History 1700 Final Exam

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

14

The ___ Amendment protected blacks' right to vote

15th

the ____ amendment granted women the right to vote in all the states

19th

The Freedmen's Bureau:

Agency set up to aid former slaves in adjusting themselves to freedom

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

Andrew Johnson

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

Appomattox, Virginia

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

Battle of Antietam, Maryland

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

Blacks were property, not citizens

Results of the Kansas-Nebraska Act included

Bleeding Kansas and the Civil War

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

Both congress & president accused the other of unconstitutional acts

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

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

Civil war was a rich mans war & poor mans fight

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 peach through collective security, the League of Nations was created in 1920, and the United States was the first member

False

The America 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 only people killed during the German Holocaust were the Jewish People

False

although well intended, the new deal for native americans resulted in a series of forced assimilations

False

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

General McArthur

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 II

Holocaust

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

Hoped to deliver a knockout blow to North

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

Idea of peaceful civil disobedience

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

In what way was 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

Black Codes:

Jobless blacks can be arrested or fined

____, 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

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

League of Nations

What was ironic about the election of Andrew Johnson?

Man from South was president

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

____ is an antiforeigner sentiment in the U.S. that fueled a drive against immigration.

Nativism

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 taste of freedom did women enjoy in World War II?

Perks of doing mens jobs

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

Prohibition of liquor sales

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

Railroads

Passed by Congress in 1865, the 13th Amendment to the Constitution outlawed:

Slavery everywhere in the U.S.

The first state to choose secession was:

South Carolina

What was a result of the expanding Union economy?

The size and spending of the government increased tremendously

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

They were all part of the allies that won WW2

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

True

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

Social security was instituted during the Great Depression

True

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

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

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

Victims alleged sexual conduct

What time period most influenced the New Deal?

WWI

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

Wagner Act

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

War of 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 sufferage movement

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

abolish slavery

Causes of World War I include:

all of the above

Pull factors for immigration

all of the above

Push factors for immigration

all of the above

Treaty of Versailles (1919)

all of the above

The Manhattan Project was the code name for:

atomic bomb

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

control of nation should be returned to native born protestants

John Wilkes Booth, an actor who killed Lincoln

died by shot

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

fascism, nazism, communism

While 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

unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry were sensationalized in ____, a 1906 novel by Upton Sinclair

jungle

The purpose of the D-Day invasion was to:

liberate France from German control

The ascendancy of the American Federation of Labor during the 1890s reflected:

shift from broad reforming goal to more limited goals

Lincoln used the __ to communicate with his generals and other officers to keep tabs of what was goin on at the battle front

telegraph

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

total

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 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