Final Exam review

Question 1

What state was Barack Obama born in?

Accepted Answer

Hawaii

Question 2

These developments helped begin to change the attitude that many white Americans had towards black Americans except

Accepted Answer

Pro civil rights candidate Strom Thurmond running in the Democratic Party

Question 3

President Reagan and his Soviet counterpart premier Mikhail Gorbachev failed to negotiate on arms control measures

Accepted Answer

False

Question 4

Which group represented the highest percentage of immigrants?

Accepted Answer

Latinos

Question 5

One of Bill Clinton's biggest achievements was reforming healthcare

Accepted Answer

False

Question 6

What lead Martin Luther King Jr. to visit Birmingham, Alabama?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 7

The Bay of Pigs invasion of Fidel Castro's Cuba proved to be a definitive win for the United States

Accepted Answer

False

Question 8

Thomas Dewey won the election in 1948

Accepted Answer

False

Question 9

In 1950, how many southern and border states had laws requiring the racial segregation of public schools?

Accepted Answer

17

Question 10

These were all results of Senator McCarthy's community inquiries EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

evidence turned up to support McCarthy's claims

Question 11

"Trickle-down economics was a term used by critics of Reagan's policies

Accepted Answer

True

Question 12

Which state was the focus of the contested election of 2000?

Accepted Answer

Florida

Question 13

Black Americans in 2020 were more than twice as likely as whites to be shot and killed by police

Accepted Answer

True

Question 14

What was the date that Trump insurgents stormed the US Capitol?

Accepted Answer

January 6th, 2021

Question 15

General Eisenhower suggested to president Truman that the US should use atomic weapons against China

Accepted Answer

False

Question 16

Which states flipped red in order to give Donald Trump the presidency in 2016

Accepted Answer

Minnesota

Question 17

These were all results of the Great Recession EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

More men than woman held paying jobs

Question 18

During the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, the tax rate for the richest Americans never fell below what percent?

Accepted Answer

70

Question 19

Which neutral country did Nixon order troops in 1970 to cut North Vietnamese supply lines?

Accepted Answer

Cambodia

Question 20

Barry Goldwater as a presidential candidate believed in all of the following EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

Supported the Social Security Act

Question 21

Which state surpassed New York as the most populous state in 1963?

Accepted Answer

California

Question 22

These initiatives were used to help curb the tide of Soviet expansionism except...

Accepted Answer

rebuilding China

Question 23

All of these things happened from 1989 into 1990 EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

Soviet Union collapsing

Question 24

In 1966, Malcolm X launched the Chicago Freedom Movement

Accepted Answer

False

Question 25

During the Eisenhower era, these policies became a framework of his administration EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

Got rid of a number of New Deal programs

Question 26

In 1972, Congress approved Title IX, which banned gender discrimination in higher education

Accepted Answer

True

Question 27

By the year 2000 what percentage of Americans owned a personal computer?

Accepted Answer

50

Question 28

The following were trademarks of the Nixon administration EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

He cut and discontinued many elements of the Great Society

Question 29

All of these events happened in the pivotal year of 1968 EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

Malcolm X assassinated

Question 30

Rock and Roll star Elvis Presley was influenced by black musicians and dancers

Accepted Answer

True

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