APUSH KWQ Unit 6
Which statement best summarizes the Open Door Policy?
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According to the information in the above table, the worst year of the Depression was
1933
made benefits available to all elderly Americans, regardless of economic need.
A significant reason that the Medicare proposal was able to overcome opposition and win congressional approval was because it
Which of the following statements about the civil rights movement up to the 1970s is not true?
All civil rights activists continued to believe that nonviolent protest was the best means to gain change.
Who wrote The Feminine Mystique, drawing the conclusion that many college-educated women felt trapped by domestic life, rather than fulfilled by it?
Betty Friedan
Which of the following was the principal target of Thomas Nast's political cartoons?
Boss Tweed
The south gained diplomatic recognition and active support from Great Britain because
British factories needed southern cotton
Which of the following historians is most closely associated with the idea that economic factors have shaped American history?
Charles Beard
The battle of Saratoga resulted in
France entering the war on the side of the colonies
In 1947, President Truman told Congress that the United States could not realize its postwar objectives unless we were willing to help free peoples to maintain their free institutions and their national integrity against aggressive movements that seek to impose upon them totalitarian regimes. This policy was first implemented in?
Greece and Turkey
Which of the following statements about the Emancipation Proclamation is NOT accurate?
IT immediately freed all slaves living in the UNited States
displayed remarkable skill in influencing Congress.
In contrast to Kennedy, President Lyndon B. Johnson
All of the following statements about indentured servitude in colonial America are true EXCEPT
Indentured servants could not be sold as property
The mood of the " Beat Generation" is best reflected in which of the following?
Jack Kerouac's~ On the Road
The theory of nullification according to which a state can reject a federal law is associated with
John C. Calhoun
promise to keep the nation on the course of the 1950s.
John F. Kennedy made an attractive presidential candidate in 1960 for all the following reasons EXCEPT his
Which of the following facts about President Johnson is not true?
Johnson's advisors agreed that the best way to win the war in Vietnam would be to escalate the ground war.
Which of the following was the most broadly based labor organization in the late nineteenth century?
Knights of Labor
The most significant increase in immigration in recent years has come from
Latin America and Southeast Asia
Great Society.
Lyndon B. Johnson billed his domestic program as the
Which of the following is one reason why the women's movement slowed down in the late 1970s?
Many working-class and nonwhite women felt that the movement offered little to address problems that they faced.
The frist propietary colony was
Maryland
Many of the direct, nonviolent methods used to confront racism and discrimination were based on those of
Mohandas Gandhi.
Which of the following was not a reason given by president franklin Roosevelt in his attempt to pack the Supreme Court?
Most Supreme Court justices were interpreting the Constitution too broadly
U.S. troops on a search-and-destroy mission to find Vietcong fighters killed at least 450 women, children, and elderly men
My Lai massacre
Which of the following facts about Native Americans during the 1950s was not true?
Native Americans began a policy called termination to gain access to the economic wealth of the United States.
Which of the following is not an example of the growing "generation gap" between teenagers and young adults and their parents?
Older Americans were more likely to oppose the Vietnam War.
The principle of separate but equal facilities for blacks and whites was set down in
Plessy v. Ferguson
conservative Southern Democrats.
President Kennedy found many of his legislative initiatives blocked by
all of the following were new deal agencies Except
RFC
Which of the planks from the 1892 Populist party platform showed a concern with issues raised by organized labor
Restrictions on immigration
the first African-American cabinet member.
Robert Weaver was significant as the
Middle-class concern for the conditions of the working class in a period of rapid industrialization and urbanization was show in all of the following except
Social Darwinism
Office of Economic Opportunity, with an emphasis on community action.
The "centerpiece" of Lyndon B. Johnson's "war on poverty" was the
based aid on the economic conditions of students rather than the needs of schools themselves.
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
The Monroe Doctrine stated all of the following policies Except
The United States would intervene in the problems South America countries had with other nations
Which of the following is a direct social change brought about by the american Revolution?
The emancipation of slaves who fought against the British
All of these statements about the 1948 presidential campaign are true EXCEPT?
Truman was a heavy favorite to defeat his Republican rival, Governor Thomas Dewey of New York.
Lowered the voting age from 21 to 18
Twenty-sixth Amendment
In both the Korean War and the Vietnam War, the?:
United States fought for years without Congress ever declaring war.
The Seneca Falls "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions" dealt with
Women's Rights
The essential element of the policy of containment was?
a commitment to holding communism within the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
At the beginning of the Cold War, U. S. policy toward the Soviet Union tended to follow the ideas of George F. Kennan, that is?
a policy of containment of Soviet expansionist tendencies.
Truman's response to the Berlin Blockade was to?
airlift all necessary supplies into Berlin for almost a year.
The Chautauqua movement was
an early form of adult education
The National Organization for Women was created?:
as a civil rights organization for women, working against sex discrimination in employment.
The Pilgrims were also know as Separatists because they
broke all ties with the Church of England
President Nixon's "Vietnamization" policy sought to?:
build up South Vietnamese forces to replace American troops.
The removal of General Douglas MacArthur from command of the United States-United Nations forces during the Korean War exemplifies the constitutional principle of?
civilian control of the military.
During the struggle in China between nationalists and communists after World War II, the United States?
continued to support Chiang Kai-shek with money and weapons even when it became clear his cause was lost.
The War Powers Act of 1973 was passed mainly in response to concern that presidents Johnson and Nixon?:
could involve the nation's armed forces in combat without congressional approval.
The Compromise of 1850 provided a concession to the South by
creating a new Fugitive Slave law
IN Marbury vs. Madison, Chief Justice John Marshall argued successfully that the Supreme Court could
declare federal laws unconstitutional
Harry Truman aided the cause of civil rights by?
desegregating the armed forces.
The most important consequence of the Boston Tea Party was the
enactment by Parliament of the Coercive Acts
The INdian Reorganization Act of 1934 represented a significant chance in policy because it
ended the government's allotment policy
The Pentagon Papers, published in 1971?:
exposed the deception that had led the United States into the Vietnam War.
Sources of discomfort among youth during the decade of the 1960s included all of the following EXCEPT?:
failure of the Johnson administration to face the social and economic problems of the underclass.
The Stonewall riots helped forge a new sense of solidarity among?:
gay Americans.
Which of the following was the Least significant factor in demand for restrictions on immigration from 1880 to 1924?
immigrants owed loyalty to the pope
The main economic problem faced by President Truman in his first term was?
inflation.
Under President Truman, the Department of Justice?
intervened in Supreme Court cases on behalf of organizations seeking to end segregation.
The 1968 Tet Offensive?:
led to the belief in the United States that the Vietnam War was unwinnable.
The "G. I. Bill of Rights" refers to?
legislation passed by Congress pertaining to education, unemployment compensation, loans for home building, and provisions for medical care of veterans.
The Marshall Plan could be be understood as part of an American desire to?
make communism less appealing to Europeans creating economic prosperity.
The outcome of the disputed election of 1876 was significant because it
menat the end of reconstruction
Most of Truman's Fair Deal program?
met defeat at the hands of a coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats.
The most likely explanation for the decline in unemployment between 1940 and 1941 is
mobilization of industry for World War II
the term scalawag was used to describe
native white southerners who cooperated with the Republicans
When James Meredith attempted to attend the University of Mississippi as that institution's first black student, President Kennedy?:
ordered federal marshals to protect and defend him and ultimately ordered 500 army troops onto the campus.
President Truman contributed to the anti-Communist fear after the Second World War by?
ordering investigations into the loyalty of federal employees.
The decline in agricultural prices after WW1 was due primarily to
overproduction
The Taft-Harley Act of 1947 provided for all of the following EXCEPT?
permitting union contributions to political campaigns.
In Miranda v. Arizona, the Supreme Court declared that?:
police had to advise a suspect of his or her constitutional right to remain silent.
Dorothea Dix is most closely associated with which are of social reform in the first half of the 19th century?
prisons and asylums
In addition to the Embargo Act of 1807, a significant factor in the development of American industry in the period 1800-1820 was
protective tariffs
The Virginia Resolves
protested against the Stamp Act of 1765
The Kennedy Administration's (1961-1963) response to the deteriorating military situation in Vietnam was
public support of the Diem regime
The income tax amendment to the Constitution adopted in 1913
recovered revenue lost by reducing the tariff
The House Un-American Activities Committee was?
responsible for a series of highly publicized hearings designed to expose communist influence in American life.
The invasion of Cambodia by U. S. and South Vietnamese forces int he spring of 1970?:
revived the domestic antiwar movement in the United States and led to large demonstrations.
According to the Proclamation of 1763
settlers were prohibited from crossing the Appalachians
President Lyndon Johnson received authorization for the use of force in Vietnam through?:
the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
Woodrow Wilson won the presidency in 1912 largely because
the Republican vote was split between William H. Taft and Theodore Roosevelt
The United Nations was able to provide military assistance to South Korea in 1950 because
the USSR boycotted the session of the Security COuncil at which the decision was made
The United Nations was able to provide military assistance to South Korea in 1950 because?
the USSR boycotted the session of the Security Council at which the decision was made.
Gerald Ford's main liability in the 1976 presidential election was
the Watergate scandal
The Pendleton Act was enacted in response to
the assassination of President JAmes Garfield
Which of the following statements about colonial politics in 18th century is true?
the colonial assemblies controlled taxes and expenditures
All of the following contributed to a "sexual revolution" during the 1960s EXCEPT?:
the elimination of all state laws infringing on a woman's right to an abortion during the first trimester of pregnancy.
The legal basis for Truman's order for American air and naval forces to support South Korea was?
the federal Constitution.
Which of the following best illustrates government support for the construction for the first transcontinental railroad?
the grant of thousands of acres of public lands to the railroads
The outcome of the election of 1824 between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson was decided by
the house of representation
The "Trail of Tears" refers to
the removal of the Cherokees and other Native American tribes to Oklahoma
Which of the following is most consistent with the belief expressed by Stokely Carmichael in his 1966 call for "Black Power"?:
to be truly free from white oppression, blacks must control their own economic, political, and social institutions.
The fear of left-wing subversion during the 1920's was reflected in the
trial of Sacco and Vanzetti
While there was a large gap between what Harry Truman said about civil rights and what he was able to do, his greatest accomplishment was in?
using the prestige and visibility of his office to educate the public and set a moral agenda for future civil rights progress.
By 1964 what had become the major thrust of young African-American activists?:
voter registration drives in southern states.
We are the people of this generation, bred in at least moderate comfort, housed in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit. This statement?:We are the people of this generation, bred in at least moderate comfort, housed in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit. This statement?:
was the manifesto of the Students for a Democratic Society.
The Truman administration's decision to oppose the invasion of South Korea by North Korea in June, 1950 was made?
without congressional approval.