Which of these would have been most likely to get a Federal Housing Administration loan in the post‒World War II era? A) a homebuyer in a white suburb B) a suburban duplex buyer C) an inner-city apartment buyer D) a buyer of an old house requiring repairs ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Under President Kennedy, advisory functions and details of running the executive branch __________. A) were micromanaged by the president B) shifted from the cabinet to the White House staff C) were ignored, weakening the presidency D) were left to cabinet offices ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Cuban missile crisis led to a symbolic cooling of Cold War tensions with the signing of __________. A) the Limited Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty B) the Geneva Accords for Vietnam C) a U.S.-Cuba free trade agreement D) Castro’s pledge not to invade the United States ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
How would you characterize Kennedy’s approach to Vietnam? What challenges did he help create for his successors? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Key Points: the Cold War lens; covert action; connection of United States to an unpopular dictator; escalation
Date: September 9th, 2020
African American SNCC members became disillusioned with the Democratic Party when Johnson __________. A) refused to sign the Civil Rights Act B) opposed seating Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegates at the 1964 Democratic Convention C) refused to attend King’s Nobel Prize ceremony D) chose a segregationist vice-presidential candidate in 1964 ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Greensboro, North Carolina, Nashville, Tennessee, and Atlanta, Georgia, were early sites of this particular strategy of the civil rights movement. A) freedom rides to test the Morgan v. Virginia ruling in interstate buses B) sit-ins at lunch counters and restaurants to protest discrimination C) violent occupation of segregated establishments D) voter registration drives to increase […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Bill of Rights guaranteed that the power of ________ could not infringe upon the rights of ________. A) the President; Congress B) the states; the national government C) Congress; the federal judiciary D) the national government; individuals ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
Prospects for successful worldwide exploration by Europeans in the mid-fifteenth century were heightened by new developments in all the following areas EXCEPT A) knowledge of New World geography. B) ship design. C) printing. D) navigational instruments. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
The gathering at an annual meeting where fur trappers met to trade pelts for supplies was called the ________ system. A) rendezvous B) putting out C) factor D) caucus ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Spanish conquistadore Hernan Cortes was able to conquer the Aztec Empire for all of the following reasons EXCEPT A) Cortes received the assistance of various tribes that had been subjugated by the Aztecs. B) a smallpox epidemic decimated the Aztec population. C) Cortes’s troops vastly outnumbered the Aztec warriors. D) the Aztec emperor Montezuma […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
