hist 112 final exam
Which amendment grants voting rights for women?
19th amendment
Which of the following women created the radical National Women's Party and organized White House sentinels and hunger strikes?
Alice Paul
Hiram Revels and Blanche Bruce were both elected to the U.S. Senate from which state?
Mississippi
which president verbally promised "normalcy" after WW1?
Warren Harding
Reconstruction era saw a marked increase in the powers of which branch of the federal government?
congress
According to Theodore Roosevelt's Corollary Excerpts, the civilized nations will resort to complete anarchy and barbarism if those nations do what?
disarm
what issue was most essential to the Radical Republicans in Congress in 1865?
ensure the rights of the freedmen
The controversial case of Schenck vs. USA involved what constitutional issue?
freedom of speech and the first amendment
According to Jane Addams in her excerpt, what became the greatest menace to the neighborhood?
huge wooden garbage boxes
Shortly after entering World War II, the United States began the Manhattan Project to ?
it was a secret plan to build an atomic bomb
According to Booker T. Washington excerpt, he believes in which of the following:
literacy and property tests for voting
All of the following caused the Great Depression EXCEPT:
overconsumption
all of the following themes were featured in the excerpts "How the Other Half Lives" EXCEPT:
solutions/ideas
Which Theodore Roosevelt speech proclaimed the right of the U.S. Government to intervene in Latin and South America as a "police" power?
the Roosevelt Corollary
Truman chose to deploy the first atomic bomb in world history for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
the U.S. Air Force did not have enough fuel for waves of air strikes and raids
The New Deal was "revolutionary" for all of the following EXCEPT:
the new deal ended employment crisis through the constitution
The U.S. Army's last and final massacre of Amerindians occurred where?
wounded knee, South Dakota
Which of the following phrases cannot be found in section 1 of the 14th Amendment?
"on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude"
The new immigrants:
- came in the late 1890s and early 1900s came from northern and Western Europe
Eugenics is:
- court case Buck v. Bell upheld a national eugenics sterilization policy - means to be well born
According to Jacob Riis, the law defines a tenement as a house occupied by how many families?
2
The number of documented lynchings nationwide is over how many?
4,000
Who authored the expose titled "How the Other Half Lives"?
Jacob Riis
Which FDR program created jobs constructing dams and power plants in 8 states?
Tennessee Valley Authority
The outcome of the disputed presidential election of 1876 was significant because it led to the end of what?
brought an end to Reconstruction
According to Upton Sinclair, a visitor could tell which rooms a worker labored in by analyzing their?
feet
What does Jazz music mean to a proud Black American citizen like Langston Hughes?
jazz is one of the inherent expressions of negro life in America
Which of the following caused the stock market to crash in October 1929?
mass panic and rapid selling back of devalued stocks
Journalists who exposed the wrongs of American society during the Progressive era were known as?
muckrakers
In the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court upheld what state policy in question?
states could constitutionally enact legislation by which separate but equal facilities were required for whites and blacks
The Fifteenth Amendment pertains to what legal issue?
stipulated that states could not deny the right to vote on the basis of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
Which anti-alcohol movement did NOT depend on the passage of legal laws but instead focused on morally persuading individuals to reform themselves?
temperance
Which tragedy was specifically directed at the Cheyenne people?
the Sand Creek Massacre
The Buffalo soldiers demonstrated bravery and valor in what U.S. war?
the Spanish-American War
What new crisis was triggered by the stock market crash of 1929?
the banking crisis
By the end of his presidency, Ulysses Grant's popularity had declined substantially because of what problem?
the corruption evident in his administration
according to Upton Sinclair, a man could run his hand over these piles of meat and sweep off handfuls of?
the dried dung of rats
The late nineteenth century has been called the Gilded Age because of what activities?
the era was characterized by corruption and greed
Booker T. Washington felt the agitation of questions of social equality is:
the extreme folly (meaning extremely ridiculous)
In Ellen Welles Page's "A Flapper's Appeal to Parents" what does she say tore away their spiritual foundations and challenged their faith?
the first world war
The internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War was based on what?
their ethnic origin
