Question 1
Declaring that workers had the right to organize and bargain collectively, the __________ became known as the Magna Carta of organized labor because it recognized a right many industrialists still refused to acknowledge.
A) Wagner Act
B) National Industrial Recovery Act
C) Fair Labor Standards Act
D) Social Security Act
Question 2
President George H. W. Bush's call for U.S. military involvement in the Persian Gulf came when __________.
A) it was rumored that Iraq was developing nuclear weapons
B) Iraq engaged in a bitter war with Iran
C) the Soviet Union sent its forces into southern Iraq
D) Iraq invaded Kuwait and gained control of its oil production.
Question 3
By focusing on the machine to remove water from the archeological dig, Charles Wilson Peale's painting Exhuming the First American Mastodon addresses __________.
A) Jefferson's lack of interest in the study of fossils
B) an examination of the past rather than the present
C) the successes of American science and engineering
D) opposition to the use of slave labor
Question 4
What message did signs such as this photograph taken by Dorothea Lange convey to the average American?
A) a general animosity toward the wealthy
B) dissatisfaction with the government
C) a need for lower taxes
D) the beginnings of social reform
Question 5
This 2003 monument commemorating the Native Americans who fell at the Battle of Little Bighorn celebrates the unity of the Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors even as it symbolically portrays __________.
A) their savagery in war
B) how Americans relied on an incomplete and overly simplistic understanding of the West
C) the loss of their culture
D) the environmental destruction of their native lands