His 10B Final review
The 1920s hit The Man Nobody Knows portrayed Jesus as
"a virile go-getting he-man of business."
Woodrow Wilson's 14 points called for the readjustment of colonial claims with colonized people be given ___________ in deciding their future.
"equal weight"
During the Scopes trial in Tennessee, attorney William Jennings Bryan acknowledged that the six formative days mentioned in Genesis should be understood as:
"not six days of 24 hours"
The Equal Rights Amendment as proposed by Alice Paul would have barred all legal discriminations
"on account of sex."
After a discrimination lawsuit was filed, how many Black-Americans resided in the Levittown model suburban community of Long Island, New York (pop. 53,000)?
137
What didn't Huey Long's "Every man a king" program call for?
A Model T Ford for every American.
In response to what they saw as a crackdown on freedom of speech during World War I, in 1920 a coalition of pacifists created the
American Civil Liberties Union
Winston Churchill invoked this Harlem Renaissance poet's words to inspire the British public during World War II. He was
Claude McKay
Never before had an agency of the federal government attempted the "conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses." It was the
Committee on Public Information.
The strategy that George Kennan outlined in 1946 to curtail Soviet expansion was called:
Containment
In nearly all lynching cases in the late nineteenth and early 20th-century, the charge of rape was a "bare lie." Who said this?
Ida Wells
In his speech at Harvard University, Secretary of State George Marshall declared that "Our policy is not directed against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos." Where was this policy carried out?
In Europe.
Who was Nikita Khrushchev's opponent in the "Kitchen Debate"?
Richard Nixon
"It is not every prisoner who has the President of Harvard throw the switch for him." Journalist Heywood Broun made that comment after the execution of
Sacco and Vanzetti
"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked." Allen Ginsberg's 1955 poem Howl became nationally known when
San Francisco police confiscated the book and arrested the bookstore owner who sold it.
"You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency sir?" In 1954, Army attorney Joseph Welch directed those words against
Senator Joseph McCarthy
What New Deal agency hired three million young people to plant trees and build wildlife preserves by 1942?
The Civilian Conservation Corps
The New Deal's Indian Reorganization Act revoked the mandatory Indian land sale provisions contained in this 1887 law:
The Dawes Act
Thanks to this law, Indians lost 86 million of the 138 million acres of land in their possession in 1887.
The Dawes Act.
The 1914 government agency tasked with investigating "unfair" business practices was called:
The Federal Trade Commission
What Congressional action authorized President Johnson to take "all necessary measures to repel armed attack" in Vietnam:
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Supreme Court found a major portion of which of these New Deal programs to be unconstitutional.
The National Industrial Recovery Act
At the end of his term as President, Herbert Hoover created the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to:
loan money to failing banks, railroads, and businesses.
In The Regents of the University of California versus Bakke (1978) the Supreme Court rejected the idea of fixed affirmative action quotas. But the high court ruled that race could be used as __________ in admissions decisions.
one factor among many
In 1954 the Truman administration deployed the Army to deport how many people of Mexican background?
one million
Who was Albert Parsons?
one of the Haymarket Martyrs.
The Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution prohibits federal or state governments from denying the vote on the basis of
race
William Jennings Bryan resigned as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State when Wilson
refused to warn Americans not to travel on belligerent ships.
The Lend Lease Act of 1941 authorized military aid to those fighting Germany as long as the countries
returned it after the war.
The Freedman Bureau's biggest accomplishments were in helping the newly freed slaves of the south set up
schools and hospitals
The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas overturned what crucial legal doctrine regarding race?
separate but equal facilities.
The Equal Pay of 1963 barred ___________________ among holders of the same job.
sex discrimination
The American Federation of Labor restricted its membership to
skilled craft workers.
Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater went down to disastrous defeat in 1964, but he did surprisingly well in what part of the United States?
the Deep South.
In Senator Joseph McCarthy's speech at Wheeling, West Virginia (1950), the Senator insisted that communism had "glaringly" entrenched itself in which branch of the federal government?
the State Department
The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine held that the United States had the right to act as an "international police power" in
the Western Hemisphere.
As mines and railroads expanded to New Mexico, they grabbed communal landholdings shared by Spanish speaking sheep farmers because
the courts would only protect land owned by individuals.
In 1947 a Presidential Commission issued a document titled To Secure These Rights. It called on ______________ to "assume the responsibility for abolishing segregation and ensuring equal treatment in housing, employment, education, and the criminal justice system."
the federal government
"We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes," President Eisenhower said in 1961. He was talking about:
the military industrial complex
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned discrimination in public accommodations but did not address
the right to vote.
The American Protective League organized "slacker raids" in which
thousands of men were stopped and required to produce draft registration cards.
Canvas will drop your _______ lowest quiz scores.
three
Professor Eric Foner argues that the laws and amendments of the Reconstruction period repudiated the idea that citizenship was an entitlement for
whites only
A combination of their militancy and support for the war effort convinced Americans to support the 19th amendment, which gave
women the right to vote.
Between 1890 and 1906, every southern state enacted laws to:
eliminate the black vote.
In his "free silver" nomination speech of 1896, William Jennings Bryan declared that his opponents would not "crucify mankind on a cross of"
gold.
Even before the Great Depression, this percentage of Montana farmers lost their land to foreclosures between 1921 and 1925.
half
Between 1910 and 1920, approximately how many Black-Americans left the South for the cities of the north?
half a million
Following the discovery of nuclear weapons installations in Cuba, Kennedy rejected an invasion of the island because
it would have almost certainly triggered a Soviet military response in Berlin.
The 1965 Hart-Cellar Act abandoned the national origins quota system (set up in the 1920s) which excluded
Asians.
As Woodrow Wilson attended the Versailles Peace Conference, promoting his "14 points," students around the world cheered his rhetoric of self-determination. They shouted "Long live Wilson!" in front of the US embassy in
Beijing, China
Which President said this: "Should any political party attempt to abolish Social Security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws . . . you would not hear of that party again in our political history."
Dwight Eisenhower
After Josef Stalin lifted this blockade in May of 1949, two new nations emerged. They were:
East and West Germany
History 10b has a mid-term exam.
False
Which of these was not one the freedoms mentioned in FDR's Four Freedoms speech?
Freedom of enterprise
Which of these statements about the Johnson Reed Act (or Immigration Act) of 1924 is incorrect?
It opened the doors to immigration from most of Asia.
The woman most widely associated with the settlement house movement of the Progressive Era was:
Jane Addams
The Standard Oil Company became a byword for monopoly capitalism. It was controlled by
John Rockefeller
This decision "lies like a loaded weapon ready for the hand of any authority," wrote Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson. He was talking about:
Korematsu versus the United States
"I think we delivered the South to the Republican Party." Who said that and when?
Lyndon Johnson upon signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
In Give Me Liberty! Eric Foner writes, "the massive following his movement achieved testified to the sense of betrayal that had been kindled in black communities after the [First World] war." This referred to
Marcus Garvey
"Our constitution is color blind." Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan famously wrote those words in response to the majority's decision in
Plessy versus Ferguson
FDR believed that his contribution system gave Americans the "legal, moral, and political right" to collect:
Social Security
The word was invented in the 1970s to describe high inflation coupled with low economic growth.
Stagflation
It became known as the "standard consumer package" of the 1950s: a home, a car, and a
TV set.
Joseph McCarthy's downfall began when he challenged . . .
The Army
In the spring of 1932, thousands of unemployed veterans descended upon Washington, D.C. seeking
early payment of a bonus owed them in 1945.
President Theodore Roosevelt used which law to break up the Northern Securities Company in 1904.
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act
"I say the time has come to walk out of the shadow of state's rights and into the sunlight of human rights." When Hubert Humphrey said those words at the 1948 Democratic National Convention, calling for Democrats to pass a strong civil rights plank, what did southern delegates do?
They walked out and formed the States Rights Democratic Party.
History 10b has a final exam.
True
During World War I, W.E.B. Du Bois supported US entry into the conflict.
True, Du Bois supported the war effort, calling on Black-Americans to help "make our own America a real land of the free."
The Platt Amendment required Cuba's constitution to accept
US military intervention.
The Geneva Accords of 1954 scheduled elections in 1956 to unify which country?
Vietnam
The Sharon Statement praised the virtues of the market economy. It was written by:
Young Americans for Freedom
In 1943 Congress ended its Chinese immigrant exclusion policies by establishing:
a nationality quota for Chinese immigrants.
When Social Security was first created, it excluded
agricultural and domestic workers.
The date that Rosa Parks chose to defy Montgomery's segregated bus system may been picked because
an all-white jury had just acquitted the murderers of Emmett Till, causing shock and outrage across the country.
"I do not speak for my church on public matters [and] the church does not speak for me." John F. Kennedy spoke these words in 1961 to overcome
anti-Catholicism
George Kennan's "containment" policy committed the United States to
blocking any further expansion of Soviet power.
The Civil Service Act of 1883
created a merit system for federal employees.
