HIST 222 - Final Exam

Chapters 21-27

Which group of workers increased most dramatically from 1910 to 1930?

White-collar laborers

The 1920s gave rise to a new spectator sport with the organization of the

National Football League

Attendance at American colleges and universities between 1899 and 1929 was

All of the above

Which writer's book created the term and concept of the "New Negro"?

Booker T. Washington

What was Henry Ford known for?

Pioneering mass production

How did big business encourage Americans to define life?

Through the pursuit of pleasure

What did both Hoover and Coolidge advocate?

Reduced government spending

Which was an aspect of the nativist effort?

Advocating congressional imposition of quotas for immigrants

Which of the following was __***not***__ one of the crucial ingredients to the nation's economic growth in the 1920s?

The coal industry

How did Gertrude Stein characterize her fellow writers in the 1920s?

“A Lost Generation”

What did women generally earn?

About half as much as men

Margaret Sanger is remembered for

coining the term “birth control”

Which of the following describes the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s?

It attempted to impose its interpretation of morality through force and intimidation.

What did the Republican ascendancy of the 1920s mean politically?

The return to an older vision of small government

As late as 1928, only 4 of 10 Americans made more than

$2,000 a year

Following the election of 1936, the

Democrats controlled both houses of Congress

To secure the soundness of the banking system, Roosevelt did all of the following __***except***__

Veto the Glass-Stegall Banking Act

The National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)

reversed decades of antitrust legislation

The effects of the crash of the New York Stock Exchange

triggered a global depression

FDR believed that farmers

saw an imbalance between city and country as a cause of the Depression

William Randolph Hearst disliked the New Deal because it was

becoming too radical

Some Americans joined the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) in the 1930s because it

defended the Scottsboro Boys

President Hoover was true to his Republican values, believing that the federal government should

All of the above

Between 1929 and 1933, the combined incomes of American workers

fell by more than 40 percent

The New Deal touched

All of the above

The most prominent female reformer associated with the New Deal was

Eleanor Roosevelt

By 1930, newer industries that fueled the US economy included all of the following __***except***__

Coal

The Supreme Court's decision in *Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States*

made it difficult for Congress to regulate the national economy

By the election of 1936, the nation’s economy

was recovering

The New Deal

All of the above

Whereas Admiral Nimitz wanted to seize islands in the Central Pacific for an air and land assault on Japan, General MacArthur favored

retaking the Philippines from the Solomon Islands and New Guinea

Which of the following best describes the position of internationalists in 1939?

They saw free trade as a solution to international conflict

D-Day, the Allied invasion of France, was

June 6, 1944

In the months leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,

the United States cut off oil exports to Japan

The need for civilian workers in war production resulted in all of the following __***except***__

increased labor violence

The Axis Powers included all of the following __***except***__

Russia

*Korematsu v. United States*

Upheld internment

"Rosie the Riveter" was a(n)

image of a glamorous machinist who labored in American industry during World War II

The Manhattan Project

produced the atomic bomb

Which of the following statements refers to the Lend-Lease bill?

it provided massive military aid to Great Britain and the Soviet Union

If white Americans did not know what they were fighting the war for, they knew what they fighting against. That list included all of the following __***except***__

Racism

In the late 1930s, many Americans blamed the beginning of World War II on which of the following?

All of the above

President Harry S. Truman ordered the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

to force Japan to surrender

All of the following refer to the German death camps in World War II __***except***__

FDR ordered the bombing of the notorious death camp at Auschwitz

The battles of Midway and Coral Sea

All of the above