HIST 2112 Study

The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Muller v. Oregon:

Made it legal for states to set maximum-hour legislation for women.

Margaret Sanger fought against:

Laws that made contraceptive devices illegal.

The garment-workers’ strike in 1912 in Lawrence, Massachusetts:

Was settled on terms favorable to the workers.

Jane Addams believed that:

She could help the poor by moving into poor neighborhoods.

"Fordism":

Was the idea that the economic system should be based on mass production and mass consumption.

The Federal Reserve System:

All of the above

The Roosevelt Corollary:

All of the above

The sinking of the Lusitania:

Helped the cause of Americans who wanted the US to enter the Europeans

Wilson’s Fourteen Points:

(Stated American war aims and Led to the creation of the League of Nations)

A and B are correct / If answers 1 and 2 are correct, and answers 3 and 4 are not, then answer 5 is the correct answer.

The Great Migration did not (repeat, DID NOT):

Force ethnic Germans into internment camps

W.E.B. Du Bois:

Helped build the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

The goal of "Americanization" programs was to:

Create a more unified, homogenous national culture

The War Industries Board did NOT (repeat, DID NOT):

Press for better working conditions for American labor.

The Equal Rights Amendment, as passed by Congress:

Guaranteed equal rights for women

The Scopes Trial became a nationally celebrated confrontation between the ideal of
______ and the ideals of Protestant fundamentalism

Modern theology and Evolution

In the Election of 1928, Herbert Hoover:

Easily defeated Al Smith and Won the Catholic vote.

The Harlem Renaissance referred to

A movement in Black literature, art, and music

The Immigration Act of 1924:

Was based on pseudo-scientific assumptions about the superiority and inferiority of particular races

"Welfare Capitalism"

Was the idea that capitalist leaders would uphold the well-being of the American people

This legislation prevented many banking practices that had contributed to the stock market crash of 1929:

The Glass-Steagall Act

What was the main purpose of the Agricultural Adjustment Act?

Improving agricultural prices

The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934:

Gave American Indian tribes the right to govern their own affairs

Which of the following is NOT (repeat, NOT) true about Huey Long?

He used his power to decrease the tax burden on Louisiana's oil companies

Franklin Roosevelt's plan to add justices to the U.S. Supreme Court.

All of the Above

The Scottsboro Case:

Went to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that defendants had a constitutional right to effective legal representation.

The U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding this case established the legal principle that states cannot exclude blacks from juries:

Norris v Alabama

The Tennessee Valley Authority:

All of the above

Which group was most likely to be in the Progressive movement:

Urban Professionals

"Reform" in 20th-Century U.S. politics meant:

Changing the democratic-capitalist system in order to save it

To illustrate the meaning of "reform," Professor Flamming drew picture of this in class

A pie

Mainstream Progressives were primarily concerned with what kind of problems?

Those caused by rapid urban-industrial growth

Teddy Roosevelt did not run for president in 1908 because

He wanted to hunt big-game animals around the world

This man was NOT a candidate for president in 1912:

William Jennings Bryant

How did Wilson win the election of 1912?

Taft and Roosevelt split the Republican vote

What did Theodore Roosevelt mean by "New Nationalism"?

Big Business was here permanently, so America needed Big Government to be permanent as well.

Regardless of Woodrow Wilson's campaign slogans, his actual policies as President in his first term reflected which set of ideas?

The New Nationalism

Which word best describes Woodrow Wilson's campaign platform for re-election in 1916:

Peace

During the First Great Migration:

Black southerners moved to the North in large numbers

After the Treaty of Versailles was signed in Paris in 1919:

The U.S. Senate refused to ratify the Treaty

Professor Flamming made the argument that Wilson's 14 Points represented:

Wilson's efforts to spread Progressivism to the rest of the globe

Which of the following led to a sense of American disillusionment in 1919:

All of the above

The woman suffrage movement was divided between these two factions:

States' Rights women vs. National Amendment women

When it came to woman suffrage, this American president unexpectedly came out in favor of a national amendment, therefore inspiring its passage by Congress:

Wilson

This state's approval of the woman suffrage amendment completed the ratification of the 19th Amendment

Tennessee

In the 1932 presidential campaign:

Roosevelt won easily on vague promises.

Franklin Roosevelt's "First 100 Days":

Saw an unprecedented number of bills become law

What did 1930s liberals mean by the term "welfare state"?

The Federal Government must ensure the common welfare of the nation

"Big Labor" in the 1930s

Soared into power after the passage of the Wagner Act

The Social Security Act was passed early in the "First 100 Days" because:

The premise is false; the Social Security Act was passed during the “Second” New Deal.

The "Conservative Coalition" in Congress:

Slowed passage of New Deal reforms during the late 1930s

Which of the following became law during the "Second” New Deal:

The Wagner Act

Phase One of the New Deal Political Realignment (1932) included

A new mobilization of white working class voters moving into the Democratic Party.

Phase Two of the New Deal Political Realignment (1936) included:

A shift of African American voters into the Democratic Party

One result of the New Deal Political Realignment was:

A gradual movement by the government in favor of racial liberalism

Eleanor Roosevelt:

All of the above

The Congressional elections of 1932

Brought many liberals into Congress who wanted the New Deal to do more

After FDR contracted polio:

All of the above

The War Industries Board did NOT (repeat, DID NOT):

Press for better working conditions for American labor.

In the first phase of the New Deal political realignment:

The white working class became mobilized in favor of the Democratic Party

In the second phase of the New Deal political realignment:

African Americans converted from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party

What happened at Georgia Tech in World War II?

Tech hosted other military training programs during WWII with ROTC; keeping college enrollment up during the war but had specialized programs to channel technically trained men to the military; military members came to Tech and campus became a military camp; Brittain was converted to a military mess hall; an industry keyed to its highest pitch of wartime production; temporary barracks around campus