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Question 1

the 1960s the (CORE),Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee registered African Americans-

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to participate in the democratic process by voting.

Question 2

When President Nixon talked about Vietnamization what was the basic idea?

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would pull out from the war leaving Vietnam defend the war

Question 3

resulted in increase in supply of cattle and the invention of barb wire.

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cattle boom

Question 4

time period of prosperity but covered up the corrupt underbelly of government.

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gilded age

Question 5

what book was written by muckrakers to expose meat packing plant.

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the jungle

Question 6

policy to bring Native Americans into american culture and way of living.

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Assimilation

Question 7

Which goal set at the women’s convention in Seneca Falls, was finally achieved

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to get the woman's suffrage to be passed

Question 8

During the Cold War, nations formed the (NATO) for the purpose of —

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free trade

Question 9

rotests to the Vietnam war increased with the passage of what amendment?

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26th Amendment

Question 10

how did JFK respod to the cuban missle crisis

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with a blockade of Cuba

Question 11

What is a Dove.

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the person that was against the Vietnam war

Question 12

Progressive Reformers attacked “political machines because they often

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Stole public money through overpriced contracts

Question 13

WHAT IS THE GRAPES OF WRAITH ABOUT.

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It is about the dust bowl

Question 14

How did the TVA create jobs.

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They created jobs building damns and power plants

Question 15

Journalist whose main goal was to expose and clean up corrupt business practices were called:

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muckrackers

Question 16

Which goal was shared by both the Populists and the Progressives?

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Greater control of the government by the people

Question 17

What amendment grant women the right to vote no matter color or creed.

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19

Question 18

action provided funding for veterans of WW2 in order to create a better educated and home owner

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Passage of the G.I. Bill

Question 19

How has additional available energy affected the American way of life?

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Spurred innovation and new technology

Question 20

To guarantee an adequate money supply in the national economy President Wilson introduced

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Federal Reserve system

Question 21

How did President Carter respond to the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979-1981?

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economic sanctions and a military rescue of the hostages

Question 22

What is the significance of Oct. 29, 1929

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the day the stock market crash

Question 23

As a result of the 19th Amendment, states can no longer determine voter eligibility based on

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gender

Question 24

What is the Social Security Act?

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created a retirement program and unemployment help

Question 25

This 1914 legislation sought eliminate monopolies by strengthening federal laws

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Clayton Anti-Trust Act

Question 26

Earth Day was created for the purpose of —

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raising awareness of environmental issues

Question 27

When Susan B Anthony refused to pay fine what was it in support for

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19th amendment

Question 28

The Red Scare of the 1920s and McCarthyism of the 1950s are similar in that both —

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developed in reaction to fears of the spread of communism

Question 29

The policy objectives of Reaganomics were based on the theory that —

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broad tax cuts and deregulation would promote economic

Question 30

leaders such as George Wallace, Orval Faubus, and Lester Maddox were committed to the idea of

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racial segregation

Question 31

What is the Gulf of tonkin Resolution

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Allowed president to send troups with out congress

Question 32

W.E.B. DuBois was one of the founders of the NAACP, an organization dedicated to —

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achieving racial equality for African Americans

Question 33

As part of the Nixon administration’s policy of Vietnamization, the U.S. military —

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trained South Vietnamese forces to take over combat

Question 34

Which of the following was a direct result of the civil rights movement?

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Increased political participation by minority groups

Question 35

Which action caused the United States to engage in a “police action” on the Korea

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North Korea’s invasion of South Korea

Question 36

Policy in which government stays out of the private business.

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laissez-faire

Question 37

The launch of Sputnik I and Sputnik II by the Soviet Union in 1957 led the United States to —

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accelerate its space program

Question 38

One of the primary goals of the Marshall Plan was to prevent the —

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spread of communism in Western Europe

Question 39

Which movements played a key role in the recruitment of Christians as a political strength?

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The Moral Majority

Question 40

Ross Perot’s greatest effect as a third party candidate in the 1996 presidential election was

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he drew 19% of the total national vote away from Republican

Question 41

President JFK responded to reports that the RUSSIA was constructing missile sites in Cuba by

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ordering a naval blockade of Cuba

Question 42

Lines for gas such in the late 1970s and 80s resulted from

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an embargo by the OPEC

Question 43

The supreme court case that set up "separate but equal"

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Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 44

A program that created jobs for young men out west, by housing, paying and feeding them.

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CCC

Question 45

The 21st century movement referred to as “Going Green’ was aimed at-

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the conservation of energy in the US.

Question 46

In the 1960s César Chávez organized the United Farm Workers to —

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improve working conditions for migrant farm laborers

Question 47

In 1983 a terrorist attack on US marines in Lebanon killed 241 soldiers led to the

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US withdrawing troops less than a year later

Question 48

The Idea that if one Indonesian country fell to Communist regime the rest would soon follow

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domino theory

Question 49

Which disease that emerged in the 1980s led to a worldwide epidemic

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Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)

Question 50

What was the outcome of the Tinker VS Des Moines case?

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the right of freedom of speech by students

Question 51

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 eliminated —

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literacy tests as prerequisites for voting

Question 52

group of senators that triedto block civil rights reforms in the 1950s and early 1960s were

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southern Democrats

Question 53

Which resulted from the U.S. led military coalition’s engagement in the Persian Gulf War?

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The nation of Kuwait was liberated

Question 54

influenced the U.S.-Soviet signing of the SALT I treaty was President Richard Nixon’s

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opening of diplomatic relations with China

Question 55

During the Progressive Era, public demands for direct consumer protection results in

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pure food and drug act

Question 56

Civil Rights movement protest examples

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lunch counter sit ins, march on Washington, Freedom summer

Question 57

What was the reaction of many Americans to the Watergate scandal?

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Cynicism about government and elected politicians

Question 58

During the mid-1960s, U.S. participation in the Vietnam War resulted in —

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mass demonstrations by groups protesting the war

Question 59

Why was Martin Luther King, Jr., chosen as Time magazine’s 1963 “Man of the Year”?

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He had become the symbol of the Civil Rights movement.

Question 60

Which of the following resulted from McCarthyism during the 1950s?

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U.S. citizens were arrested for being suspected communists.

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