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APUSH Unit 9

Total questions: 70

Worksheet time: 38mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which President faced two separate assassination attempts?

a)

Gerald Ford

b)

Ronald Reagan

c)

Barack Obama

d)

George W. Bush

2.

Which President negotiated a peace between Egypt and Israel at Camp David?

a)

George W. Bush

b)

George H. W. Bush

c)

Jimmy Carter

d)

Barack Obama

3.

Who was the first woman to be nominated to the Supreme Court?

a)

Nancy Pelosi

b)

Hillary Clinton

c)

Sandra Day O'Connor

d)

Ruth Bader Ginsberg

4.

President Reagan asked who to "Tear Down this Wall!"

a)

Mikhail Gorbachav

b)

Josef Stalin

c)

Nikita Kruschchev

d)

Vladimir Putin

5.

Reagan's SDI program was nicknamed for which popular film of the era?

a)

Back to the Future

b)

Star Wars

c)

E.T.

d)

Jaws

6.

The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union officially ends during the administration of whom?

a)

Bill Clinton

b)

George H. W. Bush

c)

Ronald Reagan

d)

Barack Obama

7.

During whose Administration do we get involved in the Persian Gulf War?

a)

Bill Clinton

b)

George H. W. Bush

c)

Jimmy Carter

d)

Gerald Ford

8.

Don't Ask to Don't Tell (DADA) discouraged which minority group from enlisting in the military?

a)

African Americans

b)

Latinos

c)

Japanese

d)

LGBT

9.

Who did Bill Clinton choose to lead a task force on his government sponsored health care initiative?

a)

Newt Gingrich

b)

Al Gore

c)

Ken Starr

d)

Hillary Clinton

10.

Which First Lady wanted you to "Just Say No" to drugs?

a)

Michelle Obama

b)

Nancy Reagan

c)

Barbara Bush

d)

Hillary Clinton

11.

Who was our nation's first female secretary of state?

a)

Nancy Pelosi

b)

Hillary Clinton

c)

Condaleeza Rice

d)

Madeline Albright

12.

Only two presidents have ever been impeached: Andrew Johnson and _____?

a)

Barack Obama

b)

Ronald Reagan

c)

Richard Nixon

d)

Bill Clinton

13.

The terror attack on September 11, 2001 were perpetrated by which terrorist organization?

a)

ISIS

b)

KKK

c)

Al Qaeda

d)

Black Panther Party

14.

The Bush (Jr.) Administration brought down which terrorist leader/dictator?

a)

Osama bin Laden

b)

Saddam Hussein

c)

Assad

d)

Josef Stalin

15.

Who became the first (and as of right now the only) female Speaker of the House?

a)

Sonya Sotomayor

b)

Nancy Pelosi

c)

Sandra Day O'Conner

d)

Condaleeza Rice

16.

During the Administration of George W. Bush, the U.S. entered military engagements in which countries?

a)

Afghanistan

b)

Iraq

c)

Syria

d)

Egypt

17.

During whose administration did the United States suffer the greatest economic disaster since the Great Depression of 1929-1942?

a)

Bill Clinton

b)

Gerald Ford

c)

George W. Bush

d)

Barack Obama

18.

Barack Obama's use of the internet/social media emulate what?

a)

FDR's "Fireside Chats"

b)

Kennedy-Nixon Debates

c)

Eisenhower's Farewell Address

d)

Nixon's Resignation

19.

This famous picture most likely to depicts which event?

a)

Obama's Cabinet reacting to the murder of Osama bin Laden

b)

Obama's cabinet reacting to the attack on 9/11

c)

Obama's cabinet reacting to Donald Trump becoming president

d)

Obama's cabinet reacting to the murder of Saddam Hussein

20.

President Obama opened up diplomatic ties with Cuba for the first time since

a)

the Eisenhower Administration

b)

the Kennedy Administration

c)

the Truman Administration

d)

the Nixon Administration

21.

Which Supreme Court case legalized same sex marriage throughout the 50 states?

a)

Roe v. Wade

b)

Brown v. Board of Education

c)

Obergefell v. Hodges

d)

Town of Skokie v. USA

22.
•“long, hot summers”
•Freedom Summer
•Greensboro sit-ins
•U-2 incident
Détente 
a)
1960s
b)
1950s
c)
1970s
d)
1940s
23.
•Clinton impeachment
•NAFTA
•Bosnia & Serbia airstrikes
•“don’t ask don’t tell” policy
a)
1980s
b)
1990s
c)
2000s
d)
1970s
24.
•Osama bin Laden killed
•End of “don’t ask, don’t tell”
•SOPA Internet Protest
•Benghazi Embassy attacked
a)
1980s
b)
1990s
c)
2000s
d)
2010s
25.
•Seward’s Folly
•Sharecropping
•Tenure of Office Act
•Scalawags
•Redeemers
a)
1850s
b)
1860s
c)
1870s
d)
1790s
26.
Indentured Servants
Mayflower Compact
Roger Williams
House of Burgesses
a)
1620s
b)
1720s
c)
1660s
d)
1760s
27.
Works Progress Administration
Cash and Carry
Sit-Down Strike
John Steinbeck- Grapes of Wrath
Social Security Act
a)
1910s
b)
1920s
c)
1930s
d)
1940s
28.
William Randolph Hearst
Pullman Strike
JP Morgan
Cross of Gold Speech
Plessy v. Ferguson
a)
1840s
b)
1860s
c)
1890s
d)
1900s
29.
Whig Party
Independent Treasury System
Specie Circular
a)
1800s
b)
1820s
c)
1830s
d)
1770s
30.
War Powers Act
Equal Rights Amendment
OPEC
Kent State
Helsinki Accords
a)
1950s
b)
1960s
c)
1970s
d)
1940s
31.
Volstead Act
Woodrow Wilson
Fourteen Points
a)
1900s
b)
1910s
c)
1920s
d)
1890s
32.

Underwood Simmons Tariff

Bull Moose Party

Federal Reserve Act

"he kept us out of war"

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

a)

1900s

b)

1910s

c)

1880s

d)

1890s

33.
Treaty of Ghent
Hartford Convention
Adams-Onis Treaty
War Hawks
American System
a)
1770s
b)
1790s
c)
1800s
d)
1810s
34.
Trail of Tears
Dorthea Dix
Nullification
William Lloyd Garrison
Worcester v. Georgia
a)
1830s
b)
1840s
c)
1850s
d)
1860s
35.
Trade and Navigation Acts
Bacon's Rebellion
King Philip's War
Salutary Neglect
Halfway Covenant
a)
1620s
b)
1670s
c)
1720s
d)
1770s
36.
The Grange
Credit Mobilier Scandal
Cattle drives
Horatio Alger
Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce
a)
1870s
b)
1880s
c)
1890s
d)
1900s
37.
Tea Act
Boston Massacre
Gaspee Affair
First and Second Continental Congress
a)
1770s
b)
1780s
c)
1790s
d)
1800s
38.
Stamp Act Congress
Sons of Liberty
Non-importation agreements
Pontiac's Rebellion
Townshend Acts
a)
1740s
b)
1750s
c)
1760s
d)
1770s
39.
Spanish-American War
Booker T Washington
Gospel of Wealth
Yellow Journalism
a)
1890s
b)
1900s
c)
1910s
d)
1880s
40.
Social Gospel
Knights of Labor
Jim Crow Laws
Social Darwinism
Helen Hunt Jackson- A Century of Dishonor
a)
1870s
b)
1880s
c)
1910s
d)
1920s
41.
Shay's Rebellion
Northwest Ordinance
Three-fifths Compromise
Articles of Confederation
Annapolis Convention
a)
1770s
b)
1780s
c)
1790s
d)
1760s
42.
Seneca Falls Convention
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Wilmot Proviso
Irish Immigration
a)
1810s
b)
1820s
c)
1830s
d)
1840s
43.
Samuel Slater
Pinckney Treaty
Full Funding/Assumption of State Debts
Federalist Party
a)
1790s
b)
1780s
c)
1800s
d)
1770s
44.
Pilgrims/Separatists
Anne Hutchinson
Headright System
City on a Hill
Roger Williams
a)
1520s
b)
1570s
c)
1620s
d)
1490s
45.
Quartering Act
Stamp Act
Paxton Boys
Sugar Act
"No Taxation Without Representation"
a)
1750s
b)
1760s
c)
1770s
d)
1780s
46.
Peace Corps
Betty Friedan- The Feminine Mystique
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Stokely Carmichael (Black Power)
Great Society
a)
1940s
b)
1950s
c)
1960s
d)
1970s
47.

Values promoted by the Religious Right, including support for the traditional nuclear family, and opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion.

a)

Family Values

b)

Supply-Side Economics

c)

Moral Majority

d)

Religious Values

48.

The policy introduced by Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev during the 80s that involved greater openness and freedom of expression and that contributed, unintentionally, to the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union.

a)

Glasnost

b)

Perestroika

49.

A deadly disease that killed nearly a hundred thousand people in the US in the 80s.

a)

HIV/AIDS

b)

Avian Flu

c)

Spanish Flu

d)

Tuberculosis

50.

Crisis that began in 1979 after the deposed shah of Iran was allowed into the US following the Iranian revolution. Iranians broke into the US embassy in Teheran and took 66 Americans hostage. The crisis lasted 444 days and contributed the President Carter’s reelection defeat.

a)

Hostage Crisis

b)

Iran-Contra Affair

c)

Watergate

d)

Oil Crisis

51.

Reagan administration scandal that involved the sale of arms to Iran in exchange for its efforts to secure the release of hostages held in Lebanon and the redirection – illegal because banned by American law – of the proceeds of those sales to the Nicaraguan Contras.

a)

Iran-Contra Affair

b)

Hostage Crisis

c)

Oil Crisis

d)

Watergate

52.

A political organization established by evangelist Jerry Falwell in 1979 to mobilize conservative Christian voters on behalf of Ronald Reagan’s campaign for president.

a)

Moral Majority

b)

Family Values

c)

Religious Right

d)

Evangelical Christian Republicans

53.

The economic restructuring policy introduced by Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev during the 80s that contributed, unintentionally, to the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union.

a)

Perestroika

b)

Glasnost

54.

The 1991 war between Iraq and a US-led international coalition that was sparked by the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. A 40-day bombing campaign against Iraq followed by coalition troops storming into Kuwait brought a quick coalition victory.

a)

Persian Gulf War

b)

Iraq War

c)

Kuwait War

d)

Middle East War

55.

A coalition supporting Ronald Reagan that included the traditional core of Republican Party voters, middle-class suburbanites and migrants to the Sunbelt states, blue-collar Catholics, and a large contingent of southern whites, an electorally key group of former Democrats that had been gradually moving toward the Republican Party since 1964.

a)

Reagan Coalition

b)

Right Coalition

c)

Reagan Democrats

d)

Reaganomics

56.

Blue-collar Catholics from industrialized mid-western states such as Michigan, Ohio, and Illinois who were dissatisfied with the direction of liberalism in the 70s and left the Democratic Party for the Republicans.

a)

Reagan Democrats

b)

Reagan Coalition

c)

Religious Right

d)

Catholic Reagonites

57.

Politically active religious conservatives, especially Catholics and evangelical Christians, who became particularly vocal in the 1980s against feminism, abortion, and homosexuality, and who promoted “family values”.

a)

Religious Right

b)

Reagan Democrats

c)

Reagan Coalition

d)

Evangelical Christian Republicans

58.

Term that includes food, beverage, and tourist industries, financial and medical service industries, and computer technology industries, which were the leading sectors of US growth in the second half of the 80s.

a)

Service Industries

b)

Consumer Industries

c)

Modern Industries

d)

Factory Industries

59.

Economic theory that tax cuts for individuals and businesses encourage investment and production (supply) and stimulate consumption (demand) because individuals can keep more of their earnings.

a)

Supply-Side Economics (Reaganomics)

b)

Keynesian Economics

c)

Command Economics

d)

Socialist Economics

60.

A 1960 book that set forth an uncompromising conservatism and inspired a Republican grassroots movement in support of its author, Barry Goldwater.

a)

The Conscience of a Conservative

b)

The Feminine Mystique

c)

The National Review

d)

Silent Spring

61.
Conservative third party candidate who won 20% of the total vote in the 1992 election most likely "stealing" votes away from the incumbent President George HW Bush.
a)
Ross Perot
b)
Ralph Nader
c)
Theodore Roosevelt
d)
Jimmy Carter
62.
President Clinton was impeached, but ultimately not removed from office due to -
a)
an extra-marital affair and lying under oath
b)
the Iran-Contra Afffair
c)
the Watergate Scandal
d)
the leak of the Pentagon Papers
63.
All of the following were global or multinational organizations that President Clinton encouraged US participation in EXCEPT -
a)
World Trade Organization (WTO)
b)
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
c)
United Nations
d)
Warsaw Pact
64.
In 1994, Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich introduced the ________________________ with its goal to shrink the size of government and help Republicans to gain control of the House of Representatives.
a)
Contract with America
b)
USA PATRIOT Act
c)
Restoration of America
d)
Common Sense
65.
Former First Lady Hillary Clinton was eventually appointed _________________ under President Barack Obama.
a)
Secretary of State
b)
Vice President
c)
Secretary of Defense
d)
Secretary of Health and Human Services
66.
All of the following were policies President Clinton supported EXCEPT -
a)
Welfare Reform
b)
Lower Taxes on Middle Class
c)
Tougher Crime Laws
d)
Lower Taxes on the Wealthy
67.
A trade agreement between the US, Mexico, and Canada which phased out tariffs between the three countries in the hopes of stimulating the economies of all the members.
a)
World Trade Organization (WTO)
b)
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
c)
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
d)
United Nations (UN)
68.
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT) have encouraged countries to -
a)
engage in more international trade
b)
create a uniform international currency
c)
accept similar wage and price controls
d)
regulate multinational corporations from the Middle East
69.
What did the events of the Balkan Crisis in the 1990s indicate about the foreign policy goals of American leaders?
a)
They desire greater stability in the Middle East.
b)
They wish to expand trade with Middle Eastern nations.
c)
They want to help maintain peace and stop oppression around the world.
d)
They only act where American access to scarce resources is at stake.
70.
Which American entrepreneur helped to develop the software running most computers today?
a)
Lionel Sosa
b)
Bill Gates
c)
Robert Johnson
d)
Sandra Day O'Connor