Fab 5

Created in 2008 by:

·  Central Organizer: Theodor Alyson Curtis

·  Unit I – V Multiple Choice coordinator: Thoma Rose Dodge

UNITED STATES HISTORY

SECTION I

Time – 55 minutes

80 questions

Directions: Each of the questions or incomplete statements below is followed by five suggested answers or completions. Select the one that is best in each case and then fill in the corresponding oval on the answer sheet.

1. Most likely the first Americans were

a. Vikings from Scandinavia.

b. Spanish explorers of the fifteenth century.

c. people who crossed the land bridge from Eurasia to

North America.

d. Portuguese sailors of Prince Henry the Navigator.

e. refugees from Africa.

2. All of the following are guarantees provided by the Bill

of Rights except

a. the right to vote for all citizens.

b. freedom of speech.

c. freedom of religion.

d. freedom of the press.

e. right to a trial by a jury.

3. The purpose behind the spoils system was

a. to press those with experience into governmental

service.

b. to make politics a sideline and not a full-time

business.

c. to reward political supporters with public office.

d. to reverse the trend of rotation in office.

e. the widespread encouragement of a bureaucratic

office-holding class.

4. Harriet Tubman gained fame

a. by helping slaves to escape to Canada.

b. in the gold fields of California.

c. as an African-American antislavery novelist.

d. as an advocate of the Fugitive Slave Law.

e. by urging white women to oppose slavery.

END OF SECTION I
END OF SECTION I

UNITED STATES HISTORY
SECTION II

Part A

(Suggested writing time – 45 minutes)

Percent of Section II score – 45

Directions: The following question requires you to construct a coherent essay that integrates your interpretation of Documents (A-H) and your knowledge of the period referred to in the question. High scores will be earned only by essays that both cite key pieces of evidence from the documents and draw on outside knowledge of the period.

1.  Assess the statement "the Cold War greatly influenced the infrastructure and intelligence, including education, of the United States." Take a position on this statement and support your argument with your knowledge and the documents given below.

Document A
The efforts of these and other early groups received little attention until the U.S.S.R launched Sputnik, the first space satellite, in the fall of 1957. The American press treated Sputnik as a major humiliation, and called attention to the low quality of math and science instruction in the public schools. Congress responded by passing the 1958 National Defense Education Act to increase the number of science, math, and foreign language majors, and to contribute to school construction.
-David Klein A Brief History of American K-12 Mathematics Education
Document B
The Federal Civil Defense Act puts the responsibility for civil defense jointly on the Federal Government and the States. Until this year, there has been little interest, and less money available for civil defense, so that it has not been necessary to define responsibilities precisely. Now we have launched a major program. Under this program, the Federal Government has assumed four responsibilities: First, to keep track of the nature of the threat which the Civil Defense Program must be designed to meet; second, to prepare information about the threat and how it can be met; third, to bear a major part of the costs of civil defense activities, where such sharing will stimulate State and local and private activities; and, fourth, to provide technical assistance through State and local channels for civil defense planning.
- excerpt from Fallout Protection
Document C
Space exploration and satellite technology could feed into the Cold War on both fronts. Satellite-borne equipment could spy on other countries, while space-faring accomplishments could serve as propaganda to tout a country's scientific prowess and military potential. The same rockets that might send a human into orbit or hit a specific spot on the Moon could send an atom bomb to a specific enemy city.
Document D
Much of the technological development required for space travel applied equally well to wartime rockets such as Intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). Along with other aspects of the arms race, progress in space appeared as an indicator of technological and economic prowess, demonstrating the superiority of the ideology of that country. Space research had a dual purpose: it could serve peaceful ends but could also contribute to military needs.
Document E
Concern regarding the Soviet Union and the difficulty of getting information from its closed society, which few agents could penetrate, led to solutions based on advanced technology. Among the first success was with the Lockheed U-2 aircraft, which could take pictures and collect electronic signals from an altitude above Soviet air defenses' reach.SR-71
Document F
From my viewpoint, foreign policy is based primarily on one consideration: the need for the US to obtain raw materials and to preserve profitable foreign markets. Out of this comes the need to make certain that those areas of the world where there are essential raw materials are accessible to us.
-General Eisenhower on American motives in 1951
McAleavy, Tony. Twentieth Centurty History International Relations since 1919. 2nd. Dubai: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Document G
We are firmly convinced that the time is approaching when socialist countries will outstrip the most developed capitalist countries in the volume of industrial production.
- October, 1958, Khrushchev on Soviet communism overtaking the West
McAleavy, Tony. Twentieth Centurty History International Relations since 1919. 2nd. Dubai: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Document H
END OF DOCUMENTS FOR QUESTION 1

UNITED STATES HISTORY
SECTION II

Part B and Part C

(Suggested total planning and writing time – 70 minutes)

Percent of Section II score – 55

Part B

Directions: Choose ONE question from this part. You are advised to spend 5 minutes planning and 30 minutes writing your answer. Cite relevant historical evidence in support of your generalizations and present your arguments clearly and logically.

Question A

Analyze the differences between the Spanish settlements in the Southwest and the English settlements in New England in the seventeenth century in terms of TWO of the following:

1.  *Politics

2.  *Religion

3.  *Economic Development

Question B

Explain why and how the role of the federal government changed as a result of the Civil War with respect to TWO of the following during the period 1861-1877:

o  Race relations

o  Economic development

o  Western expansion

Part C

Directions: Choose ONE question from this part. You are advised to spend 5 minutes planning and 30 minutes writing your answer. Cite relevant historical evidence in support of your generalizations and present your arguments clearly and logically.

Question D

Analyze the ways in which the federal government sought support on the home front for the war effort during the First World War.

Question E

Compare and contrast the programs and policies designed by reformers of the Progressive era to those designed by reformers of the New Deal period. Confine your answer to programs and policies that addressed the needs of those living in poverty.

END OF EXAMINATION