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Which statement concerning Republican rule in the former Confederate states is true?
It lasted a maximum of about eight years, but in most states much less.
What do Howard, Atlanta, and Fisk universities, and Hampton Institute have in common?
They were all predominantly black institutions that were established in the years immediately following the Civil War.
Which statement concerning the Wade-Davis bill is not true?
It provided for almost immediate readmission to the Union.
Why were women's rights leaders Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton upset about the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution?
The Fourteenth Amendment gave rights to men only by including the word "male" and the Fifteenth didn't fix this problem.
Who was normally the main pillar of authority in the southern black community after the Civil War?
Minister of the black church
The black codes enacted by southern states after the Civil War had all of the following rules in common except:
pushing former slaves off plantations.
What brought the Radical and moderate Republicans together in an alliance against President Johnson?
President Johnson vetoed the Freedmen's Bureau bill and the Civil Rights Act of 1866.
The "Black codes" passed by several states were designed to
restrict the freedoms of blacks in multiple ways.
Which one of the following was a result of the impeachment and trial of President Andrew Johnson?
A precedent was established against the impeachment of presidents solely on political grounds.
The term "Grantism" referred to
fraud and political corruption.
In order to convince southern Democrats to accept the election of Rutherford B. Hayes as president, what did Republican backers of Hayes promise?
to remove the remaining federal troops from the South.
In 1861 Tsar Alexander II of Russia emancipated the Russian serfs. Two years later, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Which of the following statements correctly states a similarity or a difference in these two events?
In both instances, sooner or later, landowners regained authority over labor, sought profit from agricultural production, and held social advantage.
Why was the 1876 presidential election one of the most unusual in U.S. history?
The victor was decided by a method other than the Electoral College or the House of Representatives.
Which of the following events happened in the three years immediately following the Civil War?
Intense and unparalleled political conflicts dominated the national scene.
The "money question" of the 1870s was the question concerning
whether or not to issue more paper money.
Which of the following was not one of the ways in which opponents of Reconstruction challenged it?
They locked the doors to legislature buildings and met secretly in other facilities.
Where did women first gain the right to vote?
Wyoming and Utah
By the end of 1865, under President Johnson's reconstruction policies,
Former Confederate officials and generals had been elected to serve in Congress.
The Slaughterhouse cases of 1873 are significant because the Supreme Court
chipped away at the Fourteenth Amendment by saying it only protected the basic rights of national citizenship, not rights that fell to citizens by virtue of their state citizenship.
Which of the following Reconstruction laws is correctly paired with one of its provisions?
The Reconstruction Act of 1867: invalidated state governments formed under Lincoln and Johnson.
The Ku Klux Klan was established after the Civil War to
terrorize blacks into submissive behavior and intimidate black voters.
The purpose of the Enforcement Acts was
to curb vigilante violence and protect black voters.
What was the key difference between the Lincoln and Johnson plans for reconstruction?
Unlike Lincoln's plan, Johnson's plan barred from political participation any ex-Confederate with taxable property worth $20,000 or more.
What triggered the depression in the mid-1870s?
Panic of 1873
Under the sharecropping system, poor farmers would
rent land from large landowners in exchange for half the crop produced on the land.
Which of the following was not a feature of Lincoln's "10 percent plan"?
Southern plantations were to be confiscated and divided among the blacks who had formerly worked there as slaves.
Which of the following was not an accomplishment of the new governments established under congressional Reconstruction?
They confiscated land and redistributed it more equitable.
As part of their efforts to "Redeem" the South from Republican-centered Reconstruction, Southern Democrats divided into
businessmen who envisioned an industrialized "New South" and Bourbons who represented the old planter elite.
Which of the following descriptions provides an accurate assessment of the success of Reconstruction?
Although making initial progress, it failed to provide lasting improvements for blacks.
Which statement is not true about Andrew Johnson?
He cared deeply about obtaining just treatment for the freedmen.
Aside from guaranteeing civil rights to former slaves, what makes the Civil Rights Act of 1866 historically significant?
It was the first major law ever passed over a presidential veto.
Which of the following was not one of the effects of emancipation on the black family in the years after the Civil War?
The majority became single-parent families as men left their wives and set out to seek their fortunes.
What issue caused the women suffrage movement to split into two different groups, the American Woman Suffrage Association and the National Woman Suffrage Association?
They split over whether free black women should gain suffrage when freedmen did.
President Andrew Johnson was impeached because
He attempted to fire Secretary of War Edwin Stanton in violation of the Tenure of Office Act.
According to the Reconstruction Act of 1867, which of the following conditions was the only one that did not have to be met before former Confederate states could be readmitted to the Union?
Southern states had to devise plans to finance veterans' benefits for former Confederate soldiers.
Which of the following was not one of the reasons why only a small proportion of blacks were able to own farms by the end of Reconstruction?
Most blacks lacked the capital to buy the land and equipment.
Why did the battle over black suffrage ultimately divide the women's rights movement?
Some advocates of women's rights refused to support black suffrage without similar guarantees of woman suffrage.
Which statement accurately describes southern black education during Reconstruction?
It advanced but remained quite limited.
The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution
abolished slavery.
Which of the following is not true about Radical Republicans such as Thaddeus Stevens?
They believed that through intermarriage a true biracial society could be established in the South.
Which of the following characterized frontier communities?
cooperation among neighbors as a form of insurance in a rugged environment.
Which of the following was not a reason the days of the open range and great cattle drives came to an end after the mid-1880s?
the demand for beef declined as more people turned to cheaper food
Much of the labor constructing the railroads throughout the West was provided by all of the following groups
except
Norwegians
The 1898 Curtis Act
dissolved the Indian Territory and abolished tribal governments.
Which of the following statements concerning "Buffalo Bill" Cody is not true?
He represented the American government in negotiations with the Apache.
"Buffalo Bill" Cody's Wild West Show
presented mock battles of army scouts and Indians as morality dramas of good versus evil.
Although Wild West Shows celebrated cowboys as quintessentially American, in truth they shared much in common with the
Mexican vaqueros and Argentinean gauchos;
The 1887 Dawes Severalty Act was designed to
turn Indians into individual landowners and farmers and to undermine tribal bonds.
Which of the following contributed to the fighting style of the Plains Indians?
The introduction of horses by the Spanish in the sixteenth century.
Which of the following statements best describes the attitude of western state governments regarding woman suffrage?
They generally supported woman suffrage, sometimes hoping that it would attract women, families, and economic growth.
Which of the following statements accurately describes most Great Plains Indians in the mid-nineteenth century?
they hunted the migratory buffalo herds and utilized the all of the animal's body.
Which of the following was not one of the methods that Joseph G. McCoy employed to turn the cattle industry into a bonanza?
He built giant stockyards in Chicago, where cattle dealers could raise steers cheaply and save large sums in transportation.
In their efforts to recruit settlers in the West, railroad companies
All of these choices
Which of the following was not one of the features of Lakota Sioux culture?
Children were subject to harsh discipline and physical punishment to teach them obedience and respect.
Which of the following statements concerning the first transcontinental railroad is true?
It was completed in 1869 with the joining of the Union Pacific and Central tracks in Utah.
The significance of the Treaty of Fort Laramie is that it led to the
establishment of the Great Sioux Reserve in what is now South Dakota
After the discovery of the Comstock Lode, Virginia City, Nevada, experienced
an orgy of speculation and building.
The Five Civilized Tribes were
punished for siding with the Confederacy during the Civil War by the relocation to their reservations of thousands of Indians from other tribes.
Which of the following statements does not apply to the schools that white reformers and the federal government established for Indians in the late 19th century?
There were large federal tuition grants to enable Indians to attend Eastern Ivy League colleges.
Why were there violent clashes between cattle ranchers and farmers during the late 19th century?
Farmers were using barbed wire to keep roving livestock out of their crops and ranchers wanted them to roam freely.
What did "agribusinesses" need to be successful?
Heavy investments in equipment
The cultural adaptation of Spanish-speaking Americans to Anglo society went relatively smoothly in
Arizona and New Mexico
In the latter half of the nineteenth century, where did the federal government attempt to confine all Plains Indian tribes?
Oklahoma and South Dakota
As a result of the Red River War,
Indian independence on the southern Plains came to an end.
What did mining, cattle ranching, and wheat farming have in common?
Boom and bust economic cycles affected them.
The 1877 Desert Land Act allowed western ranchers to
acquire 640 acres for $1.25 cents an acre.
What role was Deseret to play for Mormons?
It was a new country that Brigham Young and the Mormons tried to create.
Which of the following is not associated with the Ghost Dance?
A performance by "Princess Wovoka" that became popular in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show.
Whose campaign to protect the wilderness led to the establishment of Yosemite National Park and the founding of the Sierra Club?
John Muir
What crop was found to grow very well in the Dakotas in the 1870s?
Wheat
Which of the following nineteenth-century federal Indian policies is correctly is paired with what it did?
Dawes Severalty Act, 1887: Divided tribally held reservation lands into small allotments for families and individuals.
To protect their interests, in the 1880s Mexican-Americans in Arizona and New Mexico
formed a vigilante group called Las Gorras Blancas (the White Caps).
Which of the following describes a method that many late nineteenth century eastern reformers wanted to use to deal with Native Americans?
They wanted to civilize and Christianize them, teach them English, and destroy their native culture.
Which of the following characterized relations between Anglos and Mexican-Americans in Texas in the 1840s and 1850s?
Harassment of Mexican-Americans by Anglos and retaliation by Mexican bandits
General George Armstrong Custer's purpose in bringing his troops into the Black Hills of South Dakota was to
either buy the Black Hills or drive the Indians out of that region.
The discovery of gold led to enough settlers moving to Alaska for it to establish its own territorial government. Where was the gold discovered?
in the Canadian Klondike.
The Homestead Act
offered 160 acres of land to any settler who would pay a $10 registration fee, live on the land for five years, and cultivate it.
Which of the following was the result of the rapid industrial development of the United States between 1860 and 1900?
an economy dominated by enormous corporations.
Why did women join the work force in growing numbers in the late nineteenth century?
Changes in agriculture brought young farm women into the industrial labor force, and immigrant daughters worked to supplement meager family incomes.
Which of the following was not one of the ways that Andrew Carnegie revolutionized the steel industry?
restructuring the criteria for wages so that his workers could have the highest wage scales in the country.
In the late nineteenth century, child labor was
common in the coal mines and cotton mills.
Which of the following statements concerning the use of technology in industry in the second half of the nineteenth century is true?
It made it possible for manufacturers to hire cheap unskilled or semiskilled labor.
According to research provided in this chapter, how likely was it for someone in the late 19th century to live up to the Horatio Alger image of rising to great wealth simply based on self-discipline and hard work?
The best way for someone from the working class to get ahead was by mastering a skill and rising through the ranks of a small company.
What did Adam Smith argue in The Wealth of Nations?
Self-interest acted as an "invisible hand" in the marketplace, automatically regulating the supply of and demand for services.
Mary Harris Jones
was a leader of the United Mine Workers of America who expanded its membership by stressing the need to fight for families.
In the United States v. Knight Company, the Supreme Court diminished the effectiveness of the Sherman Anti- Trust Act by ruling that
manufacturing was not interstate commerce.
How did James Duke influence American society in the last 19th century?
He offered trading cards and prizes targeted at young people to persuade them to smoke addictive cigarettes.
What was the result of the Haymarket Square bombing in 1886?
It resulted in intensified animosity toward labor unions.
By the 1880s, what had happened to most southern farmers?
They specialized in growing cash crops such as cotton and tobacco and therefore were particularly vulnerable to the fluctuations of commercial agriculture.
Who led the American Railway Union in the Pullman Strike?
Eugene V. Debs
What did Henry Grady advocate?
He advocated diversifying the economy and expanding industrial production in the South.
Which of the following did Thomas Edison invent?
phonograph
According to the Interstate Commerce Commission, about how many railroad workers were killed or injured on the job in 1889?
about 2,000 killed and 20,000 injured
Horatio Alger influenced American society by
propagating the "rags to riches" idea.
What did Karl Marx argue?
that capitalists would eventually bring about their own destruction by driving impoverished workers to revolt.
Who supported the New South Creed?
industrialists who believed that the South's natural resources and cheap labor made it a natural site for industrial development.
What did Henry George argue in Progress and Poverty?
that the government should tax the "unearned increment" of rising land prices and use the funds to ameliorate the misery caused by industrialization.
For a late-nineteenth-century unmarried working-class woman, why did amusement parks exert a powerful lure?
They were places to meet friends, get away from parental supervision, and try out the latest dance steps.
Which of the following was the result of the rapid industrial development of the United States between 1860 and 1900?
an economy dominated by enormous corporations.
What did Adam Smith argue in The Wealth of Nations?
Self-interest acted as an "invisible hand" in the marketplace, automatically regulating the supply of and demand for services.
Who founded Standard Oil?
John D. Rockefeller
Which of the following is not one of the reasons that the American Federation of Labor was the most successful union of the late 19th century?
It was a tightly organized federation that required all members to give up their autonomy and independence for the good of the whole.
Which the immigrants in the West bore the brunt of labor hostility in the 1870s and 1880s?
Chinese immigrants
Which of the following best describes economic mobility in late nineteenth century America?
Millions experienced an improved standard of living, while the gap between rich and poor widened.
At the end of the Civil War, what communications system did the railroads use to coordinate their complex flow of rail cars?
The magnetic telegraph
Which of the following statements about upward mobility in the late nineteenth century is the most accurate?
Immigrants who got ahead in the late nineteenth century were more likely to go from rags to respectability than from rags to riches.
Why was the Interstate Commerce Commission established?
to investigate and oversee railroad practices.
Which of the following was one of the secrets of John D. Rockefeller's success?
He paid attention to the minutest details and understood the benefits of vertical integration.
How did southern cotton mills differ from northern cotton mills in the 1880s?
Southern cotton mills were located in the countryside rather than cities.
Which of the following issues did not impede the growth of unions in the late 19th century?
Lack of interest on the part of workers because their real wages were rising and conditions were improving
By the 1880s, what had happened to most southern farmers?
They specialized in growing cash crops such as cotton and tobacco and therefore were particularly vulnerable to the fluctuations of commercial agriculture.
Who argued in The American Woman's Home that those of "good breeding" should avoid "reaching over another person's plate; ...using the table-cloth instead of napkins; ...and picking the teeth at the table"?
Catharine Beecher
Where was baseball the most popular?
in urban areas with large working-class populations.
How were the new research universities of the late 19th century different from earlier colleges?
They offered courses in a wide variety of subject areas, established professional schools, and encouraged faculty members to pursue basic research.
Which of the following is not an indicator of women's changing relationship to men during the last decades of the nineteenth century?
The growing popularity of catalog and department stores
What was the importance of "culture" for American Victorians?
It was agency vehicle for social uplift that could help those Americans aspiring to middle-class status.
Economist Thorstein Veblen used the term "conspicuous consumption" to describe
The excessive materialism of the wealthy and the widening gap between workers and the wealthy
Why did leisure-time activities become increasingly important to the working class during the late nineteenth century?
Factory labor was growing more routine and impersonal, and social interactions at the workplace were increasingly inhibited.
In the late 19th century, John L. Sullivan represented America's love affair with
boxing
Which of the following statements accurately describes urban growth in the late 19th century.
Urban populations grew dramatically with cities such as Chicago growing by over 400 percent.
Why did the New York campaigns against vice (gambling, prostitution, saloons) ultimately fail?
The city's population was too large and ethnically diverse for reformers to curb all the illegal activities.
What was the goal of William S. Rainford's institutional church movement?
To insist that downtown churches provide social services to immigrants such as recreational facilities and industrial training programs.
The Salvation Army was
organized along pseudo-military lines to provide food, shelter, temporary employment and morality to poor immigrant families.
How did the settlement-house movement distinguish itself from other urban social-welfare organizations?
it insisted that charity workers live in slum neighborhoods to better understand the living conditions of the poor.
In her work against drinking for the Women's Christian Temperance Union, Frances Willard
headed the Woman's Christian Temperance Union that pursued various reform issues.
In the late 1800s, education reformers such as William Torrey Harris advocated
that the number of years children spend in school should be increased.
that teachers instill in students a sense of order and self-discipline.
that schools serve as models of precise schedules and punctuality to teach children how to become good factory workers.
All of these choices
Who was known as the king of ragtime?
Scott Joplin
According to its defenders in the late nineteenth century, college football
was a character-building sport that could function as a surrogate frontier experience in an increasingly urbanized society.
Which of the following ideas was not part of the central philosophy of Walter Rauschenbusch?
He believed that if working class Americans had a shorter work week, they would be motivated to be more religious.
Which of the following statements best expresses the experiences of newly arrived immigrants going through U.S. Customs?
They were inspected for diseases and sometimes had their names changed by customs inspectors.
In 1890, approximately what portion of the population of greater New York had been born abroad or were children of foreign parents?
Four out of five
What is the difference between tenements and ghettos?
Tenements were apartment buildings where immigrants clustered; ghettos occurred when residents of tenements were prevented by law or social pressure from renting somewhere else.
During the late nineteenth century, the working-class saloon was not
a meeting place for husbands and wives.
Why was the development of the flush toilet and indoor plumbing so significant?
It helped fight the many diseases that flourish in polluted waters.
Modernist architects like Frank Lloyd Wright believed that
A building's form should follow its function.
Which of the following is not evidence that public education in the late-nineteenth-century United States had become entangled in ethnic and class differences?
New educational theories that stressed decentralized administration, repealed compulsory attendance, and de-emphasized white European conventions such as punctuality.
What was the key to Hull House's success in its anti-poverty mission?
Establishing settlement houses where workers lived in the neighborhoods they serviced.
A philosophy that recognized the hardships of slum life as often being beyond the individual's control.
Its emphasis on creating a social center with art and educational programs and a nursery.
All of these choices
The Young Men's Christian Association and the Young Women's Christian Association were formed mainly to
assist rural young men and women who migrated to the city.
Which statement best represents urban residential patterns among ethnic groups?
Immigrants tended to live in shabby tenements until they could afford better housing.
During the 1880s and 1890s, which new obligation was added to the traditional middle-class woman's role as director of the household?
She had to foster an artistic environment that would nurture her family's cultural improvement.
In the 1892 election, what happened to the Populist party?
It received over one million votes across the nation.
What was the main importance of the government's establishment of the Interstate Commerce Commission?
It established the principle of federal government regulation of business that crossed state lines
Which of the following was a goal of the Greenback Party?
an expanded money supply
Which was not a reason why American confidence in the gold standard weakened in the 1890s?
Vast quantities of gold were flowing into the country from newly-opened mines in the Klondike.
How were blacks treated in the North during the late nineteenth century?
Public opinion sanctioned widespread de facto discrimination.
What was the position of the Anti-Imperialist League?
That it violated the principles of the Declaration of Independence for the U.S. to rule other peoples.
What did the "separate but equal" doctrine mean?
As long as facilities for whites and blacks were equivalent, they did not have to be racially integrated.
What did Booker T. Washington argue?
that black Americans should acquire useful skills and patiently accept their lot until racism faded.
"Machine politics" was
a form of urban politics where local politicians, known as bosses, dominated urban areas.
What did the Pendleton Act do?
It established a civil-service commission to prepare competitive exams for federal jobs.
Which of the following was not a tool that southern states used to disfranchise blacks after Reconstruction?
Outright legal prohibitions
Which of the following was not a reason for the strengthening of American ties to Hawaii in the late nineteenth century?
Relations with the Hawaiian throne
Why is the Currency Act of 1900 significant?
It committed the United States to the gold standard.
Which of the following groups is properly paired with its position on limiting or expanding the money supply?
Bankers: limit, because it would create economic stability
Which of the following was not a goal of the Populist and Farmer's Alliance movements?
a higher protective tariff
What did the civil-service reformers of the late 1870s and early 1880s want?
a professional civil service based on merit and staffed by gentlemen.
What was the main issue in the 1896 presidential election?
free silver
Where was the Democratic party strongest in the late 19th century?
south
Which of the following functions was not typically performed by political bosses and precinct captains?
they ran settlement houses
What did Southern Alliance leader Charles Macune argue?
Farmers should be able to store crops in government warehouses and then borrow against those crops until prices rose.
How did the Ballinger-Pinchot debate influence the relationship between Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft?
It widened the rift between Roosevelt and Taft.
In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposed the corruption in
the meatpacking industry
Which of the following amendments is not accurately defined?
The Seventeenth Amendment allows the direct election of members of the House of Representatives.
Which of the following writers would not be considered a muckraker?
Gifford Pinchot
Which of the following correctly pairs a group or individual with its or his objections to the 1916 nomination of Louis Brandeis to the Supreme Court?
American Bar Association: Brandeis's innovative approach to the law
Which of the following statements does not accurately describe Black Americans in the early 20th century?
William Lloyd Garrison led a campaign against lynchings.
Which of the following court case is correctly paired with its significance?
Standard Oil Co. v. U.S.: Orders dissolution of Standard Oil.
What happened to the 1916 Keating-Owen Act?
The Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional.
Which statement about the progressive movement is correct?
Progressives wanted to restrain big business and protect the economically vulnerable.
How did the tactics of Alice Paul's National Woman's Party differ from Carrie Chapman Catt's National American Woman's Suffrage Association?
Paul's organization rejected a state by state approach and worked to pressure Congress to enact a woman suffrage constitutional amendment.
What was happened as a result of the 1906 "Brownsville Incident"?
Theodore Roosevelt approved the dishonorable discharge of a regiment of black soldiers in Brownsville, Texas, because some members of the unit, goaded by racist taunts, had killed a local civilian.
According to John Dewey, schools need to
become the engines of social change.
During the first two decades of the twentieth century, what was the greatest source of urban population growth?
immigration
Why did many progressives advocate restricting immigration to the United States?
They concluded that since the immigrant city bred problems, immigrants should be excluded.
John Muir is best known for his work in
preserving America's wilderness areas.
What did the Triangle Shirtwaist fire illustrate about the problems in American society?
the heavy toll that industrialization had taken on American life.
Which of the following pieces of legislation was part of the progressive drive to regulate drug safety?
Harrison Act
What did the writings of Thorstein Veblen, William James, and Herbert Croly have in common?
They implicitly supported the need for far-reaching reforms of American society.
The Clayton Anti-Trust Act
placed more restrictions on business activities that could lead to restraint of trade and federal lawsuits.
What might be considered Theodore Roosevelt's most enduring domestic legacy?
increasing public interest in environmental conservation.
In 1910, approximately what percentage of the nation's children between the ages of ten and fifteen worked outside the home?
15%
In the early twentieth century, how did many middle-class women begin to view employment outside the home?
as a potential opportunity.
Which of the following statements concerning progressives is not correct?
Because progressivism sprang from the American reform tradition, its assumptions and goals were identical to those of earlier movements.
Which of the following was not a goal of municipal reformers?
city councils that were appointed by mayors rather than chosen in citywide elections
Which of the following was not one of the causes for the growing split in the Republican party during the administration of William Howard Taft?
Taft refused to pursue further antitrust cases.
Robert La Follette was
a progressive reformer who established policies that were labeled the "Wisconsin Idea".
Which of the following was not a goal of municipal reformers?
urban beautification.
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Which of the following is the most accurate generalization about the attitudes of Progressives toward African Americans?
Most Progressives generally supported or tolerated segregated schools and housing, and restrictions on black voting rights.
Which of the following is not true about the American economy during World War I?
The civilian work force contracted as Americans joined the armed forces.
In order to acquire the right for the United States to build a canal across Panama in 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt
helped facilitate a Panamanian rebellion against Columbia and then negotiated a treaty to lease a strip of territory.
Which of the following was a new technique of warfare that was introduced in World War I?
air conflict
Which of the following is not a true statement about the intelligence tests given to U.S. recruits during World War I?
The tests were recognized as flawed and discredited as a means for evaluation.
The Creel Committee on Public Information
used propaganda to spread the U.S. government's official version of the war and discredit those who disagreed.
Why did the United States begin to lend money to the European powers after August 1915?
The Wilson administration feared the economic, financial, and social consequences of American industry's failing to secure European business.
While the Treaty of Versailles was opposed for many reasons, what was the most important criticism of it?
Article 10 seemed to limit America's sovereignty and infringed on Congress's constitutional power to declare war.
Which allied offensive in the fall 1918 helped end the war?
Meuse-Argonne offensive
Which of the following nations used propaganda most effectively to demonize its enemy prior to America's entrance into the war?
Great Britain
Which of the following was not a way that World War I affected American women?
Millions of women entered the work force for the first time.
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic
killed as many as 50 to 100 million people worldwide.
Which 1917 legislative act established the American draft in World War I?
Selective Service Act
What tied the United States to the Allies even before it entered the war in 1917?
significant economic and cultural ties.
What did the members of the preparedness movement advocate?
They supported rearmament and universal military training.
What was the initial reaction of most Americans to the outbreak of World War I in Europe?
They wanted to ensure that the United States could stay out of the conflict.
Which of the following does not accurately describe Herbert Hoover's involvement in World War I?
His policies pushed the United States into a serious depression in 1918.
What was President Wilson's first official response when war broke out in Europe in 1914?
He announced a declaration of neutrality and called on the nation to be neutral in thought as well as action.
Which of the following best indicates the policy that the United States government followed toward business during World War I?
operating the railroads and creating five thousand government agencies to supervise home-front activities.
Which of the following statements about Woodrow Wilson's Latin American policy is not correct?
He sent marines to Chile to punish the Sandinistas for an attack on an American-owned plantation.
Why did temperance advocates receive a boost from World War I?
They pointed out that the biggest breweries¾like Pabst, Schlitz, and Anheuser-Busch¾had German names.
They said it was unpatriotic to use grain to manufacture liquor at a time when food had to be conserved.
They said that beer was a German plot to undermine America's moral fiber and fighting qualities.
Americans were able to view prohibition as a war
measure.
Correct!
All of these choices
As feminists faced some backlash in the 1920s, what strategies did they try instead?
Some looked to cooperate internationally on behalf of women's rights.
Which of the following is true concerning the use of electricity by the mid-1920s?
It was becoming more common as 60 percent of new homes were wired for electricity.
Which of the following was not one of the reasons that the union movement weakened in the 1920s?
Inequities and regional variations in wages were eliminated through the Federal Fair Wages Act.
At the Washington Naval Arms Conference the major naval powers agreed that for ten years they would halt the construction of
battleships
What is the stereotype of the Jazz Age "flapper"?
a sophisticated, pleasure-mad young woman.
Which of these is not a reflection of the changes brought by the 1920s' "sexual revolution"?
A surge in pornographic lyrics in popular music.
Why is Aimee Semple McPherson significant?
The popularity of her theatrical sermons illustrated the impact of fundamentalism on American society.
The 1924 National Origins Act was designed to
decrease the number of immigrants coming from Southern and Eastern Europe.
Which of the following statements concerning the equal rights amendment advocated by Alice Paul and the National Woman's party is true?
It was opposed by other women reformers who worried that it would jeopardize laws protecting female workers.
Which of the following examples reveals the nativism in the United States in the 1920s?
Congress passed a law in 1924 that strictly limited immigration.
What happened to mass culture (magazines, books, radio, and movies) in the 1920s?
It became increasingly standardized as the same amusements were available in all parts of the country.
How did mass culture in the 1920s thwart full gender equality?
It encouraged women to equate freedom with choosing the glamorous fashions and styles found in advertisements and magazines.
Which of the following statements accurately reflects trends during the 1920s regarding women in the work force?
Most college women entered such traditionally "female" professions as nursing, school teaching, and librarianship.
Which of the following statements concerning the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s is not true?
The Klan dropped the elaborate rituals, titles, and costumes of the Reconstruction era in order to attract a mass membership.
What did Marcus Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, advocate?
blacks should return to Africa.
While writers such as Ernest Hemingway and Sinclair Lewis criticized what they saw as American hypocrisy in the 1920s, the truth was
they were diehard Americans at heart who wanted to create a more authentic culture.
The Harlem Renaissance
led book publishers and magazine editors to court black writers.
The teaching of this subject in public schools was the key issue in the Scopes Trial.
evolution
What happened in the 1920s Teapot Dome Scandal?
Interior Secretary Albert Fall received bribes to lease naval oil reserves to two private companies.
As the economy changed in the early 20th century, Henry Ford led the way with new policies that other corporations would soon follow, most notably
paying his workers higher wages to encourage consumerism.
Which of the following pieces of legislation was an attempt at campaign reform in the late 1930s?
Hatch Act
Which of the following was not true of the National Industrial Recovery Act?
It limited workers' collective bargaining rights.
Which of the following was not an example of the affirmative cultural nationalism characteristic of the late 1930s?
John Dos Passos's The 42nd Parallel.
Who were the 1932 "bonus marchers"?
World War I veterans who marched on Washington to lobby for immediate cash payments of veterans' bonuses they were promised.
What does the "monetarist" theory argue was the cause of the stock-market crash?
The Federal Reserve System's tight monetary policies
How did the American economic crisis affect the European economy?
It collapsed as world trade declined.
Which of the following was not true concerning the election of 1936?
Third-party candidates siphoned off an alarming number of Democratic votes.
The Civilian Conservation Corps
employed jobless young men in rural projects such as reforestation, park maintenance, and erosion control.
Which of the following is not a true statement about the Farm Security Administration?
It organized programs to teach poor farmers new, more efficient agricultural techniques.
Which of the following examples of New Deal legislation is correctly paired with what its purpose?
Fair Labor Standards Act: Banned child labor and set a national minimum wage.
Which of the following was not an approach that Franklin Roosevelt used during the early years of his administration to fight the depression?
nationalization of the railroads and steel industry.
What was the radio adaptation of War of the Worlds about?
An alien landing
What historic change took place during the 1936 presidential election?
African American voters switched party loyalty from Republican to Democrat.
How did U.S. Steel in 1937 respond to the newly formed Steel Workers' Organizing Committee?
It recognized the union, granted a wage increase, and agreed to a forty-hour week.
Which group faced appalling labor conditions in California's agricultural regions?
Mexican-Americans
Which of the following steps did Herbert Hoover not take to revive the economy after the stock-market crash?
He persuaded Congress to pass the National Industrial Recovery Act, which embodied ideas of industrial self-regulation and business-government cooperation.
Economists blamed all of the following for causing the depression except
Key industries embraced costly new technologies that they could not financially support.
What did John Steinbeck describe in The Grapes of Wrath?
He described the desperate struggles of an uprooted dust-bowl family.
Which of the following was not one of Roosevelt's immediate responses to the banking crisis?
He nationalized the banks.
Benny Goodman was noteworthy because he
created an integrated jazz orchestra that performed at Carnegie Hall.
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