(HIST-1302-N05) final

Which of the following was a financial scandal during the Grant administration?

An attempt to corner the gold market

Which of the following statements about strategies businessmen used to eliminate competition is accurate?

An effective strategy to avoid competition was to drive out or buy out weaker competitors.

The first federal agency designed to regulate business activities was

Interstate Commerce Commission.

Which of the following statements regarding southern sharecroppers is accurate?

Sharecroppers worked in return for things like shelter and seed.

Which political party ran as a third party in the 1912 election?

Socialist

Andrew Carnegie is best associated with which industry?

Steel

What best explains U.S. citizens' overwhelming support for Coolidge in 1924?

The economy was going great, so citizens felt it would make sense to keep him on as president.

Which of the following statements about African American life in the aftermath of the Great War is accurate?

Whites caused a wave of race riots, in part out of resentment of the success some African Americans had after the war.

After living for a time in the West, Theodore Roosevelt maintained that Indians were

a "lesser race."

Sharecropping was a labor system in which the landowner provided land, seed, and tools to poor farmers in exchange for

a "share" of the crop.

During Reconstruction, federal government-issued paper money was

called greenbacks.

According to Frederick Jackson Turner, the frontier

defined and shaped America.

During the Great War, African American men fought

in racially segregated units.

Early in the war, Germany believed that the United States

lacked instruments of modern warfare.

The process employed in the Pacific during World War II in which an island under occupation by the Japanese was ignored in favor of an island closer to the Japanese homeland was called

leapfrogging.

The most popular leisure destinations for urban working-class men during the Gilded Age were

saloons.

President Hoover believed the best ways to help the needy during the Great Depression were __________ and __________.

self-reliance; voluntarism

The cash crop that made Hawaii valuable to the United States was

sugarcane.

Dangerously overcrowded, filthy, and poorly maintained __________ were where the poor of the urban areas lived.

tenements

The main issue that arose with the soldiers who volunteered for the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War was that

the army often failed to properly train and equip them.

__________ was President Taft's use of the State Department to help American companies and banks invest in foreign countries.

"Dollar diplomacy"

In the presidential contest of 1900, Roosevelt's enemies, the Democrats, claimed that the Philippine conflict was

"an unnecessary war."

Which of the following statements about the state of the American economy in 1900 is accurate?

Compared with other industrialized nations, the United States had some of the highest concentrations of poverty.

The Teller Amendment, when added to the declaration of war on Spain, denied any U.S. intention to annex

Cuba.

Which of the following statements regarding African Americans and the New Deal is correct?

Many New Deal programs discriminated against African Americans, because President Roosevelt feared angering conservative Southern Democrats.

During the 1930s, China was weakened by civil war between __________ and _________

Mao Zedong; Chiang Kai-shek

Who was the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, who W. E. B. Du Bois called the "most dangerous enemy of the Negro race"?

Marcus Garvey

In response to the crises of the Great Depression, states deported hundreds of thousands of __________ and __________.

Mexican Americans; their American-born children

The popular type of art that appeared in the early 1920s was known as

Modernism

Which of the following statements regarding the "Gilded Age" is true?

Only a relatively small percentage of society experienced rapid income growth.

This power meant that those newly elected could appoint people to jobs in their sphere of authority.

Patronage

Which of the following actions was part of President Roosevelt's three-pronged strategy during his first hundred days in office?

Paying farmers "subsidies" to raise commodity prices

Which of the following were associated with new forms of entertainment and social activities in large cities during the Gilded Age?

Political organizations and labor unions

By 1897, the United States had more of which of the following than all the European nations combined?

Railroads

The __________ raised the tax rates on annual income of more than $50,000 during the Second New Deal.

Revenue Act of 1935

The Atlantic Charter in 1941 was a joint statement of "common principles" between

Roosevelt and Churchill.

Why were Washington Duke and his son James Buchanan significant figures?

They perfected the mass production of cigarettes.

Why did the Japanese often experience such high casualty rates during World War II?

They refused to surrender.

How did expansionists justify imperialism in the late nineteenth century?

They sought to spread their Christian and democratic beliefs to other parts of the world.

What was the predominant reason southern whites used the practice of lynching during the New South era?

To exert social, economic, and political control on southern blacks

Because of inexperience and lack of judgment, President Grant

chose unscrupulous men for his Cabinet.

In the twentieth century, __________ replaced the nineteenth century's ____________-based economy.

consumer goods; agriculture

Ford's Highland Park plant revolutionized the industrial process by

creating a moving assembly line method.

Which of the following statements regarding America in the immediate aftermath of the Great War is accurate?

Americans experienced a postwar crisis.

Which of the following statements regarding married women during the Great Depression is correct?

As the Depression intensified, working married women came to be the primary targets of layoffs.

Which of the following statements about the role of African Americans in southern politics is correct?

Black military veterans formed the core of the first generation of African American political leaders in the postwar South.

In 1882, Congress banned further immigration to the United States from what country?

China

Which of the following would have been considered the average, most common progressive activists during the Progressive period?

Christian moralists

In 1883, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the __________ was unconstitutional, resulting in the spread of segregation.

Civil Rights Act of 1875

Which of the following did Hitler's Nazi party consider a threat and a target?

Communists

The commander of the German forces at Normandy who was at home during the invasion was

Erwin Rommel.

Unlike the Grange, the __________ promoted political involvement among its members to enact change for their members.

Farmers' Alliances

Which of the following statements is true?

For every American killed in World War II, the Russians lost fifty-nine.

Which of the following statements about the American railroad industry during the 1860-1900 period is accurate?

Former soldiers, ex-slaves, and immigrants formed much of the crews who built the transcontinental rail line.

During the Great War, which of the following countries made up the Allied Powers?

France, Great Britain, and Russia

During the Spanish Civil War, ________ provided troops to aid the insurgents.

Germany

Which of the following countries had the highest casualties during the Great War?

Germany

In the Zimmerman telegram, __________ urged __________ to invade the United States.

Germany; Mexico

Which of the following presidents actively sought to diminish racial violence in the United States during Reconstruction?

Grant

The United States' first self-conscious African American literary and artistic movement is known as the

Harlem Renaissance.

Which of the following did Roosevelt accomplish during his Presidency?

He set aside millions of acres of federal land for conservation purposes.

Whose invention caused steel to become substantially cheaper to make?

Henry Bessemer

Which of the following was agreed to at the Yalta conference?

Hitler would formally surrender, and Germany would be divided in half.

Which of the following statements regarding Europe's role in the Great Depression is accurate?

Many European nations had not recovered from World War I and had high debts.

Which of the following was true of the National Recovery Act (NRA)?

It allowed major industries to draft "codes of fair competition" and create fair labor standards.

Which of the following best describes the role of the federal government from 1860 to 1900?

It became allied with Big Business, especially through its tariff policy to benefit American manufacturers.

What did the Legal Tender Act of 1862 do?

It for the first time allowed for the printing of a national paper currency to help pay for the Civil War.

What was the effect of the Mississippi Plan?

It hurt both black and poor white voters.

Which of the following statements correctly describes the women's club movement during the Progressive Era?

It often engaged in progressive reform activities.

What was the Wilson administration's stance on the role of women as the war grew in scope?

It recruited women to take on jobs previously held by mainly men.

Who is best associated with the Hull House?

Jane Addams

The "Open Door" policy of __________ stated that China should remain open to European and American trade.

John Hay

This labor leader headed the United Mine Workers and supported President Roosevelt's Second New Deal.

John L. Lewis

__________ set up the first stockyard for Texas cattle in Abilene, Kansas.

Joseph G. McCoy

How was the Union able to begin leading Reconstruction efforts in the South?

Lincoln issued a Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, allowing for Rebel states to be pardoned after 10 percent of those who had voted in 1860 took an oath of allegiance.

The Reconstruction Finance Corporation was created to do what?

Loan money to struggling banks, life-insurance companies, and railroads

The so-called grandfather clause originated in what state?

Louisiana

Frederick Winslow Taylor and the gospel of efficiency are best associated with which concept?

Scientific management

Which of the following did the Republican Mugwumps favor?

The Democrat Grover Cleveland's candidacy for president

What was an unintended consequence of the Immigration Act of 1924 in the United States?

The Hispanic Catholic population substantially increased.

What did President Garfield believe was the most important political change since the adoption of the Constitution in 1787?

The elevation of blacks from slavery to full rights of citizenship

How was the foundation of the progressive movement different than that of the Populist movement?

The progressive movement was based on addressing issues that occurred in urban areas.

Which of the following statements accurately describes changes in the lives of Mexican Americans during World War I?

The war allowed many Mexican farmworkers to find better jobs in industrial centers.

Which of the following statements about the Jim Crow laws is accurate?

They called for places to be designated as "Colored Only" and "White Only."

Why were trusts first created?

To sidestep laws preventing one company from owning another

What book brought to light the abuses in the U.S. meatpacking industry in the early twentieth century?

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

What is one thing that the United States had that other nations did not that helped spur the Industrial Revolution?

Vast natural resources

__________ led the __________, a group of determined Communist revolutionaries in Russia in 1917.

Vladimir Lenin; Bolsheviks

The Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution provided for

an income tax.

President Cleveland's decision to support the gold standard

fractured the Democrat party into pro-gold and pro-silver wings.

Before the Civil War, if you were a young child and you had a job, you most likely worked

on a farm.

The South Carolina state legislature after the Civil War opposed the Republican party because both blacks and __________ were gaining political clout.

poor whites

Harding campaigned on the platform of returning to "normalcy," which meant

promoting conservative cultural values.

The Union League was created to

recruit former slaves to the Republican party.

White anti-Reconstruction Democrats who were regaining control of southern state governments by 1870 were known throughout the South as

redeemers.

During the 1920s, the greatest sustained support for the Eighteenth Amendment came from

rural Protestants.

At the Battle of __________, the threat of Japan seizing Australia was ended.

the Coral Sea

Those who came of age during the 1920s are known as

the Lost Generation.

What is the name of the U.S. battleship that famously sank in Havana Harbor in 1898?

the Maine

For a $10 million down payment, the Roosevelt administration arranged the use in perpetuity of

the Panama Canal.