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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Anthropologists designate early human cultures by their | Tools |
| The staple crops that were domesticated during the archaic period in Mesoamerican history were | Maize and beans |
| The Neolithic Revolution is characterized by | the domestication of animals and the start of agriculture |
| When Francisco Pizarro arrived in 1532, the Incan Empire was | one of the largest states in the world. |
| Difficulties confront scholars trying to understand the ancient civilizations of the Americas because | Andean civilizations never developed writing |
| What characterized the later phase of the Eastern Zhou (401-256 B.C.E.)? | political fragmentation and frequent warfare between rival states |
| The Aztecs acquired their wealth from | earlier Mesoamerican people they conquered |
| The development of writing first occurred during the | Bronze Age |
| The Maya were primarily located in the | Yucatan Rain forest |
| Teotihuacán's influence waned about 500 C.E. because of | factors that are still poorly understood |
| A central feature of Aztec religion and political ideology was the belief in | Human sacrifice |
| Which of the following shows the correct chronological sequence of historical eras? | Paleolithic, Neolithic, Bronze, Iron |
| Not much is known about the Indus River valley civilization because | it disappeared before 1500 B.C.E. and its writing is still undeciphered |
| The Maya civilization was composed of cities that | competed for dominance |
| The Paleolithic Age is characterized by | Hunting and fishing |
| The occidental slave trade of the Europeans particularly disrupted | West and Centeral Africa |
| According to Olaudah Equiano, slaves on a slave ship feared all of the following except | Catching a dreadful disease |
| African slaves were particularly concentrated in | sugar plantations in Brazil and the Caribbean |
| In general, the chief way that European slave traders obtained slaves was by | purchasing them from African rulers or middlemen |
| Which of the following was the biggest "failure" of Charlemagne's reign? | He never solved the problem of creating a loyal bureaucracy. |
| The most persistent problem in medieval European politics was | the competing claims of kings and powerful nobles. |
| In medieval Europe what did vassals owe to their lord in return for protection and a fief? | military service and loyalty |
| Feudal society is best characterized by | weak central government, vassals, and fiefs. |
| Fiefs were | lands bestowed on noblemen in return for military aid. |
| One of the main reasons Protestant criticisms of the church did not find support in Spain was because | Spanish church leaders had carried out clerical reforms earlier. |
| Rousseau¿s doctrine of the general will led him to conclude that | People must forced to be free |
| An advantage of the Copernican system was that | it explained planetary movement with more mathematical consistency and elegance. |
| The origins of the Protestant Reformation in England were mainly in | Henry VIII¿s battle with the pope over his divorce. |
| Enlightenment thinkers believed that | the progressive increase of knowledge was the key to making the world a more perfect place |
| Francis Bacon¿s contribution to the Scientific Revolution can best be described as | the promotion of the potentially unlimited possibilities of empiricism. |
| One of the dominant features of Renaissance thought was | the study of ancient Greek and Roman culture |
| The Northern Renaissance was different from the Italian Renaissance because most of its leading figures | came from more diverse backgrounds and were more devoted to religious reforms. |
| Renaissance thought was primarily concerned with all of the following except | agricultural production |
| The dominant family of Renaissance Florence was the | Medici |
| The Scientific Revolution was revolutionary in the sense that it | set the standard for evaluating knowledge in the Western world. |
| Luther¿s ninety-five theses | challenged the practice of selling indulgences |
| Charles V failed to stamp out Protestantism within the empire because | he was distracted by foreign wars. |
| The Protestant faith | divided and redivided among a number of smaller denominations |
| During the Enlightenment, salon culture | provided a pivotal role for women as purveyors of new ideas |
| William Penn's purchase of land that eventually became ___________ ensured that Pennsylvania had open access to the Atlantic. | Delaware |
| England issued the Proclamation of 1763 following an uprising led by ____________________. | Chief Pontiac |
| Which of the following reasons does NOT help explain why the Stamp Act engendered more opposition than the Sugar Act? | The Stamp Act was the first to be passed with the express purpose of raising revenue from the colonies. |
| Which of the following was not a provision of the Coercive Acts? | establishing the Anglican Church as the state religion in the Massachusetts colony |
| In what way was the development of the Carolina colony similar to that of Virginia? | Carolina was founded as a commercial venture. |
| Pennsylvania was called the ____________________. | The Holy experiement. |
| Which statement best describes the experience of African Americans during the Revolutionary War? | African Americans supported the side that seemed most likely to deliver them from bondage. |
| Georgia settlers demanded changes to the early colony. Which one of the following demands did the trustees NOT grant? | a local assembly |
| Roger Williams was banished from Massachusetts when he preached ____________________. | extreme Separatism from the Church of England. |
| Massachusetts Bay spawned four new colonies, three of which became permanent. Which one of the following was neither an expansion area for Puritans nor a refuge for Puritan dissenters? | New York |
| Which of the following men did not have a hand in the development of the Carolina colony? | Sir George Carteret |
| What battle convinced the French to recognize the colonists'' new, independent republic and to join in the fighting against the British? | Saratoga |
| Colonists disliked the concept of parliamentary sovereignty for all of the following reasons EXCEPT ____________________. | they wanted to return to the pre-Glorious Revolution era with a more powerful king. |
| Two people who kept the Jamestown colony alive were ____________________. | John Smith and John Rolfe |
| Sir Edwyn Sandys transformed the Virginia colony by instituting all of the following reforms EXCEPT ____________________. | extending the category of freeman to all adult males who had become members of the Congregational church |
| The Pilgrims created the Mayflower Compact because they thought that ____________________. | they were north of their patent jurisdiction and had no authorization to form a civil government |
| Which of the following did NOT play a role in eroding the bonds of empire? | colonial willingness to pay for the cost of fighting the French and Indian War |
| Before 1680, most people who settled in the Port Royal area of Carolina were ____________________. | from Barbados; many of whom were quite wealthy, thanks to the thriving sugar industry there, and brought their slaves with them. |
| What was the most significant decision of the First Continental Congress? | Delegates agreed to form a Continental Association to halt commerce with Britain until the Intolerable Acts were repealed. |
| Which the following statements are NOT accurate regarding local American militias during the Revolution? | These units were comprised mostly of African Americans. |
| What British political party feared losing parliamentary power when George III took the throne? | The whigs |
| Which of the following ideas was NOT set forth in William Penn's Frame of Government? | universal suffrage |
| The rebelling colonists enjoyed all of the following advantages EXCEPT | the colonies had a larger, better-trained army than the British |
| Free-Soil settlers in Kansas protested the first territorial elections because | proslavery Missouri residents crossed the border and voted illegally. |
| A major legacy of the Mexican-American War was | a bitter sectional quarrel over the slavery issue. |
| Which of the following was NOT a consequence of the Kansas-Nebraska Act? | The Know-Nothing party became a major political force. |
| The Kansas-Nebraska Act was | poplular in the south |
| The Free-Soil movement was launched by the | Wilmot Proviso |
| U.S. interest in making Texas a state was spurred by | a propaganda campaign citing Great Britain's reported interest in Texas |
| Which of the following did NOT encourage the internal slave trade? | the sewing machine |
| The Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case | lent support to the Republican claim that an aggressive slave power was dominating all branches of the federal government. |
| Free" blacks were still subject to all of the following EXCEPT | Federal Income Tax |
| Which of the following statements about the Cotton Kingdom is NOT true? | Cotton brought a uniform and steady prosperity to the lower South |
| Stephen Douglas' response to Abraham Lincoln in the Freeport Doctrine was that slavery | could not exist without supportive legislation |
| Which of the following did NOT constitute a major component of the Old South's social structure? | urban artisans |
| Yeoman farmers | were mostly concentrated in the back-country regions where slaves and plantations were rarely seen |
| How did Harriet Beecher Stowe describe the institution of slavery in Uncle Tom's Cabin? | as an institution which threatened the family and the Cult of Domesticity |
| The Compromise of 1850 included all of the following EXCEPT | repeal of the Missouri Compromise. |
| In 1854, Know-Nothings took control of state government in | Massachusetts. |
| Which of the following statements does NOT characterize planter society | Planters overwhelmingly descended from well-established families and inherited their wealth. |
| The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo contained all of the following provisions EXCEPT that | the United States would acquire southernmost parts of Arizona and New Mexico. |
| The proslavery argument was based on all of the following propositions EXCEPT | colonization back to Africa was expensive. |
| The issue which led to open conflict in 1846 between the United States and Mexico was | the Texas-Mexico boundary |
| What political party swung the presidential election of 1844? | Liberty Party |
| Solon, Pisistratus, and Clisthenes contributed to the development of Athenian government by | breaking down traditional allegiances. |
| The two main factors that determined the character of Spartan society were | the conquest of Messenia and the enslavement of the Helots. |
| Part of Rome's defensive problems during the crisis of the third century was due to an army | composed largely of Germanic mercenaries. |
| The Roman imperial policy toward the Christians in the first and second centuries can best be described as | brutal and ruthless |
| In the view of Confucian historians, the last rulers of any dynastic cycle tended to be | politically weak and morally culpable |
| As a result of the third-century crisis, Roman society became more | regimented and rigid |
| During the Song dynasty, foreign trade | spurred the demand for cash coinage |
| The quality of administrators rose under the Song dynasty primarily because they | had to pass rigorous examinations. |
| characteristic of Shang civilization? | Inscription on oracle bones, a rigidly stratified society, a mastery of bronze tech |
| After the fourth century C.E., the Roman Empire | split into declining Western and still-flourishing Eastern halves |
| Athens became the leader of the Delian League because | Sparta was part of a different sphere of influence at that time. |
| Military commanders were less powerful in the Chinese court than they were in imperial Rome because | an appointment to command a Han army was given only for a specific campaign. |
| The most influential philosopher of the Song era, Zhu Xi, is best known for | synthesizing Confucianism with Buddhist metaphysics |
| Members of the literate bureaucracy, the scholar-bureaucrats, were called | shi. |
| Which among the following was not a function of Han government? | strict control of subjects¿ everyday lives |
| The Greek colonization movement around 750 B.C.E. occurred primarily because of the | overpopulation of Greek lands. |
| The Great Wall of China was built | to protect settled lands against nomadic raiders |
| The Golden Age of Athenian culture was | between the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars |
| The Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862 resulted in the establishment of ____________________. | colleges to teach agriculture and the mechanic arts |
| Black Codes endorsed | Seperation of races in public places, forced apprenticeships, restrictions on employment of the black on anit vagrancy clause. |
| The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was significant because | it legislated bias by creating a bar to a specific immigrant group. |
| Which of the following statements best describes the political machines of the late nineteenth century? | They gave out jobs, legal aid, food, and clothing in exchange for votes. |
| Carpetbaggers were | Corrupt Northerners who moved to the South to take part in reconstruction |
| What was the most significant contribution of the railroad to late-nineteenth-century industrializing America | It ended isolated, self-sufficient "island communities" and made possible a national market. |
| The labor union in the late nineteenth century open to both skilled and unskilled workers was the | Knights of Labor. |
| Samuel Gompers was best known for his work as president of the | American Federation of Labor. |
| As one of the first actions of Radical Reconstruction, the First Reconstruction Act | placed the South under military rule. |
| Greenbackers | supported the circulation of paper money to stimulate the economy. |
| J. P. Morgan reorganized railroads using methods | vesting control in a voting trust, stabilizing rates and eminating rebates, slashing fixed costs and debt, issue new stock. |
| In What Is to Be Done? (1902), Lenin argued for the creation of | a small elite group of professional revolutionaries |
| According to Marx, historical change comes about primarily because of | conflict over resources |
| Socialism arose as a political force for all of the following reasons except | the support it provided to nationalist sentiments |
| By 1914, European workers increasingly | adopted liberal economic doctrines |
| According to The Communist Manifesto, the revolutionary class was composed of | the proletariat |
| By the end of the nineteenth century, married middle-class women were expected to | not work outside of the home |
| For the factory worker, the first half of the nineteenth century was a period of | uncertainty and transiton |
| In the first part of the nineteenth century, the emergence of factories affected urban artisans | by increasing their prosperity. |
| The period 1850-1914 may properly be regarded as an era of European | domination. |
| The establishment of the German Empire in 1871 | upset the European balance of power. |
| When Britain introduced cheap machine goods into India, the result was | the destruction of Indian craft industries. |
| The Marquess of Ripon (1880-1884) served as viceroy of India and | fought to erase legal racial discrimination of the Indian population. |
| Ram Mohan Roy's reforms for British India focused on | modernizing Indian thought and practices. |
| The effect of World War I on European imperialism can best be described as | tension increased between colonies and their ruling nations. |
| The British established control over Egypt primarily because | the newly created Suez Canal provided a strategic link to their Asian colonies. |
| New Imperialism most commonly took the form of | capital investment in the colony. |
| In nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century India, Muslims generally | were more resistant to change than Hindus. |
| The chief weakness of the Taiping movement was | the selfish nature of the rural gentry who led the movement. |
| The Taipings supported | a vision of egalitarian society. |
| The Opium War was fought | between China and Great Britain, because China banned opium |
| The effect of the treaty ports on Chinese economic development can best be described as | largely negative; they inhibited the development of native industry and trade. |
| Which of the following best describes China's path to modernization before the May Fourth Movement | China's Confucian ruling ideology blocked Westernization. |
| All of the following statements characterized the progressives EXCEP | they believed big business was responsible for all that ailed urban American and sought to eliminate corporations and big business. |
| Those in government at the turn of the century were unanimously against the big business trust. | false |
| Which of the following statements does NOT characterize Mexican immigration to the United States in the early twentieth century? | Mexicans were the first ethnic group to be barred from immigrating to the United States. |
| Henry Ford found greatest success in the auto industry when he | lowered prices per unit and offered a very basic model. |
| By 1909, one percent of American industrial firms were producing nearly _____ of all manufactured goods | half |
| The suffrage movement entered into a new, more organized phase with the 1890 formation of the | National American Woman Suffrage Association. |
| Henry Ford solved his own labor problems by | doubling wages and decreasing the work week. |
| Modern city zoning laws prevented Jim Crow-style segregation in the Northeast and Midwest. | false |
| Theodore Roosevelt believed more strongly in trust regulation than in trust busting. | tru |
| An examination of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire reveals | that industrialization came at the expense of safe working conditions. |
| By 1920, fewer than one-third of all Americans lived on farms | true |
| took part in both the Niagara Movement and the NAACP. | W. E. B. Du Bois |
| Henry Ford copied the techniques of mass production from what industry? | meat packing |
| Theodore Roosevelt's critics blamed the Panic of 1907 on his | policies which regulated business. |
| Social reformer Margaret Sanger fought for | contraception. |
| Progressives led a social-justice movement that sought to ameliorate conditions in all of the following areas EXCEPT | union organizing. |
| Progressive reforms on the municipal level included all of the following EXCEPT | consolidating county and city governments. |
| Theodore Roosevelt's greatest contribution to the conservation cause was his | establishment of the first comprehensive national conservation policy. |
| Women graduated from medical schools in ever increasing numbers in the early twentieth century. | false |
| Mass production caused American business managers to focus on speed and product at the expense of the worker. | true |
| Congress attempted to protect women and curb prostitution with passage of the | Mann Act. |
| Progressives sought to increase the power of the electorate with all of the following reforms EXCEPT | government ownership of the means of production |
| When Hitler announced his intention to rearm Germany, | Britain and France did not object. |
| The European Economic Community (EEC) was created primarily as | a common European market for people, goods, and capital. |
| The primary consequence of the Potsdam conference was | the division of Europe into eastern and western zones of influence |
| Germany failed to conquer the Soviet Union in 1941 for all of the following reasons except | the opening of a second front by the Allies. |
| Which of the following contributed to the massive German inflation of the 1920s? | the allied reparations bill and continued postwar deficit |
| Which best characterizes German policy during the July crisis of 1914? | consciously risking a general war |
| Which best characterizes the effect of massive inflation on Germany? | It permanently traumatized the middle class. |
| Which best describes France's occupation of the Ruhr? | It threatened the French economy and alienated the English |
| Which of the following best characterizes Hitler's foreign policy? | He used opportunistic tactics to attain a preconceived goal of vast conquests. |
| The Nazis tailored their appeal to | the lower middle class, which had been devastated by inflation. |
| The beer hall putsch of 1923 in Munich | gave Hitler the opportunity to become a national figure. |
| The Triple Alliance represented what change in German foreign policy? | a switch from an alliance with Russia to an alliance with Italy |
| The second Moroccan crisis of 1911 resulted in | increased British fear and hostility toward Germany. |
| The primary consequence of the Berlin airlift was | Germany was permanently split into eastern and western halves. |
| The Battle of Britain resulted in | the German abandonment of invasion plans. |
| Mussolini became the leader of Italy | by being legally appointed by the king |
| By the terms of the Entente Cordiale, | Britain and France patched up colonial differences without making a formal alliance |
| The events of 1956 proved that | European nations could no longer undertake fully autonomous actions. |
| The war guilt clause of the Treaty of Versailles declared that Germany | was alone responsible for all loss and damage during World War I. |
| Roosevelt's first moves in his New Deal program showed that he was | out to reform and restore, not drastically change the American economic system |
| In the decade after World War II, the United States experienced | a significant increase in population |
| President Wilson's secretary of state was | William Jennings Bryan |
| Which new labor organization was created during the depression? | the Committee on Industrial Organization |
| One of the reasons that Woodrow Wilson was re-elected in 1916 was that he promised to | keep the United States out of war |
| The National Recovery Administration was one of the New Deal's earliest successes. | false |
| was a social worker brought in by Roosevelt to direct the relief program, and became a proponent of work relief. | Harry Hopkins |
| In 1916, the United States invaded Mexico again as a result of | unprovoked attacks on Americans by Pancho Villa |
| Calvin Coolidge followed the policies of | the Harding administration |
| By 1929, the per capita annual farm income was ______ the national average | less than half of |
| The Civilian Conservation Corps was primarily designed to | provide jobs and experience for unemployed young men |
| The feminist movement split in the 1920s over the issue of | the Equal Rights Amendment |
| On the day Roosevelt took office, the American economy was | at the brink of collapse. |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed | five Supreme Court justices. |
| Massive increases in federal funding for education came about in response to | the launch of Sputnik |
| A satirical examination of small-town life, morals, and culture of the 1920s was featured in books by | Sinclair Lewis |
| The Treaty of Versailles | humiliated and devastated the Germans militarily and economically |
| The Lodge reservations | were viewed by President Wilson as crippling the League of Nations. |
| Contributing causes to the Great Depression included all of the following EXCEPT | too many consumers |
| The United States'"right to intervene" in Latin America was stated in the | Roosevelt Corollary |
| The Teapot Dome scandal damaged the reputation of the which president? | Warren G. Harding |
| When the U.S. entered World War One, its military was | unprepared, lacking war plans, an adequate number of soldiers, and modern equipment |
| The Red Scare was a wave of fear which targeted communism, labor, and | foreigners. |
| After the Sussex incident in 1916, the Germans repeated their promise not to sink ships | of any type that belonged to a neutral country. |
| As part of the Second Industrial Revolution, the key to the new affluence of the 1920s was | technology. |
| When one of Roosevelt's advisors declared that "Capitalism was saved in eight days", he was referring to the | emergency banking holiday and new banking legislation |
| 'When General Victoriano Huerta came to power in Mexico, Wilson suggested the way to gain American recognition was | to form a just government based upon law, not just force |
| Which two New Deal programs were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court? | the NRA and AAA |
| Why were progressives generally in favor of neutrality? | They believed that war would end reform and kill millions needlessly. |
| In order to mobilize all sectors of the economy during World War I, Woodrow Wilson created the | War Industries Board |
| Before becoming president, Franklin D. Roosevelt served in which of the following capacities? | governor of New York |
| In the spring of 1918, American troops were sorely needed by the Allies because | the Germans had launched a massive assault in western Europe and were within fifty miles of Paris. |
| What event finally led to American entry into the First World War? | interception of a telegram that promised German aid in exchange for a Mexican invasion of the United States |
| The National Recovery Administration was based on | voluntary regulations for fair competition. |
| As secretary of commerce, Herbert Hoover | established new bureaus to help make American business more efficient. |
| The editor of American Mercury and the most famous critic of the intellectual climate of the 1920s was | H. L. Mencken. |
| The August 1991 coup in the Soviet Union | was led by conservatives. |
| Stalin's agricultural policies resulted in | the murder of millions of peasants. |
| Stalin's Great Purges seemed to be primarily aimed at | old Bolsheviks who had been loyal to others |
| Khrushchev's agricultural policies differed from Stalin's in that | restrictions on private cultivation were lifted |
| Perestroika can best be defined as | a restructuring of economic and political institutions leading toward reform. |
| Stalin's policy of collectivization was designed to | increase agricultural output through government ownership and control |
| Glasnost can best be defined as | government openness to public discussion. |
| In the struggle for power between Trotsky and Stalin, Trotsky urged | exportation of revolution to the world. |
| War Communism" | authorized the government to take over most economic functions |
| Stalin's industrial policies resulted in | unprecedented economic growth and new industries |
| Stalin's power and influence lay in his | mastery of the crucial details of party structure. |
| The Korean War | was technically a police action fought under U.N. auspices. |
| Critics of undocumented aliens argued that they caused all of the following problems EXCEPT | they strengthened union labor protections |
| In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson saw to the passage of Kennedy's proposed legislation for | a tax cut and a civil rights bill |
| Which of the following statements about the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution is NOT correct? | Congress declared war on North Vietnam |
| John F. Kennedy ________ the coup that led to the overthrow and death of Ngo Dinh Diem | tacitly approved of |
| The U.S.'s traditional policy of isolation was abandoned when the United States became a member of the | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| In late 1961, the Kennedy administration encouraged civil rights activists in southern voter registration drives because | the freedom rides had resulted in violent confrontations |
| Calls for "black power" first emerged from the | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
| The American expert on the Soviet Union who advised the United States to "contain" communism was | George Kennan |
| Following the September 11 attacks, the new American foreign policy asserted | the right to preventive use of force. |
| Even though George H. W. Bush had the advantage of being the incumbent in the 1992 election, his campaign struggled because of the | economic recession. |
| Which of the following places the final events of the Cold War in their proper chronological order? | student demonstrations in Tiananmen Square began; the Solidarity movement won power in free elections in Poland; the Berlin Wall fell; the USSR dissolved. |
| Kennedy's desire to keep down inflation led to a confrontation over prices with which industry? | steel |
| Which of the following statements does NOT describe the Students for a Democratic Society? | SDS formed a unified, hierarchical bureaucracy for student protest groups to emulate |
| President Eisenhower supported American ground troop intervention in Indochina in 1954 | false |
| Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara developed the defense strategy of flexible response as an alternative to Eisenhower's Cold War policy of | massive retaliation. |
| The Soviet Union's entrance into Afghanistan caused the United States to respond in all of the following ways EXCEPT | bombing Kabul, the capital city of Afghanistan |
| To receive Marshall Plan aid, countries had to pledge to renounce communism | false |
| As a consequence of HUAC hearings, President Truman felt compelled to initiate a loyalty program | true |
| The Korean War erupted when | North Korea invaded South Korea |
| The Senate was unwilling to ratify the SALT II treaty in large part because | the Soviets had invaded Afghanistan, and détente seemed doomed |
| Which of these leaders organized a successful grape boycott and sparked an outburst of ethnic consciousness among Mexican Americans? | César Chávez |
| The Truman Doctrine allocated money to stop the spread of communism in | Greece and Turkey |
| The United States was able to get a resolution from the United Nations Security Council to defend South Korea because | the Soviet Union was boycotting the Security Council. |
| The Cuban missile crisis ended when | Khrushchev agreed to remove Soviet missiles from Cuba, and Kennedy promised that the United States would not invade Cuba. |
| Khrushchev and Eisenhower agreed to mutual aerial surveillance at the 1955 Geneva Summit conference. | fasle |
| The installation of a "hot line" between Washington D.C. and Moscow was a result of the | Cuban missile crisis. |
| Which two events summarized much of the frustration that African Americans felt in the past two decades? | the beating of Rodney King and the response to Hurricane Katrina. |
| The Taft-Hartley Act | angered organized labor |
| The effect of the Baruch Plan was to | preserve an American monopoly on atomic weapons |
| President George H. W. Bush was plagued domestically by problems with | the savings-and-loan bailout and the budget deficit |
| The 1960 election was | the first to have televised presidential debates |
| Two important successes of the first Clinton administration concerned | deficit reduction and free trade |
| In 1946, Winston Churchill stated that an Iron Curtain had fallen across Europe running from the | Baltic to the Adriatic |
| Which event best explains what prompted Johnson to seek legislation that would protect voting rights? | the march from Selma to Montgomery |
| General Douglas MacArthur was relieved of his command because he | publicly disobeyed orders |
| NSC-68 | called for a massive expansion of American military power |
| In 1992, H. Ross Perot was | a third party candidate who garnered a fair percentage of the popular vote. |
| School dropout rates for Hispanics at the beginning of the 21st Century was | more than 50 percent |
| The newly named cabinet department in 1947 was the Department of | Defense. |
| The Great Leap Forward was | mass mobilization to achieve widespread economic development. |
| The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was instituted by Mao in order to | create a truly egalitarian culture. |
| The "Gang of Four" | included Mao's wife and came to power in 1971. |
| The leader who emerged after Mao's death was | Deng Xiaoping. |
| The abolitionists of the mid nineteenth century did all of the following EXCEPT | they founded the Brook Farm cooperative |
| The Liberty party represented abolitionists'' first attempt to enter the political arena. | true |
| The Declaration of Sentiments was issued | at the Seneca Falls Convention, which launched the women'''s rights movement. |
| In the mid 1830s, the Temperance Society unanimously agreed that abstinence from alcohol should be extended to beer and wine as well as liquor | false |
| The most influential supporter of the common school movement was | Horace Mann |
| 101 congressmen and senators signed the "southern manifesto" in response to the | Brown decision. |
| Which event best explains what prompted Johnson to seek legislation that would protect voting rights? | the march from Selma to Montgomery |
| Which of the following choices lists events of the early civil rights movement in chronological order? | desegregation of armed forces, Brown decision, Montgomery bus boycott, Little Rock crisis, student sit-ins |
| Why did the Oneida community practice a form of free love? | The Second Coming of Christ had already occurred, and human beings were no longer obligated to follow old moral rules. |
| The feminist movement split in the 1920s over the issue of | the Equal Rights Amendment |
| The Supreme Court was deeply divided in its ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. | false |
| The suffrage movement entered into a new, more organized phase with the 1890 formation of the | National American Woman Suffrage Association |
| Independent party candidate George Wallace never had a serious following | false |
| In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson saw to the passage of Kennedy's proposed legislation for | a tax cut and a civil rights bill. |
| Prolonged adolescence in the 1920's led to new strains on the family in the form of youthful revolt | true |
| Emerson preached that individuals could commune with a force that animated nature and the universe. | true |
| Antislavery activism served as a catalyst for the women''s rights movement. | true |
| Which of the following best describes Eisenhower's attitude towards civil rights? | He was in favor of it, but thought that it was attitudes, rather than laws, that most needed changing. |
| The majority of Americans sympathized with the gay liberation movement after the onset of the AIDS epidemic | false |
| The Oneida community upheld the tenets of traditional marriage | false |
| Many progressives believed that women's votes would purify politics. | true |
| Which of the following was not a case ruled on by the Supreme Court under Earl Warren during Kennedy's presidency? | Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka |
| Betty Friedan's National Organization for Women comprised the radical wing of the women's movement. | false |
| All of the following statements about the colonization movement are true EXCEPT | Colonization Society members called for immediate and complete emancipation of southern slaves |
| As president, Truman oversaw the passage of the first general civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. | false |
| Dorothea Dix worked tirelessly on behalf of | institutions for the mentally ill. |
| One of the major setbacks for the National Organization for Women was the failure to win ratification of the ERA | true |
| Where did the American Colonization Society send émigrés? | Liberia |
| In late 1961, the Kennedy administration encouraged civil rights activists in southern voter registration drives because | the freedom rides had resulted in violent confrontations |
| In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that separate schools had to be made equal. | false |