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What was the consuming passion of many white southerners during the Reconstruction years?
$$$ The development of industry.
The counterculture of the 1960s can best be described as:
$$$A rejection of mainstream American values.
The income of farmers plummeted during the 1920s. Why?
$$$Americans stopped consuming the products American farmers grew.
All of the following led to increased American anxiety in the 1950s EXCEPT:
$$$Beats, Beatniks, and Bohemians.
How did the Soviet Union seek to win influence in the "third world" in the 1950s?
$$$By offering free health care to any nation that would pledge its loyalty to the Soviet Union.
All of the following led to increased American anxiety in the 1950s EXCEPT:
$$$Communism
The Homestead Act granted 160 acres of public domain to settlers who:
$$$Had served in the military for two years.
Calvin Coolidge believed in the:
$$$Importance of government regulation.
The New Deal resulted in a greater amount of power in which branch of government?
$$$Legislative.
How were the Knights of Labor affected by the Haymarket Riot during 1884?
$$$Membership rapidly fell
All of the following statements about American imperialism are true EXCEPT:
$$$The Spanish-American War marked a turning point in American interventions abroad.
Political progressivism originated in:
$$$The West.
The economic philosophy of Keynesianism proposed that:
$$$The economy could only be stimulated through money "trickling-down."
All of the following statements about Reconstruction are true EXCEPT:
$$$The federal government attempted to enforce African American civil rights in 1870 by sending U.S. troops into the South.
All of the following are true of the nativist movement of the 1920s EXCEPT:
$$$They advocated a Buy American program.
The main area of agreement between the progressives and their populist predecessors was:
A belief that change could best be accomplished through the political process
Programs like the GI Bill were federal programs that helped many Americans:
Achieve middle-class status.
In 1950s America, the automobile:
Actually changed the nature of life in America, especially after the construction of the national highway system.
The word "progressivism" came into common use around 1910:
As a way of describing a broad, loosely defined political movement of individuals and groups.
The reformers' intention in the reservation policy and the Dawes Act was to:
Assimilate individual Indians into white culture.
By 1880, 40 percent of industrial workers lived:
At or below the poverty line.
The impact of the Cold War on the civil rights movement:
Brought greater support for civil rights causes by the US government, as the Cold War put American race relations on an international stage.
How did the Soviet Union seek to win influence in the "third world" in the 1950s?
By criticizing American race relations as inconsistent with American values.
The 1920s ideal of the "flapper" represented:
Changing norms for female behavior.
Gender played a significant role in the process of assimilating native Americans because:
Christian missionaries wanted native women to engage in housework rather than fieldwork.
During World War II, African Americans:
Continued to face discrimination and segregation in the military.
The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s:
Continued using force and intimidation against a growing number of cultural "enemies."
During World War II, Hollywood:
Developed patriotic films with more nuanced depictions of different groups, including African Americans
The doors were locked at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company on the day of the fire because the manager tragically forgot to unlock them when he arrived in the morning.
False
W.E.B. Du Bois:
Founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
President Johnson's "war on poverty":
Implemented the Head Start program, which provided early schooling, meals, and medical exams for poor preschool-age children.
The sit-in at Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960:
Inaugurated a movement of peaceful protest in the United States
Sharecropping and the crop-lien system:
Increasingly tied newly freed people to the land through debt.
The First New Deal:
Involved a multitude of programs, some of which worked and some of which did not.
What was a major negative impact of the Dawes General Allotment Act?
It attacked the core of Native American culture, effectively stripping tribal sovereignty
Army commanders encouraged the slaughter of buffalo herds because they thought:
It would break tribal resistance to the reservation system.
The Fourteenth Amendment:
Marked the most important change in the U.S. Constitution since the Bill of Rights.
Why did the American economy change form a producer-based economy to a consumer-based economy by the 1920s?
Mass production.
The New Culture of the 1920s celebrated what virtues?
Modernity and pleasure.
In general, progressives were:
Optimistic about citizens being able to improve social and economic conditions.
ALL of the following contributed to the emergence of the civil rights movement of the 1950s EXCEPT:
President Truman's refusal to desegregate the military.
When Democrats regained control of southern states after 1869, they considered these states to have been:
Redeemed
Which positive action was taken as a result of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire?
Safety conditions were improved and work hours for women were limited.
The Fifteenth Amendment:
Sought to guarantee that one could not be denied suffrage rights based on race.
In 1967, the Supreme Court ruled in Loving v. Virginia that:
State laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional
The first impulse of many newly emancipated people was to:
Test their new freedoms.
All of the following statements are true EXCEPT:
The Dawes Act resulted in greater tribal sovereignty.
All of the following statements about American imperialism are true EXCEPT:
The Monroe Doctrine declared American intent to intervene in the Middle East.
All of the following statements about World War I are true EXCEPT:
The U.S. army was an entirely volunteer service.
As a result of the Spanish-American War:
The United States acquired the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
All of the following were examples of cultural pushback against the ideals of 1950s America EXCEPT:
The Waverly Place statement.
The second industrial revolution was marked by:
The acceleration of factory production and increased activity in the mining and railroad industries.
What was muckraking, according to Theodore Roosevelt?
The action of searching out and publicizing scandalous information about big companies or institutions in the public interest.
The Double-V campaign was:
The argument that African Americans were fighting Jim Crow at home at the same time they were fighting fascism abroad.
The theory of Social Darwinism (eugenics) argued that:
The theory of evolution applied to humankind, thus explaining why some people were rich and others were poor.
When Birmingham police chief "Bull" Connor used nightsticks, high-pressure hoses, and attack dogs on young civil rights protestors:
There was a wave of revulsion globally.
What were Black female activists' views of imperialism?
They viewed it as a form of racial antagonism and drew parallels between the treatments of African Americans at home
What was the aim of Carlisle, a boarding school for Indians?
To "civilize" them, making them Americans as whites defined the term.
World War I increased Americanization efforts, as "hyphenated Americans" were considered suspect.
True
In the United States during World War II:
Unemployment declined and production soared, effectively ending the Great Depression.
All o the following statements are true EXCEPT:
W.E.B. DuBois and other black leaders opposed black men serving in the war.
The Ghost Dance:
Was a religious revitalization campaign among Indians.
"Rosie the Riveter":
Was the term for all female industrial workers during the war
In the nineteenth century, pools, trusts, and mergers were:
Ways that manufacturers sought to control the marketplace.
The southern Black Codes:
not right$$$ Allowed former slaves to testify in court against whites and to serve on juries.
The term "disfranchisement" refers to the process by which African Americans were denied the right to:
vote