HIST 1302 Spring 2025 Final Review

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What did the National Defense Education Act aim to improve?

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Education in science and mathematics

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What is the acronym NATO stand for?

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization

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The writer whose work encouraged the passage of the Meat Inspection Act was

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Upton Sinclair.

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What was a major requirement of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

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It prohibited racial discrimination in voting.

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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

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excluded Chinese immigrants from entering the country.

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Why did FDR try to change the balance of power on the Supreme Court?

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He feared the Supreme Court might invalidate the Wagner and Social Security Acts.

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What did Social Darwinists believe?

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They believed that human progress was a natural process and, therefore, the government should not interfere with it.

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The Pentagon Papers functioned as a critical document detailing what aspects of U.S. history?

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The government's decisions and actions during the Vietnam War.

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The Freedmen’s Bureau’s greatest accomplishments were in

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education and health care.

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How did John D. Rockefeller use horizontal expansion?

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He bought out competing oil-refining companies.