EOC Review #1

It is widely believed that when President Eisenhower signed a bill to create a national interstate highway system in 1956, he did it for what primary purpose?

• to allow people to move to the western U.S. more easily

• to allow people in suburban areas to enter big cities more quickly

• to force southern states receiving federal funds to end segregation

• to provide the means to transport military aid more quickly in the event of a national military crisis

Which word BEST describes the U.S. policy towards communism in the 1950s and 1960s?

• appeasement

• containment

• elimination

• indifference

Jane Addams's "Hull House" of the late-19th century was

• supported and funded by Congress.

• ruled to be unconstitutional in 1901.

• created to help adjust immigrants into the United States.

• helped to retrain Native Americans forced off of their land.

President Nixon's pledged to end the Vietnam War through "Vietnamization." Which statement BEST describes this policy?

• to give financial support to the North Vietnamese if they would surrender

• to threaten to use nuclear weapons on the North Vietnamese if they did not surrender

• to force the South Vietnamese to surrender if the North Vietnamese would turn over all POW's

• to turn the war over to the South Vietnamese by gradually withdrawing US troops but still sending financial support

"A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the states, old as well as new, North as well as South."

Who was the source of this famous statement regarding slavery and sectionalism in the years leading up to the Civil War?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Stephen Douglas

• John C. Calhoun

• Jefferson Davis

What was the purpose of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) during the Great Depression?

• to insure bank deposits in the United States

• to create job opportunities in national parks

• to reduce farm surpluses and raise agricultural profits

• provide electrical power to poor and rural regions of the U.S.

"Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself, and that is what has happened to the American Negro. Something within has reminded him of his birthright of freedom, and something without has reminded him that it can be gained... If one recognizes this vital urge that has engulfed the Negro community, one should readily understand why public demonstrations are taking place. The Negro has many pent-up resentments and latent frustrations, and he must release them. So let him march; let him make prayer pilgrimages to the city hall; let him go on freedom rides–and try to understand why he must do so. If his repressed emotions are not released in nonviolent ways, they will seek expression through violence; this is not a threat but a fact of history."

--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, 1963

According to this excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail , it is clear that

• King advocates the use of non-violent civil disobedience as a method of protest against racial injustice.

• King supports the use of violent protests if southern whites continue to infringe upon their civil rights.

• King believes that southern churches will be the force that ends the conflict between segregationists and African-Americans.

• King believes that the only solution to the racial conflict in the American south is intervention from the federal government.

Which of these was MOST impacted by Johnson's "Great Society" programs?

• space exploration

• stock market reform

• insurance for the disadvantaged

• defense spending to stop communism

Political parties appeared in the United States shortly after the Constitution was adopted because

• Washington disliked Jefferson.

• Great Britain had a two-party system.

• the Constitution provides for a two-party system.

• differences arose over political and economic issues.

In which period were MOST of the original British North American colonies founded?

• 1550-1600

• 1600-1650

• 1650-1700

• 1700-1750