U.S in a global perspective -Varghese Final

Gilded Age American Imperialism World War I 1920s World War II Civil Rights Race and the late 20th Century

The readings for the Gilded Age included

Gould’s Mismeasure of Man

The topics fir the Gilded Age covered

Social Darwinism

The term "Gilded Age" most accurately refers to 

Abundant wealth masking social inequities and corruption

Darwin's On the Origin of Species was published in 1859 and impacted Americans 

in the 1870s

true/false Charles Darwin applied his principles of evolution to society and popularized the idea of survival of the fittest. 

False

"Indian removal" had been a long part of federal Indian policy. After the Civil War, American feelings about Indian removal largely 

intensified

California's agricultural and railroad industries benefited from a form of slave labor performed by 

Native Americans

In his 4th chapter, Stephen J. Gould discusses which two ideas related to evolutionary theory?

recapitulation and criminal anthropology

According to Gould, Rudyard Kipling defended 

White Supremacy

The Chinese Exclusion Act was in effect from 

1882-1943

What movement in Asia sought to restrict entrepreneurial and religious interests? 

The Boxer Rebellion

Where in Cuba did Mckinley order a ship to dock?

Havana

"The big stick" is associated with whom?

Theodore Roosevelt

Between 1870 and 1920, about how many immigrants arrived in the US?

25,000,000

Who dubbed the Greenwood District of Tulsa, OK as the "Black Wall Street"?

Booker T. Washington

Which black intellectual produced a collection of works by black artists during the Harlem Renaissance?

Alain Locke

Which of the following is credited with the resurgence of the KKK in the early 20th century?

Lynching of Leo Frank and the release of Birth of a Nation

True/False A stock market crash did not solely cause the Great Depression

True

The National Recovery Administration did all of the follow except

limited unionization

Hitler's Nationalist Socialists arose after the collapse of which regime? 

Weimar Republic

Which fascist first emerged into power during the second decade of the twentieth century?

Benito Mussolini

true/false World War II ended after Germany was defeated by allied forces. 

False

The message that the U.S. received denouncing Russia's efforts to spread communism was

The Long Telegram

True/False The Cold War pitted communism against capitalism

true

How did federal housing programs discriminate against Americans of color?

Redlining neighborhoods that included Americans of color

Claiming that Americans of color were at a greater risk of defaulting on FHA loans

Creating self-fulfilling prophecies that racially integrated neighborhoods would have depreciating home values

All of the above

All of the above

The Civil Rights Movement combined which two ideals in the freedom struggle?

Democratic ideals and biblical imagery

What was the result of Brown v. Board of Education?

All of the above

Extended the reach of the Fourteenth Amendment 

Overturned the legal logic of Plessy v. Ferguson

Ruled against segregated public schoo

All of the above

The U.S. policy of containment applied to what context?

The Cold War

Jackson Pollock was an artistic example of

American Expressionism

What happened to the monolith of American culture in the fifties and sixties as white, male-dominated, conservative, and stifling?

It was attacked.

What did the Kerner Commission reveal?

Black frustration with the hopelessness of poverty prompted urban unrest

The Civil Rights Act (1964) and the Voting Rights Act (1965) effectively were

The preconditions for social and political equality

True/false New York Times columnist James Reston's prediction that Goldwater had "wrecked his party for a long time to come" proved to be true. 

Think twice about the logic of this question

False

True/false Increasing racial diversity often occurred in American through a individualistic framework.

true