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Chapters 17-29

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Which of the following statements about the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 is FALSE?   show
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show Surrendering control over public policy to private interest.  
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What was the primary cause for the growth of the urban industrial labor force in the late nineteenth century?   show
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show God's blessing.  
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In the late nineteenth century, the U.S. government did NOT provide:   show
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In Santa Clara County v. The Southern Pacific Railroad, the Supreme Court ruled that:   show
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show Order  
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Which industry pioneered modern management styles in the nineteenth century?   show
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show Frederick W. Taylor  
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The primary cause of the farmer's economic woes in the South and West in the late nineteenth century was:   show
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show Adoption of the northern model of industrial growth, couple with the legend of the graceful Old South.  
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show Henry W. Grady.  
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show Make themselves economically indispensable to southern whites.  
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The post-Civil War South's economy remained backward because of all but one of the following...Select the EXCEPTION:   show
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show Aroused public opposition against labor and contributed to the decline of the Knights of Labor.  
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Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor, founded in 1881, worked for all of the following EXCEPT:   show
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Chinese Immigrants, for the most part, came to American to:   show
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show England, Ireland, and Germany.  
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show Ethnic and religious backgrounds and countries of origin.  
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show Southern and eastern Europe.  
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show Nativists favored immigration.  
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Who determined the pattern of urban growth and development in the "private city" of the late nineteenth century?   show
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The nineteenth-century genteel tradition in American literature dwelt on all the following themes EXCEPT:   show
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Novelist Theodore Dreiser wrote in the literary genre known as:   show
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Literary naturalists in late nineteenth-century America pursued the theme of:   show
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show Ragtime  
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show Baseball  
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Coney Island became famous as   show
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The phrase "you shall not crucify mankind on a cross of gold" referred to:   show
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The term "free silver" refers to:   show
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The phrase Mark Twain used to describe the political and cultural climate that existed in America between 1877 and 1900 was the:   show
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Lord Bryce, in his "The American Commonwealth,"   show
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show Presidential elections were usually close contests.  
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show High for both major parties, because party attachments reflected voters' religious and cultural values.  
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show Wyoming Territory.  
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show The assassination of James Garfield.  
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show Regulate railroad taxes.  
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The nation's first federal regulatory agency was created by:   show
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The key issue diving the two major parties in the late 1880s was ____ policy.   show
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show The tariff was producing a treasury surplus and tempting Congress to dangerously expand federal activities.  
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The basic problem of farmers in the last half of the nineteenth century was caused by:   show
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In the late nineteenth century, farmers in the West and South suffered from all of these problems EXCEPT:   show
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The first national farmers' organization devoted to economic self-help and political agitation for farmers' goals was the:   show
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To alleviate their problems, farmers tried all of the following EXCEPT:   show
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show Government ownership of industry.  
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Coxey's Army marched on Washington to demand:   show
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The widespread enactment of Jim Crow laws that disfranchised and segregated blacks began:   show
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The Mississippi Plan was a scheme to:   show
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show Separate but equal facilities were constitutional.  
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show Because annexation had strong support in Congress.  
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During the 1860s, 1870s, and 1880s, public interest in overseas expansion was:   show
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show The post of Secretary of State was regarded as a stepping-stone to the presidency.  
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show Opposition from a strongly anti-imperialist press.  
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In the years immediately following the Civil War, the United States:   show
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show All of the above.  
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show New markets to buy up surplus American production.  
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Who was the author of the influential book, "The Influence of Sea Power upon History?"   show
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show Naval power was the key to national greatness.  
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The "Large Policy" called for:   show
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Between 1885 and 1897, American foreign policy:   show
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The key event that precipitated the overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii was:   show
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The term "jingoism" describes:   show
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show Liberate Cuba from Spain.  
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Causes of the war with Spain in 1898 include all of the following EXCEPT:   show
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Those pressed hard for war with Spain prior to 1898 included all of the following EXCEPT:   show
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As a result of the Spanish-American War, the United States acquired:   show
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The Platt Amendment:   show
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As a direct result of the Spanish-American War, the United States had to fight another war to:   show
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show It was warmly accepted by the Chinese people.  
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show Marked the first time that a president intervened on the side of workers in a labor dispute.  
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show Were two early challengers of Social Darwinism and laissez-faire.  
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The Social Gospel movement:   show
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The journalist who exposed social evils in American society during the Progressive Era were called:   show
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show Jane Addams.  
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show Political and economic equality for African-Americans.  
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The Progressives:   show
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show Women's suffrage and direct election of Senators.  
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President Theodore Roosevelt's handling of trusts suggests that he believed:   show
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show Food and drugs.  
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As a result of the passage of a federal meat inspection law in 1906:   show
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President Theodore Roosevelt was head of his time in his views on:   show
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Roosevelt's foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere is best characterized by his:   show
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show Aided a revolution in Panama against Colombia.  
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Dollar Diplomacy refers to the policy of:   show
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Who was the President known for a highly moralistic approach to diplomacy?   show
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Which of the following was NOT among the groups that gained the most from Progressive reform?   show
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The event that caused the decline of the Progressive movement was:   show
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Randolph Bourne believed that WW1:   show
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show The war ended in stalemate.  
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The event that set off the train of events leading to the outbreak of WW1 in 1914 was:   show
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show Believed that the United States should be neutral in thought and deed.  
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The German policy that was most directly responsible for bringing the United States into the war was:   show
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Why did the publication of the Zimmerman Telegram convince many Americans that Germany threatened to their national security?   show
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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:   show
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show The War Industries Board.  
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show Committee on Public Information.  
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show Most opposed U.S. involvement in the war.  
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show The International Workers of the World and the Socialist Party.  
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For the first time in American history, during WW1 the United States:   show
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show Decisive to an Allied victory.  
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show Free Speech.  
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show Declining prices.  
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show A. Mitchell Palmer  
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Wilson's Fourteen Points provided for all the following EXCEPT:   show
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All of the following provisions of the Treaty of Versailles helped to set the stage for WW2 EXCEPT:   show
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show A League of Nations.  
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It is likely that the Senate would have ratified the Treaty of Versailles if:   show
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Margaret Sanger:   show
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show Rise of a consumer-oriented economy.  
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show Americans lived in cities or towns.  
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show Made cars affordable for the average family.  
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Alfred Sloan, the president of General Motors from 1923 to 1941:   show
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show All of the above.  
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Young women of the 1920s who adopted an original style of dress and challenged traditional societal values were called:   show
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Following the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote, the women's movement divided over:   show
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show Many Americans believed the law interfered with their personal freedom.  
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show Al Capone.  
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Prohibition's strongest supporters were:   show
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show Many Americans had an unreasonable fear of radicals and foreigners.  
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This 1925 case involved a Tennessee law against the teaching of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in public schools:   show
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The immigration legislation of the 1920s regulated immigration on the basis of:   show
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The effect of the immigration quotas set by the National Origins Act of 1924 was to:   show
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show Opposed Jews and Catholics as well as blacks.  
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The leader of the first mass movement in African American history was:   show
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show Blacks should separate themselves from corrupt white American society.  
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The Harlem Renaissance refers to:   show
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All of the following characterized the writing of the "Lost Generation" EXCEPT:   show
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show Turning away from Europe and away from the programs of the Progressive Era.  
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show Teapot Dome.  
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Which of the following best describes the administrations of Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge?   show
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Republican leaders in the 1920s believed that the government should ___ big business.   show
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The most important problem faced by the Democratic Party in the 1920s was:   show
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show A Catholic.  
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show High unemployment.  
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Part of the reason for the stock market crash was:   show
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A major cause of the Great Depression was:   show
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show Was one of the finest American balladeers of the twentieth century.  
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show A weapon in the class struggle.  
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show Depression-era unemployment was higher and lasted longer in the United States.  
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show 25.  
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The Great Depression:   show
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President Hoover responded to the Depression in all of the following ways EXCEPT:   show
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show The lack of consumer demand for manufactured goods.  
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show The callous treatment of the Bonus Army.  
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Just prior to his election as president, Franklin D. Roosevelt had been:   show
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show Confidence and optimism.  
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show Closing the nation's banks.  
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show Guaranteed individual bank deposits up to $2,500.  
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show Roosevelt's first hundred days in office when he pushed 15 major bills through Congress.  
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Leading government administrators and advisors during the New Deal were mainly:   show
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The Agricultural Adjustment Act proposed to solve the farm problem by:   show
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show Large landowners.  
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The National Recovery Administration sought to:   show
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show The CCC.  
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show Huey Long.  
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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:   show
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show The Wagner Act.  
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In addition to providing the elderly with monthly pensions, the Social Security Act of 1935 also established:   show
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A new national labor union that arose during the 1930s to organized workers regardless of their skill level was the:   show
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Which of the following statements about African Americans and the New Deal is FALSE?   show
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The New Deal:   show
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show Was a death camp where prisoners were murdered with poison gas and then their bodies were cremated.  
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show Most Americans.  
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show Imposed a ten-year moratorium on the construction of battleships and restricted the number of battle ships each country could have.  
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Which of the following statements about the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1927 is FALSE?   show
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show 20 (twenty) times.  
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show The Clark Memorandum.  
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show Blamed U.S. intervention in WW1 on false Allied propaganda and unscrupulous Wall Street bankers.  
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show Blamed Germany's defeat in WW1 and its economic problems on Jews.  
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show Imposing economic sanctions on trade with the Japanese.  
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Franklin Roosevelt responded to the outbreak of war in Europe in all but one of the following ways. Select the EXCEPTION:   show
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show Swiftly end of Depression-era unemployment and raise wages.  
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show Fought in a segregated military.  
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show Mexican-Americans.  
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Which of the following statements about the interment of Japanese Americans during WW2 if FALSE?   show
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show Refusal to relax immigration restrictions for Jews.  
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show Concentrate on defeating Germany first before turning on Japan.  
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show France.  
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The top secret Manhattan Project:   show
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show He felt it would shorten the war and eliminate the need for an invasion of Japan.  
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The former State Department official who was convicted of perjury in the celebrated "pumpkin papers" trial during the Second Red Scare was:   show
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Which of the following did NOT make the Soviet Union suspicious of the motives of the U.S.?   show
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show The organization of the United Nations.  
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show Greece and Turkey.  
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show Attempted to prevent Soviet power and communism from expanding into non-communist nations.  
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President Truman's response in the Berlin Blockade was to:   show
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The Marshall Plan could be understood as part of an American desire to:   show
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show Continued to support nationalists with money and weapons even when it became clear their cause was lost.  
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The critical Cold War document titled National Security Council Paper Number 68:   show
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The Korean War:   show
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President Truman contributed to the anti-communist fear after the WW2 by:   show
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show Julius Rosenberg.  
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Joseph McCarthy:   show
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Which of the following statements about the Taft-Harley Act of 1947 is FALSE?   show
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show Responsible for a series of highly publicized hearings designed to expose communist influence in American life.  
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Those who are drawn to the paranoid style see the shaping of world events as the work of:   show
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Following WW2, the United States did NOT:   show
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show America's abandonment of the containment doctrine.  
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show Was murdered for speaking to a white woman in Money, Mississippi.  
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President Dwight Eisenhower's domestic strategy of modern Republicanism advocated:   show
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show Construction of the interstate highway system.  
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show Americans left cities for suburbs in record numbers.  
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During the 1950s:   show
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show Emphasized nuclear weapons over conventional weapons.  
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During the 1950s, President Eisenhower used the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to overthrow anti-American governments in ___.   show
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The Eisenhower administration's foreign policy in the Middle East included all of the following EXCEPT:   show
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In his farewell address in January 1961, President Eisenhower warned the American people against:   show
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show Was instigated by the arrest of Rosa Parks.  
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show Constitutionality of racial segregation in public schools.  
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show Nationalized the Arkansas National Guard and sent federal paratroopers to maintain order.  
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show Rhythm and blues with country music.  
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show Rewriting songs that were originally recorded by black artists, then having them recorded by white performers.  
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show Spontaneity and intuition.  
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show Allen Ginsberg; Jack Kerouac.  
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Ho Chi Minh modeled the Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam's 1946 statement of national independence after which country's?   show
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show Skillful performance in the campaign's televised debates.  
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The Bay of Pigs invasion   show
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President Kennedy's main goal in the United State's 1962 decision to blockade Cuba was to:   show
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show Viewed Vietnam through the lens of Cold War politics.  
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show The United States.  
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show Opposed intervention, calling it an effort to perpetuate "white man's exploitation"  
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The countries involved in the 1954 Geneva Conference agreed that:   show
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show Supported President Diem's decision to cancel elections in 1956 to reunify Vietnam.  
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show Counterinsurgency; Flexible response.  
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President Kennedy:   show
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President Kennedy favored the removal of Ngo Dinh Diem from the presidency of South Vietnam after:   show
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President Lyndon Johnson received authorization for the use of force in Vietnam through:   show
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show Attempting to assassinate North Vietnamese leaders, including Ho Chi Ming.  
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show Led to the belief in the U.S. that the Vietnam War was unwinnable.  
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show Vietnamization.  
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show Decreasing the commitment of American ground troops, but intensifying bombing missions.  
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show Revived the domestic antiwar movement in the U.S. and led to large demonstrations.  
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American soldiers were involved in a massacre of South Vietnamese men, women, and children in what village?   show
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show Kent State University.  
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After the final withdrawal of American forces from Southeast Asia:   show
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Which of the following statements about Muhammad Ali is FALSE?   show
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show Nonviolent direct action.  
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Where was the tactic of the sit-in protest first used?   show
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The freedom rides were trying to end segregation by:   show
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Who was the author of "Letter from Birmingham Jail" that warned that frustrated African Americans might turn to violence?   show
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show Needed congressional voting support from white southern Democrats.  
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In his 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington, MLK Jr. expressed his desire for:   show
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show The desegregation of the armed forces.  
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show Malcolm X.  
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The Black Muslim's advocacy of black separatism drew most of its support from:   show
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show Self-hate.  
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show Outside agitation by communists.  
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show The NAACP (the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People).  
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show Los Angeles.  
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show Swann v. Charlotte-Mechlenburg Board of Education.  
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show The Peace Corps, sending Americans to work on projects for economic and social betterment in underdeveloped countries.  
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show Criminal defendants.  
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The women's movement was able to achieve all but one of the following goals. Select the EXCEPTION:   show
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show Women are conditioned to believe they can only find fulfillment as wives and mothers.  
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show Organizing migratory farm workers.  
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America's poorest minority group in the 1960 was:   show
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show Embodied the image of the rugged Western hero.  
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show The South.  
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show The shift in power from the Northeast and upper Midwest to the South and West.  
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show Came from the South or West.  
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Which technology was most critical to the rise of industrialization in the South after WW2?   show
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Which of the following developments was NOT transformed the South since WW2?   show
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Northern manufacturers became more attracted to relocating in the South because of all but one of the following. Select the EXCEPTION:   show
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show Westerners received substantial amounts of federal dollars which have contributed to the region's economic growth.  
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A hydraulic society:   show
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Henry Kaiser:   show
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Prior to WW2, the Western economy was best characterized as:   show
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In contrast to the eastern United States, the West:   show
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show Individual freedom.  
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show Wanted to restrict the activities of the federal government.  
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The Sagebrush rebellion:   show
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show The wiretapping of the Democratic Party's national headquarters.  
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The tapes that President Nixon kept of his Oval Office conversations indicate that the president:   show
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The investigation of the Watergate revealed that the Nixon White House had done all of the following EXCEPT:   show
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For his role in the Watergate affair, Richard Nixon was:   show
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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:   show
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show Restricting a president to 2 terms in office.  
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show Involved the nation's armed forces in combat without congressional approval.  
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The policy of detente was intended to:   show
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Richard Nixon's approach to China was to:   show
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show A sharply falling stock market.  
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show Iraq invasion of Kuwait.  
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Which was NOT part of Richard Nixon's efforts to restore American influence in foreign affairs?   show
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show Wage and price controls.  
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show Openly support anticommunist forces fighting the Soviets or Soviet-backed governments.  
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show Selling weapons to the anti-American government in Iran and causing the profit to aid the pro-American Contras in Nicaragua.  
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show He wanted his country to totally abandon communism.  
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On September 11, 2001, terrorists attacked all but one of the following buildings. Select the EXCEPTION:   show
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How many airliners were hijacked on September 11, 2001?   show
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show Osama bin-Laden.  
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show Al-Qaeda.  
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The U.S. responded to the terrorist strikes by attacking the Taliban government, which harbored the terrorists, in:   show
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show Anthrax.  
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The term globalization refers to:   show
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show He ordered the U.S. military to force Serbia to remove its forces from Kosovo.  
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show The nation's sluggish economy which was mired in recession.  
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Bill Clinton's major political success was:   show
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The economic boom of the late 1990s was due to all of the following factors EXCEPT:   show
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The major foreign policy crisis of the Clinton presidency involved:   show
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