unit 8
Which of the following factors most directly contributed to the economic trend that Patterson describes?
A surge in the national birthrate
According to the excerpt, which of the following mattered MOST when it came to the "crisis of confidence" described by President Carter?
Americans' belief that they were worse off than their predecessors
Title IX is characterized by which of the following achievements?
An increase in participation by both men's and women's athletic teams
McCarthy's accusations in the excerpt best reflect which of the following?
Anxieties about Soviet influence at home and abroad
The Truman Doctrine was the first specific example of the implementation of which policy that would govern U.S. foreign policy for the next 40 years?
Containment
The ideas expressed in the passage above can be seen as an expression of which of the following?
Containment
The situation depicted in the cartoon came into existence as a result of the pursuit of which of the following policy goals?
Containment of communism
How did the Vietnam War affect U.S. race relations?
Convinced that they were being sent on the most dangerous missions, black soldiers became increasingly angry
Richard Nixon claimed that "I am not a crook," but which of the following best explains his crime?
Covering up illegal activities of his reelection campaign
Which of the following would most likely support the recommendation s of this excerpt?
Creating the National Aeronautic and Space Administration
The idea expressed in the previous image most directly reflects which of the following continuities in United States history?
Debates over the economic values and role of the federal government in economy
The failure of the endeavor in Halberstam's book brought about a halt to which domestic program that Lyndon Johnson had championed?
Great Society
Which change in American society most directly led to the situation depicted in the image?
Growth of a car culture
This song was directed against all of the following groups in American culture EXCEPT?
Hard Hats
Which one of the following would be most likely to support the continued development of larger and even more powerful bombs after 1945?
Harry Truman
Which United States governmental stance most directly led to the situation described in the passage?
Increased internationalism after World War II
What term did Chief Justice Warren use, speaking for a unanimous court, that means intrinsic or belonging by nature, to describe separate educational facilities?
Inherent
This resolution was used as the justification by the United States for a war that is similar to a resolution passed for which subsequent war in which no declaration of war was passed either?
Iraq War
Which two American wars in the 21st century could be interpreted has fulfilling the prediction that Steel made when he stated he would not take any bets of there being no more Vietnams?
Iraq and Afghanistan
Which of the following best describes what Joseph McCarthy .believed to be the most significant issue of the 1950s?
Known communists had infiltrated the government and were directing American foreign policy
Which of the following could best serve as evidence to support Mumford's contentions in the excerpt?
Levittown's refusal to sell homes to African Americans
Which of the following best supports the observation that "Ike restored order and supremacy by force"?
Little Rock Central High School
Which of the following contributed most directly to the failure of Nixon's Vietnamization program?
Many South Vietnamese never fully embraced the war
Which of the following 21st century issues represents a continuation of the political problems that were relevant in the 1950s?
Potential loss of individual civil liberties
Which of the following most directly reflects the meaning of the cartoon?
President Nixon's denial of knowledge of the Watergate break-in is implausible
Which of the following events from the second half of the 20th century most clearly parallels the situation in the images above?
President Reagan's negotiations with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev
Which of the following coalitions provided the strongest opposition to Truman's domestic programs?
Republicans and southern Democrats
Which of the following best describes the initial reaction to the Brown decision?
Resistance was widespread and initially few schools were integrated
Which of the following historical developments between World War I and World War II would the author of the passage most likely support?
Restrictive immigration quotas
Which of the following developments after the Second World War most directly enabled the total spending shown in the table?
Rising general prosperity and an expanding middle class
This decision by President Truman was a forerunner of the 1954 Supreme Court decision of Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas that declared what practice as being unconstitutional?
Segregating children in public schools
In the passage above, this Executive Order ended what governmental practice in the armed forces?
Segregation
Which of the following was the most immediate result of the decision excerpted?
Segregationists in southern states temporarily closed many public schools in an effort to resist the decision
According to the excerpt, why would the international community support Vietnam's declaration of independence?
Self-determination was a key value articulated at international conferences that anticipated and established the United Nations
SDS best exemplifies which of the following?
The emergence of radical groups claiming that liberals were doing too little to address racial and economic inequality
Which of the following statements is most accurate, based on this photograph taken in the 1970s?
The youth of America were influenced by other groups that had opposed American involvement in the Vietnam War
The Nixon Doctrine resulted in turning the ground fighting over to the Vietnamese as the U.S. only involved itself in military training, providing weapons, and economic assistance in a policy and program called?
Vietnamization
The sentiments expressed in the passage above are most consistent with America's stated goals prior to?
World War I
Which of the following most directly contradicts the arguments in the excerpt above?
he widespread white acceptance of desegregation efforts in the South in the 1960s and 1970s
Which of the following most directly prompted President Truman to issue this Executive Order?
his concern that the Republican Party were making gains among African-American voters in the North
A reason why Lyndon Johnson relied so heavily on the advice of the "so-called" "Best and Brightest" political advisors was that?
his insecurities about foreign policy compared to his expertise on domestic policy
Nixon 's bold move to open up relations with Communist China was helped most by?
his long history of being a hard-line opponent of communism
Although the song "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag" was written and first performed in 1965, it did not achieve great popularity until several years later, most notably in August 1969, when it was performed twice at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. An important reason that this song had become much more popular by 1969 was as a result of the?
increase in popularity of country music
One direct effect of the Universal Declaration was?
increased animosity toward the Soviet Union as it abstained in the final vote
The Civil Rights movement's shift in focus described in the excerpt most directly contributed to?
increased divisions among activists over strategies and goals
The phrase Eisenhower used to describe what the U.S. needed to guard against was the influence of the?
military-industrial complex
According to the passage above the Eisenhower era was characterized by?
moderation
The post-1965 white Southern attitude described in the excerpt above was most similar to?
nativist views of European immigrants in the mid-1800s
This song during the 1960s was protesting against?
nuclear fallout
In modern times a component of freight traffic that was almost non existent the years 1939-1957 is?
planes
The "they" being referred to in the song are?
politicians in the U.S. & USSR
The Nixon Doctrine was issued primarily to?
prepare for an exit strategy of what he called "peace with honor" in Vietnam
By the 1980s and 1990s, the strength of the movement described in the excerpt was best illustrated by the?
prominence of evangelical Christian organizations in politics
The decision excerpted most directly reflected a growing belief after the Second World War that the power of the federal government should be used to?
promote greater racial justice
The reason that Levittown was built in potato fields on Long Island was to?
provide cheap homes for returning WWII veterans who could buy them on the G.I. bill
In the Supreme Court decision of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke the Supreme Court narrowly upheld "affirmative action" created by the Philadelphia Plan by a 5-4 vote on the basis that?
race could be one of the factors considered in choosing a diverse student body
Which type of transportation showed the greatest decline from 1939 to 1957?
railroads
The situation depicted in the photograph most directly led to the?
rapid expansion in higher education in the 1960s
Critics of the Philadelphia Plan called it a system of?
reverse discrimination
According to the above passage the reason why the financing of public schools is a national disgrace is because?
rich districts can generate more money from property taxes than poor districts that have higher tax rates, which means children of the poor have less educational opportunities
One significant result of the economic trend described in the excerpt was the?
rise of the Sun Belt as a political and economic force
The metaphorical title of the book is a reference to which environmental change?
song birds could no longer be heard in springtime
When the document uses the term feminine mystique, this mystique is the?
suburban homemaker or housewife ideal of femininity
In a speech before Congress, President Harry Truman took the unprecedented peace-time step of?
supporting free people who were being subjugated by armed groups
Rosa Park's arrest for defying segregation laws in 1955 directly resulted in?
the 13 month Montgomery bus boycott that ended segregation on public busses
The efforts by American Indians in the 1960s and 1970s to demand greater equality and a redress of past injustices was most influenced by?
the African American civil rights movement
Which of the following most directly contributed to the missile build-up in Cuba?
the American invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs
Which of the following could NOT be attributed to the influence of Rachel Carson's writing?
the Civilian Conservation Corps
The actions of Rosa Park in 1955 inspired all of the following civil rights actions EXCEPT?
the Supreme Court striking down the "separate but equal" doctrine of Plessy v. Ferguson- for public education and requiring the desegregation of schools
Which of the following cases of communist influence would best serve as evidence for McCarthy's claims in the excerpt?
the accusation that Alger Hiss was spying for the Soviets
The foreign policy position for Vietnam explained in the excerpt is most directly based on?
the belief in the domino theory
The excerpt from McCarthy's speech most directly reflects which of the following?
the belief that American elites were operating at the expense of ordinary Americans
This document regarding the importance of nonviolence most directly reflects which of the following?
the belief that change is brought about by a "beloved community" of activists rather than a single, charismatic leader
The excerpt from Nixon's address on Vietnamization most directly reflects which of the following?
the belief that the United States needed to force the South Vietnamese to assume responsibility for their own defense
Which of the following was an immediate consequence of the Sputnik launch?
the creation of a new federal agency and expanded funding for education
Which of the following was the most direct effect of the sentiments expressed in the excerpt?
the creation of the Peace Corps
The excerpt most clearly reflects which of the following motives for such a declaration?
the desire for international cooperation that would stave off future world war and ensure a standard of international behavior
The author of the quote above most directly attacks?
the efficacy of using federal power to achieve social goals
The dramatic increases in divorces starting in 1962 and reaching its peak in 1980 can be attributed in part to all of the following EXCEPT?
the establishment of the marriage penalty in the tax code which made being married less desirable on an economic basis
The event preceding Nixon going to China that paved the way was?
the exchange of table tennis (ping-pong) players between the United States and People's Republic of China (PRC) in the early 1970s
One significant result of the Voting Rights Act was?
the expansion of federal power through the Department of Justice, which was authorized to monitor voting activity
The excerpt is an example of?
the false reporting of what was happening that contributed to the credibility gap
Halberstam' s description of men in the Best and the Brightest is similar to?
the fatal flaw of hubris that causes the Greek tragic hero to fall
One of the reasons for the malaise that President Carter depicted was?
the high rate of inflation
In the excerpt, Kennedy's assertion of "the energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor" most directly reflects which of the following?
the idea that America has a special role to play in guiding the world
In this excerpt, King's denunciation of American involvement in Vietnam has the most in common with which of the following?
the idea that American involvement overseas was interfering with progress at home
The position on equality and civil rights expressed by Carmichael and Hamilton is most similar to the?
the ideas espoused by Malcolm X in his support for the Black Muslim movement
The sentiments expressed in the excerpt highlight the?
the influence of Martin Luther King's philosophy in the early 1960s
The illustration most directly reflects which of the following?
the lack of voting rights in the South for African-Americans prior to the passage of the Voting Rights Act
The excerpt from Shirley Chisholm's proposal for an equal rights amendment most directly reflects which of the following?
the lack of women in positions of power in the highest echelons of government and business
Which of the following was a significant effect of passage of the Equal Rights Amendment by the House and Senate?
the mounting of a grassroots campaign that successfully prevented its ratification by the states
The Port Huran statement was written in part because students were frustrated with?
the pace of reform of traditional liberalism
The excerpt above most directly contributed to renewed debates about?
the power of the presidency and the federal government
Which of the following was one of the goals for replacing the older immigration laws?
to allow individuals from the developing world to immigrate to the United States
Nixon's attempt to create an impression that the U.S. was undertaking a diminished role was through Vietnamization which was?
to turn the fighting and the conduct of the war over to the Vietnamese while the U.S. provided arms and supplies
By saying she did not want her life to be "too darned sensible" the UCLA coed was?
trying to moderate her statement of a good sensible life
Which of the following developments is most closely related to suburbanization?
two-car families
Recent historians would argue that Lippmann was?
unaware of how engaged Eisenhower actually was
According to the interpretation in the passage above "affirmative action"?
was changed from a system based on individual ability to one based on race
Which of the following groups would be most likely to support the perspective of John F. Kennedy in the excerpt?
younger, college-educated Americans
Which of the following early 20th-century groups would most likely support the goals stated in the passage above?
Progressives
During the early 1950s, which of the following resulted from the sentiments expressed in the excerpt above?
Public debates over the proper balance between liberty and order
Which of the following from the second half of the 19th century most clearly parallels the events identified in the document shown?
Radical Reconstruction
Which of the following is a likely reason for the decline in divorces during the 1950s?
Societal pressure of the woman as wife and mother created a stigma for women who divorced and did not keep their home and family together
The image most directly reflects which of the following views?
"Mutually Assured Destruction" was an ever-present reality for most Americans
Eisenhower's concern in 1961 is borne out by which fact about U.S. defense spending in the 21st century?
40% of the world 's total is spent by the U.S., more than the next 15 countries combined
The action taken in Greece and Turkey indicated what shift in public opinion in U.S. foreign policy?
A growing acceptance in Congress for U.S. engagement in the world
What did SDS have most in common with the youth counterculture of the 1960s?
A rejection of many of the values of their parents' generation
This action as well as the Civil Rights position of President Truman had what immediate political repercussion in the 1948 presidential election?
A splintering in the Democratic party creating a 3rd party the Dixiecrats
In the excerpt above, President Johnson drew an analogy between the conflict in Vietnam and the struggle of?
African Americans for civil rights and racial justice
Which of the following groups was most likely to question the efficacy of the Universal Declaration?
African-Americans in the United States
The activism described in the excerpt most directly helped inspire renewed social and political activism by?
American Indians
Which of the following took the most criticism after the shocking success of Russia 's Sputnik?
American educational system
The excerpt from President Johnson's commentary on the Immigration Act of 1965 best serves as evidence of which of the following views?
American identity is shaped by common principles
A valid conclusion that can be derived from the chart is that the generation who led the way in the number of divorces were the?
Baby Boomers
The campaign ad above helped to derail the candidacy of which presidential nominee?
Barry Goldwater
Which of the following women most helped to reshape the women's movement and organize NOW in the 1960s?
Betty Friedan
Which of the following organizations would agree with the sentiments of the previous statement?
Black Panthers
Which of the following statements is accurate regarding intercity freight traffic from 1939 to 1957?
Both inland waterways and motor vehicles decreased their % of freight traffic carried during WWII
The passage above mentions that the right-wing of the Republican Party lay at Eisenhower 's feet. What did Eisenhower do to mollify the right wing of his party?
Broadening social security coverage and increasing the monthly amounts as well as other reforms in the system
Martin Luther King Jr's speech refers to which of the following documents?
Declaration of Independence
The Supreme Court of California used the same rationale to declare the school finance system unconstitutional as U.S. Supreme Court had used to declare segregation illegal in which decision?
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
The passage above is a speech that was part of which movement?
Civil Rights
Title IX was inspired by which earlier federal law that barred discrimination on the basis of race?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The ideas expressed in the document most clearly show the influence of which of the following?
Civil liberties contained in the Bill of Rights
The Great Society added which of the following to reforms originally addressed in the New Deal?
Civil rights and civil liberties
Which current U.S. environmental concern, highlighted by Al Gore's book An Inconvenient Truth, owes its debt to what Rachel Carson accomplished with Silent Spring?
Climate change
The most important political issue during the crucial decade of 1945 to 1955 was?
Cold War
Which of the following is a positive image in the song?
College football
By the time this cartoon was published in the Boston Globe:
Congress was holding televised hearings on the Watergate affair
The reasoning expressed in the previous passage most directly reflects which of the following continuities in United States history?
Debates about the balance between liberty and security
The ideas expressed in the passage above most directly reflect which of the following continuities in American history?
Debates about the size and scope of the federal government's power
The list of speakers in the document shown most clearly illustrates which of the following continuities in United States history?
Debates over conflicting views of group identity
Which of the following set of Supreme Court decisions demonstrated the strongest continuity with the idea expressed in the excerpt?
Decisions defining individual rights and protections, such as Miranda v. Arizona
Which of the following innovations from the early 20th century is most dearly seen in the photograph?
Efficiencies in production techniques
The pattern in spending for national defense shown in the table most directly reflects which of the following?
Efforts to contain communism in Southeast Asia
Which of the following would most likely support the author's perspective that Eisenhower "was not always right"?
Eisenhower supported the overthrow of the elected government of Iran
Which of the following would best support the sentiments found in this excerpt?
Eisenhower was a decisive president who avoided nuclear war
Which of the following leaders from the 1960s would agree most with the sentiments of the above statement?
Eldridge Cleaver, author of Soul on Ice
This 1962 book inspired which movement that would have a major impact on U.S. government policy?
Environment
Which of the following goals from the NOW Bill of Rights did the feminist movement most clearly fail to achieve?
Equal Rights Amendment
The overall pattern of spending in the table most directly reflects which of the following federal policy positions at the time?
Federal power should be used to both aid United States citizens and fight communism abroad
The initiatives outlined above are most similar to the legislative goals of which president?
Franklin Roosevelt
Which of the following was Nixon able to negotiate as a result of his new relationship with China?
Freeze on the number of US and USSR ballistic missiles
Which of the following was a direct effect of the Korean War?
General Douglas MacArthur's removal from military command
After being battered in WWII, which country would no longer be the traditional financial and economic supporter of Greece and Turkey?
Great Britain
The song extolls the virtues of which of the following?
Illegal alcohol
Which of the following actions resulted most directly from the event listed in the document?
Increased federal government regulation
Which of the following resulted from the efforts described in the passage above?
Increased funding of social programs
In what way did the Marshall Plan best implement the goals of George Kennan?
It used U.S. aid to block the appeal of Communism in western Europe
All of the following are true implications of this joint Congressional resolution EXCEPT?
It was later replaced by a Declaration of War by Congress
Gains in civil rights for black American basically meant an end to which system?
Jim Crow
The issuing of this executive order started a process that over the next 20 years would end?
Jim Crow
The 1966 NOW statement, although broadened during the conference, most emphasized which of the following?
Job opportunities
What does Steel say has become a reflex action of the United States?
Military intervention
Which of the following best explains the dramatic increase in personal ownership of homes after World War II?
Mortgages were at low rates, government-insured, and tax deductible
Which of the following organizations was formed and inspired by Friedan 's book?
NOW
Which government program to designed to help African Americans has been interpreted by some conservative critics as going against King's speech when he said, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character?"
Philadelphia Plan/Affirmative Action
The argument in the passage above is most clearly a demand for the reinstatement of which prior historical development?
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Brown decision reversed which of the following earlier decisions?
Plessy v. Ferguson, which endorsed racial segregation laws
All of the following were considered to be successes for the women's movement launched by Friedan's book EXCEPT?
Ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment
Which of the following from the first half of the 20th century most closely resembles the argument raised in the previous passage?
Reasons for the United States entry into World War II
Which of the following resulted from the eventual disclosure of the above conversation?
Reduced public confidence and trust in the federal government
What did Rosa Park do in 1955 that inspired this political cartoon?
Refused to move to the back of the bus as required by law
The sentiments expressed in this song were shared by which of the following groups of Americans in the late 1960s?
Students for a Democratic Society
Levittown had a major demographic impact on the United States by creating which innovation for housing?
Suburbia
This song is considered to be emblematic of which 1960s social event or "happening"?
Summer of Love
The actions identified in the document were most likely the result of an alliance between which of the following?
Supporters of the Brown Supreme Court decision and religious leaders
Which landmark development largely ended the possibility of support for the author's goals outlined in the quote above?
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Brown decision was controversial for a variety of reasons, but which of the following is most evident in this selection?
The Court used psychological evidence to support their case
Which of the following movements most likely inspired the ideals set forth in President Johnson's Great Society speech?
The New Deal
This image of Sputnik, the space satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, serves as evidence of which of the following?
The Soviet Union hoped to gain supremacy in space technology
Churchill's description of an "iron curtain" best serves as evidence of which of the following?
The Soviet Union sought to expand its area of influence after World War II
Which one of the following best reflected the policies advocated in the above excerpt?
The Truman Doctrine of aid to Greece and Turkey
Which challenge faced by the United States in the 1950s and 1960s best exemplified the concerns articulated in the quote above?
The U.S. struggle for global leadership
Which of the following was an effect of Truman's Executive Order?
The armed forces eventually integrated over a number of years
The political climate during McCarthy's era had the most in common with which of the following?
The attacks on radicals and immigrants following the First World War
Which of the following best characterizes the position of the president's antiwar critics?
The conflict was primarily a civil war between factions in Vietnam
Which of the following post-1945 developments contributed most strongly to the discomfort that members of SDS felt?
The disillusionment with United States domestic values and Cold War events
Which of the following historical developments most directly resulted from the trend described in the excerpt?
The election of Ronald Reagan as president in 1980
What future activity was LEAST consistent with the sentiments expressed in the passage above?
The emergence of neoconservative ideals and policies
Levittown is most closely association with which of the following?
The mass production of affordable suburban housing
Which of the following historical developments could best be used as evidence to support McGirr's argument in the excerpt?
The new public defenses of the traditional family as an ideal
Which of the following was NOT a key component of Nixon's Vietnamization policy?
The number of American combat troops sent to Vietnam was increased
Which of the following most directly caused the belief in the existence of the "Negro Establishment" and its failure to address the needs of African Americans?
The passage of civil rights legislation in the 1960s and the continued existence of inequality in society
The excerpt most directly reflects which of the following developments?
The rhetoric accompanying World War II created an increased awareness of racial inequalities in society
The excerpt most directly reflects which of the following views of the growth of the suburbs?
The suburbs promoted uniformity in thought and behavior
The excerpt was written most directly in response to which of the following?
The success of the Civil Rights movement in achieving legal and legislative victories
Which best explains the role of the tapes in Nixon' s fall?
The tapes provided evidence that he was involved in the cover-up
Which event expressed the sentiments of the photograph and had the most substantial impact on American politics in the late 1960s?
The violent radical youth-group-led protests.at the 1968 Democratic Party Convention in Chicago
The image is most clearly an example of which one of the following contradictions?
The war was conducted under UN auspices, but U.S. and Korean troops did most of the fighting
The irony of this photograph of Harry Truman holding up the Chicago Tribune headline is?
Truman defeated Dewey not the other way around
Ho Chi Minh's attack on French forces in the battle for Vietnam's independence most directly contributed to which of the following?
U.S. support of French attempts to hold on to Vietnam
Rachel Carson's path-breaking book, Silent Spring, which sold over two million copies, has often been compared to which of the following important books in American history?
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Silent Spring's impact on legislation was similar to which earlier book that brought about the Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act of 1906?
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
Which of the following groups would most likely support the arguments in the passage above?
Urban social reformers during the Gilded Age
Kissinger's comment "honor in distant jungles" was a reference to?
Vietnam War
Which action from the second half of the 20th century most clearly supported the position stated in the passage above?
Vietnam era protests
The issues depicted in the cartoon most closely resemble which of the following issues facing the United States in the nineteenth century?
Whether to acquire new territory in the Western Hemisphere and the Pacific
Which of the following groups most likely benefited from the situation seen in the image?
World War II veterans
Which one of the following would be most likely to agree with the sentiment of this cartoon?
a Democrat who had voted against the President
A possible reason why Schlesinger calls his book The Vital Center is because he favors?
a middle ground
Which of the following was a direct effect of the new immigration law?
a significant increase in Asian immigration
From the perspective of the 21st century this song's protest could be directed against?
acid rain
Senator McCarthy was censored by the U.S. Senate for?
acting contrary to senatorial traditions by using tactics that debased the Senate into a forum for hate and character assassination
The author in the quote above is?
addressing issues of identity and social injustice
One significant effect of the situation described by Churchill was?
an economic aid plan to ensure that the standard of living in Western European countries would be significantly higher than that of Eastern Europe
The author of the quote above most likely?
assailed liberals for doing too little for racial injustice
The New left differed from the old left of the 1930s by its disavowal of?
class struggle maxism
The new left of the 1960s were different from the old left of the 1930s because many of the old left of an earlier time period had been?
communists
The dominant political ideology of the 1920s, 1950s, and 1980s that would be critical of Schlesinger for his view of?
conservatism
The excerpt above was most likely a response to?
conservatives and liberals clashing over the women's rights movement
Those Americans in the late 1960s who were strongly offended by the sentiments contained in this song and who expressed their opposition to it most vocally were?
construction workers
One significant result of the "crisis of confidence" speech was?
continued lack of public support for President Carter and his programs
The social movement of the 1960s that most resembles the "new left" is the?
counterculture
The description of conditions for the U.S. military in Saigon is that it is a?
country club
Young people in the United States in the late l960s who enjoyed listening to music but did not enjoy listening to song like "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag" usually preferred to listen to?
country music, such as "Okie from Muskogee" performed by Merle Haggard
In which of the following activities did SNCC NOT play a significant role?
court cases in the 1960s that challenged discrimination in education
To implement the policies based on this excerpt, the United States for the first time had to?
create permanent peacetime alliances with other nations
The resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis involved which of the following?
the removal of American missiles in Turkey
One direct effect of Chisholm's speech in the House of Representatives was?
effective lobbying by the National Organization for Women (NOW) to achieve congressional passage of the ERA
The part of the Constitution that the court used for their ruling in the Brown case was the?
equal protection of the laws clause in the 14th Amendment
The primary reason why the U.S. felt "compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions" was the?
fear of international communism
This effective campaign ad most directly reflects which of the following developments in the twentieth century?
fear of nuclear war
The type of music that is captured in this protest song popular in the 1950 & 1960s is?
folk
The passage above is especially critical of extreme conservatism and extreme liberalism for?
giving a free society over to totalitarianism
The statement "against the rhetoric of a lifetime" was a reference to Nixon?
going to China despite a lifetime of speaking out against the Chinese communist regime
Martin Luther King used which of the following?
gradualists who want the civil rights movement to end segregation to slow down
The cartoon was primarily a response to the?
growing debate over the Vietnam War
The passage above was most clearly a response to?
growing public protests against the conflict in Vietnam
One result of the process described in the excerpt above was?
growing tension and disagreements within the civil rights movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s
This joint resolution of Congress in the passage above is commonly called the?
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
This song was written to extoll the virtues of?
traditional values and lifestyle
The groups described in the excerpt most likely opposed?
Great Society programs
Why could Americans' panic about the launch of Sputnik I be considered excessive?
As a result of U-2 plane surveillance, President Eisenhower knew that the U.S. was actually far ahead in missile development
The pattern of social services spending in the table is most similar to which of the following spending patterns in other historical periods?
Attempts to deal with the effects of the Great Depression in the 1930s
Along with some provisions of the California Constitution the court ruled the California system of providing school funding also violated which part of the U. S. Constitution?
Equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment
Despite the success of the advertisement, a significant challenge to the Democratic Party came from?
Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
This 1950s era bomb shelter most accurately reflects which of the following?
Fear of being bombed was part of the daily lives of ordinary Americans
Which of the following best explains why Nixon's foreign policy was a departure from the previous administrations?
He exploited that Communism was not a unified world movement
In which way did Johnson most significantly depart from the policies of prior presidents?
He used U.S. troops in a combat role in Vietnam
Which of the following is an example of a Fair Deal reform that would best support the passage that "problems were ignored, programs shelved?"
National health care insurance
From the table above which of the following statements are true regarding the domestic intercity freight traffic by type of transportation from selected years from 1939 to 1957?
Over two-thirds of freight traffic was being transported by railroads by the end of WWII
Which of the following events from the late 20th century/early 21st century represents a continuation of the ideals expressed in the above speech?
Passage of the National Community and Service Trust Act, which created the AmeriCorps Program
The concept of "separate but equal" overturned in the Brown decision, was originally established by the Supreme Court in which earlier court decision?
Plessy v. Ferguson
Many of the federal policies and initiatives passed in the 1960s address which of the following about the economic trend described in the excerpt?
Pockets of poverty persisted despite overall affluence
The claims McCarthy made in the speech heightened debates over which of the following issues?
Policies and methods to root out possible communists within the United States
The sentiments expressed in the excerpt above are most consistent with which of the following political challenges?
Political scandals and clashes over the power of the presidency
Which institution was damaged the most by the unexpected results of this 1948 election?
Polling organizations
Which of the following forms of pop culture evolved most during the 1960s and 1970s as a result of the events surrounding the photograph?
Popular music became more focused on antiwar and social themes
What earlier movement is most consistent with the sentiments expressed in the quote above?
Populism
Along with the executive branch of the government, the institution that supported the change in interpretation of affirmative action is the?
Supreme Court
The increased culture of consumerism during the 1950s was most similar to developments in which of the following earlier time periods?
The 1920s
Which of the following best reflects Ho Chi Minh's assessment of Vietnam's right to exist as an independent nation?
The American Declaration of Independence outlined fundamental rights of self-determination
Which of the following most advanced liberal domestic policies during the Truman administration?
The executive order ending racial discrimination in the military
Which of the following contributed most directly to the fears espoused by Joseph McCarthy in the previous speech?
The fall of China to communism
Statistics on which of the following could best be used to support the argument made in the excerpt?
The incomes of African Americans as compared to those of White people by year
According to King, how did many Americans respond to his increasing criticism of the war in Vietnam?
They questioned his right to criticize the war
Which of the following most directly reflects the effect of Carson's Silent Spring, Michael Harrington's The Other America, and Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique?
They sparked discussion and helped to promote interest in a world beyond the self
The Cold War challenges and technological deficits enumerated in the quote above most closely parallel U.S. unpreparedness in the early stages of which previous war?
World War II
The excerpt's assertion that the missile build-up violated an area that had a "special and historical relationship to the United States"is most directly related to which of the following?
the Monroe Doctrine
Which of the following contributed most directly to the situation depicted by Churchill near Russia's western borders?
the Soviet Union's desire to create a buffer zone between themselves and Germany
The division of Korea at the 38th parallel most directly reflects which of the following?
the Soviet and U.S. agreement on a temporary division between the communist North and the capitalist South
Which of the following was a consequence of the New Red Scare of the 1950s?
the purging of communists from most labor unions and civil rights organizations
Which of the following contributed most directly to the passage of the Voting Rights Act?
the violent response to voting rights demonstrations in Selma, Alabama
The document above indicates that women in the 1950s were unhappy because?
their status was being defined solely by their role as a wife and mother
As a result of the Nixon Doctrine and the implementation of this policy in Southeast Asia?
there was an increase in the training of South Vietnamese troops and strong motivation to bring the American soldiers home
