HIST 1302 Week 7 Quiz

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Question 1

How did the women’s liberation movement inspire a major expansion of the idea of freedom?                          

·        The women’s movement included members of the middle class as well as the working class.

·        The women’s movement brought considerations of power and justice inside the family.

·        The women’s movement took the protest for social justice to the streets.

·        The women’s movement included African-Americans, Mexican-Americans, and Anglo-Americans.

·        The women’s movement included men and women.

                                   

Question 2

During the feminist movement, women came to believe that “the personal is political,” thus permanently changing Americans’ definition of freedom.                              

                       

·        True

·        False

 

 

Question 3

Women’s liberation:                                   

                       

·        was a single-issue movement that argued for equal pay for equal work.

·        was a movement born of other movements where female activists had experienced discriminatory treatment from their male counterparts.

·        remained a tiny fringe movement because of its radical tactics, including “consciousness-raising” sessions and a takeover of the 1968 Miss America pageant.

·        B and C

·        attracted middle-class women, much like the suffrage movement in the early twentieth century.

 

 

 

                                   

Question 4

In the 1960s, Latino rights in particular were the focus of the:                                   

                       

·        NAACP.

·        Redstockings.

·        United Farm Workers.

·        Mattachine Society.

·        Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

 

 

Question 5

The New Left:                                  

                       

·        had made its peace with consumer culture.

·        was made up mostly of black college students.

·        called for a democracy of citizen participation.

·        focused its activism on economic justice.

·        was made up of children of the Old Left.

 

 

Question 6

Which of the following statements best describes the legacy of the War on Poverty?                               

·        It transformed the condition of life in poor urban neighborhoods.

·        Its overwhelming success suggested that restoring Americans’ economic security was ultimately more important than securing their civil rights.

·        It helped significantly reduce America’s incidence of poverty.

·        It cemented Lyndon Johnson’s reputation as one of the most popular presidents in American history.

·        It had a large effect on the infrastructure of the South.

 

 

 

Question 7

In 1967, the Supreme Court ruled in Loving v. Virginia that:

                                   

·        suspects could refuse to cooperate with police.

·        school prayer was unconstitutional.

·        state laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional.

·        local elections could be monitored by federal officials.

·        those in police custody had certain rights.

 

Question 8

The Cuban Missile Crisis did nothing to change John F. Kennedy’s attitudes toward the Cold War.      

           

·        True   

·        False

 

Question 9

After Rachel Carson publicly exposed the dangers of DDT, chemical and pesticide companies launched a campaign to discredit her.                         

                       

·        True

·        False

 

 

Question 10

The 1963 March on Washington:                         

                       

·        was a high point in black and white cooperation.

·        included various female speakers.

·        included speeches with militant language.

·        focused solely on economic justice.

·        focused solely on a languishing civil rights bill.

Question 11

Ronald Reagan was a New Deal Democrat and union leader before switching parties and running for governor of California.                              

                       

·        True

·        False

 

Question 12

All of the following are evidence that freedom for women expanded in the 1970s EXCEPT:                               

                       

·        Title IX, which banned gender discrimination in higher education.

·        a higher divorce rate and lower birth rate.

·        more employment opportunities, such as with AT&T.

·        the Equal Credit Opportunity Act.

·        Regents of the University of California v. Bakke.

 

 

                                   

Question 13

What contradiction did the Reagan presidency reveal about modern conservatism?                                 

                       

·        Republicans brought more women into public office than any other party, but actively legislated for men’s rights.

·        Conservatives cut spending dramatically, only to complain about a lack of public services.

·        Conservatives promised to destroy labor unions, only to depend on their political support in elections.

·        The Republican Party was driven by young conservatives but ruled by the oldest president on record.

·        Reagan’s policies enriched investors and CEOs but eviscerated the economies and communities of the industrial heartland.

 

 

Question 14

Affirmative action was:                             

                       

·        found unconstitutional during the Nixon administration.

·        never a priority during the Nixon administration.

·        first pursued and then abandoned by the Nixon administration.

·        implemented only in Philadelphia.

·        mandated by law only for construction workers.

 

Question 15

What triggered the rise of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia?                             

                       

·        The destruction of Viet Kong in Vietnam.

·        The victory of communists in Vietnam in 1975.

·        The assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem.

·        The manipulations of the Soviet KGB secret service in Phnom Penh.

·        The invasion of U.S. troops in 1970.

 

 

Question 16

Mikhail Gorbachev:                                   

 

·        ensured the Soviet Union would continue as a strong ally of the United States in the future.

·        was reviled by Reagan for his unwillingness to negotiate arms reduction.

·        inaugurated political openness and economic reform in the Soviet Union.

·        accused Reagan of presiding over an “evil empire.”

·        was dedicated to maintaining Russia’s military budget.

 

 

 

                                   

Question 17

In 1979, President Carter brought together the leaders of Israel and Egypt and brokered a historic peace agreement known as the Camp David Accords.                         

 

·        True

·        False

 

           

Question 18

The morale in the army during the later years of the Vietnam conflict mirrored the social changes sweeping America at home.                                   

             

·        True

·        False

 

Question 19

Which of the following comparisons of wage trends for 1953 to 1973 and 1973 to 1993 is accurate?                           

·        Wages increased significantly in the first period but stagnated in the second.

·        Nominal wages gradually sunk in the first half and rose in the second, but real wages behaved in the opposite way.

·        Wage gains were typically eaten up by inflation in the first half.

·        Wages for women grew significantly while men’s wages declined.

·        Wages were more equitable for women and minorities in the first period than in the second.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Question 20

The “Second Gilded Age”:                        

                       

·        could describe the 1980s, a decade where organized labor made substantial gains as it had in the 1890s.

·        ended with a federal budget surplus.

·        could describe the 1980s, a decade where making deals was more profitable for companies than making products.

·        was a Mondale-Ferraro 1984 campaign slogan slamming Reagan’s coddling of the rich.

·        was the title of a 1980s documentary about “yuppies” who sold out to the financial establishment.