Author Question: What do these images of Barack Obama in this Washington, D.C., gift shop most reveal about the 44th ... (Read 39 times)

mikaylakyoung · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

Why did the conservative grassroots movement known as the Tea Party emerge after Barack Obama's election in 2008?

A) There were concerns about the escalating debt and federal power.
B) Tea Partiers opposed American military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan.
C) Holding Islamic prisoners indefinitely without charges in the Guantnamo Bay prison went
against their moral beliefs.
D) They feared polarizing leaders like Sarah Palin who proposed radical ideas about government.

Question 2

How does this portrait of President James Monroe reveal that he served as a bridge between the political cultures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

A) The ornate chair reflects his eighteenth-century aristocratic background while his mode of
dress is typical of the nineteenth-century common man.
B) The Roman column represents the eighteenth-century politics of virtue while the rays of sun
promise a bright future for the nineteenth century.
C) His style of dress was eighteenth century in nature while his wigless hairstyle was nineteenth
century in style.
D) The United States Capitol building in the background is indicative of eighteenth-century
architecture but promotes the political values of the nineteenth century.

Question 3

What combination of factors has been proposed as the cause of the severe economic downturn that began in 2007?

A) the failures of both the Clinton and Obama administrations to institute single-payer health
care
B) the Bush-era tax cuts followed by Tea Party demands to reduce the federal budget
C) a decline in home values followed by defaults on risky loans and the declining value of
mortgage-backed securities
D) the government takeover of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae combined with the refusal to save
Lehman Brothers

Question 4

The United States acquired __________ from Spain through the Adams-Onis Treaty, which was negotiated by Secretary of State John Quincy Adams in 1819.

A) Florida
B) the Rocky Mountains
C) the Mississippi Valley
D) most of the Oregon Territory

Question 5

What do these images of Barack Obama in this Washington, D.C., gift shop most reveal about the 44th President of the United States of America?

A) His lack of experience as a politician made his critics skeptical of his leadership as president.
B) His charisma, calmness, and message of Hope led to an inspired following who voted him
into office in 2008.
C) His election as the first African American president led to major divisions between different
sectors of the American public.
D) Obama soon discovered after his election that he could please neither conservatives nor
liberals.