History 1700 Final

Pull factors include:

- better paying job prospects - stable government - free high quality education/healthcare All of the above?

Push factors include:

- lack of skilled job opportunities - inadequate education/healthcare - lack of religious freedom All of the above?

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

14

The ____ Amendment protected blacks' right to vote.

15

The ______ Amendment granted women the right to vote in all the states.

19

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

A shift from broad reform goals to more limited goals

The compromise of 1850 established all of the following statutes EXECPT:

Abolition of slavery

Causes of World War 1

All of the above

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

Alleged sexual conduct

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

Andrew Johnson

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

Antietam Creek

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

Appomattox, Virginia

The Manhattan Project was the code name for:

Atomic bomb development efforts

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

By increasing their workers wages

Why was Vicksburg essential?

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

Enacted in 1882, ______ was the first immigration law to ban a certain race of people from coming to America

Chinese exclusion act

Results of the Kansas-Nebraska Act included:

Conflict between proslavery and anti slavery in Kansas

When assessing the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, what can be determined about this issue?

Congress and president accused each other of unconstitutional acts

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

Control of the nation should be returned to native born protestants.

The Freedman's Bureau:

Established relief for freeman and refugees

Although well intended, the New Deal for Native Americans resulted in a series of forced assimilations.

False

Emperor Hirohito was tried as a war criminal and sentenced to death along with general with General Tojo.

False

Overall, despite good intentions the Marshall Plan was not very successful.

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

The American First Committee campaigned for Americans to be the first to go to war against Nazi Germany.

False

The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 freed slaves in border states fighting on the Union side.

False

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

Fascism, nazism and communism

What time period influenced the new deal?

First World War

The purpose of the D-Day invasion was to:

Free France from Germany

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

General MacArthur

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

He hoped to deliver a knockout blow to the North

What was ironic about the election of Andrew Johnson?

He was from a state that seceded.

Who became the first African-American Senator in 1870?

Hiram Revels

_______ the systematic state-sponsored killing of six million Jewish men, women, and children and million of others by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War 2

Holocaust

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

Idea of peaceful civil disobedience

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

Industrial democracy

In what way was Reconstruction policy a success?

It established an amendment promising equal protection for all

The declared president of the Confederate States of America was:

Jefferson Davis

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

John D Rockefeller

The Battle of ______ was a turning point in the Pacific Theater of World War 2

Midway

What taste of freedom did women enjoy in World War 2?

Military service

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

Military service

______ is an antiforeigner sentiment in the U.S that fueled a drive against immigration. ( Feeling of hatred towards those not "American")

Nativism

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

Northern Democrats

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

Purchasing territory from France

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

Railroads

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

Rich mans war poor mans fight

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

Slavery

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

Slaves were "property" and not citizens

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

Social Security

The first state to choose secession was:

South Carolina

Black Codes:

Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black slaves

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

Suffered the least casualties and financial losses during the war.

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 novel by Upton Sinclair.

The Jungle

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

The League of Nations

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

The prohibition of liquor sales

What was the result of the expanding Union economy?

The size and spending of the government increased

The "March to the Sea" (Atlanta, GA to Savannah, NC) was the culmination of Union General William Sherman's 1864 campaign and was a devastating example of "_______ war."

Total

Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860 without any southern electoral votes.

True

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

By 1880, a majority of Americans worked in nonfarm activities.

True

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

True

During the 1920s, labor lost over 2 million members.

True

During the battle of Leyte Gulf, over 2,000 Kamikaze pilots crashed their aircraft into U.S. ships

True

Franklin D. Roosevelt was the only U.S. president to serve more than two terms

True

Picture bride refers to the practice of Japanese immigration in Hawaii and the West Coast, selecting brides from Japan via a matchmaker, who paired bride and groom using ONLY photo-graphs and family recommendations of the possible candidate

True

Social security was instituted during the Great Depression

True

The congress passed the first national conscription law 1863, but the rich people could buy their way out of the draft by hiring a substitute for $300

True

The most common Civil War battlefield surgery was the amputation.

True

The percentage of families at or below the poverty rate fell during the 1950s.

True

Wade-Davis Bill, a program proposed for the Reconstruction of 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

What would John Winthrop most likely criticize about antebellum America?

Utopian societies promoting free love

The scale of Civil war Bloodshed was comparable to that of which other conflict?

War of the triple alliance

John Wilkes Booth, an actor who killed Lincoln:

Was shot to death in a barn by union soldiers

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

Women were excluded from the suffrage amendment

The only people killed during the German Holocaust were the Jewish people.

false

Treaty of Versailles

forced Germany to accept full blame for the war and formally ended World War 1

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