U.S. History Final Exam - EESXVI U.S. History EHS

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What happened to the Jews as well as other prisoners during the Holocaust?

they were subjected to inhumane experiments

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they were separated from their family members and forced to work

they were gassed with cyanide gas

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Who was the acting commander of the Rough Riders?

William Howard Taft

Theodore Roosevelt

Emilio Aguinaldo

William McKinley

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Which of the following was popular in youth culture in the 1920s?

Jazz

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the Charleston

Dance Marathons

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Which of these acts reduced tax rates for businesses and individuals, increased the standard deduction and family tax credits, eliminated the “death tax” on estates, and cancelled the penalty enforcing the individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act?

Americans with Disabilities Act

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

Affordable Care Act

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How long was the Cold War?

30 years

over 40 years

17 years

22 years

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Which of the following roles had the dangerous task of clearing the way for the infantry to advance?

operations specialist

combat engineer

warrant officer

army linguist

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Which of the following was a result of Henry Ford increasing the wage of his workers?

absenteeism from work fell

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the number of cars produced per worker increased

many of his workers also became his customers

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Who ran for President in 2000 as the candidate of the Green Party?

Bob Dole

Ralph Nader

Jerry Falwell

Newt Gingrich

Question 9

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How did the U.S. increase troop numbers for World War I?

by giving women full military rank

by offering medical benefits

by offering above average pay

by instituting a draft

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Which of the following is the practice of making accusations of treason, especially when related to communism?

McCarthyism

Sensationalism

Antiradicalism

McCarranism

Question 11

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Which of the following countries was NOT a part of the ABC Powers?

Argentina

Brazil

Chile

Columbia

Question 12

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Why did an estimated 890,000 Mexican immigrants enter the United States between 1910 and 1920?

isolationism in the U.S. was increasing

they wanted to escape the Mexican Revolution

the U.S. paid immigrants to fight in WWI

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What was the Berlin Airlift?

a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of West Berlin

a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of East Germany

a collective defense treaty signed by most of the Communist nations of Eastern Europe

a collective defense treaty signed by the Western European nations

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Who was the Republican candidate for President in the Election of 2012?

John McCain

Jill Stein

Sarah Palin

Mitt Romney

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Which event inspired Malcolm X’s “Ballots or Bullets” speech?

a trip to Mecca where he learned that Islam taught racial equality

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a meeting with Huey Newton and the Black Panther Party

the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

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Which of the following is a reason why the U.S. withdrew from Vietnam?

the president of South Vietnam declared victory

the U.S. had won the Vietnam War

more and more Americans felt that the U.S. should get out of the war

the North Vietnamese troops had been completely removed from South Vietnam

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Which of the following best describes the significance of Tennessee v. Scopes?

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it was a trial that used new forms of evidence collection to prove Scopes had broken the law and talked to his class about evolution

it was a trial that publicized the conflict between Catholics and Protestants

it was a trial that publicized the conflict between Fundamentalists and Evolutionists

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What was the first election where women had the right to vote for all offices in every state in the Union?

1920 Presidential election

1912 Presidential election

1872 Presidential election

1848 Presidential election

Question 19

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The ________ Amendment to the Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex.

Fifteenth

Thirteenth

Fourteenth

Nineteenth

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Which of the following best describes Gifford Pinchot and Theodore Roosevelt’s stand on the environment?

Keep the land in its pristine form for strictly wilderness value

Manage the land for the good of the people

Use the land to maximize commercial profit

Use the land to lower the price of gas and oil

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Which of the following was NOT one of the “3 Rs” of the New Deal?

Recovery

Reform

Resurrection

Relief

Question 22

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In which case was it decided that racial segregation was legal as long as the conditions were separate but equal?

Brown v. Board of Education

Baker v. Carr

Gideon v. Wainwright

Plessy v. Ferguson

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Who were the nearly one-fourth of Americans living below the poverty level in the 1960s?

minorities

single mothers

the elderly

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Question 24

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What is May 8, 1945 (the day Germany surrendered) referred to as?

V-E Day

Mayday

Z-day

D-Day

Question 25

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What did the Russian radical socialists call themselves in the early 1900s?

Yedinaya Rossiya

Bolsheviks

Mensheviks

Liberal Democratic Party

Question 26

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Which of these Presidential candidates ran an anti-establishment, populist campaign in 2016?

Hillary Clinton

Ross Perot

Donald Trump

Barack Obama

Question 27

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Who developed the Peace Corps?

Herbert Hoover

John F. Kennedy

Franklin Roosevelt

Dwight Eisenhower

Question 28

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Why was fighting the Vietcong difficult for the U.S. troops?

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the Vietcong used an extensive system of underground tunnels

the Vietcong were disguised among innocent civilians

the Vietcong were masters of hit-and-run ambush tactics

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Which of the following fueled American imperialism?

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desire for military strength

desire to civilize “inferior” races

quest for new markets

Question 30

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Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic?

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Amy Phipps Guest

Amelia Earhart

Anita Snook

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