HIST 202 Final Exam

Why was Emmett Till murdered?

Allegedly whistling at a white woman

The Stonewall incident that catalyzed the gay rights movement occurred when_________.

Bar patrons in New York City protested a police raid

What is the name of the 1950s counterculture that rejected the values of conformity and domesticity?

Beats

Why did William Jennings Bryan attack the Gold Standard?

He wanted to increase inflation to lower the burden of farmers debts

Most practices and objects associated with American cowboys were modified from __________ ranchers.

Mexican

How did racism influence the growth of the modern Republican Party?

Democrats took the lead in passing civil rights legislation, pushing many white Americans toward the Republican Party

Women participated in the global influence of the United States in many ways, including as all of following EXCEPT

Diplomats

Which of the following best describes the "Reagan Doctrine?"

The United States committed to supplying aid to anti-communist forces everywhere in the world

The event that triggered World War I in Europe was:

a Serb's assassination of the Austrian archduke.

The centerpiece of President Obama's effort to restore the economy was:

a huge economic stimulus package.

The Knights of Labor:

called for men and women to have equal pay for equal work.

Harry T. Burn is best associated with:

changing his vote to yes at the insistence of his mother, breaking a tie and making Tennessee's legislature the last of thirty-six state assemblies to approve the Nineteenth Amendment.

The biggest scandal of the Harding administration:

involved the leasing of government-owned oil deposits to private companies.

The mobilization of women in the labor force during World War II:

led to a significant increase of American women joining the labor force.

To earn the federal payments for reducing crops:

many landowners took their leased lands out of production and kicking tenants off their land.

Redeemers were all of the following EXCEPT:

members of the Republican party.

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, did all of the following EXCEPT:

paralyze the United States in fear and disunity.

Gerald Ford suffered terrible political damage when he:

pardoned Nixon.

At the Altamont concert in 1969:

the Hells Angels killed a man in front of the stage.

Of all the causes of the stock market crash of October 1929, the greatest culprit was:

the weak foundation of the 1920s economy.

The very poor generally did not migrate to the West because:

they generally could not afford the expense of transportation, land, and supplies.

Congress passed the Homestead Act:

to encourage settlement of the western lands.

Why did so many die in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?

unsafe working conditions

The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was provoked by:

wage cuts that followed a depression.

The Haymarket affair:

was blamed on eight anarchist leaders despite a lack of evidence.

W.E.B. DuBois, founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, broke with his former mentor Booker T. Washington because, DuBois believed that Washington _________.

was not bold enough

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was significant in American immigration history because it:

was the first federal law to restrict immigration on the basis of race and class.

"Trusts" like Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust were vulnerable because they:

were appealing targets for prosecution on the grounds of monopoly or restraint of trade.

The New South gospel emphasized all the following EXCEPT:

women's rights.

All of the following led to an economic development of the Sun Belt EXCEPT

A resurgence in southern agriculture

Following the Pearl Harbor attack:

Germany and Italy also declared war on the United States.

As a result of the Truman Doctrine:

Greece and Turkey were less vulnerable to communism.

Wilson's Fourteen Points endorsed all of the following EXCEPT:

U.S. colonies in Africa and Asia.

What was the Open Door Policy?

A call for all western powers to have equal access to Chinese markets

A change in the cold-war climate was indicated in early 1989, when Soviet troops left:

Afghanistan.

What was the purpose the the Marshall Plan?

All of the above

How did federal housing programs discriminate against Americans of color?

All of the above.

Which of the following advantages did the Soviet Union achieve during the Cold War?

All of the above.

Why was the "loss" of China to communism so upsetting to American?

All of the above.

"D-day" refers to the:

Allied invasion at Normandy.

Who advocated racial accomodationism?

Booker T. Washington

What did the governments of Italy and Germany have in common by the 1930s?

Both had established fascist forms of government.

The United States experienced a shock in 1949 when Communists took over:

China.

Which ethnic group faced the most rigid immigration restrictions?

Chinese

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.

What was the primary political issue that Carter used in his presidential campaign?

Focusing less on issues than on his background as a hardworking, honest, Southern Baptist southerner

What was the primary guiding principle of Carter's foreign policy during his early years in office?

Human rights

_____________, wrote an influential book, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases and helped inspire the anti-lynching movement.

Ida B. Wells

Britain and France declared war on Germany after which invasion?

Invasion of Poland

What was the purpose of the Dawes General Allotment Act?

It sought to "Americanize" Indians by dealing with them as individuals.

As a result of the Scopes trial:

John T. Scopes was found guilty of teaching evolution.

As a result of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia:

Lenin concluded a separate peace with Germany.

What organization sought to set workplace standards, such as child labor restrictions?

National Recovery Administration

A vibrant homosexual culture developed during the 1920s in which American city?

New York

Ellis Island was located right outside:

New York City.

The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) mimicked policy proposals of all the following politicians EXCEPT

Newt Gingrich

George H.W. Bush defeated Michael Dukakis by doing all of the following EXCEPT

Promising to continue the conservative work of the Reagan administration

What was the "Red Summer" of 1919?

Racial violence in twenty-five American cities including Chicago

Roe v. Wade, the court case that legalized abortion hinged on what legal idea?

Right of privacy

The title of the novel that described the terrible conditions of the meatpacking industry was:

The Jungle

The historian Frederick Jackson Turner argued that:

The historian Frederick Jackson Turner argued that:

What prompted President Roosevelt to pass Executive Order 8802?

The planned march on Washington led by A. Philip Randolph

All of the following statements regarding the Philippine-American War are true EXCEPT

The war began with the assassination of Emilio Aguinaldo, president of the First Philippine Republic

What was the major cause of the Chicago riot in 1919?

Whites were angered by the influx of southern blacks into their communities.

All of the following statements regarding the National Women's Party are true EXCEPT

advocated violent resistance to sexism

How did railroads transform the American economy?

all of the above

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 the above

What tactics were used to disenfranchise black voters?

all of the above

Ronald Reagan viewed the Soviet Union as:

an evil empire.

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina:

destroyed much of New Orleans.

Huey Long:

developed a program called Share-our-Wealth

The Great Railroad Strike of 1877:

ended when the workers, who lacked organized bargaining power, returned to work.

During the early twentieth century, the nation's century-long isolation from European conflicts:

ended.

Most likely to support the Moral Majority would be:

evangelical Christians.

The muckrakers saw their primary objective as:

exposing social problems to the public.

Frequently lumped together as "Okies," dust bowl refugees:

face "border blockades" in states like California and Colorado

The feminist movement suffered a setback with the:

failure of the states to ratify the equal-rights amendment.

The immigration quota laws passed in the 1920s:

favored immigrants from northern and western Europe.

After 1890, most immigrants were:

from southern and eastern Europe.

Membership in the American Federation of Labor at first:

grew slowly.

Tenement houses in New York City:

had higher mortality rates than among the general population.

Life magazine's ideal woman of the mid-1950s was:

having babies.

War relocation camps:

housed more than 110,000 Japanese Americans during the war.

"Nativists" believed that:

immigrants threatened traditional American culture.

Proponents of the New South believed that the South should:

industrialize.

What disease proved the most deadly during and in the immediate aftermath of World War I?

influenza

In June 1941, Germany widened the war by:

invading the Soviet Union.

William Jennings Bryan:

prosecuted John Scopes for teaching evolution in the Dayton, Tennessee, evolution case.

The main purpose of the Civilian Conservation Corps was to

provide work relief for young men.

Elvis Presley's recordings:

provided an outlet for teenage restlessness and rebellion

Marcus Garvey:

said blacks should return to Africa.

State Department official George Kennan:

said the United States should contain Soviet expansionist tendencies.

The National Origins Act:

set strict yearly limits on the number of immigrants allowed into the country.

Jane Addams, founder of the settlement house movement, stated:

settlements are built on "the solidarity of the human race."

All of the following groups were prominent in the West during the late nineteenth century EXCEPT:

slaves.

Which group founded the People's Party (also known as the Populists)?

small farmers in the South, Midwest, and Great Plains

Many of those who contracted AIDS in the early and mid-1980s:

soon died.

The Harlem Renaissance:

sought to rediscover black folk culture.

As railroads spread into Texas and across the plains, the cattle business:

spread with them.

In the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas,decision, the Supreme Court:

struck down "separate but equal" in public education.

The religious Right fervently supported Reagan because he:

supported its conservative social values.

In early 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed to have a list of Communists in:

the State Department.

All of the following contributed to epidemics, disease, and high mortality rates in the growing cities EXCEPT:

the banishment of animals to outside city limits.

One major reason for religion's growing appeal in the 1950s was:

the desire to combat godless communism.

All of the following were among the objectives of the Tennessee Valley Authority EXCEPT:

the development of Smoky Mountain National Park.

Which of the following best describes the Social Gospel?

the goal of saving society as well as souls