History 1302 Final Exam

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first pursued and then abandoned by the Nixon administration

Affirmative Action was:

Warren Harding

All of the following were presidential candidates in the 1912 election EXCEPT

assimilation

An immigrant changing their last name

embraced popular Republican policies

Bill Clinton was easily reelected in the 1996 because he:

The Glass Steagall Act

Countless corporate scandals and stock frauds stemmed directly from the 1999 repeal of which New Deal measure?

the CIA failed in its mission

During the Bay of Pigs invasion:

he could have allowed the protesters to march unimpeded

How could Birmingham police chief Eugene Connor have undermined Martin Luther King Jrs strategy in Birmingham in May 1963?

He campaigned against radical republicans and moved toward the center

How did president Clinton respond to the republican victory in the 1994 congressional election?

as the only war lost by the United States

In 1975, the Vietnam War ended:

initiated the largest military buildup in American history

In foreign policy, Reagan:

Connecticut

In the 1920s Mississippi had fewer members of the Klan than in which state?

created a free trade zone for the United States, Mexico and Canada

NAFTA

proposed to guarantee a minimum income for all Americans

Nixon's family Assistance Plan:

quickly drove the Iraqi army out of Kuwait

Operation Desert Storm:

human rights as a diplomatic priority

President Carters foreign policy emphasized:

the Republican victory at the 1994 congressional elections

The "Freedom Revolution" was

was erected in 1961 by the Soviets to stem the rising tide of emigration from East to West Berlin

The Berlin Wall:

authorized the president to take "all necessary measures to repel armed attack" in Vietnam

The Gulf of Tonkin resolution:

was the greatest scandal of the Reagan administration

The Iran-Contra affair:

feared family values were being undermined

The Moral Majority:

created EPA, OSHA, and NTSB

The Nixon Administration:

concentrated on equipping the poor with skills and rebuilding their spirit and motivation

The War on Poverty:

Both tended to view the entire world through the lens of the Cold War

What did president John F Kennedy have in common with his predecessor Dwight D Eisenhower?

King's demonstrations in Birmingham

What event forced John F Kennedy to take meaningful action in support of the civil rights movement?

Sherman Antitrust Act

What federal act was used to dissolve the northern secutrites company?

he knew the meaning of poverty and racial injustice from his own life experiences

What set Lyndon B Johnson apart from his predecessor, John F Kennedy

Farmers Alliances

What was the name of the group that founded Texas during the 1870s as a response to falling agriculture prices?

muckrakers

What were the idealistic journalists called in the Progressive Era?

the Democratic Party headquarters

When they were arrested, the burglars at the Watergate apartment complex were breaking into:

Adamson Act

Which Federal act provided an 8 hr workday for railroad workers?

Monroe Doctrine

Which of the following was a sign of early expansionism as discussed in class?

Cuba being annexed into the United States

Which of the following was not an outcome of the Spanish American War?

Colin Powell

Who is George H. W. Bush's administration disagreed strongly with secretary of defense Dick Cheney about the future of national security after the Cold War?

William Jennings Bryan

Who was labeled a traitor because their opposition to WWI?

A brutal military dictatorship had emerged there

Why did president carter cut off aid to Argentina in 1978?

The very point of the protests was to illustrate the punitive nature of southern Jim Crow justice

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?

artisans expanding reach

all of the following are characteristics of Big Business EXCEPT

exceeded half a million as the war became more brutal

by 1968, the number of U.S. troops in Vietnam:

Russia

during the gilded age, jew faced persecution in which country?

promised never to lie to Americans

in 1976, jimmy carter won the presidential race in part because he:

fixed affirmative action quotas were unconstitutional

in Regents of the university of California v. Bakke, the Supreme Court ruled that:

was reluctant to address the movements demands until 1963

regarding civil rights during his presidency, John F Kennedy:

sparked similar successful demonstration throughout the south

the 1960 sit-in at Greensboro, North Carolina:

Alabama and Mississippi

the freedom rides of 1961 traveled through?

Belgium

what country did Germany invade to begin WWI?

he was willing to condone illegal activity if it would silence his political enemies

what events surrounding the Watergate break-in and cover-up suggest about Richard Nixon?

8 hr workday

what was a key demand of the workers in the Haymarket Riot?

railroad

what was considered the original big business?

Dawes Act

what was the name of the federal act that offered native Americans citizenship in exchange for tribal land?

John D Rockefeller

which individual was considered to be more ruthless than Andrew Carnegie?

Tanks

which of the following was discussed in class as being a new weapon of WWI?

Frederick Taylor

who created the gospel of efficiency?

were high tech companies that attracted many investors in the 1990s

"Dot coms":


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