History Final

1.

1 point

During the 1920s, the influence of the "new woman"

reinforced the traditional concept of separate spheres

was felt by all women, even those who believed in traditional gender roles

created a double standard for the sexual conduct of men and women

reduced acceptance of and access to birth control

2.

1 point

One example of the sweeping change forged by feminists in the 1960s and 1970s was

woman suffrage

passage of Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972

ratification by the states of the Equal Rights Amendment

the end of gender discrimination in the workplace

3.

1 point

The New Deal most improved the quality of life in rural American by

expanding railroad lines

ensuring that sharecroppers and tenant farmers received a fair share of government benefits

providing electricity through the Rural Electrification Administration

opening new markets overseas for farmers

4.

1 point

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

had led to a sharp decline in the Chinese population of the American West by 1900

was a response to the demands of Chinese laborers for higher wages and better working conditions

reduced anti-Asian prejudice in the West

limited the number of Chinese immigrants to America for a period of three years

5.

1 point

The fundamental difference in the philosophies of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois was that Washington

focused on civil rights and black leadership, which Du Bois emphasized education and economic progress

wanted African Americans to leave the South, while Du Bois believed they would be better able to improve their lives if they remained in the South

focused on education and economic progress, while Du Bois emphasized civil rights and black leadership

argued for nonviolent protest, while Du Bois lobbied for more militant protest

6.

1 point

In his iron curtain speech, British prime minister Winston Churchill suggested that

the Soviet Union was becoming an industrial nation

Soviet suppression of the popular will in eastern and central Europe had isolated those regions from the free world

the Soviets' military power was as strong as iron

the US and its European allies had contained the Soviet Union

7.

1 point

During WWII, Secretary of War Henry Stimson argued

that the armed forces should be integrated as quickly as possible because segregation was "inconsistent with fighting a war for democracy"

against integrating the troops, claiming that the war should not serve as a "Sociological laboratory"

that all African American men should be removed from the armed forces

that African American men should not be drafted fro duty in the armed forces

8.

1 point

Dr. Francis Townsend and Huey P. Long both opposed the New Deal, calling instead for

wealthy Americans to share with those less fortunate

the redistribution of income through taxation

work relief

government-sponsored health care

9.

1 point

Black migration to the North during World War I led to

legislative action in the South to stop blacks from leaving

greater acceptance of blacks by whites

better treatment of those blacks who remained in the South

ninety-six lynchings and race riots in two dozen northern cities

10.

1 point

The Double V campaign called for oth victory in the war and victory for

African Americans over racial prejudice at home

FDR in the presidential election of 1944

Thomas Dewey in the presidential election of 1944

Republicans in Congress

11.

1 point

The Ku Klux Klan reemerged in 1915 largely in response to the belief that

the nation needed to be defended against the threat to traditional values posed by blacks, immigrants, radicals, feminists, Catholics, and Jews

some apocalyptic event was about to occur

the government was conspiring to subvert the fundamental rights of the US citizens

African Americans were about to gain equality in the new world of giant corporations and needed to be kept in their places

12.

1 point

The passage of the Taft-Hartley Act over Truman's veto in 1947

was opposed by the Republican Party

was a blow to labor

was a major victory for labor

removed all government control over labor unions

13.

1 point

The Treaty of Paris that ended the war with Spain ceded to the US

the Virgin Islands and Guantanamo

the Philippines and Cuba

Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines

San Salvador and the Virgin Islands

14.

1 point

The members of Students for a Democratic Society

hoped to convince more radical organizations to work within the system

had few concrete goals

wanted to mobilize a New Left around the goals of civil rights, peace, and universal economic security

were idealistic young people with too much time on their hands

15.

1 point

In his best-selling How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis

called for the impeachment of the President

forced middle-class Americans to acknowledge the degraded reality of the poor

offered a balanced examination of tenement life in New York City-s Lower East Side

produced a great American novel

16.

1 point

The Red scare of 1919 and 1920 was

a protest by socialist reformers who circulated posters and pamphlets and marched on Washington

a reaction to US labor unrest, Russian bolshevism, and a flurry of terrorist attacks

a series of strikes led by Communist radicals

a reaction in the US to demobilization of the army

17.

1 point

Compared with previous presidents, Harry Truman's efforts to advance the cause of blacks' civil rights were

consistent with Franklin Roosevelt's ideas and practices

a step backward

weak and ineffectual

bold and forward looking

18.

1 point

Throughout much of the nineteenth century, middle-class American women were confined by a cultural ideology that dictated that they

integrate workplace and home as much as possible

make their household a separate sphere

work outside the home to make ends meet

extend their sphere of influence to include charity work

19.

1 point

The Voting Rights Act of 1965

authorized the use of federal agents to enforce African Americans' right to register and vote

gave the Supreme Court the power to nullify state elections in which blacks were deprived of their voting rights

was signed into law by president Kennedy

mandated a basic literacy test for voters of all races

20.

1 point

During WWII, the abolishment of the Works Projects Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps was clear evidence of

a Democratic upsurge in the US government

the strength of the conservative coalition

the end of the unemployment in America

the agencies' inefficiency

21.

1 point

The US government passed the Espionage Act, the Trading wight he Enemy Act, and the Sedition Act to

promote patriotism

warn German citizens that dissent would be punished by expulsion from the US

punish any opinion it considered "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive" to the American flag or uniform

quiet conscientious objectors

22.

1 point

The US reacted to the Soviet Union's successful launch of Sputnik in 1957

with pride in the Soviets' scientific and technological knowledge

by initiation covert plans to infiltrate the Soviet missile agency

by initiating a plan for a satellite defense system

with a feeling of inferiority about US scientific and technological development

23.

1 point

All in all, major decisions from the Warren Court

reinforced conservative views on civil rights

have withstood the test of time

were accepted by most Americans

have almost all been overturned

24.

1 point

Secretary of State John Foster Dulles supported

rotating diplomatic personnel between the Soviet Union and the US so the two nations could better understand each other's foreign policy

a series of talks with Soviet officials to make sure the Soviet Union and the US understood each other

going "to the brink" of war to halt the Soviets' efforts to extend their territory

an all-out nuclear assault on the Soviets if they even looked as though they were about to encroach on the free world

25.

1 point

The theory of social Darwinism held that

certain inequities should be ameliorated by government intervention

inequality is both natural and cyclical

Charles Darwin actually was writing about people when he authored On the Origin of Species

progress is the result of competition, and that social reforms and other modes of human interference impede progress

26.

1 point

The economic theory of laissez-faire gained political clout in the late nineteenth century in part because

the Supreme Court increasingly was reinterpreting the Constitution to protect business

Republicans and Democrats in Congress could not agree on its tenets

many Americans were not quite sure what it was or how it functioned

the Supreme Court increasingly was reinterpreting the Constitution to the detriment of big business

27.

1 point

To encourage railroad construction in the decades after the Civil War, state and federal governments

sold land to railroad companies at bargain prices

gave railroads rights-of-way across homesteaders' land

gave railroad companies 180 million acres of public land

reclaimed acreage already settled by farmers and sold it to the railroads

28.

1 point

By 1966, the civil rights movement in the US

had become an underground movement

had reconfirmed its commitment to nonviolence

had achieved most of its major goals

was no longer committed to nonviolence

29.

1 point

Welfare capitalism was created by

socialists

businesses to encourage loyalty to the company

the government to address the needs of the less fortunate

traditional labor unions to assist workers

30.

1 point

Railroad construction in the nineteenth-century America was boosted significantly by

the transportation demands of homesteaders

federal restrictions of rates and railroad company competition

monetary aid and land grants from federal and state governments

all of the above

31.

1 point

The new social gospel of the late nineteenth century

urged the distribution of free Bibles in the cities

argued that charity begins at home

called for the reform of both individuals and society based on Christianity

called for corporate funds to build churches throughout the nation

32.

1 point

In The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan argued that

the idealization of domesticity was pressuring women to seek fulfillment in serving others

women were not as intelligent as men

divorced fathers should never be given custody of children under age fourteen

a woman's place was in the home

33.

1 point

The immigration laws of the 1920s, including the Johnson-Reid Act,

marked the beginning of an era of strict limits on immigration

closed off immigration to the US from other areas of the Western Hemisphere

overturned the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

opened the nation's borders to an unprecedented influx of new immigrants

34.

1 point

A gathering in St. Louis in February in 1892, which evolved into the People's Party, was attended by

farmers, labor leaders, women's leaders, and others who wanted change

third-party dissidents with ties to Russian revolutionaries

loyal Republicans and Democrats

Democrats who wanted to regain power in the South

35.

1 point

The Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education overturned the doctrine of

concurrent equality established in Purvis v. Bergdorf

purposeful proximity established in Dred Scott v. Sanford

separate but equal established in Plessy v. Ferguson

civil segregation established in Chaney v. Gunderson

36.

1 point

Both the Interstate Commerce Act and the Sherman Antitrust Act

testified to the concern of big business about government abuses in chartering and licensing corporations

testified to the nation's growing willingness to use federal measures to intervene in big business on behalf of the public interest

were compromises supported by big business to distract the public from corporate abuses

have had little effect on the conduct of business in the US

37.

1 point

During the Nixon administration, the number of government assistance programs

was reduced drastically

earned the growing support of conservatives

actually grew

did not change

38.

1 point

The Dawes Plan

halved Germany's annual reparations payments and initiated American loans to Germany

called for the US to join the League of Nations

authorized the mobilization of the US military forces to ensure that Germany would pay reparations

made provisions for the US to assume Germany's war debts

39.

1 point

In February 1948, while Congress debated the Marshall Plan, the Soviets

threatened US oil interests in Iraq

staged a coup, installing a Communist regime in Czechoslovakia

invaded Afghanistan

staged a coup, installing a Communist regime in Greece

40.

1 point

After World War II, Joseph Stalin's primary goal was to

partition Germany into three spheres of influence

restrict Germany to an agricultural economy

remilitarize Germany

have governments friendly to the Soviet Union on its borders in Eastern Europe

41.

1 point

Two key elements of the public school system in American cities were

restricted access and free tuition for children under-twelve

free tuition and open access to all children

affordability and after-school programs

restricted access and a voucher system

42.

1 point

In the summer of 1963, President Kennedy asked his aides to plan an attack on poverty and called for the passage of a comprehensive civil rights bill. He was unable to achieve those goals because

the conservative Congress was reluctant to consider them

the Bay of Pigs good precedence over domestic reform

the Vietnam War was beginning to heat up

he was assassinated the November

43.

1 point

All of the following were priorities of President Roosevelt when he first took office except

relief for the unemployed and the destitute

civil rights legislation to end the practice of lynching

the economic recovery of business and farming

reform of the stock market

44.

1 point

After 1889 Ghost Dance

was a religious ritual that was supposed to resurrect fallen warriors and rid the Indians of white intruders

was a ritual performed by the Sioux to prepare for battle

signaled that Native Americans of the Great Plains had resigned themselves to white domination

was a ritual performed by the Paiutes in an effort to contact their great spirit leaders for guidance

45.

1 point

By 1900, the WCTU could claim credit for

providing a generation of women with experience in political action

the emergence of an organized movement for women's sufrage

securing a constitutional amendment banning the sale and consumption of alcohol

securing the right to vote for all women

46.

1 point

The Korean War contributed significantly to

a reduction in the cold war tension around the globe

a 50 percent decrease in the US military spending in 1953

a lessening of US involvement in Southeast Asia

an increase in US defense spending that would claim 60 Percent of the federal budget by 1953

47.

1 point

The progressive movement in the US began at the

local level and had very little effect on state and national governments

federal level of government and worked its way down to rand-and-file Americans

grassroots level and percolated up to the national level of government

federal level of government and essentially stayed there

48.

1 point

The Nye committee's 1933 report concluded that

the US had backed the wrong side in WWI

the nations that still owed money to the US because of WWI would probably never pay

the greed of American munitions makers, bankers, and financiers was responsible for the nation's entry into WWI

reform of the stock market

49.

1 point

The Dawes Act

returned millions of acres of the Great Plains to Native Americans

expanded the area covered by the reservation system

effectively kept white settlement in Oklahoma at bay

broke up reservations and allotted individual pieces of land to Native Americans

50.

1 point

In 1961, the Congress of Racial Equality organized Freedom Rides to

provide free transportation to poor people of all races in the Souch

commemorate the emancipation of slaves in the US

integrate interstate transportation in the South

transport African American voters to the polls