Question 1
A riot that killed 48 people in East St. Louis, Illinois was one of many that revealed tensions between __________.
A) union and non-union workers
B) native-born workers and immigrants
C) white workers and black migrants
D) labor leaders and the rank and file
Question 2
Legislation passed during the Civil War gave the federal government the power to do which of the following for the first time?
A) print paper money
B) levy an income tax
C) create a national bank
D) establish tariffs
Question 3
How did President Nixon expand the conflict in Vietnam in April 1970 and shatter the public consensus he had carefully created for his Vietnamization policy?
A) He resumed massive aerial bombings on North Vietnam.
B) He ordered an American ground force invasion of neighboring Cambodia.
C) He alarmed North Vietnamese communists by visiting China and the Soviet Union.
D) He supported the mass murders committed by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
Question 4
At the beginning of the America Revolution, which of the following was an advantage in favor of Patriot forces?
A) a colonial population greater than that of Britain
B) the support of militia forces
C) French military and naval support
D) a population overwhelmingly in support of independence from Britain
Question 5
What does this poster created by the Food Administration represent about the American war effort?
A) It involved the first use of propaganda by the government.
B) It showed the lack of unity in supporting the war because Americans refused to conserve
food.
C) It led to strong vocal discontent from Americans who resented being told what to do by the
government.
D) It demanded total mobilization of American society.