Deck 52: US Society

Question 1

Reagan won reelection in 1984 by a landslide, winning every state in the country except which?

A)Minnesota
B)Massachusetts
C)New York
D)California

Answer 1

Minnesota

Question 2

What did Dr. Spock tell women regarding their children?

A)To raise children with fathers as equal partners
B)To be affectionate and trust their own instincts regarding their children
C)To focus on meeting goals outside of the home
D)To hire other people to help raise their children

Answer 2

To be affectionate and trust their own instincts regarding their children

Question 3

During the space race, what accomplishment did the US manage before the USSR?

A)Putting a man into space
B)Putting an unmanned satellite into space
C)Putting a man on the moon
D)All of the above

Answer 3

Putting a man on the moon

Question 4

Which of the following did not contribute to American prosperity in the 1950s?

A)Cold war spending
B)Baby boomers and the rise of the suburbs
C)Increased public funding
D)The advent of computer technology

Question 5

Which of the following helped drive people's move to the suburbs?

A)The promise of larger, safer homes
B)Racial integration in suburban communities
C)A more exciting lifestyle
D)High prices in urban centers

Question 6

What did the beat generation and rock & roll have in common?

A)Both resisted 1950s conformity.
B)Both fought for racial equality.
C)Both movements were defined by the music they left behind.
D)Both were intensely nationalistic.

Question 7

Which group was primarily responsible for the sit-ins that protested segregation in the South?

A)Liberal politicians
B)Black lawyers
C)Black religious leaders
D)Black students

Question 8

Which of the following did President Johnson claim gave him the right to escalate the conflict in Vietnam?

A)The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
B)His role as commander-in-chief
C)Constitutional war powers
D)A congressional declaration of war against Vietnam

Question 9

In his final address as president, what did Eisenhower warn the American people against?

A)Communism
B)The return of Nazism
C)The military-industrial complex
D)Nuclear proliferation

Question 10

What group consistently blocked John F. Kennedy's legislative initiatives?

A)Southern Democrats
B)The Supreme Court
C)Senate Republicans
D)State governors

Question 11

Which of NASA's Apollo space program missions included a Christmas Eve orbit of the Moon in 1968?

A)Apollo 1
B)Apollo 7
C)Apollo 8
D)Apollo 11

Question 12

Which two signers of the Declaration of Independence died within hours of each other on July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the document's signing?

A)George Washington and Thomas Jefferson
B)John Hancock and Thomas Jefferson
C)James Madison and Thomas Jefferson
D)Thomas Jefferson and John Adams

Question 13

Which list of generations is in correct chronological order beginning with the earliest generation?

A)Silent Generation - Greatest Generation - Lost Generation - Generation X - Millenials
B)Lost Generation - Greatest Generation - Silent Generation - Generation X - Millenials
C)Millenials - Greatest Generation - Silent Generation - Lost Generation - Generation X
D)Greatest Generation - Silent Generation - Lost Generation - Millenials - Generation X

Question 14

Which American artist is considered the leading figure of the Pop art movement?

A)Andy Warhol
B)Jackson Pollock
C)Willem de Kooning
D)Edward Hopper

Question 15

During which time period did the US experience the highest unemployment rate to date?

A)During the Great Depression
B)After the financial collapse of 2008
C)Immediately after the Civil War
D)In the mid-1800s

Question 16

How many years before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education did the United States send Jesse Owens to Hitler's Germany to compete in the Olympic Games?

A)12 years
B)18 years
C)24 years
D)6 years

Question 17

Which American written work served as political inspiration for Russian author Leo Tolstoy, Indian political leader Mohandas Gandhi and American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.?

A)Uncle Tom's Cabin
B)Common Sense
C)Civil Disobedience
D)Leaves of Grass

Question 18

Which government body shares its nickname with a popular R&B group of the 1960s?

A)The presidential Cabinet
B)The U.S. House of Representatives
C)The U.S. Supreme Court
D)The U.S. Senate

Question 19

Daniel Ellsberg is associated with which political event?

A)The release of the Pentagon Papers
B)Watergate
C)Iran Contra
D)The Nuremberg trials

Question 20

Which president campaigned for re-election with the slogan "It's morning in America?"

A)Dwight Eisenhower
B)Franklin D. Roosevelt
C)Richard Nixon
D)Ronald Reagan

Question 21

Anita Hill's sexual harassment allegations affected the political future of which of the following people?

A)Gary Hart
B)Bill Clinton
C)Clarence Thomas
D)Edward Kennedy

Question 22

Which of the following people was never suspected to be Deep Throat?

A)Diane Sawyer
B)Spiro Agnew
C)Henry Kissinger
D)Pat Buchanan

Question 23

Feminist icon Gloria Steinem founded which publication?

A)Woman's Day
B)Jane
C)Cosmopolitan
D)Ms.

Question 24

Which president characterized his domestic agenda as a "Square Deal?"

A)Woodrow Wilson
B)Theodore Roosevelt
C)Herbert Hoover
D)Calvin Coolidge

Question 25

Who was the first woman to run on a presidential ticket for one of the major political parties?

A)Hillary Clinton
B)Sandra Day O'Conner
C)Sarah Palin
D)Geraldine Ferrero

Question 26

What is Cesar Chavez remembered for accomplishing?

A)Becoming the first Hispanic heavyweight boxing champion
B)Organizing predominantly Hispanic agricultural workers
C)Becoming the first Hispanic congressman
D)Working to defend minority rights in the Northeast

Question 27

Why was it said that "only Nixon could go to China?"

A)Nixon spoke fluent Chinese.
B)The Chinese would not have accepted another politician.
C)No other president had the necessary interpersonal skills.
D)Nixon was known to be virulently anti-communist.

Question 28

What was the constitutional justification for the Roe v. Wade ruling?

A)The right to privacy
B)Freedom of religion
C)Freedom of expression
D)The protection of states' rights

Question 29

Which issue was most responsible for uniting the New Left of the late 60s?

A)Opposition to the ban on abortion
B)Opposition to the Vietnam War
C)Support for racial integration
D)Support for women's rights

Question 30

Who were the Weathermen?

A)A group of scientists that came to prominence in the 1970s
B)A violent, political student organization in the 1960s and 1970s
C)A literary group associated with the Beats
D)A folk band that included Bob Dylan

Question 31

Who were the Marielitos?

A)Cubans who immigrated to the US in 1980
B)Puerto Ricans who moved to New York in the 1970s
C)US citizens who were children of Hispanic workers
D)Illegal immigrant workers who worked in the US for part of the year

Question 32

What did the "termination" approach to Native American relations with the Federal government argue for?

A)The elimination of Native American reservations
B)The end of granting Native Americans US citizenship
C)Ending recognition of Native American tribes as legal entities
D)Ending Native American immunity to state laws

Question 33

What act caused President Ford's popularity to plummet?

A)His decision to raise taxes
B)His decision to run for election to office
C)His decision to pardon President Nixon
D)His popularity didn't plummet; it was low throughout his tenure.

Question 34

Which of the following major technological achievements did not occur at the end of the twentieth century?

A)Construction of the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas
B)Completion of the Human Genome Project
C)Creation of the Internet
D)The proliferation of mobile telephony

Question 35

Which of the following groups is not known for opposing globalization?

A)Human rights activists
B)The IMF
C)Environmentalists
D)Labor activists

Question 36

What potent political movement backed candidates who promised to fight against abortion rights?

A)The Evangelical movement
B)The moral majority
C)The right-to-life movement
D)Neo Cons

Question 37

Which of the following was an outcome of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

A)Kennedy put nuclear missiles in Turkey.
B)The Soviets built the Berlin Wall.
C)Kennedy and Khrushchev began holding regular meetings.
D)The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was signed.

Question 38

Which of the following best describes the US economy at the end of Carter's presidency?

A)High growth and low inflation
B)High unemployment and mild deflation
C)Full employment and mild growth
D)Record interest rates and high inflation

Question 39

Which of the following was one of President Clinton's achievements?

A)Solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
B)Enacting universal health care
C)Allowing gay soldiers to openly serve in the military
D)Balancing the Federal budget

Question 40

What was the basic premise behind supply-side economics?

A)Government spending would spur economic growth.
B)Tax cuts would spur economic growth.
C)Subsidies for major oil suppliers would spur the economy.
D)Military spending would spur the economy.

Question 41

Oliver North was a figure in which political scandal?

A)The release of the Pentagon Papers
B)Whitewater
C)Watergate
D)Iran-Contra

Question 42

When did the Gilded Age occur?

A)The 1820s and 1830s
B)The 1870s and 1880s
C)The 1900s and 1910s
D)The 1940s and 1950s

Question 43

Which of the following films did not become an iconic American classic due in part to annual network television broadcasts that many viewers adopted as yearly traditions?

A)Casablanca
B)The Wizard of Oz
C)It's a Wonderful Life
D)The Sound of Music

Question 44

Which motion picture featured a haunted main character whose final line in the movie is, "Rosebud?"

A)Gone With the Wind
B)Casablanca
C)The Godfather
D)Citizen Kane

Question 45

How many Founders signed both the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution?

A)20
B)12
C)6
D)25

Question 46

"The Bible Belt" is a term applied to which region of the United States?

A)The Northeast
B)The Deep South
C)The Midwest
D)The Southwest

Question 47

The Era of Good Feelings in American history came to halt during the acrimonious presidential election between which men?

A)John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson
B)John Kennedy and Richard Nixon
C)Woodrow Wilson, William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt
D)Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden

Question 48

Which Founding Father was hailed upon his death as, "First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen?"

A)Thomas Jefferson
B)Benjamin Franklin
C)John Adams
D)George Washington

Question 49

Who mourned the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by writing of him, "O Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done..."?

A)Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
B)Walt Whitman
C)Mark Twain
D)Ernest Hemingway

Question 50

Which 1968 event intensified the anti-war movement in the United States?

A)The Watergate break-in
B)The civil rights demonstration at the Mexico City Olympics
C)The Kent State shootings
D)The My Lai Massacre

Question 51

Which of the following people was not a figure of the Harlem Renaissance?

A)Zora Neale Hurston
B)Marcus Garvey
C)Louis Armstrong
D)Langston Hughes

Question 52

Whose murder is viewed as the catalyst for the African-American civil rights movement?

A)Martin Luther King Jr.
B)Emmett Till
C)Medgar Evers
D)John Kennedy

Question 53

Who was President of the United States when Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon?

A)Richard Nixon
B)John Kennedy
C)Lyndon Johnson
D)Gerald Ford

Question 54

Which 19th century American intellectual was a leader of the Transcendentalist movement and authored numerous essays that formalized much of the American cultural identity of the time?

A)Henry Adams
B)Mark Twain
C)Frederick Douglass
D)Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 55

Which Founder had his role in history inflated when the event for which he is remembered was immortalized in a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?

A)John Hancock
B)George Washington
C)Paul Revere
D)Benjamin Franklin

Question 56

Who flew in the Spirit of St. Louis?

A)Amelia Earhart
B)Charles Lindbergh
C)Orville and Wilbur Wright
D)The Red Baron

Question 57

Abraham Lincoln's failed run at an Illinois Senate seat in 1858 featured which notable political event?

A)The Lincoln-Douglas debates
B)The Gettysburg Address
C)The Declaration on the Rights of Man
D)An assassination attempt on Lincoln

Question 58

Emigrants from which nation were integral to the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad, often performing the most dangerous tasks, including using explosives?

A)Russia
B)China
C)Ireland
D)Germany

Question 59

When Robert Kennedy ran for the presidency in 1968 he was a senator from which state?

A)Maryland
B)Massachusetts
C)Virginia
D)New York

Question 60

Which of the following is not a benefit provided World War II veterans by the G.I. Bill?

A)Tuition for G.I.s to pursue undergraduate, graduate, cooperative or technical education
B)Business and farm loans
C)Health insurance
D)Low-cost mortgages

Question 61

Which American novel introduced the antihero Holden Caulfield, who became an enduring symbol of teenage rebellion?

A)A Separate Peace
B)Catcher in the Rye
C)On the Road
D)On the Waterfront

Question 62

In which year did the Beatles arrive in America?

A)1964
B)1966
C)1963
D)1965

Question 63

Which westward route used by 400,000 American settlers to traverse the country in the 19th century became a popular computer game well over a century later?

A)The Pony Express
B)The California Trail
C)The Transcontinental Railroad
D)The Oregon Trail

Question 64

Which American author named his generation the "Beat generation?"

A)Allen Ginsburg
B)J)D. Salinger
C)Jack Kerouac
D)Hunter S. Thompson

Question 65

Atticus Finch is the hero in which famous novel about a racially charged court case in the Depression-era American South?

A)To Kill a Mockingbird
B)Gone With the Wind
C)The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
D)The Light in August

Question 66

Whose portrait of Madame Pierre Gautreau, entitled "Madame X," scandalized the art world for the subject's provocative pose and attire in the painting?

A)Edward Hopper
B)John Singer Sargent
C)Pablo Picasso
D)Diego Rivera

Question 67

"The Breadbasket of America" is a term applied to which region of the United States?

A)The Midwest
B)The Northeast
C)The Pacific Northwest
D)The Mid-Atlantic

Question 68

Charles Schulz wrote which famous daily comic strip that saw one of its characters fly in space with NASA?

A)Beetle Bailey
B)The Far Side
C)Calvin & Hobbes
D)Peanuts

Question 69

How many times in American history has a president been elected without winning the popular vote?

A)2
B)6
C)4
D)0

Question 70

Which Jazz Age novel ends with the memorable final line, "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past?"

A)The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
B)The Great Gatsby
C)This Side of Paradise
D)A Movable Feast

Question 71

To which era in American history did flappers belong?

A)The Roaring Twenties
B)The Gilded Age
C)The Era of Good Feelings
D)The Swinging Sixties

Question 72

Which author is often called the "father of American literature?"

A)F) Scott Fitzgerald
B)Ernest Hemingway
C)William Faulkner
D)Mark Twain

Question 73

The Fatimids, the Ayyubids and the Mamluks were all rulers of which modern-day nation?

A)Syria
B)Egypt
C)Lebanon
D)Kuwait

Question 74

Who was the first European to find North America?

A)Christopher Columbus
B)Leif Ericson
C)Ferdinand Magellan
D)Amerigo Vespucci

Question 75

How does Andalusia, the region in the south of Spain, differ from the rest of Spain?

A)It was under Islamic rule for about 700 years.
B)It was regularly attacked by Norse invaders.
C)The people followed the Byzantine Church.
D)The flat landscape differs from the mountainous North.

Question 76

Socrates, Plato and Aristotle all taught philosophy in what ancient city?

A)Cairo
B)Rome
C)Athens
D)Sparta

Question 77

Which of the following is a trait shared by Nazi Germany before World War II and Communist Russia?

A)One-party control of the government
B)A command economy
C)The protection of the right to property
D)Independent media

Question 78

After World War II, which novel provision was included, at the insistence of the US, in Japan's new constitution?

A)A limitation on the size of the Japanese military
B)A section banning the practice of Shinto by Japanese lawmakers
C)Permanent acceptance of a US military base in Okinawa
D)A free trade treaty with the US

Question 79

What is the name of Gorbachev's policy of openness in the 1980s?

A)Perestroika
B)Collectivization
C)Glasnost
D)Bolshevism

Question 80

The fall of the Roman Empire was immediately followed by:

A)Decentralization of power to organized city-states
B)The emergence of democratic nations
C)A balance of power between royal families
D)General chaos and weak central governments