American History Final
pull factors for immigration
"Magic Land" idea of America, encouragement from companies, religious freedom, and better conditions. (Positive)
In the controversial Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court declared that:
"property"
The _______ Amendment prohibited states from depriving any male citizen of equal protection under the law, regardless of race
14th
The ______ Amendment protected blacks' right to vote
15th
The _______ Amendment granted women the right to vote in all states
19th
Treaty of Versailles (1919)
9 new nations, broke up Austro-hungary empires
The first United States president to be impeached in the House of Representatives was:
Andrew Johnson
By analyzing the New York City Draft riots, what can be determined about the Civil War?
Angry mobs attacking blacks and poor people about the government
General Lee surrendered his army to General Grant at the courthouse in:
Appomattox Va
The Manhattan Project was code name for:
Atomic Bomb
On September 17, 1862, the "bloodiest single day" of fighting in American history occurred at:
Battle of Antietam
Why was Vicksburg essential?
Capturing the city allowed the Union to control the entire Mississippi River.
Results of the Kansas-Nebraska Act included
Cause of the Civil War, Kansas and Nebraska, Repealed Missouri Camp
Enacted in 1862, ________ was the first immigrants law to ban a certain race of people from coming to America.
Chinese Exclusion Act
What inspiration did Martin Luther King Jr. gain from Mahatma Gandhi?
Civil Disobedience
Black Codes:
Controlled free slaves and fined those unemployed
What could be one possible reason why Robert E. Lee invaded the North in 1863?
Destroy Morale
During the Allied occupation of Japan, ______________ introduced reforms designed to convert Japan into a democratic country.
Douglas McAurthur
True or False: During the 1920s, labor lost over 2 million members
False
True or False: Emperor Hirohito was tried as a war criminal and sentenced to death along with General Tojo
False
True or False: Overall, despite good intentions the Marshall Plan was not very successful.
False
True or False: Proposed by Woodrow Wilson to promote peace through collective security, the League of Nations was created in 1920, and the United States was the first member
False
True or False: The America First Committee campaigned for Americans to be the first to go to war against Nazi Germany
False
True or False: The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 freed slaves in border states fighting on the Union side
False
True or False: The only people killed during the German Holocaust were the Jewish people
False
True or False: although well intended, the new deal for native Americans resulted in a series of forced assimilations
False
What time period most influenced the New Deal?
First World War
The purpose of the D-Day invasion was to
Free France
What would John Winthrop most likely criticize about antebellum America?
Freedom
While standard of living rose for many Americans after the Civil War and huge fortunes were amassed by industrialists, significant societal problems developed. Mark Twain called the era a ___________ Age.
Gilded
The Freedman's Bureau:
Helped African Americans adjust to freedom
________ the systematic state-sponsored killing of six million Jewish men, women, and children and millions fo others by Nazi Germany and it's collaborators during World War II
Holocaust
Who became the first African-American Senator in 1870?
Hyrum Revels
In what way was Reconstruction policy a success?
It established an amendment promising equal protection for all
When "Fifty-four forty or fight" did not result in gaining all of the Pacific Northwest, who most likely would have been the angriest?
James Polk
The declared president of the Confederate States of America was:
Jefferson Davis
The Compromise of 1850 established all of the following statues EXCEPT:
Land divided, California joined
Which of the following elements of President Wilson's Fourteen Points most resembled the commissions Progressives had instituted back home?
League of Nations
In the first half of the nineteenth century, the United States gained the most territory through:
Mexico
The Battle of _______ was a turning point in the Pacific Theater of WWII
Midway
Causes of WW1
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism
Which of the following least symbolized the growing autonomy of working women with regard to their consumerism?
Military Service
In contrast to the American Federation of Labor, the Congress of Industrial Organizations fought for:
More buying Power
________ is an anti foreigner sentiment in the U.S. that fueled a drive against immigration. (Feeling of hatred towards those not "American"
Nativism
What broad popular sentiments did the Ku Klux Klan express in the 1920s?
Nativism, white men only
What was ironic about the election of Andrew Johnson?
Only senator from a seceding state
Which of the following trends of the 1920's did fundamentalists support?
Prohibition
According to the Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, how could corporations have prevented the Great Depression?
Purchasing Power
What was Lincoln's hidden weapon that allowed the military to quickly transport troops and supplies over long distances like never before?
Railroads
_________, founder of the Standard Oil Company gained control of 90% of the petroleum refining capacity in the U.S. by eliminating competitors through buyouts and aggressive business practice.
Rockefeller
The ascendancy of the American Federation of Labor during the 1890s reflected:
Shift from broad reform
John Wilkes Booth, an actor who killed Lincoln:
Shot him in the head
Passed by Congress in 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution outlawed:
Slavery
The first state to choose secession was:
South Carolina
In the 1950s what did the term "Totalitarianism" describe?
Soviet Side
The idea that change comes slowly can be evidenced by what event during Reconstruction?
Suffrage
Lincoln used the ______________ to communicate with his generals and other officers to keep tabs of what was going on at the battle front.
Telegraph
Unsanitary conditions in the meat packing industry were sensationalized in ________, a 1906 novel by Upton Sinclair
The Jungle
What was a result of the expanding Union economy?
The size and spending of the government increased tremendously
The "March to the Sea" (Atlanta, GA to Savannah, NC) was the cumulation of Union General William Sherman's 1684 campaign and was a devastating example of ________ war
Total
True or False: Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860 without any southern electoral votes
True
True or False: After Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, FDR issued Executive Order 9066. As a result, over 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry were uprooted and confined to remote camps farther inland for most of the war.
True
True or False: By 1880, a majority of Americans worked in nonfarm activities.
True
True or False: Chinese immigrants, often performing dangerous tasks, played an important role in the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad.
True
True or False: During the Battle of Leyte Gulf, over 2,000 kamikaze pilots crashed their aircraft into U.S ships.
True
True or False: Franklin D. Roosevelt was the only U.S. president to serve more than 2 terms
True
True or False: Picture bride refers to the practice of Japanese immigrants to Hawaii and the West Coast, selecting brides from Japan via a matchmaker, who paired bride and groom using ONLY photographs and family recommendations of the possible candidate.
True
True or False: Social security was instituted during the Great Depression
True
True or False: The Congress passed the first national conscription law in 1863, but the rich people could buy their way out of the draft by hiring a substitute for $300
True
True or False: The most common Civil War battlefield surgery was the amputation
True
True or False: The percentage of families at or below the poverty rate fell during the 1950s
True
True or False: Wade-Davis Bill, a program proposed for the Reconstruction fo the South written by two Radical Republicans was vetoed by Lincoln and never took effect
True
On May 10, 1869, the Union and Central Pacific Railroads joined their rails at Promontory Summit, ________ Territory
Utah
Apart from the racial identity of victims, what typically triggered the lynch violence of southern white mobs?
Victims alleged sexual conduct
What did the members of the new United Nations Security Council all have in common?
Victors of WWI
The Scale of Civil War bloodshed was comparable to that of which other conflict?
WWI
Which of the following Second New Deal measures came closest to meeting the demands of the Congress of Industrial Organizations for workplace democracy
Wagner Act
What taste of freedom did women enjoy in World War II?
Work
Push factors for immigration
economic reasons, rising populations, industrial revolution, local craftsmen competition, political and religious persecution. (negative)