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History 1306 QUIZZES
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Mexican vaquero was the prototype for the Texas cowboy? | True |
| Farmers in the Great Plains tended to live in: | Sod homes |
| The Homestead Act of 1862 | Gave a person 160 acres of land, if they lived on it for 5 years. |
| The inventor of barbed wire was: | Glidden |
| The end of the cattle frontier was caused by: | weather, barbed wire, and farmers (all). |
| Between 1866-1886 about 3,000,000 head of cattle were driven north from south Texas: | False -- 5-6,000,000 |
| In 1900 America had how many buffalo? | 1,000 |
| Who built the first railhead community? | McCoy |
| The first state to give women the right to vote was: | Wyoming |
| The first railhead community was in | Kansas |
| The New South was | after the Civil War. |
| Cotton mills in the South in the late 1800s were racially integrated as far as the work force: | False |
| The diet of southerners in the late 19th century was based on: | Corn |
| New immigrants were from?: | Italy |
| Scandinavians settled in | Minnesota |
| Agriculture in the new south is note for: | tenant farming, share cropping, the crop lien system (all). |
| Irish immigrants were known for: | Catholicism, boxing, heavy drinking (all) |
| A good example of "birds of passage" would be: | Italians & Scandinavians |
| Which former confederate state prospered after the civil war? | Texas |
| The first labor union was the | NLU |
| Louis B. Mayer, David Sarnoff, Irvin Berlin were: | Jewish |
| What needs to be present for unions to develop: | concentration of population in cities, a large industrial base for the workers, a large population of laborers (all). |
| Cities in the late 19th century grew because of: | immigrants, railroads, industrialization (all). |
| The electric trolley was developed by: | Sprague |
| What percentage of Americans lived in cities by 1890? | 30% |
| Agitate, educate, organize is associated with the: | Knights of Labor |
| The leader of the AF of L was: | Samuel Gompers |
| Cities in the U.S. in the late 19th century called attention to the right and the poor | True |
| Which of the following is NOT a reason for union organization: | Good Wages |
| Which of the following had a big impact on American Higher Education? | Stanford, Duke, Rockefeller (all) |
| France E. Willard was: | head of the WCTU, a suffragette, concerned about racial discrimination (all). |
| The Supreme Court in 1883 and 1896 protected Black Americans' civil rights: | False |
| Churches in the late 19th century had to deal with: | the secular trend & ministering to rich or poor. |
| The efforts of the WCTU, anti-saloon league, and the Prohibition Party resulted in a decrease in alcoholic consumption between 1870-1900: | False |
| Adult education is associated with: | The Chautauqua Movement |
| Mark Twain represents | local color |
| "Maggie, A girl of the Streets" was written by: | Steven Crane |
| Americans developed: | sky-scrappers. |
| Sanford Dole is associated with: | Hawaii & Pineapples. |
| Another name for American imperialism in most of the 19th century was: | Manifest Destiny |
| Hearts and Pulitzer are known for: | yellow journalism, newspaper, American intervention in Cuba (all). |
| The harbor of Pago Pago is located in: | Samoa. |
| The influence of "Sea Power in History" was written by: | Mahan. |
| The biggest killer in the Cuban Campaign for Americans was: | disease. |
| The hero of the Philippines naval battle was: | Dewey. |
| The leader in the charge up Kettle Hill was: | Roosevelt. |
| Concentration camps in Cuba were associated with which man? | Weyler. |
| Which of the following was not a reason for U.S. Imperialism: | No need for new markets. |
| Who broke up more trusts? | Taft |
| Parcel Post is associated with: | Taft |
| Woodrow Wilson wins the election in 1912 because he is more progressive than Taft or Wilson | False |
| The Ballinger-Pinchot hurt which President? | Taft |
| The book, "the Jungle", broke up the RR monopolies? | False |
| Wilson's foreign policy was called: | Missionary Diplomacy |
| Beginning in 2010, you and I will be able to open checking accounts in Federal Reserve banks? | False |
| Who was assassinated in June 1914? | Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. |
| World War 1 saw the development of all of these weapons, except one. What is the exception? | Surface to air missiles. |
| American Diplomacy from 1914-1917 went through how many stages? | 4. |
| How many major reasons are there for the growth of American Industrialization? | 8. |
| Pittsburgh and Birmingham are noted for: | Steel. |
| The federal government in the late 19th century followed a policy of laissez-faire as it related to the construction of railroads: | False. |
| James B. Duke was successful in selling cigarettes because: | he advertised his products. |
| George Westinghouse invented: | the air brake for railroads and the alternating current system for electricity. |
| The Central Pacific Railroad used: | Chinese labor. |
| The Interstate Commerce Act was known in the 19th century for its effectiveness in controlling the railroads: | False. |
| The steel industry is associated with the name: | Carnegie. |
| The mining frontier from 1848-1890 was noted for its: | Bringing people to the west. |
| The Pony Express disappeared because of: | the telegraph. |
| Herbert Hoover was a do nothing president in fighting the depression: | False |
| The major cause for the depression of 1929 was: | under-consumption |
| Which of the following was sick in the 1920s: | coal, cotton textile (all). |
| Agriculture was in trouble in the 1920s because of: | rayon, change in diets, fashion changes (all). |
| Teapot Dome and Elks Hill are associated with: | corruption, naval oil reserves (both). |
| Coal was in trouble in the 1920s because of | oil, natural gas, hydroelectric power (all). |
| Free enterprise did not exist in many industries during the 1920s. | True. |
| President Hoover did which of the following to fight the depression? | government economy, voluntary measures, investigations, RFC (all). |
| Who was elected president in 1932? | FDR. |
| When the economy started to slow down in the late 1920s the automobile was quick to reduce the prices on their cars? | False. |
| Who was the first head of the SEC? | Kennedy |
| This act provides security in old age and security for dependent children? | Social Security |
| FDR moved to the political left because of: | Coughlin, Townsend and Long (all). |
| The Great Depression ended because of: | WW2. |
| To protect bank deposits Congress passed the: | FDIC |
| What is the difference between the PWA and WPA? | size of projects. |
| FDR communicated with the American public by: | "fireside chats" |
| CCC, FERA, and CWA are: | Relief |
| The NYA worked with: | students. |
| Rural Americans benefited from REA? | True |
| FDR succeeded in packing the Supreme Court | False |
| FDR was successful passing civil rights legislation | False |
| In 1937-38 FDR accepted: | Keynes |
| The modern presidency began with | FDR |
| FDR was highly regarded for his poor administrative abilities: | False |
| The Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928 renounced war as an instrument of national policy. | True |
| After 1919: | The Manchu Dynasty was gone, the Austro-Hungarian Empire had disintegrated, the US rejected the League of Nations (all). |
| The Washington Naval Conferences of 1921-1922 were successful because violators of the agreements could be punished: | False |
| The U.S. recognized Japan's take over of Manchuria in 1931: | False |
| FDR encourage labor legislation during the New Deal: | True |
| The U.S. Senate approved the Treaty of Versailles in 1919: | True |
| 1919 saw: | race riots, red scare, influenza (all). |
| The Knox Resolution ended American involvement in WW1: | False |
| The seeds for WW2 were in the Treaty of Versailles: | True |
| The Attorney General of US in 1919 was: | Palmer |
| Treaties must be passed in the Senate by what approval number? | 2/3 |
| Who was the Democrats VP candidate in 1920? | Franklin |
| During WW1 a number of Black Americans moved primarily to the ; | North |
| Germany was forced to pay France and England for their cost of WW1 in the Versailles Treaty: | True |
| America's mobilization at home was critical to the U.S., Britain, and France winning WW1: | True |
| In the presidential election at 1916 president Wilson's opponent was: | Charles Evans Hughes |
| The best weapon the Germans had in WW1 was: | the submarine (u-boat). |
| Germany invaded what neutral country in WW!? | Belgium |
| The British from 1914-1916 never violated international laws? | False |
| The sinking of this ship resulted in the Germans agreeing not to attack passenger ships without first removing all passengers and crew: | Sussex |
| The US Commander of the American Expeditionary Force to France was: | General Pershing |
| Which of these events pushed the U.S. toward declaring war in April 1917? | Zimmerman Telegram |
| World WW1 succeeded as the "war to end all wars" | True |
| The key factor for the U.S. to enter WW1 was: | the submarine. |
| The turning point for the US in WW2 in the pacific was Midway and Coral Sea. | True |
| Stalin wanted a second front in: | Western Europe. |
| The Battle of the Bulge was the last great German offensive in Western Europe in WW2? | True |
| The Allies in the Pacific used island hopping to get close to the Japanese main islands in order to bomb them. | True |
| General George Patton was used by Eisenhower as a decoy for the Normandy invasion. | True |
| Which of these nations was given the honor of going first into Berlin to finish off Hitler? | USSR |
| The American military in WW2 was fully integrated racially? | False |
| The German's objective in North Africa was | Suez Canal |
| Technical advances in WW2 were: | atomic bombs, flame throwers, radar (all). |
| WW2 began in? | 1931 |
| Which country invaded Ethiopia in 1935? | Italy |
| During the Spanish Civil War in 1937, which country supported France? | Germany |
| The Germany Army was stopped in the USSR because of: | Snow and cold (freezing). |
| The Maginot line stopped the Germany advancement in the USSR? | False (through Belgium). |
| When German troops marched into the Rhineland in the mid-1930s, the British and French fought back: | False |
| Hitler's "cat and mouse" plan back fired at Dunkique? | True |
| One of the great appeasers in the late 1930s to German aggression was: | Chamberlaan |
| The Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor resulted in Germany declaring war on the U.S. after Roosevelt received a declaration of war against Japan on December 8,1941? | True |
| Hitler's plans to invade Russia was delayed by: | Italy's attack on Greece. |
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