U.S History- Pearson- REVIEW

Roosevelt signed a fair employment executive order in 1941, partly because he was afraid that a large protest march in Washington DC would fuel enemy propaganda. How might the enemy have used this as propaganda?

• To show that democracy was also based on racial discrimination

• To show that many Americans did not support the war effort

• To show that many Americans supported the Axis powers

• To prove that the U.S. was still a segregated society

Before Pearl Harbor, the U.S. passed the Cash and Carry and Lend-Lease Acts to help

• Germany

• Britain

• Russia

• Japan

Upton Sinclair's book "The jungle" embodied which belief of the progressive movement?

• Government intervention can solve social problems

• Government intervention can solve social problems

• Government should be more responsive to the people

• The gap between rich and poor should be reduced

Newspapers exagerrated the events in Cuba to sell papers. This type of false reporting is called ____.

• Fox News
• yellow journalism
• street reporting
• Breitbarting

When people traveled from place to place to find food, they were called _________________.

• Nomads
• Inuit
• Mayans
• Communities

What political position was social Darwinism used to justify?

• The attempt to regulate trusts

• The refusal to help the poor

• The use of public funds to improve urban lives

• The imposition of trade barriers

What happened first?

• WWII

• Korean War

• Industrial Revolution

• Vietnam War

One of the main effects of the passage of the Interstate Highway Act of 1956 was the expansion of

• ridership on long-distance passenger trains

• immigrant populations

• interstates within the USA

• the airline industry

What constitutional questions did Congress raise by passing the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?

• Congress ceded many of its war powers to the executive branch

• Congress affirmed its powers to declare war under the Constitution

• Congress handed all its legislative powers to the President

• A conflict was created between federal and state power

Plan to replace US troops with Vietnamese troops to end US involvement in Vietnam

• Vietnamization
• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
• Maddox Resolution
• Agent Orange