Final Quiz Questions

Question 1

Which new deal program was known for employing unemployed young men to work in parks and forests?

Answer 1

CCC

Question 2

Which Great Depression-era president had homeless shelters and shanties named after him?

Answer 2

President Herbert Hoover

Question 3

Buying on Margin

Answer 3

getting money from the bank and investing in stocks, which will later lead to the Stock Market Crash of 1929 wiping out billions of dollars and tons of investors.

Question 4

Fireside Chats

Answer 4

30 radio addresses by FDR which gave the American people hope for the future as they were able to hear the president speak in real-time and battle through the Great Depression

Question 5

Dust Bowl

Answer 5

soil that turned into dust that killed crops in the Great Plains area, this event would occur a lot during the Great Depression which made farmers also struggle to make a living out of farming

Question 6

Which wartime federal agency was directly responsible for rationing in WWII America?

Answer 6

Office of Price Administration

Question 7

What was the Supreme court’s decision in the Korematsu v. United States case?

Answer 7

Japanese American removal and internment were legal due to concerns about wartime spying and sabotage.

Question 8

The St. Louis

Answer 8

A German boat full of Jewish refugees escaping Nazi Germany and moving to the U.S. This would later bring more restrictions to immigration laws and cause more deaths in the Holocaust

Question 9

Lend-Lease Act

Answer 9

a policy that gave the U.S. access to buy wartime supplies for any nation, this would later help the U.K. battle Nazi Germany due to the trading of war supplies between the U.S.

Question 10

Executive Order 8802

Answer 10

It removed employment discrimination practices in the workforce and would later help the Double V Campaign defeat racism

Question 11

This preeminent foreign policy strategy stated that Soviet Communism should be prevented from spreading to new countries.

Answer 11

Containment

Question 12

Which of these events occurred during the Nixon presidency?

Answer 12

Detente

Question 13

McCarthyism

Answer 13

controversial practices and beliefs of U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy which led to widespread repression and persecution across the country

Question 14

Domino Theory

Answer 14

a geopolitical theory that claimed that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the rest would fall to it. This would come true later when the U.S. went to war like Vietnam and Korea after China became communist.

Question 15

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Answer 15

a failed military operation funded by the U.S. to get rid of the revolution but led to disaster and failure. Leading to Cuba becoming communist til’ this day

Question 16

Selma March

Answer 16

One of MLK’s and SNCC’s most influential marches; was made to encourage black voters in the south to vote. This led to a violent and gruesome actions from the white segregationist towards them

Question 17

Little Rock Nine

Answer 17

first major southern school to allow black students in Arkansas; this gave the Civil Rights Movement more momentum to keep going as they were starting to see racial equality

Question 18

Which of the following Civil Rights organizations was composed mostly of student activists engaged in marches, sit-ins, and other protest actions?

Answer 18

SNCC

Question 19

Which Civil Rights leader was known for his support for self defense and critic of MLK Jr.?

Answer 19

Malcolm X

Question 20

Which of these Supreme Court cases made racial segregation in schools illegal?

Answer 20

Brown v. Board of Education

Question 21

Stokely Carmichael

Answer 21

He was the new leader of the SNCC and believed in self defence and violence; however, he kicked out all the whites from the SNCC which lead to the fall of the organization in which stopped funding the Civil Rights Movement

Question 22

GI Bill

Answer 22

A legislative law that gave retired war veterans benefits; this led to black veterans from WWII entering colleges for free but colleges wouldn’t accept their GI Bill which resulted in more protests from the Civil Rights Movement

Question 23

This Civil Rights legislation prevented employment discrimination due to race, color, sex, religion or national origin.

Answer 23

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Question 24

Norman Morrison & Roger Allen LaPorte

Answer 24

American protestors who lit themselves on fire and died days apart. This sparked the ant-war movement going on in the country.

Question 25

Pentagon Papers

Answer 25

a top-secret Department of Defense study of U.S. political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945-1967. Greatly expanded the anti-war movement as now the American people knew the truth about the war and began losing trust in the government

Question 26

Which college was the scene of a shooting of anti-Vietnam War protestors?

Answer 26

Kent State Shooting

Question 27

Which military operation launched by the Vietcong had the effect of turning the American public against the Vietnam war?

Answer 27

Tet Offensive

Question 28

Napalm

Answer 28

a chemical mixture by a small company in Michigan. This was used a lot in the Vietnam War to cause heavy damage and get rid of forests so the enemy doesn’t hide

Question 29

Which of the following was NOT an agreement that was part of the Paris Peace Accords?

Answer 29

The Vietnamese would replace its communist government with a democratic style government.

Question 30

Battle of Dien Bien Phu

Answer 30

A battle between the French colonist and the Vietnamese revolutionaries. This would be the start of the Vietnam War when the U.S. later joins to prevent communism

Question 31

Which president escalated US involvement in Vietnam through the so-called Gulf of Tonkin incident.

Answer 31

Lyndon Johnson

Question 32

Which of the following feminists actually supported the sterilization and reproductive control of “inferior” women?

Answer 32

Margaret Sanger

Question 33

Which of the following feminists actually had an abortion?

Answer 33

Gloria Steinmen

Question 34

Seneca Fall Convention

Answer 34

an assembly held in Seneca Falls, New York. It began the feminist movement for equal rights in women

Question 35

Feminine Mystique

Answer 35

a landmark book written by Betty Friedan, and helped spread ideas about the movement across the country for the feminist movement

Question 36

Alice Paul

Answer 36

a vocal leader for the feminist movement, she advocated and later helped with the ratification of the 19th Amendment

Question 37

What did the Family Law Act of 1969 do?

Answer 37

Enabled both men and women to obtain divorces without having to provide a legal reason in the state of California.

Question 38

Which of the following policies is NOT a policy that NOW would support?

Answer 38

Females should have restricted access to birth control methods.

Question 39

Roe v. Wade

Answer 39

a supreme court case that ruled out that abortion is now legal across the country, this lead to a lot of controversy and division among the feminist movement