Question 1

Andre Siegfried observed that Americans considered their standard of living a sacred acquisition which they would defend at any price.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

The American Civil Liberties Union emerged from the Sacco-Vanzetti trial.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 3

During the 1920s, labor lost over 2 million members.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 4

John Lewis, president of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), led that union in a more radical direction then Samuel Gompers had before him.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 5

Despite the efforts of the bank holiday, by 1936 banks were still failing in America.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 6

Propaganda campaigns launched by big business linked unionism and socialism as examples of the sinister influence of foreigners on American life during the 1920s.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

The stock market crash caused the Great Depression.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 8

The Indians who lost land from the flooding of the Grand Coulee Dam were adequately compensated by the federal government as part of the New Deal for Indians.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 9

Prohibition was not supported by fundamentalists because they viewed it as too much state regulation of private matters.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 10

Roosevelt\'s reelection in 1936 came as no surprise since the entire business community and most of the national newspapers supported the Democrats.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 11

Social Security allowed African-Americans pensions and compensations equivalent to whites.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 12

The image of big business, carefully cultivated during the 1920s, collapsed as congressional investigations revealed massive irregularities among bankers and stockbrokers.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 13

French films in the 1920s dominated the world\'s film market.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 14

Since Franklin Roosevelt came from a humble background, the public came to easily identify him as a symbol for the ordinary man.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 15

The Supreme Court justices Oliver Wendell Holmes and Louis Brandeis began to speak up for freedom of speech in the 1920s.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 16

Farmers benefited the most from the prosperity of the decade.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 17

Twenty thousand unemployed World War I veterans descended on Washington in the spring of 1932 to demand early payment of a bonus due in 1945.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 18

Nearly every major female organization supported Alice Paul\'s National Woman\'s Party\'s proposal for an Equal Rights Amendment.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 19

Fundamentalists supported Prohibition, while others viewed it as a violation of individual freedom.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 20

Upset that the Great Depression devastated their community, blacks rejected the New Deal and continued to support Republican candidates.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 21

In the past, Depressions had hurt the labor movement; however labor made great strides during the New Deal.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 22

The Wagner Act banned goods produced by child labor from interstate commerce, set forty cents as the minimum hourly wage, and required overtime pay for hours of work exceeding forty per week.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 23

John Scopes was arrested for teaching the theory of creation in school.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 24

The power of the Solid South helped to mold the New Deal welfare state into an entitlement for white Americans.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 25

The one place it seemed where blacks were not discriminated against was within federal employment practices.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 26

The Scopes trial was a national sensation, being carried live on national radio.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 27

Upton Sinclair campaigned for governor of California on the Share Our Wealth movement.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 28

The CIO welcomed black members and advocated the passage of antilynching laws and the return of voting rights to southern blacks.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 29

Foreign policy was largely conducted through private economic relationships rather than government action during the 1920s.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 30

Civil liberties replaced liberty of contract as the judicial foundation of freedom by the end of the New Deal.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 31

The term \"New Negro\" in art meant the rejection of established stereotypes and a search for black values to put in their place.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 32

Very few Americans realized that the president who projected an image of vigorous leadership during the 1930s and World War II was confined to a wheelchair.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 33

After World War I, American corporations ceased to pursue overseas investments.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 34

Europeans rallied in mass protests against the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 35

Calvin Coolidge\'s administration quickly became one of the most corrupt in American history.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 36

Once married, the flapper often continued her liberation and freedom.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 37

The tactic used by the United Auto Workers in its attempt to gain bargaining rights with General Motors was the sit-down strike.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 38

The war experience brought many more Native Americans closer to the mainstream of American life.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 39

In 1952, for the first time since record keeping began seventy years earlier, no lynching took place in the United States.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 40

The only people killed during the German Holocaust were the Jewish people.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 41

The United States was the first country to approve both covenants of the United Nations\' Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 42

The \"zoot suit\" riots were between the police of Detroit and the black workers of the city.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 43

A plan to have Hollywood produce anticommunist movies was called Operation Wetback.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 44

Japanese propaganda depicted Americans as a self-indulgent people contaminated by ethnic and racial diversity, as opposed to the racially \"pure\" Japanese.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 45

The Truman Doctrine was in support of giving billions of dollars for European economic recovery.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 46

Henry Luce, author of The American Century, saw a leadership role for the United States in the postwar world.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 47

Harry Truman\'s Fair Deal focused on improving the social safety net and raising the standard of living of ordinary Americans.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 48

The Korean War became the first American conflict fought by an integrated army since the War for Independence.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 49

Operation Dixie was a failed attempt by organized labor to unionize the South.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 50

The Berlin Airlift made it clear that Truman was determined to deny the Soviet Union any victories in the Cold War.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 51

To Roosevelt, the Four Freedoms expressed deeply held American values worthy of being spread worldwide.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 52

\"Totalitarian\" had become a shorthand way of describing those on the other side in the Cold War.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 53

Since he was black, in spite of his great playing ability and character on and off the field, Jackie Robinson failed to win the Rookie of the Year award.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 54

The United States won the Korean War.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 55

The largest surrender in American military history occurred in the Philippines, after the Japanese took the island over.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 56

The Philippines was granted its independence in 1946.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 57

By 1945, support for racial justice had finally taken its place on the liberal-left agenda alongside full employment, civil liberties, and the expansion of the New Deal welfare state.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 58

Lyndon Johnson held the New Deal view that government had an obligation to assist the less fortunate members of society.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 59

In 1948, the Supreme Court ruled against provisions that would have allowed banks and private developers from barring nonwhites from home ownership in the suburbs.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 60

The Little Rock Central High School desegregation case vaulted Martin Luther King Jr. into the position of the civil rights movement\'s national symbol.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 61

The Port Huron Statement offered a new vision of social change while defining freedom to mean participatory democracy.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 62

The Church Committee investigated the Watergate break-in, concluding that Richard Nixon had ordered the White House cover-up.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 63

As residue from the Red Scare, anti-Semitism was widespread in America during the 1950s.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 64

Before the 1970s, the American Psychiatric Association listed homosexuality as a psychiatric disorder.

Accepted Answer

True

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