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US History
Quarter 4 Final Exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The scandal that drove Nixon from the Presidency became known as: | Watergate |
| All of the following were causes of the oil crisis of the 1970's EXCEPT: | strike staged by U.S. oil workers |
| The members of O.P.E.C. are all: | oil producing companies |
| Which person was never elected Vice President by the American Public? | John Kennedy |
| The 26th Amendment to the Constitution lowered the Voting Age to: | 18 |
| The Love Canal incident involved: | a land developer building a housing addition on top of an old toxic-waste dump. |
| The cornerstone of Carter's Foreign Policy was: | human rights |
| Americans began to question nuclear power usage after the nuclear accident at: | Three Mile Island |
| Jimmy Carter won the 1978 election by presenting himself as: | a Washington outsider |
| The Reagan legacy included ALL of the following EXCEPT: | the end of social welfare programs |
| President Carter assumed the role of peacemaker to negotiate which of the folowing between Israel and Egypt? | Camp David Accords |
| What was the 1954 Supreme Court Decision which desegregated schools by declaaring that the "seperate but equal" doctrine was unconstitutional? | Brown v. Board of Education |
| When Ronald Reagan ran for President in 1984, his opponent was | Walter Mondale |
| A member of the new Right who objected to affirmative action was most likely to criticize it for | resulting in discrimination against white men |
| In his foreign policy, President Clinton emphasized | increasing trade with China |
| The direct result of glasnost policy might be | Freedom of the Press |
| __________was the goal of the program known as Star Wars | National defense |
| Woodward and Bernstein were the two Washington Post reporters who: | broke the Watergate scandal |
| What is the term for charging the President with wrong-doing? | impeachment |
| Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger supported the idea of detente, it called for: | easing tensions between the U.S. and the Soviets and Chinese |
| Which was a highlight of the March on Washington? | Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech |
| What was the militant group of blacks who were known for their berets and gun-toting, and for folliwng the saying of "political power comes through the barrel of a gun"? | Black Panthers |
| The Voting Rights Act of 1965 provided for the: | end of literacy tests in voter registration |
| The goal of the ___was to expose discrimination by overloading jails- "jail not bail"? | SNCC |
| Who was the young black boy from Chicago who was beat to death for saying "Bye, baby" to a young white woman in Money, Mississippi? | Emmett Till |
| Who said the following? "In Alabama, I say, segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever!" | George Wallace |
| Black lawyer who defended Linda Brown and became a hero when he won the case; he also was the first black appointed to the Supreme Court. | Thurgood Marshall |
| Who said the following? "...the state of Alabama will be transformed into a situation where black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers." | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| Who was the former secretary of the NAACP who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus launching a new era in civil rights in the South. | Rosa Parks |
| Black Muslim leader who early called for a separate black nation and the need for self-defense. | Malcom X |
| What distinction did Sandra Day O'Connor achieve in 1981? | She became the first woman justice of the U.S. Supreme Court |
| When George H. Bush ran for president in 1988, his opponent was | Michael Dukakis |
| City where President Eisenhower had to call U.S. paratroopers so as to guarantee nine black students had the ability to attend Central High School. | Little Rock, AR |
| During the summer of 1965, riots broke out in this section of Los Angeles and the motto becamse "Burn Baby Burn." | Watts |
| The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was an extremely costly | Space Missle defense system |
| Fundamental Christian leader and televangelist Jerry Falwell formed the organization called | The Moral Majority |
| The piece of legislation that forbade segregation in public places; such as hotels, restaurants, theaters, and lunch counters | Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
| Participants in the 1963 March on Washington hoped to: | convince Congress to pass civil rights legislation |
| In 1987, Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev announced his plans for ____, or a restructuring of the Soviet economy and government. | perestroika |
| Martin Luther King, Jr., influenced by Gandhi, believed in: | nonviolent protest |
| The group in charge of stopping any and all leaks coming from the white House during the Nixon administration was called the | Plumbers |
| Whom did Nixon include in the silent majority? | quiet, respectful Americans |
| The Persian Gulf War began when Saddam Hussein: | invaded Kuwait |
| During the campaign for President in 1988, George Bush promised that he would: | not raise taxes |
| One major factor contributing to Ronald Reagan's defeat of President Carter in 1980 was: | the hostage crisis in Iran |
| How did the Soviet policies of perestroika and glasnost help bring an end to the Cold War? | They helped cause the fall of communist regimes in Eastern Europe. |
| Who are the only two (2) Presidents to be impeached? | Richard Nixon/Bill Clinton |
| The Iran Contra Affair funneled money to the Contras in what country? | Nicaragua |
| Spiro Agnew's Vice Presidency came to an end when: | He resigned under fire for taking bribes and tax invasion |
| Although this nation's government received foreign aid from the Carter Administration, the Reagan Administration aided those rebelling against it. | Nicaragua |
| In the early 1990's, this nation dissolved after 74 years as a major world power: | Soviet Union |
| This nation's leaders ordered a brutal crackdown on demonstrators gathered in Tiananmne Square. | China |
| This nation invaded a neighboring country and claimed major oil fields, provoking the United States to engage in a war. | Iraq |
| The Reagan Administration secretly sold weapons to this nation in the hope of obtaining the relase of U.S. hostages. | Iran |
| The impeachment of President Clinton, in part, reflected | partisan politics in Congress |
| The source of a revolution in technology in the 1990s was the | internet |
| In the past, the Social Security System worked well for all of the following reasons except | life expectancy was increasing |
| One conclusion that could be drawn from the 2000 presidential election is that | a relatively small number of votes can determine an election's outcome |
| New high-tech businesses based on the growth of the Internet are called | dotcoms |
| One hoped-for benefit of genetic engineering is the ability to | end the AIDS epidemic |
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