Post Assessment 11th Grade

Use the excerpt below to answer the question. Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. . . . But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. . . . We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United State corporations. This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. . . . The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. —President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Farewell Address, January 17, 1961 Which statement best summarizes the excerpt?

• The chief executive sought to privatize the military-industrial complex in the United States.

• The size of the military-industrial complex needed to be increased during times of conflict.

• The United States needed to reduce the military-industrial complex to maintain peace.

• The growth of the military-industrial complex threatened democratic institutions.

Which example was made possible by the passage of this act? No person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance. —Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

• guaranteeing medical care for people without health insurance

• providing low-interest-rate loans to first-time home buyers

• maintaining safe working conditions for employees

• ensuring equal access to public education

Use the list below to answer the question. Goals of Freedom Summer • Increase voter registration • Establish relief programs • Challenge the Mississippi delegation at national conventions • Nominate Freedom candidates for Congress Based on this list, which phrase best explains how this program was seeking to influence change?

• by challenging cases of discrimination in the federal courts

• by increasing enrollment in higher education institutions

• by providing economic opportunities in minority communities

• by increasing minority participation in political processes

Based on this excerpt, Friedan was speaking out mainly against which American cultural issue of the early 1960s? The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century. . . . Each suburban wife . . . was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question—“Is this all?” —Betty Friedan, 1963

• conformity

• segregation

• poverty

• consumerism

Read the excerpt from a 1965 memo to President Johnson. The situation in Vietnam is deteriorating, and without new U.S. action defeat appears inevitable. . . There is still time to turn it around, but not much. What action did the U.S. government take in response to the concern in the excerpt?

• Expanded the draft to increase the U.S. military presence

• Ordered the removal of U.S. military forces

• Asked the United Nations for military support

• Began negotiations with the Vietcong to end the war

Read the quote made by a joint resolution between Congress and President Lyndon B. Johnson. The United States regards as vital to its national interest and to world peace the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. Consonant with the Constitution of the United States and the Charter of the United Nations and in accordance with its obligations under the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, the United States is, therefore, prepared, as the President determines, to take all necessary steps, including the use of armed force, to assist any member or protocol state of the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty requesting assistance in defense of its freedom This resolution was made in response to —

• the Geneva Accords

• the bombing of Cambodia

• the Gulf of Tonkin incident

• the Tet Offensive

Look at the diagram. What was the common goal of the social movements in the diagram?

• Eliminating discrimination

• Advocating pacifism

• Reducing environmental pollution

• Unionizing factory labor

Look at the map. Based on the map, from 1940 to 1970, African Americans mainly relocated from —

• the East Coast to the West Coast

• the United States to Europe

• the South to the North

• urban areas to rural areas

Read the quote from President Reagan's Farewell Address in 1989. After 200 years, two centuries, [America] still stands strong and true on the granite ridge, and her glow has held steady no matter what storm. And she's still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home. Which group of people was President Reagan discussing in this quote from his address?

• Minority groups in America who were seeking equality

• Immigrants who came to America for better opportunities

• Entrepreneurs who want to find financial success

• America's children who need greater economic stability

Look at the map. Based on the map, which area of the United States voted mostly Republican?

• Southeast

• Northeast

• West Coast

• Great Lakes