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Which act established a commission that had the task of investigating unfair business practices and stopping them if necessary?
Federal Trade Commission Act
Obama achieved all of the following in the war on terror except
He closed the detention center at Guantanamo Bay.
All of the following are true statements about Reagan's economic programs except
His trickle-down theory was ultimately proven a vital strategy for dealing with economic downturns.
All of the following were reasons for the depth and length of the Great Depression, except
High taxes on Americans
Carter was unable to carry out any of his plans for expanding American social justice because
Islamic militants took 52 hostages from the American Embassy in Tehran.
The term "Gilded Age" was coined by
Mark Twain
The first mail-order business was
Montgomery Ward.
All of the following are true statements about Prohibition except
Most people embraced it as a solution to the social problems caused by alcohol and alcoholism.
The National American Woman's Suffrage Association, working state to state between 1911 and 1914, gained the right to vote for women in several states, but not in the state of
New York
Shortly after taking office, which of the following signaled a potential problem for George Bush from his own party?
Republican Senator Jim Jeffords declaring himself an independent.
Booker T. Washington's speech, now referred to as the Atlanta Compromise, suggested that
Southern blacks should improve their economic standing through self-help but remain separate from white society except to work together to reach common economic ground.
Within twenty years of the first oil discovery, ____ Oil Company controlled 90 percent of the country's petroleum.
Standard
The Cuban Missile Crisis
brought the US and Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war.
In the years following the Civil War, those most interested in the newly opened lands in the West were
corporate interests with headquarters in northern cities.
During the winter of 1932-1933, the Depression
deepened, with neither the lame duck president nor the president-elect able to act effectively.
The 19th Amendment
granted women the right to vote.
The distinction held by the Persian Gulf War of 1991 was that
it was the first war to be televised in real time.
As a political movement, the Tea Party is characterized by
its free-market libertarianism.
Landmark films of the Seventies such as The Godfather and Bonnie and Clyde indicated that Americans in the 1970s
lived in a period of increasing moral complexity.
From the spring of 1940 until the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, President Roosevelt and the U.S government
organized the manufacturing, transfer, and transportation of war materials and American defense bases to assist Great Britain and prepare for likely war against Nazi Germany.
Lincoln's plan for bringing the southern states back into the Union was viewed by many Republican members of Congress as
much too lenient
The new Panama Canal that began operation in 1914
opened just before World War I broke out.
Which of the following is not true about the Holocaust?
The mass killing of European Jews remained confined to concentration camps
Hoover's only significant attempt to address the economic crisis was to
establish the Reconstruction Finance Corporation that loaned money to businesses.
The Emergency Banking Relief Act of 1933
established federal control over banks and rescued those in trouble with government loans.
The centerpiece of George W. Bush's agenda when he entered office was
a large tax cut for wealthy Americans.
The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 created
a regional banking system under control of the federal government.
The railroad strike of 1877 is evidence of
all of these choices
Digital technology sparked economic growth by
streamlining manufacturing processes and helping companies reach overseas markets.
After the Korean War, the U.S. addressed its fears regarding the spread of communism in all of the following ways except
testing nuclear missiles via satellite in space.
John F. Kennedy's greatest disaster as president was
the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.
The "spark" that set World War I into motion was
the assassination of the Austrian Archduke, Franz Ferdinand, by a Serb nationalist.
Reagan won reelection handily in 1984, in large part because
the economy had temporarily improved.
Clinton's worst political defeat during his first term was
the failure of his administration to achieve health care reform
According to the USA PATRIOT Act
the federal government no longer needs a warrant to monitor libraries, banks, bookstores and homes for suspected terrorists.
In the improving American economy of the 1920s,
the percentage of national wealth that went to the poorest 60 percent fell by almost 13 percent during the 1920s, causing the wealthy to increase their wealth at the expense of the poor.
When President Theodore Roosevelt spoke of his "square deal," he referred to his fair and balanced approach to
the relationship between labor and business
The Japanese decided to bomb America's naval fleet at Pearl Harbor because
they hoped to handicap the U.S. navy, giving Japan time to achieve its conquests before the U.S. could rebuild and strike back.
Grant's presidential administration is remembered most for
political chicanery and corruption.
Truman eventually managed to break the Berlin blockade by
sending massive amounts of food and supplies by regular airlift.
In the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court held that segregation laws governing public accommodations such as railroads and public schools were constitutional based on the Court's finding that
separate public facilities for each race had been provided and that no qualitative difference existed between the two racially-based sets of public accommodations.
Operation Overlord - the official name for the D-Day landing in Normandy - involved ____ Allied soldiers.
1 million
Between 1880 and 1920, approximately ____ people came to America from other countries.
10 million
The Homestead Act of 1862 provided a way for settlers to move West, occupy land for five years, and then claim as their own a total of
160 acres
How many people died during the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001?
3,000
After September 11, it became clear that the al Qaeda network operated from a base of power in
Afghanistan.
NSC-68 was a classified paper that
All of these choices
What effect did the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments have on the women's suffrage movement?
All of these choices
Which was true for most immigrants to America?
All of these choices
Women participated in the U.S. World War II effort by
All of these choices
Reagan was the perfect conservative candidate and president because of his belief in
All of these choices.
Reagan's relationship with the Soviet Union regarding nuclear weapons could be best characterized as
All of these choices.
The disruptive effects of the Dust Bowl on residents included
All of these choices.
Followers of Osama bin Laden and the al Qaeda network have harbored resentments against the United States for all of the following reasons, except
American politicians on the right have been increasingly motivated by religion.
Which of these views did Bill Clinton not espouse as he campaigned for the presidency?
Anti-NAFTA
Which of the following did not happen during Carter's presidency?
Carter signed the SALT II agreement with the Soviet Union, although it fell apart years later.
The Watergate scandal began with a break-in at the
Democratic National Committee headquarters.
The decisive military turning point for the United States and the Allies against Japan in the Pacific occurred in 1943 with the Allied offensive at the Battle of
Guadalcanal
What did George Bush do to upset Americans so much that he lost his bid for re-election in 1992?
He promised the American people not to raise taxes and then he raised taxes.
All of the following is true about John F. Kennedy, except
He was known in the 1960s for his womanizing.
The makeshift towns put together by the homeless during the Depression were often called
Hoovervilles
As the Industrial Revolution progressed in America, all of the following occurred except
Immigration became less important to America.
For what military reason did Truman fire MacArthur?
Insubordination
Which of the following best describes the Bush doctrine?
It is the right of the United States to wage a preemptive war against any nation that might one day threaten the United States
Historians regard the Great Depression as probably the greatest factor in causing World War II because
It led American businesses to reduce investments in Germany, which decreased that nation's production and its ability to repay its World War I reparations.
What did the 18th Amendment do?
It made prohibition the law of the land.
Which of the following men is incorrectly paired with his technological development?
J. Pierpont Morgan - streetcar
Truman decided to drop the atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima and later Nagasaki because
Japan did not respond to an Allied ultimatum to end the war or face destruction.
One of the earliest American preservationists was
John Muir
In June 1942, American forces halted Japan's advance at the Battle of
Midway
Which of the following agencies put millions of men to work building roads and creating national parks?
Public Works Administration
Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens were members of a group known as
Radical Republicans.
Theodore Roosevelt was the first president to make effective use of the
Sherman Antitrust Act.
When General George Armstrong Custer attempted to protect white prospectors on sacred Indian lands, Sioux and Cheyenne warriors annihilated them, led by
Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.
What event marked the failure and end of Reconstruction in the South?
The Compromise of 1877 brought moderate Republican Rutherford B. Hayes to the White House where he promptly withdrew federal troops from the South.
Which of the following is the most accurate statement about rural Americans during the Great Depression?
The Great Depression simply exacerbated a decade-long problem of overproduction and lowered revenues.
The first moving picture with sound was
The Jazz Singer
Which of these is not a true statement about Clinton and impeachment?
The Senate declined to impeach Clinton but did agree he was guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors.
All of the following were part of the treaty that ended the Spanish-American War except
The U.S. gained Hawaii.
Which event set the stage of American involvement in the war?
The bombing of London in the Battle of Britain
Who summed up his foreign policy with this statement: "Speak softly and carry a big stick"?
Theodore Roosevelt
Congress responded to Lincoln's Ten-Percent Plan, as it was known, by passing the
Wade-Davis Bill.
Monica Lewinsky will long be remembered for having had an affair with President Bill Clinton while she served as
a White House intern.
The Warsaw Pact was
a union consisting of Stalin's Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries that he controlled after World War II.
Muckrakers were investigative writers who exposed
all of these choices
"Robber barons" or "captains of industry" were businessmen who
amassed large fortunes between 1865 and 1900 with ruthlessness and ingenuity.
Abu Ghraib refers to
an Iraqi prison where U.S. soldiers tortured and humiliated prisoners of war.
The L.A. riots of 1992 occurred after
an all-white jury found four white police officers not guilty of beating a black man, Rodney King.
Hezbollah was the terrorist organization responsible for
an attack on a Marine barracks in Lebanon that killed 241 American troops.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization stipulated that
an attack on one or more treaty partners would be considered an attack against them all.
Henry Ford revolutionized the automobile industry by developing the
assembly line
Jackie Robinson is famous for
being the first African American to play major league baseball.
Which drug appeared in the mid-1980s and quickly took hold of inner city youth?
crack
Because of his concern with the nation's dwindling natural preserves President Theodore Roosevelt
created five national parks and fifty wildlife refuges.
Reagan's supply-side economics program focused first on
cutting taxes to generate investments in the economy.
The Dawes Act
divided tribal lands among native families into individual plots of land and put the land titles in a federal trust.
What was the most common reaction of Americans to Cold War uncertainties?
fear and the rise of conservatism
The major industries that developed in the South prior to 1900 included all of the following except
electricity
The Haymarket strike led to
growing anti-union sentiment nationwide.
Between 1981 and 1988, more than 57,000 cases of AIDS had been diagnosed in the United States, yet politicians were slow to respond to the epidemic because
leaders, including President Reagan, dismissed it as a gay disease.
Bill Clinton took office with a decidedly centrist world view, as evidenced by his
liberal social principles and conservative economic views.
By the time the stock market crash had reached the bottom in 1932, stocks had
lost almost 90 percent of their original value.
The significance of the Tet Offensive was that
many Americans, including prominent politicians, began to publicly state that America could not win the war in Vietnam.
By 1920, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that for the first time,
more people lived in urban areas than in non-urban (rural) areas.
All of the following are examples of the Second Red Scare in America except
new laws regarding the protection of civil liberties.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, advocated for by President Lyndon B. Johnson in the wake of John F. Kennedy's assassination
outlawed discrimination in public facilities and employment based on race, sex, religion and national origin.
During the Civil War, Congress took advantage of the absence of southerners in the House and Senate to do all of the following, except
prohibit child labor.
The Fifteenth Amendment
prohibited any state from denying citizens the right to vote on the grounds of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
The Marshall Plan
provided $13 billion to governments that promised to become or remain democracies.
Although corrupt, New York's Tammany Hall appealed to
recent immigrants and job seekers.
The purpose of the 21st Amendment, enacted in December 1933, was to
repeal the Prohibition Amendment.
On August 9, 1974, Nixon made history when he
resigned as president
During his confirmation hearings, Clarence Thomas had to defend himself against charges of
sexual harassment.
Timothy McVeigh was arrested and prosecuted for
the Oklahoma City bombing
The first target of Progressive reform was
the cities
As a result of the Panic of 1873,
the nation blamed Republicans for the economic crisis, enabling the Democrats to win seventy-seven congressional seats in the 1874 election
Immediately after the Civil War, many white landowners
tried without success to force blacks who had once been their slaves to work under very similar conditions, even to the point of using the whip.
After the Spanish-American War ended and the peace treaty was signed, the United States passed the Platt Amendment, which
was added to the Cuban constitution and gave the United States the right to intervene militarily should revolution threaten.
In 1998, President Clinton was able to report that the federal government
was moving from a budget deficit to a budget surplus
In the aftermath of the Civil War, women's rights activists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Olympia Brown did all of the following, except
wholeheartedly campaign on behalf of the political and economic rights of black men