History 152 Before MT
Approximately what percent of early rodeo contestants were women?
10%
What percent of married women worked outside of the home in the 1920s?
10%
When did the United States begin trading with China?
1784
Which census first revealed that a majority of Americans were living in cities?
1920
What percent of Americans were investing in the stock market prior to the crash?
2.5%
In the election of 1896, 130,000 black Louisianans voted. In 1900 the number was _____________.
5,320
By 1890, in most large northern cities, immigrants and their children amounted to what percent of the population?
60%
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 Open-Door Policy?
A call for all western powers to have equal access to Chinese markets
What was the Lost Cause?
A glorification of the memory of the Confederacy and a romanticization of the Old South as a pastoral land with benevolent masters and happy slaves
What was the Bonus Army?
A group of World War I veterans who petitioned the government to make an early payment on bonuses scheduled to be released in 1945
Warren G. Harding won office by campaigning on which theme
A return to normalcy
Marcus Garvey created a movement encouraging black Americans to migrate to Africa. To do this he created which of the following:
A shipping company called the Black Star Line
What is the definition of Herbert Hoover's "Associationalism?"
A system where businesses would voluntarily limit harmful business practices for the greater economic good
What economic opportunity drew the most migrants to the West?
Access to land for agriculture
All of the following statements regarding the National Woman's Party are true EXCEPT
Advocated violent resistance to sexism
Roosevelt tried to create relief for American farmers through the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA). What did the AAA do?
Aimed to raise the prices of agricultural commodities by offering cash incentives to voluntarily limit farm production, thereby increasing prices
All of the following were candidates in the 1912 presidential election EXCEPT
Al Smith
One of the intellectual leaders of the Harlem Renaissance wrote that "we are achieving something like a spiritual emancipation." Who was this intellectual?
Alain Locke
The Paiute prophet Wovoka promised that which of the following would occur if Indians obeyed his instructions and participated in the ceremony that came to be called the Ghost Dance
All of these
The Socialist Party of America achieved which of the following gains in the early twentieth century?
All of these
The roots of 1920's Christian Fundamentalism can be found in _____.
All of these
What explains the popularity of Wild West shows?
All of these
What tactics were used to disenfranchise Black voters?
All of these
Which of the following are true about the Committee on Public Information?
All of these
Which of the following factors contributed to William McKinley's victory over William Jennings Bryan in the 1896 election?
All of these
Which of the following helped increase consumer spending in the 1920s?
All of these
Which of the following is NOT true about the New Deal?
All of these
Which of the following led to the racial violence of the Red Summer of 1919?
All of these
Which of the following statements regarding "muscular Christianity" are true:
All of these
Which of the following statements regarding Jane Addams' activism are true?
All of these
All of the following statements are true about the New Deal EXCEPT
All of these are true
By 1913, the United States produced one-third of the world's industrial output. This was more than __________.
All of these combined
What was Frederick Jackson Turner's "Frontier Thesis?"
American culture was forged by the struggle between civilized settlers and savage frontier life, giving it a democratic and hardworking spirit
Why did the League of Nations fail?
American refusals to join
What was FDR's "court-packing scheme"
An attempt to appoint up to six new justices who would be friendly to his interests
What was the particular spark that ignited World War I?
Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and Grand Duchess Sophie
Where did Germany first invade?
Belgium
Who advocated racial accomodationism?
Booker T. Washington
Which of these authors criticized Victorian era gender norms?
Both of these
All the following are true about the Woman's Christian Temperance Union EXCEPT
Carrie Nation was never a member
Which city served as the most important railroad hub, connecting the East and the West?
Chicago
Which ethnic group faced the most rigid immigration restrictions?
Chinese
Women served in the armed forces during World War I. They served in all of the following positions EXCEPT
Commissioned Officers
As President, Theodore Roosevelt transformed the American navy by emphasizing which of the following strategies?
Creating battleships and a "blue water" navy that would win battles against rival fleets
The Spanish-American War resulted in the United States acquiring all the following territories from the Spanish EXCEPT
Cuba
Upon assuming office, how did Roosevelt respond to the collapsing bank system?
Declared a bank holiday and then pushed through the Emergency Banking Act
How did the Roosevelt Corollary modify the Monroe Doctrine?
Declaring that the U.S. had the right to preemptive action through intervention in any Latin American nation to correct administrative and fiscal deficiencies
Immigrant Americans tended to vote for which political party?
Democratic Party
Army General John "Black Jack" Pershing used all of the following technologies in his attempt to capture Pancho Villa EXCEPT
Destroyers
What was the result of the King-Crane Commission?
Discovery that most inhabitants of the Middle East favored an independent state free of European control
How did southern reformers seek to combat corruption?
Disenfranchising black voters
What was the primary purpose of the failed Equal Rights Amendment?
Eliminate all legal distinctions based on sex
What theme dominated American popular entertainment in the 1920s?
Escape
Which of the following issues most concerned American diplomats prior to World War I?
Expanding transatlantic trade
How did increased availability of consumer credit in the 1920s influence American expenditures?
Expenditures increased
What brought about the Roosevelt Recession of 1937?
FDR reduced funding for New Deal programs
Louisiana Senator Huey Long criticized Roosevelt's New Deal programs for _____________
Failing to redistribute wealth
The environmental catastrophe of the Great Depression was partly the result of agricultural mismanagement. Which of the following was the most consequential example of this mismanagement?
Farmers plowed up natural ground cover to grow more crops, cover that had taken ages to form in the relatively dry states of the Plains
The Homestead Act granted official title to160 acre plots of land after how many years of settlement?
Five years
FDR appointed the first female cabinet member. Who was it?
Frances Perkins
Which of the following events most seriously damaged the Knights of Labor?
Haymarket Affair
Why did William Jennings Bryan attack the Gold Standard?
He wanted to increase inflation to lower the burden of farmers debts
What most directly explains the boost in production of McCormick reapers?
The adoption of interchangeable parts
What was the most dramatic result of the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act?
The creation of a national minimum wage
Which of the following best describes the Social Gospel?
The goal of saving society as well as souls
All of the following statements regarding the boosters of the New South are true EXCEPT
They saw economic independence as a means of limiting connections between North and South
All of the following statements regarding the Guano Islands Act of 1856 are true EXCEPT
This legislation put Guano Islands on a path to statehood that later was rejected
The Espionage Act (1917) and the Sedition Act (1918) did all of the following EXCEPT
Thwarted German spy rings in New York, Washington D.C., and Chicago
What was the purpose of Western cattle drives?
To bring cattle to eastern markets, mostly through railroad hubs
The peace agreement ending the war was the
Treaty of Versailles
The Triple Entente united all of the following nations EXCEPT.
United States
wave of mergers peaked between 1897 and 1904. The largest of these mergers created the first billion-dollar American corporation. What was that corporation?
United States Steel
Why did so many die in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?
Unsafe working conditions
W. E. B. Du Bois, founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, broke with his former mentor Booker T. Washington because Du Bois believed that Washington _______.
Was not bold enough
Edward Bellamy's 1888 novel Looking Backward did all of the following EXCEPT
advocated violent class-warfare
Which of the following describes the place of the labor movement during the 1920s?
membership declined
Fundamentalist Christianity coalesced around a series of ideas best articulated in a pamphlet commissioned by oil barons Lyman and Milton Stewart. What is the name of this pamphlet?
the Fundamentals
The greatest challenge to FDR's reelection in 1936 came from _____.
the radical left
The National Origins Act restricted the number of immigrants from any given country to ____ percent of the number of current Americans from that country
two
Between 1897 and 1904, over four thousand companies
were consolidated down into 257 corporate firms
________________, wrote an influential book, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases and helped inspire the anti-lynching movement.
Ida B. Wells
What disease proved most deadly during and in the immediate aftermath of World War I?
Influenza
What was the consequence of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930?
International trade collapsed
Which of the following definitions best describes the work of muckrakers?
Investigative journalists
All of the following are true about the Social Gospel movement EXCEPT
It explained Andrew Carnegie's vision for the proper role of wealth in American society
Which of the following is true about the Influenza Pandemic?
It was misnamed the Spanish Influenza
Which of the following writers most effectively used photography in their work?
Jacob Riis
The most popular form of music in the 1920s was _____.
Jazz
Southern white supremacy and segregation were legally maintained by a set of laws collectively known as
Jim Crow
Which of the following environmental thinkers advocated preservation rather than conservation?
John Miur
Which of the following groups was the most radical?
Knights of Labor
How did progressive Democrats in the South seek to solve the problems of racial strife?
Legislating segregation
Two events are widely credited with inspiring the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan. One is the release of the film The Birth of a Nation. What was the second?
Lynching of Leo Frank
How did attitudes toward sex change in the 1920s?
Many college-educated white women rebelled against "Victorian" notions of sexuality, leading to an increase in premarital sex
Movies became popular in the 1920s. Which actress of the 1920s was known as "America's Sweetheart?"
Mary Pickford
Most practices and objects associated with American cowboys were modified from ______ ranchers.
Mexican
Which of the following statements regarding immigration during the Great Depression is true?
More people left the United States than entered it during the Great Depression
All of the following are true about American Neutrality EXCEPT
Neutrality kept the United States out of the war
A vibrant homosexual culture developed during the 1920s in which American city?
New York
Which of the following actions did FDR take to advance civil rights for African Americans?
None of these occurred
Theodore Roosevelt first gained fame as a trustbuster by attacking which monopoly in 1902?
Northern Securities
During the nineteenth century, American interests in the Middle East revolved around all of the following EXCEPT
Oil
The Teapot Dome Scandal sent several prominent members of the Harding administration to jail. The scandal involved the leasing of government land to what group?
Oil companies
How did the United States respond to the Bolshevik Revolution?
Opposed the Revolution and sent American troops, who remained in Russia until 1920
How did the Federal Reserve respond to the financial collapse?
Overcorrected by raising interest rates and tightening credit
How did the United States respond to the Boxer Rebellion in China?
President McKinley sent the U.S. Army into China without consulting congress
Catholic clergymen who took up the name "Americanists" believed in all of the following EXCEPT
Public schools were a danger to the Catholic faith
What did the Works Progress Administration do?
Put unemployed men and women to work on projects designed and proposed by local governments
What was the Red Summer of 1919?
Racial violence in twenty-five American cities
Which group received more land from the government?
Railroad Companies
All of the following groups provided cultural space for immigrants to maintain their arts, languages, and traditions EXCEPT
Rotary clubs
What legal principle was enshrined by the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson?
Separate but equal
Which group founded the People's Party (also known as the Populists)?
Small farmers in the South, Midwest, and Great Plains
Which group of Americans benefited the least from the economic changes of the 1920s?
Southern Farmers
Which of the following most accurately describes the arguments of Social Darwinism?
State welfare and private charity would lead to degeneration by perpetuating the survival of the weak
How did many black leaders, including W. E. B. Du Bois, respond to the war?
Supported the war effort and lobbied to include black soldiers in front-line combat positions
What was the result of the Kaiserschlacht?
The Germans launched five failed major attacks
Which group accounted for 90% of household expenditures in 1920s homes?
Women
All the following are true about the "2nd" Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s EXCEPT
Women had no affiliation with the Klan
