13-14 FLAG year 4 student post test for non- participating teachers Survey

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* 2. Kent State University was the site in 1970 of which of the following events?

A rock concert second only to the Woodstock concert in number of attendees.

A highly publicized convention advocating women’s rights

The first meeting of Young Americans for Freedom.

An antiwar demonstration in which four students were killed by the National Guard.

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* 3. The Black Power movement of the late 1960s advocated that African Americans

Assimilate into white society.

Organize political parties sympathetic to communism.

Establish control over their political and social life.

Establish African American communities in Africa.

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* 4. The major objective of the antipoverty program of Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society was to

Break the cycle of poverty among poor people through education and job training.

Provide temporary benefits to the “new poor” during an economic recession.

Simplify welfare by replacing job programs with cash grants to the poor.

Build a semi-socialist society in the United States.

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* 5. The 1968 Tet Offensive in Vietnam was significant because it

Showed that North Vietnamese soldiers could defeat the Americans in battle.

Convinced President Johnson to begin bombing Cambodia

Led to increased antiwar sentiment in the United States.

Reaffirmed popular support for the government of South Vietnam.

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* 6. During the Reagan administration more than two hundred U.S. marines were killed in a suicide bombing in

Afghanistan

Lebanon

Grenada

Somalia

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* 7. Gerald Ford became president because

He had been elected as Nixon’s vice president in 1972.

He was speaker of the House of Representatives and next in line when Nixon resigned.

He was elected in a special election.

He had been appointed vice president by Nixon prior to the latter’s resignation.

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* 8. Despite numerous successes for women in the 1970s, the feminist movement suffered a setback when

The Supreme Court began to oppose the extension of women’s rights.

The Equal Rights Amendment failed to achieve ratification by the states.

Congress refused to extend women’s right to equality in athletics.

A declining economy created a growing gap between the earning power of men and women.

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* 9. In the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

The Court reaffirmed Plessy v. Ferguson.

The Court affirmed voting rights of all citizens in accordance with the Fifteenth Amendment.

The Court ruled segregation in schools unconstitutional.

The Court ruled that the federal government could not change “the hearts of men.”

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* 10. The National Defense Education Act

Was designed in response to Soviet advancements in aeronautics.

Significantly increased the federal aid to military research programs.

Gave the president expanded war powers.

Appropriated money for the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.

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* 11. The GI Bill

Provided stipends to veterans of World War II for university or job training.

Created revolutionary opportunities for the middle class.

Democratized the institutions of higher education in the United States.

All of the above.

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* 12. Which postwar president is most associated with business deregulation?

Harry Truman

Ronald Reagan

Dwight Eisenhower

Bill Clinton

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* 13. Which of the following events of the civil rights movement best illustrates the concept of “non-violent civil disobedience”?

the Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka case of 1954

the lunch-counter sit-ins of the early 1960’s

the formation of the Black Panther party in 1966

the desegregation of Little Rock, Arkansas, Central High School

the March on Washington, D.C., in 1963

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* 14. Which of the following was a consequence of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society program?

An end to the urban population decline in the East and Midwest

Full employment until the end of the 1960’s

The near elimination of urban and rural poverty

A major redistribution of the income tax burden

An increase in federal spending on social services

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* 15. “Government is not the solution to our problems. Government is the problem.”

The statement above was made by

John F. Kennedy, asserting that the government did not do enough for the people.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, arguing that the government interfered with the military’s operations

Jimmy Carter, claiming that the government was inefficient and unfair

Gerald Ford, charging that the government was corrupt

Ronald Reagan, contending that the government had taken on functions properly belonging to the private sector

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* 16. Civil rights organizations in the 1950’s and 1960’s based their court suits primarily on the

Five freedoms of the First Amendment

Fourteenth Amendment

Thirteenth Amendment

“necessary and proper” clause of the Constitution

Preamble to the Constitution

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* 17. Which of the following is an accurate statement about the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution proposed in the 1970’s?

It was opposed primarily by those who feared a loss of political power.

It guaranteed equal opportunity for women in the workplace.

It became a part of the Constitution in 1978.

It represented the first effort to enfranchise women.

It failed to gain the necessary votes for ratification within the constitutional time limit.

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* 18. In the 50 years following the Second World War inflation has meant a continuous increase in

Tax rates

Purchasing power

Exports

Prices

Stock market activity

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* 19. The United Nations was designed to maintain peace in the post-Second World War period through the implementation of

Principles of free trade

Bipolarity

Collective security

Bilateral treaties

Regional pacts

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* 20. In October 1962 the United States and the Soviet Union came close to war over the issue of Soviet

control of East Berlin

missiles in Cuba

support of the Ho Chi Minh regime in Vietnam

military support of the Marxist regime in Afghanistan

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* 21. The Great Society programs of the 1960's were primarily based on the idea that

American society was hopelessly flawed

the federal government should play an active role in promoting social welfare

the poor needed to work harder in order to succeed

the federal government lacked the authority to help the poor

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* 1. What is your Teachers Name?

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* 2. Kent State University was the site in 1970 of which of the following events?

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* 3. The Black Power movement of the late 1960s advocated that African Americans

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* 4. The major objective of the antipoverty program of Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society was to

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* 5. The 1968 Tet Offensive in Vietnam was significant because it

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* 6. During the Reagan administration more than two hundred U.S. marines were killed in a suicide bombing in

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* 7. Gerald Ford became president because

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* 8. Despite numerous successes for women in the 1970s, the feminist movement suffered a setback when

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* 9. In the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

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* 10. The National Defense Education Act

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* 11. The GI Bill

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* 12. Which postwar president is most associated with business deregulation?

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* 13. Which of the following events of the civil rights movement best illustrates the concept of “non-violent civil disobedience”?

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* 14. Which of the following was a consequence of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society program?

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* 15. “Government is not the solution to our problems. Government is the problem.”The statement above was made by

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* 16. Civil rights organizations in the 1950’s and 1960’s based their court suits primarily on the

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* 17. Which of the following is an accurate statement about the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution proposed in the 1970’s?

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* 18. In the 50 years following the Second World War inflation has meant a continuous increase in

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* 19. The United Nations was designed to maintain peace in the post-Second World War period through the implementation of

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* 20. In October 1962 the United States and the Soviet Union came close to war over the issue of Soviet

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* 21. The Great Society programs of the 1960's were primarily based on the idea that

* 15. “Government is not the solution to our problems. Government is the problem.”

The statement above was made by