Diiculty Level: Diicult
51. Regions of the United States with above-average population
growth from 2000 to 2010 were __________.
a. the Midwest and the West
b. the Northeast and the South
c. the Paciic Northwest and the Northeast
d. the South and the West
Topic: Where We Live
Learning Objective: LO 4.3: Evaluate the importance of where
we live on American politics.
Page Reference: 109
Skill Level: Analyze It
Diiculty Level: Diicult
52. According to U.S. Bureau of the Census projections, the non-
Hispanic white American population will decline to about what
fraction of the population by the year 2050?
a. one-half
b. one-quarter
c. one-third
d. two-thirds
Topic: Who We Are
Learning Objective: LO 4.4: Analyze how such social and
demographic factors as race and ethnicity, religion, gender,
family structures, education, and age afect American politics.
Page Reference: 110
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Diiculty Level: Moderate
53. The gender gap is illustrated in which of the following?
a. Women are more likely than men to favor government-
provided health insurance.
b. Women are more likely than men to support abortion rights.
c. Women are more likely than men to vote as Independents.
d. Women are more likely than men to vote for Republican
candidates.
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Topic: Who We Are
Learning Objective: LO 4.4: Analyze how such social and
demographic factors as race and ethnicity, religion, gender,
family structures, education, and age afect American politics.
Page Reference: 116
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
Diiculty Level: Diicult
54. As education is a good predictor of political participation, which
racial groups would be most likely to be politically active?
a. whites and Hispanics
b. blacks and whites
c. Hispanics and Asian/Paciic Islanders
d. Asian/Paciic Islanders and whites
Topic: Who We Are
Learning Objective: LO 4.4: Analyze how such social and
demographic factors as race and ethnicity, religion, gender,
family structures, education, and age afect American politics.
Page Reference: 118
Skill Level: Analyze It
Diiculty Level: Diicult
55. Which of the following voting groups played a signiicant role in
President Obama’s reelection in 2012?
a. Asians and Protestants
b. African American men and white men
c. evangelical men and women
d. women and Hispanics
Topic: Who We Are
Learning Objective: LO 4.4: Analyze how such social and
demographic factors as race and ethnicity, religion, gender,
family structures, education, and age afect American politics.
Page Reference: 112, 116
Skill Level: Analyze It
Diiculty Level: Diicult
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56. Gays and lesbians constitute between __________ percent of the
U.S. population.
a. 1 and 3
b. 2 and 5
c. 2 and 10
d. 5 and 15
Topic: Who We Are
Learning Objective: LO 4.4: Analyze how such social and
demographic factors as race and ethnicity, religion, gender,
family structures, education, and age afect American politics.
Page Reference: 116
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Diiculty Level: Easy
57. __________ are conservative Christians who have become an
important force in the Republican Party and in some local
governments.
a. Fundamentalists
b. Mormons
c. Baptists
d. Catholics
Topic: Who We Are
Learning Objective: LO 4.4: Analyze how such social and
demographic factors as race and ethnicity, religion, gender,
family structures, education, and age afect American politics.
Page Reference: 115
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Diiculty Level: Easy
58. Compared to other countries, class divisions in the United
States are __________.
a. deined by degree of acceptance of organized labor
b. deined by degree of hostility to organized labor
c. less deined and less important to politics
d. reinforced by competitive individualism
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Topic: How Much We Own
Learning Objective: LO 4.5: Describe the importance of
income, wealth, occupation, and social class in American
politics.
Page Reference: 123
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Diiculty Level: Easy
59. Evidence of growing African American political power is
apparent in the dramatic increase in __________.
a. political participation among African Americans
b. the number of African American state legislators
c. the number of African Americans serving as federal judges
d. education rates of African Americans
Topic: Who We Are
Learning Objective: LO 4.4: Analyze how such social and
demographic factors as race and ethnicity, religion, gender,
family structures, education, and age afect American politics.
Page Reference: 112
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Diiculty Level: Moderate
60. One of the key characteristics of a postindustrial society is
__________.
a. a rigid class structure
b. that information is the organizing principle
c. that it is primarily a technical society
d. that it values inherited wealth over skill and education
Topic: How Much We Own
Learning Objective: LO 4.5: Describe the importance of
income, wealth, occupation, and social class in American
politics.
Page Reference: 123
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Diiculty Level: Moderate
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True-False Questions
61. People often assume that others share their economic
opportunities, social attitudes, sense of civic responsibility, and
self-conidence.
Topic: Introduction
Learning Objective: Introduction
Page Reference: 104
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Diiculty Level: Easy
62. Four of ive people in the United States now live in suburban
areas.
Topic: Where We Live
Learning Objective: LO 4.3: Evaluate the importance of where
we live on American politics.
Page Reference: 109
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Diiculty Level: Easy
63. Americans often have a sense of identiication with their state.
Topic: Where We Live
Learning Objective: LO 4.3: Evaluate the importance of where
we live on American politics.
Page Reference: 108
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Diiculty Level: Easy
64. Women were not allowed to vote anywhere in the United States
until 1920.
Topic: Who We Are
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Learning Objective: LO 4.4: Analyze how such social and
demographic factors as race and ethnicity, religion, gender,
family structures, education, and age afect American politics.
Page Reference: 116
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Diiculty Level: Easy
65. Fewer and fewer women are the sole income earners for their
families.
Topic: Who We Are
Learning Objective: LO 4.4: Analyze how such social and
demographic factors as race and ethnicity, religion, gender,
family structures, education, and age afect American politics.
Page Reference: 116
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Diiculty Level: Easy
66. Fundamentalists surprised the nation when they came out
strongly in favor of Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential
election.
Topic: Who We Are
Learning Objective: LO 4.4: Analyze how such social and
demographic factors as race and ethnicity, religion, gender,
family structures, education, and age afect American politics.
Page Reference: 115
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Diiculty Level: Easy
67. The gap between rich and poor has decreased in recent
decades.
Topic: How Much We Own
Learning Objective: LO 4.5: Describe the importance of
income, wealth, occupation, and social class in American
politics.
Page Reference: 122
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Diiculty Level: Easy
115
68. President George H. W. Bush signed the Americans with
Disabilities Act.
Topic: How Much We Own
Learning Objective: LO 4.5: Describe the importance of
income, wealth, occupation, and social class in American
politics.
Page Reference: 124
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Diiculty Level: Easy
69. The attacks of September 11, 2001, were the irst time a foreign
enemy struck successfully inside the continental United States.
Topic: Geography and National Identity
Learning Objective: LO 4.2: Assess the role of geography in
building a national identity.
Page Reference: 105
Skill Level: Analyze It
Diiculty Level: Diicult
70. Historically, the U.S. census has excluded illegal immigrants
from the census count.
Topic: Who We Are
Learning Objective: LO 4.4: Analyze how such social and
demographic factors as race and ethnicity, religion, gender,
family structures, education, and age afect American politics.
Page Reference: 114
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Diiculty Level: Easy
71. Education is one of the most important variables in predicting
political participation.
Topic: Who We Are
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Learning Objective: LO 4.4: Analyze how such social and
demographic factors as race and ethnicity, religion, gender,
family structures, education, and age afect American politics.
Page Reference: 119
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Diiculty Level: Moderate
72. Women overwhelmingly support female political candidates.
Topic: Who We Are
Learning Objective: LO 4.4: Analyze how such social and
demographic factors as race and ethnicity, religion, gender,
family structures, education, and age afect American politics.
Page Reference: 116
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Diiculty Level: Easy
73. In 2012, as in the four prior presidential elections, a higher
percentage of women than men voted.
Topic: Where We Live
Learning Objective: LO 4.4: Analyze how such social and
demographic factors as race and ethnicity, religion, gender,
family structures, education, and age afect American politics.
Page Reference: 116
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Diiculty Level: Easy
74. Most nations of the world consist of groups of people who have
lived together for centuries.
Topic: An Exceptional America
Learning Objective: LO 4.1: Understand the origins and
efects of American exceptionalism.
Page Reference: 104
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Diiculty Level: Moderate
75. The U.S. Constitution clearly allows for the practice of sampling
to get accurate census numbers.
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Topic: Who We Are
Learning Objective: LO 4.4: Analyze how such social and
demographic factors as race and ethnicity, religion, gender,
family structures, education, and age afect American politics.
Page Reference: 114
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
Diiculty Level: Diicult
Fill–in–the–Blank Questions
76. The __________ was a formidable barrier that protected the
United States in its early days from European economic and
political meddling.
Topic: Geography and National Identity
Learning Objective: LO 4.2: Assess the role of geography in
building a national identity.
Page Reference: 105
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Diiculty Level: Easy
77. Since the mid-1960s, there has been a partisan shift in the
South toward the __________ Party.
Topic: Where We Live
Learning Objective: LO 4.3: Evaluate the importance of where
we live on American politics.
Page Reference: 107
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Diiculty Level: Easy
78. The religious group with the highest voter turnout in recent
elections, including the 2012 presidential election, has been
__________.
Topic: Who We Are
Learning Objective: LO 4.4: Analyze how such social and
demographic factors as race and ethnicity, religion, gender,
family structures, education, and age afect American politics.
Page Reference: 115
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Diiculty Level: Easy
79. More than half of the names of states in the United States are
derived from __________ languages.
Topic: Who We Are
Learning Objective: LO 4.4: Analyze how such social and
demographic factors as race and ethnicity, religion, gender,
family structures, education, and age afect American politics.
Page Reference: 110
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Diiculty Level: Easy
80. The irst American women to win the right to vote lived in states
in the __________.
Topic: Who We Are
Learning Objective: LO 4.4: Analyze how such social and
demographic factors as race and ethnicity, religion, gender,
family structures, education, and age afect American politics.
Page Reference: 116
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Diiculty Level: Easy
81. Women gained the right to vote in the entire United States in
__________.
Topic: Who We Are
Learning Objective: LO 4.4: Analyze how such social and
demographic factors as race and ethnicity, religion, gender,
family structures, education, and age afect American politics.
Page Reference: 116
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
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