American History Mid-Term Exam (US.1-US.59)

Question 1

Widely respected expression of personal freedom & cultural identity from African-Americans.

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Harlem Renaissance

Question 2

Limited emigration of unskilled Japanese workers and repealed a segregation order.

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Gentleman's Agreement

Question 3

People who illegally smuggled liquor into the US from Canada, Cuba, and the West Indies

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bootleggers

Question 4

Belief that African-Americans should build a separate society.

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Garveyism

Question 5

This act held meatpackers to a high standard of cleanliness

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Meat Inspection Act

Question 6

You should be able to briefly reflect on important concepts learned in this class.

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True

Question 7

Idea that govt should not involve itself in people’s economic lives or in national economics.

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rugged individualism

Question 8

The idea of going back to the simpler days before the Progressive Era.

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return to normalcy

Question 9

You should be able to identify excerpts from Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address.

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True

Question 10

A business that requires employees to join a union.

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closed shops

Question 11

Buying goods you can't afford, selling things you own to rebuy them on the installment plan:

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Overextension of credit

Question 12

You should be able to identify excerpts from Herbert Hoover's Rugged Individualism speech.

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True

Question 13

Tendency to stay close to others who share your beliefs, language, and way of life.

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Ethnic Clusters

Question 14

Hate crime committed against African Americans, often by hanging.

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lynching

Question 15

Which movement’s purpose was to provide a social outlet and education for isolated farmers?

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Granger

Question 16

Which was not one of the four MAIN causes of WWI?

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money

Question 17

Women finally gained the right to vote with the ratification of the…

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19th Amendment

Question 18

An attempt at segregation and disenfranchisement.

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Jim Crow laws

Question 19

These taxes on imported goods helped turn the Great Depression into an international crisis.

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tariffs

Question 20

This aspect of the Great Depression can be explained by overextension of credit and speculation

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crash of the stock market

Question 21

Little “towns” of shacks made from scrap materials in American cities.

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Hoovervilles

Question 22

The Amendment that created a federal income tax was the…

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16th Amendment

Question 23

People produced more than ever because they could, without asking if they should.

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both

Question 24

This act created a system where banks could support each other in emergency situations

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Federal Reserve

Question 25

The fight for the right to vote is often known as…

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suffrage

Question 26

This innovation in food purchasing during the 1920s helped encourage consumerism.

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self-selection

Question 27

Wilson's policy on democratic ideals rather than economic investment or the use of force

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Moral Diplomacy

Question 28

The primary system that allowed citizens to directly elect their senators was ratified by the…

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17th Amendment

Question 29

Conservation is the idea that...

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Some wildlife (not all) should be preserved

Question 30

A social system in which the govt owns, controls means of production; distribution of goods

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socialism

Question 31

Taft's policy to protect American trade and invest in Latin America and Asia

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Dollar Diplomacy

Question 32

An organization formed in the 1890s and urged African Americans to protest racial violence.

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NAACP

Question 33

You should be able to identify excerpts from Jane Addams' Twenty Years at Hull House.

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True

Question 34

The idea that always buying more and different items is beneficial for the economy.

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consumerism

Question 35

Amendment to the US Constitution: banned manufacture, sell, possession, consumption of alcohol.

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18

Question 36

Act that controlled the max number of people who could enter the US from each foreign country.

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Immigration Quota

Question 37

When wages and conditions are negotiated by a group instead of an individual.

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collective bargaining

Question 38

You should be able to identify excerpts from Andrew Carnegie's The Gospel of Wealth.

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True

Question 39

Prejudice based upon race, ethnicity, or religious bg of those not originally from the country.

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Nativism

Question 40

Wilson wanted the ____ Act which would substantially reduce tariff rates.

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Underwood

Question 41

You should be able to identify excerpts from W.E.B. Dubois's The Souls of Black Folk.

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True

Question 42

Organized groups that controlled the major happenings within a city.

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Political Machines

Question 43

Kept companies from gaining stock in other companies if it would create a monopoly

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Clayton Anti-Trust

Question 44

This aspect of the Great Depression can be explained by the multiplier effect.

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rising unemployment

Question 45

Roosevelt's strong-arm approach to foreign affairs

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Big Stick Diplomacy

Question 46

This explains how marketing developments convinced people that wants were actually needs.

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excess consumerism

Question 47

A person who decides not to fight in a war on moral grounds is known as a

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conscientious objector

Question 48

You should be able to identify excerpts from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.

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True

Question 49

This act stopped the sale of contaminated foods and medicines and required truthful labeling

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Pure Food and Drug Act

Question 50

Writers who settled thru Europe after souring to the American way of life; growing consumerism.

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The Lost Generation

Question 51

Idea that govt shouldnt interfere w economic affairs; things will naturally sort themselves out

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laissez faire capitalism

Question 52

Which of these is not a synonym for the others?

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credit margin

Question 53

Sacrificing person freedoms for financial, other securities led to an increase in:

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fascism and totalitarianism

Question 54

You should be able to identify excerpts from Booker T. Washington's The Atlanta Exposition.

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True

Question 55

You should be able to identify excerpts from John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.

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True

Question 56

A graduated income tax is one in which…

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those who make more money pay more in taxes

Question 57

Belief that the less fortunate should be helped by those who could do so.

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Social Gospel

Question 58

Amendment to the United States Constitution that essentially ended Temperance.

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21

Question 59

During Palmer Raids, individuals were captured, arrested, & deported if they were suspected:

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all of these

Question 60

A business that does not require employees to join a union.

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open shops

Question 61

Buying goods on credit and the installment plan allowed people to…

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make a small down payment, then monthly payments

Question 62

You should be able to identify excerpts from Ida B. Wells's Crusade for Justice.

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True

Question 63

The complete control over an industry's production, wages, and prices:

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monopoly

Question 64

Idea that wealthy people are wealthy bc they are good; poor people are poor bc they are bad.

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Social Darwinism

American History Mid-Term Exam (US.1-US.59)

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American History Mid-Term Exam (US.1-US.59)

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