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. The excerpt was most likely intended to do which of the following?

A Address the need to contain the Soviet Union through military action

B Dispel concerns about wartime cooperation between industry and the government

C Raise questions about the role of the United States in the world

D Reduce anxieties about wartime mobilization on the home front

(D) Reduce anxieties about wartime mobilization on the home front

By the 1950s which of the following most contributed to the continuation of the "beautiful ideal" for women?

(A) The anxieties caused by the Cold War

(B) The rise of suburban housing developments

(C) The increased educational opportunities for both sexes

(D) The shift from a manufacturing to a service economy

(B) The rise of suburban housing developments

The excerpt best serves as evidence of which of the following trends during the 1940s?

(A) Women's widespread support for an equal rights amendment

(B) Growing challenges to civil liberties

(C) New technological and scientific advances

(D) Enhanced opportunities for women

(D) Enhanced opportunities for women

The concerns expressed in the image contributed most directly to

(A) restrictions on Chinese labor

(B) government repression of radicals

(C) international conferences to promote arms reduction

(D) military intervention in the Caribbean and Latin America

(B) government repression of radicals

The sentiments expressed in the image helped prompt Congress to take which of the following actions in the 1920s?

(A) Instituting new military service requirements

(B) Establishing restrictive immigration quotas

(C) Recognizing labor unions and collective bargaining rights

(D) Creating tough mandatory sentencing guidelines in criminal cases

(B) Establishing restrictive immigration quotas

Which of the following United States actions taken after the Second World War most directly reflects a continuation of the concerns expressed in the image?

(A) Criticizing decolonization in Africa and Asia

(B) Expanding individual freedoms through Supreme Court decisions

(C) Suppressing dissent through measures such as loyalty oaths

(D) Developing atomic weapons

(C) Suppressing dissent through measures such as loyalty oaths

The excerpt was written most directly in response to which of the following?

(A) The racial desegregation of the United States military

(B) The emergence of a distinctive African American arts and literature during the Harlem

Renaissance

(C) The development of a counterculture that rejected many of the values of the previous

generation

(D) The success of the Civil Rights movement in achieving legal and legislative victories

(D) The success of the Civil Rights movement in achieving legal and legislative victories

Statistics on which of the following could best be used to support the argument made in the excerpt?

(A) The percentage of African Americans registered to vote by year

(B) The incomes of African Americans as compared to those of White people by year

(C) The number of African Americans holding political office by year

(D) The incidences of lynching by year

(B) The incomes of African Americans as compared to those of White people by year

The Civil Rights movement's shift in focus described in the excerpt most directly contributed to

(A) more concentration on problems in the South

(B) greater use of nonviolent demonstrations as a protest tactic

(C) increased divisions among activists over strategies and goals

(D) growing cooperation with feminist groups

(C) increased divisions among activists over strategies and goals

The activism described in the excerpt most directly helped inspire renewed social and political activism by

(A) American Indians

(B) labor unions

(C) environmentalists

(D) military veterans

(A) American Indians

Which of the following historical evidence could best be used to support Kennedy's argument in the excerpt?

(A) The passage of legislation providing unemployment insurance

(B) Attempts by the United States to remain isolated from international conflicts

(C) The strong influence of White southerners on New Deal legislation

(D) Efforts by the government to discourage women from holding paid jobs

(A) The passage of legislation providing unemployment insurance

The "political realignment" described in the excerpt contributed most directly to the

(A) increase in the power of local and state governments

(B) new influence of money from independent political action committees on electoral

campaigns

(C) emergence of a Republican voting bloc among evangelical Christians in the South

(D) greater identification of working-class communities with the Democratic Party

(D) greater identification of working-class communities with the Democratic Party

Which of the following most strongly sought to limit the scope of New Deal actions described in the excerpt?

(A) Organizations of older Americans

(B) Radicals such as members of the Communist Party

(C) Conservatives in Congress and on the Supreme Court

(D) African American groups such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

(C) Conservatives in Congress and on the Supreme Court

The New Deal drew most directly on which of the following earlier sets of ideas?

(A) Abolitionism

(B) Populism

(C) Progressivism

(D) Social Darwinism

(C) Progressivism

The overall pattern of spending in the table most directly reflects which of the following federal policy positions at the time?

(A) Alleviating poverty requires federal government regulation of lifestyles and morality.

(B) Federal power should be used to address social issues and fight communism abroad.

(C) Federal power should be checked by state and local government initiatives.

(D) National defense must be achieved above all other considerations.

(B) Federal power should be used to address social issues and fight communism abroad.

The pattern in spending for national defense shown in the table most directly reflects which of the following?

(A) A decisive loss for the United States in the Korean War

(B) Democratic Party dominance in national politics after 1968

(C) Increased public confidence in the United States government

(D) Efforts to contain communism in Southeast Asia

(D) Efforts to contain communism in Southeast Asia

Which of the following developments after the Second World War most directly enabled the total spending shown in the table?

(A) Significant increases in immigration that transformed fiscal policy

(B) Rising general prosperity and an expanding middle class

(C) The conspicuous consumption of the baby-boom generation

(D) The economic impact of declining northern industrial cities

(B) Rising general prosperity and an expanding middle class

The pattern of social services spending in the table is most similar to which of the following spending patterns in other historical periods?

(A) Appropriations to create a national banking system in the 1840s and 1850s

(B) Assistance to American Indians at the end of the 1800s

(C) Attempts to deal with the effects of the Great Depression in the 1930s

(D) Funding for conservation efforts during the early 1900s

(C) Attempts to deal with the effects of the Great Depression in the 1930s

Problems associated with the conditions depicted in the image most directly led to

(A) demands for increased federal regulation of industry

(B) economic instability and recession

(C) calls for a return to an agrarian economy and society

(D) decreases in union activism and membership

(A) demands for increased federal regulation of industry

Which of the following were most likely to have led organized opposition to the practices shown in the image?

(A) Factory owners

(B) Tenant farmers

(C) Radical Republicans

(D) Middle-class women

(D) Middle-class women

Which of the following provided the strongest justification for the practices shown in the image?

(A) Manifest Destiny

(B) Theories of change known as Social Darwinism

(C) Socialism and utopianism

(D) Romantic belief in human perfectibility

(B) Theories of change known as Social Darwinism

Which of the following historical developments could best be used as evidence to support McGirr's argument in the excerpt?

(A) Challenges to perceived moral and cultural decline

(B) The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

(C) The emergence of a counterculture

(D) The rise of the Black Power movement

(A) Challenges to perceived moral and cultural decline

The groups described in the excerpt most likely opposed

(A) the Vietnam War

(B) racial segregation

(C) Great Society programs

(D) organized public prayer

(C) Great Society programs

Which of the following historical developments most directly resulted from the trend described in the excerpt?

(A) The passage of new immigration laws in 1965

(B) The Supreme Court decisions expanding individual freedoms in the 1960s and 1970s

(C) The emergence of environmental activism in the 1970s

(D) The election of Ronald Reagan as president in 1980

(D) The election of Ronald Reagan as president in 1980

By the 1980s and 1990s, the strength of the movement described in the excerpt was best illustrated by the

(A) expanded role of the United States in international peacekeeping operations

(B) growth in the size and scope of the federal government

(C) increase in union membership among public employees

(D) prominence of evangelical Christian organizations in politics

(D) prominence of evangelical Christian organizations in politics

Which of the following groups would have been most likely to see the developments described in the report as desirable?

(A) Nativists who supported the idea of an Anglo America

(B) Mine operators who sought to excavate land in the Dakotas

(C) Reformers who advocated for assimilation

(D) The leadership of American Indian nations

(C) Reformers who advocated for assimilation

Prior to 1884, the United States government most typically responded to American Indian resistance by

(A) using the military to enforce federal policy toward American Indians

(B) discouraging White settlers from moving onto American Indian land

(C) providing monetary incentives for American Indian farming

(D) upholding the sovereignty of American Indian nations

(A) using the military to enforce federal policy toward American Indians