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 1. What was Franklin Roosevelt's political experience before he won the presidential election of 1932?
 A) Roosevelt had served as the Republican mayor of New York City.
 B) He had gained political experience as he worked his way through college.
 C) He had served as President Wilson's assistant secretary of the navy and as governor of New York.
 D) Roosevelt had been lieutenant governor and then a two-term the governor of New Jersey.

 2. What was the name of President Roosevelt's signature program?
 A) The New Freedom
 B) The Square Deal
 C) The Works Progress Program
 D) The New Deal

 3. To what was President Roosevelt referring when he said, “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”?
 A) Fascist aggression in Germany
 B) Nationalist expansion in Japan
 C) His paralysis from polio
 D) The terror caused by the depression

 4. What was the three-part goal of Roosevelt's New Deal?
 A) Experiment, Energy, and Employment
 B) Workers' rights, unemployment relief, and civil rights
 C) Relief, recovery, and reform
 D) Coalition, compromise, and capitalism

 5. Which woman became the New Deal's unofficial ambassador in 1933?
 A) Frances Perkins
 B) Jane Addams
 C) Mary McLeod Bethune
 D) Eleanor Roosevelt

 6. The Emergency Banking Act of 1933 strengthened American banks by
 A) bringing back the gold standard.
 B) ending banks' dependence on holding companies.
 C) nationalizing U.S. savings and loan associations.
 D) releasing federal funds to bolster the banks' assets.

 7. What strategy did President Roosevelt use to restore America's confidence in government and the private banking system?
 A) Roosevelt held daily press conferences at the White House.
 B) Roosevelt broadcast his reassuring fireside chats on the radio.
 C) He strong-armed Congress to pass all the bills his administration proposed.
 D) He issued unemployment checks to needy families.

 8. Which of the following describes the overall impact of the New Deal?
 A) It prevented the United States from turning toward authoritarian solutions to the nation's economic crisis.
 B) The New Deal ended the depression and eliminated the class hierarchy in the United States.
 C) The New Deal weakened presidential power and strengthened the military-industrial complex.
 D) It ended the depression and led directly to the United States' involvement in World War II.

 9. What characterized the period Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover described as a New Era in 1920?
 A) The dramatic growth of the Socialist Party
 B) A freewheeling economy and a heightened sense of individualism
 C) The implementation of progressive reforms in a peacetime economy
 D) A narrowing of the gap between rich and poor

 10. Which industry formed the keystone of the American economy in the 1920s?
 A) The housing industry
 B) The steel industry
 C) The banking industry
 D) The automobile industry

 11. The outcome of the shift toward repetitive assembly-line work and specialized management divisions in the 1920s was
 A) lower enrollment in college and university managerial training programs.
 B) a worsening of safety and sanitary conditions in American factories.
 C) massive layoffs of American workers in all heavy industries.
 D) a tremendous increase in business productivity and overall efficiency.

 12. Which relatively new industry in the 1920s linked the possession of material goods to the fulfillment of spiritual and emotional needs?
 A) The automobile industry
 B) Public relations
 C) Chemical manufacturing
 D) Advertising

 13. In the United States, the flapper of the 1920s represented
 A) the determination of women to become writers and artists.
 B) the hopelessness that was pervasive among American youth.
 C) a youth culture that sought radical cultural and political reform.
 D) a challenge to women's traditional gender roles.

 14. Which of the following statements exemplifies President Harding's stance on prohibition in the 1920s?
 A) Harding spoke often about the necessity of upholding the law.
 B) Liquor flowed freely in the White House during his administration.
 C) Harding forbid visitors from bringing alcohol to the White House.
 D) Harding made the closing down of speakeasies one of his domestic priorities.

 15. One factor that diluted the influence of women in politics in the 1920s was
 A) the lack of unity around the issues, which diminished women voters' impact.
 B) a major crime wave, which kept women from venturing to the polls.
 C) required literacy tests for all new women voters, which discouraged many from voting.
 D) that women were prohibited from joining the major political parties.

 16. The image of the new woman in American society in the 1920s
 A) reinforced the traditional concept of separate spheres.
 B) created a double standard for the sexual conduct of men and women.
 C) was felt by all women, even those who believed in traditional gender roles.
 D) reduced acceptance of and access to birth control for most women.

 17. When black veterans of World War I returned home from their deployments, they found
 A) enhanced employment opportunities.
 B) new protections of their civil rights.
 C) race riots and economic hardship.
 D) the repeal of many Jim Crow laws.

 18. Which of the following describes the outpouring of African American literature and art in New York City in the 1920s?
 A) The era that celebrated African American creative genius was known as the Negro Revival.
 B) African American art and expression was based on earlier art styles in Europe that black soldiers observed during the World War.
 C) The expression of African American art and literature in 1920s America helped eradicate racism in the North.
 D) The era in which African American literature and art flooded New York was known as the Harlem Renaissance.

 19. For which group of Americans did authors Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, and Sinclair Lewis speak?
 A) Corporate America and the nation's consumer society
 B) Their co-participants in the Harlem Renaissance
 C) Critics of American anti-intellectualism and materialism
 D) Republicans and supporters of prohibition

 20. During the 1920s, rural Americans perceive cities as
 A) the places where the truest American values of freedom and democracy were expressed.
 B) the sources of vice, religious threats, and other assaults on traditional values.
 C) potential suppliers of well-trained but cheap agricultural laborers.
 D) idyllic places where they might go to enjoy restaurants, theater, and museums.

 21. The purpose of the immigration laws of the 1920s, including the Johnson-Reed Act, was to
 A) open the nation's borders to an unprecedented influx of new immigrants.
 B) place strict limits on immigration.
 C) close off immigration to the United States from other areas of the Western Hemisphere.
 D) overturn the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.

 22. What did the outcome of the Sacco and Vanzetti trial suggest about the United States in the 1920s?
 A) The American judicial system was a model of impartiality.
 B) Americans generally loathed thieves and murderers.
 C) The legal appeals process often brought a fairer verdict than the original trial.
 D) Antiforeign hysteria was rampant in many areas of American life.

 23. What accounted for the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan in the United States in 1915?
 A) The widespread belief that blacks, immigrants, radicals, feminists, Catholics, and Jews threatened traditional American values.
 B) The notion that African Americans were gaining equality in the new world of giant corporations and needed to be kept in their place.
 C) The belief that the government was conspiring to subvert the fundamental rights of U.S. citizens
 D) The belief that some apocalyptic event was about to occur and the Klan would bring salvation

 24. The central issue addressed by the highly publicized Scopes trial of 1925 was
 A) the Ku Klux Klan's right of the to be involved in politics at the state level.
 B) the legality of the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution in Tennessee.
 C) the 1920s-era conflict between fundamentalist Protestants and Catholics in America.
 D) the Biblical evidence for human evolution from lesser primates.

 25. Which words from President Herbert Hoover's 1929 inaugural address would turn out to be ironic in light of events during his presidency?
 A) “Given a chance to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, we shall soon with the help of God be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation.”
 B) “I promise the people a chicken in every pot and a radio tuned to prosperity.”
 C) “Christianity may be our religion, but capitalism is our salvation.”
 D) “We in America today are nearer to a truly equitable distribution of income than ever before in the history of any land.”

 26. The fundamental cause of the Great Depression in the United States was
 A) the stock market crash in the fall of 1929.
 B) problems in the American and international economies.
 C) Herbert Hoover's election to the U.S. presidency.
 D) massive fraud in the New York and Chicago Stock Exchanges.

 27. How did the Great depression affect the American family in the 1930s?
 A) It caused an increase in the number of marriages among young adults whose parents could no longer support them.
 B) It sparked an increase in the birthrate among middle- and upper-class whites.
 C) It created resentment among men, who lost their jobs more often than women did.
 D) It led to the stabilization of the birthrate, which had been increasing since the turn of the turn of the century.

 28. Why didn't southern tenant farmers benefit from the programs developed by the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the Commodity Credit Corporation, and the Farm Credit Act?
 A) Southern farmers' loan applications weren't processed correctly.
 B) Southern states didn't participate in these New Deal programs.
 C) Landlords controlled the distribution of the benefits and denied benefits to many of their tenants.
 D) Tenant farmers didn't qualify for these assistance programs because they didn't own the land they farmed.

 29. Father Charles Coughlin, an opponent of the New Deal, placed the blame for the nation's economic crisis on
 A) Franklin Roosevelt.
 B) Communists, bankers, and capitalists.
 C) impoverished immigrants who taxed cities' resources.
 D) prohibition, which weakened the liquor industry.

 30. What event sparked the beginning of World War II?
 A) Japan's invasion of Manchuria in 1937
 B) Germany's invasion of the Sudetenland in 1938
 C) Italy's invasion of Ethiopia in 1935
 D) Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939

 31. In the Atlantic Charter in August of 1941, the United States and England agreed to
 A) declare the Atlantic Ocean off-limits to the Third Reich and its allies.
 B) suspend all shipping between the two countries and only let naval vessels foreign waters.
 C) protect the freedom of the seas, free trade, and the right of national self-determination.
 D) take over leadership of the League of Nations for the duration of the wars in Europe and Asia.

 32. The attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, was part of the Japanese plan to
 A) knock out a significant portion of American naval bases in the Pacific.
 B) demonstrate that the United States could not possibly win a war against an Asian nation.
 C) demonstrate to the Germans that Japan had its own objectives in the Pacific.
 D) retaliate against the United States for the incarceration of Japanese citizens.

 33. What was the immediate consequence of the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941?
 A) Proponents of neutrality in the United States stepped up their appeals in Congress to keep the nation out of war.
 B) Congress endorsed President Roosevelt's call for a declaration of war.
 C) Hitler and Mussolini offered to negotiate a peace on behalf of Japan.
 D) Japan's emperor issued an official apology and a pledge to stay out of American territory.

 34. About how many soldiers and sailors served in the U.S. armed forces by the end of World War II?
 A) 2 million
 B) 8 million
 C) 16 million
 D) 50 million

 35. Which of the following statements describes the relationship between American ethnic minorities and the armed forces during World War II?
 A) They were largely uninterested in serving in the armed forces.
 B) The government discouraged ethnic minorities from serving in the armed forces.
 C) They fought in large numbers in the armed forces despite discriminatory treatment.
 D) They were barred from serving in the armed forces during the first two years of the war.

 36. During the Bataan Death March of 1942,
 A) U.S. soldiers herded thousands of captured Japanese soldiers into a prison camp on Wake Island.
 B) Japanese soldiers forced U.S. and Filipino soldiers to march sixty-five miles to a concentration camp.
 C) Japanese soldiers marched one hundred miles to meet an advancing force of American soldiers.
 D) a small detachment of American soldiers marched to the coast hoping to be rescued by the U.S. Navy.

 37. The naval battles in the Coral Sea and at Midway Island signaled to the American military that
 A) the Japanese force in the Pacific was almost unbeatable.
 B) the current Japanese strategy was working.
 C) the war in the Pacific was ending.
 D) Japanese domination of the Pacific was weakening.

 38. Women who remained at home contributed to the American war effort by
 A) planting Victory Gardens of home-grown vegetables.
 B) conserving electricity and coal in order to fuel defense plants.
 C) maintaining and running Catholic and Protestant churches.
 D) providing meals for soldiers at nearby army bases.

 39. What did African Americans who migrated to take jobs in defense industries experience in their new locations?
 A) Equal employment opportunities
 B) Equal pay for equal work
 C) Widespread racial violence
 D) The nation's gratitude

 40. What explained the reluctance of the United States to accept Jewish refugees from Nazi oppression?
 A) Anti-Semitism
 B) Overpopulation
 C) Pro-German sympathies
 D) Anti-immigrant sentiment

 41. The Allied assault against the German army on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944, is commonly known as
 A) VE Day.
 B) D Day.
 C) VJ Day.
 D) DE Day.

 42. In February 1945, the Big Three met at Yalta to discuss
 A) postwar self-determination for the people of Eastern Europe.
 B) Allied support for Mao Zedong as the leader of China.
 C) strengthening the League of Nations.
 D) plans to prosecute Adolf Hitler for international war crimes.

 43. What was demonstrated during the six-month battle to force the withdrawal of Japanese forces from Guadalcanal in February 1943?
 A) The United States could not win a decisive military victory against Japan.
 B) It would be extremely costly and difficult to defeat Japan.
 C) The marines in the Pacific lacked coordination.
 D) The United States needed the British navy to win an all-out military campaign in the Pacific.

 44. The United States dropped a second atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki only three days after the attack on Hiroshima
 A) because it wanted to kill as many Japanese civilians as possible.
 B) because the first bomb did not lead to a Japanese surrender to the United States.
 C) to demonstrate America's power to the China's communists and stop their aggression.
 D) because Nagasaki was the center of Japan's wartime military and government operations.

 45. By 1947, the intense rivalry between the Soviet Union and the United States was called
 A) the iron curtain.
 B) the Cold War.
 C) Communist hysteria.
 D) the Red scare.

 46. Joseph Stalin's primary goal after World War II was to
 A) demilitarize and reindustrialize Germany.
 B) partition Germany into three spheres of influence.
 C) ensure friendly governments on its borders in Eastern Europe.
 D) make Poland and Germany into a massive agricultural region.

 47. The GI Bill help to boost the U.S. economy after World War II
 A) by ensuring that veterans could return to their old jobs.
 B) with the provision of job training, education, and low-interest home loans.
 C) by providing veterans and their spouses with a free college education.
 D) with the provision of full medical and mental health benefits for life.

 48. How did the experience of World War II influence African American veterans returning from overseas?
 A) Their World War II experience convinced them that their civil rights could not be protected.
 B) It led African Americans to expect a sharp decline in racial violence in the South.
 C) Serving in World War II increased their resolve to fight racial injustices in the United States.
 D) It lowered their expectations for the federal government's aid on civil rights issues.

 49. One consequence of the Korean War was a
 A) reduction in Cold War tension around the globe.
 B) 50 percent decrease in U.S. military spending in 1953.
 C) massive increase in U.S. defense spending.
 D) lessening of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia.

 50. What did anti-Communist zealot Senator Joseph McCarthy do that led to his condemnation by the U.S. Senate?
 A) McCarthy charged that President Eisenhower was a Communist.
 B) He insisted that thousands of federal employees were disloyal to the United States.
 C) He announced that Communists in the Republican Party outnumbered those in the Democratic Party.
 D) McCarthy conducted televised hearings in which he charged that the U.S. army was full of Communists.

 51. In the 1950s, the CIA intervened in the internal affairs of
 A) Ethiopia, Iran, and Canada.
 B) Iraq, Afghanistan, and Panama.
 C) Iran, Guatemala, and Cuba.
 D) Hungary, Afghanistan, and Guatemala.

 52. Levittown, New York, was
 A) an example of the assembly-line approach to producing affordable housing.
 B) an example of one of the worst slums in an American city in the northeast.
 C) a successful attempt at the racial integration of an American housing development.
 D) a failed suburban housing development that contributed to the rebirth of cities across the nation.

 53. In the 1950s, most employed American women worked in
 A) a variety of professional positions.
 B) clerical, service, and domestic jobs.
 C) production-line jobs in heavy industry.
 D) various administrative occupations in higher education.

 54. In most cities during the 1950s, the black population
 A) dropped by 50 percent as African Americans migrated to the suburbs.
 B) increased by 50 percent as African Americans sought economic opportunities.
 C) remained about the same because the growth of black suburbs cancelled out African Americans' urban migration.
 D) dropped by nearly 50 percent as African Americans migrated south for agricultural work.

 55. In her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan argued that
 A) the idealization of domesticity pressured women to seek fulfillment in serving others.
 B) women should not be entering the workplace but should be at home with their children.
 C) divorced fathers should never be given custody of children under age fourteen.
 D) women were not as intelligent as men even with access to higher education and training.

 56. Between 1950 and 1960, the percentage of American families with television sets grew from less than 10 percent to
 A) 25 percent.
 B) almost 50 percent.
 C) 77 percent.
 D) almost 90 percent.

 57. In which of the following ways did television affect U.S. politics in the 1950s?
 A) It aired Richard Nixon's Checkers speech, which nearly ruined his political career.
 B) It allowed candidates to appeal directly to voters in their homes, which elevated the importance of politicians' personal attractiveness.
 C) The expense of TV ads made political parties, which raised money for candidates, larger, stronger, and more important.
 D) Television was dominated by liberals, who had a strong influence on American voters.

 58. How did rock and roll challenge American social and cultural norms in the 1950s?
 A) It advocated for racial discrimination.
 B) It was sexually suggestive.
 C) It celebrated crime and drugs.
 D) It encouraged political radicalism.

 59. Why did Alfred Kinsey's best-selling books Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female provoke a firestorm of outrage in the 1950s?
 A) The author had fabricated much of the information he used in the books.
 B) Kinsey refused to make moral judgments on his findings that homosexuality and adultery were not uncommon.
 C) The author did not use random samples in his research but recruited subjects in bars.
 D) Kinsey's books were placed in the science sections of many high school libraries around the country.

 60. The work of 1950s authors Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac was known for
 A) celebrating the incredible achievements of the modern United States.
 B) rejecting almost every aspect of the mainstream culture.
 C) suggesting that popular music would change the world.
 D) challenging Americans to tune in, turn on, and drop out.

 61. The most important changes in civil rights in United States in the 1950s were instituted by
 A) the Supreme Court.
 B) white liberals.
 C) ordinary African Americans.
 D) the United States Congress.

 62. In what way did the civil rights movement of the 1950s and early 1960s differ from previous efforts to end racial segregation and discrimination in the United States?
 A) Fewer African Americans and more whites were involved.
 B) Activists tended more toward rhetoric than toward direct confrontation.
 C) It involved masses of people who used passive resistance to bring about change.
 D) African Americans increasingly used violent means to achieve their objectives.

 63. The Montgomery bus boycott of 1956 persisted until
 A) Exhausted and demoralized black protestors began riding the buses again.
 B) Martin Luther King Jr. called an end to the boycott.
 C) the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Alabama's state and local laws requiring segregation on buses.
 D) the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Alabama's right to enact any laws it thought appropriate to govern its people.

 64. To eradicate poverty and solve most social problems, President Kennedy believed the United States needed to
 A) grow the economy.
 B) control runaway inflation.
 C) have a strong military presence.
 D) redistribute wealth through its tax policy.

 65. In the months before his death, President Kennedy had been pursuing initiatives such as
 A) tax increases on the wealthy and an increase in munitions development.
 B) programs to expand welfare, health care benefits, and federal education loans.
 C) programs to attack poverty, grow the economy, and promote civil rights.
 D) legislation to reverse policies previously established by the New Deal and Fair Deal.

 66. What did the Warren Commission conclude about the assassination of President Kennedy?
 A) There had been a conspiracy to kill President Kennedy.
 B) Both Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby had acted alone.
 C) There was not enough evidence to determine the facts underlying the assassination.
 D) The assassination by Lee Harvey Oswald was a Communist plot.

 67. President Lyndon Baines Johnson brought to the White House
 A) little experience in the political arena.
 B) enormous skill in persuading and threatening legislators.
 C) insufficient political power to pass Kennedy's legislation.
 D) a strong commitment to avoiding further involvement in Vietnam.

 68. What made the Community Action Program the most controversial part of the War on Poverty programs?
 A) The CAP's beneficiaries were given no voice in its direction.
 B) It promised to be an extremely expensive program that might not work.
 C) Few believed its key element, the Job Corps, had any chance of success.
 D) It required the maximum feasible participation of the poor it proposed to help.

 69. The Medicare program provided
 A) universal compulsory insurance for the elderly.
 B) health insurance coverage for all people on welfare.
 C) hospital insurance only for those in need.
 D) free prescription drug coverage for the elderly.

 70. What was the end result of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty?
 A) There was not any significant redistribution of total national income.
 B) It led to the rich getting richer and the poor getting even poorer.
 C) There was not any significant change or reduction in national rates of poverty.
 D) It led to the complete elimination of poverty for select individuals.

 71. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
 A) initially rejected the principles of Martin Luther King Jr.
 B) initially organized peaceful demonstrations using civil disobedience.
 C) staged nonviolent strategies that met with almost immediate success.
 D) was founded as a centralized and hierarchical organization.

 72. The civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963
 A) ended with the police attacking the peaceful demonstrators.
 B) remained peaceful and set the tone for further demonstrations by African Americans.
 C) ended with the police protecting the demonstrators from an attack by white supremacists.
 D) turned violent when members of the Ku Klux Klan attacked the demonstrators.

 73. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was
 A) an extension of voting rights in the South.
 B) a ban on discrimination, including gender discrimination, in employment.
 C) a law that prohibited discrimination in restaurants and hotels.
 D) a law that mandated the integration of public education.

 74. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 transformed southern politics by
 A) authorizing the use of federal agents to enforce African Americans' right to register and vote.
 B) recalling every legislator and state and local official that had been elected by a white electorate.
 C) giving the Supreme Court the power to nullify state elections in which blacks were deprived of their voting rights.
 D) mandating a basic literacy test for voters of all races.

 75. The Civil Rights Act of 1968 addressed racial equality
 A) by mandating a system of busing for all public school students.
 B) through a ban on discrimination in housing and jury selection.
 C) through the prohibition of literacy requirements for black voters.
 D) by forbidding the FBI to investigate civil rights leaders.

 76. By 1966, the civil rights movement in the United States
 A) had reconfirmed its commitment to nonviolence.
 B) had achieved most of its major goals.
 C) was no longer committed to nonviolence.
 D) had been forced underground by continuing violence.

 77. By 1966, the principles espoused by Malcolm X had given rise to
 A) the “black is beautiful” movement.
 B) the vote black movement.
 C) the assimilate today movement.
 D) the black power movement.

 78. Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta organized the Chicanos primarily to achieve
 A) improved conditions of migrant farmworkers in California.
 B) coursework on Mexican history in public schools.
 C) fewer and less strict restrictions on immigration from Mexico.
 D) higher wages for Mexican-American factory workers in California canneries.

 79. Drawing on the example of the Beats, the counterculture of the 1960s
 A) revered the writings of the Brontë sisters.
 B) focused on personal rather than political change.
 C) insisted that the ends justified their violent means.
 D) believed that a citizen's first responsibility was to society.

 80. In 1966, feminists led by Betty Friedan and others founded
 A) the Organization for Women's Rights
 B) the National Organization for Women
 C) Women for a Feminist Society
 D) the Women's Liberation Forum

 81. The radical feminist movement differed from the National Organization for Women and other mainstream feminist organizations in that
 A) it ignored women's subordination in the family and in other personal relationships.
 B) radical women focused on equal treatment of women in the public sphere.
 C) it focused primarily on equal treatment for women in the workplace.
 D) radical feminists sought fundamental changes in the nation's institutions.

 82. Phyllis Schlafly is most closely associated with
 A) the effort to liberalize of abortion laws.
 B) the conservative challenge to feminism in the 1970s.
 C) the effort to gain equal access to medical and law schools for women.
 D) the protest of the Miss America Pageant in 1968.

 83. The Japanese Plan to defend against an American invasion was called
 A) Operation Downfall
 B) Operation Ketsugo
 C) Operation Kyushu
 D) Operation Plympic

 84. TheManhattan Project was carried out in
 A) Los Alamos, NM
 B) Lost Alamos, AZ
 C) Los Alamos, CA
 D) None of the Above

 85. How many deaths were predicted if the American Plan to invade Japan was carried out instead of dropping nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
 A) One million Japanese, 500,000 American
 B) 500,000 Japanese, 20,000 American
 C) 20 million Japanese, four million American
 D) five million Japanese, one million American

 86. During the 1950s
 A) The number of people identifing as athiest grew in America
 B) Fewer Americans espoused relgiouns
 C) The Catholic Church became more traditional
 D) Americans became more religious

 87. Which of the following was not associated with the growth of suburbs in the 1950s
 A) The renovation of the inner cities
 B) White Flight
 C) Environmental damage due to building techniques and smog
 D) The replacement of integrated shopping areas with shopping centers

 88. American media portrayed women who pursued careers as
 A) Independent and self-confident
 B) Emotionally disturbed and masculine
 C) Desperate and poor
 D) Mature and intelligent

 89. Alfred Kinsey's research suggested at least 10% of American Males self-identified as homosexual.  What percentage of men got married during the 1950s?
 A) 100%
 B) 90%
 C) 94%
 D) 50%

 90. William Masters and Virginial Johnson's research was the first to investigate
 A) Physiological and anatomical responses to sexual stimulation
 B) Sociological trends in beliefs about sex
 C) Sexual discrimination
 D) Psychological responses to sexual stimulation

 91. Which of the following was not an outcome of Masters and Johnson's books Human Sexual Response  nad Human Sexual Inadequacy?
 A) The end to many long-held misconceptions, especially in regard to female sexuality
 B) A series of sex studies using the same methodology as Masters and Johnson
 C) A new popular genre consisting of sex manuals written by doctors
 D) A revolution in how Americans viewed sex

 92. In some states, The Pill was only available to married couples until a Supreme Court Case in
 A) 1968
 B) 1965
 C) 1972
 D) 1982

 93. Alan Freed is known as
 A) The hottest DJ in the Midwest
 B) The Father of Rock and Roll
 C) California's answer to Dick Clark
 D) The King of Rock and Roll

 94. The period of time which saw an increase in family size from 2.6 children to 3.2 children is called
 A) Motherhood Lust
 B) Family Fanaticism
 C) The Baby Boom
 D) None of the Above

 95. Like the Beat Generation before them, Hippies saw themselves as pursuing
 A) Conformity and consumerism
 B) Freedom and Justice
 C) Love and spontaneity
 D) Competition and acquisition

 96. Which of the followong 1960s icons sponsored "Acid Tests" across the nation?
 A) Ken Kesey
 B) Timothy Leary
 C) John Lennon
 D) Jack Kerouack

 97. Rock and Roll's cultural roots can be traced back to "race music," which was
 A) Music touting highy sexualized lyrics and sensual dance moves
 B) Music by African American Rhythm and Blues artists played for white teen-aged audiences
 C) Often covered by white artists so as to be perceived as less threatening by teenagers' parents
 D) All of the Above

 98. The Gulf of Tonkin incedent is significant because
 A) Radically increased American presence in South Viet Nam
 B) President Johnson hid the truth in order to further his political goals
 C) Occured in 1964
 D) All of the Above

 99. The policy in which President Nixon used to decrease American presence in Viet Nam was called
 A) American Dissolution
 B) The American Fall Back Position
 C) Step Up Vietnam
 D) Vietnamization

 100. Which of the following is not true about My Lai
 A) American soldiers rounded up about 500 inhabitants of Vietnamese villages and executed them
 B) It turned many Americans against the war
 C) The government and the media did not tell the American about incedents such as these
 D) None of the Above

Answer Key - HIST 1302 Final Review

 1.  C
 2.  D
 3.  D
 4.  C
 5.  D
 6.  D
 7.  B
 8.  A
 9.  B
 10.  D
 11.  D
 12.  D
 13.  D
 14.  B
 15.  A
 16.  C
 17.  C
 18.  D
 19.  C
 20.  B
 21.  B
 22.  D
 23.  A
 24.  B
 25.  A
 26.  B
 27.  C
 28.  C
 29.  B
 30.  D
 31.  C
 32.  A
 33.  B
 34.  C
 35.  C
 36.  B
 37.  D
 38.  A
 39.  C
 40.  A
 41.  B
 42.  A
 43.  B
 44.  D
 45.  B
 46.  C
 47.  B
 48.  C
 49.  C
 50.  D
 51.  C
 52.  A
 53.  B
 54.  B
 55.  A
 56.  D
 57.  B
 58.  B
 59.  B
 60.  B
 61.  C
 62.  C
 63.  C
 64.  A
 65.  C
 66.  B
 67.  B
 68.  D
 69.  A
 70.  A
 71.  B
 72.  A
 73.  B
 74.  A
 75.  B
 76.  C
 77.  D
 78.  A
 79.  B
 80.  B
 81.  D
 82.  B
 83.  B
 84.  A
 85.  C
 86.  D
 87.  A
 88.  B
 89.  C
 90.  A
 91.  B
 92.  C
 93.  B
 94.  C
 95.  C
 96.  A
 97.  D
 98. (No Answer)  
 99.  D
 100.  D