Exam 8: America Secedes from the Empire 1775-1783

The following questions refer to the excerpt below. "[The Soviets will apply] insistent,unceasing pressure for penetration and command of key positions in administration…of foreign countries… In summary,we have here a political force committed fanatically to the belief that with US…it is desirable and necessary that the internal harmony of our society be disrupted… [and] the international authority of our state be broken,if Soviet power is to be secure… Much depends on health and vigor of our own society… Every courageous and incisive measure to solve internal problems of our own society… is a diplomatic victory over Moscow." George Kennan,"The Long Telegram," 1946 -Which of the following explains the most significant challenge to the United States in light of the nature of the Soviet Union's policies as described by Kennan?

SA Directions Directions: Read each question carefully and write your responses using complete sentences; an outline or bulleted list alone is not acceptable. -Population growth in this period most directly contributed to growing concerns about

The following questions refer to the excerpt below. "This unwarranted exercise of power by the court [in Brown v.Board of Education] contrary to the Constitution,is creating chaos and confusion in the states principally affected. It is destroying the amicable relations between the white and Negro races that have been created through ninety years of patient effort by the good people of both races… Without regard to the consent of the governed,outside agitators are threatening immediate and revolutionary changes in our public school systems…We decry the Supreme Court's encroachments on rights reserved to the states and to the people,contrary to established law and to the Constitution." Manifesto of One Hundred Members of the U.S.Congress,1956 -The most significant effect of the efforts of Americans who agreed with the perspective presented in the passage was to

The following questions refer to the excerpt below. "Why are we in South Viet-Nam? We are there because we have a promise to keep. Since 1954 every American President has offered support to the people of South Viet-Nam. We have helped to build,and we have helped to defend. Thus,over many years,we have made a national pledge to help South Viet-Nam defend its independence…We are also there because there are great stakes in the balance. Let no one think for a moment that retreat from Viet-Nam would bring an end to conflict. The battle would be renewed in one country and then another." President Lyndon B.Johnson,Speech at Johns Hopkins University,1965 -The most significant concern of the United States government in its involvement in the conflict described by President Johnson was

The following questions refer to the excerpt below. "A government job is a privilege,not a right. There is no reason why men who chum with Communists,who refuse to turn their backs upon traitors,and who are consistently found at the time and place where disaster strikes America and success comes to international Communism,should be given positions of power in government… I have not urged that those whom I have named be put in jail. Once they are exposed so the American people know what they are,they can do but little damage." Senator Joseph McCarthy,The Fight For America,1952 -Though many Americans debated the merits of McCarthy's arguments in the passage above,most Americans supported

The following questions refer to the excerpt below. "The experience of a 'détente' in American-Soviet relations in the 1970s ultimately failed for a number of reasons,including an underlying difference in conceptions of détente: The American leaders saw it (in Kissinger's words)as a way of 'managing the emergence of Soviet power' into world politics in an age of nuclear parity;the Soviet leaders,for their part,envisaged it as a way of managing the transition of the United States from its former superiority into a more modest role in world politics… Ultimately disillusionment affected the leaderships on both sides… and the détente commitment was not only devalued but used as the basis for additional hostile charges against the other side." Raymond L.Garthoff,"Détente and Confrontation: American-Soviet Relations from Nixon to Reagan," 1982 -The foreign policy era described in this passage reflects

"Malcom X,one of the most influential Black Nationalist thinkers of the twentieth century,declared… 'The political philosophy of black nationalism is that which is designed to encourage our people,the black people,to gain complete control over the politics and the politicians of our own community.' ...Both scholars and leaders agree on certain central features of Black Nationalist ideology… The crucial distinguishing feature between the nationalists and the integrationists is that nationalists' integration as neither desirable nor likely as a means of achieving black liberation in the United States at the present time." Alphonso Pinkney,Red,Black,and Green: Black Nationalism in the United States,1979 -In the post-World War II era,support grew for the philosophy described in the passage as a result of

The following questions refer to the excerpt below. "A government job is a privilege,not a right. There is no reason why men who chum with Communists,who refuse to turn their backs upon traitors,and who are consistently found at the time and place where disaster strikes America and success comes to international Communism,should be given positions of power in government… I have not urged that those whom I have named be put in jail. Once they are exposed so the American people know what they are,they can do but little damage." Senator Joseph McCarthy,The Fight For America,1952 -Government efforts in line with Senator McCarthy's remarks most nearly reflected the policies of the government

"Women have many careers,but only one vocation-motherhood… It is for woman as mother,actual or vicarious,to restore emotional security in our insecure world… Today,however,the duties of the homemaker have become so depreciated that many women feel impelled to work outside the home-even when it is not economically necessary-in order to retain the respect of the community… What ails these women who reject their children? Surface influences of a competitive,materialistic world have atrophied their emotions and destroyed their instinctive reactions." Agnes Meyer,"Women Aren't Men," Reader's Digest,1950 -Which of the following groups would most likely agree with the perspective of this passage?

The following questions refer to the excerpt below. "A government job is a privilege,not a right. There is no reason why men who chum with Communists,who refuse to turn their backs upon traitors,and who are consistently found at the time and place where disaster strikes America and success comes to international Communism,should be given positions of power in government… I have not urged that those whom I have named be put in jail. Once they are exposed so the American people know what they are,they can do but little damage." Senator Joseph McCarthy,The Fight For America,1952 -The controversy over the remarks made by Senator McCarthy would highlight on-going tension between

"Women have many careers,but only one vocation-motherhood… It is for woman as mother,actual or vicarious,to restore emotional security in our insecure world… Today,however,the duties of the homemaker have become so depreciated that many women feel impelled to work outside the home-even when it is not economically necessary-in order to retain the respect of the community… What ails these women who reject their children? Surface influences of a competitive,materialistic world have atrophied their emotions and destroyed their instinctive reactions." Agnes Meyer,"Women Aren't Men," Reader's Digest,1950 -The author of this passage would agree most with the role of women in the period of

The following questions refer to the excerpt below. "As…Negroes fought for entry into American society,[the Beats] passively withdrew from the surrounding nation… [they] listened to poetry readings,listened to jazz,… opted for poverty,refused to be anchored down by family obligations,and developed a literary style marked by run-on,stream-of-consciousness sentences… The Beats rejected straight society. Overthrow it-its morality,its patriotism,its family structure,its capitalism,its Christianity,its taboos… Socially alienated and ideologically inarticulate,the Beats represented radicalism of the cultural rather than the political. Daniel Flynn,A Conservative History of the American Left,2009 -The methods of the Beats,as described in the passage,demonstrate

The following questions refer to the excerpt below. "The conventional wisdom on the origins of the Immigration Reform Act of 1965 suggests that it was primarily a product of the civil rights movement… However,ideational effects of the cold war also played a part in the political developments of 1965… Cold war foreign-policy considerations pressed for increased openness for ethnic minority immigration to reduce tensions with allied (or potential allied)countries,and conversely,civil rights leaders were able to gain leverage for the Civil Rights Act by exploiting this tension and forcing Americans to practice the liberalism reflected in their founding myths." Christopher Rudolph,National Security and Immigration: Policy Development in the United States and Western Europe Since 1945,2006 -The policy described in the passage contributed to a proportional growth in the population of Americans of what descent?

"Women have many careers,but only one vocation-motherhood… It is for woman as mother,actual or vicarious,to restore emotional security in our insecure world… Today,however,the duties of the homemaker have become so depreciated that many women feel impelled to work outside the home-even when it is not economically necessary-in order to retain the respect of the community… What ails these women who reject their children? Surface influences of a competitive,materialistic world have atrophied their emotions and destroyed their instinctive reactions." Agnes Meyer,"Women Aren't Men," Reader's Digest,1950 -Which of the following developments contributed most directly to the concern with the topic in the passage?

The following questions refer to the excerpt below. "In his conduct of the office of President of the United States,Richard M.Nixon,in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States…has prevented,obstructed,and impeded the administration of justice,in that: Richard M.Nixon,using the powers of his high office,engaged personally and through his subordinates and agents,in a course of conduct or plan designed to delay,impede,and obstruct the investigation [into the Watergate break in]… to cover up,conceal,and protect those responsible;and to conceal the existence and scope of other unlawful covert activities." Articles of Impeachment,U.S.House Judiciary Committee,1974 -Chief among the political concerns of this time period was the

The following questions refer to the excerpt below. "Why are we in South Viet-Nam? We are there because we have a promise to keep. Since 1954 every American President has offered support to the people of South Viet-Nam. We have helped to build,and we have helped to defend. Thus,over many years,we have made a national pledge to help South Viet-Nam defend its independence…We are also there because there are great stakes in the balance. Let no one think for a moment that retreat from Viet-Nam would bring an end to conflict. The battle would be renewed in one country and then another." President Lyndon B.Johnson,Speech at Johns Hopkins University,1965 -Which of the following best characterizes the public response to Johnson's statements?

"Malcom X,one of the most influential Black Nationalist thinkers of the twentieth century,declared… 'The political philosophy of black nationalism is that which is designed to encourage our people,the black people,to gain complete control over the politics and the politicians of our own community.' ...Both scholars and leaders agree on certain central features of Black Nationalist ideology… The crucial distinguishing feature between the nationalists and the integrationists is that nationalists' integration as neither desirable nor likely as a means of achieving black liberation in the United States at the present time." Alphonso Pinkney,Red,Black,and Green: Black Nationalism in the United States,1979 -The philosophy described by Pinkney in the passage is reflected in

The following questions refer to the excerpt below. "[But] somewhere between 40,000,000 and 50,000,000 citizens of [the United States]… [are] poor… It is a blow to reform and the political hopes of the poor that the middle class no longer understands that poverty exists… What shall we tell the American poor?...Shall we say to them that they are better off than the Indian poor? That is one answer,but it is heartless…The means are at hand to fulfill the age-old dream: poverty can now be abolished." Michael Harrington,The Other America,1962 -Conservative critics of the American government's reaction to the issues described in the passage

The following questions refer to the excerpt below. "This unwarranted exercise of power by the court [in Brown v.Board of Education] contrary to the Constitution,is creating chaos and confusion in the states principally affected. It is destroying the amicable relations between the white and Negro races that have been created through ninety years of patient effort by the good people of both races… Without regard to the consent of the governed,outside agitators are threatening immediate and revolutionary changes in our public school systems…We decry the Supreme Court's encroachments on rights reserved to the states and to the people,contrary to established law and to the Constitution." Manifesto of One Hundred Members of the U.S.Congress,1956 -Civil rights activists in this era

The following questions refer to the excerpt below. "Why are we in South Viet-Nam? We are there because we have a promise to keep. Since 1954 every American President has offered support to the people of South Viet-Nam. We have helped to build,and we have helped to defend. Thus,over many years,we have made a national pledge to help South Viet-Nam defend its independence…We are also there because there are great stakes in the balance. Let no one think for a moment that retreat from Viet-Nam would bring an end to conflict. The battle would be renewed in one country and then another." President Lyndon B.Johnson,Speech at Johns Hopkins University,1965 -One of the greatest contributing factors to the intensity of the conflict in Vietnam was