hist 112 final exam

Which amendment grants voting rights for women?

19th amendment

Which of the following women created the radical National Women's Party and organized White House sentinels and hunger strikes?

Alice Paul

Hiram Revels and Blanche Bruce were both elected to the U.S. Senate from which state?

Mississippi

which president verbally promised "normalcy" after WW1?

Warren Harding

Reconstruction era saw a marked increase in the powers of which branch of the federal government?

congress

According to Theodore Roosevelt's Corollary Excerpts, the civilized nations will resort to complete anarchy and barbarism if those nations do what?

disarm

what issue was most essential to the Radical Republicans in Congress in 1865?

ensure the rights of the freedmen

The controversial case of Schenck vs. USA involved what constitutional issue?

freedom of speech and the first amendment

According to Jane Addams in her excerpt, what became the greatest menace to the neighborhood?

huge wooden garbage boxes

Shortly after entering World War II, the United States began the Manhattan Project to ?

it was a secret plan to build an atomic bomb

According to Booker T. Washington excerpt, he believes in which of the following:

literacy and property tests for voting

All of the following caused the Great Depression EXCEPT:

overconsumption

all of the following themes were featured in the excerpts "How the Other Half Lives" EXCEPT:

solutions/ideas

Which Theodore Roosevelt speech proclaimed the right of the U.S. Government to intervene in Latin and South America as a "police" power?

the Roosevelt Corollary

Truman chose to deploy the first atomic bomb in world history for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

the U.S. Air Force did not have enough fuel for waves of air strikes and raids

The New Deal was "revolutionary" for all of the following EXCEPT:

the new deal ended employment crisis through the constitution

The U.S. Army's last and final massacre of Amerindians occurred where?

wounded knee, South Dakota

Which of the following phrases cannot be found in section 1 of the 14th Amendment?

"on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude"

The new immigrants:

- came in the late 1890s and early 1900s came from northern and Western Europe

Eugenics is:

- court case Buck v. Bell upheld a national eugenics sterilization policy - means to be well born

According to Jacob Riis, the law defines a tenement as a house occupied by how many families?

2

The number of documented lynchings nationwide is over how many?

4,000

Who authored the expose titled "How the Other Half Lives"?

Jacob Riis

Which FDR program created jobs constructing dams and power plants in 8 states?

Tennessee Valley Authority

The outcome of the disputed presidential election of 1876 was significant because it led to the end of what?

brought an end to Reconstruction

According to Upton Sinclair, a visitor could tell which rooms a worker labored in by analyzing their?

feet

What does Jazz music mean to a proud Black American citizen like Langston Hughes?

jazz is one of the inherent expressions of negro life in America

Which of the following caused the stock market to crash in October 1929?

mass panic and rapid selling back of devalued stocks

Journalists who exposed the wrongs of American society during the Progressive era were known as?

muckrakers

In the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court upheld what state policy in question?

states could constitutionally enact legislation by which separate but equal facilities were required for whites and blacks

The Fifteenth Amendment pertains to what legal issue?

stipulated that states could not deny the right to vote on the basis of race, color, or previous condition of servitude

Which anti-alcohol movement did NOT depend on the passage of legal laws but instead focused on morally persuading individuals to reform themselves?

temperance

Which tragedy was specifically directed at the Cheyenne people?

the Sand Creek Massacre

The Buffalo soldiers demonstrated bravery and valor in what U.S. war?

the Spanish-American War

What new crisis was triggered by the stock market crash of 1929?

the banking crisis

By the end of his presidency, Ulysses Grant's popularity had declined substantially because of what problem?

the corruption evident in his administration

according to Upton Sinclair, a man could run his hand over these piles of meat and sweep off handfuls of?

the dried dung of rats

The late nineteenth century has been called the Gilded Age because of what activities?

the era was characterized by corruption and greed

Booker T. Washington felt the agitation of questions of social equality is:

the extreme folly (meaning extremely ridiculous)

In Ellen Welles Page's "A Flapper's Appeal to Parents" what does she say tore away their spiritual foundations and challenged their faith?

the first world war

The internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War was based on what?

their ethnic origin