History

The New Deal promoted economic recovery by stimulating demand through government spending. This approach is also referred to as . . .

. Keynesian economics

This amendment guaranteed birthright citizenship and equal protection under the law.

14th

This amendment prohibited discrimination in voting rights based on race, color or previous conditions of servitude

15th

Which amendment outlawed the sale and consumption of alcohol?

18th

When did the US become more urban than rural?

1920

The Long Drive was the heyday of the stereotypical cowboy but only lasted this long . . .

20 years

This amendment repealed prohibition in 1933 . . .

21st

Between 1870 and 1920 how many immigrants arrived in the United States?

25 mil

What is the maximum amount of points that you can earn from quizzes in this class?

350

In the immediate aftermath of World War II Germany was divided up into how many occupation zones?

4

rom 1880 to 1950, approximately _______ African Americans were lynched by white mobs.

5000

According to the Chicano historian Francisco Balderrama, Mexican repatriation under Herbert Hoover sent an estimated million Mexicans back to Mexico. How many of these did he estimate were American citizens?

60%

What was the myth of the Lost Cause?

A glorification of the memory of the Confederacy and a romanticization of the Old South as a pastoral land with benevolent masters and happy slaves

What were Wilson's Fourteen Points?

A vision for the postwar world in which democracy, disarmament, and free trade were the norm and international crisis were dealt with by a league of nations

One of the intellectual leaders of the Harlem Rennaissance wrote that "we are achieving something like a spiritual emancipation." Who was this intellectual?

Alain Locke

Which of the following most accurately describes religious commitment during the early Cold War years?

Americans attended church at higher rates than in any time in American history

What did Germany offer Mexico in the Zimmerman telegram?

Assistance in returning to Mexico territory that the US had taken away in the US - Mexico War

Why was the era of Presidential Reconstruction so ineffective?

Because President Johnson was a Southerner who did not share Lincoln's enthusiasm for "a new nation conceived in liberty"

why did Gavrilo Princip assassinate the Archduke Franz Ferdinand?

Because Princip was a Serbian nationalist and did not want Bosnia absorbed into the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Why might the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 be considered redundant?

Because they essentially restated the 14th and 15th Amendments

What was the burden in Rudyard Kippling's "White Man's Burden"?

Being an imperial power was a thankless job that required tremendous sacrifice and often ended in failure

The Dawes Severalty Act passed in 1887 . . .

Broke up reservations as a tool of assimilation by forcing Native Americans to become independent land owners

In the late nineteenth century, which American city had the largest meat processing industry?

Chicago

During the Cold War, the official US policy aimed at halting the spread of communism throughout the world was referred to by this name . . .

Containment

Which might be considered a legacy of Reconstruction?

Continued racial injustice and discrimination

According to the reading of Fergusson Missouri, the author made a direct correlation between 21st century policing in Fergusson and this Reconstruction-era practice . . .

Convict leasing

What was one of the arguments against imperialism from anti-imperialists like William Jennings Bryan and the Anti-Imperialist League?

Democracy rests on self-government and restricting self-rule abroad through imperialism would threaten one of the founding principles of the United States

In which of the following areas was the Freedman's Bureau most impactful?

Education and building of schools

Who am I?

First African-American Senator

In the reading "FDR- Government Must Act" what is FDR's response to the Great Depression?

Great Depression was a national emergency and had to be dealt with by the federal government

How did Herbert Hoover address the demands of the Bonus Army in 1932?

He called them insurrectionists and sent Gen. MacArthur to forcibly remove them with tear gas and tanks

Which statement is NOT true of Franklin Delano Roosevelt?

He was a "small government conservative"

Which of these best describes Woodrow Wilson's position toward US involvement in WWI?

He was an idealist who viewed America's role as making the world safe for democracy and free trade

Who was Mao Zedong?

He was the leader who fought to bring communism to China and in 1949 established the People's Republic of China

What is meant by the Lakota Souix term "wasichu"?

He who takes the best meat (greedy)

This term refers to shantytowns comprised of homeless people living in tents in city parks and parking lots in the early years of the Depression

Hoovervilles

Which of these was NOT an argument put forth by the Anti-Imperialist League?

Imperialism is burdensome in that it entails working for another's gain without any guarantee of success

During the Cold War, where was West Berlin located?

In East Germany

Britain and France declared war on Germany after which invasion?

Invasion of Poland

Which of the following definition best describes the work of muckrakers?

Investigative journalists

How does the Compromise of 1877 mark the end of Reconstruction?

It called for all US troops to be removed from the South

Which of the following writers most effectively used photography in their work?

Jacob Riis

Which best describes the role of government in business during the Gilded Age?

Laissez-faire

Which is NOT true of the near extinction of the buffalo?

Native Americans hunted the buffalo to near extinction

Who won the first shooting war of the Cold War?

Neither side - it ended in stalemate with an unchanged border.

How did Teddy Roosevelt use diplomacy to acquire the Panama Canal?

None of these He purchased Panama from Colombia He offered Colombia free use of the canal He threatened to build a canal through Nicaragua instead in which Panama and Colombia would have no access

Theodore Roosevelt first gained fame as a trustbuster by attacking which monopoly in 1902?

Northern Securities

During FDR's presidency most Americans remained unaware . . .

Of the President's physical handicap that required him to use a wheel chair or crutches

The Steinbeck novel "The Grapes of Wrath" brought public sympathy to this group of migrants disparagingly referred to as . . .

Okies

The Brown v. Board of Education case overturned which specific Supreme Court decision from the late 19th century?

Plessy v. Fergusson

This court case challenged a Tennessee law that prohibited the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools . . .

Scopes Trial

Which Allied nation was the first to reach Berlin?

Soviet Union

Who was the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1914?

The Archduke Franz Ferdinand

What was the first Cold War confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union?

The Berlin Airlift

First students to integrate Central High in Little Rock

The Little Rock Nine

In 1915, 128 Americans and 1000 Europeans were killed when and German submarine sunk this ship.

The Lusitania

A young Martin Luther King became a national leader of the Civil Rights Movement after he was called to lead which event?

The Montgomery bus boycott

Which of these events was organized in response to the arrest of Rosa Parks in 1955?

The Montgomery bus boycott

"Independent" Cuba's constitution included this provision that allowed the United States to intervene in Cuban affairs when it saw fit and forced Cuba to sell or lease land to the United States.

The Platt Amendment

Which of these allowed the US to intervene militarily in Cuban affairs?

The Platt Amendment

Germany's response to the Russia's mobilization against the Austro-Hungarian Empire was to take advantage of Russia's sluggish mobilization and move German soldiers through Belgium and into France. This plan was referred to as . . .

The Schlieffen Plan

Though caused by numerous factors, the Great Depression is said to have begun with this event in 1929.

The Stock Market crash

Which is true of the way that Woodrow Wilson characterized the German people in his "War Message to Congress"?

The US had no quarrel with the German people as it wasn't their fault that they were ruled by a tyrant

What was proclaimed by Roosevelt's Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?

The US would become the international police power in the Americas

Which is not true of the League of Nations?

The United States was an influential member of the League

This event generally marks the end of the Indian wars and the closing of the frontier . . .

The Wounded Knee Massacre

Which of the following best describes the Social Gospel?

The goal of saving society as well as souls

Which was NOT a result of the Haymarket Riot in Chicago in 1886?

The large meeting ended with employers agreeing to labor's demands

Billie Holiday was popular jazz singer from the late 20s until her death in 1959. What was the subject of the song "Strange Fruit" that was available in the module?

The lynching of African Americans that took the lives of thousands of people

According to the suggested reading on Social Darwinism, who gained nature's reward in the Industrial Age?

The man of the highest training

What was the Gilded Age?

The period from 1877-1900 when superficial development, like a thin veneer of gold, covered numerous social problems

What was the result of the trial that brought charges of manslaughter against factory owners Isaac Harris and Max Blank.

The shirtwaist kings were found not guilty and acquitted

All of the following statements regarding the promoters of the New South are true EXCEPT

They saw economic independence as a means of limiting connections between North and South

He was the NAACP attorney and later Supreme Court Justice that successfully argued the Brown v. Board of Education case

Thurgood Marshall

In World War I, what did it mean to "go over the top"?

To climb out of the trenches and charge the enemy straight on

Why did the East Germans build the Berlin Wall?

To keep the East Germans out of West Berlin

Why did American Gen. John "Blackjack" Pershing cross into Mexico in 1916?

To punish Pancho Villa for his invasion of Columbus New Mexico

Why did so many die in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?

Unsafe working conditions

He aimed for people's hearts but hit them in the stomach in his descriptions of unsanitary conditions in Chicago's meat packing industry.

Upton Sinclair

The presentation mentioned a business model that was perfected by Andrew Carnegie in which a business integrates all the components parts of producing an end product like steel. In other words, Carnegie owned not only the steel plant, but also iron mines, coal mines, trains for transportation, etc... This was referred to as . . .

Vertical integration

Which of the following was NOT a position put forth by Albert Beveridge in the imperialism readings?

We cannot repudiate the principle of self-governance in the Philippines without weakening that principle here

Which is true regarding of Hoover's approach to federal government assistance in the reading "Hoover on Limited Government"?

When the government is centralized there arises a limitation upon the liberty of the individual and a restriction on individual liberty

Who were the flappers of the 1920s?

Women during the 20s who embraced women's liberation by wearing short dresses, cutting their hair, and visiting speakeasies

What did Edward Curtis remove from this picture in order to present the subjects as remnant of the past?

a clock

Which of the following tactics were used to disenfranchise black voters in the Jim Crow South?

all Poll taxes literacy tests violence and intimidation

Who am I?

all Andrew Johnson the 17th president of the United States Lincoln's vice President

Which was presented a factor leading to the outbreak of World War I?

all Entangling alliances Imperial competition Nationalism

What was so splendid about the Spanish American War?

all It only lasted about 4 months There were less than 400 American casualties We gained significant territory from Spain

Which is true of the American plan to rebuild Europe after the Second World War?

all It was named after American Secretary of State George Marshall B. It pumped some 13 billion dollars into reconstruction efforts C. It encouraged European countries remain within the American sphere of influence and reject communism

What was the purpose of the Marshall Plan?

all Rebuild Western Europe Create new markets for American goods . Generate support for Capitalist democracies

The doctrine of "separate but equal" is associated with which of the following?

all of the above

According to advocates of laissez faire economics, which of these conditions could be achieved by the free market forces of supply and demand?

all of the above a fair wage for laborers better safety conditions in the workplace greater productivity

A white Northern Republican living in the Reconstruction-era South was referred to disparagingly as . . .

carpetbagger

during the 1920s, approximately what percentage of Americans owned and traded stocks on the stock market?

fewer than 10 percent

Which of these territories was NOT acquired as a direct consequence of the Spanish American War?

hawaii

In the context of the US occupation of the Philippine Islands, what was the Water Cure?

it was a water torture that American soldiers used on Filipinos to extract information

According to the short reading on "Ferguson's Legal System...", in the 21st century, a poor resident in Ferguson Missouri could get locked up and fined for which of the following?

manner of walking in roadway

Which event was referred to by the rallying cry "Remember the Maine"?

n explosion on the USS Maine that was blamed on the Spanish

The Navajo forced removal to the Bosque Redondo reservation was referred to by the Navajo as . . .

the long walk