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US History Second Nine – Weeks Assessment
US History Standard Course of Study Goals 7-12
Public Schools of Robeson County
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There are 100 questions on this assessment.
Each question is multiple choice.
This assessment will be worth 100 points.
Each question will be worth 1 point.
Please read each question and answer
thoroughly.
• Place your answer to each question in the
appropriate space provided on your answer sheet.
• When you have completed your assessment,
raise your hand and give the test to your teacher.
• Quietly read/or study until the last exam has
been collected.
Take Your Time & Good Luck!
Goal 7.01
1. Newspaper editor William Allen
White said Populism which had
“shaved its whiskers, washed its shirt,
put on a derby, and moved into the
middle class: would be called which
of the following?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Socialism
Progressivism
Capitalism
Communism
Goal 7.01
2. Which statement describes the tactics
of the Progressives?
A. The rescued children from dangerous
working conditions by adopting them.
B. They campaigned for women’s
suffrage by refusing to conduct
housework and cooking.
C. They fought against government
corruption by occupying officials’
offices.
D. They exposed unsafe urban living
conditions by writing muckraking
essays and novels.
Goal 7.02
3. All of the following were Progressive
achievements by women around the
turn of the century except which one?
A. Grand ball for Society One Hundred
organized by Mrs. John T. Astor, Jr.
B. Campaign against lynching led by Ida
B. Wells
C. Protests against child labor organized
by National Consumers League
D. Fight against alcohol led by Women’s
Christian Temperance League
Goal 7.02
4. All of the following are correct
matches except which one?
A. Carrie Nation—Women’s Christian
Temperance Union
B. Mother Cabrini—Italian American
assistance programs
C. Julia Ward Howe—women’s political
suffrage
D. Ida Tarbell—health care reform
Goal 7.02
5. When Carrie Chapman Catt said in
1920 “We are no longer petitioners.
We are not wards of the nation but
free and equal citizens,” she was
referring to which of the following?
A. Passage of the Nineteenth
Amendment
B. Legalization of divorce
C. Strengthening of adoption laws
D. Child labor laws
Goal 7.03
6. Theodore Roosevelt called the Dawes
Severalty Act of 1887 “a mighty
pulverizing engine to break up the
tribal mass.” All of the following are
results of the act except which one?
A. Many Indians received the rights of
full American citizenship for the first
time.
B. The act reinforced tribal life and at the
same time helped Indians assimilate
into white society.
C. Each Indian family received a land
grant of 160 acres and could make
independent decisions on its use.
D. Land remaining after Indian
allotments reverted to the government
and could be sold to non-Indians
Goal 7.03
7. During the late 1890s and 1900s, millions
of immigrants settled in New York City.
Which of the following was true for most of
the immigrants?
A. They retained their religious and
cultural heritage.
B. They gave up their native language in
favor of English.
C. They achieved prosperity and
economic independence.
D. They lived in ethnically diverse
neighborhoods.
Goal 7.03
8. Immigrants to the United States between
1890 and 1930 most frequently experienced
discrimination because they:
A. Entered the competition for scarce
farmland.
B. Spoke different languages and had
different customs.
C. Remained more loyal to their
homelands than to the United States
D. Were better educated than earlier
immigrants
Goal 7.03
9. Settlement houses such as the one founded
by Jane Addams in the nineteenth century
existed primarily to do which of the
following?
A. Provide temporary housing for
orphans while suitable foster parents
were found.
B. Provide newly arrived immigrants
with a place to live.
C. Provide social and educational
services in poor neighborhoods.
D. Register newly arrived immigrants to
vote.
Goal 7.04
10. The moving assembly line of mass
production introduced by Henry Ford in his
automobile plants in 1914 allowed him to:
A. Raise workers’ wages.
B. Increase workers’ hours.
C. raise the base price of his
Model T
D. Increase production
Goal 7.04
11. According to Frederick Winslow Taylor’s
principles of “scientific management,”
workers should be:
A. Given greater control of the
workplace.
B. Made more independent of the
employer.
C. Accorded greater time for more
complex tasks.
D. Made interchangeable and given
subdivided tasks.
Goal: 8.01
12. All of the following were factors in
getting the United States to enter World War
I except which one?
A. Allied propaganda about the war
B. Economic depression in the United
States
C. Reports of atrocities in Belgium
D. Sabotage in the United States
Goal 8.01
13. Who is the author of this quote?
“The world must be made safe for
democracy. Its peace must be planted upon
the tested foundations of political liberty. We
have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no
conquest, no dominion. We seek no
indemnities for ourselves, no material
compensation for the sacrifices we shall
freely make.”
A.
B.
C.
D.
Eugene V. Debs
Theodore Roosevelt
Henry Cabot Lodge
Woodrow Wilson
Goal 8.01
14. “Unrestricted submarine warfare” and
“Zimmerman note” may be categorized as
which of the following?
A. Wilson’s domestic program
B. 1914 causes of World War I
C. Causes of America’s 1917 entry into
World War I
D. Wilson’s Fourteen Points
Goal 8.02
15. What is the correct order of the following
events?
I. the Zimmerman Note
II. the sinking of the Lusitania
III. the assassination of Franz Ferdinand
IV. the Russian Revolution
A.
B.
C.
D.
I, II, III, IV
III, II, I, IV
II, I, III, IV
IV, III, II, I
Goal 8.02
16. World War I Events
I. 1914-War begins in Europe
II. 1915-Germany sinks Lusitania
III. 1916-Germany suspends
submarine attacks
IV. ?
V. 1918-Wilson announces Fourteen
Points.
VI. 1919-Wilson attends Treaty of
Versailles.
Which of the following completes #4?
A. France declares war on Germany.
B. The United States declares war on
Germany
C. Austria-Hungary surrenders to Great
Britain
D. Italy declares neutrality
Goal 8.03
17. Which of the following court cases grew
out of enforcement of the Espionage and
Sedition Act of 1918?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Katz v. United States
Griswold v. Connecticut
Gitlow v. New York
Schneck v. United States
Goal 8.03
18. What was the main purpose of the
Committee on Public Information headed by
George Creel during World War I?
A. To persuade United States citizens to
support the war
B. To recruit young United States
citizens for the armed forces
C. To raise money for the government by
selling war bonds
D. To enlist the aid of women and
children in producing more food
Goal 8.03
19. World War I forced the United States
government to do which of the following?
A. Place controls on certain aspects of
industrial production and
transportation.
B. Adopt a laissez-faire policy toward
industry.
C. Reduce income taxes to encourage
industrial production of consumer
goods.
D. Seize control of United States
industries and railroads for the war’s
duration.
Goal 8.03
20. Which of the following provisions of the
Treaty of Versailles eventually became a
major factor in starting World War II?
A. Loss of most of Germany’s African
colonies
B. Germany’s exclusion form the League
of Nations
C. The amount or reparations Germany
was required to pay
D. Germany’s division into two separate
political zones
Goal 8.03
21. Women serving in World War I produced
which of the following results?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Labor legislation
Temperance Movement
Eighteenth Amendment
Nineteenth Amendment
Goal 8.03
22. After World War I, reporter Louis Wiley
said in the New York Times that groups were
“joining together with the object of
overthrowing the American Government
through a bloody revolution and establishing
a Bolshevist republic.” He was referring to all
the following groups except which one?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Anarchists
Religious fundamentalists
Socialists
Labor Unionists
Goal 8.03
23. Which of the following describes the
United States attitude after World War I?
A. Interventionist, pro-business, and procivil rights
B. Isolationist, pro-worker, and antiprohibition
C. Isolationist, pro-business, and antiforeigner
D. Interventionist, pro-worker, and proimmigration
Goal 8.03
24. What was the impact of the migration of
black Americans northward after World War
I?
A. Stricter segregation laws throughout
the South
B. Fewer blacks elected to office in the
South
C. The outlawing of segregation by the
Untied States Supreme Court
D. Increased competition for jobs
between whites and blacks
Goal 8.03
25. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.’s 1919
Supreme court opinion citing “a clear and
present danger” upheld which of the
following actions?
A. Setting limits on free speech during
wartime.
B. Drafting young men to serve in the
military.
C. Banning Communists from running
for public office.
D. Removing books by German authors
from libraries.
Goal 9.01
26. In the 1920s, Republican policy under
Secretary of Treasury Andrew Mellon was
designed to create prosperity by doing which
of the following?
A. Encouraging price cuts of consumer
goods.
B. Cutting taxes for the wealthy to
encourage business investments.
C. Giving tax breaks to the middle class
to increase spending.
D. Lowering tariffs and creating free
trade.
Goal 9.01
27. The economic boom and the financial
speculation of the 1920s were caused in part
by:
A. Installment buying and an unregulated
stock market.
B. The expansion of civil rights to
women and minorities.
C. The mobilization of the economy for
war.
D. Increased government restrictions on
big business.
Goal 9.01, 9.02
26. In 1919, a steel worker worked almost 70
hours a week; an unskilled worker averaged
$1,400 a year; while the minimum
subsistence for an average family was
estimated at $1,575. Such workers would
have most likely chosen which of the
following methods to improve their economic
situation?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Union protests
Reliance on mill owners’ fairness
Government mediation
Individual work stoppages
Goal 9.01
27. All of the following were causes of the
Great Depression except which one?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Unequal distribution of income
Imbalance in foreign trade
Easy credit
Lack of mechanization in industry
Goal 9.01
28. In the 1920s, farmers, unionized workers,
veterans of World War I, and black industrial
workers shared which economic experience?
A. Producer cooperatives, with new
economic independence.
B. Prosperity, with rising wages and
benefits.
C. Government sponsored relief
programs.
D. Hard times, with rising unemployment
and poverty.
Goal 9.01
29. “The business of America is business.”
Goal 9.02
In this statement of 1924, president Calvin
Coolidge was expressing the idea that:
A. Workers should have a greater role in
influencing business decisions.
B. The United States should end trade
with other countries and become
economically self-sufficient.
C. Basic industries should be owned by
the Federal Government
D. The economy functions best if
government allows business to
operate freely.
Goal 9.01
30. Which major trend characterized the
1920’s and continues today?
A. Retail buying on installment credit.
B. Legal discrimination against eastern
European immigrants
C. The steadily increasing power of
established churches
D. The mass migration of northern blacks
to southern rural areas
Goal 9.02
31. During the depression, which group of
people had the most difficulty in finding
work?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Immigrants
Farmers
Children
African Americans
32. Which of the following statements BEST
explains this 1920s cartoon?
A. Industrial pollution drove farmers off
their lands.
B. Factories produced large profits while
farms went out of business.
C. America’s land was half agricultural
and half industrial.
D. Farmers sold their land to get jobs in
factories.
Goal 9.03
33. Which of the following authors wrote
during the Harlem Renaissance period?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Walt Whitman
Langston Hughes
Washington Irving
Alice Walker
Goal 9.03
34. All of the following are true about the
advent of the automobile age of the 1920s
except which one?
A. Road building became a primary
industry in America because more
people bought cars and wanted
somewhere to drive.
B. Automobiles stimulated the economy
by providing manufacturing and
service jobs.
C. Railroads remained competitive with
truck transport by updating and
streamlining routes and services.
D. Americans were brought closer
together as people from different
regions met on the road.
Goal 9.03
35. Which of the following most influenced
dating and courtship patterns of teenagers in
the 1920s?
A.
B.
C.
D.
The telephone
The automobile
The motion pictures
The radio
Goal 9.03
36. All of the following are correctly matched
except which one?
A. F. Scott Fitzgerald – flappers of the
Jazz Age
B. Ernest Hemingway – World War I
revisited
C. John Steinbeck – biographies of
capitalists
D. Richard Wright – black experience in
America
Goal 9.03
37. Which of the following was the most
significant symbol of the 1920s?
A.
B.
C.
D.
White dove
Davidson tractor
Bald eagle
Model T
Goal 9.03
38. Which of the following best explains the
increase in violence against black Americans
after World War I?
A. Many whites resented that blacks had
fought in separate battalions in the
war.
B. Some whites feared that the majority
of blacks would join the growing
Communist party.
C. Many whites had to compete with
blacks for the same jobs at a time of
high unemployment.
D. Many blacks had moved north during
the war to work in weapons
manufacturing plants.
Goal 9.03
39. The United States Constitution was
amended four times between 1913 and 1920.
Which of the following was not one of those
amendments?
A.
B.
C.
D.
women’s right to vote
equal rights for all citizens
direct election of senators
creation of a personal income tax
Goal 9.04
40. In which way did the ideas of W.E.B. Du
Bois and Booker T. Washington differ?
A. Du Bois encouraged social equality,
but Washington encouraged economic
equality.
B. Washington, born a slave, was more
militant than Du Bois.
C. Du Bois supported Marcus Garvey’s
“back to Africa” movement, but
Washington opposed it.
D. Washington founded the NAACP but
Du Bois opposed it.
Goal 9.04
41. Why did Marcus Garvey’s “Back to
Africa” movement challenge other African
American leaders of the 1920s?
A. Because of its great success in large
urban areas
B. Because so few people actually were
able to emigrate to Africa
C. Because Garvey believed it was
impossible for African Americans to
ever succeed in the United States
D. Because Garvey’s financial success
drew money away from the African
American efforts and they were
jealous of him.
Goal 9.04
42. Which of the following represents a
revival of American nativism, racial
discrimination, and anti-Roman Catholicism
in the United States in the 1920s?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Rise of socialism
Increase in Ku Klux Klan activity
Passage of “Jim Crow” laws
Rise in labor union membership
Goal 9.04
43. All of the following were ways in which
women challenged their traditional roles in
United States society in the early twentieth
century except which one?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Increased purchases of appliances
More sexual freedom
Shorter hair, higher skirts
Increased employment outside the
home
Goal 9.04
44. What did the Scopes trial and Sacco and
Vanzetti trial have in common?
A. Both involved issues of loyalty and
subversion.
B. Both became famous more for the
issues they raised than because of
questions of guilt or innocence.
C. Both revealed the need for strong
government action.
D. Both involved especially horrifying
murders that shocked the American
people and resulted in anti-crime
legislation.
Goal 9.04
45. These social changes occurred in the
1920s:
I. Women received more social
freedom, including the right to vote.
II. Immigrants met more restriction
when entering the United States
III. Conservative religious groups
resisted the teaching of evolution in
public schools.
Which statement could be added to the list of
social changed described above?
A. Black Americans, recently
emancipated, were elected to local,
state, and national offices.
B. Black Americans and Native
Americans were granted United States
citizenship by an act of Congress.
C. Black Americans and other minority
groups were intimidated by the
revived Ku Klux Klan.
D. Black Americans’ voting privileges in
the South were protected by the
Voting Rights Act.
Goal 9.04
46. Prohibition of alcohol was opposed by:
A. the people of the South
B. The fundamentalists
C. Foreign-born populations in urban
centers
D. The Chicago gangsters
Goal 9.04
47. Why did rural inhabitants distrust urban
life during the 1920s?
A. Standards of conduct were more
relaxed in cities.
B. Rural residents were more tolerant of
drinking.
C. Standards of conduct were more strict
in cities.
D. Gambling was not acceptable in the
cities.
Goal 9.05
48. Which New Deal congressional actions
had the greatest impact on the average
citizen?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Wagner Labor Act
Agricultural adjustment Act
Social Security Act
Glass-Stegall Banking Act
Goal 9.05
49. Readily accessible electrical power was
important to New Deal reformers for which
of the following reasons?
A. It would enable factories to work
longer hours.
B. It would improve both work and
living conditions and stimulate the
economy.
C. It would enable all Americans to hear
government news on the radio.
D. It would decrease cheating by
privately-owned utility companies.
Goal 9.05
51. Why did President Franklin Roosevelt
declare a federal bank holiday in the early
1930s?
Goal 9.05
50. In general, Franklin D. Roosevelt was
supported by all of the following except
which one?
A. Social Darwinists
A. To allow time to switch all banks
B. Black Americans
from state to federal control.
C. Midwestern farmers
B. To prevent bank closings and failures
D. Poor immigrants
because of nationwide.
C. To honor bankers who had assisted
Goal 9.05
farmers in the depression.
54. The Agricultural Adjustment Act set what
D. To allow time for the Treasury to print precedent for farmers?
more money to boost the economy.
A. Granted farmers the demands they had
been asking for since the late 1800s.
Goal 9.05
52. Which New Deal program included both
B. Let the federal government set limits
construction of libraries and schools and the
on agricultural production.
Federal Arts Project?
C. Encouraged farmers to increase
production as much as possible.
A. National Recovery Administration
D. Gave farmers the major voice in
(NRA)
governmental agricultural policies.
B. Federal Emergency Relief
Administration (FERA)
Goal 9.05
C. Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
55. FDR’s new Deal program is most closely
D. Works Progress Administration
associated with which of the following?
(WPA)
A. Industrial monopolies
B. Laissez-faire politics
Goal 9.05
53. Historian Arthur Schlesinger said that it
C. Socialism
“left its monuments in the preservation and
D. Government involvement
purification of the land, the water, the forests,
the young men of America.” What
Goal 9.05
New Deal program was he describing?
56. The New Deal accomplished all of the
following labor reforms except which one?
A. Works Progress Administration
B. Civilian Conservation Corps
A. Minimum wage
C. Federal Emergency Relief
B. Right to bargain collectively
C. Health insurance for workers
Administration
D. Tennessee Valley Authority
D. Maximum work week
Goal 10.01
57. Which of these dictatorships of the 1930s
attempted to gain new lands after they came
into power?
I. German
II. Japanese
III. Italian
IV. Spanish
A.
B.
C.
D.
I, II, III
I, II, IV
I, III, IV
II, III, IV
Goal 10.01
58. Which of the following statements best
explains the rise of totalitarian governments
in Europe during the 1930s?
A. The people of those nations were
desperate for help in recovering from
depression
B. There was no United Nations or
League of Nations to prevent a
Communist takeover.
C. The philosophy of nihilism was sure
to spread across war-ravaged Europe.
D. The people despised democracy
because the United States was
prospering in the 1930s.
Goal 10.01
59. A major reason for United States
neutrality in the 1930s was the nation’s:
Goal 10.01
60. Why was the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression
pact such a surprise to the world?
A. Non one had realized that the Soviet
Union wanted to regain the territory it
had lost in World War I.
B. The Soviet Union had pledged to
protect Poland in case of an attack.
C. Hitler and Stalin distrusted each other
because of personal and ideological
differences.
D. The Soviets had just signed a nonaggression pact with France
Goal 10.01
61. The immediate cause of World War II in
Europe was which of the following?
A. German attack on Poland.
B. German demands in the Sudetenland
Crisis.
C. German persecution of Jews.
D. German Anschluss with Austria.
Goal 10.01
62. The immediate cause of United States
entry into World War II was that the United
States:
A. Had to fulfill its collective security
agreements with Western European
nations
B. Felt it necessary to defend the
principle of freedom of the seas.
C. Suffered a direct military attack.
D. Was ready to use its superior military
and atomic capabilities
A. Belief in the domino theory.
B. Disillusionment resulting from World Goal 10.02
63. To what location does General Douglas
War I.
C. Strong approval of political conditions Mac Arthur’s pledge “I shall return” apply?
in Europe.
A. Solomon Islands
D. Military and naval superiority.
B. Philippines
C. Guam
D. D. Midway
Goal 10.02
Goal 10.02
64. What two World War II naval victories in 67. Which list applies to both the European
the Pacific began to turn the tide in the United and Pacific theaters in World War II?
States’ favor?
A. D-Day, blitzkrieg, Holocaust.
A. Battle of Burma and Battle of
B. Island hopping, atomic bomb, Bataan
Okinawa
Death March.
B. Battle of Coral Sea and Battle of
C. Allies, GI’s, unconditional surrender.
Midway
D. Lusitania, “Over There,” Fourteen
Points.
C. Battle of Guadalcanal and Battle of
Iwo Jima
D. Battle of Aleutian Islands and
Goal 10.01, 10.02
bombing of Hiroshima
68. The Munich Pact, which according to
Neville Chamberlain, meant “peace in our
time,” was an example of which of the
Goal 10.02
65. Which list applies only to the pacific
following?
theater in World War II?
A. Neutrality
A. Island hopping, atomic bomb, Bataan
B. Totalitarianism
Death March
C. Appeasement
B. D-Day, blitzkrieg, Holocaust
D. Aggression
C. Allies, GI’s, unconditional surrender
D. Lusitania, “Over There,” Fourteen
Goal 10.03
Points
69. Which one of the following best explains
why Franklin Roosevelt was re-elected in
1944?
Goal 10.02
66. During the Battle of the Bulge (1944),
A. Public opinion supported his social
American forces under the command of
policies.
General Anthony C. McAuliffe found
themselves surrounded by the German army
B. Americans wanted to break the twoat Bastogne. When asked to surrender,
term tradition.
McAuliffe replied, “Nuts.” This response is
C. Americans preferred to stay with a
representative of which of the following
“winner.”
D. D. Public opinion supported his war
attitudes?
efforts.
A. United States G.I.’s response to
leaders of the armed forces.
B. United States dislike of European
culture.
C. United States and Allied respect for
the German Army
D. D. United States’ resolve to win the
war against Nazi Germany.
Goal 10.02
70. President Harry Truman’s decision to use
atomic bombs against Japan was primarily
based on his belief that:
A. An invasion of Japan would result in
excessive casualties.
B. Germany would refuse to surrender in
Europe
C. An alliance was developing between
Japan and the Soviet Union
D. Japan was in the process of
developing its own atomic weapons.
Goal 10.03
71. Which group suffered official
discrimination during World War II?
A.
B.
C.
D.
German Americans
All Females
Japanese Americans
White Males
Goal 10.03
72. Which of the following statements
concerning the American economy during
World War II is accurate?
A. The AFL and CIO went on strike in
1942 to protest the war.
B. Black Americans were excluded from
the work force but integrated into the
Army.
C. Japanese-Americans formed NISEI,
the most powerful union in America
D. D. Women replaced men in factories
since the men were away at war.
Goal 10.04
73. What was the result of the Potsdam
conference held in July, 1945?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Division of Italy into sectors
Division of Germany into sectors
Postwar occupation of Japan
Postwar occupation of North Africa
Goal 10.04
74. The purpose of the Marshall Plan was to
provide Europe with:
A.
B.
C.
D.
Defensive military weapons
Economic aid
Cultural exchange programs
Political alliances
Goal 10.04
75. Which heading would be the most
appropriate for the list below?
l. __________________________
I. Truman Doctrine
II. Marshall Plan
III. North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO)
A.
B.
C.
D.
Containment Efforts
Tax-Reform Plans
Trade Agreements
Immigration Policies
Goal 10.05
76. The Korean War (1950-1953) marked the
first time that:
A. The United Nations used military
force to oppose aggression.
B. American and Asian forces fought
against each other.
C. A major disagreement arose between
the United States and the Soviet
Union.
D. An atomic bomb was used in warfare.
Goal 10.05
77. The formation of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1949 is a
significant event in United States diplomatic
history because it:
Goal 10.04
80. Base your answer on the cartoon below
and on your knowledge of social studies.
A. Committed the United States to a
peacetime military alliance.
B. Strengthened United States influence
in oil-producing nations.
C. Eased tensions with the Soviet Union
and its satellites.
D. Created new patterns of international
trade.
Goal 11.01
78. The 1957 launch of the Soviet satellite
Sputnik had which of the following effects?
A. proved that the Soviet Union could
duplicate an accomplishment of the
United States.
B. Caused a demand for more emphasis
on math and science in education in
the United States.
C. Resulted in a better relationship
between the Soviet Union and the
United States.
D. Resulted in the federal government’s
cutting back on spending for
education.
Goal 11.01
79. After World War II, which of the
following was responsible for changing the
patterns of both social and economic life in
the Untied States?
A. The use of forced labor by industry.
B. The raising of immigration quotas.
C. The use of strikes during the war by
the labor movement.
D. the employment of women
The main point of the cartoon is that Fidel
Castro has
A. tried to spread communism to the
United States.
A. frustrated many Presidential
administrations.
B. allowed many Cuban refugees to come
to the United States.
C. failed to influence United States
foreign policy.
Goal 11.01
81. Today the term “McCarthyism” is used to
describe the practice of:
A. Removing members of Congress for
abuses of power.
B. Investigating civil service employees
for corruption.
C. Accusing a person of subversive
activities without sufficient evidence.
D. Using illegal means to obtain
evidence in criminal trials.
Goal 11.02
82. The Great Society programs of the 1960’s
used the power of the federal Government to
bring about:
A.
B.
C.
D.
An all-volunteer military
Antipoverty reforms
Deregulation of business
Reduced defense spending
Goal 11.02
83. What female refused to give up her seat
on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, which led
to a year-long bus boycott?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Coretta King
Mary McLeod Bethune
Lena Horne
Rosa Parks
Goal 11.02
84. In the 1960s, bus boycotts, lunch counter
sit-ins, and freedom rides were organized
attempts to achieve:
A.
B.
C.
D.
Integration
Black separatism
Segregation
Cultural Diffusion
Goal 11.01
85. The Cold War included many events,
among them are the:
I. Cuban Missile Crisis
II. U-2 incident
III. Marshall Plan
IV. Operation Second Start
A.
B.
C.
D.
I and II
I, II, and III
I, III, and IV
D. I, II, and IV
Goal 11.03
86. President that introduced the Peace Corps
as a new foreign policy?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Lyndon Johnson
Richard Nixon
John F. Kennedy
D. Jimmy Carter
Goal 11.03
87. During the 20th century, which factor
most directly led to large increases in women
workers in the United States labor force?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Universal suffrage
Wartime demand
Constitutional amendments
strict divorce laws
Goal 11.03
88. Which trend occurred in United States
society in the 1950s?
A. The number of marriages and the
birthrate declined.
B. Day-care services for children became
widely available
C. Suburban areas developed rapidly.
D. The automobile became less
important in people’s lives.
Goal 11.04
89. The domino theory was use by the United
States as a justification for:
A. Participating in the Vietnam War
(1960s-1970s)
B. Extending diplomatic recognition to
the People’s Republic of China (1979)
C. Negotiating with Iran to release
American hostages (1979-1980)
D. D. Sending armed forces to the
Middle East (1990-1991)
Goal 11.04
90. Protests against United States
involvement in Vietnam grew in the
late1960s and early 1970s mainly because
many Americans:
A. Believed that the war was unjust.
B. Objected to the drafting of college
students.
C. Feared nuclear war with the Soviet
Union.
D. D. Opposed participation in conflicts
involving the United Nations.
Goal 11.05
91. In 1960, John F. Kennedy and Richard
Nixon were the first presidential candidates to
have nationally televised debates. Which
statement best describes the public’s
perception of the candidates during the
debates?
A. Kennedy’s Roman Catholic religion
became les important after the debate.
B. People watching were impressed with
Nixon’s political experience
C. People listening to the radio thought
Nixon had won; people watching
television thought Kennedy won.
D. D. Political issues were emphasized
more than the images presented by the
candidates.
Goal 11.06
92. The resolution of the Watergate affair was
significant because it reinforced the idea that
in the United States the:
A. Government is based on the rule of
law, not on the rule of an individual.
B. Chief Executive has nearly unlimited
powers.
C. Congress is not effective in dealing
with a constitutional crisis.
D. Supreme Court is afraid to make
decision involving the Presidency
Goal 11.06
93. A major achievement of the Presidency of
Jimmy Carter was the Camp David accords
that did which of the following?
A. Established diplomatic relations
between Egypt and Israel.
B. Created permanent US military bases
in Latin America.
C. Committed US combat troops to
Bosnia
D. D. Ended the Cold War in Europe
Goal 12.04
94. Which of the following twentieth century
presidents called for less government
involvement in the lives of its citizens?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Franklin Roosevelt
John Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson
Ronald Reagan
Goal 12.03
95. In the United States, in the 1990s, cuts in
defense spending have been proposed
because:
A. Japan has assumed the peacekeeping
responsibilities of the United Nations
B. Military technology ahs become less
expensive
C. The United States has returned to an
isolationist foreign policy
D. D. Communist governments in
Eastern Europe and the former Soviet
Union have collapsed
Goal 12.01
96. The main reason that United States troops
were sent to Bosnia in the mid-1990’s was to:
A. Guarantee the safety of American
citizens living in the area.
B. Protect American investments in the
Balkans.
C. Assure the continual production of
critical natural resources.
D. D. Help bring about political stability
in the area.
Goal 12.02
97. The big change in abortion laws came
with the 1973 Supreme Court decision in:
A.
B.
C.
D.
Roe v. Wade
Plessy v. Ferguson
Reynolds v. Sims
Gideon v. Wainwright
Goal 12.05
98. Based on current demographic trends, the
fastest growing minority group in America in
the year 2000 will probably be which of the
following?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Japanese Americans
African Americans
Native Americans
Hispanic Americans
Goal 12.06
99. What did some devout Muslims fear
would happen as the contact between the
Middle East and Western society increased?
A. That traditional values and beliefs
would be weakened.
B. That the United States would Launch
terrorist attacks against them.
C. That wealthy Middle Eastern families
would enslave them.
D. That Palestinians would want their
own nation.
Goal 12.04
100. The North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA) between the United
States, Mexico, and Canada is designed to:
A. Increase commerce and eliminate
tariffs.
B. Encourage lower labor costs.
C. Raise environmental standards.
D. Allow citizens to move freely from
one nation to another.