United States History 2 Final

Chester Arthur

Who was the collector of the Port of New York before the Election of 1880?

Cochise

Which of these does not belong? (Cochise, Crazy Horse, Colonel Custer, Little Big Horn)

Sand Creek

While thinking they were safe, where were Black Kettle and his group killed by Colonel J.M. Chivington?

Little Crow

Who was the Sioux Indian who led a massacre of 700 whites during the Civil War?

Sherman Antitrust Act

What was the name of the law that was passed in 1890 that essentially broke up monopolies?

Governor of New York

What was the first political office Theodore Roosevelt won after returning from the Spanish-American War a war hero?

Leon Czolgosz

Who assassinated McKinley?

Secret Service

What group was tasked with protecting the president after William McKinley was assassinated?

Senator

Which of these cannot be attributed to Theodore Roosevelt?

Woodrow Wilson

Who was the president of the U.S. during WWI?

Bolshevik Revolution

Which of these was not one of the reasons the US got involved in WWI?

John J. Pershing

Who commanded the American Expeditionary Force during WWI?

Wore pants

Which of these was not one of the things women of the 1920s did to be rebellious?

Comic books

Which of these was not one of the forms of entertainment from the 1930s discussed in class?

True

T/F: The Homestead Act gave 160 acres of land to farmers if they would occupy and improve it for five years.

True

T/F: Denver was a boomtown.

False

T/F: James Garfield signed the Pendleton Act, ensuring reform of the political practice of patronage.

True

T/F: Chief Joseph was the Nez Perce leader who almost made it to the Canadian border.

True

T/F: The father of Marxism is Karl Marx.

False

T/F: Benjamin Harrison is the first US president to be elected to non-consecutive terms.

True

T/F: The King of England and t he Kaiser of Germany during WWI were first cousins.

True

T/F: Woodrow Wilson said Americans should “remain impartial in thought as well as deed” at the beginning of WWI.

False

T/F: The sinking of the Lusitania marked the beginning of WWI.

True

T/F: The US came in on the side of the Triple Entente in WWI.

True

T/F: American’s attitude towards charity began to change in the 1930s.

Stalwart

Stalwart of Half-breed: Roscoe Conkling

Stalwart

S or H: Chester Arthur

Half-breed

S or H: James Garfield

Stalwart

S or H: Ulysses Grant

Half-breed

S or H: John Sherman

Steel

Andrew Carnagie’s industry?

Oil

John D. Rockefeller’s industry?

Bank/finance

J.P. Morgan’s industry?

Andrew Carnegie

True rags to riches story?

John D. Rockefeller

Baptist Sunday School teacher?

J.P. Morgan

Bought the steel empire built by another Titan?

Wovoka

Paitue responsible for the Ghost Dance?

Black Kettle

Cheyenne who went to Fort Lyon seeking peace?

Geronimo

Apache who was on the run for 15 years before being captured?

Sitting Bull

Sioux leader at Little Bighorn?

Red Cloud

Sioux who terrorized workers on the Bozeman Trail?

1. Blacks got suffrage (the right to vote)

2. Spanish-American War

3. WWI

4. Prohibition (start)

5. Great Depression

6. WWII

7. Korean War

8. Vietnam War (US gets involved)

9. Berlin Wall dismantled

10. Persian Gulf War

Memorize the order of these events!!!

Tenure of Office Act

What was the name of the law (act) Andrew Johnson broke that led to his impeachment?

• To farm

• To ranch/cattle

• To find gold

List the three main reasons people moved west.

• Surface mining

• Underground mining

• Farmers and ranchers move in

List (in order) the steps to the cycle of a boomtown.

Hayes

Who became president as a result of the Compromise of 1877?

Removal of troops

What was the South given as a result of the Compromise of 1877?

Patronage

What issue separated the Stalwarts and the Half-breeds within the Republican Party in the 1880s?

Grant

Who did Roscoe Conkling want to be president in 1880?

Garfield

Who gave the nomination speech for John Sherman at the National Republican Convention in 1880?

Socialism

What is the step between capitalism and communism that usually sets up a dangerous infrastructure?

Rough Riders

What was the nickname of the group within the Army that Theodore Roosevelt joined when he signed up to fight in the Spanish American War?

Big military

When Theodore Roosevelt said, “speak softly and carry a big stick,” what was the big stick he was referring to?

Taft

Who did Theodore Roosevelt want to succeed him as president (they were very good friends at the time)?

Bull-Moose

What was the name of the political party founded by Theodore Roosevelt in 1912?

Triple Entente and Triple Alliance

What were the names of the two alliances formed before WWI that brought most of Europe into what could have been just a regional conflict but ended up being a world war?

• France

• US

• Italy

• UK

Who were the four major Allied powers (countries) that met at the Paris Peace Conference to end WWI?

Reperations

What word describes the money a losing party in a war must pay to the winning side?

Treaty of Versailles

What was the name of the treaty the Allied Powers negotiated with Germany?

ACLU

What organization offered free representation to any teacher in Tennessee who was willing to defy the new law that only Creation should be taught?

“Okies”

What was the nickname given to the people who moved from the Dust Bowl to California in search of work and a better life?

Speculatives

What kind of market was the stock market experiencing in the run up to the crash in 1929?

• Stock Market Crash

• Dust Bowl

• Loss of jobs

Besides Europe owing us money from WWI, name 3 causes of the Great Depression.

John J. Pershing and George Washington

What two men received the rank of “General of the Armies” (the equivalent of 6 stars)?

Polio

What disease caused FDR’s paralysis?

MacArthur

Whose fault was it that the airplanes were “sitting like ducks on the runway” in the Philippines ten hours after Pear Harbor?

Hawaii

Which of these territories did not fall to the Japanese in the weeks following the bombing of Pearl Harbor?

Corregidor

What is the name of the island General Wainwright surrendered to the Japanese in May 1942 (located at the entrance to Manila Bay)?

Doolittle Raid

What was the U.S.’s response to the Japanese for Pearl Harbor?

Normandy

Which battle is the largest amphibious landing in history?

Coral Sea

Which battle was the first battle in history where the naval vessels for each side did not see each other?

Stalin

Which of these does not belong? (Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Hirohito)

Tehran

Which conference was the one that Stalin first attended?

6 million

How many Jews died in the Holocaust?

Sacrifice of fire & completely burnt

What does the word “holocaust” literally mean?

False

T/F: Germany and Italy invaded Poland at the beginning of WWII>

True

T/F: MAGIC was the codeword used for the operation to crack the Japanese code early in the war in the Pacific.

True

T/F: The US would crack enough of the code to be prepared when the Japanese attacked Midway.

False

T/F: Churchill was disappointed when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.

True

T/F: Hitler’s two strategic mistakes were declaring war on the US and invading Russia.

False

T/F: The Japanese first used kamikaze planes at Leyte Gulf.

False

T/F: The feint used by the Allies to convince Hitler that they were coming to Calais instead of Normandy did not work.

True

T/F: The last German offensive of the war was at the Battle of the Bulge.

False

T/F: FDR said, “This was their finest hour.”

SEC (securities and exchange commission)

What agency policed the stock market?

AAA (agricultural adjustment act)

What agency dealt with farm subsidies?

NRA (national recovery administration)

What agency made minimum wages, 35-40 hour work weeks, and abolition of child labor?

CCC (civilian conservation corps)

Which agency dealt with young men working in national parks, forests, and wilderness settings?

Farmer’s Holiday Association

Which agency organized the farmer’s strike?

Hitler

Leader of Germany?

Hirohito

Leader of Japan?

Mussolini

Leader of Italy?

FDR

Leader of USA?

Churchill

Leader of Britain?

Stalin

Leader of Russia?

Chiang Kai-shek

Leader of China?

Wainwright

W or M: Surrendered Corregidor

Wainwright

W or M: Was the highest-ranking US POW in WWII

MacArthur

W or M: Signed the Unconditional surrender form Japan

MacArthur

W or M: Removed from the Philippines to Australia by FDR