Which of the following agencies was most popular with the public?
A) the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
B) the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
C) the Civilian Conservation Corps
D) the Farm Credit Administration
Immigration and migration patterns from 1880″1910 resulted in __________.
A) high unemployment by the turn of the century
B) the impressive growth of many cities
C) the rise in popularity of the Knights of Labor
D) an increase in the percentage of Americans living in the South
President Bush’s call for U.S. military involvement in the Persian Gulf came when
__________.
A) Saddam Hussein’s forces engaged in a bitter war with Iran
B) Iraq invaded Kuwait and gained control of its oil production
C) the Soviet Union sent its forces into southern Iraq
D) the United Nations decided to support Saddam Hussein’s claim in Kuwait
In the late-1800s, Republicans were strongest in the __________ and __________.
A) South; Midwest
B) South; West
C) North; Southwest
D) North; Midwest
The bitter intensity of the war in the Pacific was magnified by __________.
A) Japan’s lack of any fighter planes
B) racial hatred and cultural differences between both sides
C) the defeat of the Americans at Leyte Gulf
D) the Americans’ inability to cut off supplies to Japan
Third-party presidential candidate Henry Wallace believed that __________.
A) U.S. foreign policy was instigating the Cold War
B) civil rights should not be a national political issue
C) progressive reforms were ruining the country
D) big business should have more power in the American economy
Which of the following experienced the greatest financial advances during the war
years?
A) Native American men
B) African American men
C) Native American women
D) African American women
What modern-day commodity became successful in the South by the early 1900s?
A) Kleenex
B) Hershey candy bars
C) Ford automobiles
D) Coca-Cola
In the late nineteenth century, state governments __________.
A) did relatively little
B) began actively regulating industry
C) did not collect taxes
D) were more active than they are today
The __________ Amendment calls for equality before the law.
A) Thirteenth
B) Fourteenth
C) Fifteenth
D) Sixteenth
Which of the following was true about conditions for blacks on the home front?
A) There were no job vacancies for black women.
B) Job opportunities spurred a large migration of blacks from the North to the South.
C) Blacks still faced a great deal of racial discrimination in the North.
D) Blacks were not allowed to get employment in shipyards or steel mills.
Why was Henry Wallace critical of the United States’ increased militarization?
A) He believed it was a distraction from addressing poverty and racism.
B) He was a pacifist who believed the country was too aggressive.
C) He was a veteran who experienced the horrors of war first-hand.
D) He believed that the end of World War II required all countries to decrease their
militaries.
Which of the following forms of entertainment did some progressives want to prohibit?
A) radio shows
B) live theater
C) movie theaters
D) automobile racing
In 1947, President Truman and Congress appropriated $400 million to __________.
A) enact desegregation policies in the South
B) fight communism in Greece and Turkey
C) rebuild public school systems in poor areas
D) support left-wing liberation movements in Africa
Why was Wilson’s campaign slogan, “He Kept Us Out of War” successful?
A) Republicans could not come up with a good responsive slogan.
B) It appealed to the popular desire for peace.
C) It was an interventionalist message.
D) It was easy to remember and fit easily on signs.
Violence and conflict often erupted between miners and mine owners due to
__________.
A) the lack of law enforcement in the West
B) the refusal of owners to use court injunctions
C) the practice of hiring native-born labor
D) conditions caused by the industrialization of mining
Which of the following was an effect of the Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik?
A) Many Americans believed that Sputnik’s inferior quality revealed American
superiority.
B) Russian schools placed stronger emphasis on math and science courses.
C) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration was defunded by Congress.
D) Congress supported college and post-graduate study with the National Defense
Education Act.
Which is the correct trio of Axis Powers in World War II?
A) Soviet Union, Germany, and Italy
B) Germany, Japan, and Italy
C) Germany, Italy, and France
D) Soviet Union, Japan, and Germany
An accomplishment of the Women’s Trade Union League was that it __________.
A) convinced Congress to end child labor
B) provided an outlet of protest without resorting to strikes
C) united working class and middle class women in one group
D) merged with the American Federation of Labor
The term “Great Migration” refers to the __________.
A) thousands of Mexicans who entered the United States across the Rio Grande River
B) mass movement of American blacks from the rural South to the urban North
C) recruitment of Jewish workers by agents of American industrialists
D) westward expansion of ethnic workers from eastern and southern Europe
By 1900, legislative acts that regulated the horrors of child labor were __________.
A) successful at ending the practice in the United States
B) passed by state legislatures in 90 percent of the states
C) supported by most industrialists in the East
D) not effectively enforced by authorities
In July, 1918, President Wilson agreed to send 15,000 troops to __________.
A) Norway
B) Japan
C) Turkey
D) Russia
During the presidency of William Howard Taft, __________.
A) the Republican Party split into two factions
B) Robert La Follette emerged as an opponent of reform
C) conservative Republicans pushed for lower tariffs
D) Richard Ballinger was fired as secretary of the interior
The “Good Neighbor Policy” was designed to __________.
A) address the growing problem of crime in urban areas
B) bring social justice to blacks in the South
C) address the growing problem of crime in rural areas
D) improve relations with nations in Latin America
During the Eisenhower presidency, disarmament was set back for years after
__________.
A) the Soviet Union installed offensive nuclear weapons in Cuba
B) Eisenhower committed 500,000 American troops to Vietnam
C) the United States refused to apologize for the use of U-2 spy planes
D) the Soviet Union was left out of the Warsaw Pact agreement
Of the following groups that migrated to the United States in the late nineteenth
century, which were motivated most by fear of violence?
A) Chinese
B) Japanese
C) Italians
D) Russian Jews
Why did blacks migrate to the urban North from the South?
A) Blacks could live with whites in integrated neighborhoods in the North.
B) There were greater economic opportunities in the North.
C) Blacks were treated equally with white workers in the North.
D) Racial discrimination did not exist in the North.
During World War II, the number of civilian employees in the federal government grew
__________ times larger.
A) two
B) three
C) four
D) five
Samuel Gompers was against acquiring the Philippines, because he __________.
A) wanted to protect the sugar trade in Hawaii
B) believed Asian people were racially inferior
C) feared that cheap Asian labor would undercut American wages
D) was an anti-imperialist for moral reasons
Which of the following best describes fascism?
A) a revolutionary socialist movement based upon common ownership and a classless
society
B) an economic system in which the state owns and directs the means of production
C) a one-party dictatorship that is closely aligned with corporate interests
D) a form of government in which the political power resides with the military alone
Southern Democrats realized they could regain their dominance of local power by
__________.
A) cooperating with legislatures controlled by the Republicans
B) supporting the candidacy of Ulysses S. Grant
C) making alliances with carpetbaggers and scalawags
D) manipulating racial tensions