Give me Liberty

Give Me Liberty! – Questions and Answers 1) Question: George W. Bush was the first president since Herbert Hoover to see the economy lose jobs over the course of a four-year term. Answer: True 2) Question: The 2008 financial crisis was unrelated to subprime mortgages. Answer: False 3) Question: Why did the number of Americans receiving food stamps rise after 2008? Answer: The number of needy Americans skyrocketed with the recession. 4) Question: Which of the following statements about the Black Lives Matter movement is NOT accurate? Answer: It focused on narrow platform policy, rather than a broad claim to black humanity. 5) Question: Which of the following was a job category for which the Bureau of Labor Statistics predicted strong growth in 2012? Answer: Home health aides. 6) Question: Which of the following statements about the Occupy movement is FALSE? Answer: It eventually died out and failed to inspire any other similar movements. 7) Question: Illegal immigrants coming to the United States push down wages at the bottom of the economic ladder, but they spend money and pay taxes. Answer: True 8) Question: Lawrence v. Texas upheld affirmative action. Answer: False 9) Question: How did revelations about the U.S. military prison in Abu Ghraib, Iraq, change the position of the United States in the world? Answer: The incident undermined the reputation of the United States as a nation that adhered to standards of civilized behavior and the rule of law. 10) Question: Vice President Cheney was found guilty of perjury in Bush’s second term for a leak to the press about a CIA operative in Africa. Answer: False 11) Question: How did the 2013 Supreme Court ruling invalidate the heart of the Voting Rights Act of 1965? Answer: The southern states cited in the original law no longer needed approval from the Justice Department before changing their election laws. 12) Question: The borderlands of the Southwest: Answer: emerged as an area of renewed anxiety for some Americans in the wake of the September 11 attacks. 13) Question: Prior to the new national security atmosphere of the war on terror, what had separated Americans from the historical abuses of the CIA and FBI during the 1950s and 1960s? Answer: The discoveries of the Church Committee in the wake of Nixon’s resignation. 14) Question: How did revelations about the U.S. military prison in Abu Ghraib, Iraq, change the position of the United States in the world? Answer: The incident undermined the reputation of the United States as a nation that adhered to standards of civilized behavior and the rule of law. 15) Question: In 2008, testifying before Congress, Alan Greenspan, the former head of the Federal Reserve Bank: Answer: admitted that there had been a “flaw” in his long-held conviction that free markets would produce the best results. 16) Question: What was the response to the 2006 House of Representatives bill that criminalized offering assistance to illegal immigrants? Answer: Mass protests staged by legal and illegal immigrants nationwide. 17) Question: Edward Snowden’s release of National Security Agency documents revealed the United States had spied on the private communications of foreign leaders, including the German chancellor and French president. Answer: True 18) Question: What made Bush’s 2002 “National Security Strategy” fundamentally different from previous American policy? Answer: It advocated the use of preemptive war.