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All of the following is true of the National Youth Administration EXCEPT:

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It was the parent organization for the CCC

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In 1932 what was the percentage of American's unemployed

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Which of the following were NOT members of the "brain trust"?

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Union members

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At the outset of his presidency, to deal with the banking crisis, Roosevelt:

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Declared a bank holiday, shutting the banks down briefly.

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The main purpose of the Civilian Conservation Corps was to:

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Provide work relief for young men.

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The goal of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 was to raise farm income mainly through:

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Cutbacks in production.

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The literary work that best captured the ordeal of the Depression was The Grapes of Wrath by:

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John Steinbeck

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The dust bowl can be associated with:

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The blowing away of millions of acres of topsoil.

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To earn the federal payments for reducing crops:

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Many landowners took their leased lands out of production.

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The organization sought to set workplace standards, such as child labor restrictions:

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NRA.

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Codes of fair practice were part of:

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NRA.

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Huey Long:

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Developed a program called Share the Wealth.

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America's Good Neighbor policy:

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Supported the idea of nonintervention in Latin America.

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American foreign policy in Latin America in the period between world wars included all the following EXCEPT:

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Insisting that the Monroe Doctrine provided a valid justification for intervention.

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The Great Depression and the economic struggles it caused during the early 1930s generally made Americans:

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More isolationist in sentiment.

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President Roosevelt did not intervene in the Spanish Civil War because:

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He accepted the French and British position that the western democracies should not intervene.

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What did the governments of Italy and Germany have in common by the 1930s

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Both had established fascist forms of government.

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The Marco Polo Bridge incident brought Japan to war against what country?

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China.

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During the Spanish Civil War:

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Hitler and Mussolini helped the armed uprising led by Francisco Franco.

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Winton Churchill, who would become the British prime minister in 1940, described which agreement as "as defeat without a war"?

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Munich Pact.

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The Nye committee:

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Investigated and criticized the role that bankers and munitions makers played in America's entry into World War 1.

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The Neutrality Act of 1935:

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Forbade the sale of arms and munitions to warring nations.

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The Panay incident:

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Was a Japanese attack on an American ship in China.

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The German occupation of Czechoslovakia had what effect on Roosevelt?

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He no longer professed impartiality in the impending European struggle.

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All of the following are true of Harry Truman EXCEPT that he:

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Had an Ivy League education.

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One of Truman's great strengths as he assumed the presidency was his:

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Decisive character.

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On the domestic front, President Truman soon made clear his intention to:

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Enlarge the New Deal.

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The GI Bill did all of the following EXCEPT:

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Pay veterans large bonuses to remain in the military.

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A major economic problem President Truman faced immediately after the war was:

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High rates of inflation.

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When confronted with strikes in the coal and railroad industries in 1946, President Truman's response was to:

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Temporarily seize those industries.

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Who tagged Truman "the No. 1 strikebreaker"?

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The Congress of Industrial Organizations.

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The 1946 congressional elections resulted in:

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Republican control of Congress.

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The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947:

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Allowed the president to impose a "cooking-off" period during major strikes.

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All of the following were established by the National Security Act of 1947 EXCEPT:

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The Department of Homeland Security.

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Permanent members of the United Nations Security Council:

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Can veto any major proposal.

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The conventional, or "orthodox," view of cold war history holds whom or what most responsible for beginning this conflict?

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Stalin's quest for world domination.

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The postwar economic boom was fueled mainly by:

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Cold war-related military spending.

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After the war, Americans were most eager to:

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Purchase.

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Two decades after 1940:

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Life expectancy for nonwhites rose ten years and black wage earnings increased fourfold.

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During the 1950s, the income gap between whites and blacks:

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Widened.

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Between 1945 and 1960, home ownership:

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Significantly increased.

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In 1954, all of the following were major TV shows EXCEPT:

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The Price Is Right.

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All of the following increased through the postwar years EXCEPT:

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Family savings.

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A very important reason for passage of the GI Bill was to:

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Prevent the return of the Depression.

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Which of the following is NOT true of the GI Bill?

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Its huge cost did not justify its benefits.

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While college enrollments soared in the postwar period:

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Black veterans encountered barriers to entrance.

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The baby boom:

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Started in 1946.

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The postwar era witnessed its most dramatic population growth in:

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The sunbelt.

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The location of William Levitt's first suburban development was:

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Long Island.

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Houses in Levittown in the early 1950s all sold for just under

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$6,900.

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Richard Nixon:

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Had a reputation for hard-line anticommunism and rough campaign tactics.

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John F. Kennedy was careful to conceal from the public during the 1960 campaign his:

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His health

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In the 1960 presidential race, John F. Kennedy:

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Promised to get the country "moving again:.

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The person most persuasive in getting President Kennedy to endorse civil rights would have been:

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His brother, Robert.

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The result of the 1960 election:

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Was likely determined by African American votes in a few southern states.

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President Kennedy's cabinet was dominated by:

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Men with new ideas and fresh thinking.

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Kennedy's inauguration is best remembered for:

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His elegant and inspiring rhetoric.

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Early in his presidency, Kennedy accomplished all of the following EXCEPT:

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The passage of a large tax cut.

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In its controversial Miranda v. Arizona decision, the Warren Court:

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Required that an accused person be informed of certain basic rights

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The protest tactic initiated by black students in Greensboro, North Carolina, was:

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The sit-in.

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Student civil rights activist in the South would likely experience all of the following EXCEPT:

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Kennedy's public encouragement.

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Violence erupted in 1962 when James Meredith attempted to integrate:

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The University of Mississippi.

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By 1960-1961, a number of students had become inspired to become social reform activists by:

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The example of the civil rights movement.

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The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in the early 1960s:

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Challenged established authority in favor of "participatory democracy".

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In 1964, the University of California at Berkeley:

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Was the site of a free-speech movement (FSM).

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Young men were able to avoid service in Vietnam by all of the following methods EXCEPT:

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Joining the VISTA or the Peace Corps.

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At Columbia University in 1968:

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A student strike shut down the campus.

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In their role at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, the Yippies could best be described as:

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Pranksters.

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By 1971, the New Left:

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Had split into factions and largely self-destructed.

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The youths of the counterculture:

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Were the direct descendants of the Beats of the 1950s.

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At the Altamont concert in 1969:

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Hells Angels killed a man in front of the stage.

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The hippie movement ultimately:

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Began to wane as counterculture had become counterproductive.

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Betty Friedman's The Feminine Mystique:

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Explained the unhappiness of so many middle-class women.

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The feminist movement suffered a setback with the:

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Failure of the states to ratify the equal-rights amendment.

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Carter's management of the economy resulted in:

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Unacceptably hight rates of inflation.

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To many voters in 1980, Ronald Reagan, in contrast to Jimmy Carter, seemed:

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Sunny.

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As he campaigned for president in 1980, Reagan promised to restore prosperity by:

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Cutting taxes.

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Reagan first became a star in Republican politics when he:

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Made a television speech for Goldwater in 1964.

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Reagan's experience as an actor:

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Was invaluable in a television age.

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A huge demographic factor behind Reagan's electoral success was:

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Population growth in the South and the West.

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The leader of the Moral Majority was:

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Jerry Falwell.

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Most likely to support the Moral Majority would be:

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Southern Baptists.

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The religious right fervently supported Reagan because he:

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Supported its conservative social values.

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The anti-feminist women led by Phyllis Schlafly:

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Helped keep the equal-rights amendment from being ratified.

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One major inspiration for Reagan's economic approach was:

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The Republican tax-reduction program of the 1920's.

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Early in Reagan's presidency, all of the following were increasing EXCEPT:

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Tax revenues.

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The United States entered the 1990s:

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As the world's only remaining superpower.

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For the first Bush administration, the major problem in the early 1990s was:

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An economic recession.

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In Operation Iraqi Freedom, the U.S. had the support of troops from:

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Great Britain, Australia, and Poland.

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In the impeachment proceeding, Bill Clinton was charged with:

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Lying under oath to a grand jury.

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the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building was an example of:

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Militia hatred of the federal government.

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In 1968 the candidate who claimed to speak for the "silent majority" and "Middle America" was:

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Richard Nixon.

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President Johnson said that "we have just delivered the South to the Republican Party for a long time to come" after

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The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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As George H. W. Bush prepared for the 1992 election, his greatest weakness became:

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A major downturn in the economy.

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In 1968 the correct order of events was:

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The Tet Offensive, LBJ's withdrawal from the presidential race, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., and the Democratic convention in Chicago.

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The Strategic Defense Initiative involved:

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An anti-missile defense system.

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In the Birmingham campaign in 1962, Martin Luther King Jr. signaled a change in strategy from:

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Changing southern white attitudes to obtaining federal enforcement and new laws.

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The Jobs Corps, Head Start, and VISTA were all part of:

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The War on Poverty.

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In 1966 the rallying cry of the civil rights movement became:

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"Black power".

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The Soviet Union built the Berlin Wall in the aftermath of the:

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Bay of Pigs invasion.

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