2023 Unit 9 Retake

What region of the country is dominated by warm climate and a growing industrial economy?

• The Rust Belt

• The Sun Belt

• The Great Lakes

• The Sun Coast

--Decline of Steel and Auto Industries

--High Housing Prices and cost of living

--High Unemployment

--White Flight to suburbs

What is the best title for the list above:

• Reasons People Left the Rust Belt (Push Factors)

• Reasons People Moved to the Sun Belt

  (Pull Factors)

• Effects of Rust Belt to Sun Belt Migration

• Causes of the Great Migration

All iof the following are effects of the migration on the Sun Belt EXCEPT:

• Sun Belt population increased

• Sun Belt population political power increased

• Less than half of all African Americans live in the Sun Belt

• Loss of traditional regional values in the South

This organization allows free trade among the United States, Canada, and Mexico and has helped with trade, created jobs, and encouraged the economic growth of its members.

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

• North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

• United Nations (UN)

• World Trade Organization (WTO)

Why was OPEC created?

• To regulate the supply and price of oil
• to help the Palestinians in their problems with Israel
• to design new machinery to get oil out of the ground
• to keep countries that are not members from producing any oil

Which statement most accurately depicts why president Nixon had to resign from office in 1974?

• He had an affair with an intern
• He pulled troops out of Vietnam in 1973
• He opened relations with China and the Soviet Union
• He led a criminal conspiracy from the White House, which mislead the nation

Which of the following was the main scandal to rock the Reagan administration?

• Iran-contra scandal

• Watergate scandal

• Great Society programs

• War on Drugs campaign

When a government official made money off of allowing a private company to drill on government oil fields, it was called

• Nativism

• Red Scare

• Sacco and Venzetti

• Teapot Dome Scandal

. "Parents faced a great fear--the dreaded poliomyelitis, or polio as it was commonly known. The disease had killed more than thirteen hundred Americans...and crippled more than eighteen thousand more in the year 1954 alone. On April 12, 1955, America received the much-welcome news that Dr. Jonas Salk had___________ . -- "Fronteirs in History," National Archives and Records Administration, 2001

Which of the following completes this excerpt:

• discovered a cure for infant paralysis

• Founded a private hospital for children with polio

• Identified the mode by which the disease was transmitted

• Developed a vaccine against the frightening disease

Based on the information in the chart, which statement is accurate?

• Country A has a higher standard of living than Country B

• Country B has better access to technology and healthcare than Country A

• Country B has a higher quality of life than Country A

• Country B has a higher standard of living than Country A