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