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RODY.ELKHALIL · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

Photographs such as this one of the Watts Riots in 1965 were mainly intended to emphasize __________.

A) the brutality of law enforcement needed to resist an inner-city riot
B) the heroism of the firefighters who were preventing blacks from destroying their own
community
C) the tragedy of the ruined neighborhood that was caused by its own residents
D) the devastation of inner-city poverty that led its residents to commit desperate acts

Question 2

How does Thomas Jefferson's map for the settlement of the west reflect Enlightenment thinking?

A) The territories are named for the heroes of the American Revolution.
B) The territories are arranged in a grid.
C) Natural features are disregarded in the borders of the territories.
D) The territories are much larger than the first thirteen states.

Question 3

Which of the following statements best characterizes the Lost Generation, a term coined by American writer Gertrude Stein to describe white intellectuals and artists of the 1920s who primarily lived abroad?

A) Members of this group rejected liberal values and the idealism of youth.
B) The Lost Generation honored suburban, middle-class lifestyles and values.
D) These writers and artists celebrated a new attitude of living spontaneously.
E) This group encouraged a return to the values of the Victorian era.

Question 4

Why did Republicans in Congress want a slower system of Reconstruction than what President Johnson had proposed?

A) This would give the Republican Party in the South time to build its strength.
B) This would reduce the amount of civil liberties that freedmen had initially received.
C) This would give the Southern economy the opportunity to refurbish its cotton industry.
D) This would allow Southern Democrats the chance to control their state governments.

Question 5

This image of Malcolm X, who is shown on the left, taking a photograph of heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali in 1964 kept white Americans on edge because both men __________.

A) called for violent attacks on whites
B) used militant rhetoric emphasizing black pride and physical prowess
C) advocated for a Islamic theocracy in the United States
D) called for a Back-to-Africa movement