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The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 __________. (Ch 18)

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reversed federal Indian policy that had been in place since the 1830s

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The Santa Fe Ring was a group of land spectators, lawyers, and politicians who __________. (Ch 18)

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cheated Mexicanos out of their landholdings

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One result of the mining boom in the West was __________. (Ch 18)

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the creation of strong and effective unions

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The people who benefited most from the Homestead Act were the __________. (Ch 18)

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Land Speculators.

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On the Great Plains, the most successful farmers were those with __________. (Ch 18)

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money and political power

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The Cherokee responded to pressure from whites by __________. (Ch 18)

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learning English, becoming Christians, and adopting farming

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Under the Treaty of Fort Laramie, the Sioux __________. (Ch 18)

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were granted the Black Hills "as long as the grass shall grow"

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Under human use, the natural environment of the West __________. (Ch 18)

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was destroyed or significantly degraded

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Cattle ranchers responded to the growing numbers of farmers and sheepherders in the West in the 1880s by __________. (Ch 18)

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destroying fences put up by the farmers and sheepherders

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Sand Creek was the scene of __________. (Ch 18)

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an unprovoked massacre of Cheyenne Indians by Colorado Volunteers

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The Good Neighbor Policy focused on U.S. relations with __________. (Ch 20)

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Latin America

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Who did the Democrats nominate for president in 1896? (Ch 20)

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William Jennings Bryan

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The 1898 massacre in Wilmington, North Carolina, was a white response to fears that African Americans would ally with the __________. (Ch 20)

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Populists

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The town of Pullman, Illinois, was an example of __________. (Ch 20)

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a company town

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The Interstate Commerce Commission was established in 1887 to regulate __________. (Ch 20)

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railroads

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Passage of the Pendleton Act in 1883 indicated __________. (Ch 20)

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that both parties recognized a need to professionalize government service

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Supporters of the new People's Party founded in 1890 called themselves __________. (Ch 20)

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Populists

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In general, the presidents of the last quarter of the nineteenth century __________. (Ch 20)

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lacked luster and accomplished little

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Discontented farmers aimed their harshest criticism against __________. (Ch 20)

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railroads

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The Granger movement collapsed when __________. (Ch 20)

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the depression of the 1870s wiped out their programs

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Fredrick Jackson Turner argued that, with the closing of the frontier, Americans (Ch 20)

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required a new frontier outside America

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Ida B. Wells won little white support with her crusade against (Ch 20)

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lynching

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Josiah Strong was most closely associated with what aspect of the imperial impulse? (Ch 20)

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Christian missionary work

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William D. "Big Bill" Haywood was the best known and most influential spokesman for the __________. (Ch 21)

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IWW

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The keys to strength of urban political machines were disciplined organization and __________. (Ch 21)

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the delivery of essential services to key constituencies

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In general, progressives were (Ch 21)

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optimistic about citizens being able to improve social and economic conditions

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Republican President Theodore Roosevelt's support for the Hepburn Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act reflected his beliefs in (Ch 21)

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government's duty to regulate big business

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The Uprising of the 20,000 illustrated the collective power of __________. (Ch 21)

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working-class women and middle-class reformers and suffragists

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The American Federation of Labor focused on organizing __________. (Ch 21)

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skilled labor

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Which of these groups provided much of the financial support for the Anti-Saloon League? (Ch 21)

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local businessmen

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Which of these people would most likely have been among the "new" immigrants entering the United States in 1905? (Ch 21)

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a single unskilled Italian male

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A major reason why Progressive women like Jane Addams turned to settlement work was? (Ch 21)

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dissatisfaction with the choices that society offered to women.

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The 1903 "open shop" campaign was meant to __________. (Ch 21)

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eradicate unions altogether

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Which of these was an important difference between the WCTU and the Anti-Saloon League? (Ch 21)

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The Anti-Saloon League was a one-issue pressure group.

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Sociologist Lester Frank Ward debunked social Darwinism on the grounds that __________. (Ch 21)

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organic and social evolution were fundamentally different

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The alliance between business and labor during the war was shown by the appointment of this man to the National War Labor Board. (Ch 22)

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Samuel Gompers

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Who headed the Committee on Public Information (CPI)? (Ch 22)

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George Creel

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Why was the alliance system in pre‒World War I Europe both a blessing and a curse? (Ch 22)

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It could maintain peace or bring about war.

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The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine was a direct outcome of __________. (Ch 22)

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the building of the Panama Canal

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In its final form, the Treaty of Versailles __________. (Ch 22)

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was harsh and unfair and did little to solve the war's issues

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African American soldiers returning from the Great War were met with __________. (Ch 22)

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racism and violence

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Many feminists supported the war and women's participation in it in the hope that it would __________. (Ch 22)

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helped secure women's right to vote.

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The main impact of the war and its aftermath on working women was that it __________. (Ch 22)

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increased female employment in already traditionally female professions

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Eugene V. Debs, the socialist leader, was sentenced to a ten-year prison term for __________. (Ch 22)

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giving a speech defending antiwar protestors

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At the beginning of World War I, Wilson declared that the United States would __________. (Ch 22)

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maintain strict neutrality

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Wilson's effort to manage the Mexican Revolution and protect U.S. interests in Mexico resulted in __________. (Ch 22)

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A legacy of suspicion and mistrust between the two nations

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The Zimmerman note was a coded message proposing an alliance between Germany and __________. (Ch 22)

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Mexico

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To counter growing calls for government censorship, the movie industry resorted to __________. (Ch 23)

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self-censorship

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Katherine Bement Davis's 1929 study revealed that most middle-class women __________. (Ch 23)

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used contraceptives and describes sex in positive terms

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People who supported the Klan in the 1920 were also likely to be __________. (Ch 23)

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religious fundamentals

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Large employers implemented welfare capitalism in an effort to __________. (Ch 23)

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undermine unions.

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Hollywood films in the 1920s would be best described as __________. (Ch 23)

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portraying a dream world to which most Americans could only aspire

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In 1920, the National American Woman Suffrage Association reorganized itself as the __________. (Ch 23)

answer

League of Women Voters

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After 1924, Japanese and Asian Indians were excluded from U.S. citizenship because __________. (Ch 23)

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the Supreme Court held that they were impossible to assimilate

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In 1913, it took thirteen hours to produce one automobile. By 1925, Henry Ford's new plants were producing one car every __________. (Ch 23)

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ten seconds

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Horizontal city communities like Houston were made possible by __________. (Ch 23)

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autos and roads

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Whether shopping at A&P, watching the movies, listening to radio or reading a newspaper, consumers in the 1920s were exposed to more things that __________ (Ch 23)

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were produced for a national market.

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The Roaring Twenties flapper represented ____________. (Ch 23)

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a small group of young, white, middle class females.

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The Original Klan had been formed in the Reconstruction South as an (Ch 23)

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instrument of white racial terror

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Despite its promise, welfare capitalism was only partially successful because (Ch 23)

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workers remained economically insecure and at the mercy of employers

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What was the result of the Federal Reserve tightening credit and Congress adopting the Smoot-Hawley Tariff? (Ch 24)

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worsened the economic system

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The New Deal for Indians would be best described as (Ch 24)

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bringing important but limited improvements to Native Americans

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The National Recovery Administration sought to stimulate production through __________. (Ch 24)

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government-enforced industrial codes E). building community colleges

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California repatriated Mexicans and Mexican Americans (US citizens. because __________. (Ch 24)

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unemployed whites wanted jobs held by Mexicans

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The economic development of the West during the New Deal can be attributed to __________. (Ch 24)

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federal subsidies and rational planning E). the increasing number of John Wayne movies being filmed in the West

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The influence of the women's network in the New Deal is exemplified by FDR's appointment of Frances Perkins as __________. (Ch 24)

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secretary of labor

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The plan President Hoover had for recovery focused on restoring the confidence of ______________. (Ch 24)

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business

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Proposed by Senator Robert Wagner, the Wagner Act was officially called the __________. (Ch 24)

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National Labor Relations Act

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The greatest problem the U.S. economy faced in the 1920s was __________. (Ch 24)

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unequal distribution of wealth

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New Deal programs for the arts—writers, painters, musicians, and others—were administered by the __________. (Ch 24)

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WPA

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Francis Townshend's Revolving Pension plan would have provided $200 a month to __________. (Ch 24)

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all people over sixty

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When Roosevelt, with an improved economy, cut federal spending and tightened credit in 1937, __________. (Ch 24)

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a sharp recession occurred

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Which of these was at the heart of Huey Long's economic proposals? (Ch 24)

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wealth redistribution

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How did the Japanese respond to the League of Nations' objections to Japan's conquest of Manchuria? (Ch 25)

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It quit the League.

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At Stalingrad and Kursk in 1943, __________. (Ch 25)

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Germany suffered stunning and costly defeats

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If you were a young woman during World War II and wanted to serve in the navy, which of these would you have joined? (Ch 25)

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WAVES

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The success of the first atomic bomb test convinced Truman that __________. (Ch 25)

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the United States no longer needed Soviet aid to win the war

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What was the greatest impact of World War II on the United States? (Ch 25)

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The Depression ended.

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The Truman Doctrine was the first and clearest exercise of the policy of __________. (Ch 26)

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containment

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In the 1950s, women were encouraged to __________. (Ch 26)

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quit their jobs and stay home.

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Between 1947 and 1970, income distribution in the U.S.? (Ch 26)

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remained essentially unchanged.

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During the postwar Red Scare, many individuals suspected of Communist sympathies experienced persecution and destruction of their careers __________. (Ch 26)

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based on little more than suspicion and vague accusations.

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An example of the age of Cold War anxiety was the popularity of this movie. (Ch 26)

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers

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In response to NATO rearming West Germany, the Soviet Union organized the? (Ch 26)

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Warsaw Pact.

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What negative consequence did the Marshall Plan have? (Ch 26)

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It drove a deeper wedge between the United States and the Soviet Union.

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In 1949, these two events occurred that increased Cold War anxiety in the United States? (Ch 26)

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China becomes communist, the Soviet Union explodes an atomic bomb

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The Truman Doctrine was a response to the threat of subversion and revolution in __________. (Ch 26)

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Turkey and Greece

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The NATO alliance was formed in response to __________. (Ch 26)

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the Berlin blockade and airlift crisis

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The Korean War ended with __________. (Ch 26)

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an armistice restoring the prewar status quo

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The HUAC Hollywood hearings led to? (Ch 26)

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the blacklisting of writers, directors, and actors who refused to cooperate.

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Although McCarthy initially used this to his advantage, in the 1954 congressional hearings on communism in the army, it worked to his disadvantage. (Ch 26)

answer

media coverage

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The Korean War began when __________. (Ch 26)

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North Korea launched a military attack on South Korea

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Studies like Riesman's Lonely Crowd and Whyte's Organization Man depicted a post‒World War II American as __________. (Ch 27)

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conformity-minded.

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Under Allen Dulles's leadership, the CIA __________. (Ch 27)

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far exceeded its mandate by interfering in the affairs of other countries

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Most popular religious writers of the 1950s emphasized __________. (Ch 27)

answer

the importance of belonging and fitting in

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C. Wright Mills's White Collar and The Power Elite both argued that __________. (Ch 27)

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American workers had voluntarily submitted to repressive domination by a small group of leaders

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The greatest long-term impact of the G.I. Bill of Rights was to promote __________. (Ch 27)

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education and job training.

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The Southern Manifesto was a declaration that southern states __________. (Ch 28)

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would refuse to comply with desegregation

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In 1955, Emmett Till was murdered in Mississippi because he ______________. (Ch 28)

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violated the code of black submission by speaking informally to a white women.

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Truman's most important practical contribution to the civil rights movement was __________. (Ch 28)

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integrating the armed services by executive order

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House Resolution 108, the Indian "termination" policy, was intended to __________. (Ch 28)

answer

return to a policy of assimilation.

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The 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act finally allowed what group to become U.S. citizens? (Ch 28)

answer

Japanese Americans

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After Malcolm X made a pilgrimage to Mecca, he __________. (Ch 28)

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broke with the Nation of Islam and abandoned black separatism.

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In the late 1940s, the Supreme Court ruled in the Mendez and Delgado cases that (Ch 28)

answer

segregation of Mexican Americans was unconstitutional

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King and other black leaders believed white Southerners could be divided roughly into three groups, one of which was a (Ch 28)

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broad middle group that benefitted from segregation but might not be willing to protect it

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Puerto Ricans faced discrimination because, in addition to the usual resistance to immigrants, (Ch 28)

answer

many of them were also black

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This African American Nobel Prize winner refused a government appointment because he did not want to subject his family to humiliating segregation laws in Washington, D.C.? (Ch 28)

answer

Ralph Bunche.

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The idea of organizing a March on Washington in 1963 was suggested by __________. (Ch 28)

answer

Philip Randolph

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In regard to civil rights, the most important department of the Kennedy administration was __________________. (Ch 28)

answer

the Justice Department.

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A presidential commission characterized the violence in Chicago near the 1968 Democratic Party convention hall as a(n) __________. (Ch 29)

answer

police riot

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One of the ironies of the feminist movement was that it __________. (Ch 29)

answer

alienated many black and Latina women

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One unforeseen consequence of urban redevelopment programs is that they often (Ch 29)

answer

displaced rather than helped poor people of color

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The biggest weakness of Johnson's Great Society was that __________. (Ch 29)

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too little funding went to the neediest poor

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Why did student protests against the Vietnam War turn violent? (Ch 29)

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Peaceful protest had not worked to change government policy.

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Who advised young people to turn on, tune in, and drop out? (Ch 29)

answer

Timothy Leary.

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The Stonewall Inn riot was a key event in the movement for the rights of _________. (Ch 29)

answer

gays and lesbians.

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In 1970, hoping to deliver a "knockout blow" to the North Vietnamese, President Nixon __________. (Ch 29)

answer

ordered the bombing and invasion of Cambodia

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After a string of campus protests in the 1960s, most large universities relinquished __________. (Ch 29)

answer

their role as surrogate parents for students

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The student demonstrators killed at Kent State University were protesting __________. (Ch 29)

answer

Nixon's secret invasion of Cambodia

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The American public distrusted General Ford as president because he __________. (Ch 30)

answer

pardoned Nixon of possible federal crimes

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The Camp David Accords were a highlight of the presidency of __________. (Ch 30)

answer

Jimmy Carter

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The Reagan administration's plan to provide funding to the Contras with profits from missiles sold to Iran was __________. (Ch 30)

answer

illegal and directly forbidden by Congress

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The election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 was the culmination of a conservative movement in American politics first seen with the 1964 candidacy of __________. (Ch 30)

answer

Barry Goldwater

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The greatest long-term impact of Reaganomics was __________. (Ch 30)

answer

a rising deficit and national debt

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In response to campaigns prompted by Rachel Carson's The Silent Spring, in 1970 Congress created the __________. (Ch 30)

answer

Environmental Protection Agency

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Who benefited most from the economic trends of the 1970s-1980s? (Ch 30)

answer

the affluent

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In 1981, Reagan approved a CIA plan to arm the Contras, which opposed the Sandinista government of __________. (Ch 30)

answer

Nicaragua

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