American History Final

pull factors for immigration

"Magic Land" idea of America, encouragement from companies, religious freedom, and better conditions. (Positive)

In the controversial Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court declared that:

"property"

The _______ Amendment prohibited states from depriving any male citizen of equal protection under the law, regardless of race

14th

The ______ Amendment protected blacks' right to vote

15th

The _______ Amendment granted women the right to vote in all states

19th

Treaty of Versailles (1919)

9 new nations, broke up Austro-hungary empires

The first United States president to be impeached in the House of Representatives was:

Andrew Johnson

By analyzing the New York City Draft riots, what can be determined about the Civil War?

Angry mobs attacking blacks and poor people about the government

General Lee surrendered his army to General Grant at the courthouse in:

Appomattox Va

The Manhattan Project was code name for:

Atomic Bomb

On September 17, 1862, the "bloodiest single day" of fighting in American history occurred at:

Battle of Antietam

Why was Vicksburg essential?

Capturing the city allowed the Union to control the entire Mississippi River.

Results of the Kansas-Nebraska Act included

Cause of the Civil War, Kansas and Nebraska, Repealed Missouri Camp

Enacted in 1862, ________ was the first immigrants law to ban a certain race of people from coming to America.

Chinese Exclusion Act

What inspiration did Martin Luther King Jr. gain from Mahatma Gandhi?

Civil Disobedience

Black Codes:

Controlled free slaves and fined those unemployed

What could be one possible reason why Robert E. Lee invaded the North in 1863?

Destroy Morale

During the Allied occupation of Japan, ______________ introduced reforms designed to convert Japan into a democratic country.

Douglas McAurthur

True or False: During the 1920s, labor lost over 2 million members

False

True or False: Emperor Hirohito was tried as a war criminal and sentenced to death along with General Tojo

False

True or False: Overall, despite good intentions the Marshall Plan was not very successful.

False

True or False: Proposed by Woodrow Wilson to promote peace through collective security, the League of Nations was created in 1920, and the United States was the first member

False

True or False: The America First Committee campaigned for Americans to be the first to go to war against Nazi Germany

False

True or False: The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 freed slaves in border states fighting on the Union side

False

True or False: The only people killed during the German Holocaust were the Jewish people

False

True or False: although well intended, the new deal for native Americans resulted in a series of forced assimilations

False

What time period most influenced the New Deal?

First World War

The purpose of the D-Day invasion was to

Free France

What would John Winthrop most likely criticize about antebellum America?

Freedom

While standard of living rose for many Americans after the Civil War and huge fortunes were amassed by industrialists, significant societal problems developed. Mark Twain called the era a ___________ Age.

Gilded

The Freedman's Bureau:

Helped African Americans adjust to freedom

________ the systematic state-sponsored killing of six million Jewish men, women, and children and millions fo others by Nazi Germany and it's collaborators during World War II

Holocaust

Who became the first African-American Senator in 1870?

Hyrum Revels

In what way was Reconstruction policy a success?

It established an amendment promising equal protection for all

When "Fifty-four forty or fight" did not result in gaining all of the Pacific Northwest, who most likely would have been the angriest?

James Polk

The declared president of the Confederate States of America was:

Jefferson Davis

The Compromise of 1850 established all of the following statues EXCEPT:

Land divided, California joined

Which of the following elements of President Wilson's Fourteen Points most resembled the commissions Progressives had instituted back home?

League of Nations

In the first half of the nineteenth century, the United States gained the most territory through:

Mexico

The Battle of _______ was a turning point in the Pacific Theater of WWII

Midway

Causes of WW1

Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism

Which of the following least symbolized the growing autonomy of working women with regard to their consumerism?

Military Service

In contrast to the American Federation of Labor, the Congress of Industrial Organizations fought for:

More buying Power

________ is an anti foreigner sentiment in the U.S. that fueled a drive against immigration. (Feeling of hatred towards those not "American"

Nativism

What broad popular sentiments did the Ku Klux Klan express in the 1920s?

Nativism, white men only

What was ironic about the election of Andrew Johnson?

Only senator from a seceding state

Which of the following trends of the 1920's did fundamentalists support?

Prohibition

According to the Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, how could corporations have prevented the Great Depression?

Purchasing Power

What was Lincoln's hidden weapon that allowed the military to quickly transport troops and supplies over long distances like never before?

Railroads

_________, founder of the Standard Oil Company gained control of 90% of the petroleum refining capacity in the U.S. by eliminating competitors through buyouts and aggressive business practice.

Rockefeller

The ascendancy of the American Federation of Labor during the 1890s reflected:

Shift from broad reform

John Wilkes Booth, an actor who killed Lincoln:

Shot him in the head

Passed by Congress in 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution outlawed:

Slavery

The first state to choose secession was:

South Carolina

In the 1950s what did the term "Totalitarianism" describe?

Soviet Side

The idea that change comes slowly can be evidenced by what event during Reconstruction?

Suffrage

Lincoln used the ______________ to communicate with his generals and other officers to keep tabs of what was going on at the battle front.

Telegraph

Unsanitary conditions in the meat packing industry were sensationalized in ________, a 1906 novel by Upton Sinclair

The Jungle

What was a result of the expanding Union economy?

The size and spending of the government increased tremendously

The "March to the Sea" (Atlanta, GA to Savannah, NC) was the cumulation of Union General William Sherman's 1684 campaign and was a devastating example of ________ war

Total

True or False: Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860 without any southern electoral votes

True

True or False: After Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, FDR issued Executive Order 9066. As a result, over 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry were uprooted and confined to remote camps farther inland for most of the war.

True

True or False: By 1880, a majority of Americans worked in nonfarm activities.

True

True or False: Chinese immigrants, often performing dangerous tasks, played an important role in the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad.

True

True or False: During the Battle of Leyte Gulf, over 2,000 kamikaze pilots crashed their aircraft into U.S ships.

True

True or False: Franklin D. Roosevelt was the only U.S. president to serve more than 2 terms

True

True or False: Picture bride refers to the practice of Japanese immigrants to Hawaii and the West Coast, selecting brides from Japan via a matchmaker, who paired bride and groom using ONLY photographs and family recommendations of the possible candidate.

True

True or False: Social security was instituted during the Great Depression

True

True or False: The Congress passed the first national conscription law in 1863, but the rich people could buy their way out of the draft by hiring a substitute for $300

True

True or False: The most common Civil War battlefield surgery was the amputation

True

True or False: The percentage of families at or below the poverty rate fell during the 1950s

True

True or False: Wade-Davis Bill, a program proposed for the Reconstruction fo the South written by two Radical Republicans was vetoed by Lincoln and never took effect

True

On May 10, 1869, the Union and Central Pacific Railroads joined their rails at Promontory Summit, ________ Territory

Utah

Apart from the racial identity of victims, what typically triggered the lynch violence of southern white mobs?

Victims alleged sexual conduct

What did the members of the new United Nations Security Council all have in common?

Victors of WWI

The Scale of Civil War bloodshed was comparable to that of which other conflict?

WWI

Which of the following Second New Deal measures came closest to meeting the demands of the Congress of Industrial Organizations for workplace democracy

Wagner Act

What taste of freedom did women enjoy in World War II?

Work

Push factors for immigration

economic reasons, rising populations, industrial revolution, local craftsmen competition, political and religious persecution. (negative)