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1) Which of these BEST describes the goal of the "Freedom Riders" during the Civil Rights Movement?
A) to allow blacks to become taxi drivers
B)to eliminate racial restrictions in air travel
C)to integrate public transportation in Alabama
D)to desegregate buses involved in interstate travel
2) Which statement describes the MAIN impact television had on the Vietnam War?
A) It caused many Americans to stop supporting the war in Vietnam.
B) It allowed American soldiers to send messages back home to loved ones.
C) It discredited the anti-war protesters by showing American military successes.
D) It failed to have an impact since the news focused mainly on Civil Rights issues.
3) Rachel Carson's 1962 Silent Spring was a groundbreaking work regarding what topic?
A) women's rights
B) race relations
C) the environment
D) anti-war movements
4) Cesar Chavez started a union for
A) minorities.
B) farmers.
C) teachers.
D) truck drivers.
5) How did the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) differ from the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference (SCLC)?
A) SNCC wanted to use more confrontational strategies.
B) SCLC was not influenced by the leadership of Dr. King.
C) SCLC felt that college students were too young to participate.
D) SNCC was satisfied with the rate of progress made in civil rights.
6) This protest took place in 1968 and was a reaction to
A)the Vietnam War.
B)the Korean War.
C)the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
D)the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
7)"The purpose of ______ is to take action to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of
American society now, exercising all privileges and responsibilities thereof in truly equal partnership
with men."
Betty Friedan, 1966
Which answer BEST fits in the blank in this quote?
A) the 25th Amendment
B) the League of Women Voters
C) the American Suffragette Movement
D) the National Organization for Women
8)"During four futile years, the administration which we shall replace has distorted and lost that faith.
It has talked and talked and talked and talked the words of freedom. Now, failures cement the wall of
shame in Berlin. Failures blot the sands of shame at the Bay of Pigs. Failures mark the slow death of
freedom in Laos. Failures infest the jungles of Vietnam. And failures haunt the houses of our once
great alliances and undermine the greatest bulwark ever erected by free nations - the NATO
community.... Because of this administration we are tonight a world divided - we are a Nation
becalmed."
From Barry Goldwater's 1964 speech at the 28th Republican National Convention, accepting the
nomination for president.
Goldwater's speech is very critical of mistakes made by the previous presidential administration of
A) Nixon and Ford
B) Truman and Barkley
C) Kennedy and Johnson
D) Eisenhower and Nixon
9) Proposed Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by
any State on account of sex.
Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of
this article.
Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification
Which statement BEST describes this amendment?
A) It became law following the end of slavery.
B) It was never ratified by enough states to pass.
C) It is now the 27th Amendment to the Constitution.
D) It failed to get through both houses of Congress.
10) Cesar Chavez and Martin Luther King, Jr., were similar in that each
A) were influential in securing passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
B) was appointed to President Kennedy's "New Frontier" task force in 1962.
C) were high ranking leaders in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
D) used non-violent civil disobedience in the struggle for increased civil rights for minorities.
11) Which fact provides the BEST evidence to support the conclusion that the United States experienced
a revival of conservatism in the mid 1960s?
A) Lyndon Johnson won 486 electoral votes and 61% of the popular vote in the 1964 presidential
election.
B) The Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were major victories for
the Democrats during this era.
C) In September 1963, Senator George McGovern became the first congressman to challenge the
growing U.S. military involvement in Vietnam.
D) Barry Goldwater was the Republican candidate in the 1964 presidential election, and conservative
Republicans gained 47 seats in the House of Representatives in 1966 .
12) The "Stonewall Riots" of 1969 proved to be the defining moment of which civil rights movement?
A) the Chicano Movement
B) the Gay Rights Movement
C) the Poor Peoples' Movement
D) the American Indian Movement
13) Coming into effect in 1994, NAFTA encouraged free trade between the United States and which two
other countries?
A) Canada and Cuba
B) Japan and China
C) Canada and Mexico
D) Panama and Brazil
14) The Supreme Court decision in the case of Roe v. Wade (1973) dealt with the issue of
A) abortion.
B) flag burning.
C) school prayer.
D) discrimination.
The Camp David Accords were agreements brokered by President Carter (center) and involved what two
countries (whose leaders are to the President's sides)?
A) Israel and Palestine
B) Israel and Egypt
C) Italy and Libya
D) Iran and Iraq
16) Which of these BEST describes the significance of the Supreme Court case of Roe v. Wade (1973)?
A) abortion was banned nationwide
B) no state could place restrictions on abortions
C) the Federal government instituted a waiting period for women wanting abortions
D) states could not place restrictions on abortions in the first three months of pregnancy
17) Osama bin Laden was BEST known for
A) invading oil-rich Kuwait in the 1990s.
B) founding an Islamic extremist terrorist group.
C) organizing the Taliban to resist Soviet occupation.
D) running the largest dictatorship in the Middle East.
18) Which U.S. Supreme Court decision made it illegal to achieve diversity through the use of racial
quotas?
A) Gregg v. Georgia (1976)
B) Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954)
C) Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)
D) Swann v. Board of Education of Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina (1971)
19) President Reagan supported research on a system of orbiting satellites that would intercept and
destroy enemy missiles with laser beams. The media dubbed the system
A) SIDS.
B) START.
C) Star Wars.
D) Revolution.
20) The Election of 1980 resulted in the election of
A) Gerald Ford.
B) Jimmy Carter.
C) Richard Nixon.
D) Ronald Reagan.
21) Jimmy Carter’s victory in the 1976 Presidential Election can be traced to all of the following EXCEPT
A) the national disgrace of Watergate.
B) the disgrace of the Vietnam War era.
C) the fall of the United States embassy to revolutionary groups in Iran.
D) a willingness to elect a candidate outside of the Washington establishment.
22) In what way did Richard Nixon's 1972 trip to China impact the US's diplomacy with the Soviet Union?
A) it resulted in an immediate increase in nuclear weapons
B) it helped to end the war between China and the Soviet Union
C) it meant that the Soviet Union would no longer be receiving US aid
D) it improved the US's relationship with the USSR's main communist rival
23) President Jimmy Carter offered amnesty in 1977 for
A) draft evaders during the Vietnam War.
B) “white-collar” business criminals.
C) people who committed war crimes in the Vietnam War.
D) those who were responsible for the Three Mile Island accident.
24) The United States has used its military base at Guantanamo Bay to hold people suspected of
organizing or carrying out terrorist attacks. Where is Guantanamo Bay located?
A) California
B) Cuba
C) Florida
D) Japan
25) The Tiananmen Square protests and the fall of the Berlin Wall occurred in 1989, representing the
impact of
A) the declining role of communism in the Soviet Union.
B) an anti-western movement among educated elite.
C) a world-wide economic downturn.
D) ethnic conflicts.
26) Gerald Ford's popularity plummeted and never recovered after he
A) chose Nelson Rockefeller to serve as vice-president.
B) increased American bombing campaigns against Cambodia.
C) pardoned Richard Nixon for any crimes he may have committed in office.
D) rejected congressional demands for another investigation into the Watergate break-in.
27) The USA PATRIOT Act became law in 2001 as a result of which of these events?
A) September 11 Attacks
B) Election of President Bush
C) Collapse of the Soviet Union
D) Collapse of the Stock Market
28) Which event greatly tested the balance of power between President Ronald Reagan and the United
States Congress during his second term in office?
A) the 1983 Beirut bombings
B) the Iran-Contra Affair of 1986
C) the "Challenger" space shuttle disaster of 1986
D) the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty of 1987
29)
" ... (A) majority of the Court... believe The counting of votes that are of questionable legality does in
my view threaten irreparable harm to (the) petitioner..., and to the country, by casting a cloud upon
what he claims to be the legitimacy of his election. Count first, and rule upon legality afterwards, is
not a recipe for producing election results that have the public acceptance democratic stability
requires."
- Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, December 9, 2000
This passage is from a Supreme Court decision that had an impact on
A) the right to vote.
B) the right to protest peacefully.
C) who would become President of the United States.
D) whether or not primary elections were Constitutional.
30)Due to the symbolic value, which president's visit to communist China was seen as a success by
Americans?
A) Gerald Ford
B) Jimmy Carter
C) Richard Nixon
D) Lyndon Johnson