EOC Quiz 2

1. One consequence of World War II was that the United States

Returned to its isolationist tendencies

Avoided foreign conflicts

Remained deeply involved in world affairs

Reduced its military spending

2. What was the purpose of the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA)?

To track cost overruns in state Medicare programs

To monitor corporate compliance with Federal Reserve regulations

To provide jobs to unemployed workers during the New Deal

To judge the benefits of military spending after the expensive Manhattan Project

3. How did the government's policy of manifest destiny affect Native Americans living on the plains in the late 1800s?

Native Americans were forced to accept treaties and land east of the Mississippi River.

Native Americans were forced to give up reservations with the passage of the Monroe Doctrine.

Native Americans were forced to mine gold discovered by settlers.

Native Americans were forced onto reservations while settlers took their lands.

4. The automobile and the expansion of the roadway system in the 1950s led to the growth of

Ethnic neighborhoods

Suburban areas

Urban areas

Rural zones

5. How was the economy affected by corporate expansion in the 1950s?

It improved with more information technology jobs.

It struggled as strikes interrupted production.

It boomed as the middle class grew.

It declined as regulation increased.

6. Which of these actions is an example of checks and balances?

President Reagan sent troops to Grenada.

Congress passed a law raising income tax.

President Truman vetoed the Taft-Hartley Act.

State governments passed laws setting speed limits.

7. Which of these changes influenced political participation in the 1970s?

Directly electing United States senators

Lowering the voting age to eighteen

Granting women the right to vote

Introducing national conventionw

8. Which of these statements describes an obstacle to the assimilation of immigrant groups in the United States in the late 1800s?

Anti-Semitism caused Jewish immigrants to settle in mostly rural areas.

Chinese immigrants worked for lower wages caused resentment.

The war made United States citizens view German immigrants as enemy combatants.

McCarthyism called United States citizens to be suspicious of Soviet immigrants.

9. During the 1950s, how did the Republican Party hope to support a balanced federal budget and counter communist countries

By relying on a large army and navy

By relying on long-range bombers

By relying on nuclear weapons

By relying on foreign aid

10. What effect did the Immigration Act of 1965 have?

Florida’s immigrant population declined dramatically.

Asians immigrated to the Northeast in great numbers.

Big cities in the Midwest lost a large percentage of their foreign-born population.

Southwestern border states such as Arizona experienced massive population growth.