History Final 1700

What amendment prohibits unequal protection of men, regardless of race (citizenship for all)

14th

What amendment protected black's right to vote?

15th

The _____ Amendment granted women the right to vote in all states

19th

The ascendancy of the American Federation of Labor during the 1890s reflected:

A shift from broad to limited reform goals

The first U.S. president to be impeached..

Andrew Johnson

Bloodiest single day of American History was at

Antietam

General Lee surrendered to Grant at the courthouse in

Appomattox, Va

Dred Scott court case determined that-

Blacks were property and not citizens of the United States

Results of the Nebraska-Kansas Act included:

Bleeding Kansas and the repealing of Missouri Compromise

When assessing the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, what can be determined about this issue?

Both congress and the President thought the other was acting unconstitutionally

______ was the first immigration law to ban a certain race from coming to America

Chinese Exclusion Act

Black codes were used to

Control African Americans after the Civil War ended (arrest and fine)

What broad popular sentiments did the Ku Klux Klan express in the 1920s?

Control of nation should be returned to native-born protestants

PUSH Factors for immigration

Crop failure, famine, and job shortage

in the 1950's what did the term totalitarianism describe?

Facism, Nazism, communism (total control)

Although well intended, the New Deal for Native Americans resulted in a series of forced assimilations (T/F)

False

Emperor Hirohito was tried as a war criminal and sentenced to death along with General Tojo (T/F)

False

League of Nations was proposed by Wilson to promote peace, and the U.S. was the first member (T/F)

False

Overall, despite good intentions the Marshall Plan was not very successful (T/F)

False

The America First Committee campaigned for Americans to be the first to go to war against Nazi Germany (T/F)

False

The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in border states on the Union side (T/F)

False

The only people killed during the German Holocaust were the Jewish people (T/F)

False

What time period most influenced the New Deal?

First World War

During the Allied occupation of Japan, ___(who)___ introduced reforms designed to convert Japan into a democratic country

General MacArthur

Mark Twain called the era after the Civil war the ____ Age

Gilded

What could be one possible reason why Robert E. Lee invaded the North in 1863?

He hoped that a surprise attack would give him an advantage against the north

What was ironic about the election of Andrew Johnson?

He was from a state that had previously seceded

The Freedman's Bureau...

Helped, provided, and set up resources for freed slaves

Who became the first African American senator?

Hiram Revels

According to Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, how could corporations have prevented the Great Depression?

Increased the workers wages

In contrast to the American Federation of Labor, the Congress of Industrial Organizations fought for:

Industrial Democracy

In what way was Reconstruction policy a success?

It established an amendment promising equal protection for all

By analyzing the New York City draft riots, what can be determined about the Civil War?

It was a rich mans war, poor mans fight

President of the Confederate States of America

Jefferson Davis

PULL Factors for immigration

Jobs, Industrial capitalism

___(who)____ Founded the Standard Oil Company and gained control of 90% of the petroleum refining capacity

John D. Rockefeller

The Purpose of the D-Day invasion was to:

Liberate France from German control

The battle of ______ was a turning point in the Pacific Theater of WW2

Midway

Which of the following least symbolized the growing autonomy of working women with regard to their consumerism?

Military service

______ is an anti-foreigner sentiment fueled against immigration

Nativism

When "Fifty-four forty or fight" did not result in gaining all of the Pacific Northwest, who most likely would have been the angriest?

Northern Democrats

What inspiration did Martin Luther King Jr. gain from Mahatma Gandhi?

Peaceful, civil, disobedience

Which of the following trends of the 1920s did fundamentalists support?

Prohibition of liquor

What was Lincoln's hidden weapon, allowing for quick military transport

Railroads

John Wilkes, an actor who killed Lincoln...

Shot to death in barn by Union soldiers, broke fibula while escaping

The Thirteenth Amendment to the constitution outlawed:

Slavery in the U.S.

First state to cede from the Union

South Carolina

Lincoln used the ______________ to communicate with his generals and other officers

Telegraph

_________ : the systematic state-sponsored killing of 6 million Jews by Nazis and their collaborators during WW2

The Holocaust

Unsanitary conditions in the meat packing industry were sensationalized in ____ a book by Upton Sinclair

The Jungle

Which of the following elements of President Wilson's Fourteen Points most resembled the commissions Progressives had instituted back home?

The League of Nations

The scale of Civil War bloodshed was comparable to that of which other conflict?

The Vietnam War

What taste of freedom did women enjoy in WW2?

The perks of doing men's jobs.

What was a result of the expanding Union economy?

The size and spending of the government increased tremendously

Apart from the racial identity of victims, what typically triggered the lynch violence of southern white mobs?

The victim's sexual conduct

What did the members of the new United Nations Security Council all have in common?

They were the wealthiest nations

March to the sea was a devastating example of

Total war

Abraham Lincoln was elected without any southern electoral votes (T/F)

True

By 1880, a majority of Americans worked in non-farm activities (T/F)

True

Chinese Immigrants played an important role in the Transcontinental Railroad (T/F)

True

During the 1920's, labor lost over 2 million members (T/F)

True

During the battle of Leyte gulf, over 2,000 kamikaze pilots crashed their aircraft into U.S. ships (T/F)

True

FDR executed order 9066 after Pearl harbor, uprooting 11,000 people of Japanese descent to remote camps (T/F)

True

FDR was the only U.S. President to serve more than 2 terms (T/F)

True

Picture brides were selected via matchmaker, using only photos to pair Japanese immigrants (T/F)

True

Rich people could buy their way out of the national draft by hiring a substitute for $300 (T/F)

True

Social security was instituted during the Great Depression (T/F)

True

The Wade-Davis bill was proposed and vetoed, never taking effect (T/F)

True

The most common battlefield surgery was amputation (T/F)

True

The percentage of families at or below the poverty rate fell during the 1950s (T/F)

True

The Union and Central Pacific Railroads joined their rails at Promontory Summit, ____ Territory

Utah

What would John Winthrop most likely criticize about antebellum America?

Utopian societies promoting free love

In the first half of the nineteenth century, the U.S. gained the most territory through:

Wars with Mexico

The idea that change comes slowly can be evidenced by what event during Reconstruction?

Women being excluded from the suffrage movement

Which of the following Second New Deal measures came closest to meeting the demands of the Congress of Industrial Organizations for workplace of democracy?

Works progress administrations

The Compromise of 1850 established all of the following except:

admission of New Mexico as a slave state

Causes of WW1 include:

assassination of Duke Fitzgerald, militarism, nationalism, alliances, imperialism,

Why was Vicksburg essential?

it allowed the Union to control the entire Mississippi river

Treaty of Versailles:

restricted Germany

The Manhattan Project was the code name for:

the atomic bomb