History Quiz 6-10

New York

A vibrant homosexual culture developed during the 1920s in which American city? San Francisco New York Los Angeles Boston

False

African American troops served along side white troops as combatants in all the major battles of WWI True False

The surrender of American forces in the Philippines

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor the United States suffered another setback in the Pacific. What was that setback? The surrender of American forces in the Philippines Defeat at Guadalcanal Sinking of eight American battleships off the coast of the Solomon Islands Defeat at the Battle of Midway

Won the Pulitzer Prize for best work of fiction in 1921

All the following are were part of Jane Addams life EXCEPT Established Hull House in Chicago Helped get laws passed to protect women and children laborers Was an Anti-Imperialist and agains the Spanish-American War Won the Pulitzer Prize for best work of fiction in 1921

John D. Rockefeller

All the following were known as a "Muckraker" EXCEPT John D. Rockefeller Upton Sinclair Lincoln Steffens Ida Tarbell

34

America's military rejected for service or later discharged approximately __________ percent of drafted recruits for neurological, psychiatric, or mental deficiencies. 34 40 17 22

180,000

Approximately how many civilians were killed by the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? 500,000 80,000 180,000 nearly one million

350,000

Approximately how many women served in the military during WWII? 50,000 350,000 15,000 200,000

Destroyers

Army General John "Black Jack" Pershing used all of the following technologies in his attempt to capture Pancho Villa EXCEPT Destroyers Wireless telegraph Motorized vehicles Reconnaissance aircraft

Pan-Asian anti-colonialism

Before turning to military expansionism, Japanese leaders were also considering which of the following strategies? Communism Pro-western trade allainces Pan-Asian anti-colonialism Pacifist isolationism

Invasion of poland

Britain and France declared war on Germany after which invasion? Annexation of Austria Seizure of the Sudetenland Invasion of Poland Seizure of the remaining territory in Czechoslovakia

American Religion

Charles Sheldon's best-selling popular novel, In His Steps, connected the progressive movement with environmental preservation immigration reform American religion urban planning

women

Christine Frederick's book was a survey and advisement about the habits and purchasing power of middle-class breadwinners women inner-city families industrialists

False

Due to its great industrial might the United States already built an army and navy comparable in size and scope to other industrial nations when it declared war on Germany in 1917.

Declaring war against French, English, and Dutch colonial holdings

Following investigations by representatives of the League of Nations into Japanese aggressions, Japanese responses included all the following EXCEPT Japanese self-isolation from the world Japanese military take of Japanese policy full-scale invasion of China declaring war against French, English, and Dutch colonial holdings

The Fundamentals

Fundamentalist Christianity coalesced around a series of ideas best articulated in a pamphlet commissioned by oil barons Lyman and Milton Stewart. What is the name of this pamphlet? The Fundamentals The Social Gospel In His Steps The Crisis

communist

Hitler and Mussolini helped to topple which government in Spain? Communists Christian Democrats Nationalists Fascists

It offered direct government aid to large corporations which was out of character to his normal laissez-faire views

The Reconstruction Finance Corporation was a radical shift in Hoover's economic recovery efforts because it offered series of government loans to help small retail and service businesses in rural communities it allowed for the creation of POUR to help the financial recovery efforts public utilities it offered direct government aid to large corporations which was out of character to his normal laissez-faire views it strengthening of Hoover's voluntary recovery program of Associationalism

oil companies

The Teapot Dome Scandal sent several prominent members of the Harding administration to jail. The scandal involved the leasing of government land to what group? Steel companies Oil companies Agribuisness Railroad companies

United States

The Triple Entente united all of the following nations EXCEPT United States Great Britain France Russia

Applying economic pressure to Japan to deter military expansion

The United States responded to Japanese aggression in the Pacific with the 1940 American Neutrality Act. What did this Act attempt to do? Enable American arms build up under the deceiving title of neutrality Applying economic pressure to Japan to deter military expansion Maintain American diplomatic relations with both the Chinese and Japanese Encourage greater economic cooperation with Japan in the hopes of deterring further aggression

A heavily flooded monetary market

The conservative politics of the 1920s reinforced federal fiscal policies that exacerbated the divide between the wealth and the rest of America through all the following EXCEPT a heavily flooded monetary market low corporates and personal taxes depressed interest rates for investors easy credit

Automobile

The downturn of which American manufacturing industry, that drove the nation's economy most, was real estate steel oil automobile

Farmers plowed up natural ground cover to grow more crops, cover that had taken ages to form in the relatively dry states of the planes

The environmental catastrophe of the Great Depression was partly the result of agricultural mismanagement. Which of the following was the most consequential example of this mismanagement? Creating excessive windbreaks which ironically enhanced windstorms Farmers plowed up natural ground cover to grow more crops, cover that had taken ages to form in the relatively dry sates of the Plains Insufficient irrigation Insufficient irrigation

Promoting prohibition of alcohol

The fearsome Carrie A. Nation, an imposing woman who believed she worked God's will, was noted for her efforts promoting birth control her work improving the condition of immigrants through settlement houses efforts to win women the vote promoting prohibition of alcohol

John Muir

The founder of the Sierra Club and supporter of wilderness preservation philosophies was John Muir Florence Kelly Herbert Croly Gifford Pinchot

Yosemite National Park

The ideological battleground between the concepts of preserving the wilderness in its pristine condition (preservationists) verses the managed use of wilderness resources (conservationists) was fought over a mountain valley located in Yellowstone National Park Rocky Mountain National Park Yosemite National Park the Grand Canyon

Operation Overlord

The long awaited invasion of France by Allied forces, creating a second front for the Germans, was known as Operation Overlord Ultra Battle of the Bulge The Manhattan Project

The great migration

The mass exodus of nearly a half million African Americans out of the South into northern cities is known as the Great Diaspora the Great Migration the Flight from Oppression the grand Exodus

None of the above

The means by which the American people learned of the sinking of the Lusitania Creating military bases in strategic sea ports Expanding transatlantic trade Forming international military alliances None of the above

Hoovervilles

The most desperate, the chronically unemployed, encamped on public or marginal lands in shantytowns called Anacosta Flatts Barrios Hoovervilles Bordertowns

Flappers

The most enduring symbol of the changing notions female sexuality in America during the 1920s was the the Victorian Jazz Girls Flappers the Sheik

Inaction

The response by the United States towards the atrocities European Jews were facing can best be defined as inaction compassion protection determination

expanded methods of productivity

The rise of a consumer culture in America was influenced by all the following EXCEPT national branding mail-order catalogs mass-circulation magazines expanded methods of productivity

Protect the sanctity of the home first and foremost against the threats of progressive ideals

The social gospel emerged within Protestant Christianity at the end of the nineteenth century. It emphasized the need for Christians to do all the following EXCEPT engage more deeply with the greater society protect the sanctity of the home first and foremost against the threats of progressive ideals challenge the social, political, and economic structure of the day help those less fortunate than themselves

Washington D.C.

The women's suffrage movement gained its first traction in the Midwest Washington D.C. the American West the deep South

Northern Securities

Theodore Roosevelt first gained fame as a trustbuster by attacking which monopoly in 1902? J.P. Morgan Chase Northern Securities Standard Oil General Electric

Selective service

To build up its unprepared and inadequate military forces for WWI the United State turned to volunteerism All of the above recruitment Selective Service

Espionage and sedition acts

To stop any dissension, protests, or criticisms by American citizens against the war, stripping them of their rights of free speech, President Wilson signed the Treaty of Versailles None of the Above War Industries Board Act Espionage and Sedition Acts

Lynching of Leo Frank

Two events are widely credited with inspiring the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan. One is the release of the film The Birth of the Nation. What was the second? Creation of a Women's Auxiliary in Indianapolis, Indiana Lynching of Leo Frank End of World War I Death of Colonel William Joseph Simmons

Declared a bank holiday and then pushed through the emergency banking act

Upon assuming office, how did Roosevelt respond to the collapsing bank system? Closed all banks until the economy recovered from the Great Depression Invested major public funds on the day after his inauguration to stabilize the banking systems Waited for the Glass-Steagall Banking Act to take effect in June and then enforced new regulation Declared a bank holiday and then pushed through the Emergency Banking Act

The meatpacking industry

Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle was an exposé of conditions in: the lives of poor rural blacks the steel industry New York City government the meatpacking industry

A return of normalcy

Warren G. Harding won office by campaigning on which theme Extending American liberty Growing civil society An era of innovation A return to normalcy

Put unemployed men and women to work on projects designed and proposed by local governments

What did the Works Progress Administration do? Put unemployed men and women to work on projects designed and proposed by local governments Gave grants to private corporations to build new manufacturing plants, thereby creating new manufacturing jobs Dismantled the first public housing program in favor of privatizing low income housing Coordinated employment through a new bureaucracy in attempt to discourage racial discrimination in hiring

Influenza

What disease proved most deadly during and in the immediate aftermath of World War I? Influenza Polio Dysentery Gangrene

A system where businesses would voluntarily limit harmful business practices for the greater economic good

What is the definition of Herbert Hoover's "Associationalism?" A belief that self-interest and greed are the surest routes to innovation and economic growth An adaption of European socialism designed to redistribute wealth A system where businesses would voluntarily limit harmful business practices for the greater economic good The use of Progressive Era regulation to protect workers and consumers

2.5%

What percent of Americans were investing in the stock market prior to the crash? 33% 2.5% 66% 10%

The planned march on Washington led by A. Philip Randolph

What prompted President Roosevelt to pass Executive Order 8802? FDR supported integration early in his campaign, and the war gave him the opportunity to pursue that agenda The planned march on Washington led by A. Philip Randolph The desperate need to fill wartime jobs The lynching of three black naval officers

Escape

What theme dominated American popular entertainment in the 1920s? escape innovation and exploration Religion and ethics Distrust of government

An attempt to appoint up to six new justices who would be friendly to his interests

What was FDR's "court-packing scheme" An attempt to unseat justices who ruled that the NRA was unconstitutional The use of legal language in legislation to nullify the ability of the Supreme Court to overrule new proposed programs An attempt to appoint up to six new justices who would be friendly to his interests An economic agenda that created the "Roosevelt Recession"

A group of World War I veterans who petitioned the government to make an early payment bonus scheduled to be released in 1945

What was the Bonus Army? Hoover's team of financial advisers who designed the Reconstruction Finance Corporation The men under the command of General Douglas MacArthur who forcibly cleared the Hooverville that had formed in Washington D.C. A group of World War I veterans who petitioned the government to make an early payment on bonuses scheduled to be released in 1945 Bankers who were criticized in the press after receiving massive bonuses during the Great Depression

Racial violence in twenty-five American cities

What was the Red Summer of 1919? All of the above Communist revolts in Eastern Europe A failed communist revolution in Mexico Racial violence in twenty-five American cities

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 Zimmerman Telegram? The means by which European nations learned of the Russian Revolution and the collapse of Czar Nicholas II The means by which the American people learned of the sinking of the Lusitania A German offer to help Mexico recover land lost in the Mexican-American War if Mexico would side with Germany in WWI The misinterpreted message from the Ottoman Empire that resulted in the Ottomans siding with the Triple Entente

International trade collapsed

What was the consequence of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930? Increased American exports Lowered prices on international goods Loosened banking regulation to increase financial liquidity International trade collapsed

The creation of national minimum wage

What was the most dramatic result of the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act? Suspended collective bargaining rights for unions in industries deemed essential for national security The creation of a national minimum wage The suspension of a minimum wage in attempt to encourage hiring Created a vast physical infrastructure of roads, highways, and rail lines to fuel economic development in the South

Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and Grand Duchess Sophie

What was the particular spark that ignited World War I? Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and Grand Duchess Sophie Formation of the Triple Entente Germany's adoption of the Schlieffen Plan The sinking of the Lusitania

Discovery that most inhabitants of the Middle East favored an independent state free of European control

What was the result of the King-Crane Commission? Desires for British control of the Middle East as a means of encouraging modernization Appeals to the Ottoman Empire to resist the advances of the British Empire Discovery that most inhabitants of the Middle East favored favored an independent state free of European control Realization of irreconcilably faction division in the Middle East

94%

What was the top tax rate during World War II? 60% 50% 33% 94%

It recruited evangelical leaders to label the conflict a "Holy War" and a fight for the survival of Christian nations

When America entered WWI President Wilson created the Committee on Public Information which included all the following EXCEPT It was headed by Progressive George Creel It created propaganda to cultivate a view of the war that democratic America was on a crusade to rescue Europe from militarism It utilized Hollywood studios and other forms of popular culture to sway American opinion It recruited evangelical leaders to label the conflict a "Holy War" and a fight for the survival of Christian nations

Belgium

Where did Germany first invade? Germany waited to be invaded and then responded with a series of counter-attacks Belgium Denmark Russia

Soviet Union

Which Allied nation was the first to reach Berlin? Soviet Union A coordinated attack from all three nations took the capital city United States Great Britain

African Americans or New Immigrants. Prob new immigrants

Which group benefitted LEAST from Progressive reforms around the turn of the century? African Americans industrial workers women new immigrants

Southern Farmers

Which group of Americans benefitted the least from the economic changes of the 1920s? Northern bankers Female educators Unionized manufacturing laborers Southern farmers

Many college-educated white women rebelled against Victorian notions of sexuality, leading to an increase in premarital sex

How did attitudes toward sex change in the 1920s? There were no significant cultural changes in how Americans thought about and experienced sex Sex became less of a cultural taboo, but only when confined to marriage. Premarital sex actually declined during the era Many college-educated white women rebelled against "Victorian" notions of sexuality, leading to an increase in premarital sex Religious change encouraged the notion that sex was intended solely for procreation

Expenditures increased

How did increased availability of consumer credit in the 1920s influence American expenditures? Expenditures increased Consumer credit became less available in the 1920s Expenditures decreased There was no significant change in expenditures

Supported the war effort and lobbied to include black soldiers in front-line combat positions

How did many black leaders, including W. E. B. DuBois respond to the war? Remained silent, neither supporting nor opposing the war effort Supported the war effort and lobbied to include black soldiers in front-line combat positions Supported the war, but did not want to see black soldiers in dangerous combat positions Opposed the war as an example of American imperialism

Overcorrected by raising interest rates and tightening credit

How did the Federal Reserve respond to the financial collapse? The Federal Reserve did not take any consequential action Flooded the market with low interest rates, increasing inflation Raised interest rates but increased subsidies for lenders Overcorrected by raising interest rates and tightening credit

Opposed the Revolution and sent American troops, who remained in Russia until 1920

How did the United States respond to the Bolshevik Revolution? Opposed the Revolution but did not send military or financial aid Supported the Bolshevik Revolution under the principles of self-determination Opposed the Revolution and sent American troops, who remained in Russia until 1920 The United States did not have any major response to the Bolshevik Revolution, because World War I was a higher priority

Failing to redistribute wealth

Louisiana Senator Huey long criticized Roosevelt's New Deal programs for _____________ Failing to redistribute wealth Expanding the power of the presidency over the control of Congress Falling into a Jewish plot to destroy the United States Damaging American business through high taxes

A shipping company called the black star line

Marcus Garvey created a movement encouraging black Americans to migrate to Africa. To do this he created which of the following: A widely circulated newspaper called The Crisis that promulgated his ideas A new immigration-friendly government in Ghana A shipping company called the Black Star Line A church that spread throughout the United States and the Caribbean

The republican party

National politics during the 1920s was dominated by religious ideologies the captains of industry the Republican party third party political movements

70,000

Of the over 110,000 Japanese-descended Americans who were detained in internment camps, approximately how many were American citizens? 25,000 70,000 Zero 50,000

Alain Locke

One of the intellectual leaders of the Harlem Rennaissance wrote that "we are achieving something like a spiritual emancipation." Who was this intellectual? W.E.B. DuBois Zora Neale Hurston Langston Hughes Alain Locke

Betrayed Roosevelts progressive legacy

Roosevelt entered the presidential race in 1912 because he believed his successor, Taft, had: betrayed Roosevelt's progressive legacy become too popular with progressive republicans sold out to Congressional Democrats gone too far on radical reform

Aimed to raise the process of agricultural commodities by offering cash incentives to voluntarily limit farm production, thereby increasing prices

Roosevelt tried to create relief for American farmers through the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA). What did the AAA do? Banned the development of certain kinds of low yield, high intensity crops that contributed to the ecological catastrophe of the Dust Bowl Dropped dozens of tariffs on low cost foreign agricultural products in an attempt to lower the price of food for American consumers Subsidized agricultural colleges to conduct research on improved agricultural techniques Aimed to raise the prices of agricultural commodities by offering cash incentives to voluntarily limit farm production, thereby increasing prices

They managed use of natural recourses

Roosevelt worked with Gifford Pinchot to promote: reform of the civil service the managed use of natural resources. labor union rights trust busting

80%

Roughly ____ of all German casualties in World War II came in the battle against the Soviet Union 80% 25% 50% 66%

opened the way for Mexican laborers to fill needed factory jobs in America

The Bracero Program was intended to the system of strategic bombing used by the the US over Germany expand the roll of African Americans in the US Marines and Navy All of the above opened the way for Mexican laborers to fill needed factory jobs in America

Unrestricted submarine warfare

The German's pursued __________ to deprive the Allies of replenishment supplies from the United States. unrestricted submarine warfare aggressive offensive assaults called blitzkriegs the sewing of mines extended diplomatic negotiations

Protecting endangered wildlife from potential extinction

The Lacey Act of 1900 was focused on banning creation of trusts and monopolies stopping railroad rate discriminations women's suffrage protecting endangered wildlife from potential extinction

Two

The National Origins Act restricted the number of immigrants from any given country to ____ percent of the number of current Americans from that country Ten Two One Five

It built a series of hydroelectric dams to control flooding and distribute electricity to the otherwise non-electrified South

Which of the following about the TVA is correct It provided government social welfare to help Black Southerners escape the cycles of poverty It guaranteed most Southern laborers the rights to unionize and bargain collectively. It built a series of hydroelectric dams to control flooding and distribute electricity to the otherwise non-electrified South It was designed to help Southern farmers by drastically decreasing the amount of land devoted to cotton to arrest the long-plummeting price decline of cotton

None of the above

Which of the following actions did FDR take to advance civil rights for African Americans? None of the above Abolished the poll tax Created a federal sentencing law to prosecute perpetrators of lynching Ensured that African American farm workers had access to Social Security

Speed and maneuverability

Which of the following best characterized German military tactics Guerrilla warfare Small detachments of marching troops Emphasis on fortifications Speed and maneuverability

Investigative journalists

Which of the following definition best describes the work of muckrakers? Southern legislators who defended lynching Metropolitan political bosses Social workers Investigative journalists

membership declines

Which of the following describes the place of the labor movement during the 1920s? Unions gained bargaining power through assistance from the courts and government regulation Membership declined There was little change in membership Membership grew

Television

Which of the following did not became part of the culture of escape for Americans during the 1920s? television radio sports films

John Muir

Which of the following environmental thinkers advocated preservation rather than conservation? Gifford Pinchot Alice Hamilton John Muir All of the above

Her American education made her an effective diplomat in Chinese-American relations

Which of the following statements are true regarding Soong May-ling, known to the public as Madame Chiang? Her American education made her an effective diplomat in Chinese-American relations She was able to spur American military action in China She was the daughter of Chiang Kai-shek All of the above

All of the above

Which of the following statements regarding Jane Addams' activism are true? All of the above Created and influential settlement home in Chicago Spoke out against militarism Favored cooperation between the rich and poor

More people left the united states than entered in during the great depression

Which of the following statements regarding immigration during the Great Depression is true? More people left the United States than entered it during the Great Depression The number of European visas remained constant while Mexican visas dropped Herbert Hoover created a federal program to attract Mexican laborers willing to work in low paying agricultural jobs The Mexican-born population living in Texas more than doubled during the Great Depression

Jacob Riis

Which of the following writers most effectively included photography in their work? Edward Bellamy Jacob Riis Ida B. Wells Upton Sinclair

Theodore Roosevelt

Who coined the term "muckraker"? William McKinley Theodore Roosevelt William Jennings Bryan Jane Adams

Jack Dempsey

Who held the heavyweight championship for most the 1920s Al Jolson Cecil DeMille Babe Ruth Jack Dempsey

John T. Scopes

Who was the young teacher from Tennessee who was tried for teaching his students evolutionary theory? William J. Simmons John T. Scopes Marcus Garvey Clarance Darrow

Germany needed the resources of the Luftwaffe to invade the Soviet Union

Why did Hitler stop the Blitz in June 1941? Defeats in Africa forced a redeployment Germany was planning a land invasion of Britain Germany needed the resources of the Luftwaffe to invade the Soviet Union American efforts in southern Europe preoccupied Hitler

Unsafe working conditions

Why did so many die in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire? Racial violence Corrupt law enforcement Unsafe working conditions Union protests

American refusal to join

Why did the League of Nations fail? French demands for war reparations Refusal of the Germans to cooperate American refusals to join Opposition from Britain, who was more interested in extending its empire

Commissioned officers

Women served in the armed forces during World War I. They served in all of the following positions EXCEPT Physicians Telephone operators Commissioned officers Naval yeomen