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Which of the following granted African American men the right to vote?
The 13th Amendment
The 14th Amendment
The 15th Amendment
The 16th Amendment
"The new law established a three-fold land acquisition process: filing an application, improving the land, and filing for deed of title. Any U.S. citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. Government could file an application, improving the land and lay claim to 160 acres of surveyed Government land."
This best describes what law?
The Compromise of 1877
The Hepburn Act
The Dawes Act
The Homestead Act
Which of the following was a form of violence used to terrorize African Americans to prevent exercise of their rights?
Lynchings
Exodusters
Jim Crow Laws
Plessy v. Ferguson
African Americans who followed Pap Singleton's advice in the late 19th century to leave the South looking for safety and better work.
The Great Migration
The NAACP
Sharecroppers
Exodusters
Which of the following was NOT a backlash to Reconstruction
Poll taxes
Literacy tests
Black politicians elected to government
The KKK
Robber barons such as Carnegie, Rockefeller, Morgan, and Vanderbilt ran corporations that had complete control over their industry. This is known as a _____.
Graft
Spoils System
Plutocracy
Monopoly
The Gilded Age is often seen as a period of government corruption. All of the following are examples of corruption in government EXCEPT:
Graft
Spoils System
Labor Unions
Plutocracy
The Progressive Movement wanted to reduce the power of money in government. To achieve this, they wanted to give Congress the power to break up monopolies with which law?
The Dawes Act
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act
The Pendleton Act
The Spoils System
“White and colored persons shall not be taught in the same school, but in separate schools under the same general regulations as to management, usefulness and efficiency.”
The above quote is an example of what type of law?
The Chinese Exclusion Act
The Roosevelt Corollary
Jim Crow Laws
The 17th Amendment
“…during such suspension it shall not be lawful for any Chinese laborer to come, or having so come after the expiration of said ninety days to remain within the United States.”
The above quote comes from what law?
Jim Crow Laws
Japanese Interment Camps
Federal Reserve Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act
New immigrants came from what parts of the world?
Southern and Eastern Europe
Southern and Eastern Asia
Southern and Western Africa
Northern and Western Europe
Immigrants from southern and eastern Europe arrived in which port?
Angel Island
Juneau, AK
Ellis Island
New Orleans, LA
The above image demonstrates what aspect of the Industrial Revolution?
The Spoils System
Plutocracy
The Progressive Movement
Technological Innovation
One of the goals of the Progressive Movement was to expand popular democracy. All of the following are examples of this EXCEPT:
Referendum
Prohibition
Initiative
The 19th Amendment
Lincoln Steffens, who exposed corrupt political machines, and Ida B. Wells, who exposed the horror of lynchings in the south, are known as what?
Exodusters
Abolitionists
Muckrakers
Beatniks
The United States expanded into an 'imperial' nation, or an empire, in 1877. What did the US claim that they would spread to the world?
Christianity and democracy
Social Darwinism
Christianity and Industrialization
Democracy and Socialism
The United States did not believe that the indigenous people of the islands they controlled (Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines) were capable of ruling themselves.
This belief is known as what?
Democracy
Big Stick Diplomacy
Social Darwinism
Dollar Diplomacy
President Theodore Roosevelt was known for what type of diplomacy?
Dollar
Isolationism
Moral
Big Stick
In what war did the United States win control of Guam, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Cuba?
The Korean War
The Spanish American War
The Vietnam War
World War I
“On this same plantation at Snow Hill, Wilcox county, Alabama, a county where, according to the last census, there are twenty-four thousand colored people and about six thousand whites, there is now a school with two hundred pupils, five teachers from Tuskegee, and three school buildings. The school has forty acres of land. In addition to the text-book lessons, the boys are taught farming and carpentry, and the girls sewing and general house-keeping, and the school is now in the act of starting a blacksmith and wheelwright department.”
Which African American writer and leader most likely wrote this passage?
W.E.B. DuBois
Langston Hughes
Booker T. Washington
Zora Neal Hurston
“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.” Aldo Leopold
Select the word that best matches the above quote:
The Social Gospel
The Talented Tenth
Assimilation
Conservation
“The Negro race, like all other races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men.” W.E.B. DuBois
Select the word that best matches the above quote:
Accomodationism
Social Darwinism
The Talented Tenth
The Social Gospel
“The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to modern ideas of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets.” William Taft
The above quote is an example of what type of diplomacy?
Dollar Diplomacy
Moral Diplomacy
Big Stick Diplomacy
Isolationism
During industrialization, many workers were exploited and treated badly. In response, they created labor unions. Labor unions united their voices against their more powerful employers in what is known as _______
Monopolies
Collective Bargaining
Plutocracy
Nativism
All of the following were causes of World War I EXCEPT:
Alliances
Nationalism
Militarism
Isolationism
Imperialism
When World War I began, the United States was neutral. President Woodrow Wilson believed in maintaining what type of policy toward European nations?
Imperial Policy
Big Stick Policy
Isolationism
Nativism
All of the following were reasons for the US joining World War I EXCEPT
Defense of democracy
Economic profits
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Unrestricted submarine warfare
The Zimmerman Telegram
The above image is an example of propaganda. How did this image influence Americans?
It portrayed the US as a woman needing to be rescued, so people would join the army
It portrayed Germany as a brutish monster, so that Americans would join the army
It portrayed Germany as a brutish monster, so that Americans wouldn't want to join the war
It portrayed the United States as a brutish monster, so that Americans could see the problems of Imperialism
The First Red Scare was a period in the early 20th century when Americans were paranoid of communists, anarchists, and socialists.
Which of the following is NOT an example of the First Red Scare?
The return of the KKK
Sacco and Vanzetti
The Palmer Raid
The dislike of immigrants is known as nativism. Which of the following is NOT an example of nativism?
The Immigration Act of 1924 that restricted immigration
The return of the KKK, who were anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic
The growth of communism, where people believed that all property and businesses should be owned publicly (not privately like in capitalism)
The image above is Marcus Garvey, who believed in the idea of black nationalism. Which of the following is the name of his movement?
The Talented Tenth
Accomodationism
The 'Back to Africa' Movement
The New Negro
During the Great Migration, many African Americans felt that they could find a better life in the North. They were escaping racial violence and exploitative labor practices like sharecropping. These are examples of what?
New Immigrants
Push Factors
Pull Factors
Striking Factors
True or False:
During the Great Migration, African Americans in the North did not experience discrimination and were free to live how and where they wanted to
True
False
The image above shows a process in the 1920s known as _________.
Fundamentalism
Retrenchment
Mass Production
Celebrity Culture
Consumerism - when buying new things is the most important activity in society - increased dramatically during the 1920s. All of the following were causes of the growth in consumerism EXCEPT
New advertising
Suburbanization
Credit
Cheaper products from mass production
"By 1929, there were more than 27 million cars--or nearly one car for every household in the United States. In that year, one American out of every five owned a car, compared to one out of every 37 English and one out of every 40 French car owners."
How did the growing number of cars in the United States change the American way of life?
People could now travel farther, faster
Cars didn't really change society, since the train had allowed for all the same freedoms
Cars led to the growth of migrants into the South
People now had to chose between buying a car and a house, so many people went bankrupt
What development in the 1920s contributed greatly to the rise of mass culture?
Satellite Phones
Better television shows for children
The DVD
The radio
The 1920s ended with an economic downturn known as what?
The Great Recession
The New Deal
The Great Depression
The Great Society
Select the causes of the Great Depression from the list below (there are 3 in this list):
Excess consumerism
Overproduction in manufacturing
Suburbinazation
White-owned business refusing to desegrege
Buying on margin
During the Great Depression, many experienced unemployment. What did President Herbert Hoover do to attempt to address the crisis?
Instituted the New Deal
Started the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Began an unemployment program for Mid-West farmers
Kept a Laissez-faire approach to government
Herbert Hoover was known for his approach to politics known as 'rugged individualism.' Rugged individualism focused on what principles?
Community and strong government
Freedom and strong government
Equal opportunity and decentralized (small) government
Publicly owned goods and decentralized (small) government
Large temporary towns built by the homeless and unemployed in the Great Depression were known as what?
Hoovervilles
The Bonus Army
Suburbs
Pre-fab towns
Many people consider Black Tuesday, on October 29, 1929 as the start of the Great Depression. What was Black Tuesday?
The day the Bonus Army marched on Washington D.C.
The day President Hoover raised taxes beyond what people could pay
The day when all the debt from credit came due
The day when the US experienced a massive stock market crash
Which president was elected in 1932 when the US people were tired of the Rugged Individualism of Herbert Hoover?
President Theodore Roosevelt
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
President Lyndon B. Johnson
President Woodrow Wilson
In order to deal with the economic crisis of the Great Depression, President Roosevelt proposed a set of programs called ___________.
The Great Society
Moral Diplomacy
The Square Deal
The New Deal
Using the image and your content knowledge, what was one critique of FDR's New Deal?
It's hands-off approach wasn't actually helping people
It prioritized big business over American people
It wasted millions of dollars on government spending
It relied on corrupt politicians to collect taxes
The Soviet Union, Germany, and Japan are all examples of what type of government leading up to World War I?
Democratic governments
Communist governments
Socialist governments
Totalitarian governments
The United States was brought into World War II after what event?
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
Germany's invasion of Poland
The sinking of the Lusitania
The Zimmerman Telegram
In 1942, Executive Order 9066 sent all Japanese Americans to internment camps. What did the Supreme Court decide in Korematsu v. United States?
They ruled that it was illegal to intern Japanese Americans
They ruled that FDR was not able to pass executive orders
They ruled that Korematsu didn't have to be interned, but other Japanese could be
They ruled that it was legal to intern Japanese Americans during times of war
The Manhattan Project developed the atomic bomb for the US during World War II. President Truman ordered the use of the bombs on what two cities?
Tokyo and Nagasaki
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Hiroshima and Beijing
Beijing and Tokyo
Read the following statement:
"Government should be active and involved in the recovery from the Great Depression"
Who would have agreed with this?
President Hoover
President Roosevelt
Read the following statement:
"Government intervention and regulation of the economy costs Americans their individual liberty and freedom."
Who would have agreed with this?
President Hoover
President Roosevelt
Select all of the following that are examples of New Deal policies:
The Civilian Conservation Corps
The Public Works Administration
The Social Security Act
The Works Progress Administration
The Tennessee Valley Authority
Following World War II, President Truman was afraid of Russia's "expansive tendencies." What was the name of the doctrine to keep the Soviet Union where it was?
Containment
Isolationism
Big Stick Diplomacy
Peaceful Coexistence
In order to support Europe from falling to communism, the United States gave money to European countries through what program?
The Monroe Doctrine
The Roosevelt Corollary
The Marshall Plan
The Space Race
After World War II, Germany and its capital city Berlin were divided up. East Germany and East Berlin were controlled by what country?
France
The United States
Great Britain
The Soviet Union
After the Soviet Union blockaded West Berlin, the United States responded with what?
The Berlin Wall
The Korean War
Containment
The Berlin Airlift
The Korean War was fought between the North (Communist) and the South (Democratic, Capitalist). The US fought with the South. What was the result of the Korean War?
China joined the war and allowed communist forces to overrun the rest of the country
North Korea defeated South Korea and forced the United States to leave
The war ended in a stalemate at the 38th parallel
South Korea pushed into Communist North Korea and was able to assassinate the communist ruler
As the Cold War begins, Americans become more and more afraid of Communism. The Rosenbergs will be accused of spying for the Soviet Union and executed, and several actors and directors will be accused of being communists. This is known as the ____________.
The Beatniks
The Second Red Scare
The Marshall Plan
The Space Race
What event started the Space Race?
The Soviet's launch of the satellite Sputnik
The Soviet Union launching the first man into space
The Apollo 11 moon landing
The Soviet Union builds the Berlin Wall to separate East and West Berlin
The Space Race had many effects on American society. Select all that apply:
More STEM education funding
More defense and military spending
New technological innovations
Heightened fear of conflict with the Soviet Union
John Foster Dulles, the Secretary of State under President Eisenhower, believed in a foreign policy called brinkmanship. Which of the following is an example of brinkmanship?
The nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union
The Berlin Airlift
The idea of peaceful coexistence with the Soviet Union
The Holocaust
During the Cold War, there was an intense fear of a nuclear holocaust. What are the ways that the US prepared? Select all that apply:
Civil Defense Organizations
Atomic Testing
Consumerism
Fallout Shelters
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a result of what event?
The US's attempted invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs
Cuba's alliance with the US forced the Soviet Union to threaten Cuba with sanctions
The Soviet Union's invasion of Cuba to place nuclear missiles near the US
Conflict between the US and Soviet Union over the Soviet Union's placement of nuclear missiles in Cuba
Mutually assured destruction is defined as what?
The policy that communism and capitalism could exist peacefully as neighbors
The organized effort to prepare the public for military attack
The idea that war can be prevented because the annihilation of both the attacking and defending country is guaranteed if one launches a nuclear weapon
The rapid increase in stockpiles of nuclear weapons
The Vietnam War was fought between North and South Vietnam. Why did the United States join the war with South Vietnam?
The US saw the conflict as a war between communism and capitalism/democracy
The US was attacked at a base in the Pacific by Northern Vietnamese soldiers
The US was supporting the government that opposed the spread of fascism in Vietnam
US civilians were attacked in North Vietnam, prompting a US response
All of the following were pivotal moments in the Vietnam War EXCEPT:
The My Lai Massacre
The Tet Offensive
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
What was one of the main policies the Anti-War Movement in the United States protested during the Vietnam War?
The FBI's harassment and targeting of the Silent Majority
The draft by lottery
The INF Treaty with the Soviet Union
The failure of the US to send enough troops to Vietnam
All of the following decreased the tension of the Cold War EXCEPT:
The period of Detente
SALT I and II
Nuclear Proliferation
The INF Treaty
During the '50s, the US experienced significant social change. Select all of the following that represent social change in the '50s:
The rapid growth of suburban towns such as the mass produced levittowns
The rapid growth of consumer culture, white collar jobs, and advertising
The increased birthrate known as the baby boom
An equal number of women entering professional jobs like doctors and lawyers as men
A huge increase in the number of cars in the US
Television, which became extremely popular in the 1950s, impacted society in all of the following ways EXCEPT:
Influenced gender roles through ads and TV shows
Changed the way that Americans interacted with war and politics
Made Beatnik-influenced shows the most popular type of television
Increased the ability of companies to advertise their products to consumers through ads and slogans
After JFK was killed, Lyndon B. Johnson became president and started implementing a set of policies targeting poverty and racial injustice. These polices were known as what?
The Square Deal
The Great Society
The New Frontier
The New Deal
Kennedy's program the New Frontier included all of the following EXCEPT:
Pushes to improve STEM Education
Start the Peace Corps
Win the Space Race
Decrease tensions with the Soviet Union
What was the Supreme Court case that called for desegregation of public schools?
Obergefell v. Hodges
Schenck v. The United States
Brown v. Board of Education
Bakke v. California
All of the following are examples of the 1950s and early 1960s Civil Rights Movement EXCEPT:
Montgomery Bus Boycotts
The Little Rock Nine, the Clinton 12, and the Memphis 13
The Sit-In Movement and Freedom Rides
The Talented Tenth and accomodationism
Which of the following outlawed discrimination based on race and ended racial segregation in public places?
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Bakke v. University of California (1978)
The 1960s was a time of radical social change. Which of the following were social movements of the 1960s? Select all that apply:
The Chicano Movement
The Environmental Movement
The Conservation Movement
The American Indian Movement
The Women's Liberation Movement
