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1
Theodore Roosevelts policy of increasing the use of the military power in negotiation became known as
“Big stick” Diplomacy
“Dollar” diplomacy
Something
Idk
2
The idea that African Americans would gain rights by operating with the system of segregation
ida B wells
Booker T. Washington
Jacob riis
WEB Du Bois
3
All of the following were causes of the economic boom of the 1920s except…
Health, and wealth, following WW1
The rise of advertising and consumerism
The Harlem renaissance
4
New markets for U.S. goods were needed by the 1890s because the U.S was…
Not industrializing enough
Not producing enough goods
Producing too many goods for Americans to buy
Starting to fight the civil war
5
The G.I. Bill primarily
Gave school and housing loans to returning soldiers
Increased the number of soldiers
Expanded the armed services to include women
Desegregated the military to allow African Americans to join
6
This US general was fired by president truman when her subversively pushed for the use of nuclear weapons.
MacArthur
Eisenhower
Patton
Bradley
7
This program was created as a form of insurance to aid the elderly, the crippled, and the unemployed.
Social security
Poverty prevention
American aid society
FDIC
8
The panda canal was a significant engineering feat because it:
Increased the travel distance from Cali to NY
Decreased the number of people who wanted to travel
Decreased the travel distance from the pacific to the Indian Ocean
Decreased the travel distance from the pacific to Atlantic oceans
9
President Nixon refused to give congress the recordings of his conversations in the White House, using his reasoning of
Executive order
Presidential preference
Executive privilege
Executive discretion
10
This president did absolutely nothing during the Great Depression
Woodrow Wilson
FDR
Harry Truman
Herbert Hoover
11
Baby book is the increase of child birth rates after WW2
False
True
12
Which of these are southern legislation circumnavigating the 14th and 15th amendments (voting restrictions)
Poll taxes
Grandfather clauses
Literacy tests
All of the above
13
The freedman’s bureau was responsible for..
Helping former slaves achieve basic education and job training
Dividing reparations from the US government
Giving literacy tests to former slaves to test them
Aiding former slaves by buying their former masters’ plantation
14
Which of the following resources was not one of the major contributors to rapid industrialization
Iron
Coal
Steel
Cotton
15
The incandescent light bulb transformed American life after it was invented by…
Eli Whitney
John cena
Thomas Edison
Thomas Jefferson
16
As a result of the Spanish-American war, the U.S gained the territories of
Guam, Puerto Rico, and Cuba
Guam, Cuba, and the Philippines
Guam, Cuba, and Spain
Guam, Puerto Rico, and Philippines
17
The US purchased Alaska from who for 7.2M?
Spain
England
Russia
Canada
18
McCarthyism is a phrase referring to:
Emphasizing WW2 triumphs
Military emphasis on nuclear development
Mass hysteria and fear of communism
Government policies developing democratic ideals.
19
During WW1, the committee of public information was in charge of…
A nationwide propaganda campaign
Managing the nurses of the army and navy overseas
Deciding what information to reveal to the various branches of government.
Distribution of information about battles to American people
20
Cesar Chavez is remembered for all of the following except
Being posthumously given the presidential medal of freedom
Bringing about legislation for Chicano and feild workers rights
Working with the United fields workers to oppose Delano grape company
Creating art used to support Chicano rights
21
Social Darwinism refers to the idea that…
Everyone should help the poor
It was natural for society to be governed by “survival of the fittest”
Everyone should have the same economic outcome
Poverty should not exist in modern society
22
Returning Vietnam vet’s experienced all except
Receiving full VA benefits
The US retained many in reserve for further Cold War conflicts
Drug addictions
Many were labeled as baby killers
23
The bombing of Dresden Germany in 1945 is an example of
Three- front war
The use of V2 rockets
Total war
Island hopping
24
The first “proxy war” in the Cold War was…
The bay of pigs
The Vietnam war
The Korean War
The six-day war
25
Jingoism is…
The movement to end segregation
Aggressive or warlike nationalism
The writing of patriotic songs
Jim Crow laws
26
New immigrants came primarily from…
Western Europe
Australia
Eastern and Western Europe
Southern America and Africa
27
Democrat FDR defeated Republican Herbert Hoover in the election because of…
Hopes that Roosevelt would do something about the economy
Hoovers foreign policy during WW1
The teapot done scandals in Hoovers cabinet
12 years of segregation, following reconstruction
28
Other countries pursuing imperialism included
European countries
African countries
Asian countries
Latin American countries
29
The Spanish-American war was started because of all of the following except:
The blowing up of the USS Maine
Spanish military incursions into Florida
Spanish atrocities
Yellow journalism
30
Hi chi Minh was
The enemy of the view cong
The leader of the Vietminh
Leader of south Vietnam
A Korean rebel
31
After WW2, most women
Continued to work in factories
Left factory work to be housewives
32
What is bracero program?
An agreement between Mexico and United States for workers during WW2
Civil rights legislation that expanded workers rights
The expanding of educational legislation to exclude inner city Hispanic kid
The expediting of citizenship for alien Mexican migrants
33
The manhattan project was the code name for an atomic bomb
True
False
34
Men who traveled to the south to aid in reconstruction were known as:
Carpetbaggers
Scalawags
35
All of the following were victims of HUAC and McCarthyism except:
The Hollywood 10
The oppenheimers
Alger hiss
The rosenbergs
36
Before the 19th amendment…
All women could vote
Women in most western states could vote
Women in most southern states could vote
No women would vote
37
The event that brought American to WW2 was:
D-day
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Bombing of Hiroshima
Invasion of Poland
38
The process of 40% of the African American population l, moving from the south due to segregation was called…
Unionization
Expansionism
National enfranchisement
The great migration
39
The “iron curtain” refers to:
Plan to give economic aid to European countries in order to rebuild
Division between the communist and democratic countries of Europe
Division between the communist and Soviet controlled countries
Plan to give economic aid to turkey and Greece
40
What is black Tuesday?
The end of Harlem renaissance
The election of FDR
Stock market crash
The start of FDIC
41
This is the location of the mid 19th century suffrage meeting that resulted in the declaration of rights and sentiments
Seneca Falls, New York
Albany, New York
Charleston, North Carolina
Washington DC
42
World war 1 started for all of these causes except
Industrialization
Alliances
Materialism
Imperialism
43
Hoovervilles were…
Work camps
Orphanages
Permanent Breadlines
Temporary slums
44
Andrew Johnson’s presidency was characterized by…
Abuses of power leading to an impeachment trial
Conflict between moderate and radical republicans
Allowing black codes to emerge in the south
All of the above
45
Sharecropping is basically slavery
True
False
46
The Supreme Court case “plessy v. Ferguson” established “separate but equal”
True
False
47
The Warsaw pact was begun as the Soviet alternative to:
NATO
Marshall plan
Containment
Berlin airlift
48
Under the treaty of Versailles, Germany would
Pay back the allied powers for damages
Would reduce the size of the army
All of the above
Take full responsibility for WW1
49
This military style new deal program provided 18-25 year old men with jobs in construction.
CCC
TVA
AAA
FDIC
50
Rosa parks was a significant person in the civil rights movement because she:
Immediately started the bus boycott.
Made a revolutionary decision without any teachings
Gave the women’s political council of Montgomery the opportunity they need
Was the first black women in Montgomery to refuse to give up her seat
51
The attacks on the USS Maddox in the gulf of Tonkin in August 1964 led to
President Johnson receiving power from congress to use any means necessary
The gulf of Tonkin resolution
The US sending more advisors to south Vietnam
All of the above
52
The _____ act encouraged native Americans to become private land owners, a step in the process of Americanization
Dawes
Grant
Johnson
Omaha
53
Yellow journalism is characterized by
Dramatic drawing or pictures
All of the above😈
Little concern for facts
Attention-grabbing headlines
54
The Truman doctrine was first used to oppose the spread of communism in…
Greece and turkey
Greece and Hungary
Turkey and Germany
Poland and France
55
A monopoly refers to
One INDIVIDUAL member was the stock in a company
When there is fierce competition between different companies
A company declares bankruptcy
When a single company controls an entire product, industry, service
56
Charles Schneck was arrested under the espionage act for:
Publishing pamphlets that criticize the war and the draft
Being a German spy
Writing the Zimmerman telegram
Criticizing the US government tax policies
57
D-day, the jnvasion of Normandy was on…
August 15,1944
December 7, 1941
June 4, 1940
June 6, 1944
58
What is yellow journalism?
Yellow paper
Late 1800s sensational stories designed to sell newspapers
The publication of the comic strip “the yellow manzana”
A code of rules that was written in yellow colored pencil
59
Southerners who aided the north in reconstruction were known as
Scalawags
Carpetbaggers
60
Granted citizenship to everyone born in the US
16th
15th
14th
13th
61
Foreign policy the US had during the Cold War
Containment
Controlling
Extinction
Contraction
62
Ended slavery
13th A
16th
15th
14th A
63
USSR premier Khrushchev put nuclear missiles in Cuba in relation of the United States putting missiles in
Greece
Japan
Turkey
West Germany
64
Dust bowl was created by everything except…
Removal of topsoil
Irregular wind storms
Animal migration
Severe draught
65
As a result of Japanese attack in Pearl Harbor…
The US joined the war
Executive order 9066 was signed by FDR
Japanese-Americans living in California were sent to internment camps
All of the above
66
FDR’s first new deal program was the bank holiday which…
Decreased public confidence in banking
Closed all banks until the government could declare which banks were safe
Opened all banks for a certain amount of time only
Created FDIC
67
This program subsidized crop values in order to limit the impact of inflation
CCC
FDIC
AAA
TVA
68
The Pullman strike started because of…
Workers attempts to influence …blah blah blah
US military enforcement of anti-strike laws
Decrease wages with high rent
Unsafe working conditions
69
In answer to “Sputnik” America created NASA
False
True
70
Propaganda is to persuade a person to think or act a certain way
False
True
71
These places were specific lands set aside by the government for Native American use:
Reservations
Idk
Camps
Natural resources
72
Theodore Roosevelt led these troops in Cuba during the Spanish-American war:
The Jesse James Boys
The rough riders
The buffalo soldiers
The Montana Mounties
73
Dressing became a symbol for young women in the 1920s and was a rejection of Victorian traditions
Victorian
Modern
Lebron
Flappers
74
Freedom to vote
16th amendment
14th amendment
15th amendment
13th Anendment
75
WW1 was fought during
1913-1919
1912-1916
1910-1920
1914-1918
76
The president of the United States during WW1
Grover Cleveland
Theodore Roosevelt
FDR
Woodrow Wilson
77
Who was not a famous business tycoon of the gilded age?
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Andrew Johnson
78
The United States constructed the Vietnam war memorial, memorializing and remembering US losses in Vietnam in…
1982
1973
1980
1975
79
Hippie movement
San Francisco
Woodstock
New York
New Orleans
80
FDR fireside chats helped…
Talk about life in presidency
De-escalate anti-communist sentiment in America
Criticize Hoover
Inform Americans of the new deals progress
81
The Marshall plan
The coordinated effort to hunt down Nazi war criminals
A financial plan to rebuild Western Europe
Military preparations at the beginning of the Cold War
82
Manhattan project
Eisenhower
Einstein
Guttenburg
Oppenheimer
83
Which of the following was a reaction to increased immigration?
The Chinese exclusion act
The Sherman anti-trust act
SCOTUS
The 15th amendment
84
FDR’s New deal consisted of all of the following except:
Reform
Recovery
Reconstruction
Relief
85
The Berlin Wall separated:
East and west
North and south
South and west
East and north
86
What is Laissez-faire economics?
Everything is owned by the government
Restricted trade and high government interference
Free trade and minimal government interference
Wants all business to stay small
87
This program utilized waterways around Tennessee creating dams to produce power.
FDIC
AAA
CCC
TVA
88
This man became infamous for his illegal activities as political boss in NY
John cena
William tweed
Arthur Morgan
Jacob riis
89
This 1901 legislation gave American economic control over Cuba, and opened the current naval base at Guantanamo Bay
Platt amendment
Cuba protector act
Russel proviso
Foraker act
90
400 men women and children massacred
Hue
Mui Ne
My Lai
La dreng
91
Brown v. Board of education successfully made segregation of public schools illegal.
False
True
92
The Berlin airlift refers to:
The mass exodus of fascists from Berlin
Early shots of the Cold War
NATO emphasis on the plane production
The allies import the supplies to isolated western Berlin
93
The Bataan death march refers to the forced march of American soldiers who surrendered in…
Okinawa
Midway
Philippines
Guadalcanal
94
All of the following caused the great depression except…
The dust bowl
The stock market crash
High tariffs and war debts
Overproduction of farm goods
95
Resentment towards new immigrants, and the idea that America should favor those born in the US.
Americanization
Abolition
Nativism
Republicanism
96
In the Vietnam war, the US ally’s was
North vietnam
The Vietminh
The bit cong
South Vietnam
97
The term Levittown describes,
A town in NY, built by Abraham levitt in the late 1940s
All of the above
A town where houses are mass-produced and look identical
The new suburbs of America build after WW2
98
The idea that the United States and the Soviet Union could destroy each other with nuclear weapons.
International nuclear standoff
Cold War mutual limitations
Mutually assured destruction
Military preparedness initiatives