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U.S. History Final
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History
10th Grade
06/15/2011

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Once Native Americans had established their own governments, the Indian Bureau was authorized to
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provide the reservations with the funds needed to build schools, hospitals, and businesses
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Which of the following was NOT a result of the Indian REorganization Act?
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Local governments gained control of reservations
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What was the REAL purpose of the American Liberty League?
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destroying the New Deal
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Advocated slow, cautious change in civil rights that exasperated minorities
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Restricted press conferences to only female reporters to help them keep their jobs
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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Secretary of the Interior (under FDR)
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Harold Ickes
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Head of FERA and the WPA
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Harry Hopkins
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First woman in the U.S. to be appointed to a cabinet post
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Frances Perkins
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Head of the Negro Affairs division of the National Youth Administration
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Mary McLeod Bethune
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Popular Louisiana Governor who opposed FDR's programs
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Huey P. Long
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famous African American opera singer of the 1930s
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Marian Anderson
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what was the purpose of Roosevelt's "fireside chats"?
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he wanted to explain the legislation of his New Deal program and reassure Americans that the nation's problems would soon be solved
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A direct legacy of the New Deal was
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the expansion of the federal government into almost all aspects of people's lives
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according to the social security program proposed by Dr. Francis Townsend, every
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person over 60 would be asked to retire
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Dr. Francis Townsend
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formulated a plan to aid the U.S.'s elderly
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Instituted pension and survivor's benefits for the elderly and the orphaned
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the Social Security Act
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Roosevelt hesitated to support anti-lynching legislation because he was
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afraid that he would alienate southern white leaders
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Agreed with FDR's decision to nationalize banks
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Father Charles E. Coughlin
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Which one of the following was NOT a provision of the National Industrial Recovery Act?
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businesses were to pay a subsidy to farmers to help reduce production of crops
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In the first two years following passage of NIRA, union membership
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increased by about 1 million
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NRA codes often granted women
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lower pay than men
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one of Father FCoughlin's ideas that appealed to the working class was that
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the wealth of the few should be redistributed
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Huey P. Long never controlled the U.S. government as he had hoped because he was
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assassinated
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put people to work building schools and highways
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Public Works Administration
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The PWA's contracts contained a clause requiring that the number of blacks hired must be
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at least equal in proportion to the number of blacks in the local population
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created to keep FDR informed about issues concerning african americans
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black cabinet
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Roosevelt's black cabinet was made up of
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African American appointees who served in various branches of his administration
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debating a bill nonstop to keep it from coming to a vote
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filibuster
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SNCC
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Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee
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COFO
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Council of Federated Organizations
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French outpost overrun by the Vietminh
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Dien Bien Phu
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in charge of American forcces in Vietnam
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William Westmoreland
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Communist, anti-Diem group in South Vietnam
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Vietcong
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U.S. military base where eight americans were killed
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Pleiku
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Third party candidate for the presidential election of 1968
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George Wallace
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Vietnamese nationalist group
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Vietminh
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vllage where 350 Vietnamese were massacred by American troops
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My Lai
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Democrat that believed the U.S. should maintain its course in Vietnam
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Hubert Humphrey
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catapulted our entrance into the vietnam war
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Gulf of Tonkin
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Under Kennedy's administration, the U.S. loaned money to South Vietnam in order to
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improve agriculture in the country
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which statement describes the Nixon Doctrine?
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it reaffirmed the role the U.S. played in Southeast Asia and developing nations
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British leader who agreed not to oppose Hitler's occupation of Sudetenland
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Winston Churchill
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led Spanish army in a civil war in 1936
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Francisco Franco
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journalist who led a movement to aid the Allies during WWII
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William Allen White
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Facist Italian leader who formed an alliance with Hitler
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Benito Mussolini
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In 1940 President Roosevelt aided the Allies when he
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asked Congress to approve the Lend-Lease Act
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Churchill and FDR's Atlantic Charter Outlined goals for the post-war world AND
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set the foundation for the United Nations
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The failure of the Maginot Line resulted in
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the demoralization of the French people
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In 1940 President Roosevelt aided the Allies when he
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arranged a destroyers-for-bases deal with Britain
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a statement of goals for a postwar world made by Churchill/FDR
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The Atlantic Charter
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The plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima
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Enola Gay
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physicist who successfully detonated the first atomic bomb in the desert of New Mexico
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
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the first territory Japan lost in the war
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Battle of Guadalcanal
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the final german offensive of the war that opened the road into Germany
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Battle of the bulge
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A german assault that broke the non-agression pact
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Battle of Stalingrad
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At the Casablanca conference in 1943, the Allied leaders decided that
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they would wage war until the Axis powers accepted an unconditional surrender
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the British victory at El Alamein
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marked a turning point in the war
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the battle of the coral sea prevented Japan from
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advancing towards australia
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planned the attack on Pearl Harbor
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Isoroku Yamamoto
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French leader who agreed not to oppose Hitler's occupation of Sudetenland
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Edouard Daladier
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British leader who made a preddiction that Britain would be drawn into the war with germany
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Neville Chamberlain
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