why could someone argue that the North was complicit in the expansion of slavery? |
Northern factory demand for cotton steadily increased |
Which of the following would have been a reflection of the paternalist ethos in southern slavery? |
the owner felt responsible for his slaves because the slaves could not take care of themselves. |
what did paternalism reinforce? |
slaves need to be watched carefully |
When comparing colonial slavery to nineteeth century slavery, what was a major difference? |
In the colonial period, slaves did not work in cotton fields |
What was the key to developing an African-American slave community |
Slaves needed to have family members near them |
What was the biggest fear of a slave of any age? |
a family member being sold |
What role did Christianity play in slavery? |
Teaching slaves about Christianity helped to reinforce the owners’ ideas on paternalism |
Which of the following would be an example of "silent sabotage"? |
A slave on a large plantation slowed down the work pace |
In the New Testament, Jesus did not condemn slavery. What did his mean to southern slaveholders? |
The new testament could be used to endorse slavery |
Before his execution, how did nat Turner see himself? |
He felt he was dying for the sin of slavery |
How did slavery take away the rights of whites? |
Written objections to slavery were banned in the South |
by 1860 , the economic investment represented by the slave population exceeded the value of the nation’s factories, railroads, and banks combined (T/F) |
True |
George Fitzhugh, a Virginia writer, stated slavery was part of civilized society. (T/F) |
False |
Free Blacks in New Orleans Worked as craftsmen (T/F) |
True |
Overall, how did utopian societies and worldly communities perceive women? |
Women needed to be treated as equals |
How did utopian leaders differ from Henry David Thoreau? |
Thoreau focused on the individual; utopian leaders emphasized the community |
Why were most of the utopian communities in the North? |
Most in the North were abolitionists |
How did the Second Great Awakening influence American society? |
It inspired some to combat the sins of society, such as slavery. |
What would John Winthrop most likely criticize about antebellum America? |
The temperance movement |
If the American Tract Society existed today, which of the following would anger this group |
Businesses opening on Sundays to run special advertised sales |
Why did abolitionism’s focus move from a more gradual approach to calling for the immediate approach of ending slavery? |
Ex-slaves started getting involved in abolitionism in 1830’s |
What was the most significant about Theodore Weld’s argument concerning the sinfulness of slavery |
ministers could preach that slavery was the devils work |
Why could William Lloyd Garrison be seen as a more radical abolitionist than Fredrick Douglass |
Garrison saw the Constitution as evil |
In his speech about the Fourth of July, how did Frederick Douglass critique the founding of the United States |
The Declaration of Independence was good starting point for principles of freedom |
What was teh greatest accomplishment of teh abolitionists by 1840 |
making slavery a prominent topic of conversation |
The antebellum utopian communities were largely located in the Upper South (T/F) |
False |
In general, Catholics supported the temperance movement (T/F) |
False |
For the South in the 1830s making the Texas territory part of the United States could potentially be most beneficial in what way? |
Several slave states could be created out of Texas |
When "Fifty-four or fight" did not result in gaining al of the Pacific Northwest, who most like would have been the angriest |
Northern Democrats |
In the nineteenth century, the United States gained the most territory through |
Wars with mexico |
How did the territory acquired from the Mexican War promote Thomas Jefferson’s earlier idea of an Empire of Liberty |
only people classified as whites gained full rights |
The opening of Japan to United States trade led to what |
Japan became a modernized military power |
Why was the extension of slavery significant politically |
Both the North and South wanted to control the Senate |
WHat was ironic about the fugitive Slave act |
The South promoted states’ rights but with this law agreed to strong federal action |
Why were the Know-Nothings unable to curb the political influences of Irish immigrants |
Coting rights were being determined by race |
In the 1850s, which action would be in the line with Abraham Lincoln’s views on race |
An African American man trains as an artisan and then starts his own buisness |
What distinguished John Brown from other abolitionists such as William Lloyed Garrison and Frederick Douglass |
Brown emphasized violence in freeing slaves |
In regard to Fort Sumter, analyze teh maneuvering of Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln. Wo was superior, Davis or Lincoln |
Lincoln made the south look like the aggressor. |
In California after the Mexican-American war, landowners of Spanish heritage had to adjust to a new identity as if they were immigrants (T/F) |
True |
What did fighting a defensive war mean for the confederates? |
Since the weapon technology was basically equal, it was an advantage for the confederates. |
The scale of civil war bloodshed was comparable to that of which other conflict |
War of the Triple Alliance |
What disagreements existed between McClellan, the commander of the Army of the Potomac, and President Abraham Lincoln |
Lincoln thought the general was not using his manpower advantage |
What would have been a practical outcomes of the Emancipation Proclamation |
All Confederate slaves would be freed gradually |
After comparing the presidencies of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, what conclusion can be made |
Lincoln was pragmatic in his decision making |
Besides preserving the Union, how else has Lincoln’s legacy lived on in today’s America |
He overcame regional differences to build a new nation-state |
What was a result of the expanding Union economy |
The size and spending of the government increasing tremendously |
by analyzing the New York City draft riots, what can be determined about the Civil War? |
The Civil War was a rich war and a poor man’s fight |
What separated Grant from teh other Union generals that commanded the Army of teh Potomac |
Grant was willing to wage of attrition |
What was one downside to Lincoln’s Ten-Percent plan of Reconstuction |
all of the above |
Abraham Lincoln realized that his armies had to capture the confederate capital, Richmond , in order to win the war (T/F) |
False |
It was clear to most people from the beginning of the war meant the end of slavery (T/F) |
False |
How did reconstruction leave an enduring legacy |
The leadership to the civil rights movement came from African American churches |
How did Frederick Douglass see the post-Civil War South |
Douglass wanted to ensure the ideals of the Declaration of Independence became a reality for black men too. |
What would have made the Freedmen’s Bureau more effective |
The government should have employed more agents to help with the numerous duties of teh bureau |
According to the petition from the freedmen to president Andrew Johnson, how was the planter class endangered freedom |
they tried to limit economic opportunity |
Through analyzing the "sharecropping Contract," what can be determined? |
The contract was a type of economic slavery |
What was ironic about the election of Andrew Johnson |
a man from a state that had seceded was now president |
How can Andrew Johnson be compared to Abraham Lincoln |
Lincoln reached out to the south, while Johnson emphasized pushing it. |
In what way was Reconstruction policy a success |
It established an amendment promising equal protection for all |
When assessing the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, what can be determined about this issue |
Both congress and president accused the other of unconstitutional acts |
The idea that change comes slowly can be evidenced by what event during reconstruction |
Women were excluded from suffrage amendment |
By examining Reconstruction from 1863-1877, what conclusion can be drawn |
With three different government plans, it was one of the most complex time periods in American history |
The civil rights act of 1866 became the first major law in American history to be passed over a presidential veto. (T/F) |
True |
The Senate, following the House’s impeachment vote, removed Andrew Johnson from office (T/F) |
False |
Why did new products like ivory soap and quaker oats symbolize the continuing integration of economy in America’s Gilded Age? |
These products were national brands, sold everywhere across the United States thanks to the expanding network |
Why did railroad companies and other business form "pools" during the American Gilded Age |
They hoped to escape the chaos of market forces by fixing prices with their competitors |
How were skilled workers able to secure new freedoms for themselves in rapidly expanded industries |
Their knowledge allowed them to control the production process and teh training apprenticess |
What did Native Americans have in common with the Zulu of South Africa and the aboriginal people in Australia |
They found themselves pushed aside by centralizing government trying to control large interior regions |
According to the authors of the Dawes Severalty Act, what constituted a civilized life for Native Americans in the later nineteenth century |
Individual property ownership and farming on family plots |
Why was William Tweed so popular with the city’s immigrant poor |
he had provided food, fuel, and patronage to them in exchange for thier votes |
Which of the following best characterized the Democrats’ position of the Republicans’ monetary policy during the American Gilded Age. |
they resented the Republicans’ inflationary policies, arguing that they hurt their main constituency farmers |
Which of the following properly assesses the significance of the passage of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act in 1890 |
The law established a precedent that the national government could regulate the economy in the interest of the public good. |
Which of the following properly assesses the significance of wage labor in industrializing America during the Gilded Age |
More and more Americans experienced wage labor as a permanent condition on the edge of poverty |
The idea for the Statue of Liberty originated as a response to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (T/F) |
True |
By 1880, a majority of Americans worked in non-farm activities (T/F) |
True |
Railroad companies divided the United States into Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific time zones (T/F) |
True |
The spread of electricity was essential to industrial and urban growth (T/F) |
True |
Which of the following prompted some urban observers to misjudge Populists as a backward-looking movement |
Their conviction that farmers should adopt modern scientific methods |
How do populists hope to guarantee farmers inexpensive access to markets for their crops |
They called for public ownership of the railroads |
Why did the south fail to attract significant economic development in the wake of reconstruction |
investors came to the south for cheap labor and low taxes, so they made few capital investments in the region |
How did segrigation in teh labor marked affect African-American women |
A high percentage of black women worked for wages, typically in domestic service |
how did black women challenge the racial ideology of the jim crow south |
they insisted on the equal respectability of black women by working for "racial uplift" |
apart from the racial identity of victims, what typically triggered the lynch violence of southern white mobs |
the victim’s alleged sexual conduct |
the ascendancy of the American Federation of labor during the 1890’s reflected |
a shift from broad reform goals to more limited goals |
Had the teller amendment been applied to the Philippines and Cuba, how would it have changed the Spanish-American war? |
Cuba would have become an associated territory as well |
Which of the following was the reason for US control over Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines |
Control of strategic gateways from which to project American naval an commercial power |
Why did Americans celebrate the Spanish American War |
Americans experienced the war as an occasion for national reconciliation between North and South |
William McKinley championed a government that would help ordinary Americans (T/F) |
False |
The campaign of 1896 in considered the first modern campaign because of McKinley’s campaign travels (T/F) |
False |
Blacks owned more land in 1900 than they had at the end of reconstruction (T/F) |
False |
why was "the city" the focus of progressive politics |
the overwhelming majority of Americans lived in cities |
What was the most significant difference between Angel island in the San Francisco Bay and Ellis Island in the New York harbor |
Angel island had to administer the immigration of Asian and Mexican migrants |
Which of the following least symbolized the growing autonomy of working women with regard to their consumerism |
military service |
the "living wage" and the "American standard of living" were an out growth of what |
a mature consumer economy |
Why did Samuel Gompers seek to forge closer ties with forward-looking corporate leaders |
he wanted to stabilize employer-employee relations |
What constitutional right did workers claim in defense of their public activism |
the right to free speech |
why did Montezuma call for the abolition of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1916 |
the Bureau had failed to secure Indian self-determinatioin |
Why did progressive reformers think they had much to learn from the Old World |
Germans had pioneered several measures of social legislation |
Which of the following contradictions plagued Progressive reformers’ ideas on the political process |
They worked both to expand the electorate and shrink its size through other measures |
why did businesses support the pure food and rug act |
they understood that greater public confidence in the quality of the products helped their sales |
Why did the Wilson administration impose a graduated income tax in 1913 |
the substantial reduction of duties on imports required Wilson to make up for lost revenue |
Upton Sinclair wrote a piercing two-volume history of the Standard Oil Company (T/F) |
False |
During the Progressive era, the working woman became a symbol of female emancipation (T/F) |
True |
Which of the following assessments of the Roosevelt Corollary in accurate |
it represented a vow to defend the Western Hemisphere against European intervention |
Which of the following elements of President Wilson’s Fourteen Points most resembled the commissions Progressives had instituted back home |
the League of Nations |
Why did the War Industries Board establish standardized specifications during the World War1 |
to increase efficiency and speed up production |
assess the way in which the committee on public information presented in message to encourage Americans to retain loyal and support ehe war effort |
the CPI packaged its appeals in the language of social cooperation and an expanded democracy |
what did employers urban reformers, as well as women reformers hope prohibition would achieve during the war years |
peace and order on the homefront |
which of the following statements would have been prosecuted under the sedition act of 1918 |
"i call on you to boycott the draft" |
how did eugenics sharp public policy during world war 1 |
it provided anti-immigrant sentiment with an air of professional expertise |
in what ways was WEB Du Bois a typical progressive |
He believed that investigation, exposure, and education could solve the nation’s problems |
how did Garveyites define freedom at the time of world war 1 |
as black self reliance and naional self determination |
what triggered the surge of conservative governments in central Europe at the end of World War 1 |
a worldwide revolutionary upsurge |
Assess the impact of the bombing of the New York Stock exchange in Sept 1920 |
it caused the death of 40 people |
Why did many people in eastern Europe consider Woodrow Wilson "popular saint" |
his criticism of imperialism helped easternE peoples carve out new independent nations |
patriotism during world war 1 meant support for the government, the war, and the American economic system (T/F) |
True |
During world war1 most progressives were outraged at the broad suppression of freedom of expression and spoke out against the sedition act. (T/F) |
True |
Which of the following assessments of the Roosevelt Corollary is accurate |
it represented a vow to defend the western hemisphere against European intervention |
which of the following elements of President Wilson’s Fourteen points most resembled the commission Progressives had instituted back home |
the league of nations |
why did the war industries board establish standardized specifications during World War 1 |
to increase efficiency and speed up production |
assess the way in which the committee on public information presented its message to encourage Americans to remain loyal and support the war effort |
the CPI packaged its appeals in the language of social cooperation and an expanded democracy |
What did employers, urban reformers, as well as woman reformers hope prohibition would achieve during the war years |
peace and order on the home front |
which of the following statements would have been prosecuted under the sedition act of 1918 |
"i call on you to boycott the draft" |
why did the war board establish standardized specifications during World War 1 |
to increase efficiency and speed up production |
Assess the way in which the committee on Public Information presented its message to encourage Americans to remain loyal and support the war effort |
the CPI packaged its appeals in the language of social cooperation and an expanded democracy |
what did employers, urban reformers, as well as women reformers hope prohibition would achieve during the war years |
peace and order on the home front |
which of the following statements would have been prosecuted under the sedition act of 1918 |
"i call you to boycott the draft" |
how did eugenics space public policy during world war 1 |
it provided anti-immigrant sentiment with an air of professional expertise |
how was American life different in teh 1920s than int eh years prior |
Although Americans worked hard in an increasingly industrial world, they also enjoyed more cavations |
Assess the state of individual American financial savings by the end of the 1920’s |
by the end of the 1920’s the majority of American families had no savings whatsoever. |
The prevailing jurisprudence of the United States Supreme Court in the 1920s can best be described as |
laissez-faire |
which of the following best describes teh significance of the Fordney-McCumber Tariff of 1922 |
it demonstrated a repudilation of Wilson’s Gree trade ideas |
what united the authors Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald in the 1920’s |
both had fled the discriminatory censorship of the hays code |
which of the following legal bans no longer passed constitutional scrutiny by the end of the 1920s |
criminalizing the advocacy of unlawful acts for the sake of political change |
which of the following trends of the 1920s did fundamentalists support |
the prohibition of liquor sales |
how did fundamentalist christians define freedom in the 1920s |
as the fundamental right to self-expression |
what broad popular sentiments did the Ku Klux Klan express in the 1920s |
control of the nation should be returned to native-born protestants |
which of the following best describes teh economic dynamic of the Great Depression |
Mass unemployment and the lack of investment triggered a devastating cycle of deflation |
What did hoover’s observation during the depth of the depression that "many persons left their jobs for the more profitable one of selling apples" indicate? |
president Hoover had grown increasingly out of touch with the economic reality of Americans |
if one commodity drove the economy in the 1920s, it was the typewriter (T/F) |
False |
After world war 1 american corporations ceased to pursue overseas investments (T/F) |
False |
Farmers benefited the most from the prosperity of the decade (T/F) |
False |
During 1920s, labor lost over 2 million members (T/F) |
True |
According to supreme court justice louis prandeis, how could corporations have prevented the creat depression |
by increasing their workers’ wages |
what time period most influenced the New Deal |
first world war |
Why did President Franklin D. Roosevelt dissolve the civil Works Administration |
Domplaints multiplied that this measure was contributing to a permanent class of government class of government dependents |
why did workers during the 1930s make demands that went beyond better wages |
they were hoping to establish a set of basic civil liberties for workers |
in contrast to the American Federation of labor the congress of industrial organizations fought for |
industrial democracy |
by 1935, Huey long and Francis Townsend had made which of the following approaches to economic recovery less promising for new dealers |
the regulation of the stock market |
which of the following second new deal measures came closest to meeting the demands of congress of industrial organization for workplace democracy |
The Wagner Act |
How did president Franklin D. Roosevelt describe the notion of a "liberty of contract" |
he denounced it as a service to the interest of "the privileged few" |
after the court packing attempt, how did the change in the jurisprudence of the united states supreme court affect American life? |
The new political climate int eh United States Supreme Court meant that a federal child labor ban could stand constitutional muster |
which of the following had been a traditional belief prior to the economic theories of john Maynard Keynes |
balanced budgets were sacred |
which of the following statements best assesses the fate of feminism during the new deal |
given the broad consensus that the job claims of male providers superseded women’s organized feminism essentially disappeared |
how did the federal government institutionalize racism during the new deal |
the federal housing administration refused to ensure mortgages in integrated neighborhoods |
the supreme court ruled that the agriculture adjustment act was unconstitutional (T/F) |
True |
in the past, depressions had hurt the labor movement; however labor made great strides during the new deal (T/F) |
True |
Upton Sinclair campaigned for governor of California on the share our wealth movement (T/F) |
False |
Although well intended, the new deal for native Americans resulted in a series of forced assimilations (T/F) |
False |
In what aspect of American foreign policy did Franklin D. Roosevelt remove himself from Herbert Hoover’s precedent |
he formally recognized the soviet union in an effort to stimulate trade |
Why did so many American workers walk out of their jobs in 1943 and 1944 |
they charged their employers with the unseemly expansion of corporate profits |
what taste of freedom did women enjoy in world war 2 |
the perks of doing men’s jobs |
who did publisher Henry Luce credit with the provision of "the abundant life" in his blueprint postwar prosperity, the American century |
free enterprise |
on what grounds did the Austrain-born economist Friedrich A. Hayek reject the New Deal state |
he was convinced that even the best intentioned government planning efforts would threaten individual liberties |
Why did executive order 9066 not apply to persons of Japanese descent living in Hawaii |
since nearly 40% of the population was of Japanese descent, the evacuation order would have been impractical |
why did the US drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima |
since the US had spent years and millions of dollars developing the weapon, it was going to use it in the war. |
what made it so difficult for the US to reject the demands of Joseph Stalin for establishing a soviet sphere in eastern Europe |
Roosevelt realized the sacrifices the Soviet had made in their victory in the eastern front |
what did the members of the United Nations Security Council all have in Common |
they were all part of the allies that won World War 2 |
when war broke out in Europe in 1939, the soviet union stood virtually alone in fighting Germany (T/F) |
False |
The America first committee campaigned for Americans to be the first to go to war against Nazi Germany (T/F) |
False |
The only people killed during the German Holocaust were the Jewish people (T/F) |
False |
After the war, the South remained very poor. Many rural people lived without indoor plumbing (T/F) |
True |
Why was it unlikely that the soviet union was going to embark on a new military campaign in the years following World War 2. |
the communist nation had suffered more than 20 million casualties, along with immense devastation. |
Why did American policymakers agree to spend billions of dollars on the economic recovery of Europe under the Marshall Plan |
they were afraid that if they did not help with the recovery, western European nations might fall into the soviet sphere of influence |
why did the United States allow West Germany to become part of a defensive alliance less than ten years the defeat of Nazi Germany |
The United States made this concession in order to win access to lucrative German consumer markets |
in the 1950s what did the term "totalitarianism" describe |
fascism and national socialism |
how did the Soviet focus on social and economic rights in the cold war human rights debate affect American attitudes |
in the climate of anticommunist hysteria, it prompted many Americans to condemn these rights as a first step to socialism. |
Why did nearly 5 million workers walk off their jobs over the course of 1946 |
the removal of price controls resulted in a drop in workers’ real income |
why did southern Democrats fear loosing their position in the democratic party following ints national convention of 1948 |
president Truman used the convention to bolster the Position of his fellow democrats from the northeastern establishment |
why did Harry Truman’s loyalty review system target homosexuals working for the government |
homosexuals were considered susceptible to blackmail and thought to be lacking the manly qualities necessary to fight communism |
the charges against which of the following organization led to the downfall of Joseph McCarthy in 1954 |
the Defense Department |
How did white supremacist take advantage of anticommunist rhetoric |
they changed African-American civil rights leaders with a communist agenda |
George Kennan’s Long Telegram laid the foundation for the policy of containment (T/F) |
True |
The Truman doctrine was in support of giving billions of dollars for European economic recovery (T/F) |
True |
Overall, despite good intentions the Marshal Plan was not very successful (T/F) |
False |
what about the golden age of capitalism between 1946 and 1960 was most beneficial for americans |
the American GNP more than doubled |
the shopping mall was the inevitable result of what institution |
the suburb |
what made the Army-McCarthy hearings unusual for American television programming of the 1950s |
it was deeply political and controversial |
why were American suburbs of the 1950’s so heavily segregated |
residents, brokers, and realtors dealt in contracts and mortgages that barred the sale to non-white residents |
what gave conservatives of the 1950s their political unity |
their shared religious fundamentals of Protestant Christianity |
how did president Dwight D. Eisenhower surpass the New Deal in government involvement in the economy |
he presided over the construction of f41,000 miles of interstate highways |
why did the Eisenhower administrative embrace the doctrine of "massive retaliation" |
teh constant threat of mutually assured destruction under teh doctrine made for more cautious diplomacy |
why did the soviet union strongly support the national independence movements in the new third world |
soviets feared the obvious appeal an alliance with former colonial rulers had for these new nations |
why did the editors of life magazine fear that American freedom might be in danger from not being used enough |
Americans seemed to have largely withdrawn from open dissent in the public sphere |
which of he following assessments of the civil rights movement is most accurate |
the movement came as a great surprise and was predicted only by a few |
what inspiration did Martin Luther King Jr. gain from mahatma Gandhi |
the idea of peaceful civil disobedience |
which event did president John F. Kennedy blame on eh failures of the Eisenhower administration |
the launch of the soviet satellite Sputnik |
the percentage of families at our below the poverty rate fell during the 1950s (T/F) |
True |
The new conservatives understood freedom as first and foremost a moral condition (T/F) |
True |
In the 1960s presidential election, John F. Kennedy defeated Richard Nixon by a landslide (T/F) |
False |
the freedom rides of 1961 traveled through which of the following states |
Alabama an Mississippi |
why did the African-American civil rights protesters that marched in June 1963 in more than 186 cities not try more deliberately to avoid arrest |
the very protests was to illustrate the punitive nature of southern Jim Crow justice |
how could birmingham police chief Eugene Connor have undermined Martin Luther King Jr. Strategy in Birmingham in May 1963 |
he could have allowed teh protesters to march unimpeded |
what did president John F. Kenedy have in common with predecessor Dwight D. Eisenhower |
both tended to view the entire world through the lens of the cold war |
why did John F. Kennedy consider civil rights a moral crisis for the nation |
he found racial discrimination incompatible with the United States’ claim for leadership of the free world |
what set President Lyndon Baines Johnson apart from his predecessor John F. Kennedy |
he knew the meaning of poverty and racial injustice from his own life experiences |
what did the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Part emerge at the Democratic Party convention in Atlantic City in 1964 |
the MFDP challenged teh state’s Democratic Party’s claim that is represented Mississippi fairly |
Which of the following organizations |
CORE |
what did the defeat of republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater show |
the civil rights movement had redrawn the political map and open the south to the Republican Party |
On what grounds could foreign nationals apply for immigrant status in the United States after 1965 |
Their family ties to US citizens or other immigrants |
why are the riots in American cities during the 1960s best understood as battles |
Urban blacks saw the predominantly white police force as an occupying army |
What did students of the new left movement think was missing in American Liberalism in 1960s |
the Practice of true participatory democracy |
in what ways did the counterculture represent the fulfillment of the consumer marketplace |
the counterculture extend the concept of individual choice into every realm of life. |
The slogan of the March on Washington was "jobs and Freedom" (T/F) |
True |
John F. Kennedy’s Foreign policy of latin America called for a revolution in Cuba (T/F) |
True |
The Cuban Missile Crisis did nothing to change Kennedy’s attitudes toward the Cold War (T/F) |
False |
At the outset of his presidency, John F. Kennedy’s regarded civil rights as his top priority (T/F) |
True |
The immigration Reform Act did not alter the rate or national origin of immigration after 1965 (T/F) |
False |
Unlike the New Deal, the Great Society was a response to prosperity, not depression. (T/F) |
True |
Why did president Nixon embrace the Philadephia plan for affirmative action in the building trades |
he was hoping to weaken the power of trade unions |
why did the fight over busing become so violent in Boston in the mid-1970s |
Boston fought integration violently |
What triggered the rise of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia |
The invasion of US troops in 1970 |
Which of the following statements correctly describes the outcome of the My Lai massacre |
one person was found guilty in the killing of 350 civillians, but was released in 1974 |
what led to the congressional discovery that the FBI has spied on millions of Americans in the 1960s |
the church committee investigations |
why did conservatives have the last laugh in the watergate scandal |
watergate proved the conservatives’ point that teh power of the federal government had to be restricted |
which of the following comparisons of wage trend for 1953 to 1973 and 1973 to 1993 is accurate |
nominal wages gradually sunk in the first half and rose the second, but real wages behaved in the opposite way |
how did the experience of the 1960 shape America’s neoconservatives |
Neoconservatives came to believe that even the best-intentioned social programs did more harm than good. |
how did trickle-down economics claim to increase government tax revenues |
by lowering tax rates |
richard nixon appointed earl Warren to cheif justice of teh supreme court in 1969 (T/F) |
False |
Even during the energy crisis of the 1970s, the national economy grew. (T/F) |
True |
Which of teh following was teh reason for US control over PUerto Rico, Guam, and teh Philippines |
… |
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