STAAR Comprehensive Review

A poster featuring farmers reading "boycott Red Coach Lettuce" would have been meant to advocate

• Publicly funded health care for children

• Better economic treatment of migrant workers

• A retirement system for farm laborers

• Equal employment opportunities for women

An anti-draft demonstration in the 1960s would have been most prompted by which event?

• Renewed diplomatic relations with Communist China

• Escalated deployment military forces to Vietnam

• The signing of the Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty

• The formation of the North Atlantic treaty Organization

The introduction of vaccines to the United States helped -

• Limit the risk in consuming imported produce

• Improve the hygiene of medical procedures

• Improve the quality of the water supply

• Limit the spread of infectious diseases

What is it called when multiple companies sell similar products (Pizza Hut and Dominos, for example) with a variety of features at discounted prices?

• Government regulation

• Free enterprise and competition

• Monopolizing industry

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What was the purpose of government programs such as the Tennessee Valley Authority, established during the Great Depression in 1933?

• To establish industrial centers in the region

• To promote organic farming practices

• To offset the effects of urbanization and rapid population growth

• To provide jobs and improve the regional standard of living

Who is given credit for ending racial segregation in Major League Baseball?

Senator Joseph McCarthy is best known for his involvement in

• the war effort of the 1940s

• the Red Scare of the 1950s

• the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s

• the political scandals of the 1970s

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was most concerned with

• Protecting the Environment

• Ending discrimination in employment opportunities

• Providing adequate access to buildings for disables persons

• Transportation security

The Social Security Act of 1935 -

• Allowed the government to tax investment income

• Allowed people to have more input in government decisions

• Decreased citizens'' faith in government

• Made the government more responsible for people's economic welfare

The government issued ration books during World War II in order to

• Provide financial security for uninsured citizens

• Safeguard the profits of struggling businesses

• Ensure fair distribution of scarce goods

• Allow consumers to buy imported goods at discounted rates