HIST 1103 FINAL

The phrase that best captures the vision of the Knights of Labor is - "Cooperative commonwealth." - "Liberty of contract." - "Survival of the fittest." - "Laissez-faire."

"Cooperative commonwealth."

The term "progressive" that came into common use around 1910 describes - a loosely defined political movement of individuals and groups who hoped to bring about social and political change in American life. - a movement that sought to recapture America's lost glory through an active policy of global imperialism. - a self-help movement in which one was to take proactive measures in seeking to overcome one's aggressive tendencies. - a type of life insurance, and auto insurance when available.

a loosely defined political movement of individuals and groups who hoped to bring about social and political change in American life.

A "carpetbagger" is - a northerner who settled in the South after the war. - a Southerner who had been sympathetic to the Union during the Civil War. - a traveling salesman of goods to the war-ravaged South. - the name given to gypsies who traveled in and out of the border states after the Civil War.

a northerner who settled in the South after the war.

The United States underwent one of the most rapid and profound economic revolutions any country has ever experienced. Which of the following is a major factor? - low tariffs from foreign competition - abundant natural resources - a small supply of labor - use of the army to aid in settling Indians to western lands proven successful for agriculture and mining

abundant natural resources

William "Buffalo Bill" Cody was - a collector of Indian artifacts, especially those of the dwindling buffalo population. - a wealthy rancher in the new West. - a self-made millionaire who made his money on stocks and wore cowboy boots in the boardroom. - an entertainer who had a traveling show showcasing reenactments of battles with Indians.

an entertainer who had a traveling show showcasing reenactments of battles with Indians.

Which of the following was not a military technology used during World War I? - airplanes - atomic bombs - machine guns - tanks

atomic bombs

During the Progressive era, economic production shifted from ____ to ____. - capital goods, market exchange. - institutional economics, capital goods. - consumer products, capital goods - capital goods, consumer products

capital goods, consumer products

Between 1900 and 1904 membership in the American Federation of Labor - dwindled to half. - experienced unprecedented growth that doubled membership. - experienced marginal growth. - exploded to triple earlier membership numbers.

exploded to triple earlier membership numbers.

The Progressive era was a time of - explosive economic growth, rapid population rise, increased industrial production, and a "Golden Age" for American agriculture. - declining economic performance in the economy and decreasing wages. - economic downturn for agriculture in America, and uneven growth in the industrial economy. - economic recession.

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

From 1910 to 1916, the price of a Model T automobile approximately - halved. - tripled. - was marginally unchanged. - doubled.

halved

In the late 1800s, this geographic area experienced the most dramatic growth in capitalism. - the reconstructed South - the northeast - the Ohio River Valley - land west of the Mississippi River

land west of the Mississippi River

President Wilson's foreign policy that called for active intervention to remake the world in America's image, and which asserted the view that greater freedom worldwide would follow from increased American investment and trade abroad was called - isolationism. - international realism. - the Good Neighbor Policy. - liberal internationalism.

liberal internationalism.

Progressive-era writers and photographers seeking to expose the underside of urban-industrial society were known as - ditch-diggers. - bushwhackers. - stand-patters. - muckrakers.

muckrakers.

A leader in the new feminism, Margaret Sanger - graduated from New York University Law School. - danced expressively with free movements of the body liberated from the constraints of traditional technique and costume. - established the newsletter, Wassaja. - opened a clinic and began distributing contraceptive devices to poor women.

opened a clinic and began distributing contraceptive devices to poor women.

In consequence of the "Bargain of 1877," President Rutherford B. Hayes - ordered that future bargains, such as those promoted by the corrupt politicians involved in the Whiskey Ring, be made illegal. - ordered all military uniforms be purchased at bargain or discount prices. - ordered federal troops to encourage a system of bartering as a means of trade until new money was minted. - ordered federal troops to stop guarding the state houses in Louisiana and South Carolina.

ordered federal troops to stop guarding the state houses in Louisiana and South Carolina.

After World War I and the 1920s, the Progressives recognized that - the government was never going to truly help their issues. - they had labored under the delusion that helping the poor would make a difference. - their efforts had been legally and monetarily rewarded and decided to disband. - public power could go grievously wrong, as in Prohibition.

public power could go grievously wrong, as in Prohibition.

Before the Civil War, American citizenship had been closely linked to - race. - monetary wealth. - class. - religion.

race

The belief that private control of economic enterprises should be replaced by government ownership in order to ensure a fairer distribution of the benefits of the wealth produced is called - capitalism. - communism. - fair-market trading. - socialism

socialism

The desire for both victory at home against segregation and victory overseas against the Germans and the Japanese came to be called this by African-Americans during World War II - the "double-V." - a new Emancipation Proclamation. - the Fair Employment Practices Commission. - antilynching.

the "double-V."

We now call the mass extinction of "undesirable" peoples - Slavs, Gypsies, homosexuals, and, above all, Jews - that Hitler undertook in 1941 the Holocaust. He called it - Guadalcanal. - the "final solution." - the Third Reich. - the Reich.

the "final solution."

In 1949, the containment policy suffered a major setback in the form of - the publication of NSC-68. - the "loss" of China to communism. - the overthrow of the government of Greece. - the invasion of South Korea.

the "loss" of China to communism.

The largest single battle ever fought by the U.S. Army occurred in 1944, producing 70,000 American casualties, is called - the Battle of the Coral Sea. - the Battle of Midway. - the Battle of Leyte Gulf. - the Battle of the Bulge.

the Battle of the Bulge.

In March 1933, Congress established the federal government as a direct employer of the unemployed when it authorized the hiring of young men to work on projects to improve national parks, forests, and flood control, through what was called - the Economy Act. - the Federal Emergency Relief Administration. - the Civilian Conservation Corps. - the Public Works Administration.

the Civilian Conservation Corps.

In the mid-1930s, unions of industrial workers, led by John L. Lewis, founded a new labor organization, called - the Congress of Industrial Organizations. - the Knights of Labor. - the American Federation of Labor. - the Industrial Workers of the World.

the Congress of Industrial Organizations.

In the 1930s, unusually dry weather blew winds over much of the Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and Colorado soils, creating - the desert of the southwest. - the Dust Bowl. - the largest cyclone on American record. - the Brown Cloud.

the Dust Bowl.

The proposed constitutional amendment to eliminate all legal distinctions "on account of sex" promoted by Alice Paul was - the Equal Suffrage Amendment. - the National Women's Amendment. - the Equal Rights Amendment. - the Fifteenth Amendment.

the Equal Rights Amendment.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt's foreign policy with regard to Latin American countries was called - appeasement. - the Roosevelt Corollary. - the Platt Amendment. - the Good Neighbor Policy.

the Good Neighbor Policy.

The House Un-American Activities Committee charged these people with contempt of Congress, serving jail terms of six months to a year. - the Hollywood Ten - braceros laboring in the U.S. yet not American citizens - the State Department Circle - union workers and protesters outside the New York Harbor

the Hollywood Ten

This federal agency was the first ever established to regulate economic activity. It also was meant to ensure that railroad rates were reasonable and favoritism was avoided. - the Federal Reserve - the Dawes Act - the Sherman Antitrust Act - the Interstate Commerce Commission

the Interstate Commerce Commission

This legislation authorized the deportation of immigrants identified as communists, even if they had become citizens. - the Marshall Plan - the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 - the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952 - Operation Wetback of 1954

the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952

Which were central elements in the lives of post-emancipation blacks in the twenty years following the end of the Civil War? - the family, the church, the school - the family, corporations, the university - the boss, the library, the farm - the boss, the cabin, the library

the family, the church, the school

The baby boom lasted until - the early 1980s. - the mid-1970s. - the mid-1960s. - the late 1950s.

the mid-1960s.

During the 1950s, the mass movement for civil rights found principal support among - union leaders. - Democratic and Republican political leaders. - corporate leaders. - the southern black church.

the southern black church.

Between 1901 and 1914, - the country experienced more people leaving the United States than entering. - 17 million Asian immigrants arrived on America's shores. - 3 million immigrants came to the United States. - 13 million immigrants came to the United States.

13 million immigrants came to the United States.

The immigrants facing the harshest reception in late-nineteenth-century America were those arriving from - China. - Scandinavia. - eastern Europe. - the Caribbean.

China.

The Cold War began in - Europe. - the United States. - Africa. - Asia.

Europe

As president, Eisenhower sought to roll back the New Deal, abolish social security and unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs. True or False

False

At Bataan in the Philippines, U.S. and Filipino forces captured 78,000 Japanese soldiers in the largest surrender in Japanese military history. True or False

False

At the Battle of Little Big Horn, General George Armstrong Custer's troops were victorious. True or False

False

By 1912, the Socialist Party had dwindled, losing many of their political office posts and lessening ties with radical newspapers and magazines. True or False

False

Eugenics studied the mental characteristics of different ethnicities and races, only to discover that, for the most part and overwhelmingly, all human beings possess "good genes." True or False

False

Franklin Delano Roosevelt entered the presidency in 1933 with a complex, detailed blueprint for dealing with the Great Depression. True or False

False

Germany suffered far higher casualties among its soldiers on the western front than it did on the Russian front. True or False

False

In a show of democratic solidarity on the part of the American people, the Farmers' Alliance, especially in the southern states, welcomed black farmers into the alliance. True or False

False

In the late 1800s, farm families in the trans-Mississippi West became less dependent on loans as they were able to purchase land, machinery, and industrial products despite the prices for agricultural goods in the world market. True or False

False

It is a myth that children in the 1950s and 1960s were trained to hide under their desks in the event of an atomic attack. True or False

False

Jack Dempsey made the first solo flight across the Atlantic. True or False

False

No one was ever convicted under the 1917 Espionage Act or the 1918 Sedition Act. True or False

False

Orval Faubus was among the attorneys on the team hired by the NAACP to pursue the watershed case Brown v. Board of Education. True or False

False

Prior to her arrest that led to the Montgomery bus boycott, Rosa Parks had never been involved in National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) activism. True or False

False

Some 900 blacks sat in state legislatures during Reconstruction, yet few held local offices True or False

False

The "Kingfish" of Louisiana politics was Louis Brandeis. True or False

False

The Black Codes were laws passed by southern Republicans to promote black rights. True or False

False

The Lost Cause mythology was rarely incorporated into churches as slavery was still questionable in the Bible. True or False

False

Under the Black Codes enacted by southern legislatures immediately after the Civil War, blacks convicted of "vagrancy" were fined and, if unable to pay, were publicly hanged. True or False

False

War mobilization lifted the industrial Northeast out of the Depression, but left the economies of the South and the West virtually untouched. True or False

False

Who of the following were known as the "Big Three"? - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Emperor Hirohito - Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Emperor Hirohito - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin - Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin

This person assumed the presidency after Roosevelt's death in April 1945. - J. Strom Thurmond - Thomas E. Dewey - Dwight D. Eisenhower - Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman

Who authored The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money and asserted that large-scale government deficit-spending was appropriate during economic downturns? - Arthur Schlesinger - Charles Evans Hughes - John Maynard Keynes - Alfred Landon

John Maynard Keynes

Who was the United States senator from Wisconsin who announced in February 1950 that he had a list of Communists working for the State Department, and whose name later entered the political vocabulary as shorthand for character assassination, guilt by association, and abuse of power in the name of anticommunism? - George C. Marshall - Joseph R. McCarthy - Julius Rosenberg - Alger Hiss

Joseph R. McCarthy

Between 1879 and 1880, an estimated 40,000-60,000 African-Americans migrated to - California. - South Carolina. - Massachusetts. - Kansas.

Kansas

Congress passed this legislation in 1941, which authorized military aid so long as countries promised to return it all after the war. The passing of this act allowed the U.S. to funnel billions of dollars' worth of arms to Britain, China, and later the Soviet Union. - Neutrality Acts - Good Neighbor Policy - GI Bill of Rights - Lend-Lease Act

Lend-Lease Act

What province of northern China did Japan invade in 1931? - Beijing - Manchuria - Canton - Shanghai

Manchuria

Which was not one of the "voices of protest" heard in the United States during the mid-1930s? - Upton Sinclair's bid for the governorship of California as head of the End Poverty in California movement - Martha Graham's American Document - Huey Long's "Share Our Wealth" movement - Dr. Francis Townsend's Townsend Clubs that sought monthly payments of $200 to elderly Americans

Martha Graham's American Document

The so called "kitchen debate" between Nixon and Khrushchev occurred in - New York City, New York. - Stalingrad, Russia. - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. - Moscow, Russia.

Moscow, Russia.

This political and social group promoted agricultural education and believed farmers should adopt modern scientific methods of cultivation. - Women's Christian Temperance Union - Women's Suffrage movement - Isolationists - Populists

Populists

Which is not true of the Korean War (1950-1953)? - Over 33,000 Americans died in Korea; an estimated 1 million Korean soldiers and 2 million civilians died, along with hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops. - President Truman acknowledged and accepted General MacArthur's push toward the Chinese border and his threat to use nuclear weapons against the Chinese. - General Douglas MacArthur launched a daring counterattack at Inchon, behind North Korean lines, in September 1950. - In 1953, an armistice was agreed to that restored the prewar status quo.

President Truman acknowledged and accepted General MacArthur's push toward the Chinese border and his threat to use nuclear weapons against the Chinese.

What was the book in which Henry George proposed a "single tax" on real estate that would replace all other taxes? - Progress and Poverty - The Cooperative Commonwealth - Looking Backward - Civic Engagement

Progress and Poverty

In November 1917, in the midst of World War I, a communist revolution broke out in what country? - Germany - Russia - China - Japan

Russia

This law, considered a major achievement of the maternalist reformers that provided federal assistance to programs for infants and children's health, was later repealed by Congress in 1929. - Sheppard-Towner Act - McNary-Haugen bill - Equal Rights Amendment - Smoot-Hawley Tariff

Sheppard-Towner Act

In this Supreme Court ruling, San Francisco was ordered to admit Chinese students to public schools. - Tape v. Hurley - Yick Wo v. Hopkins - the Civil Rights Cases - Fong Yue Ting v. United Sates

Tape v. Hurley

After emancipation, many freedwomen elected to withdraw from work in the fields and focus their energies at home. True or False

True

Business leaders like Henry Ford and engineers like Herbert Hoover were cultural heroes in the 1920s. True or False

True

By 1932, one-quarter of the U.S. labor force could not find work. True or False

True

By the mid-1960s, 25 million Americans owned shares of stock. True or False

True

During 1919, more than 250 people died in riots in northern cities. True or False

True

During Reconstruction, a number of state governments initiated civil rights legislation that made it illegal for railroads, hotels, and other institutions to discriminate on the basis of race. True or False

True

During Reconstruction, some 2,000 African-Americans held public office, among them fourteen in the United States House of Representatives and two U.S. senators. True or False

True

Established in 1934, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) insured millions of mortgages issued by private banks; during the 1930s, the federal government also set out, for the first time, to build thousands of units of low-rent housing for American citizens. True or False

True

Eugene V. Debs, a Socialist Party leader, was imprisoned for delivering an antiwar speech. True or False

True

In 1911, the United States Immigration Commission listed forty-five immigrant "races" in a dictionary published that year. True or False

True

In 1915, the United States Supreme Court invalidated the "grandfather clause" for violating the Fifteenth Amendment. True or False

True

In 1928, Democratic candidate Alfred E. Smith was the first Catholic to be nominated for president by a major party. True or False

True

In 1960, women earned, on average, 60 percent of the income of men. True or False

True

In July 1948, President Harry S. Truman issued an executive order desegregating the armed forces. True or False

True

In many ways, the Cold War both reshaped immigration and promoted the rapid expansion of higher education. True or False

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. True or False

True

Most Americans who looked to expand America's influence overseas were interested, not in territorial possessions, but in expanded trade. True or False

True

Nearly a million African-Americans migrated from the American South during the 1920s. True or False

True

Over 100 million records were sold each year during the 1920s. True or False

True

Presidents Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson shared a common belief that the United States had a right, even a duty, to intervene from time to time in the affairs of other countries. True or False

True

Republicans swept the congressional elections of 1946 to control both houses of Congress for the first time since the 1920s. True or False

True

The 1936 election saw the crystallizing of the "New Deal coalition." True or False

True

The Federal Reserve System (established in 1913) and the Federal Trade Commission (established in 1914) were major examples of the remarkable expansion of the role of the federal government in the economy during the Progressive era. True or False

True

The National Recovery Act was modeled on the government-business partnership of the War Industries Board of World War I. True or False

True

The election of 1896 is sometimes called the first modern presidential campaign, in part, because of the amount of money spent - William McKinley raised some $10 million, while William Jennings Bryan raised only around $300,000. True or False

True

While many were troubled by the ongoing slaughter overseas, most Progressives regarded wartime mobilization as an extraordinary chance to remake American society. True or False

True

While the anticommunist hysteria of the postwar years came to be known as "McCarthyism," it arose well before Senator Joseph McCarthy entered the scene. True or False

True

The political "boss" of New York City in the early 1870s was - William M. Tweed. - James A. Garfield. - Schuyler Colfax. - Charles Dudley Warner.

William M. Tweed.

Which of the following was not a major reason for America's imperial expansion? - a sense of strategic rivalry with other imperial powers - a quest on the part of business for new markets for goods - a desire to broaden the exposure of Americans to different cultures - a conviction that it was America's mission to uplift "less civilized" peoples

a desire to broaden the exposure of Americans to different cultures