Hst 1020-006

Which census revealed for the first time that there were more non-farming jobs than farming jobs in the United States? 1900

1880

What group of people outside of the United States in the 1920s and 1930s carefully studied the American eugenicist movement?

German members of the Nazi Party

What event took place in Colfax, Louisiana, in 1873?

The bloodiest act of violence during Reconstruction took place, with armed whites massacring scores of former slaves.

"Scalawags" was a derogatory term used to describe southern white Republicans.

True

Among the important accomplishments of Reconstruction state governments was the establishment of the South's first state-supported public schools.

True

The most famous American Indian victory in American history took place in June 1876 when General George A. Custer and his 250 men perished.

True

The once prosperous Confederate General Braxton Bragg returned from the Civil War to find he had lost everything and lived for some time with his wife in a slave cabin.

True

The political "boss" of New York City in the early 1870s was

William M. Tweed.

The founder of the Oregon System of direct legislature was

William U'Ren.

Randolph Bourne's vision of America was one in which

a cosmopolitan, democratic society in which immigrants and natives would create a new "trans-national" culture.

The term "Progressive" that came into common use around 1910 describes

a loosely defined political movement of people who hoped to bring about social and political change in American life.

Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

assassination of President McKinley; Meat Inspection Act; unveiling of Woodrow Wilson's "New Freedom" program; Federal Reserve Act

American presidents during the Gilded Age exerted strong, effective, executive leadership.

false

Congress passed a Resolution of Regret apologizing for exclusion laws passed against Mexican people wanting to enter the nation in the late 1800s.

false

What was the name of the organization that advocated a workers' revolution to seize control of the means of production and abolish the state?

industrial Workers of the World

Which of the following was one of the devices used by southern whites to keep blacks from exercising suffrage?

literacy tests

This political and social group promoted agricultural education and believed farmers should adopt modern scientific methods of cultivation.

populist

During the 1880s, the South as a region

sank deeper and deeper into poverty.

The Supreme Court threw out the conviction of Mary Ware Dennett, whose alleged crime was

sending a sex-education pamphlet through the mail.

The proposed constitutional amendment to eliminate all legal distinctions "on account of sex" promoted by Alice Paul was

the Equal Rights Amendment.

The first federal agency intended to regulate economic activity, and ensure that railroad rates were reasonable and favoritism was avoided was

the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Who led the three-member commission that sanctioned the verdict and death sentences of Sacco and Vanzetti in the 1920s?

the Supreme Court Chief Justice of the United States

In February 1898, what ship exploded in Havana Harbor with a loss of nearly 270 lives?

the battleship Maine

Causes of the "new immigration" included

the outbreak of revolutions and warfare outside of the United States.

In Buck v. Bell (1927), the Supreme Court

upheld the constitutionality of involuntarily sterilizing insane and "feeble-minded" person so not to pass the gene on to the next generation.

Keating-Owen Act (1916)

Prohibited interstate commerce of goods made by children

In Mississippi in 1875, armed white rifle clubs drilled in public and openly assaulted ___________.

Republicans

In November 1917, during World War I, a communist revolution broke out in what country?

Russia

In what legal case did Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes declare that the First Amendment did not prevent Congress from prohibiting speech that presented a "clear and present danger"?

Schenck v. United States

This law, considered a significant achievement of the maternalist reformers, provided federal assistance to programs for infants and children's health. However, it was later repealed by Congress in 1929.

Sheppard-Towner Act

The conservationist movement is most closely related to which president?

Theodore Roosevelt

The KKK was founded in 1866 as a secret society and served, in effect, as a military arm of the Democratic Party.

True

Eugene V. Debs, a Socialist Party leader, was imprisoned for delivering an antiwar speech.

false

Ida Tarbell authored the famous novel House of Mirth, which depicted the downfall of a young woman trying to "marry up" in society.

false

No one was ever convicted under the 1917 Espionage Act or the 1918 Sedition Act.

false

Only after Spain threatened to invade America did the United States elect to go to war.

false

The Ku Klux Klan sought to uphold the American ideal of equality and justice for all.

false

As late as 1940, only 3 percent of adult black southerners were registered to vote.

true

Between 1880 and 1940 there were more white sharecroppers than black sharecroppers.

true

Birth of a Nation, a movie filled with the ideologies of white supremacy and the Ku Klux Klan, had its premiere showing at the White House.

true

Both the Baptist and Methodist religions divided into northern and southern branches after the Civil War.

true

By 1900, measured by its acquisition of new territories, the United States was an imperialist power, the equal of Great Britain and France.

true

Democratic candidate Alfred E. Smith was the first Catholic to be nominated for president by a major party.

true

Herbert Hoover preferred "associational action" to government intervention in directing regulatory and welfare policies.

true

In 1882 and again in 1902, the United States Congress passed laws excluding immigrants from China.

true

In setting out to destroy the Indian economy and way of life after the Civil War, U.S. generals decimated the buffalo population.

true

Julia Lathrop was the first woman to head a federal agency; in 1912, she took up leadership of the Children's Bureau.

true

Presidents Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson shared a common belief that the United States had a right, even a duty, to intervene from time to time in the affairs of other countries.

true

Reparations payments at the end of World War I demanded Germany pay, in effect, to repair the damages it had inflicted on the Allies (reparations payments were estimated variously to be between $33 billion and $56 billion).

true

The country plunged into an economic depression in 1873, and support among Republicans for further reforms in the South weakened.

true

the Platt Amendment authorized the United States to intervene militarily in Cuba whenever it saw fit.

true

Socialism

A system in which society, usually in the form of the government, owns and controls the means of production.

What two Christian denominations commanded the largest African-American following in the South after the Civil War?

Baptist and Methodist

What two countries were not subject to immigration quota limitations under the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924?

Canada and Mexico

Augusto Sandino

Led a guerrilla resistance movement against U.S. occupation forces in Nicaragua; assassinated by Nicaraguan National Guard in 1934; became national hero and symbol of resistance to U.S. influence in Central America.

Twice vetoed by President Coolidge, this bill enabled government purchase of agricultural products for sale overseas in order to raise farm prices.

McNary-Haugen bill

During the Progressive era, the largest city in the United States was

New York.