HIST 1700 Final Exam

What was ironic about the election of Andrew Johnson?

A man from a state that had seceded was now president.

The first United States president to be impeached in the House of Representatives was:

Andrew Johnson

On September 17, 1862, the "bloodiest single day" of fighting in American history occurred at:

Antietam - Sharpsburg Maryland

General Lee surrendered his army to General Grant at the courthouse in

Appomattox County, VA

When assessing the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, what can be determined about this issue?

Both Congress and the president accused the other of unconstitutional acts.

Why was Vicksburg essential?

Capturing the city allowed the Union to control the entire Mississippi River.

What broad popular sentiments did the Ku Klux Klan express in the 1920s?

Control of the nation should be returned to native-born Protestants.

Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860 without any southern electoral votes.

False

The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 freed slaves in border states fighting on the union side.

False

What time period most influenced the New Deal?

First World War

Who became the first African-American Senator in 1870?

Hiram Revels

In what way was the Reconstruction policy a success?

It established an amendment promising equal protection for all

The declared President of the Confederate States of America was

Jefferson Davis

___________, founder of the Standard Oil Company gained control of 90% of the petroleum refining capacity in the U.S. by eliminating competitors through buyouts and aggressive business practice.

John D Rockefeller

What was Lincoln's hidden weapon that allowed the military to quickly transport troops and supplies over long distances like never before?

Rail-roads

The first state to choose secession was:

South Carolina

By analyzing the New York City draft riots, what can be determined about the Civil War?

The Civil War was a rich man's war and a poor man's fight.

Unsanitary conditions in the meat packing industry were sensationalized in ___________, a 1906 novel by Upton Sinclair.

The Jungle

What did the members of the new United Nations Security Council all have in common?

They were all part of the allies that won World War II.

The Congress passed the first national conscription law in 1963, but the rich people could buy their way out of the draft by hiring a substitute for $300.

True

On May 10, 1869, the Union and Central Pacific Railroads joined their rails at Promontory Summit, ___________ Territory.

Utah

Results of the Kansas-Nebraska Act included

a bloody civil conflict between proslavery and antislavery forces in Kansas

The ascendancy of the American Federation of Labor during the 1890s reflected:a. the increasing radicalism of the American labor movement.b. the increasing social conscience in the American population overall.

a shift from broad reform goals to more limited goals.

The Compromise of 1850 established all of the following statutes EXCEPT:

abolition of slavery, admission of NM as a slave state

Black Codes:

all of the above

The Freedmen's Bureau:

all of the above

Treaty of Versailles (1919):

all of the above

In the controversial Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court declared that:

blacks were not citizens of the United States

PUSH factors for immigration include:

change in economy, religious intolerance in homeland, high wages (all of the above)

Enacted in 1882, ___________ was the first immigration law to ban a certain race of people from coming to America.

chinese exclusion act

Although well-intended, the New Deal for Native Americans resulted in a series of forced assassinations.

false

Emperor Hirohito was tried as a war criminal and sentenced to death along with General Tojo.

false

Overall, despite good intentions the Marshall Plan was not very successful.

false

Proposed by Woodrow Wilson to promote peace through collective security, the League of Nations was created in 1920, and the United States was the first member.

false

The only people killed during the German Holocaust were the Jewish people.

false

the America First Committee campaigned for Americans to be the first to go to war against Nazi Germany.

false

In the 1950s, what did the term "totalitarianism" describe?

fascism, nazism, communism

The ___________ Amendment protected blacks' right to vote.

fifteenth

The ___________ Amendment prohibited states from depriving any male citizen of equal protection under the law, regardless of race.

fourteenth

During the Allied occupation of Japan, ___________ introduced reforms designed to convert Japan into a democratic country.

general MacArthur

While the standard of living rose for many Americans after the Civil War and huge fortunes were amassed by industrialists, significant societal problems developed. Mark Twain called the era a ___________ Age.

gilded

___________ the systematic state-sponsored killing of six million Jewish men, women, and children and millions of others by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II.

holocaust

According to Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, how could corporations have prevented the Great Depression?

increasing workers wages

In contrast to the American Federation of Labor, the Congress of Industrial Organizations fought for:

industrial democracy

What could be one possible reason why Robert E. Lee invaded the North in 1863?

knockout blow to the north

Which of the following elements of President Wilson's Fourteen Points most resembled the commissions Progressives had instituted back home?a. the League

league of nations

The purpose of the D-Day invasion was to:

liberate France from German control

The Battle of ___________ was a turning point in the Pacific Theater of World War II.

midway

Which of the following least symbolized the growing autonomy of working women with regard to their consumerism?

military service

Cause of World War I include:

nationalism, imperialism, alliance system, all of the above

___________ is an anti-foreigner sentiment in the U.S. that fueled a drive against immigration. (feeling of hatred towards those not "American")

nativism

The ___________ Amendment granted women the right to vote in all the states.

nineteenth

When "Fifty-four Forty or Fight" did not result in gaining all of the Pacific Northwest, who most likely would have been the angriest?

northern democrats

What inspiration did Martin Luther King Jr. gain from Mahatma Gandhi?

peaceful civil disobedience

What taste of freedom did women enjoy in World War II?

perks of doings mens jobs

PULL factors for immigration include:

plentiful land, abundant jobs and high wages (all of the above)

Which of the following trends of the 1920s did fundamentalists support?

prohibition of liquor sales

What was the result of the expanding Union economy?

size and spending of the government increased tremendously

Passed by Congress in 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution outlawed:

slavery everywhere in the US

Lincoln used the ___________ to communicate with his generals and other officers to keep tabs of what was going on a battle front.

telegraph

The Manhattan Project was the code name for:

the project to develop the atomic bomb - atomic bomb developmental efforts

Which of the following Second New Deal measures came closest to meeting the demands of the Congress of Industrial Organizations for workplace democracy?

the wagner act

The "March to the Sea" (Atlanta, GA to Savannah, NC) was the cultivation of Union General William Sherman's 1864 campaign and was a devastating example of "___________ war"

total

After Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, FDR issued Executive Order 9066. As a result, over 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry were uprooted and confined to remote camps farther inland for most of the war.

true

By 1880, a majority of Americans worked in nonfarm activities.

true

Chinese immigrants, often performing dangerous tasks, played an important role in the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad.

true

During the 1920s, labor lost over 2 million members.

true

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf, over 2,000 kamikaze pilots crashed their aircraft into U.S. ships.

true

Franklin D. Roosevelt was the only U.S. president to serve more than two terms.

true

Picture bride refers to the practice of Japanese immigrants in Hawaii and the West Coast, selecting brides from Japan via a matchmaker, who paired bride and groom using ONLY photographs and family recommendations of the possible candidate.

true

Social Security was instituted during the Great Depression.

true

The most common battle surgery was the amputation

true

The percentage of families at or below the poverty rate fell during the 1950s.

true

Wade-Davis Bill, a program proposed for the Reconstruction of the South written by two Radical Republicans, was vetoed by Lincoln and never took effect.

true

John Wilkes Booth, an actor who shot and killed Lincoln

true, shot to death

What would John Winthrop most likely criticize about antebellum America?

utopian societies promoting free love

Apart from the racial identity of victims, what typically triggered the lynch violence of southern white mobs?

victims alleged sexual conduct

The scale of the Civil War bloodshed was comparable to that of which other conflict?

war of the triple alliance

In the first half of the nineteenth century, the United States gained the most territory through:

wars with mexico

The idea that change comes slowly can be evidenced by what event during Reconstruction?

women were excluded from the suffrage amendment