History 225 Final

Which of the following was not a program associated with LBJ's Great Society?

The Interstate Highway Act.

President Jimmy Carter's "malaise speech"

urged Americans to overcome their "crisis of confidence."

In explaining his foreign policy Taft said, "Modern diplomacy is commercial." By which he meant

America should use its wealth, instead of military force, to create order and stability in the world.

American businessmen of the Gilded Age neither asked for nor received assistance from state or federal governments.

False

As a sign of their solidarity, major New York banks loaned nearly $2.5 billion to Germans in the first two and a half years of the war.

False

Bill Clinton's first administration represented the resurgence of Great Society liberalism in the wake of failed Reagan/Bush economic policies.

False

Eleanor Roosevelt was known for bringing the New Woman flapper style of sexuality and glamour into the White House.

False

From the time the war with Spain began in Cuba, Americans were united in their goal of liberating that island nation and acquiring the Philippines as a U.S. colony.

False

On the eve of WWII, Hitler's expansion into neighboring nations was slowed significantly by the British Prime Minister's firm stance against German incursion into the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.

False

One problem that contributed to depth of the stock market crash was the failure of banks to invest enough of their customers' money in the stock market.

False

Phyllis Schlafly helped to pass the ERA out of Congress and campaigned hard for ratification in the states. But she failed to get the requisite number of states to ratify it.

False

Reagan's economic policies forced interest rates, gasoline, and CEO pay down, while also balancing the federal deficit.

False

The 1920s saw three consecutive Republican presidents elected with promises of continuing the progressive reforms that previous Republican president, Teddy Roosevelt, had championed.

False

The Supreme Court's decisions against the use of busing to integrate public schools is an indication that Nixon's appointee, Rehnquist, had tipped the court against further civil rights progress.

False

The difference between "conservation" and "preservation" of natural resources prevented Roosevelt from being able to save as much of the Grand Canyon as he wanted.

False

When coal mine workers went on strike in 1902, President Roosevelt sent in federal troops to re-open the mines, but violence ensued in what came to be know as the Ludlow Massacre.

False

When did the Supreme Court decide that a criminal defendant is entitled to a defense lawyer, even if he or she cannot afford one on their own?

In the 1963 Gideon v. Wainwright decision.

Which of the following is true about the National Origins Act?

It created the border patrol.

Following armistice in Europe

President Wilson insisted that congress ratify the Treaty of Versailles without modifications. In the end failing to ratify it at all.

I response to economic stress and rising immigration in the Gilded Age, Americans attempted all of the following except

Protecting immigrants from attack by forming the American Protective Association.

Migration patterns in the US changed after the Civil War because

Rapidly expanding railroad networks enabled increased foreign and internal migration.

The study of workers' movements aimed at making them "as mechanical as the machine he tends" describes

Scientific management

Which of the following was NOT a feature of the Sunbelt region?

Strong unions.

LBJ's 1964 assertion that, "Lyndon Johnson is not going down as the president who lost Vietnam," indicated

That he feared inaction on his part would be used against him by Republicans.

Which of the following is evidence of Nixon's efforts to reduce tensions with the USSR?

The Anti-Balistic Missle Treaty.

This 1887 federal policy sought to turn Native Americans into Jeffersonian yeoman farmers by breaking up reservation lands, ultimately leading to American Indians losing more than 90 million acres by 1934.

The Dawes Act

Progressive reforms that generally fell under the "municipal housekeeping" umbrella included all of the following except

The passage of the 17th Amendment.

What made in the Knights of Labor more radical than the American Federation of Labor?

Their critique of industrial capitalism and inclusion of women, blacks, and others as members of "the producing masses."

What undermined the credibility of the Ku Klux Klan after the mid-1920s?

Their image suffered from publicity about their leader's commission of sexual assault and fraud.

Why did some progressives receive the news of World War I with utter disillusionment?

They thought that humankind had outgrown war and violence

Which of the following was a consequence of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion?

Together with other CIA activities, it pushed Cuba into closer alliance with the USSR.

New technologies created by the Defense Department, other government agencies, and universities made it easier for U.S. corporations to outsource parts of their business to foreign countries with lower labor costs.

True

Osama bin Laden, once supported by the US when fighting Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, became a problem for the US at the beginning of the Clinton administration when his followers detonated a truck bomb in the parking garage under the World Trade Center in New York in 1993.

True

Southern progressives argued that segregation of the races would decrease tensions and protect blacks from violence.

True

The original draft of the Social Security Act included a modest national health insurance plan, but the American Medical Association objected and it was stripped from the final version passed by Congress.

True

Carter responded to the USSR's invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 by

authorizing secret CIA aid to the Islamic guerrillas fighting against the Soviets there.

The National Consumers' League

boycotted stores until they improved conditions for their employees.

What helped galvanize the opposition to the Vietnam War during the Johnson administration?

draft

After working with American forces to liberate the Philippines from Spanish colonial rule, Aguinaldo sought Philippine acceptance as the newest state of the United States, but the US General Jacob H. Smith refused.

false

The Anti-Imperial League sought to prevent European powers from violating the Monroe Doctrine.

false

The Populist Party's Omaha Platform called for the government to return to a laissez-faire policies, because that would help farmers deal fairly with the railroad monopolies.

false

The expansion of railroads in the 1870s to 1890s helped make farmers in the midwest into wealthy "Alliances", which modeled themselves on the powerful industrial trusts.

false

During WWI, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. wrote in a Supreme Court decision that

in times of war no citizen had the right to criticize the government or advocate a strike by munitions workers.

As President Nixon reduced U.S. troop levels in Vietnam in 1969, he also

increased the pace of bombing in South Vietnam and Cambodia.

President Hoover responded to the Great Depression by

loaning money to banks, railroads, manufacturers, and mortgage companies.

Under George H. W. Bush, the "Powell Doctrine" referred to

the application of "lessons from Vietnam" in Operation Desert Storm.

One of the most significant political shifts during the 1970 and 1980s was

the shift of evangelical Christian voters from the Democratic party to the Republican Party.

As America embarked on imperial expansion, some public figures pointed to the history of dealing with Native Americans as justification for absorbing new lands while denying the people in those lands the rights of American citizenship.

true

Collective violence in the American West was much more brutal and common than heroic gunfights between sheriffs and law-breakers. In fact, lynchings were defended by some newspapers as saving money and time by executing criminals without delay.

true

Henry Demarest Lloyd's 1894 book asserted that poverty, not wealth, was the striking feature of the new industrial order in the late 19th century.

true

Many Gilded Age charity organizations such as the Salvation Army believed that poverty and crime were the product of the moral failure of the poor themselves, while other reformers such as settlement house workers approached poverty as a consequence of social failures, not personal moral failure.

true

Railroads affected Americans' perceptions of time because their closely scheduled traffic on the rails lead them to establish standard "time zones", leading farmers to set their clock by RR time rather than the rising and setting of the sun.

true

The Allied forces lost the support of Russia

when Lenin approved the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany.