1302 Final Exam Review

Dust storms resulted from which of the following:

• drought and soil erosion

• planting crops like legumes instead of cash crops like wheat, cotton, and tobacco

• too many trees on the Great Plains that hampered the flow of the wind

• none of these

How did the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) positively impact rural farmers living in the South?

• assisted with the planting of 220 million trees to reduce dust storms

• Sharecroppers found assistance to break out of a cycle of debt that binding them to landowners

• dams constructed brought electricity to rural areas

• none of these

How did Roosevelt's efforts to address unemployment compare with Hoover's?

• Unlike Hoover, Roosevelt put people to

  work directly for the government

• Both presidents relied on the ingenuity of businesses to address the crisis

• Unlike Hoover, Roosevelt preferred to give financial assistance to the unemployed

• none of these

Navajos who served in WWII were essential for their efforts in:

• transmitting secret codes in their native language, which could not be broken by the Japanese

• infiltration of the Japanese army to provide invaluable intelligence

• breaking the German naval code

• none of these

What was NATO?

• was the first military alliance for the U.S.

• was a failed attempt at peace with the Soviet Union

• was a peace agreement between the U.S., France and Britain

• none of these

What was the cause of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• U.S. discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba

• Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba

• Soviet ships encountered a U.S. Blockade

• none of these

Which of the following was eliminated with the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

• Banning poll taxes & literacy tests

• Eliminating Jim Crow laws

• Relying on the Fifteenth Amendment

• none of these

What were Levittowns?

• segregated communities in the South

• planned suburban communities

• gated communities

• none of these

Which of the following is true about the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

• wasn't supported by LBJ

• passed the House of Representatives

• prohibited segregation in public facilities

• none of these

Which earlier Supreme Court ruling was overturned by Brown v. Board of Education?

• Marbury v. Madison

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• McCulloch v. Maryland

• none of these