The presidential election that first showed the power of television in political life was in the year __________. A) 1948 B) 1952 C) 1956 D) 1960 ANSWER Answer: B
The 1956 Suez Crisis was sparked when Egyptian president Nasser asked __________ for aid in building a Nile River dam. A) the Soviet Union B) the United States C) Israel D) Saudi Arabia ANSWER Answer: A
By the 1950s, __________ out of eight teenagers was/were in school. A) one B) six C) three D) seven ANSWER Answer: B
In 1946, the NAACP obtained the Morgan v. Virginia ruling, which declared that segregation was illegal on/in __________. A) national housing projects B) defense industry jobs C) colleges D) interstate buses ANSWER Answer: D
In the late 1940s, the Supreme Court ruled in the Mendez and Delgado cases that __________. A) language was not a barrier to citizenship B) the separate but equal doctrine applied to Mexican Americans C) Mexican Americans could not be excluded from jury lists D) segregation of Mexican Americans was unconstitutional ANSWER Answer: D
Where did the prehistoric Paleo-Indians, who first migrated to the Americas, come from? A) Scandinavia B) Eastern Siberia C) the Mediterranean Basin D) Polynesia ANSWER B
The Iroquois nation’s tribal organization could be described as A) autocratic. B) patrilineal. C) democratic. D) matrilineal. ANSWER D
A modern nation-state was created in fifteenth-century Spain by A) Ferdinand and Isabella. B) Henry VII. C) Louis XI, the “Spider King.” D) Prince Henry the Navigator. ANSWER A
Overland pioneers usually did all of the following EXCEPT A) regret their decision to migrate. B) suffer severe hardships. C) abandon a rigid sexual division of labor on the trail. D) travel in family units. ANSWER A
Although it was harsh, the Spanish system of African slavery was moderated somewhat by all the following EXCEPT A) Spanish law. B) common intermarriage between Spaniards, Indians, and Africans. C) Roman Catholic doctrine. D) the fact that slaves constituted a very small part of the population. ANSWER D