HIST 1302 Multiple Choice Final
In The Crock in the Picture Window, John Keats described suburban life as:
"homogenous, postwar Hell"
In the depression of 1893, unemployment hovered around
20%
By 1900 there were fewer than 350 bison/buffalo in America. Today there are more than
200,000
During the Gilded Age 75% of government workers worked at the state or local level. Today, what % of government workers work at the state or local level?
25%
Divorce in the 1880's America was less than 5%. Divorce in America today is approximately...
49%
During the Gilded Age, voting in presidential elections went as high as 80%. In 2012, was percent of the electorate voted in
53%
Urban political bosses
=Often were the biggest source of assistance for city dwellers
The event that triggered WWI in Europe was:
A Serb's assassination of the Austrian archduke
The Cuban Missile Crisis led to all of the following EXCEPT:
A US-Soviet agreement to scrap nuclear weapons
During the Gilder Age, the rich were getting richer and
A lot of other people were at least better off
Contrary to his party's tradition, President Taft called for:
A lower tariff
Which of the following would most likely have been a Gilded Age Republican
A prohibitionist
The Mississippi Plan of disenfranchisement included all of the following EXCEPT:
A provision disqualifying anyone who owned less than $300 in personal property
Life magazine's ideal woman of the mid-1950's was:
A white suburban housewife
During the 1948 presidential campaign, Truman endorsed all of the following EXCEPT:
Abolishing Social Security
Fertilizers in the south
Accelerated soil depletion by enabling multiple plantings each year
Which of the following statements best describes the diplomatic stance of Woodrow Wilson and William Jennings Bryan?
American has a religious duty to spread democracy and moral progress throughout the world
Which of the following would most likely have been a Gilded Age Democrat
An Irish immigrant
The result of the 1956 election was:
Apparent voter approval of Eisenhower's "modern Republicanism"
Much of the development of the western plains has been shaped by its
Aridity
In the late 1800s, the south experienced major increases in the production of all but one of the following:
Automobiles
Dulles's policy of "brinksmanship" Involved:
Averting war through the threat of nuclear force
One of Johnson's major goals in Vietnam was to:
Avoid losing to Communism
John D. Rockefeller
Became a leading philanthropist
In regard to Israel's founding in 1948, the United States:
Became the first country to recognize the Jewish state
Voter turnout during the Gilded Age was commonly
Between 70 and 80%
Only two presidents have ever been impeached, Andrew Johnson (D) and
Bill Clinton
THE ELECTION OF 1912 brought about all of the following EXCEPT:
Brought the same man into the white house in nonconsecutive terms
The postwar south suffered from an acute shortage of
Capital
All of the following are true of Sputnik 1 EXCEPT the it:
Carried a nuclear warhead
The United States experienced a shock in 1949 when Communists took over:
China
The "IT GIRL" for 1927 was...
Clara Bow
Thorstein Veblen coined the phrase
Conspicuous consumption
In the 1950s, teenagers became especially important as:
Consumers
The main idea of reform Darwinism was that
Cooperation, not competition, would best promote progress
In his letter from Birmingham City Jail, Martin Luther King:
Declared his willingness to break unjust laws
During the Gilded Age the median income of americans rose dramatically. During the last 7 years, the median income has
Decreased by more than $1,000
After the Civil War, Blacks overwhelmingly supported the Republican party. Today, blacks overwhelmingly support the
Democrat Party
Between 1896 and 1915, southern stated adopted this to gain complete control of elections and to further disenfranchise blacks
Democratic primaries
The theories of relativity and quantum physics led people to:
Deny the reverence of absolute values in society at large
The culture of modernism was characterized by:
Developments in science that challenged perceptions of certainty
Who said "the probability of life originating at random in so utterly miniscule as to make it absurd"
Dr. Francis Crick
Congress passed the Homestead Act
During the Civil War
Permanent members of the United Nations Security Council:
Each have veto power over major UN decisions
All of the following were prophets of modernism EXCEPT:
Edward Bellamy
In 1961, Krushchev escalated tensions over Berlin by:
Erecting the Belin Wall
Of the four presidential candidates in 1912, the one most likely to advocate government ownership of big business was:
Eugene Debs
Benjamin Harrison was elected president
Even though he received fewer popular votes than the loser, Grover Cleveland
The muckrakers saw their primary objective as:
Exposing social problems to the public
The roaring 20s was dubbed "the Jazz Age" by:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
In his first term as president, Wilson did all of the following Except:
Failed to reorganize the banking system
All of the following increased through the postwar years EXCEPT:
Family savings
Truman fired MacArthur:
For insubordination
In retrospect, Johnson's war on poverty:
Generated middle-class resentment that benefitted the Republicans
The Secretary of State who devised the plan of massive economic recovery aid to Europe was:
George Marshall
All of the following influenced the US decision to enter the war against Germany EXCEPT:
Germany's declaration of unrestricted submarine warfare
The legislation passed by Congress at Johnson's urging in 1965 included all of the following EXCEPT:
Government guarantee of full employment
President Johnson labeled his overall program of domestic reform the:
Great society
During the Gilded Age, business was largely unregulated by the federal government. Today, the federal government's regulation of business has, by comparison to the Gilded Age, been
Greatly increased
1. All of the following are true of Harry Truman EXCEPT that he:
Had an Ivy League education
By the 1910s, the anti-saloon league:
Had become one of the most effective pressure groups in American History
In negotiating with the big four over many postwar territorial issues, President Wilson:
Had to compromise his principle of national self-determination
All of the following were included in the 1892 Omaha platform of the People's Party EXCEPT
Halting the free and unlimited coinage of silver
When it came to steel, Andrew Carnegie did all of the following EXCEPT
Have technical expertise in it
The purpose of Kennedy's proposed tax cut was to:
Help the economy by stimulating consumer spending
All of the following are true of the 1968 presidential election EXCEPT:
Hubert Humphrey lost because he refused to alter Johnson's Vietnam policies
Lester Frank Ward's version of reform Darwinism argued all of the following EXCEPT
Humanity cannot control the process of evolution
Most of the people who moved to the Pacific Coast and elsewhere in the American West lived
In urban areas
In retrospect, the Cold War was probably:
Inevitable
Why did tenant farmers have no incentive to take care of the farmland that they were on?
It was not their land
One of the following pairs consists of two countries that were NOT members of the Triple Entente?
Italy and Austria Hungary
In South Vietnam in the early 1960s:
Kennedy was increasing the number of military advisors
Despite the fact that the great war generated many changes in female employment, these changes were:
Limited and brief
Nikola Tesla's invention of the alternating-current motor did all of the following EXCEPT
Made it possible for Edison to defeat Westinghouse
Which of these was a Social Darwinist?
Margaret Sanger
After 1890, most immigrants were
Members of the professional class
The fight for survival in the Trans-mississippi West made men and women
More equal partners than were their Eastern counterparts
When news of the European war first reached the United states:
Most high government officials were pro-British
Suburban growth was spurred by all of the following EXCEPT:
New construction of mass public transportation
Which amendment to the constitution gave women the right to vote?
Nineteenth
Who said...? "Free speech does not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater, and causing panic."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Petting Parties were:
Opportunities for young men and women to experiment sexually with each other
Between 1914 and 1921, WWI was directly responsible for the deaths of:
Over 9 million combatants
The case of Plessy v. Ferguson involved a challenge laws that applied to
Passenger trains
In the Truman years, the United States abandoned a longtime tradition with its involvement in:
Peace time alliances
John F. Kennedy was careful to conceal from the public during the 1960 campaign his:
Personal health
Current US involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan are examples of "Nation Building". At the end of the 19th century, America was involved in "Nation Building" in
Philippines
By the end of his presidency, Eisenhower was:
Planning on invasion to topple Castro
Political and social radicalism arose after WWI because:
Postwar culture was fraught with contradictions and tension
Michael Harrington's book, the Other America, influenced President Johnson to declare war on:
Poverty
Woodrow Wilsons New Freedom platform:
Proposed vigorous anti-trust action to break up corporate concentration
The Yalta pledges of democratic elections in Eastern Europe:
Proved to be meaningless
Federal and State government leaders after the Civil War actively encouraged the growth of businesses by doing all of the Following EXCEPT
Providing prison labor to railroad companies
What industry was "the first big business, the first magnet for the great financial markets, and the first industry to develop a large scale management bureaucracy"?
Railroads
Which of the following best describes the method used by most progressives to solve the problem of economic power and its abuses?
Regulate business
The 1946 congressional elections resulted in:
Republican control of Congress
In its controversial Miranda v. Arizona decision, the Warren Court:
Required that an accused person be informed of certain basic rights
The treaty of Versailles did all of the following EXCEPT:
Required veterans' pensions to be paid by their home country
In regard of the New Deal programs, Eisenhower:
Retained most and even expanded some of them
The person who benefited most from the outcome of the Hiss-Chambers case was:
Richard Nixon
Who said...? "Government is not the answer to our problems. Government is the problem."
Ronald Reagan
Which of the following statements regarding coal is NOT true?
Roosevelt once bellowed that "the constitution is more important than coal!"
Marcus Garvey:
Said blacks should return to Africa
State Department official George Kennan:
Said the United States should contain Soviet expansionist tendencies
President Grover Cleveland's response to the Pullman Strike was to
Send federal troops to keep the trains running
Around 1900, saloons did all of the following EXCEPT
Serve as a great place for immigrant men to meet women
The Federal Reserve Act did all of the following EXCEPT:
Shifted the US Treasury back to the gold standard
Between 1945 and 1960, home ownership:
Significantly increased
The 14th Amendment of the Constitution says all of the following EXCEPT
Slaves shall be counted as 3/5 of a person for purposes of taxation
The baby boom:
Starred in 1946
In the Brown decision, the Supreme Court:
Struck down "separate but equal" in public education
Elvis was especially controversial because of his:
Suggested gyrations on stage
The Waste land, a poem that became the favorite of many modernist readers because of its sense of disillusionment and its suggestion of a burned-out civilization, was written by:
T.S. Eliot
President Cleveland's most dramatic challenge to the power of special interests focused on
Tariff reform
Not being able to convict AL Capone on bootlegging charges, the federal government convicted him for:
Tax evasion
Mary "Mother Jones" Harris promoted all of the following causes EXCEPT
Temperance
When confronted with strikes in the coal and railroad industries in 1946, President Truman's response was to:
Temporarily seize those industries
In 1921, Margaret Sanger organized:
The American Birth control league
Modernism waned by the end of the 1920s because:
The Great Depression overwhelmed the cultural alienation of the 1920s
The title of the novel that described the terrible conditions of the meat packing industry was:
The Jungle
A major factor in Woodrow Wilsons victory in the 19112 presidential campaign was the fact that:
The Republican party had split in two
By 1890, all of the following led to inflation of the currency EXCEPT
The Sherman Silver Purchase Act
Which of the following was NOT a factor in the decline of commodity prices during the Gilded Age
The Sherman Silver Purchase Act decreased the amount of silver purchased by the government and therefore caused deflation and lower prices
The Eisenhower administration was deeply embarrassed when:
The Soviets shot down an American spy plane
What was the virulent menace that Americans faced in the postwar period and that cause more casualties than the war itself?
The Spanish flu
All of the following are true of the Kennedy assassination EXCEPT:
The Warren Commission concluded there may have been multiple gunmen
As a result of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia:
The country concluded a separate peace with Germany
Between 1945 and 1960 in the United States:
The gross national product almost doubled
Before becoming president, Eisenhower was not most shaped by his experience in:
The military
In his farewell address, Eisenhower warned about:
The power of the military-industrial complex
Modernists in art and literature came to believe that:
The subconscious is more interesting and more potent than reason
The one issue on which there were clear-cut divisions between democrats and republicans in the Gilded Age was
The tariff
Which candidate was shot during the 1912 presidential campaign?
Theodore Roosevelt
The 1948 election is probably best remembered for:
Truman's upset victory
Wilsons fourteen points endorsed all of the following EXCEPT:
US colonies in Africa and Asia
In early 1968, increasing opposition to the war within its own party:
Ultimately forced Johnson out of the presidential race
By the 1950's suburban life was marked by an increasing:
Uniformity
In the election of 1896, who found it easier to identify with McKinley's "full dinner pail" pledge than with Bryan's free-silver panacea
Urban wage laborers
The Knights of Labor declined for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
Uriah S. Stephens, its president, died in 1879
Vaudeville provided
Variety shows for men, women, and children across classes
People living during the Gilded Age expected what type of support from the government?
Very little
All of the following could be associated with flappers EXCEPT:
Victorian Values
The most important of all the mobilization agencies was the:
War Industries Board
William Howard Taft:
Was Roosevelts choice as his successor
Cholera, Typhoid, and yellow fever are all
Water-related diseases
This export crop spurred growth in agriculture in the late nineteenth century
Wheat
In 1869, the women's movement split on the issue of
Whether or not the movement should concentrate on female suffrage to the exclusion of other feminist causes
"You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!" this statement was made by
William Jennings Bryan
Which of the following statements about the cowboys' frontier in NOT true?
With two or three notable exceptions, blacks were not allowed to be cowboys
As President, Taft:
Withdrew more public lands in four years than Roosevelt had in nearly 8
The New South gospel emphasized all of the following EXCEPT:
Women's rights
In the presidential election of 1896, all of the following may be applied to William Jennings Bryan EXCEPT that he
Won after gaining the support of Theodore Roosevelt
Who said...? "It would be an irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs."
Woodrow Wilson
For industrial workers in Gilded Age America
Working and living conditions remained precarious
All of the following were sources of Dwight David Eisenhower's political appeal EXCEPT his:
Years as a leader in Congress
A strict Social Darwinist would object to all of the following EXCEPT
a governmental policy of "hands off" with regard to business
All of these innovations changed warfare during WWI EXCEPT:
blockades
The stance on the Supreme Court in the late nineteenth century on liberty of contract could best be described as favorable towards
business
Herbert Spencer
coined the phrase "survival of the fittest"
King Cotton survived the Civil War and expanded over new acreage:
even as its export markets leveled off
Between 1866 and 1888, as humans moved to the suburbs and became prosperous, they
fell easily under the spell of respectability and do-nothing Social Darwinism
Grover Cleveland
had a strictly limited view of government's role
Progressives support all of the following as measures to democratize government EXCEPT:
the poll tax
What gave WWI its lasting character?
trench warfare
Ellis Island
was used mainly to process new immigrants, not to comfort or assist them