Question

The baby boomer generation helped to liberalize college campuses in the 1960s. />TrueFalse
Which of the following was not a major factor promoting economic growth in the Gilded Age?

Relatively little government regulation
Development of transcontinental railroads
War stimulated the economy
Large sources of cheap labor

Which of the following was not used to discourage black voting in the South?

Civil Rights Cases
Racial violence
Literacy tests
13th Amendment
Lynchings were often performed in order to show African Americans that even though they were emancipated from slavery, they were not the equals of white Americans
TrueFalse
 By generating massive amounts of wealth, industrialization in the Gilded Age made society more economically equal. 
TrueFalse
 Why were political machines popular among newly arrived immigrants?

They often offered social services and access to jobs for new immigrants
Republicans like Theodore Roosevelts encouraged new immigrants to join the political machines
Most newly arrived immigrants usually didn’t have any family or friends to contact when they reached the U.S.
All of the above

Which of these reform efforts during the Progressive Era involved women?

Suffrage
Temperance
Settlement House Movement
All of the above
 Which of the following is not true about immigration in the late nineteenth century?

More immigrants now came from southern and eastern Europe
Immigrants and their children made up a majority of the population in large cities
Immigrants provided a cheap labor force for factories
The federal government enacted strict limits on the number of immigrants that could come from Europe
 During World War I, censorship by the government:
Was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court
Was greatly reduced because of the heightened sense of patriotism
Was deemed unnecessary by Woodrow Wilson
Greatly increased as civil liberties were reduced
 President Herbert Hoover responded to the Great Depression by:

Creating the New Deal
Increasing government welfare support to the millions of poor and starving Americans
Attempted to balance the budget by raising taxes and urging companies to voluntarily maintain employment and investment
Reduced taxes for the wealthiest Americans, to encourage a trickle-down effect for the economy

Which of the following best describes African Americans’ status during World War II?

The war created new employment opportunities as Federal Government integrated defense industries
Became severely restricted because Americans feared black uprising
African Americans in the North returned to the South in large numbers to grow food on the farms for the war effort
Which is true about American families during the 1950s?

Children referred to as the Baby Boomers
High rates of divorce
Parents had fewer children
Pre-marital sex was outlawed

This civil rights philosophy aimed to get the authorities to attack marchers unprovoked, in order to sway public opinion in favor of civil rights. 

Nonviolent resistance
Hunger strike
Black power
Consumer boycott

The Sit-In Movement reflected which of the following trends in civil rights activism?

Use of the courts in order to gain civil rights
Young African Americans move active in civil rights organizing
Emergence of radical black power movement
None of the above

 This event directly contributed to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Vietnam War
Assassination of Martin Luther King
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Passage of the Voting Rights Act

This group of voters was most responsible for fueling the “Reagan Revolution”:

Religious Right
African Americans
Middle-class liberals
All of the above

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