history 1700 final

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results of the kansas-nebraska act included:

"Bleeding Kansas"

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 the states.

19th

the compromise of 1850 established all of the following statutes except:

Abolition of slavery

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

general Lee surrendered his army to general grant at the courthouse in:

Appomattox, Virginia

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

Chinese exclusion act

What time period most influenced the New Deal?

First World War

who became the first African American senator 1870?

Hiram Revels

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

Holocaust

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

Industrial Democracy

the declared president of the Confederate states of America was:

Jefferson Davis

, 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

John d Rockefeller

black codes:

Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War

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

League of Nations

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

MacArthur

Freedmen's Bureau:

Organization run by the army to care for and protect southern Blacks after the Civil War

Which of the following elements of President Wilson's 14 points most resembled the commissions Progressives had instituted back home?

Prohibition of Liquor

What was a result of the expanding Union economy?

The size and spending of the government increased tremendously

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

Wagner Act

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

accused of sexual assault

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

all the wars combined

The Manhattan Project was the code name for:

atomic bomb

In what way was Reconstruction policy a success?

blacks had right to vote and it established 5 new states

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

blacks were not citizens of the United States

The ascendency of the American Federation of Labor during the 1890s reflected?

broad goals to specific goals

Why was Vicksburg essential?

control Mississippi

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

doing mens jobs

Push Factors of Immigration

economic troubles, overcrowding, poverty

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

failure as a president

Emperor Hirohito was tried as a war criminal and sentenced to death along 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 emancipation proclamation of 1863 freed slaves in boarder states fighting on the union side

false

What would John Winthrop most likely criticize about antebellum America?

free for anything; slavery

the purpose of the D-Day invasion was to:

free france

while the 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

What was ironic about the election of Andrew Johnson?

he was born in North Carolina

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

increase work to wage

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

it was fought by poor immigrants

Pull Factors of Immigration

jobs, greater freedom, land

The battle of ________ was a turning point in the Pacific Theater of World War ii.

midway

causes of world war 1 include

nationalism, alliance system, all of the above

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

nativism

is an antiforeigner sentiment in the u.s. that fueled a drive against immigration.

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

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

peaceful civil disobedience

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

prohibition

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

railroads

John Wilkes booth, an actor that killed Lincoln:

shot to death by union soldiers

passed by Congress in 1865, the 13th amendment to the constitution outlawed:

slavery was abolished

the first state to choose secession was:

south Carolina

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

suffered the least casualties and financial loss during 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 1906 novel by Upton Sinclair

the jungle

Treaty of Versailles:

the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans

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

to destroy the moral of the Union

the march to the sea was the culmination of union general William Sherman's 1864 campaign and was a devastating example of war.

total

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

total control over citizens

Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860 without any southern electoral votes:

true

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

true

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

true

Chinese immigrants, often preforming 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

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

true

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

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

after Japans 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

picture bride refers to the practice of Japanese immigrants in Hawaii and west coast, selecting brides from Japan via a matchmaker, who paired a bride and groom using only photographs and family recommendations of the possible candidate.

true

social security was instituted during the great depression

true

the congresses passed the first national conscription law in 1863, but the rich people could buy Thier way out of the draft by hiring a substitute for 300 dollars

true

the most common civil war battlefield surgery was the amputation

true

on may 10, 1869, the union and central Pacific railroads joined Thier rails at promontory summit, territory

utah

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

wars with Mexico

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

women were excluded from the suffrage amendment


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