HIST 1103 review quizzes

Captains of industry

A name given company owners such as Carnegie and Rockefeller by people who believed they steered the economy into prosperity.

Social Darwinism

Argued that evolution was a natural process in human society as it was in nature and that government must not interfere

Theodore Roosevelts square deal

Attempted to confront the problems caused by economic consolidation by distinguishing between "good" and "bad" corporations

During the 1890s, millions of farmers rejected the Populist movement in an attempt to reverse their declining economic prospects and to rescue the government from what they saw as control by powerful corporate interests.

False

Farmers experienced booming profits during the 1920s.

False

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

False

In the late nineteenth century, urban workers rallied in support of populist farmers

False

The broad-ranging federal legislation that transformed the federal governments role in the American economy during the first two years of Franklin d. Roosevelts presidency brought the nation out of economic depression, and resulted in nearly full employment

False

The victorious republicans, the "Redeemers" claimed to have redeemed the white south from corruption, misgovernment, and northern and black control

False

Plessy v. Ferguson

In 1896, the Supreme Court gave its approval to state laws requiring separate facilities for blacks and whites

Wounded knee

On December 29, 1890 government soldiers opened fire on ghost dancers encamped on wounded knee creek in South Dakota, killing between 150 and 200 Indians, mostly women and children

Knights or labor

Organized all workers to improve social conditions

18th Amendment

Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages

Casey vs. Planned Parenthood of Pennsylvania

Reaffirmed a women's right to terminate a pregnancy

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

Socialism

"Final solution"

Term they used to refer to their plan to annihilate the Jewish people

The effort undertaken on the part of the federal government to supply cheap electrical power for homes and factories in a seven-state region, preventing flooding, and putting the federal government in the business of selling electricity by building a series of dams was called

The Tennessee valley authority (TVA)

Patriot Act

This law passed after 9/11 expanded the tools used to fight terrorism and improved communication between law enforcement and intelligence agencies

An oversupply of cotton on the world market, which led to a sharp decline in prices, contributed to a farmers revolt and gave rise to the populist movement

True

Black Codes denied black Americans the right to testify against whites, serve on juries or in state militias, or vote.

True

Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens argued that disloyal planters land should be confiscated and redistributed among former slaves

True

During the 1920s, a culture in which the purchase of consumer goods (even if this meant going into debt) increasingly replaced thrift and self-denial, which had earlier characterized notions of good character

True

In 1925, john scopes, a public schoolteacher in Tennessee, was convicted of violating the states law against the teaching of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution

True

The 1890s saw a widespread imposition not only of disfranchisement, but also of segregation in the south

True

The Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1866 as a Tennessee secret society and served, in effect, as a military arm of the Democratic Party

True

The controversy over roe vs wade was a political hotbed that affected a range of issues from battles over nominees to judicial positions, and led to demonstrations at family planning centers and abortion clinics

True

Which of the following was not a leading strategy of the populists?

Using vigilante tactics to intimidate farmers who failed to join the cause

The struggles over land and labor united the postemancipation experience in many countries, yet this one aspect made the United States unique.

Within two years after the end of slavery, black males were given the right to vote

Pure Food and Drug Act

the act that prohibited the manufacture, sale, or shipment of impure of falsely labeled food and drugs

The peoples party platform

wanted to be the voice of the working class, supported eight hour workday, wanted governments to be more responsive to their needs, wanted the government to run the railroads, wanted free silver and green bags. Opposed the gold standard. Wanted the tariffs to go down

The Friedman's bureau

The task of the bureau- establishing schools, providing aid to the poor and aged, and settling disputes- was daunting since it had fewer than 1000 agents

The marshall plan, proposed by Secretary of State george c. Marshall, suggested that

The u.s. contribute billions of dollars to finance the economic recovery of Europe