U.S. History Assignment | Online Assignment

FINAL EXAM
FILL IN THE BLANKS: 2 Points Each!
1. Catchword for Franklin Roosevelt’s
ambitious plan of economic programs:
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2. Huey P. Long’s economic stimulus
program which included confiscating
large personal fortunes and
redistributing to the poor:
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3. Movement that pressed for victory over
fascism and racism, arguing that since
African Americans were risking their
lives abroad, they should receive full
civil rights at home:
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4. Decline of manufacturing in old
industrial areas creating a shift in
production to the South and West:
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5. The rapid acceleration of international
flows of commerce, financial resources,
labor, and cultural products – making
goods and services from around the
world more accessible:
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6. A period of stagnation caused by the
housing bubble and mortgage crisis,
which affected minorities the most:
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7. A period of tensions between the Soviet
Union and the United States, the two
world powers after WWII:
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8. Landmark Supreme Court decision that
outlawed segregation and declared
“separate but equal” unconstitutional:
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9. Post-1966 rallying cry of a more militant
Civil Rights Movement:
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10. The site of the 1969 police raids and
resulting riots that launched the modern
gay rights movement:
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11. Lyndon B. Johnson’s proposed
legislation to address problems of
voting rights, poverty, diseases,
education, immigration, and the
environment:
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12. Policy efforts to promote greater
employment opportunities for
minorities:
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13. The United States’ general strategy for
preventing the spread of communism:
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14. U.S. Program for the reconstruction of
Europe through massive aid following
World War II:
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15. Policies allowing local governments and
housing authorities to demolish socalled
blighted areas in urban centers to
replace them with more valuable real
estate usually reserved for white
people:
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DEFINITIONS: 2 Points Each!
Define the Following Terms:
16. Black Lives Matter
17. American Exceptionalism
18. Hundred Days
19. Dust Bowl
20. Welfare State
21. Interstate Highway System
22. Military-Industrial Complex
23. Freedom Rides
24. Civil Rights Act
25. Voting Rights Act
26. Roe v. Wade
27. Cuban Missile Crisis
28. Vietnam Syndrome
29. Sunbelt
30. Neoconservatives
31. Social Security Act
32. Works Progress Administration
33. Four Freedoms
34. GI Bill of Rights
35. Holocaust
36. Manhattan Project
37. United Nations
38. NATO
39. Decolonization
40. Dixiecrats
41. Watergate
42. Stagflation
43. Reaganomics
44. Gulf War
45. “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS: 2 Points Each!
(Answer in complete paragraphs: 5-7 sentences)
46. Discuss some of the programs created under the New Deal and their purposes. Explain how
New Deal Programs contributed to the creation of the welfare state.
47. What factors after 1939 led to U.S. involvement in World War II? Explain how WWII promoted
an awareness of the links between racism in the U.S. and colonialism around the world.
48. Describe how the automobile transformed American communities and culture in the 1950s.
Discuss the creation of the Interstate Highways System. How did urban renewal change
American cities?
49. What were the most significant factors that contributed to the growing momentum of the civil
rights movement in the 1950s. Discuss the impact of the Civil Rights Movement on other
movements for social change in the 1960s.
50. Discuss the kinds of change that voter hoped for when they elected Barack Obama. Discuss
the major challenges and successes of the Obama Presidency.