History final

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

10%

Warren G. Harding won office by campaigning on which theme

A return to normalcy

During the Great War the Allied Powers included all of the following EXCEPT:

Austria-Hungary.

Which United States Supreme Court decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision declaring the doctrine of "separate but equal" constitutional?

Brown v. Board of Education

He became the most well-known figure of the Chicano movement, using nonviolent tactics to campaign for workers' rights in the grape fields of California.

Cesar Chavez

Which tribe should NOT be included among the Plains Indians?

Cheyenne

Who led the corrupt government, the United States supported with nearly $2 billion in economic aid in an attempt to block communist from gaining control of China?

Chiang Kai-shek

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

Chicago

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1957 accomplish?

Created a Civil Rights Commission in the Department of Justice to investigate claims of racial discrimination

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

Ida B. Wells

Two important founding members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909 were:

Ida B. Wells and W.E.B. DuBois

Her work exposed ruthless business practices by John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil and was a contributing factor toward the federal government's antitrust actions against the company.

Ida Tarbell

This journalist made waves describing Standard Oil's long-standing ruthlessness and predilections for political corruption.

Ida Tarbell

What is the demarcation line, or demilitarized zone (DMZ), created in Vietnam that existed from 1954 until 1975, when Vietnam was finally unified?

The 17th Parallel

Which of the following best describes the "Reagan Doctrine?"

The United States committed to supplying aid to anti-communist forces everywhere in the world

Which of the following nations were not a part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?

Sweden

Who did the Democrats nominate as their presidential candidate in the Election of 1896?

William Jennings Bryan

During the nineteenth century, Hawaii was ruled by __________________ based on the sugar companies, together known as the "Big Five."

an oligarchy

Introduced in 1977, this computer was the first successful mass-produced microcomputer meant for home use.

apple 11

A letter stolen in 1898 from Dupuy de Lome, Spain's minister to Washington, was controversial because it

described William McKinley as a weak president.

Under the leadership of A. Philip Randolph, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) began this campaign of protest against this wartime discrimination.

double victory

The Nineteenth Amendment

established that a right to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

The military spread this chemical agent onto dense jungle to expose Vietcong hideouts and supply routes.

agent orange

What caused the Cuban Missile Crisis? ch 12

all answers

In 1920, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti

all choices

In the 1980s, record national budget deficits resulted from

all of these answers are correct

Which act provided for old-age pensions, unemployment insurance, and economic aid, based on means, to assist both the elderly and dependent children?

social security act

The Fifteenth Amendment dealt with the issue of

suffrage.

In 2015, the Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges

that prohibitions against same-sex marriage were unconstitutional

In "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," Frederick Jackson Turner claimed:

that the end of the "frontier" also marked the end of one of the most important democratizing forces in American life.

Woodrow Wilson campaigned for the presidency in 1912 as a progressive democrat. Wilson argued that changing economic conditions demanded new and aggressive government policies-he called his political program:

the New Freedom

The Environmental Protection Agency was created in ________ when ________ signed the National Environmental Protection Act into law.

1970; Richard Nixon

Of the over 110,000 Japanese-descended Americans who were detained in internment camps, approximately how many were American citizens?

70,000

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 message of NSC-68?

A call for a tripling of the annual defense budget for the purpose of stopping communism

What was the Open Door Policy?

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

was a short-lived Indian victory.

Abilene, Kansas.

The explosive growth of mass incarceration exacted a heavy toll on which community?

African American

What prompted President Roosevelt to pass Executive Order 8802? #

African Americans marching on the nation's capitol

On the day of the 2000 election,

Al Gore won the popular vote

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

Al Smith

What was Frederick Jackson Turner's "Frontier Thesis?" Group of answer choices

All of the answers are correct.

What was the result of Brown v. Board of Education?

All of the answers are correct.

Which of the programs introduced in the LBJ presidency still exist today:

All of these programs still exist today.

Why was Emmett Till murdered?

Allegedly whistling at a white woman

He popularized the idea of a "gospel of wealth" in an 1889 article, claiming that "the true antidote for the temporary unequal distribution of wealth" was the moral obligation of the rich to give to charity.

Andrew Carnegie

he great financial and industrial titans, the so-called robber barons, included steel magnates such as:

Andrew Carnegie

In 1963, she published The Feminine Mystique, which by 1970 had sold one million copies. Her work expressed an unspoken disillusionment felt by many American women trapped in the "comfortable concentration camp" of their domestic existences.

Betty Friedan

Which New Deal agency focused on the unique problems faced by young men, aged 18-25. #

Civilian Conservation Corps

In the early 1900s, which American dependency did NOT receive territorial status?

Cuba

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

Destroyers

Women participated in the global influence of the United States in many ways, including as all of the following EXCEPT

Diplomats

What theme dominated American popular entertainment in the 1920s?

Escape

She had her own clique of activist friends and her own base of influence, notably through her syndicated newspaper column My Day.

Eleanor Roosevelt

What was the subject of Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring?

Environmental dangers of pesticides

Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique focused on what primary issue

Feelings of dissatisfaction with life as a housewife.

Roosevelt included women in key positions within his administration, including the first female cabinet secretary:

Frances Perkins

Who proposed a system of pensions for older Americans in which the government would provide each retired person—over age sixty—two hundred dollars a month? He believed that would reinvigorate the economy and improve living conditions for the elderly.

Francis Townsend

On June 28, 1914, Serbian extremist Gavrilo Princip assassinated the heir to the Austrian throne:

Franz Ferdinand

Who first advocated the policy of containment?

George Kennan

In 1974, former President Richard Nixon was pardoned by

Gerald Ford

This provided returning veterans with unemployment benefits for 52 weeks, offered low-interest loans, and provided money for returning veterans to go to college.

Gi bill

The Democrats chose this person in the Election of 1944, rather than incumbent Vice President Henry A. Wallace, as Roosevelt's running mate.

Harry S. Truman

Why was Douglas MacArthur removed from command?

He was publicly insubordinate to the Commander in Chief

In the late nineteenth century, the first and most important promoter of Social Darwinism was:

Herbert Spencer.

In the hope of forcing the government of North Vietnam to the bargaining table, the Nixon Administration ordered the heavy bombing of communist forces located in Cambodia—specifically those forces located along the:

Ho Chi Minh Trail.

During the Great War the Central Powers included all of the following EXCEPT:

Italy.

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

Jacob Riis

In 1889, he wrote The Winning of the West, describing the challenges faced in daily living in the region and arguing that these hurdles improved the moral and physical character of the people. He argued the "strenuous life" built this character.

John Muir

Which of the following groups was the most radical?

Knights of Labor

They kidnapped and murdered Bobby Franks, which provoked fear throughout American society because the perpetrators were not easily associated with criminality.

Leopold and Loeb

Who led the communist forces in the Chinese Civil War?

Mao Zedong

Who was the corrupt leader of the Republic of Vietnam propped up by the American government with little domestic support? He was assassinated in 1963.

Ngo Dinh Diem

Who was the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court?

O'connor

What was the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that collected intelligence and coordinated overseas espionage during World War II? #

Office of Strategic Services (OSS)

Woodrow Wilson ordered a punitive expedition of several thousand soldiers led by General John J. "Blackjack" Pershing to enter northern Mexico and capture:

Pancho Villa

Who was the leader of the movement to stop the Equal Rights Amendment?

Phylis Schlafly

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

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

Eugene V. Debs played a leading role in what labor event?

Pullman strike

On May 7, 1915, a German submarine sank this British passenger liner off the coast of Ireland.

RMS Lusitania

Who was the environmentalist and consumer advocate that entered the race for president as the Green Party candidate in the Election of 2000?

Ralph Nader

Which female leader stated, "If it takes lynching to protect women's dearest possession from drunken, ravening beasts, then I say lynch a thousand a week?"

Rebecca Latimer Felton

By 1932, with the economy long since stagnant and a reelection campaign looming, President Herbert Hoover, hoping to stimulate American industry, created this agency to provide emergency loans to banks, building-and-loan societies, railroads, and other private industries.

Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)

This president created the Environmental Protection Agency, the first agency charged with studying, regulating, and disseminating knowledge about the environment.

Richard Nixon

In the Election of 1992, this Texas Billionaire became a third-party contender, who likely made a difference in the outcome of the election.

Ross Perot

Who first challenged segregation on buses?

Sarah Keys

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

Separate but equal

Which Allied nation was the first to reach Berlin?

Soviet Union

Which of the following best characterized German military tactics

Speed and maneuverability.

A second incarnation of the Ku Klux Klan grew out the need for order and the 1915 release of the movie:

The Birth of a Nation

This comprehensive act barred segregation in public accommodations and outlawed discrimination based on race, ethnicity, gender, and national or religious origin.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964

What was the result of the Kaiserschlacht?

The Germans launched five failed major attacks

Reagan announced plans for a space-based system that could shoot down incoming Soviet missiles called:

The SDI or star wars program

What was the name of the 369th Infantry Regiment made up of African Americans, which was one of the most distinguished units serving during the war?

The Tuskegee Airmen

Which of the following best describes the Social Gospel?

The goal of saving society as well as souls

How did Reagan's first budget immediately impact the national debt?

The national debt increased dramatically

In 1952, this NAACP lawyer argued on behalf of Linda Brown, a black girl barred from attending the all-white elementary school in her neighborhood in Topeka, Kansas.

Thurgood Marshall

What happened at My Lai?

U.S. troops massacred hundreds of civilians

After a difficult battle, Clinton won approval of the North American Free Trade Agreement (or NAFTA), which eliminated most trade barriers among

United States, Canada, and Mexico,

In 1914, when war erupted in Europe, President Woodrow Wilson

called on the American public to be completely impartial.

This group became a major source of labor for the transcontinental railroad from California to Utah:

chinese

The Treaty of Versailles did all of the following EXCEPT:

created many newly independent countries, including Finland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Poland .

What did the Works Progress Administration do? #

creating parks, and building roads, bridges, schools, and other public structures.

In his speech advocating the Lend-Lease Program, Roosevelt declared that the war was being fought for "Four Freedoms." Which answer is NOT one of the the "Four Freedoms." #

freedom of enterprise.

In the late nineteenth century, most American agriculture shifted:

from subsistence farming to commercial agriculture.

The Homestead Act of 1862:

fueled westward migration.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965:

gave total control of all elections to the federal government, that blacks were given freedom to fully exercise their voting rights.

Which storm developed into a category 5 hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico in 2005? New Orleans suffered a direct hit, the levees broke, and the bulk of the city flooded

huricane Katrina

In the presidential campaign of 1912

incumbent president William H. Taft won.

How did the Federal Reserve respond to the financial collapse? #

it flooded the banking sector with liquidity. Second, it invoked emergency powers granted to it during the Great Depression to lend to financial institutions other than banks. Third, it quickly cut the funds rate to zero.

The crisis of American hostages being held in Iran

lasted over one year

In his dealings with Pancho Villa, President Woodrow Wilson

ordered a military expedition into Mexico to capture Villa.

Many groups organized strikes during 1919, including a famous strike by this group in Boston.

policeman

In the late nineteenth century, urban political bosses did all of the following EXCEPT

provide material assistance to the poor.

In the early twentieth century, a principal goal of "Taylorism" was to: Group of answer choices

reorganize industrial production by subdividing it into many simple tasks.

In this landmark case, the court decided that a woman and her doctor, not the state, possessed the right to decide the fate of a pregnancy.

roe v wade

The Pullman strike of 1894:

saw the president of the United States order federal troops to break the strike.

In the 1890s, the black journalist Ida B. Wells devoted her writing to attacking

the crime of lynching.

In the late nineteenth century, Social Darwinists argued that people who failed economically in the United States did so because: Group of answer choices

they were not fit enough to survive in the market.

The 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn

was a short-lived Indian victory.

The Sand Creek Massacre of 1864:

was carried out by George Custer.

The Dawes Severalty Act of 1887

was designed to force Indians to become landowners and farmers.

In the Election of 1908, William Howard Taft

was hand-picked by Theodore Roosevelt to succeed him.

The great railroad strike of 1877

was launched in response to a wage cut.

The phenomenon when whites in metropolitan areas fled city centers for the suburbs—often it resulted in resegregated residential patterns.

white flight