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WorksheetsMay 2022 AH2 Final Exam
Total questions: 58
Worksheet time: 2hrs 36mins
"In slave times, the Negro was kept subservient and submissive by the whip, but with freedom, a new system of cruelty was born; the free Negro is now lynched."
The above quotation most closely represented the views held by -
Will Bryan
Ida B Wells
Upton Sinclair
Susan Anthony
Which describes the 19th Amendment?
Creates an income tax- people pay taxes based on their wealth
Allows for people to directly elect senators
Banned the sale and manufacture of alcohol- created Prohibition
Granted women's suffrage (the right to vote)
Which of these acts was NOT something done by suffragettes?
secretly poisoning husbands
chained themselves to public places
hunger strike
marches
The 1915 film, The Birth of a Nation, portrayed which group as national heroes?
Cowboys
Proud Boys
NAACP
Ku Klux Klan
What did many African Americans consider the Compromise of 1877 as a "Great Betrayal"?
because Republicans abandoned trying to ensure African Americans in the south received equal rights
because most African Americans had voted for Tilden whom they had hoped would become President
because the Republicans refused to count African American votes that would have made Hayes President outright
In the late 1800's, why were Jim Crow Laws were passed in the southern states?
to make sure the 14th amendment would be enforced
to provide job opportunities for African Americans
to protect the right to vote for African Americans
to create separate societies for white and black Americans living in the same states.
What amendment was the constitutional issue in the case of Plessy vs. Ferguson?
13th
14th
15th
16th
Defendant's criticism of the draft was not protected by the First Amendment, because it was intended to result in a crime and created a clear and present danger to the enlistment and recruiting service of the U.S. armed forces during WWI. This was the verdict of WHICH court case?
Plessy vs Ferguson
Brown vs. Board of Education
Schenck vs. U.S.
Korematsu vs. U.S.
The government of what country was overthrown in 1917 and turned into a Communist country?
Germany
Cuba
Russia
Korea
Why did the United States enter WWII?
The US didn’t enter WWII – it remained neutral
The U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii was attacked by Japan
Great Britain’s Prime Minister Winston Churchill asked the US for its help
To pay for the War the federal government sold which of the following to its civilians?
Stocks
War bonds
Land
Silver/Gold
Which idea most accurately describes a communist country?
People have amny choices for leaders to represent them in the government
The government is small and has little influence over the people
People are wealthy and have the freedom to do whatever they want
The government controls the economy and gives the people very little freedom
In the 1930s, “Hoovervilles,” sprang up across the United States because of President Herbert Hoover’s
support for federal programs to provide jobs for the unemployed
refusal to provide direct federal aid to the homeless
efforts to help the residents return to their farms
emergency relief program to provide food to the poor
President Truman's greatest contribution to civil rights progress was
Granting of voting rights to Native-Americans
Granting of voting rights to African-American women
Desegregation of the armed forces
supporting an end to sharecropping
What major project of the 1950s changed the landscape of America and allowed Americans to travel easier and faster?
The Interstate Highway System
Airports
The Transcontinental Railroad
The Golden Gate Bridge
According to 1950s society, the "ideal" family was
suburban, married with children where the woman stayed home to take care of the children,
urban, middle-class, with a working mother
suburban, interracial couple, with a working mother
suburban, single-parent household
What crime were the Rosenbergs accused of?
Espionage, namely giving nuclear secret formula to the Soviets
Giving military secrets to China
Being communist
Sabotaging America's space program
"Duck and Cover" was developed for school children to protect themselves against
a Soviet invasion
an atomic attack
radioactive rain
common sense
The competition for weapons superiority after both the US and Soviet launch nuclear weapons
Arms Race
Nuclear Weapons
Hydrogen Bomb
Atomic Bomb
How did the USA's entry into WWII impact the consumer economy?
the industrial sector was able to produce war supplies and consumer goods so quickly that it led to the construction of new retail centers
the production of basic goods like sugar and meat dropped dramatically
Basic goods such as sugar, gasoline and meat were rationed by the government
consumers enjoyed a rapidly improved standard of living
President Truman used the policy of _________ to try and prevent the spread of Communism.
appeasement
containment
indirect control
direct control
Belief that if one country in a region fell to Communism all other countries in the area would fall is called...
containment
Geneva Accords
domino theory
the Wall
The outcome of the Korean War was that
North Korea remained communist
South Korea became communist
Korea became unified nation
Korea became annexed by China
This civil rights movement photograph represents training for ____________.
nonviolent disobedience
armed revolution
political elections
lengthy trials and legal appeals
What was one result of the Great Society?
Poverty was eliminated in the United States.
the lives of many underprivileged Americans improved.
President Johnson's popularity plummeted.
The federal government shrank considerably.
The "Red Scare" means
we were afraid of the color red.
we thought Red's were friends.
we were afraid of a Communist revolution in our own country
we were afraid of Democrats.
Which of the following was a direct result of the 1957 launch of Sputnik1?
The US began a period of technology sharing with the USSR
The US Gov't created the National Defense Education Act, Designed to improve science & math instruction in schools
The USSR was unable to collect images of the US from space
The USSR collapsed because of economic competition
Which of these is the purpose of the Federal Interstate Highway Act 1956?
make it easy to get out of big cities in case of an atomic attack
make coast-to-coast transportation more efficient
eliminate traffic congestion
all of these are correct
When cases of HIV and AIDS first occurred in the USA in the 1980s, how did the public respond?
blamed it on the gay community
confusion because they didn't know how the disease was transmitted
fear because they didn't understand how it was transmitted
all of these are true
What was FDR trying to gain support for the quote above?
How did the Marshall plan try to stop the spread of communism in Western Europe after WWII?
by providing government housing for refugees
by providing military assistance to Vietnam
by providing money to rebuild and strengthen Europe
To rebuild the Soviet Union
Which action occurred as a result of the Supreme Court decision excerpted above?
We choose to go to the moon in this decade not because it is easy, but because it is hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
--President John F. Kennedy, September 12, 1962
Why did President Kennedy decide to focus U.S. resources on going to the moon?
The United States wanted to gain the British as allies by proving it could defeat the Soviets in space exploration.
The United States wanted to seize the opportunity to land on the moon because the Soviet Union was in decline.
The United States wanted to win the race to the moon in the aftermath of the Soviet success with the Sputnik satellite.
The United States wanted to colonize the moon in order to establish missile defense bases against the Soviets
The G.I. Bill was signed and implemented in the final years of World War II. An important aspect of the act was the extension of education to military veterans: Any person who served in the active military or naval forces after 1940, shall be entitled to education or training.
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Which describes the large-scale impact of the G.I. Bill after WWII?
It increased the incentive to enlist in the military and increased the likelihood of engaging in war
It increased the number of veterans entering universities and improved the education of the workforce.
It created financial problems for universities as student-veterans did not pay for their educations.
It decreased the power of the anti-war movement as the benefits of war were publicized
Held that abortion rights fell into the "zone of privacy" implied in the bill of rights
Casey v. Planned Parenthood
Roe v. Wade
Lawrence v. Texas
Grutter v. Bollinger
Integration of the schools by busing
Brown vs. Board of Education
Swann vs. Charlotte-Mecklenberg
Loving vs. Virginia
This person wrote the book, Silent Spring, which warned of the ominous effects of pesticide use.
Erin Brockovich
Rachel Carson
Lois Marie Gibbs
Garrett Hardin
A proposed and failed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would have prohibited any government discrimination on the basis of Sex.
Feminism
Civil Rights Movement
AIM
Equal Rights Amendment
During the 1920s, controversies over the Scopes Trial, national prohibition, and the behavior of flappers were all signs of disagreements over
the benefits of new technology
the return to normalcy
causes of the Great Depression
traditional values and changing lifestyles
