BHS CFA Final Test

Question 1

Documents that proved the U.S. government covered up many reasons why we went to war in Vietnam

Accepted Answer

Pentagon Papers

Question 2

LBJ's Great Society health care program was called...

Accepted Answer

Medicare/Medicaid

Question 3

What was Woodrow Wilsons proposal to protect the world from another war?

Accepted Answer

League of Nations

Question 4

What term is used to describe the systematic killing of Jews, Gypsies and Homosexuals?

Accepted Answer

The Holocaust

Question 5

What are two ways Americans were affected on the home front during WWI?

Accepted Answer

Women filled jobs/Selective Service Act

Question 6

What was the final straw for the South in their decision to secede from the union?

Accepted Answer

Lincoln's election to President

Question 7

The World Trade Center was attacked on what date?

Accepted Answer

September 11, 2001

Question 8

What campaign sought to retake Europe by landing in France?

Accepted Answer

D-Day

Question 9

Rosa Parks was part of which Civil Rights event?

Accepted Answer

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Question 10

What happened in Kansas as a result of Popular Sovereignty?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 11

A Federalist wants more power in the ____ while an Anti-Federalist wants power ___.

Accepted Answer

Federal, States

Question 12

What was Roosevelt's plan to pull the U.S. out of the Great Depression called?

Accepted Answer

New Deal

Question 13

Which of the following is NOT an outcome of the Treaty of Versailles?

Accepted Answer

Germany required to withdraw from Olympic games

Question 14

What reasons did the U.S. drop an atomic bomb on Japan?

Accepted Answer

Answer 2 and 3

Question 15

The Progressive Era made social reforms in which of the following?

Accepted Answer

All of the Above

Question 16

What was the main reason for the Puritans/Pilgrims coming to the New World?

Accepted Answer

Religious Freedom

Question 17

Why were the colonists upset about the acts that enforced taxation?

Accepted Answer

They didn't have direct representation

Question 18

What was the result of the Compromise of 1850?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 19

Event where the USSR placed nuclear weapons on a nearby island

Accepted Answer

Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 20

What are the first 10 amendments called, and what is their purpose?

Accepted Answer

Bill of Rights, protect civil liberties

Question 21

When was the Declaration of Independence signed and who was the author?

Accepted Answer

July 4th 1776, Thomas Jefferson

Question 22

Which of the following are a result of passage of the 18th amendment?

Accepted Answer

Speakeasies, flappers, jazz music, organized crime

Question 23

What Supreme Court Case eliminated segregation in schools?

Accepted Answer

Brown vs Board of Education

Question 24

The idea that if one country fell to communism surrounding countries would is called...

Accepted Answer

Domino Theory

Question 25

Voluntarily becoming a slave for an amount of time in order to get to America and get land?

Accepted Answer

Indentured Servitude

Question 26

Which is NOT a reason U.S. got involved in Spanish American War

Accepted Answer

To gain access to the Panama Canal

Question 27

Which of the following was the cause of the 1970s energy crisis?

Accepted Answer

U.S. policies led to trade embargo from oil producers

Question 28

What did the Iranian people do in response to the U.S. harboring the Shah?

Accepted Answer

Overthrew the embassy holding 52 people hostage

Question 29

What is a muckraker?

Accepted Answer

An expose journalist seeking social reform

Question 30

Northern colonies main economic source was _____, while South relied on _______.

Accepted Answer

Trade of raw materials/Agriculture

Question 31

Also called supply-side economics this policy called for major tax cuts.

Accepted Answer

Reaganomics

Question 32

Define Monopoly

Accepted Answer

One company controls the supply of a good or service

Question 33

What methods did SCLC, SNCC, NAACP and CORE use to demonstrate Civil Rights.

Accepted Answer

All of the Above

Question 34

What was Andrew Jackson's policy toward Native Americans?

Accepted Answer

Removal

Question 35

What two policies would you associate with Bill Clinton's presidency?

Accepted Answer

Don't Ask Don't Tell/NAFTA

Question 36

Biggest factors for immigrants coming to the U.S. between 1840 and 1890.

Accepted Answer

A lot of job opportunities in the U.S. spurred, Famine and political problems in Europe

Question 37

What factor did not contribute to prosperity in the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

Open trade with China

Question 38

Law that prohibited segregation or discrimination based on race, color, religion or sex.

Accepted Answer

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Question 39

How did the French and Indian War lead to the Revolution?

Accepted Answer

All of the Above

Question 40

The Legislative Branch consists of ____ and is responsible for ____?

Accepted Answer

House and Senate/Passing Laws

Question 41

What piece of legislation was a response to righting against Big Business

Accepted Answer

Sherman Antitrust Act

Question 42

Which of the following is a cause of the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

All of the Above

Question 43

U.S. Senator who alleged communists had infiltrated the state department fueling the Red Scare

Accepted Answer

Joseph McCarthy

Question 44

Which of the following gave President Johnson power to make war against Vietnam in 1963?

Accepted Answer

Gulf of Tonkin resolution

Question 45

Walter Cronkite said, "We're mired in a stalemate," after this event.

Accepted Answer

Tet Offensive

Question 46

Andrew Carnegie monopolized what industry?

Accepted Answer

Steel Industry

Question 47

What three territories did the U.S. own as a result of the Spanish American War?

Accepted Answer

Guam, Puerto Rico, Philippines

Question 48

Political philosophy that exalts nation and often race above others.

Accepted Answer

Fascism

Question 49

Who is this and what did she represent?

Accepted Answer

Rosie the Riveter, Women in the workforce

Question 50

What crop helped save Jamestown?

Accepted Answer

Tobacco

Question 51

Belief that the nation has a divine right to expand its influence across the continental U.S.

Accepted Answer

Manifest Destiny

Question 52

Which was NOT a reason for the U.S. getting involved in WWI?

Accepted Answer

Nationalism

Question 53

What was the name of the scandal involving Richard Nixon's reelection campaign?

Accepted Answer

Watergate

Question 54

What was the reason for U.S. involvement in Korea and Vietnam?

Accepted Answer

Stop the Chinese and Soviet from expanding communism

Question 55

What is a Political Machine?

Accepted Answer

Group who controls the city/state through corrupt bargaining

Question 56

What policies of containment provided aid to European countries?

Accepted Answer

Marshall Plan/Truman Doctrine

Question 57

This was the Cold War period where the U.S. and USSR fought to be the first in space.

Accepted Answer

Space Race

Question 58

What governing document came before the Constitution?

Accepted Answer

Articles of Confederation

Question 59

What group of people with the US. were placed in interment camps during WWII?

Accepted Answer

Japanese

Question 60

What controversial land purchase did Thomas Jefferson make in 1803

Accepted Answer

Louisiana Purchase

Question 61

What book did Harriet Beacher Stowe write that depicted the life of a slave?

Accepted Answer

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Question 62

What happened when the South seceded?

Accepted Answer

They created their own Gvn't.

Question 63

Students at Kent State protested after Nixon did the following

Accepted Answer

Invaded Cambodia

Question 64

What are the long-term causes of WWI?

Accepted Answer

Militarism, Alliances, Nationalism, Imperialism

BHS CFA Final Test

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BHS CFA Final Test

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