:	Wealthy patricians like Roosevelt himself.
The Agricultural Adjustment Act proposed to solve the farm problem by:	Raising crop prices by reducing production.
The main beneficiaries of the New Deal's agricultural policies were:	Large landowners.
The National Recovery Administration sought to:	Introduce rational planning to industry by establishing codes of conduct for businesses in different industries.
Which New Deal jobs program put young men to work in the nation's parks and forests?	The CCC.
This colorful Louisiana Senator started the "share the wealth" movement:	Huey Long.
This doctor proposed that Americans 60 years of age or older should get $200 a month as long as they spent it within 30 days:	Francis Townsend.
This law guaranteed unions worker's right to form unions and bargain collectively;	The Wagner Act.
In addition to providing the elderly with monthly pensions, the Social Security Act of 1935 also established:	A federally sponsored system of unemployment insurance.
A new national labor union that arose during the 1930s to organized workers regardless of their skill level was the:	Congress of Industrial Organizations.
Which of the following statements about African Americans and the New Deal is FALSE?	During the New Deal, lynching was outlawed and the poll tax was abolished.
The New Deal:	Produced a major political realignment, creating a coalition of big city ethnics, African Americans and southern Democrats committed to government intervention.
Auschwitz:	Was a death camp where prisoners were murdered with poison gas and then their bodies were cremated.
In the 1930s, isolationism was a policy favored by:	Most Americans.
The 1921 Washington naval conference:	Imposed a ten-year moratorium on the construction of battleships and restricted the number of battle ships each country could have.
Which of the following statements about the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1927 is FALSE?	It failed to gain the support of more than a dozen nations.
Between 1898 and 1932, the U.S. intervened militarily in the Caribbean and Central America:	20 (twenty) times.
It repudiated the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine:	The Clark Memorandum.
The Nye Commission:	Blamed U.S. intervention in WW1 on false Allied propaganda and unscrupulous Wall Street bankers.
Adolf Hitler:	Blamed Germany's defeat in WW1 and its economic problems on Jews.
The United States responded to Japan's expansionist policies in East Asia by:	Imposing economic sanctions on trade with the Japanese.
Franklin Roosevelt responded to the outbreak of war in Europe in all but one of the following ways. Select the EXCEPTION:	He called on Americans to be neutral in thought as well as action.
One of the most important domestic results of the war effort was to:	Swiftly end of Depression-era unemployment and raise wages.
During the Second World War, African Americans:	Fought in a segregated military.
The victims of the zoot suit riots were mainly:	Mexican-Americans.
Which of the following statements about the interment of Japanese Americans during WW2 if FALSE?	Outside California, there was strong public opposition to the interment policy.
Attitudes in the U.S. toward Jews fleeing persecution in Europe during WW1 were reflected in the:	Refusal to relax immigration restrictions for Jews.
In WW@, the Allied strategy, agreed upon by the U.S. and Britain , was to:	Concentrate on defeating Germany first before turning on Japan.
On June 6, 1944, the U.S. opened a second front with the invasion of:	France.
The top secret Manhattan Project:	Created the atomic bomb.
Which of the following was the MAJOR reason President Truman used to justify his decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in August 1945?	He felt it would shorten the war and eliminate the need for an invasion of Japan.
The former State Department official who was convicted of perjury in the celebrated "pumpkin papers" trial during the Second Red Scare was:	Alger Hiss.
Which of the following did NOT make the Soviet Union suspicious of the motives of the U.S.?	The terms of the German and Japanese surrender after WW2.
Which of the following did NOT make the U.S. suspicious of the motives of the Soviet Union?	The organization of the United Nations.
The Truman Doctrine was announced in response to a British plea to have the U.S. provide aid to anticommunist forces in:	Greece and Turkey.
The containment policy, proposed by George Kennan:	Attempted to prevent Soviet power and communism from expanding into non-communist nations.
President Truman's response in the Berlin Blockade was to:	Airlift all necessary supplies into Berlin for almost a year.
The Marshall Plan could be understood as part of an American desire to:	Make communism less appealing to Europeans by creating economic prosperity.
During the struggle in China between nationalists and communists after WW2, the U.S.:	Continued to support nationalists with money and weapons even when it became clear their cause was lost.
The critical Cold War document titled National Security Council Paper Number 68:	Advocated a massive buildup of America's military strength.
The Korean War:	Was a clear example of communist aggression.
President Truman contributed to the anti-communist fear after the WW2 by:	Ordering investigations into the loyalty of federal employees.
He was executed along with his wife for transferring atomic secrets to a Soviet spy:	Julius Rosenberg.
Joseph McCarthy:	Symbolized America's concern over communist subversion.
Which of the following statements about the Taft-Harley Act of 1947 is FALSE?	It gave a major boost to labor unionization.
The House Un-American Activities Committee was:	Responsible for a series of highly publicized hearings designed to expose communist influence in American life.
Those who are drawn to the paranoid style see the shaping of world events as the work of:	Menacing conspiracies.
Following WW2, the United States did NOT:	Enter a prolonged period of economic stagnation.
Evidence of thaw in the Cold War in the 1950s included all these events EXCEPT:	America's abandonment of the containment doctrine.
Emmett Till:	Was murdered for speaking to a white woman in Money, Mississippi.
President Dwight Eisenhower's domestic strategy of modern Republicanism advocated:	Acceptance of existing New Deal programs.
The largest public works project during Eisenhower's presidency was:	Construction of the interstate highway system.
During Dwight Eisenhower's terms in office:	Americans left cities for suburbs in record numbers.
During the 1950s:	Real wages rose by about 20 percent.
Dwight Eisenhower's New Look policy:	Emphasized nuclear weapons over conventional weapons.
During the 1950s, President Eisenhower used the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to overthrow anti-American governments in ___.	Iran and Guatemala.
The Eisenhower administration's foreign policy in the Middle East included all of the following EXCEPT:	Support for the British and French invasion of the Suez.
In his farewell address in January 1961, President Eisenhower warned the American people against:	The influence of the military-industrial complex.
The 1956 boycott of the Montgomery bus system:	Was instigated by the arrest of Rosa Parks.
The case of "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas" (1954) concerned the:	Constitutionality of racial segregation in public schools.
When the effort to desegregate Little Rock's Central High School became violent, President Eisenhower:	Nationalized the Arkansas National Guard and sent federal paratroopers to maintain order.
Early rock and roll was largely the product of combining:	Rhythm and blues with country music.
During the 1950s, in the recording industry, "covering" referred to:	Rewriting songs that were originally recorded by black artists, then having them recorded by white performers.
Of the following, the Beat generation most admired:	Spontaneity and intuition.
The Beat generation's leading poet was ___, while ___ was the Beat's leading novelist:	Allen Ginsberg; Jack Kerouac.
Ho Chi Minh modeled the Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam's 1946 statement of national independence after which country's?	The United States.
What may have provided John F. Kennedy's margin of victory over Richard Nixon in the 1960 presidential election was Kennedy's...	Skillful performance in the campaign's televised debates.
The Bay of Pigs invasion	Involved the training and transporting of a force of Cuban exiles to Cuba.
President Kennedy's main goal in the United State's 1962 decision to blockade Cuba was to:	Force the Soviet Union to remove its missiles from Cuba.
President Harry Truman:	Viewed Vietnam through the lens of Cold War politics.
Which country provided $2.6 billion to pay for France's military effort to restore its colonial rule in 1946-1954?	The United States.
During the siege of the French outpost at Dien Bien Phu in 19545, Senator Lyndon Johnson:	Opposed intervention, calling it an effort to perpetuate "white man's exploitation"
The countries involved in the 1954 Geneva Conference agreed that:	North and South Vietnam should be reunified by popular elections.
Following the French defeat in Vietnam, President Eisenhower:	Supported President Diem's decision to cancel elections in 1956 to reunify Vietnam.
President Kennedy's military policy placed more stress on ___ than had President Eisenhower's military policy and was labeled ___.	Counterinsurgency; Flexible response.
President Kennedy:	Sent thousands of American advisors to Vietnam.
President Kennedy favored the removal of Ngo Dinh Diem from the presidency of South Vietnam after:	Diem launched attacks on the country's Buddhists.
President Lyndon Johnson received authorization for the use of force in Vietnam through:	The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
Which of the following was not part of Johnson's strategy for fighting the war in Vietnam?	Attempting to assassinate North Vietnamese leaders, including Ho Chi Ming.
The 1968 Tet Offensive:	Led to the belief in the U.S. that the Vietnam War was unwinnable.
What did President Nixon call his policy to replace U.S. ground troops with South Vietnamese?	Vietnamization.
From 1969 to 1972, President Nixon's strategy in Vietnam involved:	Decreasing the commitment of American ground troops, but intensifying bombing missions.
The invasion of Cambodia by U.S. and South Vietnamese forces in the spring of 1970:	Revived the domestic antiwar movement in the U.S. and led to large demonstrations.
American soldiers were involved in a massacre of South Vietnamese men, women, and children in what village?	My Lai
Which university in 1970 witnessed the first killing of U.S. student protesters?	Kent State University.
After the final withdrawal of American forces from Southeast Asia:	The pro-Western government of South Vietnam fell and was replaced by a communist government.
Which of the following statements about Muhammad Ali is FALSE?	Following his conviction for refusing induction into the military, he spent the next 2 decades in prison.
By 1961, a new phase in the civil rights movement began that depended on ___ to attack segregation.	Nonviolent direct action.
Where was the tactic of the sit-in protest first used?	At a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
The freedom rides were trying to end segregation by:	Bus terminals.
Who was the author of "Letter from Birmingham Jail" that warned that frustrated African Americans might turn to violence?	MLK Jr.
For nearly 2 years, John Kennedy did little on behalf of the civil rights movement because he:	Needed congressional voting support from white southern Democrats.
In his 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington, MLK Jr. expressed his desire for:	Racial integration.
Which was NOT a major achievement of the civil rights movement during the 1960s?	The desegregation of the armed forces.
Who was known as the Nation of Islam's most effective minister until he broke from the group in 1964 and formed his own group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity?	Malcolm X.
The Black Muslim's advocacy of black separatism drew most of its support from:	Poor urban African Americans.
Malcolm X believed that ___ was the severest damage to African Americans caused by white discrimination.	Self-hate.
The growing militancy of the civil rights movement in the mid-1960s was the result of all of the following EXCEPT:	Outside agitation by communists.
By 1967, black power was endorsed by all of the following organizations EXCEPT:	The NAACP (the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People).
The Watts riot, the first of several summertime race riots between 1965 and 1968, occurred in:	Los Angeles.
___ established the legal basis for busing school students as a tool for desegregating schools.	Swann v. Charlotte-Mechlenburg Board of Education.
Which of the following was NOT an achievement of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society program?	The Peace Corps, sending Americans to work on projects for economic and social betterment in underdeveloped countries.
The Supreme Court decisions in Mapp v. Ohio, Gideon v. Wainwright, and Escobedo v. Illinois protected the rights of:	Criminal defendants.
The women's movement was able to achieve all but one of the following goals. Select the EXCEPTION:	Ratification of an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex.
What concept did Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique" contribute to feminist ideology?	Women are conditioned to believe they can only find fulfillment as wives and mothers.
Cesar Chavez succeeded in:	Organizing migratory farm workers.
America's poorest minority group in the 1960 was:	Native Americans.
John Wayne:	Embodied the image of the rugged Western hero.
Which was the poorest and most economically backward region of the U.S. at the end of WW2?	The South.
The central political social, economic, and cultural fact of the second half of the twentieth century was:	The shift in power from the Northeast and upper Midwest to the South and West.
Between 1964 and 200, every elected American president:	Came from the South or West.
Which technology was most critical to the rise of industrialization in the South after WW2?	Air conditioning.
Which of the following developments was NOT transformed the South since WW2?	Unionization became as strong in the South as in the rest of the U.S.
Northern manufacturers became more attracted to relocating in the South because of all but one of the following. Select the EXCEPTION:	More extensive social services.
Which of the following statements about the West's economy is TRUE?	Westerners received substantial amounts of federal dollars which have contributed to the region's economic growth.
A hydraulic society:	Is a society that emphasized dam, power, and irrigation projects.
Henry Kaiser:	Depended on government loans to finance his shipyards.
Prior to WW2, the Western economy was best characterized as:	An extractive economy.
In contrast to the eastern United States, the West:	Was more dependent on tourism.
Political thinking in the West has tended to emphasize:	Individual freedom.
Barry Goldwater:	Wanted to restrict the activities of the federal government.
The Sagebrush rebellion:	Demanded that the federal government cede control of western lands to the individual states.
The Watergate incident that started the chain of events leading to President Nixon's downfall involved:	The wiretapping of the Democratic Party's national headquarters.
The tapes that President Nixon kept of his Oval Office conversations indicate that the president:	Was involved in a conspiracy to obstruct justice in the Watergate affair.
The investigation of the Watergate revealed that the Nixon White House had done all of the following EXCEPT:	Kidnapped anti-Nixon radical leaders who planned to disrupt the 1972 Republican National Convention.
For his role in the Watergate affair, Richard Nixon was:	Forced to resign the presidency.
Public respect for the office of the presidency eroded in the late 1960s and early 1970s for all but one of the following reasons. Select the EXCEPTION:	The discovery that President Richard Nixon had had an affair with a White House intern.
To curb the powers of the president and eliminate corruption in presidential campaigns, Congress enacted all but one of the following measures in the early 1970s. EXCEPT:	Restricting a president to 2 terms in office.
The War Powers Act of 1973 was passed mainly in response to concern that President Johnson and Nixon:	Involved the nation's armed forces in combat without congressional approval.
The policy of detente was intended to:	Use the lure of American trade to extract foreign policy concessions from the Soviet Union and China.
Richard Nixon's approach to China was to:	Visit mainland China and begin diplomatic relations.
Which was NOT a major economic problem during the 1970s?	A sharply falling stock market.
All but one of the following suggested that the U.S. was losing influence in world affairs during the 1970s. Select the EXCEPTION:	Iraq invasion of Kuwait.
Which was NOT part of Richard Nixon's efforts to restore American influence in foreign affairs?	He helped establish NATO, a military alliance combining the U.S., Canada, and nations in Western Europe.
President Ronald Reagan combated stagflation by all of the following EXCEPT:	Wage and price controls.
In the Reagan Doctrine, the Reagan administration declared that it would:	Openly support anticommunist forces fighting the Soviets or Soviet-backed governments.
The so-called Iran-Contra Scandal involved the Reagan administration in:	Selling weapons to the anti-American government in Iran and causing the profit to aid the pro-American Contras in Nicaragua.
Mikhail Gorbachev attempted to reform Soviet society in all but one of the following ways. Select the EXCEPTION:	He wanted his country to totally abandon communism.
On September 11, 2001, terrorists attacked all but one of the following buildings. Select the EXCEPTION:	The U.S. Capitol.
How many airliners were hijacked on September 11, 2001?	Four (4).
The mastermind behind the terrorist attack was:	Osama bin-Laden.
The terrorist network behind the attack is known as:	Al-Qaeda.
The U.S. responded to the terrorist strikes by attacking the Taliban government, which harbored the terrorists, in:	Afghanistan.
Several weeks after the September 11th terrorist strike, the U.S. suffered a number of deaths produced by:	Anthrax.
The term globalization refers to:	The movement of labor, capital, natural resources, entertainment, and trade across international borders.
As president, the first President George Bush, did all but one of the following. Select the EXCEPTION:	He ordered the U.S. military to force Serbia to remove its forces from Kosovo.
The major reason the first President Bush was defeated for reelection in 1992 was:	The nation's sluggish economy which was mired in recession.
Bill Clinton's major political success was:	Reforming the nation's welfare system.
The economic boom of the late 1990s was due to all of the following factors EXCEPT:	Sharply rising military spending.
The major foreign policy crisis of the Clinton presidency involved:	The breakup of Yugoslavia.

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