History 118 - U.S. History 1865 to Present » Summer 2021 » Unit Test 4

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Question #1
Which of the following statements best describes the economic Golden Age of the 1950s?
A.   The West became the home of numerous military bases and government-funded shipyards.
B.   The poverty rate increased by 1959.
C.   By 1956, blue-collar workers outnumbered white-collar workers.
D.   The South benefited from government contracts for air craft, guided missiles, and radar systems.
E.   The 1950s appeared as the last decade of industrial strength in the United States.
Question #2
What event took place in Birmingham, Alabama in May 1963 that led President Kennedy to endorse the goals of the civil rights movement?
A.   A bomb exploding at a black Baptist church in Birmingham, killing four young girls.
B.   Medgar Evers, field secretary of the NAACP is killed by sniper fire.
C.   The images, broadcast on television, of schoolchildren being assaulted by police.
D.   Kennedy reads “Letters from a Birmingham Jail” an eloquent plea for racial justice written by MLK while serving a nine day prison term in Birmingham.
E.   Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his famous speech “I have a dream” to a gathering of 250,000 black and white Americans.
Question #3
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Modern Republicanism?
A.   Eisenhower supported increased government spending to greatly expand the military.
B.   The National Defense Education Act offered direct federal funding to higher education.
C.   Eisenhower wants to distance the Republican Party from its identification with the Great Depression.
D.   President Eisenhower presides over the largest public-works enterprise, the interstate highway system.
E.   Core New Deal programs are kept in place.
Question #4
The New Conservatives of the 1950s:
A.   understood freedom as first and foremost a moral condition.
B.   believed that individual autonomy was the cornerstone of any free society.
C.   were opposed to a strong national government as a bitter reaction against the New Deal.
D.   supported strongly the notion of unregulated capitalism.
Question #5
According to Betty Friedan, the issue that many women awakened to in the early 1960s was:
A.   the emptiness of consumer culture.
B.   how to achieve the suburban dream.
C.   a society that deemed marriage and motherhood as inadequate.
D.   the lack of opportunities for educated women.
E.   embracing personal freedom through public smoking and drinking.
Question #6
Which of the following would Not be considered part of Nixon's policy of Detente?
A.   His visit to China in 1972 leads to Beijing taking up China's seat at the United Nations.
B.   He became the first American President to visit the Soviet Union.
C.   By improving relations with the Soviets he believed they would influence North Vietnam to end the war.
D.   He sent troops into neutral Cambodia hoping to cut off North Vietnam's supply line.
E.   He and his Secretary of State Henry Kissinger were more interested in power than ideology.
Question #7
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed the poll tax which had long prevented poor blacks (and some whites) from voting in the South.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #8
The agreement signed by the United States and the Soviet Union at Helsinki, Finland:
A.   froze each countries arsenal of intercontinental missiles.
B.   dismantled Europe's post-World War II boundaries.
C.   was an example of how President Ford dismissed Nixon's policy of Detente.
D.   placed importance on respect for basic liberties.
Question #9
Beat poet Allen Ginsberg’s The Howl written in 1955:
A.   is a brilliant protest against materialism and conformism and written while he was under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs.
B.   documents how corporate bureaucracies had transformed employees into “organization men” who can’t think for themselves.
C.   describes Americans as “other-directed” basically conformists who can’t live truly independent lives because they lack the inner resources.
D.   invites readers to scream out against corporate leaders, politicians, and military men who dominate government and society and deny Americans the ability to formulate available choices.
E.   examines rebellious youth better known as juvenile delinquents.
Question #10
The 1946 Supreme Court case Mendez v. Westminster involving desegregation in Orange County schools was a legal challenge to the “separate but equal” doctrine established in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896.
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #11
Malcolm Little (X):
A.   insisted that blacks work alongside whites to achieve civil and political rights.
B.   coined the term "Black Power" in 1966.
C.   alarmed whites by wearing military garb when he spoke at gatherings.
D.   spoke out against the possibility of interracial cooperation after a trip to Mecca, Saudi Arabia in 1964.
E.   was a sharp critic of the ideas of integration and nonviolence.
Question #12
With the merger of the AFL and CIO and the New Social Contract, employers offered wage increases private pensions, health insurance, and cost of living adjustments.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE

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