History 1700 Final Exam
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
15th
the ____ amendment granted women the right to vote in all the states
19th
The Freedmen's Bureau:
Agency set up to aid former slaves in adjusting themselves to freedom
The first United States Present to be impeached in the House of Representatives was
Andrew Johnson
General Lee surrendered his army to General Grant at the courthouse in:
Appomattox, Virginia
On September 17, 1862, the "bloodiest single day" of fighting in American history occurred at:
Battle of Antietam, Maryland
In the controversial Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court declared that:
Blacks were property, not citizens
Results of the Kansas-Nebraska Act included
Bleeding Kansas and the Civil War
When assessing the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, what can be determined about this issue?
Both congress & president accused the other of unconstitutional acts
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
By analyzing the New York City draft riots, what can be determined about the Civil War?
Civil war was a rich mans war & poor mans fight
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 peach through collective security, the League of Nations was created in 1920, and the United States was the first member
False
The America 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
The only people killed during the German Holocaust were the Jewish People
False
although well intended, the new deal for native americans resulted in a series of forced assimilations
False
During the Allied occupation of Japan, ______________ introduced reforms designed to convert Japan into a democratic country.
General McArthur
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 millions of others by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II
Holocaust
What could be one possible reason why Robert E. Lee invaded the North in 1863?
Hoped to deliver a knockout blow to North
What inspiration did Martin Luther King Jr. gain from Mahatma Gandhi?
Idea of peaceful civil disobedience
According to Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, how could corporations have prevented the Great Depression
Increasing workers wages
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
Black Codes:
Jobless blacks can be arrested or fined
____, 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
Which of the following elements of President Wilson's Fourteen Points most resembled the commissions Progressives had instituted back home?
League of Nations
What was ironic about the election of Andrew Johnson?
Man from South was president
The Battle of ____ was a turning point in the Pacific Theater of World War II
Midway
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.
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 taste of freedom did women enjoy in World War II?
Perks of doing mens jobs
which of the following trends of the 1920s did fundamentalists support?
Prohibition of liquor sales
What was Lincoln's hidden weapon that allowed the military to quickly transport troops and supplies over long distances like never before?
Railroads
Passed by Congress in 1865, the 13th Amendment to the Constitution outlawed:
Slavery everywhere in the U.S.
The first state to choose secession was:
South Carolina
What was a result of the expanding Union economy?
The size and spending of the government increased tremendously
What did the members of the new United Nations Security Council all have in common?
They were all part of the allies that won WW2
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
Social security was instituted during the Great Depression
True
The percentage of families at or below the poverty rate fell during the 1950s
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
Apart from the racial identity of victims, what typically triggered the lynch violence of southern white mobs?
Victims alleged sexual conduct
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 Industrial Organizations for workplace democracy?
Wagner Act
The scale of Civil War bloodshed was comparable to that of which other conflict?
War of triple alliance
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 sufferage movement
The Compromise of 1850 established all of the following statutes EXCEPT:
abolish slavery
Causes of World War I include:
all of the above
Pull factors for immigration
all of the above
Push factors for immigration
all of the above
Treaty of Versailles (1919)
all of the above
The Manhattan Project was the code name for:
atomic bomb
What broad popular sentiments did the Ku Klux Klan express in the 1920s?
control of nation should be returned to native born protestants
John Wilkes Booth, an actor who killed Lincoln
died by shot
In the 1950s what did the term "totalitarianism" describe
fascism, nazism, communism
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
unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry were sensationalized in ____, a 1906 novel by Upton Sinclair
jungle
The purpose of the D-Day invasion was to:
liberate France from German control
The ascendancy of the American Federation of Labor during the 1890s reflected:
shift from broad reforming goal to more limited goals
Lincoln used the __ to communicate with his generals and other officers to keep tabs of what was goin on at the battle front
telegraph
The "March to the Sea" (Atlanta, GA to Savannah, NC) was the culmination of Union General William Sherman's 1864 campaign and was devastating example of "_" war
total
The Congress passed the first national conscription law in 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
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
