History Final 1700
What amendment prohibits unequal protection of men, regardless of race (citizenship for all)
14th
What amendment protected black's right to vote?
15th
The _____ Amendment granted women the right to vote in all states
19th
The ascendancy of the American Federation of Labor during the 1890s reflected:
A shift from broad to limited reform goals
The first U.S. president to be impeached..
Andrew Johnson
Bloodiest single day of American History was at
Antietam
General Lee surrendered to Grant at the courthouse in
Appomattox, Va
Dred Scott court case determined that-
Blacks were property and not citizens of the United States
Results of the Nebraska-Kansas Act included:
Bleeding Kansas and the repealing of Missouri Compromise
When assessing the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, what can be determined about this issue?
Both congress and the President thought the other was acting unconstitutionally
______ was the first immigration law to ban a certain race from coming to America
Chinese Exclusion Act
Black codes were used to
Control African Americans after the Civil War ended (arrest and fine)
What broad popular sentiments did the Ku Klux Klan express in the 1920s?
Control of nation should be returned to native-born protestants
PUSH Factors for immigration
Crop failure, famine, and job shortage
in the 1950's what did the term totalitarianism describe?
Facism, Nazism, communism (total control)
Although well intended, the New Deal for Native Americans resulted in a series of forced assimilations (T/F)
False
Emperor Hirohito was tried as a war criminal and sentenced to death along with General Tojo (T/F)
False
League of Nations was proposed by Wilson to promote peace, and the U.S. was the first member (T/F)
False
Overall, despite good intentions the Marshall Plan was not very successful (T/F)
False
The America First Committee campaigned for Americans to be the first to go to war against Nazi Germany (T/F)
False
The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in border states on the Union side (T/F)
False
The only people killed during the German Holocaust were the Jewish people (T/F)
False
What time period most influenced the New Deal?
First World War
During the Allied occupation of Japan, ___(who)___ introduced reforms designed to convert Japan into a democratic country
General MacArthur
Mark Twain called the era after the Civil war the ____ Age
Gilded
What could be one possible reason why Robert E. Lee invaded the North in 1863?
He hoped that a surprise attack would give him an advantage against the north
What was ironic about the election of Andrew Johnson?
He was from a state that had previously seceded
The Freedman's Bureau...
Helped, provided, and set up resources for freed slaves
Who became the first African American senator?
Hiram Revels
According to Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, how could corporations have prevented the Great Depression?
Increased the 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
By analyzing the New York City draft riots, what can be determined about the Civil War?
It was a rich mans war, poor mans fight
President of the Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
PULL Factors for immigration
Jobs, Industrial capitalism
___(who)____ Founded the Standard Oil Company and gained control of 90% of the petroleum refining capacity
John D. Rockefeller
The Purpose of the D-Day invasion was to:
Liberate France from German control
The battle of ______ was a turning point in the Pacific Theater of WW2
Midway
Which of the following least symbolized the growing autonomy of working women with regard to their consumerism?
Military service
______ is an anti-foreigner sentiment fueled 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 inspiration did Martin Luther King Jr. gain from Mahatma Gandhi?
Peaceful, civil, disobedience
Which of the following trends of the 1920s did fundamentalists support?
Prohibition of liquor
What was Lincoln's hidden weapon, allowing for quick military transport
Railroads
John Wilkes, an actor who killed Lincoln...
Shot to death in barn by Union soldiers, broke fibula while escaping
The Thirteenth Amendment to the constitution outlawed:
Slavery in the U.S.
First state to cede from the Union
South Carolina
Lincoln used the ______________ to communicate with his generals and other officers
Telegraph
_________ : the systematic state-sponsored killing of 6 million Jews by Nazis and their collaborators during WW2
The Holocaust
Unsanitary conditions in the meat packing industry were sensationalized in ____ a book by Upton Sinclair
The Jungle
Which of the following elements of President Wilson's Fourteen Points most resembled the commissions Progressives had instituted back home?
The League of Nations
The scale of Civil War bloodshed was comparable to that of which other conflict?
The Vietnam War
What taste of freedom did women enjoy in WW2?
The perks of doing men's jobs.
What was a result of the expanding Union economy?
The size and spending of the government increased tremendously
Apart from the racial identity of victims, what typically triggered the lynch violence of southern white mobs?
The victim's sexual conduct
What did the members of the new United Nations Security Council all have in common?
They were the wealthiest nations
March to the sea was a devastating example of
Total war
Abraham Lincoln was elected without any southern electoral votes (T/F)
True
By 1880, a majority of Americans worked in non-farm activities (T/F)
True
Chinese Immigrants played an important role in the Transcontinental Railroad (T/F)
True
During the 1920's, labor lost over 2 million members (T/F)
True
During the battle of Leyte gulf, over 2,000 kamikaze pilots crashed their aircraft into U.S. ships (T/F)
True
FDR executed order 9066 after Pearl harbor, uprooting 11,000 people of Japanese descent to remote camps (T/F)
True
FDR was the only U.S. President to serve more than 2 terms (T/F)
True
Picture brides were selected via matchmaker, using only photos to pair Japanese immigrants (T/F)
True
Rich people could buy their way out of the national draft by hiring a substitute for $300 (T/F)
True
Social security was instituted during the Great Depression (T/F)
True
The Wade-Davis bill was proposed and vetoed, never taking effect (T/F)
True
The most common battlefield surgery was amputation (T/F)
True
The percentage of families at or below the poverty rate fell during the 1950s (T/F)
True
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
In the first half of the nineteenth century, the U.S. gained the most territory through:
Wars with Mexico
The idea that change comes slowly can be evidenced by what event during Reconstruction?
Women being excluded from the suffrage movement
Which of the following Second New Deal measures came closest to meeting the demands of the Congress of Industrial Organizations for workplace of democracy?
Works progress administrations
The Compromise of 1850 established all of the following except:
admission of New Mexico as a slave state
Causes of WW1 include:
assassination of Duke Fitzgerald, militarism, nationalism, alliances, imperialism,
Why was Vicksburg essential?
it allowed the Union to control the entire Mississippi river
Treaty of Versailles:
restricted Germany
The Manhattan Project was the code name for:
the atomic bomb