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Exam #7
US History Since 1877
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Which of the following contributed to the powerful mystique that followed the presidency of John F. Kennedy? | Kennedy's 1963 assassination |
| Which of the following describes Johnson’s War on Poverty? | The program was Johnson's highest political priority, even more than civil rights advances. |
| The 1963 report of the President’s Commission on the Status of Women | documented discrimination against women in the workplace and in education. |
| Which of the following characterizes the 1968 Tet offensive? | Many Americans changed their opinions of the war after the Tet offensive. |
| Women’s liberation activists modeled their ideas, goals, and tactics after the | Black Power movement. |
| Which of the following describes Title IX? | The legislation benefited women athletes. |
| The 1969 Stonewall riot in New York City was a spontaneous protest led by | gay people. |
| From 1969 to 1972, Richard Nixon’s strategy to end the Vietnam War was to | reduce American troop involvement and turn over most of the ground fighting to the South Vietnamese army. |
| In the 1968 election and during the Nixon administration, the expression “silent majority” was used to refer to | Americans who were hardworking and avoided protest activities. |
| By the 1970s, schools in northern cities were more racially segregated than schools in the South because of | suburbanization. |
| 11. What was the outcome of the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam in 1973 and 1974? | Vietnam became communist but remained an independent nation. |
| Which of the following was detrimental to expanding women’s rights in the 1970s and 1980s? | Phyllis Schlafly's STOP ERA |
| How did the United States respond to the OPEC oil embargo in the early 1970s? | Congress passed a law limiting highway speeds to 55 miles per hour. |
| The National Environmental Policy Act (1970) required developers to | file environmental impact statements on the effect of projects on ecosystems. |
| What accounted for the dramatic decline of the American labor movement in the 1970s and 1980s? | The process of deindustrialization |
| Who masterminded the 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Headquarters in the Watergate complex? | Members of the Committee to Re-elect the President |
| Why did President Ford pardon Nixon a month after Ford took office in 1973? | He wished to spare the country the agony of rehashing Watergate. |
| Which of the following statements describes the feminist movement in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s? | Feminist activism addressed many issues, took a variety of forms, and affected millions of women. |
| In the case of Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), the Supreme Court struck down an 1879 state law prohibiting the purchase and use of | contraception |
| What happened to the typical American worker’s real wages between 1973 and the early 1990s? | Wages declined by 10 percent. |
| The resurgence of Christian faith in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s has been labeled by historians as the | Fourth Great Awakening. |
| Which of the following War on Poverty programs provided free nursery schools to prepare disadvantaged preschoolers for kindergarten? | Head Start |
| Which element of Barry Goldwater’s campaign platform did American voters find particularly alienating in the election of 1964? | . His approach to foreign policy |
| 24. Which of the following was a goal of President Johnson’s environmental reforms? | Improving the nation's air and water |
| 25. Which of the following was the purpose of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution? | To authorize the president to take any action necessary to prevent further aggression in Vietnam |
| At the height of the Vietnam War, the United States stationed approximately how many troops in Vietnam? | 500,000 |
| 27. What was the outcome of Operation Rolling Thunder in 1965? | it intensified North Vietnamese nationalism and hardened their will to fight |
| 28. The Free Speech Movement at Berkeley began in response to | the university ban on political activities by students on university property. |
| Young adults’ revolt against authority and middle-class respectability in the 1960s was exemplified by | the counterculture. |
| 30. Two of Nixon’s greatest foreign policy successes were | SALT I and restoring relations with Communist China. |
| 31. Richard Nixon’s landslide victory in the election of 1972 signaled | a major political realignment in the United States. |
| 32. Economic competition from West Germany and Japan led to | deindustrialization. |
| 33. Nearly every American city struggled to pay its bills in the 1970s because of | the continuing process of suburbanization. |
| 34. Which of the following was the cause of President Nixon’s downfall? | His obstruction of justice in the Watergate matter |
| Who was the famous, openly gay supervisor from San Francisco who was assassinated after helping win passage of a gay rights ordinance? | . Harvey Milk |
| Which group established the first rape crisis centers in the early 1970s? | Women's liberationists |
| 37. How did President Carter respond to the energy crisis of the 1970s? | Carter advocated for energy conservation efforts as "the moral equivalent of war." |
| Which of the following factors accounted for the demographic growth of the Sunbelt in the 1970s and 1980s? | Deindustrialization |
| 39. Evangelical Protestantism failed to embrace | the Social Gospel. |
| Which of the following issues did evangelicals disregard as they fought against the influences of what they believed to be an immoral society? | Individual rights |
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