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The immediate cause for American entry into World War I was the

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German resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare.

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By 1915, the Central Powers consisted of

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Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey and Bulgaria.

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Which of the following statements most accurately describes changes in the lives of Mexican Americans during World War I?

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Political instability in Mexico caused many Mexicans to relocate to the United States.

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In order to build the Panama Canal, the United States

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lent covert assistance to free Panama from Columbia.

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After the explosion of the battleship Maine, a U.S. naval board of inquiry blamed the sinking on

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a mine.

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Herbert Hoover emerged from World War I as one of the nation's most admired men because of his leadership of the

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Food Administration

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A lasting legacy of America's participation in World War I was

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woman suffrage

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Which of the following world leaders was absent from the Versailles Treaty negotiations?

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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin of Soviet Russia.

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The "Great Migration" refers to

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African Americans moving from the South to the North during the war.

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In its major initial contribution to the war effort of World War I, the United States

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used armed convoys to secure Allied shipping against submarine attack.

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Which of the following contributed to America expanding its markets into Latin America and Asia in the 1890s.

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The Panic of 1893

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Which of the following statements accurately describes the state of American military preparedness in 1898?

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The navy was better prepared than the ground forces.

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In his "Fourteen Points" speech to Congress in early 1918, Woodrow Wilson articulated which of the following postwar goals?

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freedom of navigation on the seas establishment of a multinational organization to guarantee mutual protection of political and territorial rights the right to national self-determination

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The Open Door Notes called for

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equal access for all countries seeking to trade with China.

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The greatest irony of America's involvement in World War I was that it fought for democracy

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with a racially segregated army.

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What changes occurred in American trade with the allies and the Central Powers between 1914 and 1916?

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Commerce with the Allies rose nearly fourfold, whereas commerce with the Central Powers dwindled to an insignificant trickle.

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The Teller Amendment promised that the United States

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The Teller Amendment promised that the United States

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In the late 1800s and early 1900s, which nation's growing power in East Asia surprised Europe and the U.S.

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Japan

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The American victory at San Juan Hill in Cuba can be credited largely to

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four African American U.S. regiments.

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The Influence of Seapower upon History was written by

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Alfred Thayer Mahan

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Theodore Roosevelt's strategic thinking about U.S. foreign policy was shaped, in part, by his

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belief in the duty of the "civilized" countries of the world to police and subdue "backward" peoples.

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In the guerrilla war that followed the conquest of the Philippines

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the conflict far exceeded the ferocity the war just concluded with Spain.

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The first woman in Congress who voted against going into World War I was

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Jeanette Rankins

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President McKinley and the Republicans jumped at the chance to hold the Philippine Islands because

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it provided the United States with a major foothold in the western Pacific and access to Asian markets.

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By 1915, the Allied Powers consisted of

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Great Britain, France, Russia, Japan, and Italy

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The outbreak of World War I was the culmination of a European crisis that began when a Bosnian recruited by Serbian terrorists assassinated the heir to the throne of

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Austria-Hungary

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When Woodrow Wilson became president in 1913, he

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vowed that the U.S. would not seek further territorial gains by conquest.

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The battle in the Senate over the Treaty of Versailles centered around Article X, which was

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a section of the League of nations' covenant that called for military action.

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In the guerrilla war that followed the conquest of the Philippines,

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the conflict far exceeded the ferocity the war just concluded with Spain.

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When Willian McKinley became president in 1897 and had to deal with the rebellion in Cuba, he

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took a tougher stance against the Spanish than Cleveland had taken.

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Which of the following is properly matched

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Committee on Public Information--George Creel

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the Red Scare of 1919-1921?

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A series of bombings in 1919 led Americans to associate all radical or dissident political groups with violence.

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes consumer spending during the 1920s?

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Installment buying boosted consumerism.

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes American business in the 1920s?

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The two hundred largest corporations controlled almost half of the national non-banking wealth.

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Harding campaigned on the platform of returning to "normalcy," which meant

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a strong probusiness stance and conservative cultural values.

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At the time of the stock market crash in 1929, which sector of the American economy was in the worst shape?

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agriculture

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Which of the following steps was not taken by the Hoover administration in its attempts to counter the Great Depression?

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Providing direct federal relief for unemployed Americans

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What was a major weakness of the economy of the 1920s?

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The lack of credit The soaring cost of farm products The unequal distribution of wealth

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Following the stock market crash of October 1929

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many of the middle class who had not speculated in the stock market lost thier life savings when banks failed.

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes U.S. foreign policy during the 1920s?

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The U.S. actively sought to facilitate American economic expansion abroad.

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The flapper, as an icon of American culture, represented

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the emancipated woman of the 1920s.

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A major impact of advertising and mass media in the 1920s and later was the

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sense that all American were affluent and buying newly available consumer products.

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Governor Alfred E. Smith, the Democratic presidential candidate in 1928

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was the first major-party presidential candidate to reflect the aspirations of the urban working class.

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Which of the following saw the greatest amount of improvement in the 1920s?

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Industrial output

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Which of the following is not associated with Marcus Garvey?

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Jazz Music

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A major scandal in Harding's administration named after the national oil reserves it involved was

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Teapot dome

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In the 1920s, jazz

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the tremendous growth of cities from immigration and rural migration.

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The concept that championed black racial pride and cultural identity in the 1920s was known as the

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Harlem Renaissance.

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The chief political virtue of Calvin Coolidge, who became president on Harding's death in 1923, was his

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image of unimpeachable morality, which dissociated him from the scandals of the Harding administration.

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the Scopes "monkey trial" of 1925?

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The trial quickly became a media circus.

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During World War I, the National War Labor Board supported all of the following except

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the right of war workers to strike.

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Margret Sanger is most famous for supporting

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Birth Control

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The rejuvenated Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s

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targeted Catholic and Jewish immigrants as well as African Americans.

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Welfare capitalism emerged in the 1920s in part

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to stop unionization.

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Which of the following statement most accurately characterizes women's political participation during the 1920s?

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Women did not vote as a bloc.

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In what way did the U.S. government change immigration restrictions in the 1920s?

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The National Origins Act of 1924 set immigration quotas at 2 percent of each nationality as measured by the 1890 census.

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Which of the following was the most grievous attack on civil liberties?

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The Palmer raids

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African Americans who served in World War I returned home to find

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discrimination and race riots.

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As secretary of commerce under Warren Harding, Herbert Hoover

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supported expansion of the federal government through voluntary cooperation with business in the public interest.

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All of the following items became part of middle-class consumer culture in the 1920s except

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television.

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In 1924, the Democratic Party convention

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showed that the party was deeply split between rural and urban interests.

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Which of the following statements does NOT accurately characterize the struggle of organized labor from 1919-1929

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Congress passed legislation making it much more difficult for workers to join labor unions.

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The New Deal's greatest legacy is that it

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expanded federal presence both in the economy and people's lives.

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The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934

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reversed the Dawes Severalty Act and promoted tribal self-government.

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President Roosevelt differed from President Hoover in

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his personal charisma and willingness to experiment.

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During the 1932 presidential campaign, Franklin Roosevelt promised

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bold, persistent experimentation.

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All of the following marked the early years of the Great Depression except

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double-digit interest rates.

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Deciding that Roosevelt had not done enough to alleviate suffering, Francis Townsend called for

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an old-age revolving pension plan.

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Hoover was hated during the Depression, partially because of the public perception that he

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was insensitive to people's suffering and was a "do-nothing" president.

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Which American ideal caused many Americans to blame themselves for their plight?

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The self made man

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In 1934, the Liberty League was organized by

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business leaders and conservative Democrats who opposed New Deal reforms.

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Between 1935 and 1943, the Works Progress Administration (WPA)

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put unemployed workers directly on the federal payroll.

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Which of the following New Deal projects was not involved in conservation.

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NIRA

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In the 1936 presidential election, Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Won by a landslide

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In Roosevelt's second term, New Deal legislation passed scrutiny by the Supreme Court more easily because

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the retirement of several elderly conservative justices and their replacement by liberal justices altered the Court's position on New Deal legislation.

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In the Bonus Army incident in Washington (1932), federal troops

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fired on the assembled veterans and burned their encampment.

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was

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established to curb stock market fraud and abuses.

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Schecter v. United States struck down the NRA because it said the NRA

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illegally regulated commerce within individual states.

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A severe recession occurred in 1937 and 1938 when Roosevelt, Congress, and the Federal Reserve

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cut spending and attempted to balance the budget.

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What was Franklin Roosevelt's attitude toward the federal government providing welfare payments to the unemployed?

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He found it distasteful, preferring to provide jobs over cash subsidies.

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The Grapes of Wrath and Okies are most directly associated with

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the Dust Bowl

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For southern black sharecroppers, the New Deal's AAA often meant that

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blacks were pushed off their land

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Roosevelt's initial response to the Supreme Court's declaring the NRA, the AAA, and other New Deal legislation unconstitutional was to

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attempt to pack the court with his own men.

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The Emergency Banking Act of 1933

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prevented all banks from reopening until treasury inspectors could examine their books and ascertain that they had sufficient cash reserves.

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Senator Huey "Kingfish" Long from Louisiana was one of Roosevelt's largest threats with his

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Share Our Wealth plan.

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Harold Ickes and Bernard Baruch were

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two of Franklin Roosevelt's chief advisers.

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New Deal administrators wanted to redefine the relationship between artists and the community through what became known as

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Art for the millions.

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An effect of the Great Depression was

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that unemployment was double for black men vs white men and triple for black women vs white women.

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The single largest New Deal project in the West was the construction of the

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Grand Coulee Dam.

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What was done to disable Francis Townsend's support?

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Creation of the Social Security Administration

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The first action F. Roosevelt took to help the crisis was to

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declare a bank holiday that allowed only sound banks to reopen.

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Roosevelt's Democratic coalition included which of the following groups?

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Organized labor White southerners African Americans

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The New Deal program most applauded by union labor was the

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National Recovery Act.

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The protest that caused the biggest blow to Hoover's popularity was the

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Bonus Army

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The Scottboro case

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was a clear example of a legal system that was biased against blacks in the south.

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A failure of the Social Security Act was that it

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did not include national health insurance.

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Which of the following statements accurately describes rationing during World War II?

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Most Americans complied with rationing

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In the United States, World War II brought all of the following changes except

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ending legalized, racial segregation.

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The Neutrality Act of 1935 and its 1936 and 1937 amendments

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required belligerent nations that wanted to buy nonmilitary goods from the United States to pay in cash and supply their own shipping.

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Which of the following is properly matched?

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Lend-Lease-allowed the distribution of arms and equipment to nations whose defense was vital to the security of the United States

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Which of the following nations was not overrun by Germany in June 1940?

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Soviet Union

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The Battle of the Bulge

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was the final offensive launched by the Germans in Belgium in December 1944.

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Which of the following was characteristic of fascist governments in the 1930s and 1940s, especially Nazi Germany?

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Authoritarian dictatorships Militaristic governments Promoting racial superiority

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Which of the following is true of discrimination in the armed services during World War II?

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The military segregated African Americans and assigned them menial duties.

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When Japanese troops occupied the northern part of French Indochina in fall 1940, the United States

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restricted trade with Japan, including fuel and scrap metal vital to Japan's war effort.

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Which of the following is not an enduring legacy of World War II?

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The practice of integrated military units

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes U.S. politics during World War II?

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Congress narrowed Roosevelt's call in 1944 for a second bill of rights program to include only veterans.

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The massive Allied invasion of Europe was code-named

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D-Day.

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All of the following were examples of the racial overtones of World War II except

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kamikaze attacks

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The two main American military commanders in the Pacific theater during World War II were

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Douglas MacArthur and Chester W. Nimitz.

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Henry J. Kaiser was

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dubbed the "miracle man" for revolutionizing the production of naval vessels during the war.

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Which of the following is correctly paired with his or her activity during World War II?

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A. Philip Randolph-threatened to head a march on Washington to protest racial discrimination

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The greatest civil rights abuse(s) during the war was (were)

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the internment of Japanese aliens and Japanese Americans.

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All of the following steps were taken by FDR and Congress between 1939 and 1941 to prepare the United States for the possibility of war except

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starting a massive government propaganda campaign to encourage Americans to support U.S. involvement in the war.

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All of the following are true regarding the forced relocation and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II except

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the Supreme Court ruled the policy unconstitutional in 1944, after fear of a Japanese attack had subsided.

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The advertisement represents which of the following? Mother, when will you stay home again?

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Rosie the Riveter

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Which is true of the America First Committee?

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Its intent was to keep the nation out of war.

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The "cash-and-carry" provision of the 1937 Neutrality Act stated that

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belligerents could buy nonmilitary goods from the United States under certain conditions.

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According to the textbook, the most decisive American factor in determining World War II's outcome was

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the immense production of war material and other needed supplies.

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A Progressive-era reform that was undermined by the government's action during World War II was

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antitrust prosecution.

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All of the following governmental precedents were established in the United States during World War II except

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the creation of a professional, all volunteer military.

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Which of the following is properly paired?

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War Production Board-oversaw the conversion of industry to military manufacturing

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After the Japanese invaded China in 1937, President Roosevelt

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urged peace-loving nations to "quarantine" Japan and other aggressors.

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The Nye Committee report stated that

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war profiteers had maneuvered the nation into World War I for financial gain.

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The turning point of World War II in Europe came when the

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Soviets halted the German advance at Stalingrad in the winter of 1942-43.

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The principles of freedom of the seas, national self-determination, and collective security were reiterated in

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the Atlantic Charter.

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What did President Roosevelt call "a date that will live in infamy"?

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Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor

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Executive Order 9066

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allowed for the forced relocation of Japanese Americans on the West Coast to detention camps.

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The GI Bill of Rights provided

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education, medical care, pensions, and mortgage loans to veterans.

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Harry S. Truman was nominated as Roosevelt's vice presidential running mate in 1944 because

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Vice President Wallace was considered to be too liberal by many party leaders.

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Korematsu v. United States legitimized the

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forced internment of Americans of Japanese descent into relocation camps.

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From the American perspective, what precipitated the cold war?

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The most significant impact of the Korean War was that, throughout the remainder of the cold war

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Which of the following parts of Truman's Fair Deal actually earned congressional approval?

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The Social Security program was extended.

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When the Chinese Communists defeated the Nationalists in 1949, the United States

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State Department was accused of "losing" China by conservative critics.

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The Soviet "sphere of influence" in Eastern Europe was affirmed by the

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Yalta Agreement.

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When the United States joined Canada and Western Europe to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1949, it

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was the first peacetime military alliance the nation had entered into since the American Revolution.

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Which of the following is true about life in the United States during the cold war?

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Tension over communism abroad fostered a period of domestic repression and fear at home.

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A result of the Berlin Blockade and Berlin Airlift, the coup in Czechoslovakia was the creation of

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NATO.

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The National Security Council's (NSC) 1950 document known as NSC-68 held that

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the United States must significantly increase its defense spending.

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Which of the following was not part of the Fair Deal agenda?

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The Korean War

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To forestall economic difficulties, which could foster the rise of communism throughout Europe, the United States gave nearly $13 billion to a European recovery program nicknamed the

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Marshall Plan.

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Which of the following is least related to the other four?

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Warsaw Pact

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Which of the following was not one of the consequences of the cold war in the 1950s?

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A prolonged economic recession

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Truman's desire to expand the New Deal was not stymied by the

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military-industrial complex.

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Germany and its capital city of Berlin were each divided into four zones after World War II. Which of the following did not control one of those zones?

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United Nations

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The Truman Doctrine was implemented in response to Communist threats in

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Greece and Turkey.

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During John F. Kennedy's administration, the Peace Corps

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spread American ideals abroad and was intended to show developing countries that there was an alternative to communism.

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John F. Kennedy's policy toward South Vietnam included

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increasing the number of American troops on the ground to 16,000 by November 1963.

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The most famous symbol of the cold war was

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the Berlin Wall.

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The creator of containment who enumerated his fears in the "Long Telegram" was

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George Kennan.

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What was the outcome of the Korean War?

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Korea remained divided.

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During the Eisenhower administration, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) helped overthrow the government of

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Iran

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During the Cuban missile crisis

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the United States and the Soviet Union came closer to nuclear war than at any other time.

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During the late 1940s and early 1950s, the United States and the USSR came closest to war over

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The Berlin Crisis

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As a moderate Republican, President Eisenhower signed all the following bills that expanded on New Deal programs and ideology except

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strengthening the rights of organized labor.

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the events surrounding the Suez crisis?

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Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal and later built the Aswan dam with Soviet assistance.

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President Truman's response to the invasion of South Korea was to

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ask the UN Security Council to authorize a "police action."

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In the 1960 election,

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Kennedy won by a slim margin; just a few thousand votes could have given the election to Nixon.

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The leader of North Vietnam during the late 1950s was

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Ho Chi Minh.

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The Eisenhower Doctrine was issued in response to difficulties in

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Czechoslovakia.

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At the Potsdam Conference,

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America's possession of the atomic bomb bolstered Truman to use "tough" methods with the Soviets.

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In the years immediately following World War II, Britain's influence and power in the world began to decline for all of the following reasons except

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the United States no longer trusted competent British leadership of world affairs.

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What was the outcome of the Korean War?

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Korea remained divided.

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Which of the following is most directly associated with McCarthyism?

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Allegations of communist spies working in the State Department

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Modern Republicanism was

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a party philosophy that emphasized moderating rather than dismantling the New Deal state.

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In 1947, the Truman administration reacted to the growing anti-Communist fervor in the country by

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issuing an executive order initiating a comprehensive investigation of all federal employees' loyalty.

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The most significant impact of the Korean War was that, throughout the remainder of the cold war,

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even in peacetime, the United States kept a standing army activated.

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From the 1860's to the 1880's, open-range ranching was feasible on the Great Plains because of

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the availability of free land.

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The leader of the Sioux warriors who annihilated the forces led by Colonel George A. Custer on June 25, 1876 was

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Sitting Bull

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William F. Cody, the showman who promoted the idea of a "mythic West," was better known as

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Buffalo Bill

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All of the following industries became an important part of the economy of the Great Plains and the far West by 1890 except

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Manufacturing

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The largest mass executions in American history took place as a result of

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The Dakota uprising

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"The largest, longest-run agricultural and environmental miscalculation in American History" refers to

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Farming on the great plains

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The Exodusters were

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African American migrants to Kansas in the late 1870's, fleeing mostly from Louisiana and Mississippi after the end of Reconstruction and the withdrawal of federal protection.

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During and after the Civil War, the Republican Congress implemented its economic vision for the United States by doing all of the following except

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lowering tariffs on foreign goods

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Which president most refashioned America's Indian policy?

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Grant

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The last great Indian "battle" was against the Sioux

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at wounded knee

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All of the following led to the collapse of the cattle boom in Texas except

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fierce Indian attacks that decimated the herds and killed many cowboys.

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The federal government's Civil War debt was paid off primarily through

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tariff revenue

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Following the Sioux victory at Little Bighorn, the United States

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pursued the various bands of Sioux until they surrendered.

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Which of the following countries first converted to the gold standard?

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Britian

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Which of the following did not promote settlement of the Great Plains?

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Cattle ranchers

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In 1867, the United States bought Alaska from

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Russia

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States and the federal government encouraged railroad building through which of the following ways?

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Loans and subsidies Land grants Financial assistance

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White reformers who created the Indian Rights Association advocated the

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assimilation of Indians into white culture.

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The Dawes Severalty Act of 1887

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promoted Indian assimilation.

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The agricultural technique known as dry farming

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involved deep planting to bring subsoil moisture to the roots and quick harrowing after rainfalls.

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In 1872, Congress established ____ as the first national park.

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Yellowstone

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The dominant northern Plains Indian tribe was the

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Sioux

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John Wesley Powell, in his Report on the Lands of the Arid Regions of the United States (1878), famously stated that

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massive cooperation under government control was the only was farming would succeed on the Great Plains.

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In the 1860s and 1870s, Nevada's Comstock Lode, Colorado's Rocky Mountains, and the Cour d'Alene region in Idaho were all known for

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mining

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Late nineteenth-century farms on the Great Plains were much larger than eastern farms because

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dry-farming techniques required about 300 acres to support a family farm.

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Which of the following was a blow to the agrarian reform movement?

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Wabash v. Illinois.

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Which of the following is an example of a trade union?

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The American Federation of Labor

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Which of the following jobs was not generally available to women at the end of the nineteenth century?

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corporate manager

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The first magazine with over one million subscribers was

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Ladies' Home Journal.

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The strike by steelworkers at Homestead, Pennsylvania

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resulted from Andrew Carnegie's desire to eliminate the union.

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In the early years of the twentieth century, an increasing proportion of immigrants to the United States came from

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southern and Eastern Europe.

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During the late 1800s, an adult male immigrant from which of the following locations would be most likely to be a skilled worker?

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Wales

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All of the following are true of travelling salesmen except they

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did not emerge until after 1900.

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In their efforts to improve working conditions, the Knights of Labor stressed

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cooperative factories owned and managed by workers.

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The federal government responded to the problem of discrimination agaisnt the Chinese in nineteenth century California by

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barring Chinese immigration to the U.S.

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The labor movement supported all of the following except

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yellow-dog contracts.

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What is the most important reason few African American men held factory jobs in 1890?

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Factory owners found that they could satisfy most of their labor needs with immigrant workers, so they rejected most black applicants.

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The Haymarket incident in 1886

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led to the downfall of the Knights of Labor.

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The strike at Homestead demonstrated that

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by the 1890s, economic power had shifted from workers to large corporations.

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The "new immigrants" who entered the U.S. between 1880-1920

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often planned on working and saving money for a few years before returning home.

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The Chinese came to the U.S.

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because of poverty and upheaval in southern China.

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All of the following were skilled workers in the 1870s except

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domestic servants.

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Which of the following most likely would have been a member of the American Federation of Labor?

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a printer

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Who, among the following, epitomized the American notion that through hard work even a poor immigrant could become tremendously successful?

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Andrew Carnegie

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After the Civil War, Republican economic policies led to

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the dominance of large corporations.

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The Supreme Court decision to overturn Granger laws led to the

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authority of the Interstate Commerce Commission.

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Montgomery Ward and Sears became famous for

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mail order catalogs.

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Oliver Kelly founded the National Grange or the Patrons of Husbandry which did all of the following except

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work with state and national banks to end inflation.

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Chinese immigrants to the U.S. in the nineteenth century

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faced more severe discrimination than European immigrants.

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A result of mass production was that

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skilled workers gradually lost their autonomy.

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Which of the following authors rejected romanticism and Victorian sentimentality in their works?

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Mark Twain Stephen Crane Theodore Dreiser All of the above

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Of the 9,000 overseas Protestant missionaries in 1915, the largest percentage of them served in

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Asia

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Which of the following most transformed women's role in the "public space"?

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Industrialization

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In 1916 the largest religious group in the United States was

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Protestants.

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In the late nineteenth century the American Catholic hierarchy was dominated by

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Irish Americans

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What else did Women's Christian Temperance Union chapter do in addition to fighting for temperance?

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Set up soup kitchens/ Establish free libraries/ Introduce kindergartens

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes urban leisure in post-Civil War America?

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Leisure became a commercial commodity enjoyed outside the home.

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Protestant churches that espoused the Social Gospel

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taught that Christians should fight for social justice and the public welfare.

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In the late nineteenth century

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social Darwinist such as William Graham Sumner believed, millionaires were the fittest American.

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The National Association of Colored Women's Clubs was effective in its efforts to improve the life of African Americans because it

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focused its attention on community issues such as public health.

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By the early 1900s

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why did many business leaders encourage their male workers to participate in sports?,To help foster a loyal workforce./To instill a sense of team work./To increase company pride.

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes changes in the lives of middle-class American children in the last decades of the century?

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A high school education became more common.

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The typical American middle-class family in 1900 consisted of husband wife and

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four children

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The rapid progression of scientific discovery in the decades after the Civil War had brought all of the following scientific understandings by 1910 except

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a belief in the big bang theory.

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Which national figure was upheld as a model of the Victorian ideal of domesticity in a biography published in the 1870s.

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Rutherford B. Hayes

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The Gibson Girl of the 1890s personified

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the middle-class "new woman."

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P.T. Barnum and his traveling circus successfully promoted commercial domesticity in all of the following ways except

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racially integrating seating for his shows, even in in the South.

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Which of the following sports was invented by YMCA instructors in the 1890s?

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basketball

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In the late nineteenth century the Womans' Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)

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gave support to demands for woman suffrage; many members believed that only through women's votes could the liquor traffic be controlled.

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All of the following are true of the United Daughters of the Confederacy except

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they donated framed copies of the U.S. Constitution to schools across the South

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The growth of YMCA in American cities resulted from

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Protestant efforts to promote "muscular Christianity" for white-collar workers.

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What most caused the growing emphasis on male masculinity?

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urban life and work

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Which of the following groups would have been least likely to support prohibition?

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German immigrants

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Between 1880-1920 higher education for women was

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most available in the Northeast at single-sex institutions

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In the 1880s

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the WCTU controversially threw its support behind the, Prohibition Party.

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The first federal law ever passed to regulate trusts was the

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Sherman Antitrust Act.

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Between 1876 and 1892, Americans were

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highly partisan and politically active.

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In general, progressives differed from labor and farm advocates in which way?

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Progressives were mostly middle-class, urban reformers.

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As a result of the Supreme Court's decision in the Standard Oil case (1915), the

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attorney general sped up the pace of antitrust actions.

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Mugwumps were reformers who

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supported smaller government.

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While William Jennings Bryan promoted free silver, McKinley

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promised to restore order and bring a return to prosperity.

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Teddy Roosevelt's New Nationalism proposed all of the following except

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federal pensions for retired workers.

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The Wisconsin governor and progressive leader who helped give his state's voters the right of recall and referendum was

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Robert La Follette

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Which of the following statement most accurately characterizes Theodore Roosevelt's approach to the nation's natural resources?

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He was a conservationist who tried to balance commercial and public interests.

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Why does it seem that there were lackluster presidents during the period from 1877 to 1895?

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Extremely close elections limited their ability to maneuver and take tough political stands.

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Which of the following is true of both the reform movements in the 1880s-1890s and those between 1900-1920?

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Women played an integral part in both.

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As president, Woodrow Wilson successfully implemented reforms in all of the following areas except

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protecting the rights of blacks in the South.

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Mary White Ovington and W.E.B. Du Bois were both founders of the

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NAACP

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All of the following were main goals of the prominent political movements between the end of Reconstruction and World War I except

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bringing full equality to blacks.

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Between 1910-1917, all the industrial states enacted laws

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providing insurance for on-the-job accidents.

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Which of the following statement accurately characterizes national politics during the Gilded Age?

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Both Republicans and Democrats regularly engaged in various forms of electoral fraud. Proportionately more Americans voted during this era than any other time in American history. The presidents of this era are often remembered as weak, ineffective, and forgettable.

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Which of the following Progressive reforms was suggested by the Populists?

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Federal Reserve Act

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In what way did American politics change during the mid-1890s?

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Blacks were formally disenfranchised in the South/ Democrats became virtually the only polistical party in the South for decades./Republicans dominated national politics for the next forty years.

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The Supreme Court's Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) decision

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stated that legal segregation was acceptable under the "separate but equal" principle.

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Why did Congress abandon efforts to enforce blac

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voting rights and fair elections in the South after 1892? k In the elections of 1890 and 1892, voters largely rejected Republicans and their policies, giving control of Congress and the presidency to the Democrats.

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Which of the following presidents most easily won election to the White House and was seen as a powerful presence in the Oval Office?

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William McKinley

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In their 1892 Omaha Platform, Populists called for all the following except

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woman suffrage.

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Advocates of free silver believed it would

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encourage borrowing and stimulate industry.

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As progressives, Josephine Shaw Lowell and Florence Kelley concentrated their efforts on

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female and child laborers.

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When the jobless marched on Washington in 1894,

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their leader was arrested and their demands were not met.

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Michael Harrington's The Other America exposed

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poverty in America.

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When Eisenhower said, "We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes," he was referring to the

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military-industrial complex.

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Which of the following is most responsible for Congress' approval of the Interstate Highway Act?

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The cold war

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The GI Bill stimulated the American economy by

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subsidizing higher education and financing millions of mortgages.

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Which of the following accurately characterizes many of the newly built suburban communities in the 1950s?

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They had regulations such as maintaining lawns and not hanging laundry on weekends. They were generally homogeneous in their population.They often refused to allow sales to minorities.

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Restrictive covenants refer to

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agreements allowing only Caucasians to live in an area.

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What is the reason for the bubble between 1940 and 1950 in the figure?

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The baby boom

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In 1949, according to Betty Friedan, she and other radicals were concerned about all of the following except

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women's rights

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Which of the following is an example of an institutional form of racism faced by African Americans as they migrated to urban centers in the 1950s?

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Housing restrictions. Increasingly segregated schools White flight to the suburbs

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The ideal family as presented in the media of the 1950s, with a stay-at-home mom and a father as the breadwinner, was

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not representative of African American families

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Which of the following influenced the growth of a youth culture in the 1950s?

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More years in school. Importance of peer groups.Teen consumer patterns

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In the 1950s, most Puerto Rican immigrants settled in

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New York City.

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One of the most rapidly growing job categories in America during the 1950s was

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white-collar managers.

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Which of the following is properly paired?

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Jack Kerouac-On the Road

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Between 1940 and 1960, church membership in the United States

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rose to 70 percent.

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All of the following led to an urban crisis in the 1950s except

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desegregation.

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A symbol of the postwar housing boom was

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Levittown.

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Which of the following are correctly matched?

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Hugh Hefner-founder of Playboy magazine

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The baby boom in post-World War II America is most accurately explained as resulting from

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a drop in age at marriage.

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Which of the following statements accurately characterizes U.S. immigration laws between World War II and the mid-1960s?

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In 1952, the McCarran-Walter Act ended the exclusion of immigrants from China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia. k In late 1945, the immigration of Mexican bracero workers, which had been permitted during World War II, was officially ended, and not until 1964 were such workers again legally admitted to the United States.

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Alan Freed

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helped to introduce white America to the new black sound by playing rhythm and blues records on the radio in 1954.

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In the United States of the 1950s,

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consumption came to be seen as a social responsibility.

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The growing influence of religion in post-World War II American society was evident in all of the following except

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the sentencing of the Rosenbergs to life in prison instead of death for giving U.S. atomic secrets to the Russians.

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A negative aspect of America's fascination with the automobile in the 1950s was

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a tripling of oil consumption by the early 1970s

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Betty Friedan's 1963 boo

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The Feminine Mystique k described the middle-class domestic ideal that suburban housewives were supposed to embrace.

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In 1941, President Roosevelt issued an executive order banning racial discrimination in defense industries primarily because

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he wanted to avoid a protest march by a black labor union.

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In Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court ruled against segregated schools on the grounds that they

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denied black children "equal protection of the laws."

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Which of the following civil rights supporters was not assassinated in the 1960s?

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Stokely Carmichael

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A result of Rosa Parks' arrest was

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the Montgomery bus boycott

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In the "long hot summers" of 1964-1968,

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charges of police brutality often sparked riots.

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The Voting Rights Act of 1965

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outlawed the use of literacy tests and together with the Twenty-Fourth Amendment allowed millions of blacks to register and vote for the first time.

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In March 1965, the effort to pass the Voting Rights Act gained impetus after violence occurred in Alabama at

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Selma

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The Young Lords Organization fought primarily for the civil rights of

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Puerto Ricans.

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In 1973, two hundred Sioux, organized by AIM to dramatize their cause, engaged in several gun battles with the FBI for over two months at

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Wounded Knee.

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The Blac

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Panther Tank Battalion and the Tuskegee Airmen werek all-black units that fought in World War II./widely praised by military commanders such as George Patton./unable to stop segregationist slander toward black veterans of World War II.

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Furious with the national Democratic Party's endorsement of civil rights goals in its 1948 platform, southern Democrats set up the States' Rights (or Dixiecrat) Party and nominated which of the following for president?

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Strom Thurmond

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Which of the following statements characterizes the emergence of César Chavez as a national figure during the 1960s?

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He and the United Farm Workers union won national attention by organizing a grape pickers' strike in 1965.

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In 1966, the slogan "blac

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power" was first used byk Stokely Carmichael.

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Many historians consider the most important event in the emergence of the Mexican American civil rights movement to be

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World War II.

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What major change occurred in Mexican American activism during the 1960s?

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In 1969, a large group of Mexican American students, calling themselves Chicanos, met in Denver to hammer out a national agenda on political and cultural issues.

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The Southern Manifesto was a

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statement by 101 southern congressmen denouncing the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown decision as "a clear abuse of judicial power" and encouraging local authorities to defy it.

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All of the following were accomplished by the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s except the

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elimination of racial separatism in urban America

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According to the textbook, the twentieth century social movement with the greatest overall impact was the

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civil rights movement.

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The philosophy of nonviolent disobedience was first espoused by

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Mahatma Ghandi.

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Which of the following was not a way in which various Native American groups were divided in the 1960s?

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Between rich and poor

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In the early 1950s, which of the following was segregated by custom or law in the South?

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Public transportation/ Public parks and libraries/ Drinking fountains

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President Kennedy decided to as

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for civil rights legislation after thek demonstrations in Birmingham

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A political consequence of the national Democratic Party's embrace of civil rights in the 1960s was

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the departure of many southern whites to the Republican Party in the 1970s and 1980s.

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In 1963, Eugene "Bull" Connor was

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Birmingham's commissioner of public safety

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An outgrowth of the rights revolution of the 1960s and 1970s was

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the widening of the belief in the federal government's responsibilities.

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The War Powers Act, the Freedom of Information Act, the Fair Campaign Practices Act, and the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act were passed as a result of

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Nixon's imperial presidency

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Two of Nixon's greatest foreign policy successes were

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SALT I and restoring relations with Communist China

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Which of the following is true of Lyndon Johnson's administration?

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The Vietnam War undermined his presidency.

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Which of the following was not a legacy of the Vietnam War?

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The energy crisis

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An achievement of the Johnson administration was

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the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Vice President Spiro Agnew was forced out of office because he was

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indicted for accepting kickbacks while governor of Maryland.

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Operation Rolling Thunder

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intensified North Vietnamese nationalism and hardened their will to fight.

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On March 31, 1968, President Johnson shocked the American public when he

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announced that he would not seek reelection.

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In the 1968 election and during the Nixon administration, the expression "silent majority" was used to refer to Americans who

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were hardworking and non protesting.

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Richard Nixon campaigned for the presidency in 1968 by doing all of the following except

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promising to strengthen LBJ's Great Society programs.

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E. Howard Hunt, John Dean, G. Gordon Liddy, and John Mitchell were all

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implicated in the Watergate scandal.

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From 1969 to 1972, Richard Nixon's strategy to end the Vietnam War was to

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reduce American troop involvement and turn over most of the ground fighting to the South Vietnamese army.

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The counterculture's idealism was best represented by the music of

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Pete Seeger.

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The Free Speech Movement at Berkeley

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arose when the university banned student political activity on university property.

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My Lai was

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the site of the massacre of nearly 500 villagers by American soldiers.

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the ancient capital of Vietnam and a center of Buddhist antiwar protest.

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...

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The four college students killed by National Guardsmen at Kent State University had been protesting

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Nixon's secret expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia.

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Which of the following quotes is correctly matched with the person who said it?

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Barry Goldwater-"a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have"

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Title IX

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benefited women athletes

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Which of the following statements accurately characterizes President Lyndon Johnson?

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He was in many ways the opposite of Kennedy.

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President Johnson's environmental reforms included all of the following except

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banning offshore oil drilling.

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President Johnson's Great Society called for all of the following except

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reducing military spending

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Which of the following contributed to the undermining of women's traditional roles in the 1960s?

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Widespread availability of the birth control pill/ Laws making it easier for couples to divorce/ New government laws protecting women's civil rights

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All of the following occurred in 1968 except the

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perceived attack on American ships in the Gulf of Tonkin.

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The War on Poverty

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was President Johnson's single biggest goal, even more than civil rights advances.

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the economic consequences of the Vietnam War?

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By 1968, the U.S. economy was entering a severe inflationary spiral that would last more than a decade.

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All of the following came about during the women's liberation movement in the 1970s except

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a constitutional amendment creating a right to privacy.

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The liberal "rights revolution" challenged Americans to thin

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in new ways aboutk race.gender roles./sexual morality.

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Which of the following least contributed to the cynicism that many Americans felt in the mid-1970s?

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The civil rights movement

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the energy needs and resources that the country faced in the late 1960s and early 1970s?

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The United States, once the world's leading producer of oil, had become heavily dependent on imported oil.

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The most divisive educational issue of the 1970s was

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busing to secure racial integration.

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The collective search for national order in the mid- and late 1970s

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ultimately led to the rise of the New Right.

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The largest Protestant denomination, which grew 23 percent between 1970 and 1985, is the

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Pentecostal.

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In the summer of 1975, which city was loaned money by the federal government and granted a three-year moratorium on municipal debt in order to stave off bankruptcy?

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New York City

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Nuclear reactors account for what percentage of all U.S. power generation today? 20%

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...

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Christian activists in the late 1970s and early 1980s were concerned about all of the following except

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maintaining the separation of church and state

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Roe v. Wade was decided on the basis of

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the right to privacy.

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In response to the OPEC oil embargo,

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Congress passed a law limiting highway speeds to 55 miles per hour

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the Nixon administration's domestic policies?

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was signed into law by Nixon and had broad, bipartisan support.

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Which of the following U.S. industries was most badly hurt by deindustrialization in the 1970s?

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Stee

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In 1978, California voters began a national trend by enacting a ballot initiative called Proposition 13 that

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rolled back property taxes and required future tax measures to pass the legislature with a two-thirds vote.

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Which of the following television sitcoms starred the fictional character Archie Bunker, who gave voice to the unease many Americans felt about changes taking place in society?

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All in the family

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Busing to achieve racially integrated schools

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was limited by the Supreme Court to busing within a district but not between districts.

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President Ford pardoned Nixon because

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he wished to spare the country the agony of rehashing Watergate.

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President Ford

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was unsuccessful in his attempts to curb inflation

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The modern environmentalist movement was reborn with

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the publication of Silent Spring in 1962.

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Which of the following is true of Republicans in the 1980s?

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Their core was upper-middle-class white Protestants.

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What allowed the Republicans to win the presidential election in 1980 and bring about a generational change in American politics?

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The emergence of Ronald Reagan/The Iran hostage crisis/ The economic crisis of the 1970s

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All of the following were policies of the Reagan administration except

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cuts in defense spending.

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President George H. W. Bush's greatest achievement was

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organizing a military coalition during the Gulf War to liberate Kuwait.

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Between 1973 and 1992, the productivity of American workers grew at the rate of

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1 percent a year.

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The Moral Majority was founded by religious evangelical

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Jerry Falwell.

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Why has it been so difficult for conservative politicians to shrin

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the size and scope of the federal government?k The government is entrenched in the social, economic, and defense welfare of Americans.

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Which one of the following was not called for by the New Right during the 1980 presidential election?

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Increasing federal spending on social welfare programs

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In 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded

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Microsoft.

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Throughout Carter's administration, the central theme of its foreign policy was

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a commitment to human rights.

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Which of the following is true regarding the 1991 Persian Gulf War?

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The United States acted with the approval of the UN Security Council.

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The Moral Majority favored

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a ban on abortion

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Which of the following people most directly contributed to the rise of conservatism in American politics after World War II?

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Barry Goldwater

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By increasing America's arms buildup in defense against communism, President Reagan abandoned the diplomatic policy of former president

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Richard Nixon

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Which of the following is true of the Reagan presidency?

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The national debt tripled

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In 1988, President George H. W. Bush selected which of the following individuals to be his vice presidential candidate?

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Dan Quayle

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The New Right

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disliked a powerful federal government and feared declining social morality.Ronald Reagan was victorious in 1980 partially due tok the frustrations of many Americans over the loss of American economic and political supremacy in the worldQuestion 19. Question :

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A crisis developed in American-Iranian relations in 1979 because of

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American support for the deposed Shah of Iran.

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The Reagan administration achieved all of the following except

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shrinking the size of the federal government.

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One of Ronald Reagan's most significant legacies was

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his conservative judicial appointments.

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Which of the following is true of the United States in the mid-1980s?

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The United States registered a negative balance of international payments

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President Reagan's most important achievement was .

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facilitating the end of the cold war

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Supply-side economics as practiced by the Reagan administration rested on the theory that

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tax cuts would stimulate investment and eventually result in higher tax revenues.

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Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsberg were

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the first women appointed to the Supreme Court

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