Question 1

Gerald Ford suffered terrible political damage when he:

Accepted Answer

pardoned Nixon.

Question 2

In 1964, students at the University of California at Berkeley:

Accepted Answer

protested for freedom of political expression.

Question 3

One major impetus behind the rise of a Native American rights movement was the:

Accepted Answer

terrible levels of poverty that persisted in the Indian population.

Question 4

By 2015, Hispanics:

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had become the country's largest minority.

Question 5

Nixon's policy of Vietnamization involved:

Accepted Answer

gradually reducing the number of American troops in Vietnam.

Question 6

In 1968, students managed to shut down Columbia University.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

Hispanic was originally a term for any immigrant in Chicago.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 8

Economists coined the term stagflation in the early 1970s to describe:

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simultaneously a stagnant economy with inflationary prices.

Question 9

Dennis Banks became the first Hispanic mayor of a major city when he was elected in Los Angeles.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 10

By the end of 1970, the unemployment rate in the United States:

Accepted Answer

nearly doubled.

Question 11

James Earl (Jimmy) Carter Jr. represented:

Accepted Answer

the new moderate wing of the Democratic party.

Question 12

On October 26, 1972, only a week before the U.S. presidential election, Kissinger announced:

Accepted Answer

Peace is at hand.

Question 13

Use of the term Hispanic indicated:

Accepted Answer

growing political assertiveness among Mexican Americans.

Question 14

The youths of the counterculture:

Accepted Answer

originated when Tom Hayden formed Students for a Democratic Society in 1960.

Question 15

President Nixon strongly supported court efforts to complete school desegregation.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 16

In 1960, unemployment among Native Americans was ten times the national average, their life expectancy was twenty years lower, and their suicide rate was 100 times greater.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 17

The silent majority:

Accepted Answer

supported politicians like Richard Nixon.

Question 18

The figure who most influenced Nixon's foreign policy was:

Accepted Answer

Henry Kissinger.

Question 19

In regard to Vietnam policy, Nixon:

Accepted Answer

insisted that he would pursue peace with honor.

Question 20

The Vietnam settlement signed on January 27, 1973:

Accepted Answer

left 150,000 Communist troops in South Vietnam.

Question 21

Within days of the U.S. withdrawal, the cease-fire in Vietnam collapsed.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 22

The feminist movement suffered a setback with the:

Accepted Answer

failure of the states to ratify the equal-rights amendment.

Question 23

Nixon and his White House aides tried to cover up the Watergate break-in.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 24

Senator George McGovern of South Dakota:

Accepted Answer

was the Democratic nominee for president in 1972.

Question 25

The burglars arrested at the Watergate apartment complex:

Accepted Answer

had connections to the Nixon reelection campaign.

Question 26

By 1960-1961, a number of students had become inspired to become social reform activists by:

Accepted Answer

the example of the civil rights movement.

Question 27

The labor shortages during the Second World War had led defense industries to:

Accepted Answer

offer Hispanics their first significant access to skilled-labor jobs.

Question 28

In the early 1970s, angry protests began to erupt in cities outside the South over:

Accepted Answer

busing.

Question 29

The silent majority:

Accepted Answer

supported politicians like Richard Nixon.

Question 30

What percentage of military inductees were college students during the Vietnam War?

Accepted Answer

2

Question 31

To punish the United States for supporting Israel during the Yom Kippur War, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries:

Accepted Answer

threatened to cut off oil shipments to the United States.

Question 32

Nixon's policy of Vietnamization involved:

Accepted Answer

gradually reducing the number of American troops in Vietnam.

Question 33

Shocking events at Kent State University involved:

Accepted Answer

the killing of four students by the National Guard.

Question 34

The Pentagon Papers:

Accepted Answer

revealed that the Johnson administration had deceived the public in regard to war policy.

Question 35

The major motivation behind the Saturday Night Massacre was Nixon's desire to:

Accepted Answer

avoid handing over the key White House tapes.

Question 36

Nixon's southern strategy involved winning southern support by:

Accepted Answer

capitalizing on their skepticism of federal social welfare programs.

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