History 152 Before MT

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Approximately what percent of early rodeo contestants were women?

10%

What percent of married women worked outside of the home in the 1920s?

10%

When did the United States begin trading with China?

1784

Which census first revealed that a majority of Americans were living in cities?

1920

What percent of Americans were investing in the stock market prior to the crash?

2.5%

In the election of 1896, 130,000 black Louisianans voted. In 1900 the number was _____________.

5,320

By 1890, in most large northern cities, immigrants and their children amounted to what percent of the population?

60%

What was the Zimmerman Telegram?

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 Open-Door Policy?

A call for all western powers to have equal access to Chinese markets

What was the Lost Cause?

A glorification of the memory of the Confederacy and a romanticization of the Old South as a pastoral land with benevolent masters and happy slaves

What was the Bonus Army?

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

Warren G. Harding won office by campaigning on which theme

A return to normalcy

Marcus Garvey created a movement encouraging black Americans to migrate to Africa. To do this he created which of the following:

A shipping company called the Black Star Line

What is the definition of Herbert Hoover's "Associationalism?"

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

What economic opportunity drew the most migrants to the West?

Access to land for agriculture

All of the following statements regarding the National Woman's Party are true EXCEPT

Advocated violent resistance to sexism

Roosevelt tried to create relief for American farmers through the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA). What did the AAA do?

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

All of the following were candidates in the 1912 presidential election EXCEPT

Al Smith

One of the intellectual leaders of the Harlem Renaissance wrote that "we are achieving something like a spiritual emancipation." Who was this intellectual?

Alain Locke

The Paiute prophet Wovoka promised that which of the following would occur if Indians obeyed his instructions and participated in the ceremony that came to be called the Ghost Dance

All of these

The Socialist Party of America achieved which of the following gains in the early twentieth century?

All of these

The roots of 1920's Christian Fundamentalism can be found in _____.

All of these

What explains the popularity of Wild West shows?

All of these

What tactics were used to disenfranchise Black voters?

All of these

Which of the following are true about the Committee on Public Information?

All of these

Which of the following factors contributed to William McKinley's victory over William Jennings Bryan in the 1896 election?

All of these

Which of the following helped increase consumer spending in the 1920s?

All of these

Which of the following is NOT true about the New Deal?

All of these

Which of the following led to the racial violence of the Red Summer of 1919?

All of these

Which of the following statements regarding "muscular Christianity" are true:

All of these

Which of the following statements regarding Jane Addams' activism are true?

All of these

All of the following statements are true about the New Deal EXCEPT

All of these are true

By 1913, the United States produced one-third of the world's industrial output. This was more than __________.

All of these combined

What was Frederick Jackson Turner's "Frontier Thesis?"

American culture was forged by the struggle between civilized settlers and savage frontier life, giving it a democratic and hardworking spirit

Why did the League of Nations fail?

American refusals to join

What was FDR's "court-packing scheme"

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

What was the particular spark that ignited World War I?

Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and Grand Duchess Sophie

Where did Germany first invade?

Belgium

Who advocated racial accomodationism?

Booker T. Washington

Which of these authors criticized Victorian era gender norms?

Both of these

All the following are true about the Woman's Christian Temperance Union EXCEPT

Carrie Nation was never a member

Which city served as the most important railroad hub, connecting the East and the West?

Chicago

Which ethnic group faced the most rigid immigration restrictions?

Chinese

Women served in the armed forces during World War I. They served in all of the following positions EXCEPT

Commissioned Officers

As President, Theodore Roosevelt transformed the American navy by emphasizing which of the following strategies?

Creating battleships and a "blue water" navy that would win battles against rival fleets

The Spanish-American War resulted in the United States acquiring all the following territories from the Spanish EXCEPT

Cuba

Upon assuming office, how did Roosevelt respond to the collapsing bank system?

Declared a bank holiday and then pushed through the Emergency Banking Act

How did the Roosevelt Corollary modify the Monroe Doctrine?

Declaring that the U.S. had the right to preemptive action through intervention in any Latin American nation to correct administrative and fiscal deficiencies

Immigrant Americans tended to vote for which political party?

Democratic Party

Army General John "Black Jack" Pershing used all of the following technologies in his attempt to capture Pancho Villa EXCEPT

Destroyers

What was the result of the King-Crane Commission?

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

How did southern reformers seek to combat corruption?

Disenfranchising black voters

What was the primary purpose of the failed Equal Rights Amendment?

Eliminate all legal distinctions based on sex

What theme dominated American popular entertainment in the 1920s?

Escape

Which of the following issues most concerned American diplomats prior to World War I?

Expanding transatlantic trade

How did increased availability of consumer credit in the 1920s influence American expenditures?

Expenditures increased

What brought about the Roosevelt Recession of 1937?

FDR reduced funding for New Deal programs

Louisiana Senator Huey Long criticized Roosevelt's New Deal programs for _____________

Failing to redistribute wealth

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?

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

The Homestead Act granted official title to160 acre plots of land after how many years of settlement?

Five years

FDR appointed the first female cabinet member. Who was it?

Frances Perkins

Which of the following events most seriously damaged the Knights of Labor?

Haymarket Affair

Why did William Jennings Bryan attack the Gold Standard?

He wanted to increase inflation to lower the burden of farmers debts

What most directly explains the boost in production of McCormick reapers?

The adoption of interchangeable parts

What was the most dramatic result of the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act?

The creation of a national minimum wage

Which of the following best describes the Social Gospel?

The goal of saving society as well as souls

All of the following statements regarding the boosters of the New South are true EXCEPT

They saw economic independence as a means of limiting connections between North and South

All of the following statements regarding the Guano Islands Act of 1856 are true EXCEPT

This legislation put Guano Islands on a path to statehood that later was rejected

The Espionage Act (1917) and the Sedition Act (1918) did all of the following EXCEPT

Thwarted German spy rings in New York, Washington D.C., and Chicago

What was the purpose of Western cattle drives?

To bring cattle to eastern markets, mostly through railroad hubs

The peace agreement ending the war was the

Treaty of Versailles

The Triple Entente united all of the following nations EXCEPT.

United States

wave of mergers peaked between 1897 and 1904. The largest of these mergers created the first billion-dollar American corporation. What was that corporation?

United States Steel

Why did so many die in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?

Unsafe working conditions

W. E. B. Du Bois, founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, broke with his former mentor Booker T. Washington because Du Bois believed that Washington _______.

Was not bold enough

Edward Bellamy's 1888 novel Looking Backward did all of the following EXCEPT

advocated violent class-warfare

Which of the following describes the place of the labor movement during the 1920s?

membership declined

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 greatest challenge to FDR's reelection in 1936 came from _____.

the radical left

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

two

Between 1897 and 1904, over four thousand companies

were consolidated down into 257 corporate firms

________________, wrote an influential book, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases and helped inspire the anti-lynching movement.

Ida B. Wells

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

Influenza

What was the consequence of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930?

International trade collapsed

Which of the following definitions best describes the work of muckrakers?

Investigative journalists

All of the following are true about the Social Gospel movement EXCEPT

It explained Andrew Carnegie's vision for the proper role of wealth in American society

Which of the following is true about the Influenza Pandemic?

It was misnamed the Spanish Influenza

Which of the following writers most effectively used photography in their work?

Jacob Riis

The most popular form of music in the 1920s was _____.

Jazz

Southern white supremacy and segregation were legally maintained by a set of laws collectively known as

Jim Crow

Which of the following environmental thinkers advocated preservation rather than conservation?

John Miur

Which of the following groups was the most radical?

Knights of Labor

How did progressive Democrats in the South seek to solve the problems of racial strife?

Legislating segregation

Two events are widely credited with inspiring the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan. One is the release of the film The Birth of a Nation. What was the second?

Lynching of Leo Frank

How did attitudes toward sex change in the 1920s?

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

Movies became popular in the 1920s. Which actress of the 1920s was known as "America's Sweetheart?"

Mary Pickford

Most practices and objects associated with American cowboys were modified from ______ ranchers.

Mexican

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

All of the following are true about American Neutrality EXCEPT

Neutrality kept the United States out of the war

A vibrant homosexual culture developed during the 1920s in which American city?

New York

Which of the following actions did FDR take to advance civil rights for African Americans?

None of these occurred

Theodore Roosevelt first gained fame as a trustbuster by attacking which monopoly in 1902?

Northern Securities

During the nineteenth century, American interests in the Middle East revolved around all of the following EXCEPT

Oil

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?

Oil companies

How did the United States respond to the Bolshevik Revolution?

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

How did the Federal Reserve respond to the financial collapse?

Overcorrected by raising interest rates and tightening credit

How did the United States respond to the Boxer Rebellion in China?

President McKinley sent the U.S. Army into China without consulting congress

Catholic clergymen who took up the name "Americanists" believed in all of the following EXCEPT

Public schools were a danger to the Catholic faith

What did the Works Progress Administration do?

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

What was the Red Summer of 1919?

Racial violence in twenty-five American cities

Which group received more land from the government?

Railroad Companies

All of the following groups provided cultural space for immigrants to maintain their arts, languages, and traditions EXCEPT

Rotary clubs

What legal principle was enshrined by the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson?

Separate but equal

Which group founded the People's Party (also known as the Populists)?

Small farmers in the South, Midwest, and Great Plains

Which group of Americans benefited the least from the economic changes of the 1920s?

Southern Farmers

Which of the following most accurately describes the arguments of Social Darwinism?

State welfare and private charity would lead to degeneration by perpetuating the survival of the weak

How did many black leaders, including W. E. B. Du Bois, respond to the war?

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

What was the result of the Kaiserschlacht?

The Germans launched five failed major attacks

Which group accounted for 90% of household expenditures in 1920s homes?

Women

All the following are true about the "2nd" Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s EXCEPT

Women had no affiliation with the Klan


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