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New World Ch. 14

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

He believed Communism should be stopped before it could attack and enslave a country

a)

Ronald Reagan

b)

Jimmy Carter

c)

William Clinton

d)

Gerald Ford

2.

This president's welfare program was called the New Frontier

a)

Richard Nixon

b)

Barack Obama

c)

John Kennedy

d)

George H. W Bush

3.

He strengthened the military alliance of NATO.

a)

Jimmy Carter

b)

Dwight Eisenhower

c)

John Kennedy

d)

William Clinton

4.

Operation Desert Storm in Iraq was under his presidency.

a)

George H. W. Bush

b)

Gerald Ford

c)

Ronald Reagan

d)

George W. Bush

5.

He was the only president to resign from office.

a)

George W. Bush

b)

William Clinton

c)

Richard Nixon

d)

Jimmy Carter

6.

He convinced the Soviet Union leader Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall and begin Perestroika.

a)

Jimmy Carter

b)

Richard Nixon

c)

George W. Bush

d)

Ronald Reagan

7.

First Black major league baseball player

a)

Willie Mays

b)

Jackie Robinson

c)

Hank Aaron

d)

Roberto Clemente

8.

Supreme Court Justice who stressed importance of moral character

a)

Neil Armstrong

b)

Barack Obama

c)

Clarence Thomas

9.

First American to orbit the earth

a)

John Glenn

b)

Alan Shepard

c)

Marian Anderson

10.

First Man to walk on the moon

a)

John Glenn

b)

Neil Armstrong

c)

Alan Shepard

11.

refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Al which led to reform of segregation laws

a)

Marian Anderson

b)

Sandra Day O'Connor

c)

Rosa Parks

12.

First woman appointed to the Supreme Court by Pres. Reagan

a)

Rosa Parks

b)

Sandra Day O'Connor

c)

Marian Anderson

13.

The doctor who developed a vaccine for polio

a)

Jonas Salk

b)

Clarence Thomas

c)

John Glenn

14.

One of the greatest opera singers of her time

a)

Sandra O'Connor

b)

Jonas Salk

c)

Marian Anderson

15.

First American to fly in space

a)

Alan Shepard

b)

John Glenn

c)

Neil Armstrong

16.

He helped bring about a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.

a)

Jonas Salk

b)

Jimmy Carter

c)

Barack O'Bama

17.

black minister active in civil rights movement

a)

Clarence Thomas

b)

Marian Anderson

c)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

18.

President during the Cuban Missile Crisis

a)

John F. Kennedy

b)

Ronald Reagan

c)

Jimmy Carter

19.

President Johnson's plan for social reform was called the

answer

a)

The New Deal

b)

The New Frontier

c)

Great Society

d)

Make American Great Again

20.

The attempt to return America to the traditional values of church , family, and free enterprise was called

answer

a)

New Deal

b)

Great Revival

c)

New Frontier

d)

Reagan Revolution

21.

The legislation that guarantees voting, housing, and job rights for ethnic minorities is the

answer

a)

1964 Civil Rights Act

b)

Equal Opportunity Amendment

c)

1963 Civil Rights Act

d)

MLK Civil Rights Act

22.

One of the decisions handed down by the liberal Supreme Court of the 1970's which legalized abortion was called

answer

Roe vs. Wade

a)

Equal Opportunity Act

b)

Roe vs. Wade

c)

Right to Choose Act

d)

Roe vs. Williams

23.

The system of producing and distributing goods

answer

a)

trade

b)

buy and sell

c)

economy

d)

barter

24.

Name the events that caused a slowdown in the space program.

a)

explosion of the Challenger and Columbia

b)

shortage of funds for the space program

c)

unpopularity of the space progeram

d)

death of JFK

e)

all of the above

25.

An Islamic terrorist group responsible for the attack on 9/11/2001

a)

Taliban

b)

Osama Ben Laden's fighters

c)

al Qaeda

d)

Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

26.

The U.S. attacked terrorists from Afghanistan and Iraq in the

a)

War on Terror

b)

Vietnam War

c)

War on Poverty

d)

Operation Desert Storm