history midterm

False

(Q044) By 1929, three-quarters of American households had washing machines.

Andrew Carnegie

Among the following, who was a "captain of industry"?

laws that sought to regulate the lives of former slaves in the South.

The Black Codes were

a nation of barbaric Huns led by an autocratic Kaiser aligned against freedom.

The Committee on Public Information (CPI) flooded the country with prowar propaganda, describing Germany as

explosive economic growth, rapid population rise, increased industrial production,and a "Golden Age" for agriculture.

The Progressive era was a time of

calling for economic and political reforms, including the right to vote.

The Women's Christian Temperance Union began by demanding the prohibition of alcoholic drinks, but developed into an organization

True

The developing consumer culture emphasized the purchasing of goods, even if this meant going into debt, departing from the thrift and self-denial that had previously defined good character.

the Lost Cause.

The idea of a romanticized version of slavery in the Old South, focusing on the Confederate experience, was called

the North and the Midwest.

The industrial revolution in the United States took place principally in

the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand.

The outbreak of World War I in 1914 was triggered by

"Cooperative commonwealth"

The phrase that best captures the vision of the Knights of Labor is

the Harlem Renaissance.

The vibrant black culture in 1920s New York City that included poets and novelists Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, and Claude McKay was called

Tulsa, Oklahoma

The worst race riot in American history occurred in 1921, when more than 300 blacks were killed and over 10,000 were left homeless after white mobs burned an all-black section of which city to the ground?

Selective Service Act

Under this act, American men were required to register with the draft.

Plessy v. Ferguson

What landmark United States Supreme Court decision gave approval to state laws requiring separate facilities for whites and blacks?

a growing perception among northerners that southern blacks were unfit for equal citizenship

What was a major cause of the decline of Reconstruction?

settling disputes between whites and blacks and among the freedpeople

What was one of the principal tasks and objectives of the Freedmen's Bureau (1865-1870)?

refrigerators

Which item was a consumer good in the 1920s?

Thaddeus Stevens

Which man was a leader of the Radical Republicans?

Standard Oil Company

Which of the following was John D. Rockefeller's company?

collapse of real-estate prices in southern California and Florida

Which of the following was a cause of the Great Depression that began in October 1929?

excessive power of the banks and railroads

Which of the following was a grievance of the Farmers' Alliance and the Populists?

holding public events to give their followers a sense of power and community

Which of the following was a strategy of the Populists?

literacy tests

Which of the following was one of the devices used by southern whites to keep blacks from exercising suffrage?

Mormon arson attacks against federal military installations

Which of the following were sources of violence in America during the Gilded Age?

It allowed a black family to rent part of a plantation, with the crop divided between worker and owner at the end of the year.

Which statement accurately describes sharecropping?

Calvin Coolidge

Who said "the chief business of the American people is business"?

Booker T. Washington

Who was the African-American leader who delivered a speech in 1895 at the Atlanta Cotton Exposition urging black Americans to adjust to segregation and stop agitating for civil and political rights?

Hiram Revels

Who was the first black senator elected in U.S. history in 1870?

Theodore Roosevelt

Who was the future American president who made a national name for himself by charging up San Juan Hill with the Rough Riders?

Marcus Garvey

Who was the leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, a movement for African independence and black self-reliance?

False

With the mechanization of manufacture, skilled workers virtually disappeared from industrial America.

True

Women's freedom in the 1920s was characterized by unapologetic use of birth control methods such as the diaphragm.

the outbreak of revolutions and warfare outside of the United States.

Causes of the "new immigration" included

fundamentalists

During the 1920s, a group whose most well-known leader was Billy Sunday and who asserted their conviction in the literal truth of the Bible became known by which term that they coined?

consumer products.

During the Progressive era, economic production shifted from capital goods to

the moving assembly line.

Henry Ford's factory adopted a method of production Known as

True

In 1903, when Panama declared its independence from Colombia, the United States stationed a gunboat off the Panamanian coast, preventing the Colombian army from taking back the area.

the Scopes Trial

In 1925, what was the Tennessee trial in which a public schoolteacher faced charges of violating the state's law prohibiting the teaching of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution?

They should have no role in shaping policies.

In President Andrew Johnson's view, African-Americans ought to play what part in Reconstruction?

True

In marriage, according to advertisements in the 1920s, women were expected to find happiness and freedom within the home, especially in the use of new labor-saving appliances.

a derogatory name from literature meaning covered with gold but what lies beneath is of little value.

In the era from 1870 to 1890, the label "the Gilded Age" originally derived from

steel

In which industry did Andrew Carnegie make his fortune?

a northerner who settled in the South after the war.

A "carpetbagger" was

vaudeville

Of all the mass consumption activities, this was the most popular form of mass entertainment.

ensure a working system of labor relations between former slaves and former slaveholders.

One of the main purposes of the Freedmen's Bureau was to

"Square Deal."

President Theodore Roosevelt's reform program was called the

muckrakers.

Progressive-era writers and photographers seeking to expose the underside of urban-industrial society were known as

the Union victory created an opportunity to institutionalize the principle of equal rights regardless of race.

Radical Republicans in the Reconstruction era shared the view that