Exam 6

Question 1

What did Port Huron Statement argue?

Answer 1

College students must become politically active and aware of the world.

Question 2

T or F: One reason that women’s rights movements began to take the stage in the 19th century is because many of the leaders of other reform movements were women.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The Youth Rebellion of the 1960s was characterized by all but one of the following.

Answer 3

Was largely made up of World War II veterans.

Question 4

According to Elder Bateman, along with the Restoration came …..

Answer 4

A burst of secular knowledge

Question 5

Which of the following is not a type of Jacksonian Reform?

Answer 5

Liberalism

Question 6

Which of the following is not a legacy of the 1960s Youth Rebellion?

Answer 6

The creation of a new youth political party.

Question 7

The counterculture of the 1960s renewed support for traditional American values.

Answer 7

False

Question 8

In Elder Bateman’s address he connects the explosion of technological change and secular knowledge with what other event?

Answer 8

The Restoration of the Gospel.

Question 9

Temperance societies organized to combat which problems that were argued were caused by alcohol consumption?

Answer 9

Immorality
Poverty
Crime
All of the answers are correct.

Question 10

What did Lyndon Johnson mean when he spoke about a “Great Society”?

Answer 10

A society in which all problems of poverty and discrimination could be solved and eliminated.

Question 11

Which of the following would not be included in President Benson’s list of things we can do to best protect constitutional freedoms?

Answer 11

Refuse to obey unjust laws

Question 12

What is the legacy of Johnson’s Great Society?

Answer 12

Most of Johnson’s Great Society programs continue today and many have been expanded and enlarged.

Question 13

Which of the following would correctly state an idea given in Lyndon Johnson’s “War on Poverty” speech of 1964?

Answer 13

To fight poverty, we must have better schools, better health, better homes, better training, and better jobs.

Question 14

During the Jacksonian Era, Horace Mann is known for his significant reforms in what area of society?

Answer 14

Education

Question 15

In “Zion in the Midst of Babylon,” Elder Stone suggests we do which of the following in order to maintain our spirituality in the world we live in?

Answer 15

We should maintain or standards and morals despite the world we live in.

Question 16

After they attacked Pearl Harbor, the Japanese forced the United States to respond in which way?

Answer 16

Lay aside its state of isolationism and get involved with the war.

Question 17

President Eisenhower, in his farewell address, warned of the dangers to American society due to

Answer 17

The power and reach of the military-industrial complex

Question 18

The “motivation” of imperialism was most evident in American foreign policy during which war?

Answer 18

Spanish-American War

Question 19

Which of the following was a way the United States responded after World War II ended?

Answer 19

It joined military alliances like NATO and SEATO to help ensure world democracy.

Question 20

Which term is correctly matched with its definition?

Answer 20

Imperialism: a policy of acquisition of colonies or dominating the economic and political affairs of a weaker nation.
Militarism: an aggressive preparedness for war and the glorification of that preparedness.
Nationalism: an intense patriotism and devotion to one’s country, sometimes at the expense of international considerations
-All of the above!

Question 21

Regarding foreign policy, which of the following statements is true?

Answer 21

The basic mission of the U.S. during the Cold War was to contain communism.

Question 22

World War I began in 1914 and ended in 1918. In what year did the US become involved?

Answer 22

1917

Question 23

The Roosevelt Corollary added to the Monroe Doctrine the concept that the United States should

Answer 23

interfere in the affairs of the Americas in case of “chronic wrongdoing”

Question 24

The very earliest American foreign policy centered around which idea?

Answer 24

Neutrality; avoiding foreign military or political alliances.

Question 25

Which of the following most closely relates to our “special relationship” with nations of the Western Hemisphere?

Answer 25

Monroe Doctrine.

Question 26

The concept of “mission” in American foreign policy has resulted in

Answer 26

Advancing the cause of human rights and political self-determination in the world.

Question 27

T or F: Patriotism is a strengthening principle, but when taken to the extreme it can be divisive and harmful.

Answer 27

True

Question 28

Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points were about what?

Answer 28

Securing peace between nations and restoring war-torn nations

Question 29

What did “The March of the Flag” campaign speech argue that the United States was?

Answer 29

All answers are correct.
Duty-bound to rule other peoples even without their consent.
Destined to rule the American continent.
Uniquely blessed and chosen by God.

Question 30

According to President Wilson, why did the United States enter World War I?

Answer 30

“make the world safe for democracy.”

Question 31

President Woodrow Wilson wrote the Fourteen Points in response to what?

Answer 31

To end World War I

Question 32

Which of the following most closely reflects Washington’s advice to avoid foreign entanglements?

Answer 32

Isolation and Neutrality

Question 33

When was the US involved in World War II?

Answer 33

1941-1945

Question 34

T or F: Americans have never been seen by others as “imperialists.”

Answer 34

True

Question 35

Identify the correct match of an individual with the statement about foreign neutrality he said.

Answer 35

George Washington—“`Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world.”