EOC Review

Which statement about the Presidential Election of 2008 is CORRECT?

• It was the last time a Republican nominee won an election.

• It resulted in the election of the first African-American President.C

• It was the first time a woman had been nominated for Vice President.

• It was won by a candidate who did not receive a majority of the popular vote.

Which controversial action did President Lincoln take early in the Civil War that limited the rights of certain U.S. citizens?

• He instituted the first military draft.

• He issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

• He suspended the writ of habeas corpus.

• He freed slaves in states that were loyal to the South.

What was Ronald Reagan's economic plan in the 1980s with regards to taxes and military spending?

• Ronald Reagan's policy favored cutting military spending to provide tax breaks to the middle class.

• Ronald Reagan focused on increasing taxes in order to increase military spending during the Cold War.

• Ronald Reagan implemented supply side economics to decrease taxes while increasing military spending.

• Ronald Reagan devoted his economic plan to balancing the budget by decreasing taxes and military spending.

Which Civil War battle resulted in the Union gaining strategic control of the Mississippi River?

• Antietam

• Appomattox

• Murfreesboro

• Vicksburg

Which is an example of the concept of Manifest Destiny in action?

• the Compromise of 1850

• the Missouri Compromise

• the Transatlantic Slave Trade

• the annexation of Mexican territory

· Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination· Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination· Protests at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago· Tet Offensive

All these events took place in what year

• 1964

• 1968

• 1930

• 1980

These American women were famous for boycotting British goods by making homespun cloth and for finding substitutes for tea and sugar (all heavily taxed by the British.) Who were these women?

• Women of the Revolution

• Molly Pitchers

• National Organization of Women

• Daughters of Liberty

"Jacksonian Democracy" is associated with which of these characteristics?

• suffrage for all people in the United States

• voting rights extended to all adult, white males

• a nation governed by upper and middle class educated property owners

• laws promising full political equality regardless of race, sex, or wealth

The "Manhattan Project" was the code name for the

• U.S. plan to invade Japan.

• German use of jet aircraft.

• Allied plan to invade Europe.

• U.S. plans to make an atomic bomb.

After winning the French & Indian War, Great Britain passed the Proclamation of 1763 which made the colonists angry because

• it did not allow them to settle on land west of the Appalachian mountains.

• it passed a tax on items such as newspapers, wills and contracts.

• it forced colonists to house and feed British soldiers.

• it took away their representation in Parliament.