Chapter 16-28 - give me liberty all study questions/chronological for Final
At the outbreak of war in Europe in the summer of 1914, the U.S. population quickly unified in its support for Great Britain and France.
False
By 1900, measured by its acquisition of new territories, the United States was an imperialist power, the equal of Great Britain and France.
False
By 1929 three-quarters of American households had washing machines.
False
By 1932 a quarter of the U.S. labor force could not find work.
False
During the 1920s, as sociologists Robert and Helen Lyndon found in Middletown, elections were lively centers of public attention, much as they had been in the ninteenth century.
False
During the 1920s, the United States government showed little interest in world affairs.
False
Eugenics studied the mental characteristics of different ethnicities and races, only to discover that, for the most part and overwhelmingly, all human beings possess "good genes."
False
Florence Kelley was ecstatic when the United States Supreme Court repudiated Mueller v. Oregon in 1923.
False
In intervening in Caribbean countries in the early twentieth century, the United States generally sought to promote peace, democracy, and freedom.
False
In the Progressive Era, industry was on the rise and agriculture was in decline. Answer Selected Answer:
False
Ironically, the Farmers Alliance found greater support among industrial workers than among small farmers. Answer Selected Answer:
False
Jack Dempsey made the first solo flight across the Atlantic.
False
President Hoover and his secretary of the treasury, Andrew Mellon, took quick, decisive action to curtail the economic downturn that began in October 1929.
False
Question 27 2.44 out of 2.44 points Massachusetts became the first state east of the Mississippi to allow women the right to vote in presidential elections. Answer Selected Answer:
False
The Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I was a savvy and fair, if short, document that equitably distributed culpability for the war among all warring factions.
False
When U.S. troops landed at Vera Cruz, Mexico in an effort to stop weapons from being delivered to Victoriano Huerta's forces, the Marines were greeted as liberators by the Mexican people.
False
Women reformers devoted little attention to labor conditions, regarding that as a "man's issue." Answer Selected Answer:
False
Which was not the case with regard to American labor and workers in 1934?
Farmers from California to Maine led a general strike for shorter hours, better pay, and improved working conditions.
What 1893 United States Supreme Court decision authorized the federal government to expel Chinese aliens without due process of law? Answer Selected Answer:
Fong Yue Ting
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
German annexation of Austria; Hitler-Stalin non-aggression pact; Battle of Stalingrad; "Big Three" conference at Yalta
During World War II, the Axis powers were
Germany, Italy, and Japan.
On December 7, 1941, Japanese planes attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor. Where is Pearl Harbor?
Hawaii
Where is Pearl Harbor Located?
Hawaii
Which of the following can be associated with the death of the Knights of Labor?
Haymarket Square
Which of the following was not a major theme raised by critics of Reagan's presidency?
He appears more interested in safeguarding the environment than in safeguarding the nation from communism
Which was not true of Bill Clinton?
He had served in Vietnam.
Which was not a goal or action of Adolf Hitler's?
He seized control of the Philippines and Malaysia.
Which of the following was not a major reason for the decline and subjugation of the American Indian?
Indifference to the advantages of guns and horses weakened Indian resistance to U.S. military power.
Question 13 4.55 out of 4.55 points What was the name of the organization that advocated a workers' revolution to seize control of the means of production and abolish the state, and which organized women, blacks, as Asian-Americans, as well as white men? Answer Selected Answer:
Industrial Workers of the World
The three nations alleged by President Bush to constitute an "axis of evil" were
Iran, Iraq, and North Korea.
In the late nineteenth century, the Republican Party found particularly strong support among all of the following except
Irish-Americans.
What made the New Left new?
It called for a democracy of citizen participation.
Which was not a decision of the United States Supreme Court in 1934-1936 concerning New Deal legislation?
It declared the Civilian Conservation Corps constitutional, insofar as it abided the interstate commerce clause in the United States Constitution.
Which of the following was not a central principle of the American Federation of Labor? Answer Selected Answer:
It is vital that unions include workers of all backgrounds, regardless of race, ethnicity, sex, or skill.
In the context of postwar Civil Rights, what major-league baseball player joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 and by so doing challenged the longstanding exclusion of black players from major-league baseball?
Jackie Robinson
Between 1879 and 1880, an estimated 40,000-60,000 African Americans migrated to: Answer Selected Answer:
Kansas.
Which of the following was not a feature of public debate over whether the United States should enter the war in Europe?
Labor generally opposed American entry; business generally endorsed it.
What province of northern China did Japan invade in 1931?
Manchuria
In the aftermath of Rosa Parks's arrest for refusing to give her bus seat to a white rider, a year-long bus boycott took place in what city?
Montgomery, Alabama
What was the 1979 organization created by Virginia minister Jerry Falwell, devoted to waging a "war against sin" and electing "pro-life, pro-family, pro-America," candidates?
Moral Majority
Who was the leader of Al Qaeda in 2001?
Osama bin Laden
A major initiative of the Carter administration was the
Panama Canal treaty.
Which is not true of the Korean War (1950-1953)?
President Truman acknowledged and accepted General MacArthur's push toward the Chinese border and his threat to use nuclear weapons against the Chinese.
The book in which Henry George proposed a "single tax" on real estate that would replace all other taxes is titled
Progress and Poverty.
What was the name of the railroad car company against which workers struck in 1894? Answer Selected Answer:
Pullman
The young California congressman who first gained national prominence through his membership on the House Un-American Activities Committee was
Richard Nixon.
In November 1917, in the midst of World War I, a communist revolution broke out in what country?
Russia
Who was the Progressive-Era mayor of Toledo who founded night schools, built new parks, established kindergartens, and supported the right of workers to unionize? Answer Selected Answer:
Samuel "Golden Rule" Jones
All of the following were Captains of Industry except
Samuel Gompers
Which does not describe Rosa Parks in the years prior to her December 1, 1955, arrest?
She was a housewife, with no previous experience as a political activist.
A key slogan of the Students for a Democratic Society was "participatory democracy."
T
A significant amount of Mexican-era landholdings were made available for sale because United States courts only recognized land titles to individual plots of land.
T
According to Eric Foner, during the late 1970s and early 1980s in the United States, unlike during the Great Depression, economic distress inspired a critique of government rather than of business.
T
Cultural dissent was more conspicuous than political dissent during the 1950s.
T
During the lead-up to the war in Iraq, relations between the United States and France became increasingly strained.
T
Government intervention was vital to the defeats of the 1892 Homestead strike and the 1894 Pullman strike.
T
In 1869, President Ulysses S. Grant announced a new "peace policy" in the West.
T
In 1882 and again in 1902, the United States Congress passed laws excluding immigrants from China
T
In 1894 a coalition of white Populists and black Republicans won control of North Carolina, bringing the state into a sort of "second Reconstruction."
T
In 1900, the average annual income of Americans was $3,000 in today's dollars.
T
In 1992, unemployment rose as family income stagnated.
T
In the post-World War II United States, Americans' daily lives were transformed by the widespread use of televisions, air conditioning, dishwashers, long-distance telephone calls, and jet travel.
T
Most Americans who looked to expand America's influence overseas were interested, not in territorial possessions, but in expanded trade.
T
Neoconservatives strongly supported America's efforts in the Cold War.
T
Southern Democrats persistently raised to the threat of "Negro domination" to justify denying blacks the right to vote.
T
Southern Populists forged notable alliances between black and white farmers. Answer Selected Answer:
T
Terrorism may be defined as the targeting of civilian populations by violent organizations who hope to spread fear for a political purpose.
T
The Vietnam War was a military, political, and social disaster, and the only war the United States has ever lost.
T
The largest one-day drop in stock prices in history occurred on April 14, 2000.
T
Which of the following was not a theme of Social Darwinism?
The growing gulf between the haves and the have-nots poses a dire threat to American freedom.
Which of the following was not a major thrust of the Four Freedoms promoted by FDR?
The only thing Americans have to fear is fear itself.
Who was the future American president who made a national name for himself by charging up San Juan Hill with the Rough Riders? Answer Selected Answer:
Theodore Roosevelt
Question 8 4.55 out of 4.55 points All of the following were muckrakers, except: Answer Selected Answer:
Theodore Roosevelt.
Two of the Gilded Age's leading business figures were
Thomas A. Scott and Andrew Carnegie.
A consumer culture in which the purchase of consumer goods (even if this meant going into debt) came increasingly to replace thrift and self-denial, which had earlier characterized notions of good character.
True
According to 1920s sociologists Robert and Helen Lynd, Americans had become more interested in leisure activities and material comforts than in public issues.
True
Al Smith, the Catholic governor of New York, ran as the Democratic Party's presidential nominee in 1928, but lost the election.
True
Between 1910 and 1920, half a million blacks moved away from the South; many migrated into northern cities like Chicago, New York, Akron, Buffalo, and Trenton.
True
Business leaders like Henry Ford, and engineers like Herbert Hoover were cultural heroes in the 1920s.
True
By 1929, 80 million Americans went to the movies each week, and almost 5 million owned radios.
True
Comparatively high wages and efficient mass production characterized the American economy of the 1920s.
True
Consumerism was a principal component of the American character in the 1920s.
True
During 1919, more than 250 people died in riots in northern cities.
True
Eugene Victor Debs, a Socialist Party leader, was imprisoned for delivering an antiwar speech.
True
Following the outbreak of World War I, the Allied and Central Powers each acted to block American trade with their adversaries.
True
Herbert Hoover preferred "associational action" to government intervention in directing regulatory and welfare policies.
True
In 1903, when Panama declared its independence from Colombia, the United States stationed a gunboat off the Panamanian coast, preventing the Colombian army from taking back the area.
True
In 1911, the United States immigration commission listed forty-five immigrant "races" in a dictionary published that year.
True
In 1917, 1921, and again in 1924, European immigration was increasingly curtailed by federal law.
True
In the three years after 1929, gross domestic production fell by one third in the United States.
True
More people were killed by the flu (epidemic of influenza) at the end of World War I, than died during all the years of fighting in that war.
True
Nearly a million African-Americans migrated from the American South during the 1920s.
True
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Louis D. Brandeis were proponents of civil liberties.
True
On October 24, 1929, Black Thursday, more than $10 billion in market value vanished in a sharp stock market downturn.
True
Over 100 million records were sold each year during the 1920s.
True
which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence
*Herbert Hoover victory over Al Smith *stock market crash *Hawley-Smoot tariff *creation of Reconstruction Finance Corp. Herbert stocked harleys creatively (first letter of each event)
Yalta conference ; Roosevelt dies ; Harry Truman becomes president ; V-E Day (May) Atomic bombs dropped on Japan V-J Day (September)
...
Question 9 4.55 out of 4.55 points Between 1901 and 1914, Answer Selected Answer:
13 million immigrants came to the United States.
Crédit Mobiler scandal
1872
Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner's Gilded Age
1873
Women's Christian Temperance Union Founded
1874
Battle of the Little Bighorn
1876
Kansa Exodus
1879-1880
The 1905 Niagara movement derived its name from the fact that a group of black leaders met at Niagara Falls, Canada (since no hotel on the American side would accommodate them).
True
The 1920s was a decade of social tensions between rural and urban Americans, as well as traditional and "modern" Christianity.
True
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) launched a long battle for the enforcement of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.
True
The politics of the 1920s was principally dominated by the Republican Party.
True
The rights an individual may assert even against Democratic majorities—including freedom of speech—are called "civil liberties."
True
W. E. B. Du Bois asserted the need for the "talented tenth" of the African-American community to step forward and take the lead in education and training to challenge inequality faced by black Americans.
True
The worst race riot in American history occurred in 1921 when more than 300 blacks were killed and over 10,000 were left homeless after white mobs burned an all-black section of which city to the ground?
Tulsa, Oklahoma
What country remained, in the early twenty-first century, the richest country in the world in all of human history?
United States
Who won the Cold War?
United States and its allies
In 2000, the largest employer in America was
Wal-Mart.
Which of the following was not a major theme of global alienation over Bush foreign policy?
When it comes to challenging brutal dictators, Bush is all talk and no action. FYI: (I literally laughed when I read this)
A leading opponent of American imperialism was
William Jennings Bryan.
The political "boss" of New York City in the early 1870s was
William Marcy Tweed.
Which of the following leaders demanded that the Atlantic Charter, which would apply to non-European colonies and nations?
Winston Churchill
The "subtreasury plan" was: Answer Selected Answer:
a plan to establish federal warehouses where farmers could store crops until they were sold.
Which of the following was not a significant domestic development during the opening decade of the twenty-first century?
a steady rise in the level of federal taxes paid by wealthy Americans
Which of the following was not a significant trend in 1950s America?
a surge of student radicalism on college campuses
4.55 out of 4.55 points The 1909 "uprising of the 20,000" was: Answer Selected Answer:
a walkout of garment workers, which led to a victory for the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union.
the open shop
a workplace free of unions (except in some cases "company Unions") and free of government regulation
While the status of Mexican-Americans improved markedly under the New Deal, that of American Indians grew substantially worse. Answer Selected Answer:
f
Which of the following best describes the "Ghost Dance?"
feared by U. S. Army officials
Which of the following was not a focus of debate between Democrats and Republicans during the Gilded Age?
federal income tax levels
According to Eric Foner, the federal government contributed to the dynamic and expansive growth of the American economy in the late nineteenth century by
granting land to railroads, removing Indians from desirable lands in the West, and enacting high tariffs.
Which of the following was not a key thrust of the Second New Deal?
guaranteed health care for every American citizen
who won the presidentail election of 1928
herbert hoover
Which of the following was not a common target of the anticommunist crusade?
laissez-faire conservatism
Which of the following was not a key cause of the economic prosperity of the Fifties?
large income tax reductions
Which was not a central factor in the explosive economic growth in the second Industrial Revolution?
low tariffs
president herbert hoover's 1932 reconstruction finance corporation did all the following, EXCEPT
offered direct relief to the unemployed
By 1913, the United States produced how much of the world's industrial output?
one-third
At a time of widespread hunger in the United States, the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) did all of the following, except
ordered a vast expansion in the production of cotton, wheat, barley, and corn across the Midwest in an effort to stave off hunger and starvation.
During the 1880s, the South as a regional whole: Answer Selected Answer:
sank deeper and deeper into poverty.
The Redeemers in the South: Answer Selected Answer:
slashed state budgets, cut taxes, and reduced spending on hospitals and public schools.
"Stagflation" refers to
stagnant economic growth and high inflation.
Chinese Exclusion Act
1882
the vibrant black culture in 1920s New York City that included poets and novelists Countee Cullen, Langston Huyghes, and Claude McKay was called
the Harlem Renaissance
Civil Rights Cases
1883
The first federal agency intended to regulate economic activity, and ensure that railroad rates were reasonable and favoritism avoided was
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
What was the first gay rights organization in the United States, founded in 1951 by Harry Hay?
the Mattachine Society
The Industrial Revolution in the United States took place principally in
the Northeast and the Midwest.
Civil Service Act ; Railroads create time zones ; William Graham Sumner's What Social Classes Owe to Each Other
1883
Elk v Wilkins
1884
Josiah Strong's Our Country
1885
The spirit of innovation contributed importantly to the dynamic and expansive growth of the American economy in the late nineteenth century. Which of the following was not an innovation of the 1870s and 1880s?
the airplane
AFL established
1886
Haymarket affair ; Wabash v Illinois
1886
Which of the following was not a significant development in American race relations during the first two decades of the twentieth century?
the ascent of racial equality to the top of the Progressive agenda
Interstate Commerce Commission created ; Dawes Act
1887
Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward
1888
Hull House Founded
1889
Which was not part of President Johnson's 1965-1967 "Great Society"?
the overturned Taft-Hartley Act of 1947
In 1890 the distribution of wealth in the United States was
the top 1 percent of Americans owned more property than the remaining 99 percent.
Iraq possesses
the world's second-largest reserves of oil.
Which of the following was not a policy adopted by the federal government during the Clinton years?
universal health care
National American Woman Suffrage Association organized
1890
Sherman Antitrust Act ; Jacob Rii's How the Other Half lives ; Massacre at Wounded Knee
1890
Populist Party organized
1891
Homestead strike
1892
Hawaii's Queen Liliuokalani overthrown ; Economic depression begins
1893
Coxey's Army marches to Washington ; Pullman strike ; Immigration Restriction League established
1894
Henry Demarest Lloyd's Wealth against Commonwealth
1894
Booker T. Washington's Atlanta speech
1895
United States v E. C. Knight Co.
1895
Plessy v Ferguson ; The National Association of Colored Women established
1896
Utah gains statehood
1896
William McKinley inaugurated president
1897
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Women and Economics
1898
Spanish-American War ; Anti-Imperialist League
1898
Thorstein Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class
1899
Philippine War
1899-1903
Gold Standard Act
1900
Socialist Party founded in United States ; President McKinley assassinated
1901
Insular Cases
1901-1904
President Theodore Roosevelt assists in coal strike
1902
United States secures the Panama Canal Zone
1903
Women's Trade Union Leagues founded ; Ford Motor Company established
1903
Northern Securities dissolved
1904
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
1904
Industrial Workers of the World established
1905
Lochner v New York
1905
The Niagara movement established
1905
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle ; Meat Inspection Act ; Pure Food and Drug Act ; Hepburn Act
1906
Gentleman's Agreement with Japan
1907
Muller v. Oregon
1908
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People organized
1909
Uprising of the 20,000
1909
Mexican Revolution begins (TACOS)
1910
Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire ; Society of American Indians founded
1911
Children's Bureau established ; Theodore Roosevelt organizes the Progressive Party (lawls, was flo there?)
1912
16th (Sixteenth) Amendment ; 17th (Seventeenth) Amendment ; Federal Reserve established
1913
Ludlow Massacre ; Federal Trade Commission established ; Clayton Act
1914
World War I
1914-1919
Lusitania sinks
1915
Reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan
1915
Madison Grant's The Passing of the Great Race ; Randolph Bourne's "Trans-National America"
1916
Zimmerman Telegram intercepted ; United States enters the war ; Espionage Act passed ; Russian Revolution
1917
Woodrow Wilson's "Fourteen Points" speech ; Eugene V. Debs convicted under the Espionage Act
1918
Worldwide flu epidemic (EBOLA?!)
1918-1920
18th (Eighteenth) Amendment Treaty of Versailles signed
1919
Schenck v. United States
1919
Red Scare
1919-1920
American Civil Liberties Union established
1920
Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles ; 19th (Nineteenth) Amendment
1920
Trial of Sacco and vanzetti
1921
Tulsa Riot
1921
Washington Naval Arms Conference ; Cable Act ; Herbert Hoover's American Individualism
1922
Adkins v Children's Hospital ; Meyer v Nebraska
1923
Immigration Act of 1924 ; Indian Citizenship Act of 1924
1924
Scopes trial
1925
Charles Lindbergh flies non-stop over the Atlantic ; Sacco and Vanzetti executed
1927
President Coolidge vetoes McNary-Haugen farm bill
1927-1928
Sheppard-Towner Act repealed ; Stock market crashes
1929
Hollywood adopts the Hays code ; Smoot-Hawley Tariff
1930
Japan invades Manchuria
1931
Scottsboro case
1931
Reconstruction Finance Corporation established ; Bonus march on Washington
1932
Franklin Roosevelt inaugurated president ; bank holiday ; The hundred Days and the First New Deal ; 21st (Twenty-First) Amendment rattified
1933
U. S. recognizes Soviet Union
1933
Huey Long launches the Share our Wealth movement ; American Liberty League established ; Herbert Hoover's The Challenge to Liberty
1934
Height of the Dust Bowl
1934-1940
Second New Deal launched ; Supreme Court rules the National Recovery Association unconstitutional ; John L. Lewis organizes the Congress of Industrial organizations
1935
Congress passes Neutrality Acts
1935-1939
Supreme Court rules the Agricultural Adjustment Act unconstitutional ; New Deal coalition lead to Democratic Landslide ; John Maynard Keynes's The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
1936
United auto Workers sit-down strike
1936-1937
Sino-Japanese War Begins
1937
House Un-American Activities Committee established ; Fair Labor Standards Act passed
1938
Munich agreement
1938
Germany invades Poland
1939
John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
1939
Draft established
1940
Four Freedoms speech ; Henry Luce's The American Century ; Lend-Lease Act Executive Order 8802 ; Atlantic charter ; Pearl Harbor Attacked
1941
Executive Order 9066 ; Battle of Midway Island ; Congress of Racial Equality ; CORE formed
1942
"Zoot" suit riots ; Detroit race riot ; Congress lifts Chinese Exclusion Act
1943
Smith v. Allwright (clearly he ain't Allwright) ; D-Day ; GI Bill of Rights ; Bretton Woods conference ; Korematsu v United States ; Battle of the Bulge
1944
Yalta Conference
1945
Mendez v Westminister
1946
Phillippine granted independence
1946
Levittown development starts
1947
Truman Doctrine ; Federal Employee Loyalty program ; Jackie Robinson integrates major league baseball ; Marshall Plan ; Taft-Hartley Act ; Freedom Trainexhibition ; House Un-American Activities Committee investigates Hollywood
1947
UN Adapts Universal Declaration of Human Rights ; Truman desegregates military
1948
Berlin Blockade and airlift
1948-1949
North Atlantic Treaty Organization established ; Soviet Union tests atomic bomb ; People's Republic of china established
1949
David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd
1950
McCarthy's Wheeling, WV, speech ; NSC-68 issued ; McCarran Internal Security Act
1950
Korean War
1950-1953
Dennis v United States
1951
United States detonates first hydrogen bomb
1952
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed for spying
1953
Soviet Union detonates hydrogen bomb ; CIA-led Iranian coup
1953
Army-McCarthy hearings
1954
Brown v Board of Education ; CIA-led Guatemalan coup ; Geneva Accords for Vietnam
1954
AFL and CIO merge ; Allen Ginsberg's Howl
1955
Warsaw Pact organized
1955
Montgomery bus boycott
1955-1956
"Southern Manifesto" ; Federal-Aid Highway Act ; Suez crisis
1956
Eisenhower Doctrine ; Southern Christian Leadership Conference organized ; Integration at Little Rock's Central High School ; Sputnik launched ; Jack Kerouac's On the Road
1957
National Defense Education Act
1958
Nixon-Khrushchev "kitchen debate"
1959
Greensboro, N.C., sit in
1960
John F. Kennedy elected President
1960
Young Americans for Freedom founded
1960
Bay of Pigs
1961
Berlin Wall constructed
1961
Freedom Rides
1961
During what years did the Berlin Wall, the most prominent symbol of the Cold War, divide East and West Berlin?
1961-1989
Cuban Missile Crisis
1962
Milton Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom
1962
Port Huron Statement
1962
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
1962
University of Mississippi desegregated
1962
Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique
1963
Kennedy assassinated
1963
King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
1963
March on Washington
1963
Civil Rights Act passed
1964
Freedom Summer
1964
Gulf of Tonkin resolution
1964
Hart-Celler Act
1965
Watts uprising
1965
Great Society
1965-1967
National Organization for Women organized
1966
American Indian movement founded
1968
Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated
1968
My Lai massacre
1968
Oil discovered in Alaska
1968
Richard Nixon elected
1968
Tet offensive
1968
Police raid on Stonewall Inn
1969
Woodstock festival
1969
Roe v. Wade
1970
U.S. invades Cambodia
1970
Pentagon Papers published
1971
U. S. goes off gold standard
1971
Congress approves Title IX
1972
Congress passes the ERA for ratification
1972
Nixon travels to the People's Republic of China
1972
SALT is signed
1972
CIA-aided Chilean coup
1973
Paris Peace Accords end U. S. involvement in Vietnam War
1973
War Powers Act
1973
Nixon resigns
1974
Collapse of South Vietnamese government
1975
Jimmy Carter elected
1976
Camp David Accords signed between Israel and Egypt
1978
Regents of the University of California v Bakke
1978
Sagebrush Rebellion
1979
Sixty-six Americans taken hostage in Iran
1979
Three Mile Island accident
1979
Ronald Reagan elected
1980
Air traffic controllers' strike
1981
Strategic Defense Initiative
1983
Iran-Contra affair
1985-1987
Bowers v Hardwick
1986
Communism falls in easter Europe
1989
U. S. -led Panamanian coup
1989
The collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe occurred during what years?
1989-1991
Americans with Disabilities Act
1990
Germany reunifies
1990
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
1991
Gulf War
1991
In what year did the Soviet Union cease to exist and, in its place, fifteen new independent nations arise?
1991
The longest uninterrupted period of economic expansion in the nation's history took place during what years?
1991-2000
Casey v Planned Parenthood of Pennsylvania
1992
Clinton elected president
1992
Lost Angeles riots
1992
Israel and Palestinian Liberation Organization sign the Oslo Accords
1993
North American Free Trade Agreement Approved
1993
World Trade Center bombed
1993
Republicans win Congress; Contract with America
1994
Rwandan genocide
1994
Oklahoma City federal building bombed
1995
Clinton eliminates Aid to Families with Dependent Children
1996
Defense of Marriage Act
1996
Kyoto Protocol
1997
U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania bombed
1998
Clinton impeachment proceedings. Kosovo War
1998-1999 (or if your teacher didn't correct from the textbook, 1998-1989)
Glass-Steagall Act repealed
1999
Protest in Seattle against the World Trade Organization
1999
Bush v Gore
2000
9/11 Attacks
2001
U. S. enters war in Afghanistan
2001
USA Patriot Act
2001
Bush identifies "axis of evil"
2002
Federal stimulus package
2009
Sonia Sotomayor named to Supreme Court
2009
Tea Party movement develops
2009
Affordable Care Act
2010
Gulf oil spill
2010
Arab Spring
2011
Occupy Wall Street movement (go Leonardo)
2011
Osama Bin Laden Killed
2011
U. S. troops withdrawn from Iraq
2011
Obama reelected
2012
Between 1870 in 1920, how many immigrants arrived from overseas?
25 million
In 1955, what percentage of non-agricultural workers were unionized?
35 percent
From 1880 to the mid-twentieth century, the number of people lynched reached nearly: Answer Selected Answer:
5,000.
By the year 2000, what percentage of all marriages ended in divorce?
50 percent
At the peak of the Vietnam war, the number of American troops in Vietnam was approximately
500,000.
in early 1929 the income of the wealthiest five percent of American families was greater than that of the bottom
60%
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique; founding of National Organization for Women; Sisterhood is Powerful; Roe v. Wade
Which of the following was not a feature of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, philosophy?
Black Americans must not try for full racial equality too quickly; before they achieve that, they must first prove their worthiness to all America.
Who was the African-American leader who delivered a speech in 1895 at the Atlanta Cotton Exposition urging black Americans to adjust to segregation and stop agitating for civil and political rights? Answer Selected Answer:
Booker T. Washington
Tom Wolfe dubbed the 1970s, a time in which "lifestyle" emerged in depoliticized form, the
"Me Decade."
In March 2003, with Great Britain as its sole significant ally, President Bush sent the U.S. military to attack Iraq, calling the war
"Operation Iraqi Freedom."
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
Al Qaeda bombing of U.S. embassies in Africa; Bush declaration of "war on terrorism"; Bush declaration of war on Afghanistan; Bush's "axis of evil" speech
who was the first cabinet member in American history to bew convicted of a felony--for accepting nearly $500,000 from businessmen to whom he leased government oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyoming
Albert Fall
What was the name of the naval officer and his 1890 book that argued that no nation could prosper without a large fleet of ships engaged in international trade, protected by a powerful navy operating overseas bases? Answer Selected Answer:
Alfred T. Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History
Who was the leader of the National Woman's Party, an organization that employed militant tactics in favor of woman suffrage?
Alice Paul
A leading voice of the Beats was
Allen Ginsberg.
Which of the following was not a key episode of the "great upheaval" of 1886?
America's first nationwide railroad strike
the open shop was part of the employer-backewd
American Plan
Which of the following was not an effect of wartime mobilization on American society?
Americans of German descent were herded into internment camps, on the basis that their loyalties could not be trusted
In 1994, the Republican Party won control of both houses of Congress for the first time since the 1950s; they proclaimed their triumph the "Freedom Revolution," and Newt Gingrich, a conservative congressman from Georgia, masterminded their platform, which was called
"Contract with America."
A leading characterization of U.S. foreign policy in the early twentieth century was
"Dollar Diplomacy"
A major slogan of popular protest during the 1930s was
"Don't buy where you can't work."
A leading slogan of cultural conservatism in the 1990s was
"Family values."
In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson sent more than 10,000 troops into Mexico in an effort (that proved unsuccessful) to arrest
"Pancho" Villa, who had killed seventeen Americans in an attack on Columbus, New Mexico.
What was the name for the plan by which, beginning in 1969, President Nixon gradually drew down the number of American troops in Vietnam, saying they would be replaced by South Vietnamese soldiers?
"Vietnamization"
In his run for the presidency of the United States, George W. Bush referred to himself as a
"compassionate conservative."
The phrase that best captures the vision of the Knights of Labor is
"cooperative commonwealth."
During World War I, popular words of German origin were changed; "hamburger" became
"liberty sandwich."
In September 2002, the Bush administration released a document called the National Security Strategy, which announced a new foreign-policy principle called
"preemptive" war.
The self-confident woman, portrayed as fully capable of doing a man's job in posters and on magazine covers during World War II, was called
"Rosie the Riveter."
How many soldiers perished during World War I worldwide?
10 million
Alaska Purchased
1867
Reconstruction ends ; Munn v. Illinois ; Great Railroad Strike
1877
Henry George's Progress and Poverty
1879
Which census revealed for the first time that there were more non-farming jobs than farming jobs in the United States?
1880
Voting Rights Act
1965
Department of Homeland Security established
2002
Iraq War begins
2003
Lawrence v Texas
2003
Supreme Court upholds affirmative action
2003
Hurricane Katrina hits the Gulf Coast
2005
Sadam Hussein executed
2006
Great Recession begins
2007
Barack Obama elected
2008
Federal bailout of banks and companies
2008
Which of the following was not true of the second industrial revolution?
A boom in automobile manufacture spurred the rise of oil, rubber, and steel production.
In October 2001, the United States launched a war named "Enduring Freedom" against the Taliban in
Afghanistan
Which was not one of the three countries identified by president of the United States George W. Bush as an "axis of evil"?
Afghanistan
Who won the popular vote in the presidential election of 2000?
Al Gore
What is the name of the terrorist organization responsible for the attacks of September 11, 2001, that killed nearly 3,000 Americans?
Al Qaeda
Who was not a member of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "brains trust" at the outset of his presidency?
Andrew Mellon
In addressing the sense of crisis in the nation, Franklin Delano Roosevelt sought to reassure the public in his inaugural address, declaring
"the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
A leading motto of the Women's Liberation movement was
"the personal is political."
What was the April 1961 CIA-led invasion of Cuba to topple Fidel Castro that proved to be a total failure when, of the invading force of 1,400, 1,100 were captured and more than 100 killed?
Bay of Pigs
The name for the small group of poets and writers who railed against mainstream culture, and that included Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg was
Beats.
The founder of Italian fascism who sent troops to invade and conquer Ethiopia was
Benito Mussolini
What was the landmark United States Supreme Court case decided on May 17, 1954, in which the Warren Court unanimously asserted that segregation in public education violated the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment?
Brown v. Board of Education
who said, "tyhe chief business of the American people is business"?
Calvin Coolidge
Who was the leader of the United Farm Workers (UFW)—as much a movement for civil rights as a campaign for economic betterment—who, beginning in 1965, led nonviolent protests, including fasts, marches, and a national boycott of California grapes?
Cesar Chavez
What Indian chief said, "If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them all and even chance to live and grow"?
Chief Joseph
the immigrants facing the harshest reception in late nineteenth-century America were those arriving from Answer Selected Answer:
China.
Which of the following was not a significant difference between the conservative and liberal visions for postwar America?
Conservatives regarded capitalism as essential to America's future; liberals regarded socialism as essential to America's future.
June 6, 1944, the day on which nearly 200,000 American, British, and Canadian soldiers landed in northwestern France, in Normandy, is known as
D-Day.
The United Nations committee that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was led by
Eleanor Roosevelt.
The organizer of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in April 1960 was
Ella Baker.
"Dixiecrats" nominated Hubert Humphrey for President in 1948.
F
Both foreign-policy "realists" and conservative Cold Warriors applauded President Jimmy Carter's emphasis on human rights.
F
Conservatives in the Republican Party found Richard Nixon much to their liking.
F
During the economic upturn of the 1990s, the inequitable distribution of wealth in the United States dropped sharply, as the index of inequality registered a democratic leveling out of American incomes.
F
In the 1880s and 1890s, blacks no longer served in the United States Congress.
F
Like a strong majority of women across the United States, Phyllis Schlafly was an adamant supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment, which was designed to remove the legal ability to discriminate "on account of sex."
F
New York became the most prominent symbol of the postwar suburban boom; one fifth of the population growth of the 1950s occurred there
F
Obama was not the first black candidate to win the nomination of a major party.
F
Only after Spain threatened to invade America did the United States elect to go to war.
F
Orval Faubus was among the attorneys on the team hired by the NAACP to pursue the watershed case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas.
F
The Free Speech movement was initiated at the University of Minnesota in 1964.
F
The term "iron curtain" was coined by President Harry Truman.
F
Turn-of-the-century segregation laws were passed in clear defiance of Supreme Court rulings.
F
Under the Truman Doctrine, only those governments that respected the democratic rights of citizens and the sovereignty of other peoples could expect friendship and support from the United States.
F
Upon entering office, President Nixon surprised many people by retaining numerous aspects of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society program.
F
After America entered the conflict, antiwar opposition disappeared.
False
American women overwhelmingly supported the Equal Rights Amendment; American men overwhelmingly opposed it.
False
As real workers' wages rose by 25 percent in the period between 1922 to 1929, the sharply unequal distribution of wealth that characterized the nineteenth-century United States gave way increasingly to an equal distribution of wealth.
False
Which of the following was not a contributing factor behind the rise of the Cold War?
Churchill's call for the construction of a great wall between East and West Germany
an attornery renovwned for his congtributions in the causes of labor, facial equality, and civil libeties was
Clarence Darrow
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
Clinton electoral victory over George Bush; defeat of Clinton health plan; passage of welfare reform; release of Starr report
Who was the African-American chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who, in the early 1990s, argued that the United States should not commit its troops abroad without clear objectives and a timetable for withdrawal?
Colin Powell
The federal organization established to explain the war to the American people, and which trained some 75,000 Four-Minute Men to deliver short talks in support of America's war effort was called
Committee on Public Information.
Which of the following was not a common theme of the antiwar movement
Communism is preferable to democracy, so why fight it?
The organization that launched the Freedom Rides, by which integrated groups traveled by bus into the deep South to test compliance with court orders banning segregation on interstate buses and trains was called the
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).
In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, a new department in the federal government was created to coordinate efforts to improve security at home, called the
Department of Homeland Security
"Black Power" was a highly precise idea that asserted that only through revolutionary struggle for self-determination could black Americans achieve their rightful ends.
F
According to Social Darwinism, government should seek to help the poor, and build an activist state to regulate the nation's corporations.
F
Alger Hiss, an editor at Time magazine, accused Whittaker Chambers, a high-ranking State Department official, of giving him secret government documents to pass along to the Soviet Union.
F
Although Americans in the 1950s grew more intensely religious, fewer than ever were affiliated with religious institutions.
F
Although many nations around the world strongly opposed the prospect of an American invasion of Iraq, most came to acknowledge the wisdom of the war following the fall of Hussein.
F
Although the Republicans held onto the White House in the election of 1988, "liberalism" regained its stature that year as the nation's dominant ideology.
F
Although the United States was instrumental in the rebuilding of German industry, it did not significantly contribute to similar efforts in Japan.
F
American presidents during the Gilded Age exerted strong, effective, executive leadership.
F
An immense influx of cheap goods from Europe slowed down the loss of manufacturing jobs in the United States and enabled Americans to keep buying.
F
As president, Bill Clinton opposed his predecessor's passion for free trade, believing instead that regulatory tariffs would ensure higher standards of living for American workers.
F
As president, Eisenhower sought to roll back the New Deal, abolish social security and unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs.
F
As the subordination of blacks grew more rigid, American attitudes toward immigrants grew more tolerant.
F
At the Battle of Little Big Horn, General George Armstrong Custer 's troops were victorious.
F
Beginning about 1880, "new immigrants" were welcomed with open arms by the American people.
F
By the end of President Reagan's two terms in office, American conservatism was a spent force—its agenda, after all, had been completely fulfilled.
F
By the end of the 1970s, the civil rights and sexual revolutions led to a nation overwhelmingly in favor of the Democratic Party's political agenda.
F
Comprised of the United States, Canada, and ten western European nations, the Warsaw Pact was launched as a collective deterrent against Soviet aggression.
F
Discredited by the Watergate scandal, the Republican Party did not recover its momentum for another ten years.
F
During the 1950s, the farm population rose from 15 million to 23 million, while agricultural production declined by 25 percent.
F
During the 1990s, religion in the United States lost much of its appeal, as a secular culture based on consumption and mass entertainment dominated American society.
F
During the two decades following the Civil War which were known as the golden age of the cattle kingdom, cowboys were highly paid.
F
Dwight Eisenhower entered the presidency determined to dismantle the New Deal.
F
Following September 11, President Bush called on the world community to support and invigorate the International Criminal Court.
F
Following the Republican electoral sweep of 1994, President Clinton vowed to defend the heritage of New Deal liberalism.
F
George Kennan was a Soviet spy working in the American embassy in Moscow.
F
Human rights and the notion of freedom were not a major focus of American leaders during the Cold War.
F
Ida Tarbell authored the famous novel House of Mirth , which depicted the downfall of a young woman trying to "marry up" in society.
F
In 1994, tribal massacres rocked Rwanda, in central Africa. Over 800,000 people were slaughtered and the United States sent in a massive military force in an effort to staunch the flow of blood.
F
In Dennis v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that the imprisonment of communist leaders violated the right of free expression.
F
In Griswold v. Connecticut, the Supreme Court struck down all laws discriminating against homosexuals as a violation of the right to privacy
F
In a show of democratic solidarity on the part of the American people, the Farmers' Alliance, especially in the southern states, welcomed black farmers into the Alliance.
F
In the 1990s, the vast majority of Latinos in America were poor, and the vast majority of Asian-Americans were affluent.
F
In the 2000 election, George W. Bush won the popular vote, but lost the electoral vote to Al Gore
F
In the late nineteenth century urban workers rallied in support of Populist farmers.
F
In the weeks following passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, a joyful calm, mixed with a great celebratory jubilee that included parades, barbecues, and church prayer meetings characterized the principal response of inner city African Americans to the new law.
F
In the year after September 11, evidence emerged of links between Al Qaeda and the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein.
F
It is a myth that United States soldiers killed 350 South Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre of 1968.
F
It is a myth that children in the 1950s and 1960s were trained to hide under their desks in the event of an atomic attack.
F
Jackson Pollock's paintings were viewed as communistic by the CIA and defunded.
F
Johnson's Great Society failed to reduce poverty in America to any significant degree.
F
Libertarians desire strong, activist national government.
F
President Eisenhower hailed the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education as a positive move toward a more equal and just America; when a federal court ordered that Autherine Lucy be admitted to the University of Alabama in 1956, Eisenhower authorized the use of federal troops in her support.
F
President George W. Bush strongly supported the Kyoto Protocol of 1997, which sought to combat global warming.
F
President Harry Truman was defeated by Thomas Dewey in the election of 1948.
F
President Jimmy Carter's emphasis on human rights and his continuation of the policies of détente meant that, by the end of his presidency, relations with the Soviet Union were vastly improved and the Salt II Treaty had been implemented.
F
President Kennedy entered office determined to rid American foreign policy of its Cold War assumptions.
F
President Lyndon Johnson grew up in one of the wealthiest sections of United States—the central Texas Hill country.
F
Presidents Harding and Coolidge were very similar in personality, but very different in political outlook.
F
Prior to her arrest that led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Rosa Parks had never been involved in National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) activism.
F
Richard Nixon won the 1968 presidential election by the largest landslide in American history.
F
Sarah Palin was the first woman vice presidential candidate on a U.S. major political party ticket.
F
Senator Gerald P. Nye's 1934-1935 hearings demonstrated that bankers had suffered terrible economic setbacks during World War I.
F
The "double-V" campaign stood for a double victory, one in the European Theatre and one in the Pacific Theatre.
F
The 1946 congressional elections marked a resounding triumph for Truman's Fair Deal program.
F
The Civil Rights Bill and program of domestic liberalism launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson were far less ambitious than President Kennedy's initiatives on these matters.
F
The Democrats were the party of big government; the Republicans were the party of laissez-faire.
F
The Enron Corporation became famous in the 1990s for its leading part in the computer revolution, especially in software.
F
The Kyoto Protocol sought to combat world banking failure.
F
The Senate's Church Committee concluded that many of America's problems would be solved if people would attend church more frequently.
F
The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, which banned combinations and practices that restrain free trade, proved an immediate success, both for its clarity of language and ease of enforcement.
F
The Social Gospel movement concentrated on attacking individual sins such as drinking and Sabbath-breaking and saw nothing immoral about the pursuit of riches.
F
The Twenty-Fourth Amendment to the Constitution is the 1965 law that allowed federal officials to register voters.
F
The United Nations endorsed the U.S. invasion of Panama but denounced Operation Desert Storm.
F
The War on Poverty guaranteed an annual income to all Americans, created jobs for the unemployed, promoted unionization, and made it more difficult for businesses to shift production overseas.
F
The West was a remarkably homogeneous region —only in the twentieth century would it become ethnically diverse.
F
The economic recession of the 1970s undercut the living standards and collective power of American labor.
F
The federal deficit steadily diminished during Bush's first term.
F
The new Indian tribes that migrated to the Great Plains were greeted with open arms and friendly words by the Indians already living there.
F
The number of workers employed in the manufacturing sector of the United States economy rose sharply during the 1970s.
F
The suburban explosion of the 1950s did much to diminish racial divisions in America.
F
With the mechanization of manufacture, skilled workers virtually disappeared from industrial America.
F
Yale professor William Graham Sumner believed that America could achieve its ideals only with fair, progressive, taxation.
F
Which of the following was not a feature of American involvement in World War II?
FDR agreed to a wartime alliance with the Soviet Union only after Stalin promised to rid his country of communism after the war.
Major strides toward the advancement of equality for American blacks was one significant consequence of the war's aftermath due to the heroism, courage, determination, and patriotism demonstrated by black soldiers during World War I.
False
Most Progressives opposed America's entry into World War I as jingoistic, imperialist venturing.
False
No one was ever convicted under the 1917 Espionage Act or the 1918 Sedition Act.
False
President Roosevelt declined to assert U.S. authority over the Canal Zone until the citizens of Panama had a chance to vote on the matter.
False
President Wilson won reelection in 1916 on the slogan, "We Must Fight to Make the World Safe for Democracy."
False
Presidents Harding and Coolidge were very similar in personality, but very different in political outlook.
False
Question 10 2.44 out of 2.44 points The 1911, Triangle Fire was a fire in a triangular region of Massachusetts between the towns of Worcester, Boston, and Salem. Answer Selected Answer:
False
Question 19 2.44 out of 2.44 points The politics of Progressivism was almost solely a North American phenomenon. Answer Selected Answer:
False
Question 2 2.44 out of 2.44 points Immigrants from southern and eastern Europe showed little interest in emerging forms of popular entertainment such as amusement parks, dance halls, and nickelodeons. Answer Selected Answer:
False
Question 37 2.44 out of 2.44 points Gifford Pinchot held that logging, mining, and grazing on public lands should be eliminated. Answer Selected Answer:
False
Question 4 2.44 out of 2.44 points As president, Theodore Roosevelt was determined to break up every business trust he could find. Answer Selected Answer:
False
Question 6 2.44 out of 2.44 points Theodore Roosevelt's "New Nationalism" called for vigorous federal intervention in the economy, while Woodrow Wilson's "New Freedom" called on government to stay out of business affairs. Answer Selected Answer:
False
Question 9 2.44 out of 2.44 points In the early twentieth century, New York City was a center of finance, publishing, and entertainment, but there was almost no manufacturing going on in the city. Answer Selected Answer:
False
Quick action by President Hoover's administration kept millions of American families from losing their life savings, when, in the early 1930s, hundreds of banks across the United States failed.
False
Remarkably, the stock market crash and subsequent depression did little to diminish popular reverence for big business.
False
Settlement house workers, social scientists, and progressives in general, placed demands for black suffrage at the forefront of their efforts.
False
The 1920s—prior to October 1929—saw a sharp decline in the American economy.
False
The Progressive Era economic system based on mass production and mass consumption came to be called: Answer Selected Answer:
Fordism.
Who of the following were known as the "Big Three?"
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin
The 1964 voter registration drive in Mississippi in which hundreds of white college students from the North participated was known as
Freedom Summer.
Which was not one of the Four Freedoms, President Roosevelt's shorthand for American purposes in World War II?
Freedom of Liberty
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
Geneva summit between Eisenhower and Khrushchev; Soviet invasion of Hungary; Khrushchev visit to United States; U-2 incident
Who was the person who sent the Long Telegram from Moscow in 1946 that lay the foundation for what became known as the policy of "containment"?
George F. Kennan
Which United States president first spoke of the coming of a "new world order"?
George H. W. Bush
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
George Kennan's Long Telegram; unveiling of Truman Doctrine; start of Korean War; founding of Warsaw Pact
Which of the following U.S. presidents signed a $700 billion bank bailout, citing that these financial institutions were "too big to fail?"
George W. Bush
Question 18 4.55 out of 4.55 points In Progressive-Era America, what particular locale became known as a center of sexual experimentation, attracting women interested in free sexual expression and, with its aura of tolerance, attracted many homosexuals? Answer Selected Answer:
Greenwich Village in New York City
The 1892 presidential election was won by: Answer Selected Answer:
Grover Cleveland, the Democrat.
What was the name for the 1965 immigration law that abandoned the national origins quota system, and established racially neutral criteria for immigration?
Hart-Cellar Act
Which is not true of Franklin D. Roosevelt?
He served as governor of Massachusetts in the 1920s.
Which was not one of President Nixon's apparent motivations in the context of his administration's Philadelphia Plan, and its promotion of "affirmative action"?
He sought to garner the support of white working class voters for the Republican Party in initiating the Philadelphia Plan.
What was the name of the organization that sponsored the 1914 debate at New York City's Cooper Union on the question "What is feminism?", and whose definition of feminism emphasized greater economic opportunities, the vote, and open discussions of sexuality? Answer Selected Answer:
Heterodoxy
The leader of the band of several hundred unemployed men who marched on Washington in May 1894 to demand economic relief was: Answer Selected Answer:
Jacob Coxey.
Which was not an event in the civil rights movement of 1963?
James Meredith, a black student, entered the University of Mississippi.
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs who launched an "Indian New Deal" that ended a policy of forced assimilation and allowed Indians unprecedented cultural autonomy, and who secured the passage of the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, was
John Collier.
Who authored The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money and asserted that large-scale government deficit-spending was appropriate during economic downturns?
John Maynard Keynes
Who was the oldest man ever to run for U.S. president?
John McCain
Who was the United States senator from Wisconsin who announced in February 1950 that he had a list of 205 communists working for the State Department, and whose name later entered the political vocabulary as a shorthand for character assassination, guilt by association, and abuse of power in the name of anti-communism?
Joseph R. McCarthy
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence? Answer Selected Answer:
Kansas Exodus; Civil Rights Cases; Booker T. Washington's Atlanta address; Plessy v. Ferguson
The first hot war of the Cold War—beginning in June 1950—took place in
Korea.
In February 1991, the United States launched Operation Desert Storm as part of the Gulf War and quickly drove the Iraqi army from what country?
Kuwait
What was the 2003 Supreme Court decision declaring unconstitutional a Texas law making homosexual acts a crime?
Lawrence v. Texas
the west's leading industrial center a producer of oil, automobiles, aircraft, and hollywood movies was
Los Angeles, California
The 1967 United States Supreme Court decision that declared unconstitutional the laws in sixteen states that prohibited interracial marriage was
Loving v. Virginia.
What was the name of the British liner sunk by a German submarine in May 1915, which resulted in the deaths of more than a thousand passengers, including 124 Americans?
Lusitania
Who was the leading African American known for his fiery oratory, insistence that blacks control the political and economic resources of their communities, and who was assassinated by members of the Nation of Islam after he formed his own Organization of Afro-American Unity?
Malcolm X
Who was the leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, a movement for African independence and black self-reliance?
Marcus Garvey
Question 19 4.55 out of 4.55 points Who was the woman best known during the second decade of the twentieth century for promoting birth control? Answer Selected Answer:
Margaret Sanger
Which was not one of the "voices of protest" heard in the United States during the mid-1930s?
Mary Lease's "raise less corn, and more hell" movement
Franklin Roosevelt appointed who, a prominent educator, as special adviser on minority affairs?
Mary McLeod Bethune
Which of the following was not a central theme of the Reagan revolution?
Military spending has grown far too lavish and must be reduced.
The United States Supreme Court ruling that an individual in police custody must be informed of the right to remain silent was
Miranda v. Arizona.
What did President Eisenhower call his domestic agenda, which embraced a "mixed economy," in which the government played a major role in planning economic activity, and by which Eisenhower consolidated and legitimized the New Deal?
Modern Republicanism
Progressive-era writers and photographers seeking to expose the underside of urban-industrial society were known as: Answer Selected Answer:
Muckrakers.
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
Munn v. Illinois; Wabash v. Illinois; Interstate Commerce Act; Lochner v. New York
The 1950 National Security Council manifesto that called for a permanent military build-up to enable the United States to pursue a global crusade against communism, describing the Cold War as an epic struggle between "the idea of freedom" and the "idea of slavery under the grim oligarchy of the Kremlin" was
NSC-68.
The first woman Speaker of the United States House of Representatives was
Nancy Pelosi.
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
National Industrial Recovery Act; labor upheaval of 1934; Wagner Act; Flint sit-down strike
Question 15 4.55 out of 4.55 points In 1907, at a time when segregation had become much the norm throughout the South, in which city did a strike of 10,000 black and white dockworkers take place, as a remarkable expression of interracial solidarity? Answer Selected Answer:
New Orleans, Louisiana
who were the two immigrants whose case became a cause celebre, who were arrested for their participation in a robbery in which a security guard was killed
Nicola Sacco and Bartholomeo Vanzetti
Which of the following was not a new theme of American foreign policy announced by the Bush administration after September 11?
Now more than ever, America must honor the constraints of multilateral cooperation and international law.
What was the name of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) campaign to bring unionization to the South, by which more than 200 labor organizations entered the region in an effort to organize workers?
Operation Dixie
The Christian Coalition was founded by evangelical minister
Pat Robertson.
Two outspoken critics of the domestic anticommunist crusade were
Paul Robeson and W. E. B. Du Bois.
What landmark United States Supreme Court decision gave approval to state laws requiring separate facilities for whites and blacks? Answer Selected Answer:
Plessy vs. Ferguson.
Who was the marine biologist whose book, Silent Spring, spelled out how the insecticide DDT kills birds and other animals and causes sickness among humans, and who launched the modern environmental movement?
Rachel Carson
The coalition of merchants, planters, and business entrepreneurs who dominated politics in the American South after 1877 called themselves: Answer Selected Answer:
Redeemers.
What was 1978 Supreme Court decision that rejected the idea of fixed affirmative action quotas, but allowed that institutions of higher learning could use race as one factor among many in admissions decisions?
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
The nation's urban working class voters shifted their support en masse to the Republican Party in 1894 in significant degree because: Answer Selected Answer:
Republicans claimed that raising tariff rates would restore prosperity by protecting manufacturers and industrial workers from the competition of cheap imported goods.
Who was the early twentieth- governor of Wisconsin, who believed that the state was a "laboratory for democracy," developed what came to be known as the Wisconsin Idea, taxed corporate wealth, and initiated state regulation of public utilities? Answer Selected Answer:
Robert M. LaFollette
What third-party candidate received 19 percent of the popular vote in the 1992 presidential election, the best result for a third-party candidate since Theodore Roosevelt in 1912?
Ross Perot
in what legal case did Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. declare that the 1st amendment did not prevent Congress from prohibiting speech thgat presented a clear and present danger
Shenck v. US
What was the West African proverb that President Theodore Roosevelt was fond of?
Speak softly and carry a big stick.
Which of the following was John D. Rockefeller's Company?
Standard Oil Company
The "Dixiecrat" presidential ticket of 1948 was led by
Strom Thurmond.
Which was the organization that crafted The Port Huron Statement, criticized corporations, unions, and the military-industrial complex, and proclaimed "a democracy of individual participation"?
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
"Neoconservatives" came to believe that well-intentioned government social programs did more harm than good. In many cases, welfare, for example, not only did not alleviate poverty, but it actually encouraged single motherhood and undermined the work ethic.
T
"New conservatives" such as Russell Kirk wanted government expelled from the economy but trusted government to regulate personal behavior to restore a Christian morality in a society they believed was growing weaker morally.
T
"Vertical integration" is defined as one company controlling every phase of the business from raw materials to transportation, manufacturing, and distribution.
T
According to defenders of the Vietnam War, American military withdrawal would encourage the spread of communism elsewhere around the world.
T
After recovering from the recession of 1990-1991, the United States economy continued to expand for the rest of the decade; the boom became the longest uninterrupted period of economic expansion in American history
T
After the Gulf War of 1991, Osama bin Laden declared war on America.
T
Although it was a nationwide phenomenon, 1950s suburbanization gathered its greatest momentum in the West.
T
Although the media came to derisively label radical feminists "bra burners," no bras were ever actually burned.
T
American officials used anti-communist sentiment to investigate political dissenters and to otherwise widen their powers.
T
An oversupply of cotton on the world market, which led to a sharp decline in prices, contributed to a farmers' revolt and gave rise to the Populist Movement.
T
As late as 1940, a third of American households did not have running water.
T
As part of the cultural Cold War, the CIA secretly funded an array of overseas publications, conferences, publishing houses, concerts, art exhibits, and jazz performances.
T
As part of the expansive and dynamic growth of the American economy, in the twenty years after 1950, about 7 million white Americans left cities for the suburbs, nearly 3 million blacks moved from South to North, and half a million Puerto Ricans moved to the mainland.
T
As president of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson never forgot the poor Mexican and white children he had taught in a Texas school in the early 1930s.
T
As president, Richard Nixon expanded the welfare state, while also calling for law and order.
T
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, more than 7 million American families lived in gated communities.
T
Automotive manufacturing giant Henry Ford opposed United States involvement in World War II.
T
Before becoming president, George W. Bush had been an executive in the oil industry
T
Between 1977 and 1999, the United States executed 598 people.
T
Between 2000 and 2002, the price of NASDAQ stocks fell by nearly 80 percent.
T
Bill Clinton was the first Democrat to win reelection to the presidency since Franklin D. Roosevelt.
T
Bush also proposed changes in environmental policies, including opening Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling for oil and allowing timber companies to operate in national forests, claiming that this would reduce forest fires.
T
By 1900, southern per capita income was only sixty percent of that of the national average.
T
By 1949, the world's largest country measured by land area (the Soviet Union), and the world's largest country by population (China) were both communist.
T
By 1960, almost 90 percent of American families owned television sets, average daily television viewing time was five hours, and television had proven itself the most effective advertising medium ever invented.
T
By 1968, the United States had more than a half million troops stationed in Vietnam.
T
By 1970, African Americans, while about 12 percent of the population, accounted for nearly 50 percent of all welfare recipients.
T
By 1979, there were thousands of local gay rights groups across the United States.
T
By 2000, 23 states had passed laws establishing English as their official language.
T
By 2000, more than 10 percent of the American population was foreign born.
T
By 2000, more than 3 million Muslims resided in the United States
T
By 2000, more than 400,000 Americans had died of HIV/AIDS.
T
By 2001, more than a third of African Americans lived in the suburbs.
T
By 2009, one poll showed that of various social groups, bankers ranked third from the bottom in public esteem.
T
By mid-2008, the yearly savings of the average family amounted to less than $400.
T
By the 1880s, the labor situation was such that Texas cowboys even went on strike for higher pay.
T
By the 1990s, public schools in the North were considerably more segregated than those in the South.
T
By the early 1890s, a pension system for Union soldiers, their widows and children, consumed more than 40 percent of the federal budget.
T
By the early twenty-first century, more than one in four black men could expect to serve time in prison at some time during their lives.
T
By the early twenty-first century, the United States was the world's only superpower.
T
By the end of 1960, some 70,000 demonstrators had taken part in sit-ins across the nation; the tactic had its 1960s origins in the initiative of four students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University who, on February 1, 1960, sat down at a lunch counter in the local Woolworth's department store and asked to be served.
T
By the mid-1960s, 25 million Americans owned shares of stock.
T
By the mid-1970s—in consequence of women's changing aspirations and the availability of birth control and legal abortions—the American birthrate declined dramatically.
T
During World War II, 15 million American men served in the military, and 350,000 women served in auxiliary military units.
T
During World War II, membership numbers for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) grew to approximately one-half million.
T
During World War II, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) was probably more racially integrated than any labor organization since the Knights of Labor in the 1880s.
T
During World War II, the NAACP and American Jewish Congress cooperated closely in advocating laws to ban discrimination in employment and housing.
T
During World War II, the federal government spent twice the amount of money it had spent in all of the previous 150 years of American history.
T
During the 1950s, gay men and lesbians increasingly created their own subcultures in major cities.
T
During the 1950s, material consumption came more and more to eclipse economic independence and democratic engagement as the hallmarks of American freedom.
T
During the 1950s, prominent psychologists insisted that women who were unhappy as housewives suffered from a failure to accept the "maternal instinct."
T
During the 1970s, the divorce rate soared; by 1975 it was twice what it had been a decade earlier.
T
During the 1990s presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton both asserted the view that America should embrace the mission of creating a single global free market as a path to greater worldwide freedom.
T
During the 1991 Gulf War, President George H. W. Bush's approval rating reached 89 percent, but the next year, he lost the presidential election.
T
During the second industrial revolution, wage labor became America's leading source of livelihood
T
Evidence of global warming first surfaced in the 1990s when scientists studying layers of ice in Greenland concluded that the earth's temperature had risen significantly during the past century.
T
Following September 11, Attorney General John Ashcroft asserted that critics of the Bush administration were assisting the terrorists.
T
Following a 1969 police raid on the Stonewall Bar, a gathering place for homosexuals in New York City's Greenwich Village, five days of rioting occurred and a militant gay rights movement was born.
T
Following the Civil War, generals like Philip H. Sheridan set out to destroy the foundations of the Indian economy.
T
For all of America's successes, by 1960 more than one in five Americans lived in poverty.
T
George Kennan's Long Telegram provided an early formulation of the policy of "containment."
T
Global warming is caused when gases released by burning fossil fuels such as coal and oil remain in the upper atmosphere, trapping heat reflected from the earth.
T
Government policies and expenditures played a crucial role in the postwar economic boom.
T
In 1894, in one of the most decisive shifts in congressional power in American history, the nation's urban working class shifted en masse to the Republican Party, and Republicans gained 117 seats in the House of Representatives.
T
In 1915, the United States Supreme Court invalidated the "grandfather clause" for violating the Fifteenth Amendment.
T
In 1947, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) launched hearings into communist influence in Hollywood, and, in consequence, actors, directors, and screenwriters were blacklisted or jailed.
T
In 1956, for the first time in American history, white-collar workers outnumbered blue-collar factory and manual laborers.
T
In 1960, only 20 percent of women with young children had been in the workforce; the figure reached 55 percent in 1990.
T
In 1960, women earned, on average, 60 percent of the income of men.
T
In 1972 Congress approved Title IX, which banned gender discrimination in higher education.
T
In 1978, California voters approved Proposition 13, which banned further increases in property taxes and reduced funds for schools, libraries, and other public services.
T
In 1994, Californians approved Proposition 187, which denied illegal immigrants and their children access to welfare, education, and health services.
T
In 1996, President Clinton signed a Republican bill into law, abolishing the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program and replacing it with a system of grants of money to states, with strict limits on how long recipients could receive payments.
T
In 2000, more than half of the labor force in the United States worked for less than $14 an hour.
T
In 2001, President George W. Bush persuaded Congress to enact the largest tax cut in American history.
T
In 2003, the United States accounted for just under one-third of global economic output, and more than one-third of global military spending.
T
In Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, the U.S. Supreme Court considered the lawsuit of Yasir Hamdi, an American citizen who had moved to Saudi Arabia and been captured in Afghanistan. Hamdi was imprisoned in a military jail in South Carolina without charge or the right to see a lawyer; and the Supreme Court ruled that he had a right to a judicial hearing regardless of the nation being in "a state of war."
T
In July 1948, President Harry S. Truman issued an executive order desegregating the armed forces.
T
In June 1964, three young voting rights activists were murdered in Mississippi—James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner
T
In March 2010, Congress passed a sweeping health-care bill that required all Americans to purchase health insurance and most businesses to provide it to their employees.
T
In November 2001, the Bush administration issued an executive order authorizing the holding of secret military tribunals for non-citizens deemed to have assisted terrorism.
T
In Rasul v. Bush, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed a British citizen held at Guantànamo Bay, Cuba, to challenge his incarceration in federal court.
T
In a single week in June 1963, more than 15,000 people were arrested in 186 cities across the United States in civil rights demonstrations
T
In his August 1963 speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial delivered to 250,000 black and white Americans, Martin Luther King, Jr., declared: "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. '"
T
In his January 1996 State of the Union address, President Bill Clinton announced that "the era of big government is over," and, in effect, turned his back on the tradition of Democratic Party liberalism and embraced the antigovernment outlook associated with Republicans since the days of Barry Goldwater.
T
In many ways, the economy and culture of the 1950s was dominated by the automobile.
T
In the "counterculture" of the 1960s there was, for the first time in American history, a rejection of respectable norms of clothing, language, and sexual behavior.
T
In the 1950s the number of houses in the United States doubled; most were built in the suburbs.
T
In the 1950s, the National Security Council advised President Eisenhower to use nuclear weapons in Vietnam.
T
In the 1990s, blacks predominated among the growing ranks of incarcerated Americans.
T
In the aftermath of the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, the country experienced a renewed feeling of common social purpose.
T
In the atmosphere of the Cold War, the United States tended to define "human rights" in terms of political liberty, while the Soviet Union emphasized social and economic entitlements.
T
In the consumer culture of the 1950s, the measure of freedom became the ability to gratify market desires.
T
In the context of the Cold War, no matter how repressive a nation was, so long as it supported the United States it was counted as a member of the Free World.
T
In the decades following World War II, pluralism reigned supreme and the free exercise of religion was yet another way of differentiating the American way of life from that of life under communism.
T
In the early 1990s, in an effort to stop "ethnic cleansing," the United States and its NATO allies, after considerable indecision, launched airstrikes against Bosnian Serb forces.
T
In the early twenty-first century the United States far outpaced the rest of the world in every index of power—military, economic, and cultural.
T
In the early twenty-first century, as the American people confronted the threat of terrorism, the need to properly balance freedom and security remained a central issue.
T
In the initial stages of the 2003 Iraqi War, fewer than 200 American soldiers died; Iraqi civilian and military casualties were far higher but remained uncounted.
T
In the late 1800s, California tried to attract immigrants by advertising its pleasant climate and the availability of land, although large-scale corporate farms were coming to dominate the state's agriculture.
T
In the late nineteenth century, black women were largely excluded from jobs as secretaries, typists, and department store clerks.
T
In the spring of 1970 more than 350 colleges and universities experienced student strikes, and troops occupied 21 campuses in protest over the Vietnam War.
T
In the two decades following World War II, services—which had generally been enjoyed only by the rich or solidly middle class in the years before the war—including central heating, indoor plumbing, and electricity now became features of common life.
T
In western Europe and Canada, governments provide universal medical coverage for all citizens, but in the United States there was—in the 1900s and early 2000s—no universal medical coverage.
T
Inspired in part by President Garfield's assassination by a disappointed office seeker, the Civil Service Act of 1883 created a merit system for federal employees.
T
Like the American Federation of Labor, the National American Woman Suffrage Association was infused with the social elitism of the times.
T
Neither of the two main political parties embraced any serious federal program to cushion citizens from poverty or unemployment.
T
On 29 December 1890, soldiers killed between 150 and 200 Indians, most women and children, near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota.
T
One consequence of the bitter attacks on African-Americans' political rights across the South was that, by 1940, 97 percent of adult black Southerners were not registered to vote.
T
One strand of social analysis in the 1950s asserted that Americans were psychologically and culturally discontent, lonely and anxious, and yearning not so much for freedom as for stability and authority.
T
One strand of social analysis in the 1950s criticized the monotony of modern work, the emptiness of suburban life, and the pervasive influence of advertising.
T
Populists in western states endorsed woman suffrage.
T
President Bill Clinton was impeached but not convicted or removed from office.
T
President George W. Bush made "freedom" the rallying cry for a nation at war following the attacks of September 11, 2001.
T
President Johnson entered office determined to see a substantial civil rights bill passed by Congress.
T
President Kennedy's policy toward Latin America, the Alliance for Progress, failed because the money, as distributed, enriched military regimes and local elites.
T
President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society's War on Poverty required poor people to play a leading part in designing and implementing local policies.
T
President Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger continued President Lyndon Johnson's policy of attempting to undermine governments deemed dangerous to American strategic or economic interests.
T
President Nixon resigned the office of the presidency in 1974, in the wake of the Watergate scandal and cover-up.
T
President Richard Nixon, a Republican, accepted and even expanded many elements of Lyndon Baines Johnson's Great Society
T
Race relations in the United States were a major ideological concern, and even an embarrassment, for American leaders during the Cold War.
T
Republicans swept the congressional elections of 1946 to control both houses of Congress for the first time since the 1920s.
T
Resentment over local initiatives to desegregate public schools was an important part of the conservative groundswell of the 1970s.
T
Richard Nixon's rise in politics was fueled in part by his ability to make free-market conservatism appealing to ordinary people.
T
Segregation was more than a form of racial separation. It was one part of an all-encompassing system of white domination.
T
Sonia Sotomayor was the first Hispanic and third woman in history to serve on the United States Supreme Court.
T
The 1890s saw a widespread imposition not only of disfranchisement, but also of segregation in the South.
T
The 1970s was one of only two decades (the other was the 1930s) in the twentieth century that ended with American workers on average poorer than when it began.
T
The 2003 Iraqi War marked a new departure from American foreign policy; previously, the United States had been reluctant to use force outside the Western Hemisphere except as part of an international coalition.
T
The Brown decision encouraged an awakening of civil rights protest—and segregationist protest—in the South
T
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) quietly subsidized artists it considered useful in the "cultural Cold War."
T
The Civil Service Act of 1883 marked the first step in establishing a professional civil service and removing officeholding from the hands of political machines.
T
The Democratic Party platform of 1948 was the most progressive in the party's history.
T
The Electricity Building at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 astonished visitors and illustrated how electricity was changing the visual landscape.
T
The Greensboro lunch counter sit-in marked the first appearance of college students at the forefront of social protest in America
T
The Haymarket Affair resulted in the hanging of four convicted anarchists.
T
The Knights of Labor regarded inequalities of wealth and power as a growing threat to American democracy.
T
The Marshall plan sought to contain Soviet communism by promoting economic recovery and providing humanitarian aid.
T
The Reagan administration conducted a massive expansion of military spending during the 1980s.
T
The Republicans achieved significant gains during the congressional elections of 2002.
T
The United States and Iraq reached an agreement of complete removal of American troops by 2011 in the last months of George W. Bush's presidency.
T
The United States emerged from World War II as the world's greatest power; it had the world's most powerful navy and air force and accounted for half the world's manufacturing capacity.
T
The Vietnam War was the longest war in American history and the only war that the United States has lost.
T
The centerpiece of President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society was the endeavor to eradicate poverty.
T
The controversy over Roe v. Wade was a political hotbed that affected a range of issues from battles over nominees to judicial positions and led to demonstrations at family-planning and abortion clinics.
T
The election of 1896 is sometimes called the first modern presidential campaign, in part, because of the amount of money spent—William McKinley raised some $10 million, while William Jennings Bryant raised only around $300,000.
T
The extermination of the North American bison (buffalo) drastically undermined the livelihood of the Plains Indians.
T
The first confrontation of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union occurred in the Middle East in Iran.
T
The growth of public tolerance of homosexuality was among the most striking changes in American social attitudes in the last 20 years of the 20th century.
T
The impeachment of Clinton failed to win the support of most Americans.
T
The most famous Indian victory in American history took place in June 1876 when General George A. Custer and his 250 men perished.
T
The protesters assembled at the 1999 meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle represented a striking mix of industrial workers and environmentalists.
T
The stock market boom of the late 1990s was fueled in part by high-level corporate fraud.
T
The term "Lochnerism" derived from the 1905 Supreme Court decision Lochner v. New York , in which the Court voided the state's law establishing a 10-hour day maximum for bakers.
T
The term totalitarianism originated in Europe between the world wars to describe aggressive, ideologically driven states that sought to subdue all civil society, including churches, unions, and other voluntary associations.
T
The words "under God" were added to the Pledge of Allegiance in the 1950s in response to Soviet opposition to organized religion and to "strengthen our national resistance to communism."
T
Tom Watson, who had earlier been a leading figure in forging an interracial Populist coalition had, by the early twentieth century, emerged as a power in Georgia, whipping up prejudice against African-Americans, Catholics, and Jews.
T
Toward the end of World War II, evidence existed that Japanese officials would accept surrender if Emperor Hirohito could remain on his throne.
T
Unions became firmly established in many sectors of the economy during World War II.
T
Until the Great Migration of black Americans from the rural South to the urban North during World War I, the vast majority of African-Americans lived in the South.
T
Upon entering office, President Nixon surprised many people by calling a rapid halt to American military involvement in Vietnam.
T
Wage reductions were commonplace during economic downturns.
T
While libertarian conservatives spoke the language of progress and personal autonomy, the "new conservatives" emphasized tradition, community, and moral commitment; and herein lay the origins of the division in conservative ranks.
T
While serving a nine-day jail term in 1963 for violating a ban on demonstrations, Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote his eloquent plea for racial justice, Letter from a Birmingham Jail.
T
While the anticommunist hysteria of the postwar years came to be known as "McCarthyism," it arose well before Senator Joseph McCarthy entered the scene.
T
With the coming of peace, women employed in war-related industries came under increasing pressure to leave their jobs and resume their role as homemakers.
T
With the exception of some dockworkers' and mine laborers' unions, blacks were excluded from membership in the few unions that existed in the South in the late nineteenth century.
T
With the sit-ins, college students stepped onto the stage of American history as a leading force for social change.
T
World War II was followed in the United States by what has been called "a golden age" of capitalism; between 1946 and 1960, the nation's gross national product more than doubled.
T
What occurred in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China in April 1989?
Tens of thousands of students, joined by workers, teachers, and some government officials, occupied the square and demanded greater democracy in China.
According to Eric Foner, which of the following newspapers pointed out the discrepancy between American ideals of Democracy and civil rights reality of racial discrimination in the United States during World War II?
The Crisis
What was the title of the 1963 book by Betty Friedan that took as its theme the emptiness of consumer culture, and painted the suburban home as a "comfortable concentration camp" for women?
The Feminine Mystique
The amendment to the United States Constitution that provides that United States senators will be chosen by popular vote rather than by state legislatures is: Answer Selected Answer:
The Seventeenth Amendment
Which was not a development of 1949?
The Soviets formalized their own eastern European alliance, the Warsaw Pact.
Which of the following was not a key premise of American foreign policy during the Eisenhower years?
The United States will always respect the sovereignty of foreign democracies—even those whose policies we oppose.
Which of the following was not a theme of Popular Front radicalism?
The denial of civil liberties must be challenged wherever it arises—from capitalist America to communist Russia
Which was not a reason that Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) rolls expanded rapidly during the 1960s?
The federal government quintupled AFDC payments to individual recipients.
Although suppression of free speech remained commonplace in the 1920s, a commitment to civil liberties was slowly finding its way into judicial doctrine.
True
American agriculture slid into economic depression years before the stock market crash of 1929.
True
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer sent federal agents to raid the offices of radical and labor organizations in November 1919 and January 1920 as part of the Red Scare.
True
By 1929, the United States produced more than 40 percent of the world's manufactured goods.
True
During the 1920s (up until 1929), while inflation and war reparations payments crippled the German economy, and unemployment remained high in Great Britain, the U.S. economy boomed.
True
In 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt arranged an "executive agreement" that gave a group of American bankers control over the finances of the Dominican Republic.
True
In 1925, John Scopes, a public school teacher in Tennessee, was convicted of violating the state's law against the teaching of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
True
In 1928, Democratic candidate Alfred E. Smith was the first Catholic to be nominated for president by a major party.
True
In marriage, according to advertisements in the 1920s, women were expected to find happiness and freedom within the home, especially in the use of new labor-saving appliances.
True
In the 1919 steel strike, workers demanded union recognition, higher wages, and an eight-hour day.
True
One current of Progressive-era political thought promoted the view that experts—college professors and others able to apply scientific methods to modern social problems—ought to direct government policy. Answer Selected Answer:
True
President Warren G. Harding died suddenly of a heart attack in 1923.
True
President Woodrow Wilson authorized more military interventions into Latin America than any other president in American history.
True
President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points had asserted the principle of "self-determination;" in this spirit, W. E. B. Du Bois organized a Pan-African Congress in Paris that put forward the idea of a self-governing nation to be carved out of Germany's African colonies. Koreans, Indians, Irish, and others also pressed claims for self-determination.
True
Presidents Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson shared a common belief that the United States had a right, even a duty, to intervene from time to time in the affairs of other countries.
True
Question 11 2.44 out of 2.44 points Historians call the period of American history from the closing years of the nineteenth century into the second decade of the twentieth century the Progressive era. Answer Selected Answer:
True
Question 12 2.44 out of 2.44 points The Progressive era was a time of economic expansion that produced millions of new jobs and brought unprecedented material wealth to millions of Americans. Answer Selected Answer:
True
Question 13 2.44 out of 2.44 points During the Progressive era, the Imperial Valley of California was transformed by irrigation and became a major area of commercial farming. Answer Selected Answer:
True
Question 14 2.44 out of 2.44 points Directly or indirectly, J. P. Morgan controlled 40 percent of the financial and industrial capital in the United States in the opening years of the twentieth century. Answer Selected Answer:
True
Question 15 2.44 out of 2.44 points By 1910, almost 60 percent of workers in leading manufacturing and mining industries were foreign-born. Answer Selected Answer:
True
Question 16 2.44 out of 2.44 points By the 1910s, women worked not only as domestic servants, but also as office workers, telephone operators, and store clerks. Answer Selected Answer:
True
Question 17 2.44 out of 2.44 points Mabel Dodge's New York living room was the location of a famed "salon" in which bohemian intellectuals and intelligentsia gathered to discuss issues of sexual liberation, modern trends in art, and labor unrest. Answer Selected Answer:
True
Question 18 2.44 out of 2.44 points "Social legislation" includes governmental action taken to address urban problems and the insecurities of working-class life. Answer Selected Answer:
True
Question 20 2.44 out of 2.44 points The initiative, referendum, and recall were all early twentieth-century means by which democracy was expanded. Answer Selected Answer:
True
Question 21 2.44 out of 2.44 points During the Progressive Era, city managers and nonpartisan commissions ran many municipalities. Answer Selected Answer:
True
Question 23 2.44 out of 2.44 points By 1900, more than 80,000 women in the United States had earned college degrees. Answer Selected Answer:
True
Question 24 2.44 out of 2.44 points Julia Lathrop was the first woman to head a federal agency; in 1912 she took up leadership of the Children's Bureau. Answer Selected Answer:
True
Question 25 2.44 out of 2.44 points After 1900, the campaign for woman suffrage became a mass movement; membership in the American Woman Suffrage Association was more than 2 million by 1917. Answer Selected Answer:
True
Question 26 2.44 out of 2.44 points By 1900, more than half of the states allowed women to vote on school issues, and four Western states allowed women full suffrage. Answer Selected Answer:
True
Question 28 2.44 out of 2.44 points After 1910, mothers' pensions—aid given to mothers of young children who lacked male support—were established by many states; though, to be sure, the amounts of the monthly checks given to such mothers was small and often inadequate. Answer Selected Answer:
True
Question 29 2.44 out of 2.44 points Feminists who supported mothers' pensions believed these pensions would empower single women. Answer Selected Answer:
True
Question 3 2.44 out of 2.44 points One of the main principles of Frederick W. Taylor's "scientific management" was the submission of workers to the dictates of their supervisors. Answer Selected Answer:
True
Question 30 2.44 out of 2.44 points By 1913, twenty-two states had enacted workmen's compensation laws. Answer Selected Answer:
True
Question 31 2.44 out of 2.44 points The first World Series was played in 1903. Answer Selected Answer:
True
Question 32 2.44 out of 2.44 points Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest president in American history. Answer Selected Answer:
True
Question 33 2.44 out of 2.44 points President Theodore Roosevelt distinguished between "good" and "bad" corporations, and in the Northern Securities Company case made his mark as a trust buster. Answer Selected Answer:
True
Question 34 2.44 out of 2.44 points An example of President Roosevelt's activism was his handling of the anthracite coal strike of 1902, in which he threatened a federal takeover of the mines. Answer Selected Answer:
True
Question 35 2.44 out of 2.44 points A significant step in the expansion of federal power over the economy was taken in 1906 with passage of the Hepburn Act, which allowed the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to set railroad rates. Answer Selected Answer:
True
Question 36 2.44 out of 2.44 points Another important example of federal intervention and a new activism on the part of the national government into the economy was passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) by which the federal government became the agent policing the labeling and quality of food and drugs. Answer Selected Answer:
True
Question 38 2.44 out of 2.44 points The Sixteenth Amendment made the income tax constitutional. Answer Selected Answer:
True
Question 39 2.44 out of 2.44 points The 1912 Progressive Party platform set out a blueprint for a modern welfare state. Answer Selected Answer:
True
Question 40 2.44 out of 2.44 points The Underwood Tariff imposed a graduated income tax on the richest 5 percent of Americans. Answer Selected Answer:
True
Question 41 2.44 out of 2.44 points The Federal Reserve System (1913), and the Federal Trade Commission (1914) were major examples of the remarkable expansion of the role of the federal government in the economy during the Progressive Era. Answer Selected Answer:
True
Question 5 2.44 out of 2.44 points At times Progressives sought to expand popular democracy, and at times they sought to restrict it. Answer Selected Answer:
True
Question 8 2.44 out of 2.44 points The new radical "bohemia" that thrived in places like Greenwich Village explored fresh ways of thinking about politics, culture, and sexuality. Answer Selected Answer:
True
Reparations payments at the end of World War I demanded Germany pay, in effect, to repair the damages it had inflicted on the Allies (reparations payments were estimated variously to be between $33 billion and $56 billion)
True
Ten of the twelve states that by 1916 had adopted woman suffrage were carried by Wilson in the election that year; without women's votes Wilson would not have been reelected
True
When President Woodrow Wilson traveled to Paris at the end of World War I, he was met by tens of thousands of cheering citizens.
True
While many were troubled by the ongoing slaughter overseas, most Progressives regarded wartime mobilization as an extraordinary chance to remake American society.
True
Women's freedom in the 1920s was characterized by unapologetic use of birth control methods such as the diaphragm.
True
Which of the following was not a key provision of the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act?
Unions cannot discriminate on the basis of race.
Which was not part of the new "social contract" between organized labor and management in leading industries during the 1950s?
Unions sponsored "wildcat" strikes in an effort to discipline management.
Which of the following was not a key factor in Franklin Roosevelt's landslide victory over Herbert Hoover in 1932?
Voters were impressed by the elaborate blueprints for Roosevelt's New Deal program
Dollar Diplomacy, the U.S. foreign policy that emphasized economic investment and loans from American banks, rather than direct military intervention, was the policy of
William Howard Taft
A leading opponent of American imperialism was Answer Selected Answer:
William Jennings Bryan.
The congressman from Nebraska who was the Democratic Party nominee for president in 1896, and who called for the "free coinage" of silver was: Answer Selected Answer:
William Jennings Bryan.
Question 5 4.55 out of 4.55 points The organization of middle-class and upper-class women and impoverished immigrants founded in 1903 to bring women workers into unions was called the: Answer Selected Answer:
Women's Trade Union League.
Which of the following was not a contributing factor in the winding down of New Deal reform by the late 1930s?
a belief that the New Deal, having vanquished the Great Depression, was no longer necessary
On September 11, 2001, planes controlled by terrorists crashed into all of the following except
a bridge in Washington, D.C.
Which of the following was not a significant aftereffect of the 1990s computer revolution?
a bridging of the gulf between affluent and poor
Which was not one of the conservative ideas that informed Barry Goldwater's campaign for the presidency in 1964, and shaped conservatism for years thereafter?
a call for expansion of governmental regulations
Randolph Bourne's vision of America was one in which
a cosmopolitan, democratic society in which immigrants and natives would together create a new "trans-national" culture.
The 1892 People's Party platform, written by Ignatius Donnelly and adopted at the party's Omaha convention, proposed all of the following except: Answer Selected Answer:
a decentralization over the control of currency.
Which of the following was not a major reason for America's imperial expansion? Answer Selected Answer:
a desire to broaden the exposure of Americans to different cultures
Which of the following was not a key factor behind President Carter's 1980 reelection defeat?
a general feeling that Carter was morally corrupt and hopelessly indifferent to the concerns of the people
Which of the following was not a factor behind the spread of segregation and disfranchisement laws in the South? Answer Selected Answer:
a growing insistence by blacks that whites simply leave them alone
which of the following was not an important cultural trend in 1920s America
a growing respect for newly arrived immigrants
Which of the following was not a prominent feature of suburban married life during the Fifties?
a growing tendency of husbands and wives to share the roles of breadwinner and homemaker
Which of the following was not a major demographic trend in 1990s America?
a growing volume of emigration from the United States to Europe
The "open door" policy refers to
a key principle of American foreign relations that emphasizes the free flow of trade, investment, and information.
Question 6 4.55 out of 4.55 points The term "Progressive" that came into common use around 1910 describes: Answer Selected Answer:
a loosely defined political movement of individuals and groups who hoped to bring about social and political change in American life.
Which was not one of the devices used by Southern whites to keep blacks from exercising suffrage? Answer Selected Answer:
a religious test
The politics of Gilded Age America was said to be
a time of dishonesty and corruption in which corporations battled each other for special consideration by local state and federal governments.
The United States entered World War I in April of 1917 only after Germany resumed submarine warfare against its ships in the Atlantic and
after discovery of the Zimmermann telegram.
An indication of America's economic troubles during the 1970s was
all of the above.
Anti-Communism was used by the U.S. leaders to
all of the above.
Conservative critics of the New Deal regularly argued that
all of the above.
A widespread response shown by Americans in the immediate aftermath of September 11 was
all of the above. (which are: a mix of rage, bewilderment, and anxiety. a surge of patriotic sentiment and national solidarity. a new receptiveness to vigorous federal action.)
The 1914 Ludlow Massacre was: Answer Selected Answer:
an attack by militia against a tent city of striking workers in Colorado.
Which of the following was not a key trend in world affairs during the 1990s?
an easing of ethnic and religious tensions
Which was not a goal of the August 28, 1963 March on Washington?
an end to the use of the Grandfather Clause restricting suffrage
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
announcement of President Nixon's "Vietnamization" policy; U.S. invasion of Cambodia; publication of Pentagon Papers; War Powers Act
Question 3 4.55 out of 4.55 points Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence? Answer Selected Answer:
assassination of President McKinley; Meat Inspection Act; unveiling of Woodrow Wilson's "New Freedom" program; Federal Reserve Act
The Truman Doctrine, in March 1947,
asserted that the United States, as the leader of the "free world," must take up responsibility for supporting "freedom-loving peoples" wherever communism threatened them.
Which of the following was not a military technology used during World War I?
atomic bombs
In 1953, Dwight Eisenhower brought to the presidency all of the following experiences, except
being chief executive officer of the General Electric Corporation.
In August 1961, the Berlin Wall was erected
by the Soviet Union so that peoples from Eastern Bloc countries could not flee to West Berlin.
The Women's Christian Temperance Union began by demanding the prohibition of alcoholic drinks, but developed into an organization: Answer Selected Answer:
calling for a comprehensive program of economic and political reforms, including the right to vote.
The Civil Works Administration (CWA), employed more than 4 million persons in
construction of tunnels, highways, courthouses, and airports.
The 1990s Christian Coalition became a major force in Republican Party politics and launched crusades against all of the following, except
creationism.
which of thefollowing wad not a cuase of the Great Depression that began in Oct. 1929
drastic tariff reductions
which of the following was not a common means of survival for out-of-work Americans during the opening years of the Great Depression
drawing federal unemployment benefits
President Richard Nixon sought to replace the polarized and hostile relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union with a new era of "peaceful coexistence" called
détente.
The emphasis of the Second New Deal was on
economic security, in an effort to protect Americans against poverty and unemployment.
Question 2 4.55 out of 4.55 points Progressive-era feminists were Answer Selected Answer:
engaged in a wide range of social causes.
From 1973 to 1993, real wages
essentially did not rise
Which of the following was not a central purpose of President Johnson's Great Society program?
establishing a federally guaranteed annual income for every family
Which of the following was not a grievance of the Farmers Alliance and the Populists? Answer Selected Answer:
excessive power of the labor unions
Which was not embraced by the "Black Power" movement of the mid-1960s?
expansion of interracial coalition-building in SNCC and CORE
The Progressive Era was a time of: Answer Selected Answer:
explosive economic growth, rapid population rise, and increased industrial production, and "Golden Age" for American agriculture.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt entered the presidency in 1933 with a complex, detailed blueprint for dealing with the Great Depression. Answer Selected Answer:
f
In the 1930s, good rains and good weather resulted in bountiful crops in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and Colorado. Answer Selected Answer:
f
Question 12 3.04 out of 3.04 points Senator Gerald P. Nye's 1934-1935 hearings demonstrated that bankers had suffered terrible economic setbacks during World War I. Answer Selected Answer: False
f
Question 13 3.04 out of 3.04 points The America First Committee sought to ensure that America would be one of the first nations to enter the conflict against Adolf Hitler. Answer Selected Answer: False
f
Question 15 3.04 out of 3.04 points Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler were bitter enemies who could agree on nothing at the beginning of World War II. Answer Selected Answer: False
f
Question 16 3.04 out of 3.04 points In World War I the French had been successful at keeping the invading German army out of Paris; in World War II, the French also succeeded in keeping the Nazis from occupying Paris. Answer Selected Answer: False
f
Question 17 3.04 out of 3.04 points At Bataan in the Philippines, U.S. and Filipino forces captured 78,000 Japanese soldiers in the largest surrender in Japanese military history. Answer Selected Answer: False
f
Question 22 3.04 out of 3.04 points Germany suffered far higher casualties among its soldiers on the Western Front than it did on the Russian Front. Answer Selected Answer: False
f
Question 25 2.95 out of 2.95 points When Franklin Roosevelt set out to appoint additional Justices of the United States Supreme Court in an effort to keep the Court from invalidating legislative measures of the Second New Deal, most Americans supported his initiative. Answer Selected Answer:
f
Question 30 2.95 out of 2.95 points Federal programs such as the Agricultural Adjustment Act helped nearly all sharecroppers live better, more productive, and more profitable lives. Answer Selected Answer:
f
Question 33 2.95 out of 2.95 points Black Americans were unwelcome as members of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. Answer Selected Answer:
f
Question 4 3.04 out of 3.04 points War mobilization lifted the industrial Northeast out of the Depression, but left the economies of the South and the West virtually untouched. Answer Selected Answer: False
f
Question 6 3.04 out of 3.04 points President Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 ordered the internment of all Japanese-Americans who refused to sign an oath of loyalty to the United States. Answer Selected Answer: False
f
Question 9 3.04 out of 3.04 points By the late 1930s, Americans were nearly universally in favor of intervening militarily in Germany to stop the horrors being perpetrated against Jews and others by Adolf Hitler and his followers. Answer Selected Answer: False
f
The Congress of Industrial Organizations enjoyed broad appeal among skilled workers but found little support among the nation's millions of unskilled workers. Answer Selected Answer:
f
The New Deal continued to expand throughout Roosevelt's second term; only with the coming of World War II would its momentum expire. Answer Selected Answer:
f
The Roosevelt administration paid little attention to foreign affairs before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Answer Selected Answer: False
f
The break-up of large corporations is essential to economic recovery—this was a core principle of the New Deal. Answer Selected Answer:
f
The broad-ranging federal legislation that transformed the federal government's role in the American economy during the first two years of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency brought the nation out of economic depression, and resulted in nearly full employment. Answer Selected Answer:
f
Which of the following issues was not a focus of political conflict during the Seventies?
federal programs addressing acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)
The movement to reverse the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision was supported by all of the following except
feminists.
In the 1950s, Richard Nixon pioneered efforts to transform the Republican Party's image
from defender of business to champion of the "forgotten man," for whom heavy taxation had become a burden.
During the 1920s a group whose most well-known leader was Bilkly Sunday and who asserted their conviction in the literal truth of the Bible became known by which term that thet coined
fundamentalists
A key source of American reluctance to confront the rise of Nazism and fascism in Europe during the 1930s was
haunting memories of World War I. widespread indifference to the persecution of European Jews. the ethnic allegiances of many Americans of Italian, German, or Irish descent. all of the above.
In the 1992 run for the presidency, Bill Clinton held all of the following views, except
he pledged to fulfill the unfulfilled promise of Johnson's Great Society.
Which was not one of the elements of "the power elite"—the interlocking directorate that dominated government and society in the 1950s—in the view of sociologist C. Wright Mills?
labor leaders
The Truman administration responded to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin by
leading efforts to break the blockade by airlifting supplies to the city.
The 1887 Dawes Act
led to the loss of tribal lands, and the erosion of Indian cultural traditions.
President Woodrow Wilson's foreign policy that called for active intervention to remake the world in America's image, and which asserted the view that greater freedom worldwide would follow from increased American investment and trade abroad was called
liberal internationalism
Which of the following was not a dramatic feature of the 1948 presidential election?
lively debate between supporters and critics of the Korean War
What did prohibition (the Eighteenth Amendment, ratified in 1919) prohibit?
manufacturer, sale, or distribution of alcoholic beverages
The 1954 update to the doctrine of containment, announced by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, that declared a Soviet attack on any American ally would be countered by a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union, was called "brinksmanship" by its critics and what by supporters?
massive retaliation
The right to dissent from government policy during World War I
met sweeping repression.
Which was not created by the Social Security Act of 1935, which launched the American welfare state?
minimum wage and child labor laws
Between 1901 and 1920, the U.S. Marines landed in Caribbean countries
more than twenty times.
The gelatinous form of gasoline that burns the skin of anyone exposed to it, which was dropped by American airplanes on enemy positions during the Vietnam War, was called
napalm.
Of the great ideologies that had arisen in the nineteenth century, which, by 1920, had proven most powerful?
nationalism.
In 1900, in the entire South, how many public high schools for blacks existed? Answer Selected Answer:
none
upon taking office in 1921 Warren G. Harding promised a return to
normalcy
With the spread of what on college campuses, tens of thousands of students took part in a "strike for peace" in 1935?
pacifism
In 1957, the Eisenhower Doctrine
pledged the United States to defend Middle Eastern governments threatened by communism or Arab nationalism.
Which was not principally one of the networks by which women exerted a growing influence on public affairs in the late nineteenth century? Answer Selected Answer:
political party organizations
Question 10 4.55 out of 4.55 points In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's view, as she wrote in her influential book Women and Economics (1898): Answer Selected Answer:
prevailing gender norms condemned women to a life of domestic drudgery; women were oppressed, and a housewife was an unproductive parasite.
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
publication of Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk; founding of NAACP; Silent Protest Parade in New York City; Chicago race riot
The 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibited all of the following, except
racial discrimination in housing rental or sale.
The 1897 Dingley Tariff: Answer Selected Answer:
raised tariff rates to their highest level in American history to that time.
Which is not central to libertarian conservatism?
regulatory controls
The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee's goals included
replacing the culture of segregation with a "beloved community" of racial justice.
The wave of decolonization that began when India and Pakistan achieved independence in 1947, and by which, in the decades following World War II, Europe's centuries-old empires collapsed, witnessed the newly created Third World nations
resisting alignment with either major power bloc.
Which of the following was not a significant motivation behind the New Deal?
reviving America's commitment to family values at a time when they seemed to be in decline
which of the following was not a underlying cause of the stock market crash of 1929
runaway inflation triggered by high union wagtes had undermined prosperity
On the morning of September 11, 2001 as the top floors of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were engulfed in flames by the terrorist attack, hundreds of New York City firefighters and police
rushed into the towers in a rescue effort, and lost their lives when the towers collapsed.
The 1968 Kerner Report blamed the widespread inner-city riots—occurring across the country from Harlem to Watts—on
segregation, poverty, and "white racism."
Which of the following was not a key element of the Republican "Contract with America"?
sharper restrictions on the sale of handguns
Which type of industry did Andrew Carnegie make his fortune?
steel
In The Conscience of a Conservative, Barry Goldwater argued for all of the following, except
support for the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
After a decade of Republican domination, Democrats won both the presidency and both houses of Congress in the 1932 election. Answer Selected Answer:
t
Beginning with a sit-down strike of 7,000 General Motors workers in Cleveland, Ohio, sit-down strikes spread to Flint, Michigan and elsewhere in the mid-1930s. Answer Selected Answer:
t
Between 1929 and 1933, about 5,000 banks (one-third of the nation's total) failed. Answer Selected Answer:
t
Grassroots protest movements—such as those led by Upton Sinclair, Huey Long, Father Charles Coughlin, and Dr. Francis Townsend—did much to fuel the passage of the landmark Social Security Act. Answer Selected Answer:
t
Question 10 3.04 out of 3.04 points The Ford Motor Company employed slave labor provided by the German government. Answer Selected Answer: True
t
Question 11 3.04 out of 3.04 points Eighty percent of Japan's oil came from the United States prior to 1941. Answer Selected Answer: True
t
Question 14 3.04 out of 3.04 points The term "blitzkrieg" means "lightning war." Answer Selected Answer: True
t
Question 18 3.04 out of 3.04 points In May 1942, the United States Navy thwarted a Japanese attack against Australia in the Battle of the Coral Sea. Answer Selected Answer: True
t
Question 19 3.04 out of 3.04 points The United States inflicted severe losses on the Japanese Navy in the Battle of Midway Island. Answer Selected Answer: True
t
Question 2 3.04 out of 3.04 points Most of the bloodshed that occurred in Europe during World War II took place on the eastern front. Answer Selected Answer: True
t
Question 20 3.04 out of 3.04 points As late as December 1944, more American military personnel were deployed in the Pacific theater of war than against Germany. Answer Selected Answer: True
t
Question 21 3.04 out of 3.04 points During Germany's effort to seize Stalingrad beginning in August 1942, 800,000 Germans and 1.2 million Russians died in the fighting. Answer Selected Answer: True
t
Question 22 2.95 out of 2.95 points By 1940, union membership had more than doubled from that of 1930. Answer Selected Answer:
t
Question 23 2.95 out of 2.95 points The original Social Security Bill included a national system of health insurance, but this provision was dropped after fierce opposition from the American Medical Association. Answer Selected Answer:
t
Question 23 3.04 out of 3.04 points At least 20 million Russians died during World War II, both soldiers and civilians. Answer Selected Answer: True
t
Question 24 2.95 out of 2.95 points A person's Social Security benefits derive from contributions that they themselves make into the program, from each and every paycheck throughout their working lives. Answer Selected Answer:
t
Question 24 3.04 out of 3.04 points By 1944, the United States produced a plane every five minutes, and a ship every day. Answer Selected Answer: True
t
Question 26 2.95 out of 2.95 points Eleanor Roosevelt's name before she married Franklin Delano Roosevelt was also Eleanor Roosevelt—she and her husband were distant cousins. Answer Selected Answer:
t
Question 27 2.95 out of 2.95 points Eleanor Roosevelt transformed the role of "first lady," making it a base for political action. Answer Selected Answer:
t
Question 28 2.95 out of 2.95 points In a blow to Mexican-Americans and many other agricultural workers, the Wagner and Social Security Acts did not apply to them. Answer Selected Answer:
t
Question 29 2.95 out of 2.95 points In the 1934 and 1936 elections, black Americans abandoned their traditional allegiance to the Republican Party in favor of the Democrats and the New Deal. Answer Selected Answer:
t
Question 3 2.95 out of 2.95 points The Tennessee Valley Authority brought electric power to many Americans for the first time. Answer Selected Answer:
t
Question 3 3.04 out of 3.04 points Following America's entry into the war, the federal government assumed vast powers to oversee the national economy. Answer Selected Answer: True
t
Question 31 2.95 out of 2.95 points The 1930s proved to be the heyday of American Communism through the Popular Front. Answer Selected Answer:
t
Question 32 2.95 out of 2.95 points When nine young black men—the "Scottsboro boys"—were arrested for the rape of two white women in Alabama in 1931, the Communist-dominated International Labor Defense represented them in what became an international cause célèbre. Answer Selected Answer:
t
Question 34 2.95 out of 2.95 points By the end of the 1930s, civil liberties had achieved a central place in the New Deal understanding of freedom. Answer
t
Question 5 3.04 out of 3.04 points With the coming of peace, women employed in war-related industries came under increasing pressure to leave their jobs and resume their role as homemakers. Answer Selected Answer: True
t
Question 7 3.04 out of 3.04 points War mobilization greatly strengthened the size and stature of the American labor movement. Answer Selected Answer: True
t
Question 8 3.04 out of 3.04 points As the war drew to a close, tensions emerged among the Allied powers over Stalin's reluctance to allow self-rule in eastern Europe, and Churchill's reluctance to allow self-rule for Great Britain's colonies. Answer Selected Answer: True
t
Roosevelt's declaration of a four-day "bank holiday," along with emergency banking legislation, shored up citizens' confidence in the nation's banks, and in 1936, no bank failures were recorded. Answer Selected Answer:
t
Russia and Germany suffered under the tyrants Stalin and Hitler during the 1930s. Answer Selected Answer:
t
Section 7a of the National Recovery Administration recognized the rights of workers to organize unions. Answer Selected Answer:
t
The 1936 election saw the crystallizing of the "New Deal coalition." Answer Selected Answer:
t
The Federal Housing Authority (FHA) ensured millions of mortgages issued by private banks; and during the 1930s, the federal government set out, for the first time, to build thousands of units of low-rent housing for American citizens. Answer Selected Answer:
t
The National Industrial Recovery Act boosted the prospects for American unionism, but did little to restore economic prosperity. Answer Selected Answer:
t
The National Recovery Act was modeled on the government-business partnership of the War Industries Board of World War I. Answer Selected Answer:
t
The National Recovery Administration (NRA) exempted businesses from antitrust laws. Answer Selected Answer:
t
The first "hundred days" of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's presidency witnessed the greatest expansion in the role of the federal government in the nation's history. Answer Selected Answer:
t
which was not a consumer good in the 1920s
televisions
The initial flurry of legislation during Roosevelt's first three months in office is called
the "Hundred Days."
A major success for Germany and its allies during World War II was
the "blitzkrieg" campaign.
The desire for both victory at home against segregation, and victory overseas against the Germans and the Japanese, came to be called this by African-Americans during World War II
the "double-V."
The mass extinction of "undesirable" peoples—Slavs, Gypsies, homosexuals, and, above all, Jews—that Hitler undertook in 1941, and that we now call the Holocaust, he called
the "final solution."
In 1949, the containment policy suffered a major setback in the form of
the "loss" of China to communism.
What was the name of the labor organization of principally white, male, skilled workers that arose in the 1880s and was headed by Samuel Gompers? Answer Selected Answer:
the American Federation of Labor
The organization demanding greater Indian tribal self-government and the restoration of economic resources guaranteed in treaties, founded in 1968, was called
the American Indian Movement.
Which of the following was not one of the climactic moments of 1968?
the Berkeley Free Speech Movement
In June 1948, when the United States, Britain, and France introduced a separate currency in their zones of control in the city of Berlin, the Soviet Union responded with
the Berlin Blockade.
Which of the following developments did not help undermine public faith in the effectiveness of federal government?
the Camp David agreement
During World War I, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire were called
the Central Powers.
Pat Buchanan delivered a speech at the 1992 Republican national convention that declared cultural war against all the following, except
the Christian Right.
In March 1933, Congress established the federal government as a direct employer of the unemployed when it authorized the hiring of young men to work on projects to improve national parks, forests, and flood control, called
the Civilian Conservation Corps.
In the mid-1930s, Unions of industrial workers, led by John L. Lewis, founded a new labor organization, called
the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
which of the following was NOT a part of the republican political perspective during the 1920s
the Equal Rights Amendment
President Harry S. Truman's program that focused on improving the social safety net and raising the standard of living of ordinary Americans—calling on Congress to increase the middle wage, enact a program of national health insurance, and expand public housing, social security, and aid to education—was
the Fair Deal.
The largest citizens' movement of the nineteenth century was: Answer Selected Answer:
the Farmers Alliance.
President Woodrow Wilson articulated the clearest statement of American war aims and his vision of a new postwar international order in
the Fourteen Points.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's foreign policy with regard to Latin American countries was called
the Good Neighbor Policy.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the years from 1873 to 1897 were known as
the Great Depression
the 1922 self-imposed guiudelines in the film industry that prohibited depicting adultery, nudity, and long kisses, and barred scripts that portrayed clergymen in a negative light was called
the Hays code
Question 16 4.55 out of 4.55 points A principal organization in the early twentieth century that battled for civil liberties and the right of individual freedom of speech was: Answer Selected Answer:
the Industrial Workers of the World.
What was the name of the organization that sought to organize both skilled and unskilled workers, women as well as men, blacks along with whites, and achieved a membership of nearly 800,000 in 1886?
the Knights of Labor
the anti-black, anti-catholic, and anti-semitic organization that claimed over 3 million members by the mid-1920s was
the Ku Klux Klan
The principal organization in the Southwest—the equivalent of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)—that challenged restrictions on housing and employment, as well as the segregation of Latino students was named
the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC).
The June 1947 United States foreign-policy initiative that envisioned a New Deal for Europe, and pledged billions of dollars to finance European economic recovery was
the Marshall Plan.
Which of the following gatherings did not play a major role in the planning of the postwar international order?
the Munich conference
Which was not a terrorist attack on the United States undertaken by Al Qaeda?
the October 1985 killing of an American aboard an Italian cruise ship
The branch of the federal government created in 1942 to mobilize public opinion, and that sought to make the conflict "a 'people's war' for freedom" was called
the Office of War Information.
What was the name of the 1899 policy established by Secretary of State John Hay with regard to China? Answer Selected Answer:
the Open Door policy
What was the organization created by the Kennedy administration to aid the economic and educational progress of developing countries?
the Peace Corps
What war lasted from 1899 to 1903, in which 4,200 Americans and over 100,000 Filipinos perished? Answer Selected Answer:
the Philippine War
The name for the coalition of black Republicans and anti-Redeemer Democrats that governed the state of Virginia from 1879 to 1883 was: Answer Selected Answer:
the Readjuster movement.
The American foreign policy principle that held that the United States had a right to exercise "an international police power" in the Western Hemisphere was called
the Roosevelt Corollary.
President Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to negotiate a settlement of
the Russo-Japanese War of 1905.
in 1925 what was the Tennessee trial in which a public school teacher faced charges of violating the state's law prohibiting the teaching of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution
the Scopes trial
The congressional legislation that extended an array of benefits, including unemployment pay, educational scholarships, low-cost mortgage loans, pensions, and job training to millions of returning veterans beginning in 1944, was called
the Serviceman's Readjustment Act, or G.I. Bill of Rights.
The 1960 statement drafted by young conservatives, members of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), which asserted that the free market underpinned "personal freedom" and that international communism posed a grave menace to American liberty was called
the Sharon Statement
What was the coalition of black ministers and civil rights activists that pressed for desegregation and was formed in 1955, and in whose organizing Martin Luther King, Jr., took the lead?
the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The National Defense Education Act, which for the first time offered direct federal funding for higher education, was passed into law by Congress in 1957 in response to
the Soviet launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, Sputnik.
"The splendid little war" of 1898 was: Answer Selected Answer:
the Spanish-American War.
What was the 1947 law that sought to reverse gains made by organized labor in the preceding decade, and authorized the president to suspend strikes by ordering an 80-day cooling-off period, banned sympathy strikes and secondary boycotts, outlawed the closed shop, and authorized states to pass "right to work" laws?
the Taft-Hartley Act
The effort undertaken on the part of the federal government to supply cheap electrical power for homes and factories in a seven-state region, preventing flooding, and putting the federal government in the business of selling electricity by building a series of dams was called
the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).
The 1948 United Nations-approved document that called for a range of rights to be enjoyed by people everywhere, including freedom of speech and religion, as well as social and economic entitlements, including the right to an adequate standard of living, access to adequate housing, education, and medical care was called
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
What 1935 law outlawed "unfair labor practices," and was known at the time as "Labor's Magna Carta"?
the Wagner Act
Which of the following was not a principle espoused in Wilson's Fourteen Points?
the abolition of colonial rule around the globe
Executive Order 9066 led to Japanese-American internment during World War II. Define "internment."
the act of confining someone during wartime
The outbreak of World War I in 1914 was triggered by
the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand.
In February 1898, what ship exploded in Havana Harbor with a loss of nearly 270 lives: Answer Selected Answer:
the battleship Maine
The National Recovery Administration (NRA), headed by Hugh S. Johnson, set codes that set prices and wages in many American industries; the NRA's symbol, which stores and factories that abided by the code displayed, was
the blue eagle.
Which of the following was not a significant development in postwar America?
the constitutional enfranchisement of African-Americans
Which of the following was not a step toward racial equality in postwar America?
the defeat of Operation Dixie
Which of the following was not a target of the conservative "backlash" of the late Sixties?
the growing power and militancy of organized labor
Which of the following was not a focus of political debate during the first term of the Bush administration?
the importance of improving airport security
In 1950, a serious challenge to the containment policy occurred with
the invasion of South Korea.
In line with their 1994 platform, Republicans in the United States House of Representatives moved swiftly to approve deep cuts in all of the following, except
the military.
The USA PATRIOT Act conferred all of the following powers on law enforcement agencies except
the necessity of obtaining a judicial warrant prior to spying on citizens.
Eric Foner writes, "the either-or mentality of the Cold War obscured the extent to which the United States itself fell short of the ideal of freedom." In this context, to what does "the either-or mentality" refer?
the notion that, in a polarized world, you were either for the United States or for the Soviet Union
George Kennan was
the originator of the containment policy.
Evangelical Christians of the Religious Right believe that, too often, American culture seems to trivialize religion and promote immorality, and demanded the Supreme Court reverse decisions in all of the following, except
the overly easy access to divorce
"Containment" in the context of post-World War II international diplomacy on the part of the United States referred to
the policy by which the United States committed itself to preventing any further expansion of Soviet power.
The House of Representatives' Un-American Activities Committee, established in 1938, set out to investigate disloyalty with an expansive definition of "un-American" that included all of the following groups, except
the right wing of the Republican Party.
During the 1950s, the mass movement for civil rights found principal support among
the southern black church.
Question 12 4.55 out of 4.55 points Pope Leo XIII's 1894 Rerum Novarum and the Catholic priest Father John A. Ryan's A Living Wage (1906) called for all of the following except: Answer Selected Answer:
the view that the Catholic Church should in no way become involved in discussions of wages, working conditions, and the ethical basis of the free market economy.
What was the principal concern of John F. Kennedy's presidency?
the vigorous conduct of the Cold War
Which of the following was not a significant effect of World War I on American society?
the withdrawal of the federal government from domestic affairs, so that it could concentrate on the war overseas
Which of the following did not inform Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, 1950s leadership of the civil rights movement?
the writings of Malcolm X., particularly his autobiography
Franklin Delano Roosevelt "repudiated the right to intervene militarily in the internal affairs of Latin American countries," writes Eric Foner. Define "repudiated."
to cast off or disown; to reject with disapproval
Production of the automobile in the 1820s
tripled
Which of the following was not a leading strategy of the Populists? Answer Selected Answer:
using vigilante tactics to intimidate farmers who failed to join the cause
Which of the following was not a significant point of dispute between supporters and opponents of the American war in Iraq?
whether Saddam Hussein was a humane and popular leader