History exam

Choose the correct association: a. Eighteenth Amendment: Made the sale of alcohol illegal b. Nineteenth Amendment: Graduated Income Tax c. Sixteenth Amendment: Women's suffrage d. Seventeenth Amendment: Prohibited the use of child labor in industry.

18th amendment made the sale of alcohol illegal

This American victory in 1777 convinced France to support the rebels against Britain

Battle of Saratoga

Which of the following best describes British policies toward the colonies in the 1720s-1750s?

Benign or salutary neglect

During the early phase of Presidential Reconstruction, Southern states passed_________ , a set of regulations to promote white supremacy and to control the economic and social activities of the freedmen

Black codes

The Bay of Pigs and the Missile Crisis related to what nation?

Cuba

During World War II, Japanese Americans were essentially ignored by the American public.

False

In the Presidential Election of 1964, Barry Goldwater, the Republican Candidate, won in the Deep South and therefore won theelection by a landslide

False

The Erie Canal bankrupted the state of New York with its huge cost.

False

The Louisiana Purchase was acquired from Spain during the presidency of James Madison

False

The purpose of the Zimmerman telegram was the keep both Mexico and the United States out of the war

False

True or False: The Powhatan feared the English newcomers as a threat and immediately attempted to wipe out their settlement of Jamestown

False

Unlike President Abraham Lincoln, President Andrew Johnson wanted a tougher and more rigorous Reconstruction, which required all southern whites to recognize African American economic and social equality

False

What was the Supreme Court's ruling in Worcester v. Georgia?

Georgia laws do not apply in the Cherokee Nation

Which individual escaped from slavery in a box?

Henry Brown

Which term describes German soldiers hired by Great Britain to put down the American rebellion?

Hessians

In 1953 United States overthrew this nation's leadership and installed a dictator. During Nixon's administration the United States continued to fund this leader, who bought large quantities of US weapons. During Carter's administration, a revolution occurred in that country and 53 American hostages were taken.

Iran

Identify the two largest ethnic immigrant groups that changed the demographics of the United States in the first half of thenineteenth century

Irish and German immigrants

What was the most important outcome of the Great war for Empire?

It caused the French expulsion from North America, and increased British Power

The weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation included all the following EXCEPT:

It had no power to regulate commerce

President Johnson labeled his overall program of domestic reform the

great society

The "anaconda" strategy: a. included, among other things, a blockade of the southern coast b. was General Pierre G. T. Beauregard's strategy for southern victory c. was General Ulysses S. Grant's strategy for quick northern victory d. assumed a quick end to the war

included, among other things, a blockade of the southern coast

Which of the following statements is CORRECT? a. Lincoln's election led to the immediate secession of all the slaveholding states. b. Virginia seceded immediately after Lincoln's election. c. The Upper South states called conventions and immediately seceded from the Union. d. Only the Deep South states immediately seceded from the Union. e. Lincoln campaigned openly as an abolitionist.

lincoln campaigned openly as an abolitionist

Which of the following statements is CORRECT? a. The Battle of Bull Run helped to shatter the illusion of a short war. b. Lincoln used the Union victory at the Battle of Vicksburg to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. c. The fall of Atlanta resulted in the defeat of Abraham Lincoln in the 1864 presidential election. d. The Battle of Gettysburg, the largest land battle in North America, was a victory for the Confederacy

lincoln used the union victory at the battle of vicksburg to issue the emancipation proclamation

Which ONE of the following associations is NOT correct? a. Provided subsidies for crop reduction, like cotton: Agricultural Adjustment Act b. Employed young men 18-25 to work on forestry projects: Civilian Conservation Corps c. Created the SEC and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: Glass-Steagall Act d. Loan program created by the Hoover administration to stabilize large companies: Tennessee Valley Authority

loan program created by the hoover administration to stabilize large companies: Tennessee valley authority

The Proclamation Line of 1763:

made expansion beyond the Appalachian Mountains illegal

In the 1830s abolitionists

met opposition even in the North.

Sherman's Field Order No. 15

none of the above apply to shermans field order

"Massive Resistance" was a slogan and policy associated with which of the following?

opponents of the Brown v. Board of education decision

.Nixon's Watergate-related downfall came with the revelation that he had:

ordered a cover-up of the original watergate break-in

George Washington symbolically established an important precedent in civil-military relations that remains to this day - that the military is subservient to civilian oversight - by:

returning the commission as Commander-in-chief to the Continental Congress

State Department official George Kennan

said the United States should contain Soviet expansionist tendencies

In her autobiography, Harriet Robinson

says that many females worked to pay for the education of some male member of the family.

In April 1775, the British marched to Concord, Massachusetts, in an effort to

seize weapons and arrest colonial leaders

In response to the Little Rock crisis in 1957, Eisenhower

sent federal troops to protect black students

The Missouri Compromise stipulated that, other than Missouri, in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase NORTH of 36°30':

slavery would be excluded

The term applied to the economic problems faced by the nation during both the Nixon and Carter administrations was:

stagflation

Nixon's "southern strategy" involved winning southern support by:

stepping up military effect in vietnam

When North Korea attacked South Korea, Truman concluded:

that stalin and soviets were behin dit

The event that triggered World War I in Europe in June 1914 was:

the assassination of the archduke Francis Ferdinand by a Serbian nationalist

The Jungle was a novel exposing the extremely unsanitary conditions of:

the meatpacking industry

Which of the following events contributed to the US declaration of war against Germany in 1917?

the resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare by germany

The protest tactic initiated by black students in Greensboro, North Carolina, was:

the sit-in

One striking aspect of the Lowell factories was:

their employment of young single women

The first profitable crop in Virginia was

tobacco

True or False: The Rhode Island factory system was the most common type of factory system in the United States

true

Which term is NOT related to the Cold War?

truman doctrine

Shay's Rebellion

was a series of violent attacks on courthouses and other government properties in Massachusetts

The Battle of Midway

was a turning point in the war in the Pacific

The movement of southern blacks to the North:

was called the Great Migration

The development of the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima:

was the responsibility of the manhattan project

Slave marriages

were never legally sanctioned

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

authorized President Lyndon Johnson to take whatever means were necessary to defend american forces and prevent further communist aggression in vietnam

In the presidential election of 1948, the southern whites bolted the Democrat convention over the issue of _____________ policy. They formed the ______________Party (one word), which nominated Strom Thurmond for president

civil rights; dixiecrat

John Parker:

commanded the local militia during the battle of lexington

Under the laws of ____, a wife's personal and property rights belonged to her husband. She also lost the capacity to make contracts.

coverture

The Dred Scott decision

declared slavery unconstitutional

Wilson's Fourteen Points included all of the following EXCEPT:

freedom of the seas

The three-fifths clause in the U.S. Constitution:

gave the white South greater power in national affairs than the size of its free population warranted.

Both the policy of appeasement in Europe and the support for isolation in the United States began to recede when

germany invaded czechoslovakia

In what 1896 case did the Supreme Court, using the phrase "separate but equal," state that segregation was constitutional?

Plessy v Ferguson

During the 1936 presidential election, African Americans, in a reversal of historical trends, voted overwhelming for this party

Republican

In New England, religious dissent was viewed as dangerous to the community. Which two religious rebels challenged Puritan leadership?

Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson

The most vicious partisan fighting between loyalists and rebels took place in the backcountry of which state?

South Carolina

The "new" immigrants of the late nineteenth century increasingly came from _____________ Europe and settled primarily in American ___________

Southern and eastern; cities

The South Carolina Negro Act of 1740 was a reaction to________________

Stono rebellion

During the 1730s and 1740s, British colonists in North America experienced a religious revival that focused onthe salvation of the individual, called:

The Great Awakening

The Stamp Act Congress initiated a boycott through _____________ in response to taxes passedby the British government to help service its debt after the colonial wars.

The Townshend Act

Which ONE of the following statements is true?

The cotton gin led to the expansion of cotton production and intensified the internal (domestic) slave trade

Slaves resisted their enslavers by all of the following methods, EXCEPT

They stole or broke farming tools

The primary author of the Declaration of Independence was:

Thomas Jefferson

The two individuals who led the opposition against Alexander Hamilton's economic plan were:

Thomas Jefferson and James Madison

Regarding the formation of early political parties in the 1790s (AKA the First American Party System), identify the correct association

Thomas Jefferson: federalist

Before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the United States had maintained a stance of strict neutrality.

True

Once Texas defended its independence against Mexico, it was immediately annexed by the United States and became the 25 the state

True

The American record on civil liberties was much better in World War I than World War II.

True

The First Emancipation refers to the gradual emancipation of slaves from southern states

True

The Republican Party was formed in 1854 and called for the immediate abolition of slavery

True

The Wilmot Proviso, which called for slavery's expansion into any new territory acquired by the war with Mexico, passed the House of Representatives but was defeated in the Senate

True

The process of merging industries that produce the same product is known as vertical integration

True

True or False: The founding fathers believed strongly that the best form of government for the survival of the nation was a democratic government that gave all adult white men the right to vote

True

In 1932, the Bonus Expeditionary Force (Bonus Army) consisted of:

WWI veterans

Although the words "slave" and "slavery" do not appear in the original Constitution, how did the document extend protections to the institution?

It permitted the spread of involuntary servitude (slavery) into the Northwest Territory

Both the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis occurred during the presidency of

John Kennedy

Before John Adams left the presidency in 1801, he appointed this individual as chief justice of the US Supreme Court

John Marshall

Which individual is MOST associated with the Red Scare that followed World War II?

Joseph McCarthy