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(MC) The graph below shows the escalation of the U.S. military presence in Vietnam: ©2012 FLVSWhich of these contributed to the trend on this graph? (2 points)

(LC) The quote below was given in a 1941 speech by President Roosevelt: “Yesterday, December 7, 1941…a date which will live in infamy…the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked …”Source: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fdrpearlharbor.htm Which of the following events does this quotation describe? (1 point)

(MC) The quote below was written in the 1940s: “Suppose my neighbor’s home catches fire, and I have a length of garden hose four or five hundred feet away. If he can take my garden hose and connect it up with his hydrant, I may help him to put out his fire…I don’t say to him before that operation, Neighbor, my garden hose cost me 15 dollars; you have to pay me 15 dollars for it… I don’t want 15 dollars, I want my garden hose back after the fire is over.” Source: http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/odllpc2.html Franklin Delano Roosevelt used the quote above to justify which of the following policies? (2 points)

(MC) The diagram below shows some of the actions the U.S. government took as part of the effort to win World War II: ©2012 FLVSWhy would the phrase “controlling wages and prices” complete this diagram? (2 points)

(HC) Library of Congress – Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:055-4 [item] [P&P] What does this cartoon suggest about American neutrality at the beginning of World War II? (3 points)

(06.01 MC)How did Eli Whitney’s invention affect the institution of slavery in the United States?

(08.04 MC)Public DomainLook at the graph. What would be an example of a social cost stemming from this data?

(06.05 HC)Read the following quote from John Adams:”We have no government armed in power capable of contending with human passions unbridled [uncontrolled] by morality and religion. Our Constitution was made only for a religious and moral people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.”Which of the following National-Republican ideas does this statement best support?

(MC) The photograph below shows an antiwar protest held near the Pentagon Building in 1967: Public DomainWhat was one effect of protests such as the one depicted in the photograph? (2 points)

(08.05, 08.06 MC)How did the election of Ulysses S. Grant affect the voting rights of African Americans?