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When it was founded,the National Organization of Women was concerned primarily with the rights of women in marriage and in the home.

A) True
B) False

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There was never any conclusive evidence that President Nixon had planned or approved the Watergate burglary.

A) True
B) False

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The United Farm Workers union was founded and first led by César Chávez.

A) True
B) False

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The AIDS epidemic weakened the gay rights movement in the early 1980s.

A) True
B) False

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Conservative Americans,by and large,supported the decisions of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren.

A) True
B) False

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After President Richard Nixon had appointed four new justices,the Supreme Court


A) became decidedly more conservative in its rulings.
B) became decidedly less active.
C) more closely reflected the president's own political beliefs.
D) attempted to overturn the Warren Court decision in Roe v. Wade.
E) actually increased its commitment to social reform.

F) None of the above
G) B) and E)

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The 1973 ________ War demonstrated American dependence on Arab oil.

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The tragedies of Kent State and Jackson State occurred during protests over the American expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia by the Nixon administration.

A) True
B) False

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In 1972,the Watergate scandal began with a break-in at the


A) Washington Post newspaper building.
B) headquarters of the George McGovern campaign.
C) House of Representatives.
D) office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist.
E) offices of the Democratic National Committee.

F) A) and B)
G) B) and D)

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The intent of President Richard Nixon's "Vietnamization" policy was to


A) expand the war effort to all parts of Vietnam.
B) have the South Vietnamese military do more of the fighting.
C) declare an immediate end to the conflict.
D) expand the war effort to all parts of Indochina.
E) concentrate American military power on destroying the NLF.

F) B) and E)
G) A) and B)

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What became known as the "________ massacre" included President Richard Nixon ordering the firing of Archibald Cox.

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In the 1960s,the radical group known as "Weathermen"


A) expressed their ideas in a manifesto known as the Port Huron Statement.
B) seized administration offices at Columbia University.
C) reflected the attitudes of a majority of college students at major universities.
D) were involved in college bombings that claimed several lives.
E) targeted SDS meetings as sites of un-American activity.

F) B) and D)
G) D) and E)

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In the 1960s,the ________ was founded and led by César Chávez.

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