Question 1

Which of the following was a lasting outcome of Johnson's Great Society programs?

Accepted Answer

A)  Ending entrenched poverty in America 
B)  Decreasing racial segregation in the largest cities 
C)  Reducing the outsourcing of manufacturing jobs to other countries 
D)  Improving access to health care for the poor and elderly Americans 
A)  Ending entrenched poverty in America 
B)  Decreasing racial segregation in the largest cities 
C)  Reducing the outsourcing of manufacturing jobs to other countries 
D)  Improving access to health care for the poor and elderly Americans

Question 2

In 1972,the Democratic nominee for the presidency was

Accepted Answer

A)  Edmund Muskie. 
B)  Hubert Humphrey. 
C)  Edward Kennedy. 
D)  George McGovern. 
A)  Edmund Muskie. 
B)  Hubert Humphrey. 
C)  Edward Kennedy. 
D)  George McGovern.

Question 3

Compare the positions taken by SDS,the YAF,and the counterculture.How can we account for the differences?

Accepted Answer

Answer should ideally include:
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Question 4

Answer the following  questions :
-Medicare

Accepted Answer

A) President Lyndon B.Johnson's domestic program,which included civil rights legislation,antipoverty programs,government subsidy of medical care,federal aid to education,consumer protection,and aid to the arts and humanities. 
B) 1964 act that created a series of programs,including Head Start to prepare disadvantaged preschoolers for kindergarten and the Job Corps and Upward Bound to provide young people with training and employment,aimed at alleviating poverty and spurring economic growth in impoverished areas. 
C) A health plan for the elderly passed in 1965 and funded by a surcharge on Social Security payroll taxes. 
D) A health plan for the poor passed in 1965 and paid for by general tax revenues and administered by the states. 
E) Law that established the principle of equal pay for equal work.Trade union women were especially critical in pushing for,and winning,congressional passage of the law.
F)The title of an influential book written in 1963 by Betty Friedan critiquing the ideal whereby women were encouraged to confine themselves to roles within the domestic sphere.
G)Commission appointed by President Kennedy in 1961,which issued a 1963 report documenting job and educational discrimination.
H)Women's civil rights organization formed in 1966.Initially,the organization focused on eliminating gender discrimination in public institutions and the workplace,but by the 1970s it also embraced many of the issues raised by more radical feminists.
I)Resolution passed by Congress in 1964 in the wake of a naval confrontation in the body of water the resolution was named after between the United States and North Vietnam.It gave the president virtually unlimited authority in conducting the Vietnam War.The Senate terminated the resolution in 1970 following outrage over the U.S.invasion of Cambodia.
J)Massive bombing campaign against North Vietnam authorized by President Johnson in 1965;against expectations,it ended up hardening the will of the North Vietnamese to continue fighting.
K)An organization for social change founded by college students in 1960.
L)A 1962 manifesto by Students for a Democratic Society from its first national convention in a town of the same name in Michigan,expressing students' disillusionment with the nation's consumer culture and the gulf between rich and poor,as well as a rejection of Cold War foreign policy,including the war in Vietnam.
M)A term applied to radical students of the 1960s and 1970s,distinguishing their activism from the Old Left-the communists and socialists of the 1930s and 1940s,who tended to focus on economic and labor questions rather than cultural issues.
N)The largest student political organization in the country,whose conservative members defended free enterprise and supported the war in Vietnam.
O)Drafted by founding members of the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF),this manifesto outlined the group's principles and inspired young conservatives who would play important roles in the Reagan administration in the 1980s.
P)A culture embracing values or lifestyles opposing those of the mainstream culture.Became synonymous with hippies,people who opposed and rejected conventional standards of society and advocated extreme liberalism in their sociopolitical attitudes and lifestyles.
Q)Major campaign of attacks launched throughout South Vietnam in January 1968 by the North Vietnamese and Vietcong.A major turning point in the war,it exposed a credibility gap between official statements and the war's reality,and it shook Americans' confidence in the government.
R)A 1968 convention held in Chicago during which numerous antiwar demonstrators outside the convention hall were tear-gassed and clubbed by police.Inside the convention hall,the delegates were bitterly divided over Vietnam.
S)Group founded by activist Latinos to protest the Vietnam War.
T)A new brand of feminism in the 1960s that attracted primarily younger,college-educated women fresh from the New Left,antiwar,and civil rights movements who sought to end to the denigration and exploitation of women.
U)A law passed by Congress in 1972 that broadened the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include educational institutions,prohibiting colleges and universities that received federal funds from discriminating on the basis of sex.By requiring comparable funding for sports programs,this law made women's athletics a real presence on college campuses.
V)A two-day riot by patrons of this establishment took place after the police raided the gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village in 1969;the event contributed to the rapid rise of a gay liberation movement.
W)Term derived from the title of a book by Ben J.Wattenberg and Richard Scammon (called The Real Majority)and used by Nixon in a 1969 speech to describe those who supported his positions but did not publicly raise their voices,in contrast to those involved in the antiwar,civil rights,and women's movements.
X)A new U.S.policy,devised under President Nixon in the early 1970s,of delegating the ground fighting to the South Vietnamese in the Vietnam War.American troop levels dropped and American casualties dropped correspondingly,but the killing in Vietnam continued.
Y)The 1968 execution by U.S.Army troops of nearly five hundred people in this South Vietnamese village,including a large number of women and children.
Z)The easing of conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Nixon administration,which was achieved by focusing on issues of common concern,such as arms control and trade.
A
A) The Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren (1953-1969),which expanded the Constitution's promise of equality and civil rights.It issued landmark decisions in the areas of civil rights,criminal rights,reproductive freedom,and separation of church and state. 
A) President Lyndon B.Johnson's domestic program,which included civil rights legislation,antipoverty programs,government subsidy of medical care,federal aid to education,consumer protection,and aid to the arts and humanities. 
B) 1964 act that created a series of programs,including Head Start to prepare disadvantaged preschoolers for kindergarten and the Job Corps and Upward Bound to provide young people with training and employment,aimed at alleviating poverty and spurring economic growth in impoverished areas. 
C) A health plan for the elderly passed in 1965 and funded by a surcharge on Social Security payroll taxes. 
D) A health plan for the poor passed in 1965 and paid for by general tax revenues and administered by the states. 
E) Law that established the principle of equal pay for equal work.Trade union women were especially critical in pushing for,and winning,congressional passage of the law.
F)The title of an influential book written in 1963 by Betty Friedan critiquing the ideal whereby women were encouraged to confine themselves to roles within the domestic sphere.
G)Commission appointed by President Kennedy in 1961,which issued a 1963 report documenting job and educational discrimination.
H)Women's civil rights organization formed in 1966.Initially,the organization focused on eliminating gender discrimination in public institutions and the workplace,but by the 1970s it also embraced many of the issues raised by more radical feminists.
I)Resolution passed by Congress in 1964 in the wake of a naval confrontation in the body of water the resolution was named after between the United States and North Vietnam.It gave the president virtually unlimited authority in conducting the Vietnam War.The Senate terminated the resolution in 1970 following outrage over the U.S.invasion of Cambodia.
J)Massive bombing campaign against North Vietnam authorized by President Johnson in 1965;against expectations,it ended up hardening the will of the North Vietnamese to continue fighting.
K)An organization for social change founded by college students in 1960.
L)A 1962 manifesto by Students for a Democratic Society from its first national convention in a town of the same name in Michigan,expressing students' disillusionment with the nation's consumer culture and the gulf between rich and poor,as well as a rejection of Cold War foreign policy,including the war in Vietnam.
M)A term applied to radical students of the 1960s and 1970s,distinguishing their activism from the Old Left-the communists and socialists of the 1930s and 1940s,who tended to focus on economic and labor questions rather than cultural issues.
N)The largest student political organization in the country,whose conservative members defended free enterprise and supported the war in Vietnam.
O)Drafted by founding members of the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF),this manifesto outlined the group's principles and inspired young conservatives who would play important roles in the Reagan administration in the 1980s.
P)A culture embracing values or lifestyles opposing those of the mainstream culture.Became synonymous with hippies,people who opposed and rejected conventional standards of society and advocated extreme liberalism in their sociopolitical attitudes and lifestyles.
Q)Major campaign of attacks launched throughout South Vietnam in January 1968 by the North Vietnamese and Vietcong.A major turning point in the war,it exposed a credibility gap between official statements and the war's reality,and it shook Americans' confidence in the government.
R)A 1968 convention held in Chicago during which numerous antiwar demonstrators outside the convention hall were tear-gassed and clubbed by police.Inside the convention hall,the delegates were bitterly divided over Vietnam.
S)Group founded by activist Latinos to protest the Vietnam War.
T)A new brand of feminism in the 1960s that attracted primarily younger,college-educated women fresh from the New Left,antiwar,and civil rights movements who sought to end to the denigration and exploitation of women.
U)A law passed by Congress in 1972 that broadened the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include educational institutions,prohibiting colleges and universities that received federal funds from discriminating on the basis of sex.By requiring comparable funding for sports programs,this law made women's athletics a real presence on college campuses.
V)A two-day riot by patrons of this establishment took place after the police raided the gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village in 1969;the event contributed to the rapid rise of a gay liberation movement.
W)Term derived from the title of a book by Ben J.Wattenberg and Richard Scammon (called The Real Majority)and used by Nixon in a 1969 speech to describe those who supported his positions but did not publicly raise their voices,in contrast to those involved in the antiwar,civil rights,and women's movements.
X)A new U.S.policy,devised under President Nixon in the early 1970s,of delegating the ground fighting to the South Vietnamese in the Vietnam War.American troop levels dropped and American casualties dropped correspondingly,but the killing in Vietnam continued.
Y)The 1968 execution by U.S.Army troops of nearly five hundred people in this South Vietnamese village,including a large number of women and children.
Z)The easing of conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Nixon administration,which was achieved by focusing on issues of common concern,such as arms control and trade.
A
A) The Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren (1953-1969),which expanded the Constitution's promise of equality and civil rights.It issued landmark decisions in the areas of civil rights,criminal rights,reproductive freedom,and separation of church and state.

Question 5

From 1969 to 1972,Richard Nixon's strategy to end the Vietnam War was to

Accepted Answer

A)  threaten war with China and North Korea in hopes they would cut off military aid to North Vietnam. 
B)  wait until the 1972 election so he could make peace without being punished at the polls for the subsequent communist takeover of South Vietnam. 
C)  reduce American troop involvement and turn over most of the ground fighting to the South Vietnamese army. 
D)  work with the Soviet Union to settle the war on terms that would leave communists in power but not give the advantage to China. 
A)  threaten war with China and North Korea in hopes they would cut off military aid to North Vietnam. 
B)  wait until the 1972 election so he could make peace without being punished at the polls for the subsequent communist takeover of South Vietnam. 
C)  reduce American troop involvement and turn over most of the ground fighting to the South Vietnamese army. 
D)  work with the Soviet Union to settle the war on terms that would leave communists in power but not give the advantage to China.

Question 6

Which of the following was an achievement of the Johnson administration?

Accepted Answer

A)  The interstate highway system 
B)  Federal health insurance for all Americans 
C)  The Alliance for Progress 
D)  The National Endowment for the Humanities 
A)  The interstate highway system 
B)  Federal health insurance for all Americans 
C)  The Alliance for Progress 
D)  The National Endowment for the Humanities

Question 7

Which group of American women had continued to organize around feminist issues in the 1950s?

Accepted Answer

A)  Trade union women 
B)  Women in higher education 
C)  Dissatisfied housewives 
D)  Civil rights activists 
A)  Trade union women 
B)  Women in higher education 
C)  Dissatisfied housewives 
D)  Civil rights activists

Question 8

Which of the following was a goal of President Johnson's environmental reforms?

Accepted Answer

A)  Modernizing the Yellowstone and Yosemite national parks 
B)  Improving the nation's air and water 
C)  Banning offshore oil drilling 
D)  Creating an environmental protection agency 
A)  Modernizing the Yellowstone and Yosemite national parks 
B)  Improving the nation's air and water 
C)  Banning offshore oil drilling 
D)  Creating an environmental protection agency

Question 9

The presidential candidate most explicitly identified with the issue of segregation in 1968 was

Accepted Answer

A)  Richard Nixon. 
B)  George Wallace. 
C)  Hubert Humphrey. 
D)  Lyndon Johnson. 
A)  Richard Nixon. 
B)  George Wallace. 
C)  Hubert Humphrey. 
D)  Lyndon Johnson.

Question 10

For the following question,refer to the following excerpt. The children of the bright,good parents were spared the more immediate sort of suffering that our inferiors were undergoing.And because of that,when our parents were opposed to the war,they were opposed in a bloodless,theoretical fashion,as they might be opposed to political corruption or racism in South Africa.As long as the little gold stars [sent to parents whose son was killed in war] kept going to homes in Chelsea [a working-class part of Boston] and the backwoods of West Virginia,the mothers of Beverly Hills and Chevy Chase and Great Neck and Belmont [all affluent suburbs] were not on the telephone to their congressman screaming,"You killed my boy." ...It is clear by now that if the men of Harvard had wanted to do the very most they could to help shorten the war,they should have been drafted or imprisoned en masse.
James Fallows,"What Did You Do in the Class War,Daddy?" Washington Monthly,October 1975
The passage above was most likely written in response to

Accepted Answer

A)  groups on the left claiming that liberals pursued immoral policies abroad. 
B)  challenges to conformity by intellectuals and rebellious youth. 
C)  the rise of domestic opposition to the Vietnam War. 
D)  conservatives fearing challenges to traditional values. 
A)  groups on the left claiming that liberals pursued immoral policies abroad. 
B)  challenges to conformity by intellectuals and rebellious youth. 
C)  the rise of domestic opposition to the Vietnam War. 
D)  conservatives fearing challenges to traditional values.

Which of the following was a lasting outcome of Johnson's Great Society programs?

In 1972,the Democratic nominee for the presidency was

Compare the positions taken by SDS,the YAF,and the counterculture.How can we account for the differences?

Answer the following questions : -Medicare

From 1969 to 1972,Richard Nixon's strategy to end the Vietnam War was to

Which of the following was an achievement of the Johnson administration?

Which group of American women had continued to organize around feminist issues in the 1950s?

Which of the following was a goal of President Johnson's environmental reforms?

The presidential candidate most explicitly identified with the issue of segregation in 1968 was

Colliding Worlds, 1491-1600

American Experiments, 1521-1700

The British Atlantic World, 1607-1750

Growth, Diversity, and Conflict, 1720-1763

The Problem of Empire, 1754-1776

Making War and Republican Governments, 1776-1789

Hammering Out a Federal Republic, 1787-1820

Economic Transformations, 1800-1848

A Democratic Revolution, 1800-1848

Religion, Reform, and Culture, 1820-1848

Imperial Ambitions, 1820-1848

Sectional Conflict and Crisis, 1844-1860

Bloody Ground: the Civil War, 1861-1865

Reconstruction, 1865-1877

Conquering a Continent, 1860-1890

Industrial America: Corporations and Conflicts, 1877-1910

Making Modern American Culture, 1880-1917

Civilizations Inferno: the Rise and Reform of Industrial Cities, 1880-1917

Whose Government Politics, Populists, and Progressives, 1880-1917

An Emerging World Power, 1890-1918

Unsettled Prosperity: From War to Depression, 1919-1932

Managing the Great Depression, Forging the New Deal, 1929-1938

The World at War, 1937-1945

Cold War America, 1945-1963

Triumph of the Middle Class, 1945-1963

Walking Into Freedom Land: the Civil Rights Movement, 1941-1973

The Search for Order in an Era of Limits, 1973-1980

Conservative America in the Ascent, 1980-1991

Confronting Global and National Dilemmas, 1989 to the Present

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Exam 27: Uncivil Wars:liberal Crisis and Conservative Rebirth, 1961-1972

Which of the following was a lasting outcome of Johnson's Great Society programs?

In 1972,the Democratic nominee for the presidency was

Compare the positions taken by SDS,the YAF,and the counterculture.How can we account for the differences?

Answer the following questions : -Medicare

From 1969 to 1972,Richard Nixon's strategy to end the Vietnam War was to

Which of the following was an achievement of the Johnson administration?

Which group of American women had continued to organize around feminist issues in the 1950s?

Which of the following was a goal of President Johnson's environmental reforms?

The presidential candidate most explicitly identified with the issue of segregation in 1968 was

Colliding Worlds, 1491-1600

American Experiments, 1521-1700

The British Atlantic World, 1607-1750

Growth, Diversity, and Conflict, 1720-1763

The Problem of Empire, 1754-1776

Making War and Republican Governments, 1776-1789

Hammering Out a Federal Republic, 1787-1820

Economic Transformations, 1800-1848

A Democratic Revolution, 1800-1848

Religion, Reform, and Culture, 1820-1848

Imperial Ambitions, 1820-1848

Sectional Conflict and Crisis, 1844-1860

Bloody Ground: the Civil War, 1861-1865

Reconstruction, 1865-1877

Conquering a Continent, 1860-1890

Industrial America: Corporations and Conflicts, 1877-1910

Making Modern American Culture, 1880-1917

Civilizations Inferno: the Rise and Reform of Industrial Cities, 1880-1917

Whose Government Politics, Populists, and Progressives, 1880-1917

An Emerging World Power, 1890-1918

Unsettled Prosperity: From War to Depression, 1919-1932

Managing the Great Depression, Forging the New Deal, 1929-1938

The World at War, 1937-1945

Cold War America, 1945-1963

Triumph of the Middle Class, 1945-1963

Walking Into Freedom Land: the Civil Rights Movement, 1941-1973

The Search for Order in an Era of Limits, 1973-1980

Conservative America in the Ascent, 1980-1991

Confronting Global and National Dilemmas, 1989 to the Present

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