HY 136 Final Exam Review

The 1887 Dawes Act

The top-secret program - American scientists developed an atomic bomb during WWII was called the Manhattan Project.

Upon taking office in 1921, Warren G. Harding promised a return to

"Stagflation" refers to

By 1913, the United States produced how much of the world's industrial output?

The Marshall Plan proved to be one of the most successful foreign aid programs in history.

The Progressive era was a time of

The Civil Works Administration (CWA) employed more than 4 million people in

Henry Ford's factory adopted a method of production known as

A major success for Germany and its allies during World War II was

Woodrow Wilson authorized more military interventions into Latin America than any other president in American history

American agriculture slid into economic depression years before the stock market crash of 1929.

The Cold War suddenly turned hot in June 1950 in these regions.

Which of the following describes Rosa Parks in the years prior to her December 1, 1955, arrest?

The 1964 voter registration drive in Mississippi, in which hundreds of white college students from the North participate

The Platt Amendment authorized the United States to intervene militarily in Cuba whenever it saw fit.

The collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and eastern Europe occurred during what years?

Which of the following is true of Franklin D. Roosevelt?

How low was the unemployment rate by 2018?

The stock market boom of the late 1990s was fueled in part by high-level corporate fraud.

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's goals included 

Franklin Delano Roosevelt's foreign policy regarding Latin American countries was called

The Foraker Act declared Puerto Rico an "insular territory," meaning it was different from previous territories in West.

The "splendid little war" of 1898 was

The American Federation of Labor mainly represented unskilled industrial workers.

"Containment" in the context of post-World War II international diplomacy on the part of the United States referred to

The immigrants facing the harshest reception in late-nineteenth-century America were those arriving from

President Herbert Hoover's 1932 Reconstruction Finance Corporation did which of the following?

The US historically has had a much better system of unemployment insurance than nations in western Europe.

Dwight Eisenhower entered the presidency determined to dismantle the New Deal.

Who won the Cold War?

In August 1961, the Berlin Wall was erected

Roosevelt declined to assert U.S. authority over the Canal Zone until the citizens of Panama had a chance to vote

The landmark U.S. Supreme Court case - the "Warren Court" unanimously asserted that segregation violated the 14th. amend

The Sixteenth Amendment made the income tax constitutional.

What was the outcome of the 2018 congressional midterm elections?

Which of the following was created by the Social Security Act of 1935, launching the modern American welfare state?

In 1973, long lines of cars appeared at American gas stations, because of

Which of the following influenced Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1950s leadership of the civil rights movement?

June 6, 1944, nearly 200,000 American, British, and Canadian soldiers landed in Normandy, in NW France, is known as

All three were amendments to the U.S. Constitution guarantee to former slaves shortly after the Civil War EXCEPT?

In the era from 1870 to 1890, the label "the Gilded Age" originally derived from

A major success for Germany and its allies during World War II was

In the 1944 case of Korematsu v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that

The US entered WWI in April of 1917 only after Germany resumed submarine warfare against its ships in the Atlantic and

During the Progressive era, economic production shifted from capital goods to

Which of the following was a feature of suburban married life during the 1950s?

Which of the following was a military technology used during World War I?

Broadcasted sermons & traveled the country as a revivalist preacher - International Church of the Foursquare Gospel.

How did President Trump respond to the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)?

The Truman Doctrine in March 1947

The idea of a romanticized version of slavery in the Old South, focusing on the Confederate experience, was called

The US emerged from WWII as the world's greatest power; it had the world's most powerful navy and air force.

A leading characterization of U.S. foreign policy in the early twentieth century was

In 1947, HUAC launched hearings into comin consequence, actors, directors, and screenwriters were blacklisted or jailed.

The terrorist organization responsible for the attacks of September 11, 2001, that killed nearly 3,000 Americans

President Theodore Roosevelt's reform program was called the

The "Open Door" Policy refers to

In 2000, the largest employer in America was

During the 1970s, the divorce rate soared; by 1975, it was twice what it had been a decade earlier.

Which U.S. president first spoke of the coming of a "new world order"?

One goal of the Carter administration was

Twenty million people world-wide were killed by the flu (epidemic of influenza) at the end of World War I.

With the mechanization of manufacture, skilled workers virtually disappeared from industrial America.

American presidents during the Gilded Age exerted strong, effective, executive leadership.

In 1971, the NY Times began publishing this report on Vietnam and how successive presidents had misled the people.

One of the main purposes of the Freedmen's Bureau was to

The "white man's burden" was a way of saying that non-white people ruled over white people in many areas globally.

The Reconstruction amendments to the U.S. Constitution helped to create

The vibrant black culture in 1920s NYC that included poets and novelists Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, was called:

The mass extinction of "undesirable" peoples--Slavs, Gypsies, homosexuals, and, above all, Jews--that Hitler undertook

In the 2000 election, George W. Bush won the popular vote, but lost the electoral vote to Al Gore.

The KKK was founded in 1866 as a secret society and served, in effect, as a military arm of the Democratic Party.

Which of the following was a focus of President Johnson's Great Society program?

The Iranian revolution impacted the public's view of Carter. After hostages were taken captive but were released