US History II EOC review

1st major foreign policy disaster of JFK

• Cuban Missile Crisis
• JFK assassination
• Bay of Pigs
• Dating Marilyn Monroe

The Pendleton Civil Service Act

• placed additional regulation on the railroads
• end Japanese immigration to the US
• end the spoils system
• print money backed by Silver rather than gold

The affluent lifestyle developed in America during the 1950s was stimulated by

• Rugged individualism
• foreign investment in the United States
• new technology of television
• growth of stock market

Under the Truman Doctrine, the US pledged to

• refrain from polarizing the world into pro-Soviet and pro-American camps
• maintain prosperity in America after World War II
• give very limited assistance to nations fighting communism
• support those who were resisting subjugation by Communists

What does the Morrill land Grant Act and the Homestead Act have in common

• They provided ways for settlers to acquire western land
• forced Native Americans onto reservations
• discriminated against African American families
• enabled railroad companies to develop the land near tracks

The group that included lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin of JFK in 1963 was

• H.U.D.
• Great Society
• Warren Commission
• Supreme Court

The largest public works project during Eisenhowers administration presidency was

• space program
• building of Grand Coulee Dam
• offshore oil drilling
• construction of the interstate highway

president Trumans Marshall Plan called for

• military aid for Europe
• Substantial finanacial assistance to rebuild Western Europe
• economic aid for Japan

Which of the following was a major part of Johnsons great Society?

• tax increase
• health care legislation
• aid to foreign countries
• reductions in anti-poverty programs

What was the MOSt common way for the United States to acquire native American land

• buy it with money
• Native Americans gave it away
• The Us and natives would trade
• The US took the land through conquest