2025 Spring Semester Final US History

Why did the US government establish wartime rationing during WWII?

• to avoid price controls on goods and services

• to limit consumption of critical, scarce resources

• to protect the property of the US

• to help law enforcement prosecute crimnal offenses.

Public acceptance of government rationing was based on the belief that it...

• would increase profits for small farmers.

• would eliminate the influence of big businesses on political candidates.

• was basically a fair and equitable system.

• guaranteed women equal pay for equal work.

Which of these was a method that was used to deny African Americans the right to vote?

• literacy tests and poll taxes

• deployment of federal troops

• bus boycotss and sit-ins

• student protests

As a result of the Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas case (1954), the court ordered that...

• segregated schools must be improved so they are equal to white schools.

• public schools across the nation should be integrated with all deliberate speed.

• the federal government must fund the construction of new public schools.

• private schools cannot prevent African American children from enrolling.

What conclusion can best be drawn from this cartoon?

• The United States was reluctant to commit troops to Southeast Asia.

• A united Vietnam was necessary for maintaining foreign alliances.

• The United States was shifting its foreign policy from isolationism to imperialism.

• Involvement in South Vietnam was necessary to prevent communism from spreading.

Which later presidential program is most similar to the idea expressed in FDR's Inaugrual Address in 1937?

• President Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society in the 1960s.

• President Jimmy Carter's Camp David Accords in the 1970s.

• President Ronald Reagan's supply-side fiscal policies in the 1980s.

• President George W. bush's War on Terror in the 2000s.

What countries received the most aid from the Marshall Plan?

• Austria and Bulgaria

• East Germany and West Germany

• Norway and Sweden

• France and the United Kingdom

One major goal of the Marshall Plan was to

• punish Germany as a result of WWII.

• contain the spread of communism in Europe.

• increase immigration to the US.

• improve economic relations with the Soviet Union

Which situation led the US government to issue this order?

• the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

• the lack of adequate housing on the West Coast for the Japanese.

• widespread acts of epionage by Japanese Americans.

• efforts to deport Japanese Americans.

What was one way the Voting Rights Act expanded the civil rights of African Americans?

• It ended discrimination in public facilities.

• It stopped the practice of sharecropping.

• It forced integration of public schools.

• It outlawed the use of literacy tests to register.