HIST 1700

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Nativism

A policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones

The ascendancy of the American federation of labor during the 1890s reflected

A shift from broad reform goals to more limited goals.

Most common battlefield surgery

Amputation

First president to be impeached

Andrew Johnson

Bloodiest day of the Civil War

Antietam

Where did General Lee surrender to General Grant?

Appomattox, Virginia

Turning point of Pacific War

Battle of Midway

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

Control of the nation should be returned to native-born Protestants.

Treaty of Versailles

Created 9 new nations and blamed Germany

The emancipation proclamation freed slaves in border states

False

19th Amendment (1920)

Gave women the right to vote

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

General MacArthur

Mark Twain called the era a _________ age

Gilded

what was ironic about the election of Andrew Johnson

He was from a state that seceded

First African American senator

Hiram Revels

In what way was Reconstruction policy a success?

It established an amendment promising equal protection for all

President of the Confederacy

Jefferson Davis

Purpose of D-Day

Liberate France from Germany

causes of WW1

Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism

Why was Vicksburg important?

North took Mississippi River and split the South

Lincolns hidden weapon for transport

Railroad

First state to secede

South Carolina

result of the expanding Union economy

The size and spending of the government increased

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

Total control

"March to the Sea" was an example of

Total war

Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860 without any Southern electoral votes

True

Social security was instituted during the Great Depression

True

John Winthrops would criticize about antebellum in American

Utopian society promoting self love

what time period most influenced the New deal

WWI

which of the following second new deal measures came closest to meeting the demands of the congress of industrual organizations for workplace democracy

Wagner acts/ works progress administration

the scale of civil war bloodshed was comparable to that of which other conflict

War of triple alliance or vietnam

Could rich people buy their way out of the draft by paying $300

Yes

Compromise of 1850 est. everything but

abolish slavery and the admission of New Mexico as free states

13th Amendment

abolished slavery

Black Codes

allowed for jobless blacks to be arrested and fined

Manhattan Project

atomic bomb

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

both congress and president were guilty

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

destroy morale and win in the North

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

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

although well intended, the new deal for native americans resulted in a series of forced assimilations

false

overall, the marshall plan was not successful

false

Chinese Exclusion Act

first significant law restricting immigration into the United States

John Wilkes Booth

got shot by union soldiers in a barn

Wade-Davis Bill

got vetoed by Lincoln

Freedmen's Bureau

helped blacks adjust to freedom

according to the supreme court justice Louis Brandeis, how could corporations have prevented the Great Depression

increase wages

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

industrial democracy

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

military service

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

new jobs

which of the following trends of the 1920s did fundamentalists support

prohibition

15th Amendment (1870)

protected blacks' right to vote

Results of Kansas-Nebraska Act

repealed the Missouri compromise and Bleeding Kansas

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

sexual conduct

Dred Scott Decision

slaves are property

Lincoln used the ______________ to communicate

telegraph

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

true

Chinese immigrants often performed dangerous tasks

true

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

true

Picture bride refers to the practice of Japanese immigrants to Hawaii and the West Coast, selecting brides from Japan via a matchmaker, who paired bride and groom using ONLY photographs and family recommendations of the possible candidate.

true

what did the members of the new united nations security council all have in common

wealthiest nations

the idea that change comes slowly can be evidenced by what event during reconstruction

women were excluded


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