History 1700 Final Dr. O Hosok
Results of the Kansas-Nebraska Act included
"Bleeding Kansas"- bloody conflict between pro-slavery and antislavery forces in Kansas
What was the biggest fear of a slave of any age?
A family member being sold
What was ironic about the election of Andrew Johnson?
A man from a state that had seceded was now president
The "living wage" and the "american standard of living" were an outgrowth of what?
A mature consumer economy
Which of the following would be an example of "Silent sabotage"
A slave on a large plantation slowed down the work pace
What triggered the surge of conservative governments in central Europe at the end of World war I?
A worldwide revolutionary upsurge
Black codes
All of the above
Causes of world war 1 included
All of the above
Treaty of Versailles (1919)
All of the above
The first united states president to be impeached in the house of representatives was
Andrew Johnson
September 17, 1862, the "bloodiest single day" of fighting in american history occurred at
Antietam
General Lee surrendered his army to General Grant at the courthouse in:
Appomattox, Virginia
How did fundamentalist Christians define freedom in the 1920s?
As voluntary adherence to moral liberty
Which of the following had been a traditional belief prior to economic theories of John Maynard Keynes?
Balanced budgets were sacred
In the 1850's, which action would be in line with Abraham Lincoln's views on race?
Blacks and whites live harmoniously in the same town.
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
According to the supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, how could corporations have prevented the great depression?
By increasing their workers' wages
Why was Vicksburg essential?
Capturing the city allowed the Union to control the entire Mississippi River.
Enacted in 1882, ___________ was the first immigration law to ban a certain race of people from coming to America.
Chinese exclusion act
What broad popular sentiments did the Ku Klux Klan express in the 1920s?
Control of the nation should be returned to native-born protestants
By 1935, Huey Long and Francis Townsend had made which of the following approaches to economic recovery less promising for New Dealers?
Efforts at general business recovery
Abraham Lincoln realized that his armies had to capture the confederate capital, Richmond, in order to win the war
False
After world war I, american corporations ceased to pursue overseas investments
False
Angel Island was where most Mexican immigrants entered the United States.
False
During world war I, most progressive were outraged at the broad suppression of the freedom of expression and spoke out against the sedition act.
False
Emperor Hirohito was tried as a war criminal and sentenced to death along with general Tojo
False
If one commodity drove the economy in the 1920s it was the typewriter
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 americans first committee campaigned for americans to be the first to go to war against Nazi germany
False
The emancipation proclamation of 1863 freed slaves in border states fighting on the union side
False
The union naval blockade was very effective early in the war
False
The union was restored by 1870, the southern states had democratic majorities
False
Upton Sinclair wrote a piercing two-volume history of the standard oil company
False
Upton sinclair campaigned for governor of california on the share our wealth movement
False
William McKinley championed a government that would help ordinary Americans
False
although well intended, the new deal for native americans resulted in a series of forced assimilations
False
In the 1850s what did the term "totalitarianism" describes?
Fascism, Nazism, and communism
The ______ Amendment protected blacks' right to vote
Fifteenth
What time period most influenced the new deal?
First World War
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
What separated Grant from the other Union generals that commanded the Army of the Potomac
Grant was willing to wage a war of attrition
In what aspect of American foreign policy did Franklin D. Roosevelt remove himself from Herbert Hoover's precedent?
He formally recognized the Soviet Union in an effort to stimulate trade
What would one possible reason why Roberte. Lee invaded the North in 1863?
He hoped to deliver a knockout blow to the north
Besides preserving the Union, how else has Lincoln's legacy lived on in today's America?
He overcame regional differences to build a new nation-state
Who became the first African-American Senator in 1870?
Hiram Revels
________ 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 2
Holocaust
Which of the following statements would have been prosecuted under the sedition act of 1918?
I call on you to boycott the draft
In contrast to the american federation of Labor, the congress of industrial organizations fought for
Industrial Democracy
In what ways was Reconstruction policy a success?
It established an amendment promising equal protection for all
What effect did the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin have on many northern white people?
It moved them to active participation in the debate and the end of slavery
The opening of Japan to United States trade led to what?
Japan became a modernized military power
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 US by eliminating competitors through buyouts and aggressive business practice
John D. Rockefeller
After comparing the presidencies of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, what conclusion can be made?
Lincoln was pragmatic in his decision making
What was the greatest accomplishment of the abolitionists by 1840?
Making slavery a prominent topic of conversation
Which of the following best describes the economic dynamic of the great depression
Mass unemployment and the lack of investment triggered a devastating cycle of deflation
the battle of ___ was the turning point in the pacific theater of world war 2
Midway
Which of the following least symbolized the growing autonomy of working women with regard to their consumerism?
Military Service
A new bullet, called _____, which was easier to load into a rifle than the older type of ammunition, contributed to the high casualty rate in the civil war
Minie Ball
_____ is an anti-foreigner sentiment in the US that fueled a drive against immigration
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 was Lincoln's hidden weapon that allowed the military to quickly transport troops and supplies over long distances like never before?
Railroads
What did fighting a defensive war mean for the Confederates?
Since the weapon technology was basically equal, it was an advantage for the confederates
Passed by congress in 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment to the constitution outlawed
Slavery everywhere in the United States
The first state to choose secession was:
South Carolina
Lincoln used the ______ to communicate with the generals and other officers to keep tabs of what was going on at the battle front
Telegraph
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 charges against which of the following organizations led to the downfall of Joseph McCarthy in 1954
The army
By analyzing the New York City draft riots, what can be determined about the civil war?
The civil war was a rich mans war and a poor mans fight
What gave conservatives of the 1950s their political unity?
The common enemies of the Soviet Union and the Federal government
What would have been a practical outcome of the Emancipation Proclamation?
The freeing of slaves would weaken the confederate war effort
What would have made the freedmen bureau more effective
The government should have employed more agents to help with the numerous duties of the bureau
What inspiration did Martin Luther King Jr. gain from Mahatma Gandhi?
The idea of peaceful civil disobedience
unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry were sensationalized in ______, a 1906 novel by Upton Sinclair
The jungle
Which even did President John F. Kennedy blame on the failures of the Eisenhower administration?
The launch of the Soviet Satellite Sputnik
How did reconstruction leave an enduring legacy?
The leadership of the civil rights movement came from African-American Families owned land
In the New Testament, Jesus did not condemn slavery. What did this mean to southern slaveholders?
The new testament could be used to endorse slavery
What taste of freedom did women enjoy in World War II?
The perks of doing mens jobs
Which of the following trends of 1920s did fundamentalists support?
The prohibition of liquor sales
What constitutional right did workers claim in defense of their public activism?
The right to free speech
What was the result of the expanding Union economy?
The size and spending of the government increased tremendously
According to the petition from the freedmen to President Andrew Johnson, how was the planter class endangering freedom?
They tried to limit economic oppurtunity
What did the members of the new united nations security council all have in common
They were all part of allies that won world war II
The "March to the sea" (Atlanta, GA to Savannah, NC) was the culminated of the Union General William Sherman's 1864 campaign and was a devastating example of _______ War
Total
Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860 without any southern electoral votes
True
After Japan's attack on the 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
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 the U.S
True
Franklin D. Roosevelt was the only US president to serve more than two terms
True
George Kennan's long telegram laid the foundation for the policy of containment?
True
Patriotism during World War I meant support for the government, the war, and the American economic system.
True
Picture bride refers to the practice of Japanese immigrants to 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
Railroad companies divided the United states into Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific time zones
True
Social Security was instituted during the great depression
True
The civil rights act of 1866 became the first major law in american history to be passed over a presidential veto
True
The congress passed the first national conscription law in 1863, but the rich people could buy their way out of the draft by hiring a substitute for $300
True
The federal government hired the unemployment to build bridges, roads, airports, parks, housing for the poor, and a host of other public works projects, and the largest of these was administered by the tennessee valley authority
True
The issue of Texas annexation was hotly linked to slavery and affected the nominations of presidential candidates in the 1840's
True
The most common Civil War battlefield surgery was the amputation
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
in the past, depressions had hurt the labor movement; however labor made great strides during the new deal
True
percentages of families at or below the poverty rate fell during the
True
On May 10, 1869, the Union and Central Pacific Railroads joined their rails at promontory summit, ___ territory
Utah
What would John Winthrop most likely criticize about antebellum America?
Utopian societies promoting free love
The scale of the civil war bloodshed was compared 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
How can Andrew Johnson be compared to Abraham Lincoln?
When making decisions, Johnson was less flexible than Lincoln
How did racial segregation in the labor market affect African-American women?
a high percentage of black women worked for wages, typically in domestic service
The ascendancy of the american federation of labor during the 1890s reflected
a shift from broad reform goals to more limited goals
The compromise of 1850 established all of the following statutes EXCEPT
abolition of slavery
Freedom's Bureau
all of the above
Push factors for immigration
all of the above
pull factors for immigration
all of the above
In the controversial Dred Scott decision, the supreme court declared that
blacks were not citizens of the U.S
How did trickle-down economics claim to increase government tax revenues?
by lowering tax rates
Blacks owned more land in 1900 than they had at the end of Reconstruction.
false
Which of the following best describes the significance of the Fordney-McCumber Tariff of 1922?
it demonstrated a repudiation of Wilson's free trade ideas
The purpose of the D-day invasion was to
liberate France from German control
Through analyzing the "Sharecropping Contract," what can be determined?
the contract was a type of economic slavery
Which of the following elements of president wilsons forteen points most resembled the commissions progressives had instituted back home?
the league of nations
The Manhattan project was the code name for
the project to develop the atomic bomb
Had the Teller Amendment been applied to the Philippines and Cuba, how would it have changed the Spanish-American war?
the united states would have been barred from annexing the archipelago
Apart from the racial identity of victims, what typically triggered the lynch violence of southern white mobs?
the victims alleged sexual conduct
how did populists hope to guarantee farmers inexpensive access to markets for their crops
they called for public ownership of the railroads
John Wilkes Booth, an actor who killed Lincoln
was shot to death in a barn by Union soldiers
The idea that change comes slowly can be evidenced by what event during Reconstruction?
woman were excluded from the suffrage amendment