HIST 12 M14; RQ

(Q006) About 12 percent of the nation's population in 2018 was born abroad, but when asked about the number in polls, Americans gave an average response of what percent?

35 percent

(Q015) What was the outcome of the 2018 congressional midterm elections?

Democrats regained control of the House.

(Q035) A member of the House of Representatives at the time, Barack Obama first gained national attention with an eloquent speech at the Republican national convention in 2004.

False

(Q061) The United States historically has had a much better system of unemployment insurance than nations in western Europe, in terms of covering more people with higher compensation.

False

(Q010) Which of the following is a reason why Democrats were encouraged by John Kerry's run for the White House in 2004?

He had prior political experience on a national level.

(Q002) How did President Trump respond to the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)?

He tried to repeal it.

(Q001) Which of the following is a correct statement regarding Barack Obama's life before the White House?

He was the product of an interracial marriage.

(Q016) Who is the first openly gay governor in U.S. history?

Jared Polis

(Q029) What statue of a Supreme Court chief justice was removed as part of "battles over history"?

Roger B. Taney

(Q032) In 2018, U.S. relations with which of the following nations were at their lowest point since the start of the Cold War?

Russia

(Q009) President Trump appointed which of the following people, a close ally of the oil industry, to head the Environmental Protection Agency?

Scott Pruitt

(Q040) Trump's campaign for president in 2016 played on both racial and gender resentments spawned by the growing diversity of American society.

True

(Q048) Avoiding discussions of the concept of "freedom," the new President Trump preferred to invoke slogans suggesting military and economic power, such as Make America Great Again and America First.

True

(Q062) The Iraq War cost the United States $2 trillion.

True

(Q019) Residents of which of the following nations are much more likely to die from gun violence compared to people in other countries?

United States

(Q007) In 2017, President Trump withdrew the United States from what international agreement on climate change that had been achieved in 2015?

the Paris Agreement

(Q017) President Obama signed an extension of this controversial congressional law in 2011.

the USA Patriot Act

(Q003) How low was the unemployment rate by 2018?

under 4 percent

(Q030) Who marched in Charlottesville in August of 2017 demanding that a statue of Robert E. Lee remain in place?

white supremacists and neo-Nazis

(Q011) In January 2005, at his second inaugural address, Bush outlined a new American goal:

"Ending tyranny in the world."