What was the Iron Curtain?

The figurative divide between Western and Eastern Europe

Why was the UN formed?

To maintain international peace and security

Why was the Wade-Davis Bill passed?

To set the framework of reconstruction

What was the Ku Klux Klan

A secret society that targets violent and horrific crimes African Americans

What was the homestead act?

160 free acres of land to those who farm it for 5 years

What were Yellow Dog contracts?

Workers are not allowed to join a union as part of their job conditions

What was the Fair Deal?

Reforms that included public housing, federal education aid, civil rights

what was particularily unique about NATO?

It broke the US tradition of not forming permanent European alliances

Nativists were opposed to immigration because...?

they were anti-catholic, immigrants take jobs and weaken Anglo majortiy

Which of these choices is not related to Jane Addams

Did not welcome immigrants into her settlement homes

What did Ida B. Wells do?

Campaigned in newspapers against lynch mobs and Jim Crow laws

What does it mean to "Water Stocks"

Inflating the value of the company then selling stocks

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1
Who succeeded Abraham Lincoln as president
James K. Polk
Andrew Johnson
Rutherford B. Hayes
Ulysses S. Grant
2
Who passed the Marshall plan?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Harry Truman
3
What was the Iron Curtain?
The compete cut of access to Berlin done by USSR
A figurative divide between the US and Europe
Economic aid ( $12 billion over 4 years ) for Europe handed out by the U.S
The figurative divide between Western and Eastern Europe
4
Who created the EPA?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
George H. W. Bush
Theodore Roosevelt
Richard Nixon
5
Why was the UN formed?
To help prevent terrorism in North America
To establish a universal currency
To form a alliance against Japan in WWII
To maintain international peace and security
6
Why was the Wade-Davis Bill passed?
To help the homeless after the Great Depression
To provide aid to veterans after WWI
To take down the Wade and Davis Corporation monopoly
To set the framework of reconstruction
7
What was the 22nd Amendment
Two terms max for president
Alchohol made legal once more
Poll taxes made illegal
Alchohol made illegal
8
What was the Ku Klux Klan
A secret society that targets violent and horrific crimes African Americans
A secret society that targeted white Americans with violent crimes
Conservative political group
Organization that supported rights for African Americans
9
Which of the following was the first attempt to organize workers across the state into a Union?
National Labor Union
Pullman Strike
American Federation of Labor
Knights of Labor
10
What was the homestead act?
high protective tarrifs
160 free acres of land to those who farm it for 5 years
Federal land grants for agricultural/technical colleges (A&M)
the construction of the transcontinental railway
11
For which war was the Truman Doctrine created?
Civil War
WWII
Cold War
WWI
12
What were Yellow Dog contracts?
Judicial action taken by employers to prevent/end a strike
Workers are not allowed to join a union as part of their job conditions
Contracts to close down a factory before a labor movement could start
A shared roster of pro-union worker names so that they could not fnd work
13
What was the Fair Deal?
An increase in taxes in order to afford federal spending
Goverment created programs and public work projects
Reforms that cut taxes and dereuglated big businesses
Reforms that included public housing, federal education aid, civil rights
14
what was particularily unique about NATO?
It broke the US tradition of not forming permanent European alliances
USSR creates Warsaw Pact in response
Eisenhower is first Supreme Commander of NATO
Nothing unique about NATO
15
What occured in the 70s that was the result of 1960s counterculture
Conservative Resurgence
Protesting for social movements increased
Drugs like LSD continued to stay popular among middle class white youth
The Birth Control pill was introduced
16
Which city in Japan became the first ever to be hit with a nuclear bomb?
Kagoshima
Yokohama
Sapporo
Hiroshima
17
Nativists were opposed to immigration because...?
immigrants are biologically inferior
They benefited from competition between workers, feared radical immigrants
they were anti-catholic, immigrants take jobs and weaken Anglo majortiy
They resented employers that used immigrants to depress wages/break strikes
18
Which of these choices is not related to Jane Addams
The Hull house taught English, art, music, theater, basic education
Founded the Hull house
Did not welcome immigrants into her settlement homes
many welathy women would build settlement homes, relieve affects of poverty
19
What happened on Three Mile Island?
A volcanic eruption
A nuclear meltdown
A hurricane
An attack by the Japanese
20
What did Ida B. Wells do?
Strongly spoken blunt advocate against segregation
Ran an agricultural school for Black men to receive an education
Campaigned in newspapers against lynch mobs and Jim Crow laws
Believed African Americans were receiving too many freedoms after Civil War
21
Which Countries formed an alliance with the U.S. during WWII?
All three
The United Kingdom and USSR
The Soviet Union and China
China and UK
22
What does it mean to "Water Stocks"
Commiting fraud
Companies secretly sharing fixed rates and traffic
Giving favored shippers discounts
Inflating the value of the company then selling stocks
23
Which of the following Novels was not a social critique of post-WWII culture
The Lonely Crowd
Catch 22
The Silent Spring
Catcher in the Rye
24
Who did Freedman's Bureau help?
Rich White landowners
Newly unenslaved African Americans
Both
Poor Whites
25
Who was not an Allied Power in WWI
Russia
France
Austria
Great Britian

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