Question 1
Who did the United States select to head the new government in South Vietnam after its establishment in 1954?
A) Ngo Dinh Diem
B) Ho Chi Minh
C) Thich Quang Duc
D) Ngo Dinh Nhu
Question 2
The Quakers of Pennsylvania opposed the formation of a militia in that colony during the French and Indian War because they __________.
A) were pacifists
B) lacked the resources to manufacture rifles
C) preferred to pay a fine instead of bearing arms
D) were currently at peace with Indian tribes near their western settlements
Question 3
In the 1922 case of Takno Ozawa v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that __________.
A) all immigration from Asia was banned starting in 1924
B) Japanese immigrants were ineligible for citizenship because they were not white
C) Asians who were classified as Caucasians were not legally white and could not become
citizens
D) all Asians had to be segregated in one set of schools in San Francisco
Question 4
Starting in 1860, Southern states began to secede in response to __________.
A) the election of Abraham Lincoln
B) the attack on Fort Sumter
C) John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
D) the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Question 5
What did Marcus Edwin's 1953 cartoon How About the Other Buttons? imply about the role of Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union during the Cold War?
A) Stalin had nationalistic ambitions for taking over the locations shown in the cartoon.
B) The Soviet Union was considering using nuclear warfare in Korea.
C) Stalin had the opportunity to resolve the conflict in Indochina just as he had done in Korea.
D) The Soviet Union was responsible for the start of the Korean War.
Question 6
Paper sons were __________.
A) Chinese boys whose families paid a fee to Chinese men already in the United States to
fraudulently claim to be their fathers.
B) Chinese boys who immigrated to Hawaii to work on the sugar plantations.
C) Chinese men who successfully claimed they were American-born after birth records were
destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
D) Chinese men who were detained at Angel Island and returned to China.