History 3014 Final
White conservatives would assert that Republicans, in denouncing violence, were _______ for political opportunity.
"waving a bloody shirt"
Why did President McKinley refuse to give the Philippines back to Spain?
Because it would be cowardly and dishonorable
Given the goals of eugenics, which might be a plausible way to carry out Galton's vision?
Prohibiting mentally ill people from having children.
Sherman lacked the authority to confiscate and distribute land, so ________ never fully took effect.
Special Field Order 15
The author of this chapter argues that popular culture highlighted the emergence of which three (3) developments of this period. (SELECT ALL THAT APPLY)
industrial technology commercial culture racial ideology
The London Pan-African Conference of 1900 issued a proclamation, Address to the Nations of the World, which declared
"The problem of the twentieth century is the colour-line."
Lincoln originally wanted to establish Unionist governments when _____ of the state's voting population took an oath of allegiance.
10%
The flu was unusual because which age group suffered the most?
18-35
As a sign of "good faith", Jourdon Anderson asked his former master for:
32 years of back wages for himself and over 20 years for his wife
Both Germany and France suffered war losses that amounted to ___% of their total populations.
4
The war displaced millions of people and produced large refugee populations, such as 1.5 million Belgian refugees after the German invasion, and, by 1917, perhaps as many as _________Russians were uprooted and forced to move.
7 million
What happened at Wounded Knee Creek?
American Calvary units massacred upward of 300 Native men, women, and children.
Why might William James argue that the United States was once believed to be ideologically opposed to Kipling's calls for the US to "take up the White Man's burden"?
Americans believed the diversity of their population made them above the "White Man's Burden"
What would best describe American attitudes to Cuba before the Spanish-American War?
Americans saw it as a desirable addition to the United States
Californians were legally allowed to "_____" native laborers by taking them before a judge and promising to feed, clothe, and eventually release them.
Apprentice
Why were France and Germany not an option for ruling the Philippines, according to McKinley? (SELECT ALL THAT APPLY)
Because it was bad business Because they were rivals to the U.S Because it was discreditable
McKinley believed that American imperialism in the Philippines was justified because: (SELECT ALL THAT APPLY)
Because it would be "bad business." It was the Americans' responsibility to education and "uplift and civilize and Christianize" the population. "They were unfit for self-government."
Why did the Imperial High Commissioner deliver the "Proclamation Ordering Foreigners to Deliver up Their Opium in 1839?
Because the Chinese had banned the trade of opium, but the British continued to smuggle the drug into the country.
According to the documentary, The Last Colony, why was statehood not extended to Puerto Rico in the earliest years of territorial possession?
Because the U.S did not want to extend statehood to the Philippines
Which were listed reasons why the Imperial High Commissioner commanded "foreigners" to deliver up their opium? (SELECT ALL THAT APPLY)
Because there is "not a good or upright man whose head and heart will not burn with indignation at the opium trade. Because opium was increasingly destructive to the Chinese peoples. Because it was illegal to possess and smoke in their home countries and they should at least obey their own laws.
Why did a number of Americans believe the country needed a war?
Because they believed American men were becoming too feminine
Instead of war and industry fueling western migration, Frederick Jackson Turner argued that _____ washed across the continent with white American settlers.
Civilization
Betraying notions of strict isolationism, the U.S. backed a separatist group in ________ to allow the construction of a canal.
Colombia
The policy with which the British suppressed and defeated the Afrikaners during the Boer War generated controversy in Europe, and in Britain, mostly because they used
Concentration Camps
T or F: The Filipino Rebels welcomed American control after the Spanish colonial government ceded control.
False
TRUE OR FALSE: Turner's vision of western expansion included everyone and weighed their contributions to American society equally.
False
TRUE or FALSE: The Indians Wars was actually just on long war against a common enemy over a small area of land.
False
Victims of KKK style violence were always black.
False
[T or F] The Allies possessed an effective defense measure against German submarine attacks.
False
[T or F] The American military was prepared for modern warfare in 1917
False
[T or F] The Spanish Flu started in Spain.
False
The ________ ended up killing the Schlieffen Plan.
First Battle of the Marne
What were Chief Joseph, and his branch of the Nez Perce tribe, attempting when they were forced to return by the U.S Calvary?
Flee to Canada
Over what span of time did it take to nearly annihilate the southern herd of American bison?
Four years
Dissatisfied with slow progress, Women's Rights advocates partnered with ____ to advance women's equality.
Freedman's Bureau
With the occupation of the Philippines, William James argues that the United States has:
Given up the lofty ideals of the Declaration of Independence in order to seek imperial gains
Many of the first Americans who migrated to the West were searching for:
Gold and Silver
Which territories came under American control after the Spanish-American War? (SELECT ALL THAT APPLY)
Guam Cuba Hawaii Puerto Rico
Henri Barbusse's experience in the French army during World War I led him to what belief?
He became a pacifist
According to President William McKinley, what was his initial reaction to the American occupation of the Philippines?
He claimed he "did not know what to do with them."
What was Woodrow Wilson's job when he authored "The Fourteen Points"?
He was the President of the United States
Simply put, eugenics, as defined by Francis Galton, aimed to do what?
Improve humanity with various forms of intervention.
What is the difference between "incorporated" and "unincorporated" territorial statues?
Incorporated are expected to become states, whereas unincorporated territories cannot become a state
American isolationism was defined narrowly with two guiding principles (SELECT THE TWO ANSWERS THAT APPLY)
Influence the world by example only Avoid entanglement in European affairs.
What is the legal definition of Puerto Rico's status to the United States? (PR is an unincorporated territory)
It is an unincorporated territory
What did the Teller Amendment do?
It limited U.S action in Cuba to peacekeeping and not imperial expansion
The _____ was organized in 1866 in Pulaski, Tennessee, and had spread to nearly every state of the former Confederacy by 1868.
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
What reasons does Hornady cite as secondary causes of the extermination of the buffalo? (SELECT ALL THAT APPLY)
Modern Weaponry. Man's reckless greed. The lack of governmental protections. The stupidity of the animals.
Nineteenth-century empires rose against a backdrop of internal developments--within the imperial metropole--such as nation building, industrialization, and
New forms of communication?
Pressed and defeated on nearly all sides with Czech, Polish, Serbian, and Croatian politicians all calling for some form of independence, Austrian-Hungarian Emperor Karl I accepted reality and sued for peace and the Habsburg Empire surrendered on
November 3, 1918
Control over Indian reservations was handed to _____ instead of being overseen directly by the federal government.
Protestant Christians
What did Chester A Arthur believe was part of a failed policy in terms of managing relations with the various Native American tribes? (SELECT ALL THAT APPLY)
Relegating the tribes by treaty stipulations to the occupancy of immense reservations in the West. Dealing with the various tribes as separate nationalities. Encouraging them to live a savage life without guidance on living a "civilized" life.
In 1876, Republican nominated Ohio governor _________ as their Presidential candidate.
Rutherford B Hayes
What best describes Jourdon Anderson's tone in his letter:
Satirical/sarcastic
In order to change the relationship between the United States government and the various tribe, Chester A Arthur proposed that which three areas of life be reformed:
School, land, and laws
What did religious leaders in Georgia think would happen if slaveowners armed their slaves and forced them to fight for the Confederate States?
That as soon as the threat of violence was gone, they would desert.
Alfred Thayer Mahan's The Influence of Sea Power Upon History 1660-1783 argued what?
That nations boomed and busted based on their ability to control trade and travel on the open sea.
When asked about the attitudes of the black population of the South toward the Government of the United States, what was general feeling from the religious leaders?
That only a few actually opposed the U.S Government
Erich Ludendorff argued that the German state failed because it failed to recognize:
That politics is war and war is politics
To what argument does Norman Angell argue is a profound misreading of human knowledge?
That war is the survival of the fittest
For Rudyard Kipling, expanding western empires across the globe was:
The "White Man's Burden"
What events in Africa helped motivate Americans to take action in Cuba and the Philippines?
The growth of colonialism
[T or F] Rhetoric from President Wilson tied the fate of the western world with allied success in the war.
True
Which U.S. President foreshadows the dangers of foreign alliances and attachments?
Washington
Membership in the army made clear that all men, regardless of race, religion, or origin, essentially:
Were alike
At what point did Chief Joseph argue wars would cease between whites and American Indians?
Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other
Though late-comers to the "scramble for Africa," the Germans participated and carved out German Southwest Africa where, in the early 1900s,
a brutal suppression of the local Herero people killed as many as 800,000 people.
From what point of view is the poem In Flanders Fields written?
a dead soldier
U.S. military preparations required the institution of:
a draft
What best characterizes Kipling's The White Man's Burden?
a propaganda piece for colonialism
The creation of the American Equal Rights Association signified the culmination of the partnership between ___________.
abolitionists and women's' rights advocates
Ladies' Memorial Associations helped memorialize dead Confederate soldiers and _________.
advanced the lost cause narrative
By the end of the nineteenth century,
advertisers began to use images of empire to sell their products. ??
The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in ______.
areas of rebellion
The British writer J. A. Hobson and Vladimir Lenin said of imperialism that it was
best understood on economic grounds.
In nearly every conflict, white conservatives reacted to Republican rallies, convention, or elections where ______ were to vote.
black men
In order to protect what one witness called the Southern "caste system", white southerners opposed expanded spending on ________.
black schools and educational opportunities
What no longer resides in Flanders Fields where the soldiers died?
cattle
Popular in minstrel shows, blackface:
distorted and caricatured African Americans for laughs
According to Whitmore, which of the following did soldiers not endure?
gas
In the discussion between the religious leaders in Georgia with General Sherman and Secretary Stanton, what became a central item of importance for newly freed people?
land
According to the final stanza of Kipling's poem, the expansion of empire was how the United States would find its national:
maturity and admiration from its peers
Many African American political leaders and officeholders were _____.
ministers
After the failure of the Schlieffen Plan, all the major combatants realized that the war might be a prolonged conflict that would require
mobilizing the entire resources of all belligerents.
The "new imperialism" accelerated the earlier Columbian exchange and the global propagation of nonnative plant life. This is illustrated by the fact that in 1769, there were only three Eurasian plants in California, but by 1900
more than 60 percent of the grasses in California were Eurasian in origin.
Almost immediately after displacing the provisional government, the Bolsheviks moved to consolidate their power by
moving against all political opposition, beginning with the soviets.
One of the most significant accomplishments of the state constitutional conventions was the establishment of _________.
public school systems
The Ottomans signed an agreement with Germany in 1914; in April 1915, facing an Allied invasion at Gallipoli and war with Russia to the north, the Ottomans commenced
the American Genocide
The Opium Wars began when
the Chinese banned opium imports.
In the years preceding World War I, Europe was divided into two groups of nation-states. Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy were opposed by Russia, France, and Great Britain. This last group was known collectively as
the Triple Entente
One of the elements of Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points that was taken up during the negotiations for the Versailles Treaty was
the creation of a League of Nations.
Which weapon was considered the best bet to break the stalemate on the Western Front?
the tank
Why didn't McKinley allow the Philippines to govern themselves? (SELECT ALL THAT APPLY)
they would have misrule over there worse than Spain's they were unfit for self-government they would soon have anarchy
One of the major thrusts of African American migration during this period was the move ____.
to cities
Why did Bismarck take Germany into the "scramble for Africa"?
to find cheaper sources of labor as well as raw materials?
A key point that Anderson makes to his former master, P.H Anderson, was that he'd consider returning to work in Tennessee, but requested:
to know his proposed wage so he could choose the between paid job
Service in the military served to _____ foreign-born and native-born soldiers.
unite
There was significant tension in the AERA between ______ and black male suffrage.
universal suffrage
By the early 1870s, most of the promises of Reconstruction were ________.
unmet
The lecture video argues that the United States had an isolationist past, but:
while the country stayed out of European conflict, they were active in the Americas
