US History 2 Peterson's Clep Study Set

African Americans should be given the major positions in state governments.

What were the competing theories about Reconstruction?

Lack of sufficient annual rainfall in certain areas of the Plains to grow crops.

What was a serious drawback for families that took advantage of the Homestead Act?

An increase in the number of federal employees.

What resulted from public support for civil service reform?

Realism.

What artistic movement is associated with the quote about Tom Eakins?

Factory life in the Northeast.

What subject would local colorists NOT have written about?

Farmers voluntarily took land out of production to keep prices high.

What is true about farming in the late nineteenth century?

Looking Backward.

Which novel is set in an ideal socialist society?

To turn Plains Native Americans into farmers.

What was the goal of the Dawes Act?

Movies.

What was NOT part of popular entertainment in the last decades of the nineteenth century?

Both came from states with little political clout.

What was similar about the candidacies of Barry Goldwater and George McGovern?

Port Huron Statement.

What was the declaration of goals of the SDS?

President Nixon's complicity in the cover-up.

What was the issue underlying the Watergate scandal?

Carter's personal integrity.

What was the single most important factor in the election of Jimmy Carter in 1976?

The United States withdrew aid from the apartheid government of South Africa.

What consequence did President Carter's belief in human rights have?

Dealing with the economic fallout from the energy crisis created by OPEC.

What was President Carter's greatest economic challenge?

Deregulating industry.

What area of domestic policy did Presidents Nixon and Carter have in common?

An anti-ERA rally.

Where would Phyllis Schlafly most likely have appeared?

Drug abuse and laziness.

What did conservatives see as a direct consequence of the 'permanent underclass'?

Conformity.

What characteristic defined the 1950s?

John D. Rockefeller.

Who used business practices such as trusts and rebates to build Standard Oil?

The effect of DDT.

What was the greatest concern of Western environmentalists in the 1970s and 1980s?

The Soviets considered Reagan's Star Wars program to be offensive weaponry.

What caused relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union to suffer during the Reagan administration?

Passage of the Parental Leave Act.

What is NOT a result of the women's movement of the second half of the twentieth century?

Roe v. Wade.

What are examples of the influence of conservatives on American society?

The stable budget for entitlements.

What created the recession that President George H.W. Bush had to deal with?

Reshaping the federal courts along more conservative lines.

What area of domestic policy were Reagan's and George H.W. Bush's administrations most successful in?

He went back on his promise of no new taxes.

Why did President George H.W. Bush lose support among conservatives?

Traditional ideas of 'women's jobs' and 'men's jobs' had broken down.

What is true about the role of women in U.S. society by the 1990s?

Movement of African Americans from the South to the North.

What does the term 'Great Migration' refer to?

Income tax cuts.

What is NOT an example of the liberal tradition in U.S. society?

The Supreme Court upheld the right of states to regulate privately owned services that affected the public.

What was significant about Munn v. Illinois?

Abortion rights groups.

Which group did NOT follow Martin Luther King's philosophy of nonviolence?

Passage of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act.

What resulted from the Depression of 1893?

Members of the Populist Party.

What does the quote about labor and gold refer to?

Ida B. Wells.

Who campaigned against lynching in the South?

Andrew Carnegie.

Who is most likely to agree with Herbert Spencer?

Frank Lloyd Wright.

Who was the architect associated with the prairie style?

A counterbalance in a strong reform movement.

What was notable about the so-called Gilded Age?

Support for the Panamanian revolt against Colombia.

What are examples of U.S. assertiveness in foreign affairs in the 1890s?

Building colleges that conferred degrees in the applied sciences.

How did higher education respond to changes in society in the late 1800s?

Most new immigrants stayed in cities, whereas old immigrants became farmers.

What was a major difference between new immigrants and old immigrants?

The U.S. was looking for way stations for its merchant ships and the U.S. navy on the routes to and from East Asia.

What best describes the United States' interest in the Pacific in the late nineteenth century?

The way African Americans could make a place for themselves in American society.

What was the major difference between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois?

Theodore Roosevelt.

Which president is most closely associated with the breakup of business trusts?

Cuba.

Which country's independence was affected by the Platt Amendments?

The legal, economic, and social restrictions placed on African Americans in the South.

"Jim Crow" was a term used to describe what?

Haymarket Riot.

What severely damaged the reputation of the Knights of Labor?

Bryan was more conservative than McKinley.

What is NOT a correct statement about the election of 1896?

Because the major parties took over much of the agenda of the Populists.

What was the main reason the Populist Party declined?

A local party organization that controlled city politics

What best describes the political machine?

It decreased settlement in the West

What was an effect of the transcontinental railroad?

Eliminating political corruption

What was a key goal of the Progressive movement?

18th Amendment

Which amendment prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcohol?

The Russian Revolution

What contributed to the U.S. entering World War I?

To regulate the nation's money supply and banking

What best describes the purpose of the Federal Reserve System?

Women

Which group gained the right to vote under the Nineteenth Amendment?

A cultural movement celebrating African American artistic achievements

What best describes the Harlem Renaissance?

Stock market speculation and bank failures

What led to the Great Depression?

Relief, Recovery, and Reform

What did the New Deal focus primarily on?

Pensions for the elderly

What was a result of the Social Security Act of 1935?

To provide military aid to Allies before the U.S. entered WWII

What was the main goal of the Lend-Lease Act?

The atomic bomb

What did the Manhattan Project produce?

Invading the Soviet Union

What was part of the United States' strategy in the Pacific during WWII?

Yalta Conference

What conference planned the postwar division of Germany?

Economic aid to rebuild Western Europe after WWII

What best describes the Marshall Plan?

Ideological differences between the U.S. and the USSR

What was a key cause of the Cold War?

It pledged U.S. support to countries resisting communism

What is true of the Truman Doctrine?

Provide collective security against Soviet aggression

What was the purpose of NATO?

A conflict between communist North Korea and democratic South Korea

What best describes the Korean War?

Accusations of communism ruined many careers

What was the impact of McCarthyism?

Affordable housing and the automobile

What contributed most to the suburban boom of the 1950s?

Segregation and racial discrimination

What was a major cause of the Civil Rights Movement?

Declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional

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

Prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do?

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

What led to U.S. involvement in Vietnam?

Medicare and Medicaid

What was a key feature of the Great Society?

A political scandal involving President Nixon's cover-up of illegal activities

What best describes the Watergate scandal?

Rising oil prices

What was a major factor in the economic stagflation of the 1970s?

They focused on tax cuts and deregulation

What is true of the Reagan administration's economic policies?

The collapse of the Soviet Union

What led to the end of the Cold War?

A trade agreement between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico

What best describes NAFTA?

It was caused by a housing market collapse and risky banking practices

What is true of the 2008 financial crisis?

Health care reform aimed at expanding coverage

What best describes the Affordable Care Act?

The attack on Pearl Harbor

What event sparked U.S. involvement in WWII?

It was the first televised debate; Kennedy narrowly won

What was the outcome of the 1960 presidential election?

Many worked in factories and served in auxiliary military roles

What was the role of women during WWII?

The U.S. withdrew and South Vietnam fell to communism

What was the outcome of the Vietnam War?

Relaxation of tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union

What best describes the policy of détente?

Provided education and housing benefits to returning veterans

What was the impact of the GI Bill?

Televised congressional hearings that exposed the Nixon administration

What best describes the Watergate hearings?

U.S. embassy personnel held for 444 days in Tehran

What best describes the Iran Hostage Crisis?

It fueled technological advancement and competition with the USSR

What was the impact of the space race?

Created a climate of fear and suspicion

What was the impact of McCarthyism on politics?

Increased demand for schools, housing, and consumer goods

What was the impact of the baby boom?

Successful civil rights protest led by Martin Luther King Jr.

What was the impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Prohibited discrimination in housing

What was the impact of the Civil Rights Act of 1968?

Many young men were conscripted into military service

What was the Vietnam War draft?

Legalized abortion nationwide

What was the impact of Roe v. Wade?

Led to U.S. global dominance and reduced military tension

What was the impact of the end of the Cold War?

Expanded government surveillance powers

What best describes the impact of the Patriot Act?