American History

What helped American industry grow in the second half of the nineteenth century? (1860-1900)

transportation systems, natural resources, immigration, and business leaders

Henry Flagler, the industrialist that Flagler College in St. Augustine, FL is named after, worked in what industry? ((1860-1900)

Oil

The rise of an industrial society led to the rapid growth of which class? (1860-1900)

Middle Class

Robber barons [industrialists that were ruthless/unethical] included.... (1860-1900)

Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan, and Vanderbilt

Eugene V. Debs founded the...(1860-1900)

American Railway Union

Major strikes in the latter nineteenth century included...(1860-1900)

Great Railroad Strike, Homestead Steel Strike, and the Pullman Strike

The Pullman Strike was a strike in which industry? (1860-1900)

Railroad

The founder of Hull House was...(1860-1900)

Jane Addams

The new method of creating steel used...(1860-1900)

The Bessemer Converter

Increasing numbers of women in the workforce came from where? (1860-1900)

Middle and working class

W.E.B DuBois _______ the ideals of Booker T. Washington. (1865-1900)

rejected

Why did buffalo disappear from the West? (1865-1900)

A variety of factors

A significant number of African-Americans left the South, heading for ____ in hopes of founding their own communities in the aftermath of the Civil War. (1865-1900)

the West

The federal government's official solution to the presence of Native Americans in the American West was to______. (1865-1900)

move them onto reservations

Where did sharecropping increase in the final decades of the nineteenth century? (1865-1900)

Throughout the nation

Ultimately, legal support for wide-spread segregation came from where? (1865-1900)

The Plessy v. Ferguson decision

Supporters of the New South believed the region was over-dependent on which resource? (1865-1900)

Cotton

Large numbers of new settlers in the West sought to make a living through working in which area? (1865-1900)

Mining

Seeking an opportunity to farm, homesteaders sought to build homes in the West out of which material? (1865-1900)

Sod

Turner's frontier thesis argued that the frontier was what at the end of the nineteenth century? (1865-1900)

Gone

What was the working man's social club? (1865-1900)

Saloon

Republicans opposed to James Blaine's presidential campaign were nicknamed____. (1865-1900)

Mugwumps

Civil service reform was prompted in part by the corruption seen in the influence of _____. (1865-1900)

Party leaders

Who was a leading advocate of Social Darwinism? (1865-1900)

Herbert Spencer

What was the religious persuasion of the growing immigrant population in the late nineteenth century? (1865-1900)

Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Jewish

How did cities grow in the late nineteenth century? (1865-1900)

Up and out

William Jennings Bryan, the Populists, and the the Pro-Silver Republicans all wanted to get rid of which monetary system? (1865-1900)

None

The shift of the Democratic Party from conservative business to liberal reform began with which candidate's election run? (1865-1900)

William Jennings Bryan

Grover Cleveland won the ______ Presidential elections. (1865-1900)

1884 and 1892

The idea of farmers storing their crops to avoid high fees was advocated by which group? (1865-1900)

Grangers

The annexation of Hawaii began under which president? (1865-1913)

Harrison

President Taft's Dollar Diplomacy was applied via his chief diplomat, _______. (1865-1913)

Knox

Which future president fought in the Spanish-American war? (1865-1913)

Theodore Roosevelt

The Spanish-American war was ended by which agreement? (1865-1913)

The Treaty of Paris

How did the United States restrict the Cuban government's independence? (1865-1913)

The Platt Amendment

The US motive to fight in the Spanish-American War was based on ______. (1865-1913)

the sinking of the Maine

Woodrow Wilson argued that his intervention in Mexico was_____. (1865-1913)

unselfish

Factors influencing the American move toward imperialism included_____. (1865-1913)

pride in American authority

Newly acquired colonies for the United States included:
(1865-1913)

The Philippines, Puerto Rice, Guam, and Wake Island

President Roosevelt was helped in his relations with Japan by his Secretary of State, Elihu Root, in relation to settling which conflict? (1865-1913)

The Russo-Japanese War

Roosevelt threatened to declare a national emergency to end which strike? (1890-1920)

Coal

Woodrow Wilson's reform agenda was nicknamed what? (1890-1920)

The New Freedom

Taft attempting to show his progressive inclinations by reforming what? (1890-1920)

Tariffs

Progressives were what? (1890-1920)

Liberals

The WCTU was opposed to what? (1890-1920)

Alcohol consumption

Which was the idea of efficient government championed by governors? (1890-1920)

Wisconsin

The outcome of the election of 1912 changed the character of which political party? (1890-1920)

Republican

Progressivism was...(1890-1920)

an impulse with support in both parties

Key elements in the social gospel movement were...(1890-1920)

the YMCA and YWCA

Roosevelt's programs to reform aspects of American society were called what? (1890-1920)

The Square Deal

What did the Nineteenth Amendment do?
(1914-1920)

gave the women the right to vote

For the people involved, what was the name of the war that erupted in 1914? (1914-1920)

The Great War

Who was at the center of the web possibly listening to American civilians? (1914-1920)

The Kaiser

When World War started in 1914, which side was the United States on? (1914-1920)

Neither

Most of the fourteen points dealt with:
(1914-1920)

territorial claims

What did Wilson claim might be the result of rejecting the Treaty of Versailles? (1914-1920)

Breaking the heart of the world

Who was the head of the Food Administration? (1914-1920)

Herbert Hoover

Fear of what prompted German spring offensives in 1918?
(1914-1920)

Arrival of the AEF (American Expeditionary Forces)

What led to the US to enter the war? (1914-1920)

resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare

What generated an economic windfall for American companies, bankers, and farmers? (1914-1920)

Allied needs

Examples of writers and artists from the Harlem Renaissance included James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, and... (1920-1929)

Langston Hughes

What was the oil scandal during Harding's time in office? (1920-1929)

Teapot Dome

Coolidge represented which kind of president? (1920-1929)

Pro-business

Which theory of Einstein was viewed by the public as the idea that there was no absolute standards? (1920-1929)

General Theory of Relativity

What did supporters of Prohibition hope would happen once alcohol was illegal? (1920-1929)

Less prostitution

The rise of college football's popularity in the 1920s created stars like ____. (1920-1929)

the Galloping Ghost

Margaret Sanger wanted birth control legalized because among other things, it would lead to... (1920-1929)

racial health

Jazz music was based on which musical genre? (1920-1929)

Ragtime

Fundamentalism insisted on___ (1920-1929)

the literal truth of the Bible

What organization dedicated to racial progress was founded in 1910? (1920-1929)

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

Which New Deal program was overturned by the Supreme Court? (1933-1939)

NRA (National Recovery Administration)

Okies were refugees from the ____. (1933-1939)

Dust Bowl

Which act regulated the stock and bond market? (1933-1939)

The Securities Exchange Act of 1934

What was proof in the minds of many that Hoover and the Republicans were heartless? (1933-1939)

Their treatment of the Bonus Army

Opponents of the New Deal included which individual? (1933-1939)

Charles Coughlin

What did Harding do initially to help fix the Depression? (1933-1939)

Nothing

FDR and Congress passed several key pieces of legislation in the ____. (1933-1939)

First Hundred Days

NYA was which of the following? (1933-1939)

A job program for unemployed youth

Which group voted for FDR in a major change shift in party allegiance? (1933-1939)

African Americans

Which New Deal program was the most successful? (1933-1939)

CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)

What characteristics was shared by Japan and German in the 1930s? (1933-1945)

Belief they were a master race

The Japanese sank all of the US _____ at Pearl Harbor. (1933-1945)

Battleships

Why did Operation Overlord succeed? (1933-1945)

It surprised the Germans

Which Pacific battle was a major point in World War 2? (1933-1945)

Midway

What was the goal of giving the Sudeten to Hitler? (1933-1945)

Appeasement

What event started World War 11 in Europe? (1933-1945)

Germany's invasion

The Manhattan Project was the American effort to build what?

An atomic bomb

Which leaders died in April of 1945? (1933-1945)

Hitler and FDR

What prompted the US government to reconsider it's racial policies during the war? (1933-1945)

The need for more troops

What was the point of the North African campaign? (1933-1945)

To open up a second front in the War in Europe

How long did the United States have monopoly on the atomic bomb? (1945-1952)

4 years

What type of treaty ended the Korean War? (1945-1952)

There was no treaty

The Berlin Airlift was response to which Soviet action? (1945-1952)

A blockade

MacArthur was fired by Truman because..(1945-1952)

MacArthur was insubordinate

Who authored a statement of the principles of containment? (1945-1952)

Kennan

Truman's follow-up effort to the New Deal was called what? (1945-1952)

The Fair Deal

What type of governments did the Soviet Union install in Eastern European nation? (1945-1952)

Puppet

A major figure in stirring up the Red Scare was...(1945-1952)

Senator McCarthy

What started the Korean War? (1945-1952)

The North invaded the South

Which view did labor leaders take of the Taft-Hartley Labor Act? (1945-1952)

It will destroy unions