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US Hist 1302 Review

Total questions: 33

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

First woman on the Supreme Court

a)

O'Connor

b)

Albright

c)

Ginsberg

d)

Sotamayer

e)

Rice

2.

1996 presidential election

a)

Dole

b)

Clinton

c)

Perot

d)

Bush

3.

Saddam Hussein invaded what oil rich country i 1990

a)

Iran

b)

Kuwait

c)

Iraq

d)

Saudi Arabia

e)

Oman

4.

First African American Secretary of State

a)

Thurgood Marshall

b)

Jesse Jackson

c)

Colin Powell

d)

Condoleeza Rice

5.

Who was the Republican challenger in the 1992 election?

a)

George Bush

b)

Bill Clinton

c)

Newt Gingrich

d)

H. Ross Perot

6.

Operation Just Cause was the means GHW Bush used to remove known drug lord and murderer Noriega from office when he lost the election, refused to leave office, US military personal were attacked wounded and killed, American lives were threatened in the country of

a)

Nicaragua

b)

El Salvador

c)

Panama

d)

Venezuela

7.

In 1994, Republicans offered as their election platform "Contract with America" and subsequently gained control of the House of Representatives. The well-known Republican largely responsible for this Republican Revolution was a Representative from Georgia

a)

Perot

b)

Dole

c)

Powell

d)

Gingrich

8.

In response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, George W. Bush created the department of ...

a)

Internal Terrorism Oversight

b)

Department of Homeland Security

c)

Department of Domestic Defense

d)

Internal Security Affairs

9.

Reagan's most hotly debated foreign policy was

a)

Nuclear Build up Crisis

b)

Iranian Hostage Crisis

c)

War on Terror

d)

opposition to the Sandinista government in Nicaragua

10.

In the later 1940s the first living area known as a "suburb" was built by the Levitt brothers. That very first suburb in America was in the state of:

a)

New York

b)

Alabama

c)

Texas

d)

California

11.

First televised presidential debates were

a)

Nixon

b)

Eisenhower

c)

Johnson

d)

Kennedy

12.

In the 1950s President Eisenhower's Secretary of State and hard-line cold warrior who was the chief architect of the "Domino Theory" in southeast Asia was:

a)

John Marshall

b)

Henry Kissinger

c)

John Foster Dulles

d)

Dean Rusk

13.

Who was the U.S. President, post WWII, who opened doors between the U.S., Russia and China for diplomatic and economic purposes?

a)

Nixon

b)

Kennedy

c)

Johnson

d)

Ford

14.

In 1964 President Johnson asked Congress for special powers to resist military aggression because he claimed that North Vietnamese gunboats had attacked U.S. naval ships in the:

a)

Coral Sea

b)

Gulf of Tonkin

c)

Indian Ocean

d)

Bay of Bengal

15.

The US foreign policy proposal promised economic aid to European governments to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which the free instiutions can exist under the European Recovery Plan, which proposed in June of 1947, called?

a)

Truman Doctrine

b)

Stimson Doctrine

c)

Marshall Plan

d)

Roosevelt Corollary

16.

In 1954,the Supreme Court called for the desegregation of public school in the landmark ruling in

a)

Gibbons v. Ogden

b)

Brown v. Board 

c)

Hopwood v Texas

d)

McCulloch v Maryland

17.

In an effort to reduce tensions between the western countries, including the US, and the Soviet Union, to try to push Human Rights issues to be addressed by the Soviets, but it resulted in recognizing post WW II eastern Europe borders. The US tried to establish a ban on above ground nuclear testing through this gathering of nations in

a)

The Great Society

b)

Helsinki Accords

c)

NATO

d)

Detente

18.

Candidate who won the 1928 presidential election?

a)

Roosevelt

b)

Smith

c)

Hoover

d)

Taft

19.

President who brought the US into WW II

a)

T. Roosevelt

b)

Truman

c)

Hoover

d)

F. Roosevelt

20.

Who was the US President when the Marshall Plan was created and began implementing?

a)

F. Roosevelt

b)

Dulles

c)

Truman

d)

Hoover

21.

What Mid-westerners moved West to California to work in the the fruit and vegetable rich fields?

a)

Texans

b)

Nebraskans

c)

Kansans

d)

Okies

22.

US commander in the Pacific WW II

a)

Bradley

b)

Eisenhower

c)

Marshal

d)

MacArthur

23.

President who authorized the use of the atomic bomb

a)

Hoover

b)

F. Roosevelt

c)

Truman

d)

Eisenhower

24.

What country reached out the US for help before its election, bringing Franco to power?

a)

Italy

b)

Germany

c)

Belgium

d)

Spain

25.

The United Nations created what Middle East country in 1948?

a)

Iraq

b)

Israel

c)

Iran

d)

Saudi Arabia

26.

In 1916 the American General picked to lead the punishment expedition against Pancho Villa and who was later the Commander of American forces in World War I in Europe was:

a)

John J. Pershing

b)

Douglas MacArthur

c)

George Patton

d)

Dwight Eisenhower

27.

After World War I many historians believed the League of Nations failed because one key and very powerful nation failed to join the League. That nation which did not join the League was:

a)

England

b)

France

c)

United States of America

d)

Italy

28.

Members of the Harlem Renaissance

a)

Zora Hurston

b)

Louis Armstrong

c)

Booker Washington

d)

Langston Hughes

29.

When the Bonus March occurred, who was the US President?

a)

F. Roosevelt

b)

Truman

c)

Hoover

d)

Wilson

30.

In the 1890s female activists frequently led social reform movements against the evils of alcohol in American Society. One of those women and president of the W.C.T.U. from 1879 to 1899 was:

a)

Clara Barton

b)

Susan B. Anthony

c)

Charlotte P. Gilman

d)

Francis Willard

31.

The American inventor who invented the phonograph and who was responsible for technical advances in lighting and electricity was:

a)

Nicolai Tesla

b)

Andrew Carnegie

c)

Thomas Edison

d)

Alexander Graham Bell

32.

In the 1880s one of the cultural landmarks in American literary history was the publication of the book Huckleberry Finn written by:

a)

Lew Wallace

b)

Mark Twain

c)

Henry Thoreau

d)

Ralph W. Emerson

33.

In 1913 this act of Congress provided for 12 regional federal banks and issued the kind of paper currency that we know today. The name of the act was the:

a)

Federal Deposit Insurance Act

b)

Clayton Anti-Trust Act

c)

Taft-Hartley Act

d)

Federal Reserve Act