CLEP History of the United States II

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a supreme court decision that did what

Outlawed racially segregated public schools

The aging of the American population at the end of the 20th century was primarily due to

Fertility and mortality rated below their long term average

The American Federation of Labor under the leadership of Samuel Gompers organized what

Skilled workers in craft unions in order to achieve economic gains

At the time President George Bush spoke of building " a new world order" in 1990-91, the most significant international situation confronting him was

The rapid disintegration of Soviet control over Eastern Europe

Between 1890 and 1914, most immigrants to the U.S came from

Southern and Eastern Europe

Which of the following best characterizes the methods of Martin Luther King Jr.?

Nonviolent defiance of segregation

In his interpretation of the historical development of the U.S, Frederick Jackson Turner focused on the importance of

The existence of cheap, unsettled land

Which of the following best describes the agreement that ended the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis?

The Soviet Union agreed to withdraw its missiles from Cuba, and the United States agreed not to invade Cuba

Many Mexicans migrated to the U.S. during the first world war because what

Revolution in Mexico had caused social upheaval and dislocation

The "new immigrants" coming to America from Eastern and Southern Europe during the late nineteenth century were most likely to

Settle in large cities in the Northeast or Midwest

The most significant problem that Ulysses S. Grant faced in office was

His lack of understanding of the nation's problems and his lack of political experience

Which of the following had the greatest effect in moving the United States toward participation in WW1?

Germany's declaration in 1917 of its intent to wage unrestricted submarine warfare

The first labor union to accept African Americans, women, and immigrants was

Knights of Labor

The main idea of Theodore Roosevelt's proposed "New Nationalism" was to

Make the federal government an instrument of domestic reform by regulating big business

Credit Mobilier was an elaborate scheme to

Defraud the stockholders of the Union Pacific Railroad

Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal program contained all of the following except

Support for the creation of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation

The tariff controversy over the Tariff Act of 1883 was significant because

For the first time the two political parties differed sharply on tariff rates

The Haymarket Affair of 1886 involved

A riot between striking workers and police

What is a presentative statement about what Social Darwinists believed

Ruthless competition will winnow out weaker businesses to the benefit of society

Which of the following was a goal of the Populist movement?

Free coinage of silver

During whose administration was the term "detente" first used to describe United States foreign policy

Richard M. Nixon

Which of the following statements is true of the SALT 1 treaty of 1972?

It indicated U.S. acceptance of the concept of Mutual Assured Destruction

A woman's place is in the home was the major cultural message for women during

The twentieth century

All of the following were parts of Andrew Johnson's plan for Reconstruction except

Requiring payment of monetary reparations for the damage caused by the war

Which case approved the consideration of race as one factor in an affirmative action policy

Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

Which of the following words best describes the spirit of American intellectuals in the 1920s?

Alienation

President Gerald Ford gave what reason for pardoning former President Richard Nixon

To avoid the divisiveness that a trial would cause in the nation

In reaction to the arrest of U.S. sailors and a perceived insult to the U.S. flag and in order to hasten the downfall of Mexican leader Victoriano Huerta, in 1914 President Woodrow Wilson

Ordered U.S. forces to occupy the Mexican port city of Vera Cruz

Stagflation in the mid-1970s was characterized by what

Inflation accompanied by a rise in unemployment and flat economic growth

All of the following were part of Woodrow Willson's Fourteen points except

A restoration of the balance of power

The settlement house movement moved beyond its initial work by

Lobbying local government to improve the conditions in which urban immigrants lived and worked

Among the objectives of Booker T. Washington

To encourage blacks to work hard, acquire property, and prove they were worthy of their rights

The Camp David Accords were brokered between Egypt and Israel by which president

Jimmy Carter in 1978

When President Andrew Johnson removed Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton without the approval of the Senate, contrary to the terms of the recently passed Tenure of Office Act, he

He was impeached and came within one vote of being removed from office

The major goal of the deregulation of industry was

to decrease prices

Reagan Democrats were most likely to come from which group of voters

Working-class white men

President Ronald Reagan gained unexpected support in Congress for his economic program of spending cuts from

Conservative Southern Democrats

When the Iran-Contra scandal broke, Ronald Reagan contended that

He knew nothing about it

The largest number of immigrants to come to the U.S. between 1980 and 1989 came from

Mexico

The purpose of the Persian Gulf War was to

Drive the Iraqis out of Kuwait

The major issue that dogged President George H.W. Bush throughout his administration was

The economy

The increasingly urban nature of the U.S. was caused primarily by

Rapid industrialization of the U.S.

Immigrants from which nation were the first targets of specific immigration legislation

China

What Act was used against labor unions

Sherman Antitrust Act

The Supreme Court ruled that the state had the right to regulate publicly owned services that affected the public interest in what case

Munn v. Illnois

The Dawes Act marked a change in policy toward Native Americans by

Ending the practice of negotiating treaties with Native American Nations

What is the significance of the Battle of Wounded Knee

It marked the end of the Plains wars

Who wrote popular dime novels about young men who rose from rags to riches

Horatio Alger

The major area of disagreement between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois centered on what

The means to attain civil rights for African Americans

Plessy v. Ferguson established the principle of

Separate but equal

The theory of conspicuous consumption was developed and applied to the rich in American society by who

Thorstein Veblen

Queen Liluokalani was deposed by

Hawaiian sugar planters

The primary purpose of the Open Door Policy was

To ensure equal access to the China trade for the U.S.

Yellow journalism, the de Lome letter, and the Maine all contributed to what

The Spanish American War

Between 1877 and 1897, the presidency was characterized by

A lack of leadership

The primary reason for U.S.' interest in the Russo-Japanese War was

Concern over any interest Japan had in the Philippines

Which of the following was a decidedly American school of painting

Ash Can

The Federal Reserve System was established in 1913 in an effort to

Control the amount of money in circulation

Reaction to British disregard of U.S. Neutrality at the beginning of the war was muted primarily because

Wilson did not want the Germans to win

Germany's purpose in sending the Zimmerman Telegram was

To inform its minister in Mexico to seek an alliance with Mexico

The first large-scale black nationalist movement was

Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association

President Woodrow Wilson's major mistake in the handling of the Treaty of Versailles was

His unwillingness to include any high-ranking Republicans on the negotiating team

In 1920, women finally gained the right to vote primarily because

It was difficult to deny women the vote after their service in World War I

A "return to normalcy" was the promise of which presidential candidate

Warren G. Harding

Jessie Fauset, Langston Hughes, and James Weldon Johnson were all members of the

Harlem Renaissance

The scopes trial was significant because

It highlighted the tensions between older established value systems and new theories of science

The major foreign policy issue in the 1920s was

Achieving peace

The major theme of serious literature in the 1920s was

Disillusionment with U.S. society

The major flaw in the Kellogg-Briand Pact was

That no provision was made for punishing nations that violated the pact

What was significant of the election of 1928

A shift in the voter base of the two parties was apparent

The primary cause of the stock market crash of 1929 was

Speculation

The primary reason that Prohibition did not succeed was because

Many Americans did not believe in prohibition

The flapper has become a stereotype of what

The 1920s. They influenced women's fashions and hair styles

Why did President Herbert Hoover reject any federal intervention to help individuals during the Depression

He felt federal assistance would sap people's initiative and self-respect

The Roosevelt Corollary was an expansion of the ideas put forth in the

Monroe Doctrine

Who proposed to President Roosevelt that cutting taxes, lowering interest rates, and increasing government spending would result in increased spending/investment by the general public and businesses

John Maynard Keynes

The goal of the National Recovery Administration (NRA) was

To restrict business competition and hold down production

The least least likely to benefit from Social Security when it was established were African Americans because

The law did not cover domestics and tenant farmers

The New Deal did little to help African Americans because

Roosevelt found it difficult to get around conservative Southern Democrats in Congress

The Nye Commission determined that

The munitions industry and banking interests had propelled the U.S. into World War I

What novel is a compassionate and empathetic portrayal of people caught in the Depression

Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The major goal of Huey Long was

The redistribution of wealth among Americans

In "Korematsu v. U.S.", the Supreme Court upheld the right of

The government to detain, relocate, and inter Japanese American citizens as a national security measure

Franklin Roosevelt signed an Executive Order to end discrimination in wartime industries, because

A. Philip Randolph threatened a huge march on Washington to protest discriminatory hiring practices

The experience of women who joined the labor force in WWI and in WWII was that

When the war was over, women lost their jobs to returning servicemen

A major problem that occurred with reconversion that Truman turned to his benefit in the election of 1948 was

Inflation and price controls

What was enacted as a direct result of the labor strikes in 1947

Taft-Hartley Act

Industrial development in Western Europe after WWII grew dramatically primarily as a result of

Marshall Plan

The Korean and Vietnam Wars were similar in that

American support for the war shifted as the wars dragged on

Americans' fear that Communists and fellow travelers were infiltrating the U.S. government was a direct consequence of what

Allegations of Senator Joseph McCarthy

The leading proponent of abstract expressionism was

Jackson Pollock

The Beat poets took some of their inspiration from what

Jazz

What began the drive to end segregation in the South

The Montgomery Bus Boycott

A direct consequence of the Russian launching of Sputnik was

A new emphasis on academic achievement and quality education

The 1960 election between Kennedy and Nixon was most affected by what

TV

"The Feminine Mystique" was significant because it

Gave voice to middle-class women's discontent with their lives

The election of 1964 was significant, because voters

Gave Johnson a mandate for the Great Society

A direct consequence of the Immigration Act of 1965 was

A sharp rise in the number of immigrants from Asia and Latin America

What pulled the plug on President Johnson's Great Society

The Vietnam War

The person most likely to join the counterculture was a

Middle-class white person of college age