History Test 3 Chp. 26-30

The Dow Jones Industrial Average-which stood at 950 in 1981-reached _______ by the end of Reagan's second term.

2,239

How did federal housing programs discriminate against Americans of color?

All of the above

Why was Emmett Till murdered?

Allegedly whistling at a white woman

What is the name of the University of Chicago economist who helped to develop the intellectual position of libertarian economics?

Milton Friedman

How did racism influence the growth of the modern Republican Party?

Democrats took the lead in passing civil rights legislation, pushing many white Americans toward the republican party

How did Ronald Reagan win over the Religious Right?

Denouncing abortion and prayer in schools

Which of the following best describes the "Reagan Doctrine?"

The United States committed to supplying aid to anti-communist forces everywhere in the world

The Equal Rights Amendment reads: " Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State ________________________.

on account of sex

How did students challenge segregated lunch counters at a Woolworth's in North Carolina?

they sat at them

"Reaganomics" argued that if you cut taxes on corporations and the wealthy, the money would "________________" to everyone else.

trickle down

What did Lyndon Johnson call his domestic program?

Great Society

All of the following distinguish millennials from earlier generations EXCEPT

Less likely to have traveled

Which of the following best describes global economic trends in the early 1990s?

Liberalized economic laws and rising international investment

Which leader of the Soviet Union advocated the projects of glasnost and perestroika?

Mikhail Gorbachev

How did American liberals change their views of poverty during the 1960s?

More and more saw poverty from the failure of individuals to take full advantage of the American system

Which group first promoted the idea that drug use could remedy feelings of alienation?

Psychologists and sociologists

Black Power, in contrast to the non-violence movement, was championed by figures like ____________________ and organizations like the ________________________________ founded in Oakland, California.

Stokely Carmichael; Black Panther Party

Medicare provides health insurance primary for the ___________, while Medicaid primarily provides healthcare for the ______________.

elderly; low-income people

The Religious Right was a coalition of protestants and Catholics concerned with issues like:

abortion, womens lib, gay rights, and pornography

The presidential election of 1984 convinced the Democratic Party that its future lied with what group?

African Americans

The Stonewall incident that catalyzed the gay rights movement occurred when __________

Bar patrons in New York City protested a police raid

What was the name of the 1950s counterculture that rejected the values of conformity and domesticity?

Beats

The cornerstone of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty was which program?

Community Action

What happened at My Lai?

U.S. troops massacred hundreds of civilians

George H. W. Bush defeated Michael Dukakis by doing all of the following EXCEPT

Updating New Deal programs for a new era

How did Jimmy Carter respond to the economic crises of the late 1970s?

Using approaches championed by conservatives including deregulation, spending cuts, and tax cuts

Vietnam was considered the first " __________________" highlighting the role that outlets like the CBS Evening News played in the war.

living room war

In 2012, nearly _______ of all Americans were immigrants or the sons or daughters of immigrants.

one fourth

What was the "Nixon Doctrine?"

A military policy of détente

All of the following led to the economic development of the Sun Belt EXCEPT

A resurgence in southern agriculture

The Religious Right built a powerful coalition that united conservative evangelicals with what other influential voting group?

Conservative Catholics

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1957 accomplish?

Created a Civil Rights Commission in the Department of Justice to investigate claims of racial discrimination

The Albany Movement, centered in Albany, Georgia, drew on Christian commitments to social justice and united all of the following Civil Rights groups EXCEPT

The Southern Baptist Convention

Which of the following is true of the 2016 election:

Trump and Clinton were the most unpopular nominees in modern American history

Donald Trump was impeached a second time for

"incitement of insurrection"

Thirty-seven year old white engineer, Bernard Goetz shot and seriously wounded four black teenagers on a subway car because he suspected the young men-armed with screwdrivers-planned to rob him. What percentage of white New Yorkers sympathized with Goetz?

90%

What caused the Cuban Missile Crisis?

All of the above

What was the result of Brown v. Board of Education?

All of the above

Which of the following enabled the rising purchase of consumer goods?

All of the above

Which of the following statements regarding the Iran Contra Affair are true?

All of the above

Why did President Clinton fail to secure universal healthcare?

All of the above

All of the following occurred during the Clinton administration EXCEPT

Allowing openly gay men and women to serve in the military

How did the first freedom ride end?

Angry mobs composed of KKK members attacked the riders in Birmingham, Alabama and burned one of the buses and beat the activists who escaped

The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) mimicked policy proposals of all of the following politicians EXCEPT

Bill Clinton

The Kerner Commission explained urban riots as the result of which of the following

Black frustration with the hopelessness of urban poverty

President Johnson proposed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 partially in response to what event in Selma, Alabama

Bloody Sunday," the beating of peaceful marchers by police officers

What was the primary political issue that Carter used in his presidential campaign?

Carter's campaign focused less on issues than on his background as a hardworking, honest, Southern Baptist southerner

The 1968 Democratic National Convention included massive protests and violent reprisals by police. Where did this convention meet?

Chicago

What was the subject of Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring?

Environmental dangers of pesticides

What was the relationship between the federal government and economic growth in the aftermath of World War II?

Federal spending created more economic growth

Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique focused on what primary issue

Feelings of dissatisfaction with life as a housewife

Which of the following industries experienced the most economic growth under Reagan?

Financial Services

What was the primary guiding principle of Carter's foreign policy during his early years in office?

Human rights

All of the following aspects of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 are true EXCEPT:

Increased federal revenues

Which of the following took place in the 1990s, representing a new trend in immigration?

Increased immigration to the American South

Four Americans were killed by the National Guard in 1970 at __________________ in the midst of campus protests about Vietnam.

Kent State University

Which two prominent Americans were assassinated in 1968?

Martin Luther King Jr; Robert F. Kennedy

_________________, an NAACP leader in Mississippi, was assassinated in the summer of 1963.

Medgar Evers

In the mid-1960s, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) experienced a transformation. This transformation included all of the following EXCEPT

Merging with the Black Panther Party

The ________ were the confidential and guilt impugning documents that the Nixon administration tried to keep from the public.

Pentagon Papers

Who was the leader of the movement to stop the Equal Rights Amendment?

Phylis Schlafly

What was the intention of the War Powers Resolution?

Reduce the president's ability to wage war without congressional consent

Roe v. Wade, the court case that legalized abortion hinged on what legal idea?

Right of privacy

Who organized the first sit-ins?

Students

What event was exploited as a pretext for escalating American involvement in Vietnam?

The Gulf of Tonkin Incident

Why was the federal government slow to respond to the AIDS crisis?

The issue disproportionately affected gay Americans, a marginalized group

How did Reagan's first budget immediately impact the national debt?

The national debt increased dramatically

Which of the following resulted from American commitments to free trade?

The relocation of American manufacturing overseas

The National Indian Youth Council (NIYC)

all of the above are correct.

Describe the Vietnam War Memorial.

depressing and unpatriotic

On what legal principle did Brown v. Board of Education rest?

separate but equal

What happened the year after the Little Rock Nine were escorted to school every day?

shut schools down

As many as ______ Americans participated in demonstrations for racial justice in the summer of 2020.

25 million

By 1968, ______________ American troops were stationed in Vietnam, and nearly ____________ had been killed.

500,000; 20,000

Which of the following phrases best describes "Reagan Democrats"?

Blue-collar voters who lost faith in the liberal creed

_____________________'s songs "Times They are a Changin" and "Only a Pawn in their Game" highlighted the role folk music played in the culture of protest in then 1960s.

Bob Dylan

Congressional opposition from which faction plagued Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration?

Both

Which of the following right wing think tanks were created in the first decade following WWII?

Both of these

The churches most common in suburban America tended most frequently celebrated which of the following cultural values?

Economic individualism

Who first challenged segregation on buses?

Sarah Keys

Which of the following best describes the marketing techniques of early television executives?

Finding programming that would appeal to the widest possible audience

Which of the following best describes the ruling of Citizens United v. FEC?

No limits could be placed on political spending by corporations, unions, and nonprofits

What initially sparked the 1973 energy crisis?

OPEC's embargo of oil exports to the United States in retaliation for American intervention in the Middle East

Advertisers in the 1960s innovated by beginning to emphasize which of the following traits as a means of selling products?

Rebellion and individuality

What was the primary rationale used to justify the Iraq War?

Saddam Hussein's alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction

The 2000 presidential election was decided when

The Supreme Court ruled that the automatic recount had to cease immediately

Which of the following best describes the so-called Bush Doctrine?

The United States should act unilaterally and preemptively to fight terrorism

What was the most provable part of Nixon's role in Watergate?

The security tapes

The word used by the Johnson administration to describe the increasing troop presence in Vietnam was "____________".

escalation

1950s culture saw the rise of a new genre of music called ____________________.

rock and roll

__________ of American households purchased a television set between 1948-1955.

two-thirds