HST2202 United States History

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  1. In the petition they sent to Freedmen’s Bureau Commissioner, general O.O Howard, in 1865, these slaves ask for what?
  2. To be reunited with their loved ones sold off during slavery
  3. For schools to be built where their children can be educated
  4. Land of their own to farm
  5. The right to be able to move to Northern states
  6. In class, I described the 14th amendment, ratified during reconstruction in 1868, as the keystone of the US Constitution. For one thing, it declares that all persons born in the U.S are citizens of the United States, regardless of race or previous condition of servitude. What is the other reason? (Type your response)
  7. The offensive character from 19th century minstrel shows became the byword for the segregation and disenfranchisement of African Americans in the south in the late 19th and early 20th (Type your response)
  • Blackface
  1. Birth of a Nation, the blockbuster 1915 movie, tells us more about the racial attitudes of the period in which it was filmed than it accurately does about Reconstruction, the historical period that it depicts.
    • True
    • False
  2. As discussed in class, this 19th century event did much to accelerate the concentration of capital and industrialization in the United States. What was it?
  3. California Gold Rush
  4. Civil War
  5. The removal of Native Americans from Western lands
  6. Spanish-American war
  7. Between 1865 and 1990, the United States economy grew explosively for a number of reasons. Aside from government aid, what were the two other reasons for this: (Mark that apply)
    • Gave away land and resources cheaply
    • Tariffs on imports
  8. Widely used by industrialists to break strikes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, they were despised by union workers, who gave them disparaging anatomical name. What was that name? (Type your response) *hint: one word answer*
  9. To negotiate treaties with Native Americans, the U.S government often times bestowed greater authority on chiefs and other tribal authorities than they really had.
    • True
    • False
  10. To avoid being forced to live on reservations, Chief Joseph led member of his tribe on a more than 100-mile trek to escape U.S. government authorities in the 1870s. What was the name of his tribe?
  11. Lakota Sioux
  12. Nez Perce
  13. Oglalla Sioux
  14. Arapaho
  15. During the semester, you read a passage from the memoir of the Sioux activist Zitkala-Sa. In it she discusses a particular traumatic moment from her time at U.S. government boarding school for Indian children. What was that traumatic episode? (Type your response)
  16. This pan-Indian movement of the 1880’s and 1890’s focused on a ceremony that participants came to believe would drive the white man out of Indian country forever. What was the name whites gave to this ceremony? (Type your response) *hint: two-word answer*
  17. What was the name for the violent anti-Semitic attacks perpetrated in Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that sent so many Jewish immigrants to America? (Type your response) *hint: one-word answer*
  18. What is the name of the popular movement, based on pseudo-science, that called for discouraging and even passing legislation to stop supposedly inferior persons, including immigrants, from reproducing. (Type your response) *hint: one-word answer*
  19. This early 20th century industrialist offered a deal to his largely immigrant workforce-high wages in exchange for inspections of their homes to make sure they were living moral lives.
  20. Henry Ford
  21. John D. Rockefeller
  22. Andrew Carnegie
  23. Harvey Firestone
  24. Among the four ideas listed here, one is NOT a principle of the progressive movement of the early 20th century.
  25. Government has a role to play in improving society
  26. Peoples behavior is largely shaped by their social environment
  27. Science and experts should be utilized to guide government policy
  28. For the purposes of efficiency, businesses should be allowed to grow as big as they can
  29. President Theodore Roosevelt suggested this name for the investigation journalists of the progressive era who uncovered governmental and corporate wrongdoing. What was this name? (Type your response) *hint: one word answer*
  30. This form of taxation required ratification of a constitutional amendment in the 20th century. Was it…?
  31. Sales tax
  32. Property tax
  33. Income tax
  34. Tariffs
  35. Journalists Upton Sinclair’s expose of the meat-packing industry in the early 20th century, which helped lead to the establishment of the food and drug administration was actually a work fiction.
  • True
  • False

 

 

  1. Faced with numerous threats from abroad, as well as seeking to subdue the Indians of the west, the United States maintained a large military throughout the 19th century.
  • True
  • False
  1. Name two of Spain’s territories seized by the United States in the Spanish-American War. (Type your response)
  2. A rebellion against U.S. occupiers of this territory seized in the Spanish-American war tied down U.S. troops for several years in the early 20th century.
  3. Cuba
  4. Puerto Rico
  5. Haiti
  6. Philippines
  7. This popular British author of the late 19th and early 20th centuries urged Americans to take up the mantle of imperialism, in order to help the non-European peoples of the world become civilized. (First and last name)
  8. During the largely prosperous 1920s, this one economic sector lagged behind. What was it?
  9. Electronics
  10. Agriculture
  11. Finance
  12. Automobiles
  13. All of these products contributed to dramatic changes in the lifestyle of Americans in the 1920s, EXCEPT one.
  14. Television
  15. Movies
  16. Radio
  17. Automobiles
  18. The Ku Klux Klan of the reconstruction era roared back to life in the 1920’s, once again confined to the south and to suppressing African American civil rights.
  • True
  • False
  1. These homeless encampments in many American cities became symbols of desperation in the early years of the Great Depression. What were they called? (Type your response)
  2. In 1930, congress passed the smoot-Hawley tariff act. By dramatically increasing tariffs on imported goods, it was meant to save American jobs as the Great Depression sunk in. Most economic historians argue that it did not achieve that end.
  • True
  • False
  1. In his first fireside address to the nation in 1993, president Franklin Roosevelt explained to the American people what he intended to do about what sector of the American economy?
  2. Agriculture
  3. Transportation
  4. Manufacturing
  5. Finance
  6. The advocacy of this doctor helped spur president Franklin Roosevelt to develop social security. What was the doctors name? (First and last)
  7. Arguably, this law from the 1930s did more to enhance working peoples rights to join labor unions than any other in American history. Name the U.S. senator it was popularly known by? (First and last name)
  8. The conference at this location in France after world war 1 led to a punitive peace against a defeated Germany and, say historians, probably contributed to the outbreak of World War II. What was the location?
  9. Versailles
  10. Marseilles
  11. Vichy
  12. Prior to the America’s entry into World War II, president Franklin Roosevelt told the American people that they should support those countries fighting against nazi and Japanese aggression. What was the term Roosevelt used to explain what American should become with this support? (Three word answer)
  13. Explain what the double v campaign was about, both the “double” part and the “V” part. (Type your response)
  14. America, Britain, and the Soviet Union— the so-called “big three” allies of World War II— met several times to hammer out wartime strategies. The meetings were named for where they occurred. Name the meeting where it was agreed that the United States and Great Britain would launch an invasion of Western Europe, thereby providing relief to beleaguered Soviet forces fighting Nazi Germany.
  15. Newfoundland, Canada
  16. Casablanca, Morocco
  17. Tehran, Iran
  18. Yalta, Russia
  19. A civil war in this European country in the late 1940’s helped lead to a US Cold War policy of aiding any country under attack by communist. What was that country? (Type your response)
  20. This U.S. general urged that the United States attack communist China as a part of America’s strategy in the Korean War, and got fired from his job for it. Name that general. (First and last name)
  21. What were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg found guilty of and executed for during the Cold War? (Type your response)
  22. Historians often attribute this 1944 law to helping build the modern American middle class. What was the popular name of this law?
  23. Fair housing bill
  24. National defense education bill
  25. GI bill of rights
  26. Taft-Hartley Bill
  27. What do the initials SDS stand for in the context of post-world war II American political movements? (Several word answer)
  28. Sociologist were largely unconcerned in the 1950’s that America culture was stifling individuality and promoting an overly materialistic culture.
  • True
  • False
  1. Between the early 20th century and roughly the 1960’s, hundreds of thousands of African Americans fled the south, escaping the racism and poverty that confronted them there, for cities in the north and west. What was this episode called? (Two word answer)
  2. The southern manifesto was a document signed by the major civil rights leaders of the 1950’s declaring their commitment to racial integration and African American voting rights.
  • True
  • False
  1. Those famous words by Martin Luther king jr. chastised moderates around the country for urging the civil rights movement to go more slowly in the confronting racial segregation. Where did King utter or write them?
  2. Oration at Riverside Church
  3. Letter from a Birmingham jail
  4. “I have a dream” speech in Washington
  5. Debate with Malcolm X on national TV
  6. The civil rights and black power movements were about more than just overturning racist laws and a lack of African American political power in the 1960s, they also contained cultural elements. One of these elements was about embracing a unique and celebratory African American look. What was the slogan used to promote this idea? (Three word answer)
  7. To bring their demands for more tribal autonomy and economic resources to light, meme era of the American Indian movement seized what American landmark in 1969?
  8. Rushmore, South Dakota
  9. Yellowstone national park, Wyoming
  10. Alcatraz island, California
  11. Hoover Dam, Nevada/Arizona
  12. In 1963, the book silent spring helped to launch the modern environmental movement. What environmental issue did it focus on?
  13. Oil spills
  14. Smog
  15. Pesticides
  16. Nuclear weapons testing
  17. Under this Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, the rights of those arrested charged with crimes was greatly expanded in the 1960s. Name that justice: (first and last name)
  18. This particular event in the Vietnam war exposes many Americans to the idea that their government has been lying to them about how well the war was going. What was this event?
  19. Get offensive
  20. Gulf of Tonkin incident
  21. Battle of dien bien phu
  22. Cambodia invasion
  23. The watergate scandal ultimately forced president Richard Nixon to resign the presidency in 1974. But it began in 1972 with what seemed like a small crime at the time. What was that crime?
  24. Burglary at the democratic national headquarters
  25. President Ronald Reagan led many lives before he became president in 1980. Name the one occupation he NEVER had.
  26. Union president
  27. Movie actor
  28. Governor
  29. Senator

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