FSOT : United States Society Questions! Trivia Quiz
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- 1.Which of the following statements regarding the 1924 Immigration Act (often called the Johnson Act) is not true?
- A.
It placed annual limits on the number of persons who could legally immigrate to the United States.
- B.
It took away the freedom of Asians to legally immigrate to the United States.
- C.
It resulted in an increase in the percentage of immigrants from Northern and Western Europe and a decline in the percentage of immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe.
- D.
It resulted in a decline in the number of immigrants to the United States from countries in the Western Hemisphere.
- 2.Which of the following consisted of a coalition of various liberal and radical groups held together by the common goal of stopping the rise and spread of fascism and Nazism in Europe?
- A.
The Wobblies.
- B.
The Progressives.
- C.
The Popular Front.
- D.
The National Front.
- 3.The G.I. Bill, passed in 1944, is more officially known as the:
- A.
National Security Act.
- B.
Servicemen's Readjustment Act.
- C.
National Industrial Recovery Act.
- D.
Johnson Act.
- 4.Which of the following was not present at the Yalta Conference?
- A.
Franklin Roosevelt.
- B.
Winston Churchill.
- C.
Charles De Gaulle.
- D.
Josef Stalin.
- 5.In 1950, communist-backed forces went from__________ to ___________, promoting the United States to call for a United Nations sanction against the invasion.
- A.
Cuba to Panama.
- B.
China to Tibet.
- C.
The Soviet Union to Poland.
- D.
North Korea to South Korea.
- 6._____________ was President of the United States during the economic panic of 1929 that led to the Great Depression of the 1930s.
- A.
Hoover.
- B.
Harding.
- C.
Roosevelt.
- D.
Coolidge.
- 7.__________ is the only person to have served as both vice-president and president of the United States without having been elected to either office.
- A.
Chester A. Arthur.
- B.
Theodore Roosevelt.
- C.
Calvin Coolidge.
- D.
Gerald Ford.
- 8.Which of the following prohibited the manufacture, sale, transportation, import and export of intoxicating liquor?
- A.
The 18th Amendment.
- B.
The 19th Amendment.
- C.
The 20th Amendment.
- D.
The Wagner Act.
- 9.Which of the following is not true?
- A.
Before 1914, there were no legal controls or restrictions on the sale of opium or heroin.
- B.
Cocaine was an ingredient in early 20th century bottled Coca-Cola.
- C.
Before 1914, in most states, alcohol could be legally sold to persons younger than 14 years old.
- D.
Before the 1930s, there were no legal controls or restrictions on the use or possession of marijuana.
- 10.Which of the following, regarding the CIA, is false?
- A.
It was created in response to the threat of a communist takeover of Greece and Turkey.
- B.
It was an outgrowth of the American policy of containment.
- C.
It was created during the presidency of Harry Truman.
- D.
It was created in response to the Soviet Union's launching of Sputnik.
- 11.The ______________ were a husband and wife team convicted of espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union.
- A.
Chambers.
- B.
Whittakers.
- C.
Rosenbergs.
- D.
Hisses.
- 12.Which of the following is not true?
- A.
By the mid-1950s, R&B (rhythm and blues) had become widely popular among white youth and was banned on some radio stations in the South and other parts of the United States.
- B.
During the mid-1950s, R&B was picked up and fused with country music by Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, and other white artists.
- C.
During the 1950s and 1960s, black artists more commonly covered (that is, recorded) songs first recorded by white performers that did white performers cover songs first recorded by black artists.
- D.
To call a song an R&B song today tells us much less about the race or ethnicity of the artist than it did during the 1950s.
- 13.The Berlin Wall was in existence from:
- A.
1959 to 1988.
- B.
1961 to 1989.
- C.
1963 to 1989.
- D.
1961 to 1991.
- 14.The New Frontier was a plan for domestic social reform put forth during the presidential administration of:
- A.
Theodore Roosevelt.
- B.
John F. Kennedy.
- C.
Lyndon B. Johnson.
- D.
Ronald Reagan.
- 15.______________ put forth the creation of The Great Society as one of the goals of his administration.
- A.
Theodore Roosevelt.
- B.
Franklin Roosevelt.
- C.
John F. Kennedy.
- D.
Lyndon B. Johnson.
- 16.The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 ended when Secretary General of the Communist Party of the USSR, _____________, finally agreed to remove nuclear missiles from Cuba under U.N. supervision.
- A.
Malenkov.
- B.
Krushchev.
- C.
Brezhnev.
- D.
Andropov.
- 17.President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in November of:
- A.
1962.
- B.
1963.
- C.
1964.
- D.
1965.
- 18._______________ invented the first effective polio vaccine.
- A.
Jonas Salk.
- B.
Albert Sabin.
- C.
Wallace Sabin.
- D.
Margaret Sanger.
- 19.The Feminine Mystique, published in 1963, was written by:
- A.
Betty Friedan.
- B.
Bell Hooks.
- C.
Patricia Hill Collins.
- D.
Gloria Steinem.
- 20._______________, a Democrat from Arkansas, was the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate.
- A.
Susan B. Anthony.
- B.
Francis Perkins.
- C.
Hattie Wyatt Caraway.
- D.
Margaret Chase Smith.
- 21.Which of the following, regarding the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) is not true?
- A.
They begin in 1969.
- B.
The countries involved were the United States and USSR.
- C.
They ushered in a period of detente between the countries involved.
- D.
They ceased to be held after the election of Richard Nixon.
- 22.The U.S. Secretary of Defense in 1967 was
- A.
Dean Rusk.
- B.
William Westmoreland.
- C.
Robert McNamara.
- D.
Henry Kissinger.
- 23.______________ was the first African American woman to run for president of the United States.
- A.
Shirley Chisholm.
- B.
Angela Davis.
- C.
Carol Moseley Braun.
- D.
Lena Horne.
- 24.The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade followed from Norma McCorvey's lawsuit against the state of ___________ for denying her the right to have an abortion.
- A.
California.
- B.
Texas.
- C.
Georgia.
- D.
Mississippi.
- 25.Which of the following regarding the Pentagon Papers is not true?
- A.
The were made public by Daniel Ellsberg.
- B.
There were published in 1978.
- C.
They were first published by the New York Times.
- D.
They revealed that U.S. political and military leaders had been less than totally honest in their reports concerning the progress of the Vietnam War.
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