History final
What percent of married women worked outside of the home in the 1920s?
10%
Warren G. Harding won office by campaigning on which theme
A return to normalcy
During the Great War the Allied Powers included all of the following EXCEPT:
Austria-Hungary.
Which United States Supreme Court decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision declaring the doctrine of "separate but equal" constitutional?
Brown v. Board of Education
He became the most well-known figure of the Chicano movement, using nonviolent tactics to campaign for workers' rights in the grape fields of California.
Cesar Chavez
Which tribe should NOT be included among the Plains Indians?
Cheyenne
Who led the corrupt government, the United States supported with nearly $2 billion in economic aid in an attempt to block communist from gaining control of China?
Chiang Kai-shek
Which city served as the most important railroad hub, connecting the East and the West?
Chicago
What did the Civil Rights Act of 1957 accomplish?
Created a Civil Rights Commission in the Department of Justice to investigate claims of racial discrimination
wrote an influential book, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases and helped inspire the anti-lynching movement.
Ida B. Wells
Two important founding members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909 were:
Ida B. Wells and W.E.B. DuBois
Her work exposed ruthless business practices by John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil and was a contributing factor toward the federal government's antitrust actions against the company.
Ida Tarbell
This journalist made waves describing Standard Oil's long-standing ruthlessness and predilections for political corruption.
Ida Tarbell
What is the demarcation line, or demilitarized zone (DMZ), created in Vietnam that existed from 1954 until 1975, when Vietnam was finally unified?
The 17th Parallel
Which of the following best describes the "Reagan Doctrine?"
The United States committed to supplying aid to anti-communist forces everywhere in the world
Which of the following nations were not a part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
Sweden
Who did the Democrats nominate as their presidential candidate in the Election of 1896?
William Jennings Bryan
During the nineteenth century, Hawaii was ruled by __________________ based on the sugar companies, together known as the "Big Five."
an oligarchy
Introduced in 1977, this computer was the first successful mass-produced microcomputer meant for home use.
apple 11
A letter stolen in 1898 from Dupuy de Lome, Spain's minister to Washington, was controversial because it
described William McKinley as a weak president.
Under the leadership of A. Philip Randolph, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) began this campaign of protest against this wartime discrimination.
double victory
The Nineteenth Amendment
established that a right to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
The military spread this chemical agent onto dense jungle to expose Vietcong hideouts and supply routes.
agent orange
What caused the Cuban Missile Crisis? ch 12
all answers
In 1920, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
all choices
In the 1980s, record national budget deficits resulted from
all of these answers are correct
Which act provided for old-age pensions, unemployment insurance, and economic aid, based on means, to assist both the elderly and dependent children?
social security act
The Fifteenth Amendment dealt with the issue of
suffrage.
In 2015, the Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges
that prohibitions against same-sex marriage were unconstitutional
In "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," Frederick Jackson Turner claimed:
that the end of the "frontier" also marked the end of one of the most important democratizing forces in American life.
Woodrow Wilson campaigned for the presidency in 1912 as a progressive democrat. Wilson argued that changing economic conditions demanded new and aggressive government policies-he called his political program:
the New Freedom
The Environmental Protection Agency was created in ________ when ________ signed the National Environmental Protection Act into law.
1970; Richard Nixon
Of the over 110,000 Japanese-descended Americans who were detained in internment camps, approximately how many were American citizens?
70,000
What was the Zimmerman Telegram?
A German offer to help Mexico recover land lost in the Mexican-American War if Mexico would side with Germany in WWI
What was the message of NSC-68?
A call for a tripling of the annual defense budget for the purpose of stopping communism
What was the Open Door Policy?
A call for all western powers to have equal access to Chinese markets
was a short-lived Indian victory.
Abilene, Kansas.
The explosive growth of mass incarceration exacted a heavy toll on which community?
African American
What prompted President Roosevelt to pass Executive Order 8802? #
African Americans marching on the nation's capitol
On the day of the 2000 election,
Al Gore won the popular vote
All of the following were candidates in the 1912 presidential election EXCEPT
Al Smith
What was Frederick Jackson Turner's "Frontier Thesis?" Group of answer choices
All of the answers are correct.
What was the result of Brown v. Board of Education?
All of the answers are correct.
Which of the programs introduced in the LBJ presidency still exist today:
All of these programs still exist today.
Why was Emmett Till murdered?
Allegedly whistling at a white woman
He popularized the idea of a "gospel of wealth" in an 1889 article, claiming that "the true antidote for the temporary unequal distribution of wealth" was the moral obligation of the rich to give to charity.
Andrew Carnegie
he great financial and industrial titans, the so-called robber barons, included steel magnates such as:
Andrew Carnegie
In 1963, she published The Feminine Mystique, which by 1970 had sold one million copies. Her work expressed an unspoken disillusionment felt by many American women trapped in the "comfortable concentration camp" of their domestic existences.
Betty Friedan
Which New Deal agency focused on the unique problems faced by young men, aged 18-25. #
Civilian Conservation Corps
In the early 1900s, which American dependency did NOT receive territorial status?
Cuba
Army General John "Black Jack" Pershing used all of the following technologies in his attempt to capture Pancho Villa EXCEPT
Destroyers
Women participated in the global influence of the United States in many ways, including as all of the following EXCEPT
Diplomats
What theme dominated American popular entertainment in the 1920s?
Escape
She had her own clique of activist friends and her own base of influence, notably through her syndicated newspaper column My Day.
Eleanor Roosevelt
What was the subject of Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring?
Environmental dangers of pesticides
Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique focused on what primary issue
Feelings of dissatisfaction with life as a housewife.
Roosevelt included women in key positions within his administration, including the first female cabinet secretary:
Frances Perkins
Who proposed a system of pensions for older Americans in which the government would provide each retired person—over age sixty—two hundred dollars a month? He believed that would reinvigorate the economy and improve living conditions for the elderly.
Francis Townsend
On June 28, 1914, Serbian extremist Gavrilo Princip assassinated the heir to the Austrian throne:
Franz Ferdinand
Who first advocated the policy of containment?
George Kennan
In 1974, former President Richard Nixon was pardoned by
Gerald Ford
This provided returning veterans with unemployment benefits for 52 weeks, offered low-interest loans, and provided money for returning veterans to go to college.
Gi bill
The Democrats chose this person in the Election of 1944, rather than incumbent Vice President Henry A. Wallace, as Roosevelt's running mate.
Harry S. Truman
Why was Douglas MacArthur removed from command?
He was publicly insubordinate to the Commander in Chief
In the late nineteenth century, the first and most important promoter of Social Darwinism was:
Herbert Spencer.
In the hope of forcing the government of North Vietnam to the bargaining table, the Nixon Administration ordered the heavy bombing of communist forces located in Cambodia—specifically those forces located along the:
Ho Chi Minh Trail.
During the Great War the Central Powers included all of the following EXCEPT:
Italy.
Which of the following writers most effectively used photography in their work?
Jacob Riis
In 1889, he wrote The Winning of the West, describing the challenges faced in daily living in the region and arguing that these hurdles improved the moral and physical character of the people. He argued the "strenuous life" built this character.
John Muir
Which of the following groups was the most radical?
Knights of Labor
They kidnapped and murdered Bobby Franks, which provoked fear throughout American society because the perpetrators were not easily associated with criminality.
Leopold and Loeb
Who led the communist forces in the Chinese Civil War?
Mao Zedong
Who was the corrupt leader of the Republic of Vietnam propped up by the American government with little domestic support? He was assassinated in 1963.
Ngo Dinh Diem
Who was the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court?
O'connor
What was the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that collected intelligence and coordinated overseas espionage during World War II? #
Office of Strategic Services (OSS)
Woodrow Wilson ordered a punitive expedition of several thousand soldiers led by General John J. "Blackjack" Pershing to enter northern Mexico and capture:
Pancho Villa
Who was the leader of the movement to stop the Equal Rights Amendment?
Phylis Schlafly
How did the United States respond to the Boxer Rebellion in China?
President McKinley sent the U.S. Army into China without consulting congress
Eugene V. Debs played a leading role in what labor event?
Pullman strike
On May 7, 1915, a German submarine sank this British passenger liner off the coast of Ireland.
RMS Lusitania
Who was the environmentalist and consumer advocate that entered the race for president as the Green Party candidate in the Election of 2000?
Ralph Nader
Which female leader stated, "If it takes lynching to protect women's dearest possession from drunken, ravening beasts, then I say lynch a thousand a week?"
Rebecca Latimer Felton
By 1932, with the economy long since stagnant and a reelection campaign looming, President Herbert Hoover, hoping to stimulate American industry, created this agency to provide emergency loans to banks, building-and-loan societies, railroads, and other private industries.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
This president created the Environmental Protection Agency, the first agency charged with studying, regulating, and disseminating knowledge about the environment.
Richard Nixon
In the Election of 1992, this Texas Billionaire became a third-party contender, who likely made a difference in the outcome of the election.
Ross Perot
Who first challenged segregation on buses?
Sarah Keys
What legal principle was enshrined by the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson?
Separate but equal
Which Allied nation was the first to reach Berlin?
Soviet Union
Which of the following best characterized German military tactics
Speed and maneuverability.
A second incarnation of the Ku Klux Klan grew out the need for order and the 1915 release of the movie:
The Birth of a Nation
This comprehensive act barred segregation in public accommodations and outlawed discrimination based on race, ethnicity, gender, and national or religious origin.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
What was the result of the Kaiserschlacht?
The Germans launched five failed major attacks
Reagan announced plans for a space-based system that could shoot down incoming Soviet missiles called:
The SDI or star wars program
What was the name of the 369th Infantry Regiment made up of African Americans, which was one of the most distinguished units serving during the war?
The Tuskegee Airmen
Which of the following best describes the Social Gospel?
The goal of saving society as well as souls
How did Reagan's first budget immediately impact the national debt?
The national debt increased dramatically
In 1952, this NAACP lawyer argued on behalf of Linda Brown, a black girl barred from attending the all-white elementary school in her neighborhood in Topeka, Kansas.
Thurgood Marshall
What happened at My Lai?
U.S. troops massacred hundreds of civilians
After a difficult battle, Clinton won approval of the North American Free Trade Agreement (or NAFTA), which eliminated most trade barriers among
United States, Canada, and Mexico,
In 1914, when war erupted in Europe, President Woodrow Wilson
called on the American public to be completely impartial.
This group became a major source of labor for the transcontinental railroad from California to Utah:
chinese
The Treaty of Versailles did all of the following EXCEPT:
created many newly independent countries, including Finland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Poland .
What did the Works Progress Administration do? #
creating parks, and building roads, bridges, schools, and other public structures.
In his speech advocating the Lend-Lease Program, Roosevelt declared that the war was being fought for "Four Freedoms." Which answer is NOT one of the the "Four Freedoms." #
freedom of enterprise.
In the late nineteenth century, most American agriculture shifted:
from subsistence farming to commercial agriculture.
The Homestead Act of 1862:
fueled westward migration.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965:
gave total control of all elections to the federal government, that blacks were given freedom to fully exercise their voting rights.
Which storm developed into a category 5 hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico in 2005? New Orleans suffered a direct hit, the levees broke, and the bulk of the city flooded
huricane Katrina
In the presidential campaign of 1912
incumbent president William H. Taft won.
How did the Federal Reserve respond to the financial collapse? #
it flooded the banking sector with liquidity. Second, it invoked emergency powers granted to it during the Great Depression to lend to financial institutions other than banks. Third, it quickly cut the funds rate to zero.
The crisis of American hostages being held in Iran
lasted over one year
In his dealings with Pancho Villa, President Woodrow Wilson
ordered a military expedition into Mexico to capture Villa.
Many groups organized strikes during 1919, including a famous strike by this group in Boston.
policeman
In the late nineteenth century, urban political bosses did all of the following EXCEPT
provide material assistance to the poor.
In the early twentieth century, a principal goal of "Taylorism" was to: Group of answer choices
reorganize industrial production by subdividing it into many simple tasks.
In this landmark case, the court decided that a woman and her doctor, not the state, possessed the right to decide the fate of a pregnancy.
roe v wade
The Pullman strike of 1894:
saw the president of the United States order federal troops to break the strike.
In the 1890s, the black journalist Ida B. Wells devoted her writing to attacking
the crime of lynching.
In the late nineteenth century, Social Darwinists argued that people who failed economically in the United States did so because: Group of answer choices
they were not fit enough to survive in the market.
The 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn
was a short-lived Indian victory.
The Sand Creek Massacre of 1864:
was carried out by George Custer.
The Dawes Severalty Act of 1887
was designed to force Indians to become landowners and farmers.
In the Election of 1908, William Howard Taft
was hand-picked by Theodore Roosevelt to succeed him.
The great railroad strike of 1877
was launched in response to a wage cut.
The phenomenon when whites in metropolitan areas fled city centers for the suburbs—often it resulted in resegregated residential patterns.
white flight
