HUSH Final
What happened in the Vietnamese village of My Lai in 1968?
American soldiers massacred more than 200 men, women, and children
What did the end of slavery force southerners of both races to do?
Develop new social, economic, and political patterns
One of the structural changes advocated by Populists was
Direct election of US senators
What organization gave rise to the populist party?
Farmers' Alliance
How did Americans gain influence in Hawaii
From sugar growers
what characterized American labor 's wartime experience
Intense activism and remarkable productivity
What happened at promontory summit, utah in 1869?
The eastern half of the transcontinental railroad joined the western half.
All of the following were common expressions of freedom for African Americans in the South, Except
The emigration to Africa.
The Korean War resulted in all of the following developments except
an increased confidence in America's position as a world power dedicated to stopping the spread of communism
The open door notes
announced support for Chinese autonomy.
the gulf of tonkin resolution
authorized the president to take any measures necessary to repel attacks against U.S. forces in Vietnam.
Among most of the Plains Indians, how did a person achieve high social standing?
by sharing
President Nixon's staff created the "Plumbers", a special investigations unit, that
conducted dirty tricks against the Democrats.
In the case of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court ruled that
dostates may exclude blacks from certain facilities itf there are equal ones available
Above all other reasons, policy makers supported the Marshall Plan because they
feared that the shaky pro-american governments in western europe might fall under communist control
Railroads used the lands granted to them by governments to
finance operations by selling the land to settlers
after he left the steel business what did Andrew Carnegie do with all of his money
he gave it away
all the following statements about John d Rockefeller are accurate except
he pursued horizontal integration and have a little interest in the vertical integration of oilfield and transportation facilities
William Mckinley decided to annex the Philippines because
he understood the strategic and political importance of the islands to Asia and the Pacific.
Half a million Americans died in 1918 and 1919 from
influenza.
The key to the growth of agribusiness in the West was
intensive use of heavy machinery
Henry Bessemer and William Kelly contributed to industrial development by
inventing a new process for making steel
Hispanic American leader cesar chavez rose to prominence by
organizing the union for farm workers
What happened at Jackson State and Kent State Universities in 1970?
national guard troops shot and killed six unarmed student protesters.
A market in which a small number of firms dominate an industry is called a(n)
oligopoly
The organization designed to assist slaved in their transition to freedom by providing protection, education, and life skills was
The freedmen's bureau
Why did the Tet Offensive weaken American support for the war?
The government had been promising that victory was right around the corner
Which statement best describes manufacturing in late nineteenth-century America?
The nation had developed a regional manufacturing
Which statement best describes how immigrants responded e pressure to become "Americanized"?
They continued to read foreign-language newspapers, but over the course of a lifetime adjusted to American custonis.
The United States Steel Corporation defeated a steelworkers' strike in 1919 by
dportraying the strikers as radicals
The Mississippi Plan is 1875
drove Republicans from power by violence
Although the United States proclaimed neutrality at the start of World War I, Americans were not completely impartial because
exaggerated reports circulated about German atrocities in Belgium
president carter's diplomatic efforts in relieving the tensions between egypt and israel resulted in
a formal peace treaty between egypt and israel
Lincoln's "Ten-Percent Plan" promised
a full pardon and restoration of rights to those who swore loyalty to the Union
Before he could ask for a Declaration of War against Germany in 1917, Wilson needed
a justification that would unify public opinion behind him
The most significant cause of the soaring inflation of the 1970s was
a large increase in the price of oil
In the late 1940s, Truman managed to push through Congress all of the following Fair Deal legislation except
a new minimum wage law to increase the rates
The National security council report represented
a strengthening of America's containment policy
The mission of the War Industries Board was to
supervise wartime production.
During World War I, the status of African-Americans changed in all following ways except
tensions developed between rural blacks and urban blacks over cultural differences
president Nixon's "Vietnamization" strategy reflected his belief that
the United States should rely on its allies to take a greater share of responsibility for their own defense
What was CREEP?
the acronym for Nixon's Re-election Committee.
The immediate cause of World War I
the assassination of the Austro-Hungarian Archduke by a Serbian nationalist
many environmental advocates in the 1960s and the 1970s based their arguments on
the ecological idea that damaging one aspect of the environment risked harming all others
The war economy exhibited all of the following characteristics except
the head of the War Industries Board functioned as an all-powerful czar of American industry
The national security council report resulted from all of the following events except
the invasion of South Korea by communist North Korean forces
In the late nineteenth century, the term "spoils" was associated with
the patronage system
Reservations about the Marshal Plan by American leaders virtally ended when
the soviet union exploded an atomic bomb
The Selective Service Act determined draftees
through local draft boards.
how did the united states convince japan and korea to open trade relations
through the use of naval power
all of the following is true about Native American activists in the 1960s, EXCEPT:
they demanded free access to Native American museums
The social Darwinist philosophy of Herbert Spencer and William Graham summer claimed that
powerful entrepreneurs benefit humanity by their accomplishments
Granger laws sought to
regulate railroad rates
to dramatize the indians' plight, american indian movement activists
seized alcatraz island and demanded to use it as a cultral center
The Fourteen Points included
self-determination for all peoples
When Harry Truman assumed the Presidency after Franklin Roosevelt's death, he believed that
stalin was essentially a good man who could be reasoned with
Populists in the South threatened the existing power structure by
trying to unite poor farmers, regardless of race.
Open range
was the white Mexican Rangers raised their cattle on unfenced grasslands
National politics in the late nineteenth century
were a stalemate as neither party could enact its policies.
The majority of the men who served in the American armed forces during World War I
were drafted
Sacco and Vanzetti
were executed for robbery and murder
In the election of 1948, Truman
won the presidency, and the Democrats also won both houses of Congress
Sitting Bull differed from most Lakotas in 1868 by
refusing to move to a reservation
During the 1968 election campaign, Richard Nixon referred to the Vietnam War with the dramatic phrase of:
"peace with honor"
American missionaries in Hawaii
- developed tremendous influence over monarchs, in some cases.
Besides insulting President McKinley, the de Lome letter
- suggested Spain was not serious about reforms in Cuba.
Many Native Americans objected to the Dawes Severalty Act because
. private land ownership conflicted with traditional native american belefs
How did Booker T. Washington respond to the movement toward segregation and disfranchisement?
6He urged black people to accept it temporarily and was concentrate on economic improvement.
Which statement is most consistent with women's experiences in the late nineteenth century?
9 Women continued to occupy a separate sphere in life where they were separated from a cruel world that would undermine their femininity
which of the following was not a crucial ingredient to the rapid industrialization of the United States after the Civil War
A large navy
Which of the following is the most accurate statement about the cycles of growth and depression in the 1870s and 1880s
Americans living in the late nineteenth century came to expect that hard times were likely in the future, regardless of how prosperous life seemed at the moment.
Which statement best describes the first few months of World War 1?
An increasing number of women took jobs in factories.
Which statement best describes the labor force during World War 1?
An increasing number of women took jobs in factories.
During the early twentieth century, the most prominent black leader in the United States (at least among whites)
Booker T. Washington
The most intense antiwar activity and the repeal of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution occurred as a result of the
Cambodian invasion of 1970
Working class neighborhoods developed on the outskirts of 18. ies because
C.land was cheaper
Which of the of American cities? following was a consequence of the rapid growth
DCities were forced to spend millions of dollars to provide drinking water
In the presidential election of 1876
Democrats and Republicans claimed victory.
Which statement about Chinese immigrants is most accurate?
GThey formed communities in cities self-contained homogenous
Why did president Grant refuse to use federal troops to combat the violence of the Mississippi Plan?
He feared intervention in the South would hurt Republican candidates in the North.
How did Andrew Carnegie help to transform the organizational structure of manufacturing?
He helped develop vertical integration
What specific act did the House of Representatives cite in the attempt to impeach Andrew Johnson
He removed Edwin Stanton in violation of the Tenure of Office Act
Which of the following is not an important aspect of the Fourteenth Ammendment
It gave African Americans the right to vote
Which statement regarding the Fifteenth Amendment is most accurate
It prohibits states from using race as a qualification for voting.
which statement best describes the development of logging in the Pacific Northwest
It was a vertically integrated industry, with firms owning mills, transportation, and lumber yards.
What was the main difference between the platforms of Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy in 1968?
Kennedy supported the idea of extensive executive branch powers, but McCarthy did not.
the election of richard nixon in 1968 was aided by
Nixon's image of dedication to traditional values
The Korean War began when
North Korean forces invaded South Korea
In the 25 years following the Civil War all of the following changes occurred in the railroad industry, EXCEPT
Railroad companies had expanded the number of gauges on which to transport their goods.
The homestead act of 1862 was designed to
Speed up economic development of the West
All of the following statements are true about the economic depression from 1893 to 1897, EXCEPT
Thanks to careful record keeping in the federal government, we know that the unemployment rate in the manufacturing sector in 1893-1894 was 32 percent.
Which statement best describes the origins of sharecropping
The South was short of capital, and landowners found it easier to pay workers in kind, rather than in cash.
Why is advertising emerge as a centerpiece of business activity
The cost of producing many items were virtually the same
Why did Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton object to the Fourteenth Amendment?
The word "male" was in the Constitution in connection with voting rights.
All of the following statements about the Ku Klux Klan are accurate EXCEPT
Their practice of terror suggests that Klan members themselves felt extremely powerful in local politics.
How did most white southerners view Johnson and his plan for Reconstruction?
They viewed him as their protector.
Howard Baker's question "What did the president know and when did he know it?" was in direct reference to the presidents role in the
Watergate cover-up
Henry Cabot Lodge
a.led a Senate faction that sought amendments to Article 10 of the League Covenant.
The grandfather clause
allowed otherwise ineligible voters to cast ballots if their grandfather had been eligible to vote
George Wallace
attacked the counterculture, the civil right movement, and the great society
When traditional labor protests failed to work, Cesar Chavez...
attempted to mobilize public opinion
In California, the successor to the central pacific, the southern pacific railroad company
became known as the "Octopus."!
Proponents of the New South
believed the region needed to diversify its economy.
The Treaty of Versailles did all of the following, EXCEPT:
bjautomatically turn former German and Ottoman colonies into French and British colonies.
The German government believed that the sinking of the Lusitania was a legitimate act because the ship was
carrying munitions to Great Britain
The Treaty of Paris (1898) differed from earlier agreements acquiring territory by
carrying no promise of eventual statehood for the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
President Wilson's Fourteen Points were an expression of
cinternationalism
the farmers' alluance, like the grange and knights of labor, advocated
cooperatives
One major effect of the Civil War was that it resolved any question that the US federal government
could stand up to foreign intervention.
In an effort to bring an end to the controversy over the Vietnam War, Richard Nixon's first moves were to authorize changing US policy by
creating the draft lottery and gradually withdrawing US troops from Vietnam
Why did Woodrow Wilson send American troops into Mexico in 1916?
d. Because Pancho Villa attacked and killed several Americans in New Mexico
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer's raids in 1919-1920
d.led to the arrest of 5,000 people for their political views.
10. In 1883, the Supreme Court ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment's "equal protection" clause
dapplied only to state governments
The "new immigrants" who arrived in America after 1890 differed from the older immigrants in that they
dcame from southern and eastern Europe.
One of the major contributing factors to the rising inflation of the Ford administration during the 1970s was
dependence on foreign oil supplies
Truman's policy of "containment" called for the United States to
do as little as possible to maintain the fragile peace
In Europe, World War I had all of the following consequences excep
e.it brought fifty years of peace to the continent
Nativists
eared efforts by immigrants to hold onto their cultural traditions
Of all the new opportunities available to former slaves, the one they most sought to improve their lives was
education
President Carter's most successful foreign policy accomplishment was his
effort to negotiate a treaty between Israel and Egypt
The Compromise of 1877
ended northern attempts to protect Republican governments in the South.
The National War Labor Board
endorsed collective bargaining to resolve labor disputes.
Many Americans became outraged at Germany after it began to
engage in submarine warfare
The Zimmerman Telegram was designed to
entice Mexico to ally with Germany against the United States
which statement about the farm economy of the Gilded Age is most accurate
farm prices were set in chicago or new york, and farmers had to accept them
The treaty of paris
forced spain to cede puerto rico, guam, and the philippines to the us
Radical Republicans believed that creating an economy based on free labor in the South would
further democracy in the region.
Standard Oil's Monopoly
had the legal form of a holding company in the state of New Jersey.
William H. Seward advocated the purchase of Alaska because
he believed in American expansion in North America.
Anti-imperialists argued against seizing foreign colonies because
holding colonies violated the American spirit of democracy
All of the following is true about Vietnamization, except
it called for a generous immigration policy for vietnamese
pressure Congress from passed what group? Chinese Exclusion Act in response to
labor unions
The Interstate Commerce Commission
lacked the power to regulate railroads effectively
During the economic crisis of the 1890s, Jacob W. Coxey advocated a
march on Washington is the unemployed to demand government help.
According to George W. Plunkitt, Tammany Hall kept the voters' loyalty by
meeting the needs of the poor
the marshall plan adopted policies toward communist countries that
offered assistance to the Soviet Union and its eastern European satellites, but they refused
In response to the Iranian hostage crisis, President Carter took the action of
negotiating the release of the hostages after more than a year of captivity
American farmers increased their output after the Civil War in part because
new machines increased the amount of land an individual farmer could till.
The Teller Amendment
pledged that the United States would not annex cuba
The war powers act
prevented the president from involving the united states in war without authorization from congress
The Ghost Dance
promised to return the land to the indians and sweep away whites
Bilingualism
promoted schooling of non-english speaking students in their own language
The Civil Rights Act is 1875 prohibited discrimination in
public accommodations
The conviction of alger hiss resulted in all of the following developments except
repealing the statute of limitations for espionage so that Hiss could be tried
The Black Codes passed by southern legislatures in late 1865 and 1866
restricted African Americans' economic opportunities.
Despite a wartime alliance, postwar Soviet-American relations deteriorated for all of the following reasons except
roosevelt's belief that the soviet government was inflexible and that stalin was unreasonable
The Zimmermann telegram stirred up anti-German sentiment in the United States because it revealed German plans to
return to Mexico her lost provinces in the American Southwest in exchange for a Mexican declaration of war on the United States
by the early 1970s, rock music and television began to abandon traditional values and to deal more often with all of the following themes exept
romantic love
When opponents of the Espionage Act challenged its legality, the Supreme Court
ruled that it was permissible for citizens to speak out against their country during the war.
Alfred Thayer Mahan argued that
sea power was the key to national greatness
Cesar Chavez, leader of the United Farm Workers, obtained a victory for itinerant workers when
some california grape growers signed a contract with the UFW
The presidential election of 1916 was one of the closest in American history. All of the following factors helped Wilson win re-election except
the Republican party split between pro-war Theodore Roosevelt and pacifist Charles Evans Hughes
In 1948, Stalin initiated the Berlin Blockade in response to
the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
The Fourteen Points were flawed by their failure to address sufficiently
the methods of implementing them
Thomas edison's most important legacy was
the modern research laboratory
during the 1968 democratic convention in Chicago
the police indiscriminately attacked protesters and bystanders
by the 1960s, the major force behind the environmental movement was
the poor condition of the environment itself
In early 1970s, a majority of Americans became increasingly concerned about the course of the vietnam war for all of the following reasons exept
the rate at which american soldiers were being killed each week was continuing to increase
The Gospel of Wealth maintained that
the wealthy should give back to their community
Despite severe domestic difficulties, President Carter achieved all the following international milestones except
the withdrawal of Russian troops from Afghanistan
William Jennings Bryan campaigned for president in 1869 by
traveling across the country on long train journeys
By the end of the Carter administration, the economy was plagued by all of the following economic conditions except
unemployment in excess of 10 percent
One major purpose of the Taft-Harley Act was to
urge an end to the Korean war
The term "Australian Ballot" referred to
voting in private voting booths
The evidence in the Watergate case, based on testimony and on the white house tapes, included that Nixon
was guilty of a major crime: obstructing justice by covering up evidence of the crimes of others
Which statement best describes the first few months of World War 1?
同 Germany hoped for a quick knockout blow but settled into a stalemate position .