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Final Exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the most important outcome of the Watergate Scandal? | Nixon Resigned |
| Which law was passed due to President Garfield's assassination? | Pendleton Act |
| This Robber Baron believed in giving to charities only if the money would be spent wisely. | Andrew Carnegie |
| This proposed alliance involved Mexico and Germany during World War I | Zimmerman Note |
| Tennessee state representative Harry Burn's vote officially made Tennessee the final member of the _________________________ | Perfect 36 |
| This President believed "Rugged Individualism" could get the U.S. out of the Great Depression. | Herbert Hoover |
| Which amendment banned the buying, selling and transporting alcohol? | 18th |
| Where were Japanese-Americans placed during World War II that caused many of them to lose their homes and businesses? | Internment Camps |
| In the 1980s President Reagan used Supply-Side Economics or Reaganomics to cut ______________. | Taxes |
| Which foreign policy was used by President Nixon to ease Cold War tensions with China and the Soviet Union? | Detente |
| Which event had the greatest negative impact on President Jimmy Carter's administration? | Iranian Hostage Crisis |
| What would have been the greatest difference between an industrial capitalist and a farmer during the Gilded Age? | Their Income |
| He came to symbolize political corruption during the Gilded Age | Boss Tweed |
| Which group was helped the most by Granger Laws? | Farmers |
| Which law gave Congress jurisdiction over all goods that crossed state lines? | Interstate Commerce Act |
| This industrial giant created a monopoly with Standard Oil | John Rockefeller |
| He believed that African Americans could gain social equality by proving their value through their work skills. | Booker T. Washington |
| Many wealthy business leaders were called ______ because of the unfair prices they charged. | Robber Barons |
| She helped poor immigrants adjust to life in America's large cities in the late 1800s. | Jane Addams |
| The first ________ were formed in the late 1800s to get safer conditions, higher wages and shorter work days. | labor unions |
| Boss Tweed would have supported _________, which occurs when politicians take bribes and kickbacks. | Graft |
| He used his photographs and books to help reform tenement houses | Jacob Riis |
| These laws passed in Southern states were intended to keep the races segregated in public places | Jim Crow Laws |
| He gave the Cross of Gold Speech to expand the U.S. Money Supply | William J. Bryan |
| The U.S. Senate rejected this portion of Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points Plan because it feared the U.S. would lose its independence | League of Naitons |
| This item would allow the people to originate a bill instead of law makers. | Initiative |
| Imperialism, Yellow Journalism and the sinking of the U.S.S. Maine were all factors that led to the beginning of _______________________. | Spanish-American War |
| He benefited more than any other American from the Spanish-American War. | Teddy Roosevelt |
| He was a conscientious objector from the state of Tennessee, that became the most decorated soldier of World War I | Alvin York |
| He said that his 14 Points Plan would bring "A Just and Lasting Peace" after World War I | President Woodrow Wilson |
| Which two countries were involved in the Zimmerman Note? | Germany and Mexico |
| The U.S., Russia, France and _________ were the major allies during World War I | Great Britain |
| This statement declared to the world that the United States would be the policeman of Latin America | Roosevelt Corollary |
| What was the name of Teddy Roosevelt's foreign policy? | Big Stick |
| She led the fight in the state of Tennessee to get women's suffrage passed. | Anne Dallas Dudley |
| Who said, "The Business of America is Business"? | President Calvin Coolidge |
| Great American authors that left the United States during the 1920s | Lost Generation |
| Rebirth of art, music and literature in an African American section of New York City during the 1920s | Harlem Renaissance |
| Which amendment was the Prohibition Amendment? | 18th |
| Which group profited the most from the activity of the Prohibition Era? | Organized Crime |
| This event symbolized the growing conflict between science and religion in America during the 1920s. | Scopes Trial |
| The Federal government saw a tremendous growth in its power and influence with the enactment of FDR's _________________. | New Deal |
| This New Deal agency tried to help American farmers by keep crop prices high | AAA |
| This New Deal agency provided insurance for savings accounts | FDIC |
| Which New Deal agency took young men from the city streets and put them to work in the nation's national parks? | CCC |
| FDR responded to the Supreme Court rejecting some acts of the New Deal by trying to ___________________ | Pack the Supreme Court |
| Many believed that Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted and executed because they were connected to _________________________ | Anarchy |
| She was a birth control activist, sex educator and writer. | Margaret Sanger |
| What was the secret code name for the plan to build the first atomic bomb? | Manhattan Project |
| He was FDR's Secretary of State, a Tennessee Congressman and he would become known as the Father of the United Nations. | Cordell Hull |
| Native Americans from this tribe became "Code Talkers" in the Pacific Theater during World War II. | Navajo |
| June 6, 1944 the Allies landing in Normandy, France and developed a foothold in Europe | D-Day |
| The Doolittle Raid, Midway, Iwo Jima and Okinawa all were major events of World War II that took place in the ___________________ Theater. | Pacific |
| Japan finally agreed to surrender after the second atomic bomb destroyed this city on August 9, 1945. | Nagasaki |
| She encouraged women to go to work in the defense industries during World War II. | Rosie the Riveter |
| The heroic 101st Airborne trained at this fort on the Tennessee -Kentucky Border. | Fort Campbell |
| Who was the Communist dictator of the Soviet Union during the 1930 and 1940s that killed millions of his own people? | Joseph Stalin |
| After World War II, many countries in Europe feared falling to the Soviet Union so many of them joined this U.S. led military alliance. | NATO |
| In 1962 an American U2 spy plane discovered that the Soviet Union were places missiles in the country of ____________________. | Cuba |
| Which American President pledged to put a man on the moon before the end of the 1960s? | John Kennedy |
| Who said " That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"? | Neil Armstrong |
| The Berlin Airlift, the Marshall Plan, and Truman Doctrine were all a part of this U.S. foreign policy to stop the expansion of communism. | Containment |
| What was the foreign policy failure for President Kennedy's administration in Cuba in 1961? | Bay of Pigs |
| What was the name of the Plan to rebuild Europe's economy after World War II so those countries would not turn to Communism? | Marshall Plan |
| What caused the U.S. to create NASA, join the space race and place an emphasis on math and science in U.S. schools? | Sputnik |
| Who was the famous Senator and Communist fighter that was destroyed on T.V. as he led an investigation into the U.S. Army? | Joe McCarthy |
| What were many U.S. families building in their backyards during the Red Scare of the 1950s? | Bomb Shelters |
| Which famous doctrine was created by the Plessy V. Ferguson Supreme Court Decision? | Separate but Equal |
| Who was the leader of the SCLC? | Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
| Who was the Civil Rights Leader that called for violence if necessary and was a member of the Nation of Islam? | Malcolm-X |
| Who was the female from the Nashville area that led numerous Sit-Ins all over the South? | Diane Nash |
| He was a Civil Rights leader that wanted a separate society for African Americans and he promoted "Black Power." | Stokely Carmichael |
| The members of SNCC and other Civil Rights protesters rode buses through the South to desegregate bus stations. They were called _______________. | Freedom Riders |
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