Chapter 28 Practice Test

CHAPTER 28 PRACTICE TEST

1. Information from the table supports the conclusion that the

(A) population of the United States is increasing

(B) center of population is moving eastward

(D) number of senators will soon increase

2. Based on the graph, which statement about median household income between 1967 and 2003 is most accurate?

(A) It doubled.

(B) It decreased by about $5,000.

(D) It increased by about $50,000.

3. Based on the graph, which development occurred during the year before each recession?

(A) Median household income decreased.

(B) Full employment was achieved.

(D) The United States population decreased.

4. The establishment of the Peace Corps, the Bay of Pigs invasion, and the Cuban missile crisis occurred during the presidency of

(A) John F. Kennedy

(B) Lyndon B. Johnson

(D) Jimmy Carter

5. A major goal of President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society program was to

(A) control economic inflation

(B) end poverty in the United States

(D) return responsibility for welfare programs to the states

6. Why did the Kennedy administration have such a poor record of legislative accomplishments?

(A) Members of administration had no program for reform.

(B) The threat of communism abroad forced the president to turn from domestic affairs and concentrate on foreign affairs

(D) Kennedy was assassinated before he had a chance to propose any programs

7. Which statement is most clearly supported by the information in the graph?

(A) More children were under age 6 in 1990 than in 1950.

(B) Since 1990, women have made up more than half of the workforce.

(D) Fewer women are staying home to raise their young children.

8. A candidate for public office would likely conclude from a study of this graph that the public would favor increased government support for

(A) additional foreign aid

(B) health care facilities

(D) colleges and universities

9. The Pill

(A) was easily accepted because by the time it was introduced most states had repealed their restrictions on contraceptive use

(B) was hailed as technology of black liberation by African-American militants

(C) has significantly limited population growth in the Third World and ended the scourge of unwanted pregnancies in the U.S.

(D) freed women from doctors’ control

10. Which of the following statements about the Bay of Pigs invasion is accurate?

(A) The Cuban exiles were captured without ever having established a defensible beachhead

(B) The CIA-conceived invasion of Cuba triggered a general uprising that nearly toppled Fidel Castro’s regime

(C) After the invasion failed, President Kennedy went on television to apologize for his administration’s effort to overthrow the Castro regime

(D) It was the first and last effort of the Kennedy administration to overthrow Fidel Castro

11. The policy of the Kennedy administration toward Vietnam included

(A) sending some 16,000 military advisers to South Vietnam and attempting to move South Vietnamese peasants into fortified villages to isolate the Vietcong

(B) sending American troops to protect Premier Ngo Dinh Diem from an expected military coup

(D) an embargo of the South to force Premier Ngo Dinh Diem to deliver on his promise of land reform

12. In the 1960s some Americans called for the impeachment of Chief Justice Earl Warren because

(A) the Court issued a string of decisions declaring unconstitutional most of the liberal Great Society programs of the Johnson administration

(B) the Court was dominated by 5 old men who believed in judicial restraint and stubbornly refused to decided on any of the major social or political issues of the day

(C) the Court was responsible for a series of extremely liberal decisions that its critics thought overstepped the bounds of its constitutional authority

(D) the Court had made too many politically–motivated decisions during the disputed election of 1960

13. In Miranda v. Arizona, the Supreme Court declared that

(A) police had to advise a suspect of his or her constitutional right to remain silent

(B) state laws prohibiting marriage between persons of different races were unconstitutional

(C) the federal courts possessed jurisdiction over state apportionment systems to ensure that the votes of all citizens carry equal weight

(D) states could not ban the use of contraceptives

14. What major change occurred for African-Americans in the mid-1960s as a result of southern African–American activism, court decisions, and federal legislation?

(A) Unemployment for African-Americans had been cut in half and was approaching the rates for white Americans

(B) Racial discrimination had been eliminated from all spheres of American life

(C) African-American voter registration jumped, and for the first time since Reconstruction African –Americans became a force to be reckoned with in southern politics

(D) African-Americans were elected to top government positions in all southern states

15. Malcolm X advocated all of the following except

(A) African-Americans should separate themselves from whites

(B) African-Americans should be proud of their blackness

(D) African-Americans should celebrate their African roots

16. The Gulf of Tonkin resolution

(A) advocated the use of nuclear weapons against North Vietnam if that government did not accede to American demands

(B) authorized the president to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against American forces and to prevent further aggression in Vietnam

(D) demanded that Chinese troops be withdraw to the Tonkin region before negotiations could begin

17. How did ordinary Americans feel about continued U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam?

(A) Most believed that the war was immoral and that the U.S. should withdraw immediately

(B) They generally believed that the government should be conducting the war more vigorously and should commit more American ground troops

(D) They didn’t care, because the economy was good and Vietnam was far away

18. Which of the following statements was not made by a leading African-American in the 1960s?

(A) “We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like the waters…”

(B) “We’re eyeball to eyeball, and I think thae other fellow just blinked

(D) “…political power comes through the barrel of a gun”

19. War was avoided in the Cuban missile crisis

(A) the U.S. agreed to remove its missiles from Turkey in exchange for the Soviets’ taking their missiles out of Cuba

(B) Kennedy agreed to remove Western troops from East Berlin in exchange for Khrushchev’s order to dismantle Soviet missiles in Cuba

(C) the U.S. agreed to stop its bombing of North Vietnam in exchange for the Soviets’ removal of missiles with nuclear warheads in Cuba

(D) Khrushchev agreed to remove Soviet missiles from Cuba in exchange for Kennedy’s pledge not to invade that country

20. Belief in the Domino Theory would most likely lead a person to support

(A) federal intervention in the South to protect the freedom riders and other civil-rights activists

(B) a test-ban treaty with the Soviets against further atmospheric and ocean firing of nuclear weapons

(D) appointment of more conservative justices to the Supreme Court to prevent it from falling completely under the influence of Warren liberals

SHORT ANSWER

21. Briefly explain the roles played by television in the election of 1960 and in JFK’s thousand-day presidency.

22. How and why did President Kennedy deepen U.S. involvement in Vietnam?

23. Describe 4 major pieces of legislation or programs that made up President LBJ’s Great Society and war on poverty initiatives.