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President Johnson opposed the extension of the Freedmen's Bureau.
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True
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Radical Republicans generally neglected the needs of black education in the south.
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False
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The fourtennth amendment recognized the validity of confederate debts.
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False
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Louisiana's efforts to stop black voting cut out nearly a quater of registered black voters.
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False
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In the Civil Rights Cases (1883), the Supreme Court upheld the Civil Rights Act of 1875.
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False
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Middle-class black women formed a network of thousands of racial-uplift organizations across the South and around the nation.
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True
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Most western settlers purchased their land directly from the federal government through the Homestead Act (or its later revisions).
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False
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Starting a family farm in the West required a minimum investment of $1000.
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True
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The spread of mass transit was a major factor in the growth of the subarbs.
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True
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Dumbbell tenements gave city dwellers substantially healthier and more comfortable living conditions.
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False
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Chester Arthur was assassinated by Charles Guiteau, a deranged office seeker.
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False
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James Garfield was the first southener to be elected president after the Civil War.
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False.
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One of the biggest problems farmers faced was falling commodity prices, caused in part by overproduction.
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True
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In 1896, the Republican party supported the gold standard.
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True
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After the Civil War, an isolationist mood swept the United States.
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True
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The United States purchased Alaska from Great Britain.
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False
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William McKinley said that President Roosevelt had "no more backbone than a chocolate eclair."
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False
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The purchase of Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million proved to be a huge bargain.
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True
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Social Darwanist ideas justified policies of Imperical Expansion.
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True
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In Swift and Company v. The United States, the Supreme Court put forth the "stream of commerce" doctrine.
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True
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Woodrow Wilson was elected president in 1908.
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False.
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Federal money for farm demonstration agents was approved in the Adamson Act.
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False
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The peace movement included Jane Addams, William Jennings Bryan, and Robert La Follette.
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True
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The percentage of women in the labor force in 1920 was nearly double what it had been before World War I.
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False
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President Wilson suffered a temporarily incapacitating stroke in France while negotiating the peace treaty.
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False
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The experience of World War I made young intellectuals confident about the future.
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False
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By the time of the Prohibition Amendment, about three quarters of the American people already lived in the areas that were legally "dry".
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True.
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The American Liberty League opposed New Deal measures as violations of personal and property rights.
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True
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AA required farmers to donate surplus crops and livestock to feed the poor.
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False
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FDR made black civil rights a major priority, ordering that New Deal programs not practice racial discrimination.
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False.
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In the first half of 1942, German submarines sank nearly 400 ships in American waters.
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True
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The Smith-Connally War Labor Disputes Act was generally seen as favoring labor unions.
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False
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The U.S. military used Native Americans as "code talkers" during World War II.
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True
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Large numbers of Americans of German, Italian, and Japanese descent were incarcerated during World War II.
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False
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Early in the war, FDR and Churchill agreed that the first priority should be defeating Japan in the Pacific.
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False
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The D-day fighting at Omaha Beach resulted in heavy allied casualties.
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True
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Thomas Dewey ran for president in 1940 under the same handicap as Alf Landon and Wendell Wilkie before him.
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True
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The FEPC lent money to defense industries.
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False
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The Potsdam Declaration, issued just before the atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima, demanded that Japan surrender immediately or face "prompt and utter destruction".
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True
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Within a few months of the end of World War II, there were strikes or other labor disputes in the automobile, steel, mining, and railroad industries.
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True
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Due to shrinking military production, a deep recession followed World War II.
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False
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Democrats won majorities in both houses of Congress in 1946.
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False
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In the Civil War that brok out in Greece after World War II, the United States assisted the British-supported government.
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True
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In the presidential election of 1948, Republicans saw little hope for victory.
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False
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In the early months of the Korean War, U.N. forces encountered little resistance until they reached the Chinese border.
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False.
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By the time of the 1960 presidential race, John F. Kennedy had far more experience in national politics than Richard Nixon.
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False.
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From the beginning of his presidency, Kennedy vigorously supported black civil rights.
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False
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Nikita Khrushev was Soviet premier while Kennedy was president.
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True
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President Johnson was not as adept at handling Congress as President Kennedy had been.
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False
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Congress narrowly defeated President Johnson's request in 1964 for authorization to "take all necessary measures to prevent further aggression in Vietnam."
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False
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The New Left came together in opposition to Richard Nixon's policies.
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False
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In 1960, unemployment among Native Americans was ten times the national average, and their life expectancy was twenty years lower.
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True
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Congress passed a five-year revenue-sharing plan in 1968.
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False.
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President Ford vetoed more bills than any previous president.
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True
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As he had predicted, Reagan's tax cuts helped reduce the federal deficit.
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False
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When AIDS emerged in the 1980s, many in the Reagan administration viewed it largely as a gay disease.
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True
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On "Black Monday", the stock market experienced a tidal wave of selling reminiscent of the 1929 crash.
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True
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The biggest domestic problem facing the Bush administration was the national debt.
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True
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Operation Desert Storm drove Saddam Hussein from power.
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False
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The Wade Davis Bill...
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was more stringent than Lincoln's plan for readmitting the southern states.
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Andrew Johnson was from the state of...
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Tennessee
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Andrew Johnson based his Reconstruction plan on...
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a strict adherence to the constitution; hence, since the Union was indestructible, the former Confederate states had never left it, and Reconstruction was therefore unnecessary.
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Which of the following stood for sweeping change in the South and full equality for the freedmen?
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the Radical Republicans
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The fourteenth amendment...
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forbade states to deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.
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The Ku Klux Klan...
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terrorized white and black Republicans.
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The Military Reconstruction Act...
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is correctly represented by all of the above statements.
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Among the accomplishments of Radical Reconstruction were all of the following except...
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relieving the freedmen from continued economic dependence on whites.
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Of the eleven articles of impeachment, eight focused on the charge...
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that Johnson had unlawfully removed Edwin Stanton from office.
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The Electoral Commission set up by Congress in January 1877...
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consisted of fifteen members, five each from the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court.
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The major prophet of the new south was...
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Henry W. Grady.
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In the late 1800s, the South experienced major increases in the production of...
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all of the above are true.
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Bourbons...
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often favored convict leasing.
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In the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court...
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upheld a Louisiana segregation law.
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Ida B Wells became famous for...
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leading a campaign against lynching.
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Benjamin Singleton...
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was an early promoter of black migration to the West.
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The Cornstock Lode was...
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in Nevada.
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In the Battle of Little Bighorn,...
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some 2500 Indians annihilated a detachment of more than 200 soldiers.
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Chief Joseph...
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was the leader of the Nez Perce Indians.
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The Dawes Severalty Act...
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is correctly represented by all of the above statements.
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The cattle drives...
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were largely over by 1886.
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Joseph Glidden...
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invented barbed wire.
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Urban political bosses...
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often were the biggest source of assistance for city dwellers.
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After 1890, most immigrants were...
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Jews and Catholics.
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After William James, the chief philosopher of pragmatism was...
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John Dewey.
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Herbert Spencer...
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coined the phrase "survival of the fittest."
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In New York city, the "dumbbell" tennement houses were...
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often fire hazards.
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All of the following forms of public entertainment were accessible to women except...
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saloons.
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The main idea of Reform Darwinism was that...
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cooperation, not competition, would better promote progress.
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Settlement house workers, insofar as they were paid, made up...
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but a fraction of all gainfully employed women.
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The poor were helped by...
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urban machines.
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The author of 'sister Carrie' was...
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Theodore Dreiser.
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The New York Consumers League...
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sought to make the public aware of degrading labor conditions.
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One of the earliest leaders of the social gospel movement was...
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Washington Gladden.
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Chicago's Hull House was designed to assist...
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slum-dwellers.
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When Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner labeled the post-Civil War era the "Gilded Age", they implied that it was characterized by...
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widespread greed and corruption.
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The Stalwarts...
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were also known as the Half-Breeds.
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Which of the following best describes Rutherford B. Hayes and Civil Service Reform?
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Hayes was unable to get Civil Service legislation through Congress, but he set up his own rules for merit.
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The Civil Service reform bill...
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provided for appointment to a number of government jobs on the basis of competitive exams.
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Grover Cleaveland showed political courage when he vetoed legislation favored by...
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Union veterans.
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One major argument Cleaveland made for reducing tariffs was that...
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the federal government has a surplus of revenue.
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Following the 1893 depression, Coxey's Army...
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demanded government jobs for the unemployed.
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One of the causes of the 1893 depression was failure of...
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a British Bank.
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The subtreasury plan...
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allowed farmers to secure low-interest government loans.
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The group that benefited most from the depression of 1893 in the elections of 1894 was the...
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Republicans.
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"You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!" This statement was made by...
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William Jennings Bryan.
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Western Imperialism in the late nineteenth century was stimulated by...
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all of the above are true.
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Alfred Thayer Mahan...
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argued that sea power was essential to national greatness.
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Queen Liliuokalini...
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tried to reclaim power over Hawaii.
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The Boxer Rebellion took place in...
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1900
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The term "yellow journalism" arose from...
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the circulation war between two New York newspapers.
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The de Lome letter...
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reffered to President McKinley as weak and a bidder for the administration of the crowd.
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The first major victory for American forces in the Spanish-American War was at...
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Manila Bay.
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In the Spanish-American War...
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more American soldiers died form disease than from battle.
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The secretary of state who proclaimed the open-door policy toward China was...
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John Hay.
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The Open-Door Policy if rooted in the self-interest of American businessmen and their desire to exploit Chinese markets, also...
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tapped the deep-seated sympathies of those who opposed imperialism.
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Emilio Aguinablo...
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was the Filipino rebel leader.
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The Platt Amendment...
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sharply restricted the independence of Cuba's new government.
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In the election of 1900,...
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Democrats promised to end America's policy of Annexation.
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Theodore Roosevelt...
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loved the outdoors and was, for a brief time, a cowboy.
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When the United States and Colombia could not agree on a price for the Canal zone,...
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the Colombian province of Panama rebelled against Colombia.
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The Roosevelt Corollary...
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stated that the United States could intervene in the affairs of Western Hemisphere countries to forestall the intervention of other powers.
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Frederick W. Taylor was...
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the original "efficiency expert."
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The muskrackers saw their primary objective as...
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exposing social problems to the public.
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The Clayton Antitrust Act...
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outlawed price discrimination and "tying" agreements.
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Taft boasted more experience in public service than any other president since...
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Van Buren.
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The Ballinger-Pinchot controvresy...
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contributed to the growing rift between Taft and Roosevelt.
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At first, contrary to his party's tradition, President Taft called for...
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a lower tariff.
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The election of 1912...
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is correctly described by all of the above statements.
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The Adamson Act of 1916...
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established the eight-hour day for railroad workers.
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Which of the following statements best describes the diplomatic stance of Woodrow Wilson and Williams Jennings Bryan?
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America had a religious duty to promote democracy and moral progress in the world.
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In an effort to topple Huerta's dictorial government in Mexico, President Wilson...
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sent the military to occupy the port of Veracruz.
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All the following were members of The Triple Entente except...
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Austria/Hungary.
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Which of the following is true of the Lusitania?
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It secretly carried weapons and ammunition in its Cargo.
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President Wilson's response to the sinking of the Lusitania...
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was a series of notes demanding that Germans stop such actions and pay reparations.
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The Zimmerman Telegram...
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asked for help from Mexico in the case of War between Germany and the United States.
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For violating the Espionage Act, socialist leader Eugene Debs...
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received a ten year prison term.
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The food administration...
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taught Americans to plant "victory gardens" and to use leftovers wisely.
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The most important of all the mobilization agencies was the...
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War Industries Board.
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The largest American action of the war was...
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the Meuse-Argonne offensive.
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In the case of Schenck v. United States, the Supreme Court...
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upheld the conviction of a man who had circulated pamphlets against the draft.
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On the question of reparations,...
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French and British officials took a much harder stance toward Germany than Wilson wished to do.
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Which of the following was not a major group in the Senate during the fight to ratify the Treaty of Versailles?
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Constitutionalists.
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The Treaty of Versailles...
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all of the above are true.
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The Spanish Flu epidemic...
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killed five times the number of Americans as died in combat in France.
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The 1919 police strike in Boston...
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concerned the right of policemen to join unions.
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The immigration quota laws passed in the 1920s...
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favored immigrants from Northern and Western Europe.
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The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was based mainly on...
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"100% Americanism."
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How many members did the Ku Klux Klan allegedly have at its peak?
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3 to 8 million.
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The Scopes Trial...
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concerned a state law that prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools.
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Congress adopted the equal rights amendment in...
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1972.
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Which amendment to the constitution gave women the right to vote?
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Nineteenth
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The movement of southern blacks to the north is...
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correctly described by all of the above statements.
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Marcus Garvey...
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all of the above are true.
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William Faulkner...
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was one of the south's greatest modernist writers.
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Alice Paul...
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was the militant head of the National American Woman Suffrage Association's Congressional Committee.
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The author of The Great Gatsby, a novel about tinseled young people who lived amid surface gaiety and a sense of impending doom was...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Franklin D. Roosevelt...
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was permanantly crippled after contracting polio.
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To increase the public's confidence in American banks, Roosevelt did all the following except...
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double the percentage of total deposits that banks were required to keep on hand, available for withdrawl.
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The main purpose of the civilian conservation corps was to...
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provide useful jobs for young working-class men.
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The fair practices codes of the NRA did all the following except...
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break up large corporations.
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Whose campaign song was "Happy Days Are Here Again"?
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The Agricultural Adjustment Act was ruled unconstitutional...
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after it had helped increase farm income by nearly 60 percent from 1932 to 1935.
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Huey Long...
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was from Louisiana.
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In the presidential election of 1936,...
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Republicans hoped that third-party action might throw the election to them.
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Roosevelt's court-packing scheme became unnecessary when...
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the Supreme Court began revising previous judgments and upholding the New Deal.
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What made the dust storms worse than normal was the transition during the early twentieth century from...
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widespread scattered subsistence farming to industrial agriculture.
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The 1937 economic slump was caused in part by...
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a sharp decrease in government spending.
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The Indian Reorganization Act...
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attempted to reinvigorate traditional Indian cultures.
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The Dust Bowl can be associated with...
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terrible dust storms that plagued a large region.
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Huey Long's program to end the Depression...
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was a plan to "share the wealth."
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In the first two months of American involvement in World War II,...
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news from the Pacific was "all bad" according to President Roosevelt.
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The purpose of the War Production Board was to...
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direct industrial conversion of manufacturing to war production.
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The battle of the Coral Sea...
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helped turn back the Japanese threat to Austrailia.
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Just before D-day, General Eisenhower...
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deceived the Germans as to where the landings would take place.
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The Battle of the Bulge...
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resulted in initial German advances
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War relocation Camps...
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housed over 100,000 Japanese Americans during the war.
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The bracero program...
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brought some 200,000 Mexican farm workers into the Western United States.
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The new strategy used in the Pacific in 1943 was to...
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isolate the Japanese strongholds, leaving them to die on the nine.
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In the presidential election of 1944,...
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Thomas Dewey was the Republican candidate.
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The Yalta Conference...
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gave the Soviet Union control of Eastern Germany.
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In early 1944, as a response to the Jewish refugee problem, Roosevelt...
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set up a War Refugee Board.
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The development of the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima...
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was the responsibility of the Manhatten project.
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The Japanese surrender...
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allowed the emperor to keep his throne under the authority of an Allied supreme commander.
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The cost of World War II...
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included some 50 million military and civilian dead.
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The domestic program that Harry Truman sent to Congress in September 1945...
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proposed to continue and enlarge the New Deal.
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By 1950,...
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the army had less than 10 percent of the number of men it had had at its peak in World War II.
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When railroad workers staged a strike shortly after the end of the war, President Truman...
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threatedned to draft strikers into the armed forces.
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The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947...
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allowed the president to impose a "cooling-off" period during major strikes.
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The National Security Act created...
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a new National Security Council.
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State Department official George Kennan...
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said the United States should contain Soviet expansionist tendencies.
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As a result of the Truman Doctrine,...
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Greece and Turkey were less vulnerable to communism.
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The Marshall Plan...
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was "directed not against country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos."
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East Germany was controlled after World War II by...
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the Soviet Union.
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The North Atlantic Treaty...
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was originally signed by twelve nations.
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Baseball was integrated in 1947 when Jackie Robinson played for the...
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Brooklyn Dodgers.
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Trunman referred to the Taft-Hartley act as a...
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"slave-labor act".
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The Untied States experienced a shock in 1949 when communists took over...
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China.
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When North Korean Comunists invaded South Korea...
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the United Nations authorized military intervention against the aggressors.
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The leader of the nationalists in China, as the communists attempted to take power, was...
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Chaing Kai-shek.
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Truman removed General Douglas MacArthur...
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because MacArthur openly criticized the president for not wanting to fight red China.
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The War in Korea...
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began in 1950, when North Korean forces invaded South Korea.
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The Hiss-Chambers case...
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resulted in Hiss's conviction for perjury.
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The McCarran Internal Security Act of 1950...
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was passed over Truman's veto.
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By the end of the Truman years, the United States had...
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become committed to a major and permanent national military establishment.
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Which of the following statements about John F. Kennedy is not true?
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He was an outspoken critic of McCarthyism.
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The "N" in SNCC stands for...
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Nonviolent.
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President Kennedy's cabinet appointments...
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emphasized youth.
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One of the biggest legislative accomplishments of the Kennedy administration came in the field of...
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tariff reduction.
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President Kennedy was unable to persuade Congress to support...
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the creation of a new Department of Urban Affairs.
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The author of "Letter From A Birmingham Jail" was...
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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In Miranda v. Arizona, the Supreme Court...
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confirmed the obligation of police to inform arrested suspects of their rights before questioning.
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The Bay of Pigs Incident...
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resulted in the capture of over 1000 men by the Cubans.
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The Immigration Act of 1965...
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treated all nationalities equally.
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Faced with the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba, President Kennedy...
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ordered a naval blockade of Cuba.
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Following the Cuban missile crisis, several steps were taken to ease Soviet-American tensions. These included all the following except...
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the halting of Construction on the Berlin Wall for several years.
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Concerning Vietnam, President Kennedy...
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continued to support the Pathet Leo.
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Lyndon Johnson was from...
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Texas.
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The other America described the problem of...
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poverty.
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What relationship did Al Smith have to the 1960 campaign for President?
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He was the last Catholic to run for President.
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Malcolm X...
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said blacks should be proud of their African heritage.
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Which of the following was assassinated in 1968?
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Malcolm X.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 did all the following except...
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require that African Americans be given preference over equally qualified white applicants in most employment situations.
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Operation "Rolling Thunder" was the...
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first sustained bombing of North Vietnam.
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All the following promised to seek peace in Vietnam except...
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Curtis LeMay
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Inn the election of 1968,...
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Hubert Humphrey was the Democratic candidate for president.
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"We are the people of this generation, bred in at lease moderate comfort, housed in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit." This statement...
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is correctly described by all of the above statements.
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The author of Feminine Mystique...
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protested against the "blissful" domesticity of American women after World War II.
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Victories for the women's movement in the 1970s included all of the following except...
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ratification of the equal rights amendment.
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The hippies...
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were the direct descendants of the Beats of the 1950s.
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In its earliest years, the gay rights movement especially emphasized...
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the importance of gays "coming out".
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The United Farm Workers...
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was especially concerned with Hispanic Migrant Workers.
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The "silent majority" referred to...
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Middle America, those citizens fed up with the liberal policies and social radicalism of the 1960s.
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In 1972, the Christmas bombings and the mining of North Vietnamese harbors...
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aroused Worldwide protest.
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Nixon's policies on Civil Rights...
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were foiled, in part, by the Supreme Court's decision on the Swann Case.
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The twenty-sixth amendment...
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gave eighteen year olds the right to vote.
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In the presidential election of 1972,...
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Nixon won by the largest majority ever for a Republican candidate.
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In foreign policy, President Ford...
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laid the foundation for SALT II.
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In the presidential election of 1976,...
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Jimmy Carter won most of the black vote in the South.
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Once in office, Richard Nixon...
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appointed no African Americans to his cabinet.
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President Carter's crowning failure was his...
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mismanagement of the economy.
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When President Carter sent American Commandos to rescue the hostages held in Iran,...
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helicopter failures forced the, to abort the mission.
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Ronald Reagan...
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served as governor of California.
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The Moral Majority stood for all of the following except...
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bettering relations with the Soviet Union.
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The election of Reagan reflected...
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the largest mass movement of our time: nonvoting.
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In Nicaragua, Reagan supported...
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the Contras.
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American troops were sent to Lebanon...
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as "peace keepers."
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The Iran-Contra affair left support for the Nicaraguan Contras...
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badly eroded in the Congress.
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The Grenada invasion resulted in...
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an easy American victory.
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By the end of 1991, the Soviet Union...
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had fallen apart.
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Who said "Read my lips. No new taxes."?
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George H.W. Bush
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