History 1700 possible questions final exam 2

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What was ironic about the election of Andrew Jackson

A Man from a state that succeeded was president

The ascendancy of the American Federation of Labor during the 1890s reflected

A shift from broad goals to limited goals

why Vicksburg essential

Access to the Mississippi river

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

All part of Allies that won WWII

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

Alleged sexual conduct

What was a result of the expanding Union economy

Bigger Government

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

Both the president and congress were accusing each other

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

By increasing their workers wages

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

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

The Manhattan project was the code name for

Development name for the Atomic bomb

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

False

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

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

False

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

False

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

Fascism, Nazism, Communism

What time period most influenced the New Deal

First World War

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

Helped deliver a knock out blow to the north

_______ The systematic state sponsored kill of six million Jewish men, women, and children and millions of other 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

In what way was reconstruction policy a success

It established an amendment promising equal protection for all

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

MacArthur

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

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 men's jobs

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

Rich Mans war, poor mans fight

what inspirations did Martin Luther King Jr gain from Mahatma Gandhi

The Idea of peaceful civil protest

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

The Wagner Act

Which of the following elements of President Wilson's fourteen points most resembled the commissions progressives had instituted back home

The league of nations

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

The prohibitions of liquor sales

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

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

Social Security was instituted during the Great Depression

True

What would John Winthrop most likely criticize about antebellum America?

Utopian Society

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's Excluded from suffrage

The purpose of D-Day invasion was to

gain a foot hold in Nazi France

The percentage of families at or below the poverty rate fell during the 1950s

true


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