1. The 1925 Dayton, Tennessee "Monkey Trial" dealt with
A. teaching evolution in the public schools.

2. During the 1920s, the ___________ industry had the single mostimportant impact on the nation's booming economy.
A. Automobile

3. "I would never go back again to nurse women's ailing bodies while their miseries were as vast as the stars. I was now finished with superficial cures. . .I resolved that women should have knowledge of contraception. They have every right to know about their own bodies. I would strike outI would scream from the housetops. I would tell the world what was going on in the lives of these poor women. I would__be heard. No matter what it should cost. I would be heard . . ." The above author was
A. Margaret Sanger

4.The Sacco-Vanzetti case graphically demonstrated that American justice had little sympathy towards
A. Radicals and Aliens

5. During the 1920s, how were immigrants from southern and eastern Europe affected by the new quota system of immigration?
A. They found it much more difficult to immigrate

6. "There is no need to recount the virtues of the American pioneers; . . .from among these all but the best died swiftly, so that the new Nordic blend which became the American race was bred up to a point probably the highest in history. . .These Nordic Americans for the last generation have found themselves increasingly uncomfortable, and finally deeply distressed. . .The Nordic American today is a stranger in large parts of the land his fathers gave him. . .The Nordic Americans have been gradually arousing themselves to defend their homes and their own kind of civilization." The above statement was typical of the views of the
A. Ku Klux Klan

7. Feminist Margaret Sanger was one of the
A. strongest proponents of birth-control

8. Franklin D. Roosevelt owed his nomination for president to his success as
A. Secretary of Commerce

9. The "Ohio Gang" is associated with President
A. Warren G. Harding

10. The bottom dropped out of the stock market in
A. October 1929

11. The Five-Power Treaty signed by the United States, Great Britain, Japan, France, and Italy in 1922 committed them to
A. limiting their battleships to a fixed ratio

12. The illegal leasing of government oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyoming, was the worst scandal involving the administration of President
A. Warren G. Harding

13. The 1924 __________ Plan attempted to solve Germany's post-war financial problems by granting it a $200 million loan.
A. Dawes

14. The "Bonus Army" which came to Washington, D.C. in 1932 consisted largely of
A. Unemployed Veterans

15. In early 1941, FDR proposed aiding the financially exhausted British under the __________ Act.
A. Lend-Lease

16. In 1940, the Roosevelt Administration "traded" 50 World War I destroyers to Great Britain for
A. Naval Bases in the Carribean

17. Democracy and fascism clashed in 1936 when civil war broke out in
A. Spain

18. Roosevelt communicated directly and effectively with the public through
A. "Fireside Chats"

19. FDR spoke for the hopes of many for a better post-war world when he expressed his goal of
A. Four Freedoms

20. The Civil Works Administration
A. Created jobs for the unemployed

21. The Civilian Conservation Corps was intended primarily to aid
A. unemployed youth in soil conservation and reforestation.

22. In 1939 Adolph Hitler broke his promise made at Munich and seized
A. Czechoslovakia

23. Because of a crippling wartime strike, the federal government seized the
A. Railroads

24. Roosevelt's greatest accomplishment as a wartime leader was his
A. ability to inspire people with a sense of national purpose

25. To pay a large part of the cost of World War II, the government
A. increased taxes

26. The United States declared war on Japan after the surprise attack on December 7, 1941 on
A. Pearl Harbor

27. The American strategy in the Pacific to conquer only strategic islands was called
A. "island hopping"

28. A desperate German counterattack in December 1944, at the German-Belgian border almost broke the Allied lines. This was the
A. Battle of the Bulge

29. During World War II, black males were
A. permitted to join the various services but were segregated

30. In response to the slaughter of Jews in the Nazi holocaust, the Roosevelt administration
A. Did almost nothing

31. The 1944 GI Bill of Rights gave
A. veterans subsidies for education or opening a small business.

32. The original purpose of NATO was to create a
A. mutual defense pact against the Soviet Union

33.  "At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. . .One way of life is based upon the will of the majority, and. . .guarantees of individual liberty. . .The second way of life is based upon the will of a minority forcibly imposed upon the majority. It relies upon terror and oppression, . . .and the suppression of personal freedoms. . .Should we fail to aid Greece and Turkey in this fateful hour, the effect will be far reaching to the West as well as to the East. We must take immediate and resolute action." The source of the above is the 
A. Truman Doctrine

34. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announced that Soviet communism would
A. conquer capitalism through science and technology

35. Officially, the Korean War was a struggle between North Korea and the
A. United Nations

36. Eisenhower's Secretary of State who advocated emphasizing massive retaliation with nuclear weapons rather than containment with conventional forces was
A. John Foster Dulles

37. The leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and of the nonviolent civil rights movement was 
A. Martin Luther King, Jr.

38. President Kennedy confronted the Cuban missile crisis by instituting a
A. Naval blockade of Cuba

39. In 1962, Soviet Premier Khrushchev precipitated what the text labels as "the most dangerous confrontation of the Cold War" by 
A. moving guided missiles to and building launching pads in Cuba

40. Under the terms of the January 1973 peace settlement, the North Vietnamese
A. retained large portions of South Vietnam in exchange for releasing American prisoners of war within 60 days

41. "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal.' I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood." This author was
A. Martin Luther King, Jr.

42. President Richard Nixon's principal plan for ending the American commitment in the Vietnam conflict was
A. building up the South Vietnamese army in order to withdraw American troops

43. By the mid-1960s, black militants like Stokely Carmichael generally
A. Rejected any support from whites

44. The American phenomenon labeled a "vast wasteland" by Newton Minnow of the FCC was
A. Television

45. The organization working for equal employment opportunities for women, which Betty Friedan helped found in 1966, was the
A. National Organization for Women

46. One of the causes for the drive for women's rights in the 1960s was that
A. women's work in the civil rights struggle awakened them to their own oppression

47. The pop art of the 1960s was identified with
A. satirizing American life through everyday images

48. The murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968 immediately triggered
A. Massive urban rioting

49. The members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries united to boycott the West in response to American
A. aid to Israel in the 1973 Yom Kippur War

50. In 1981, President Reagan appointed the first woman to the Supreme Court,
A. Sandra Day O'Connor

51. A major factor in Carter's election as president in 1976 was
A. his outstanding performance in the televised debates

52. In response to an August, 1981 strike, President Reagan basically destroyed the union representing
A. Air traffic controllers

53. The Income Tax Act of 1986, supported by the Reagan administration,
A. lowered taxes significantly for corporations and the wealthy while also eliminating many tax shelters

54. One casualty of the 1970s recession and the strain it placed on women and families was the
A. Equal Rights Amendment

55. Clinton used his executive authority to strengthen the Supreme Court majority that opposed the Reagan-Bush position on 
A. Abortion

56. "General Noriega's reckless threats and attacks upon Americans in Panama created an eminent danger to the. . .American citizens in Panama. As President, I have no higher obligation than to safeguard the lives of American citizens. And that is why I directed our armed force to protect the lives of American citizens in Panama and to bring General Noriega to justice in the United States." This author was
A. George H. W. Bush

57. During the 1980s, one factor which intensified the problem of violent crime in the inner cities was a shift in drug use to
A. "crack"

58. In 1991, a bloody civil war broke out in __________, eventually pitting Croation and Serbian Christians against Bosnian Muslims.
A. Yugoslavia

59. As a result of the election of 1994, the Republicans
A. gained control of both houses of Congress

60. Georgia Representative __________ led the Republicans to victory in the congressional elections of 1994.
A. Newt Gingrich