Question 1
The 1904 Roosevelt Corollary:
Was invalidated by the Supreme Court
Stated that neighboring countries had to become democracies
Was created as a result of the crisis in CUBA
Stated that the US had a right to intervene in the affairs of neighboring countries
Question 2
When the war (WWI) erupted in Europe in 1914, President Wilson:
Asked the American public to remain neutral
Offered military support to only England
Declared that the Triple Alliance must be defeated
Sent secret agents to France to spy
Question 3
In March 1917, the United States moved closer to entering the Great War after:
The czarist government in Russia was overthrown in a revolution
Russian communists agree to help the British
Russia asked the United States to convene peace talks
A German offensive successfully captured Moscow and Czar Nicholas
Question 4
What event triggered the beginning of World War I in Europe?
The land conflict between Russia and Serbia
The assassination of ARch-duke Franz Ferdinand
The treat agreement between Russia and France
The secret alliance system
Question 5
All of the following were causes that led the US to join the fight in WWI EXCEPT:
Zimmerman Telegram was discovered
Ships, like the Lusitania were sunk by German u-boats
A broken treaty with Germany
Trade agreements with France and the British increased our concern with the outcome of the war
Question 6
Who created the Committee on Public Information and what was its purpose?
George Creel controlled the propaganda during WWI
Teddy Roosevelt returned to politics to create anti-Germany war posters
Woodrow Wilson created this committee to support his 1916 campaign
John Pershing led this committee to support war bonds in the Midwest
Question 7
What was the name of Wilson's peace plan? What was the plan that ended World War I?
Paris Peace Plan and the 21 points
14 points and the Treaty of Versailles
10 points for Peace and the Treaty of Marsailles
None of the above
Question 8
Who was the leader of the UNITED NEGRO IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION?
Jean Toomer
Langston Hughes
Marcus Garvey
W. E. B. Dubois
Question 9
During World War I, the GREAT MIGRATION in the US referred to:
War refugees from Europe moving to the United States
Immigrants from Mexico moving to the East Coast of the US
Rural white women moving to the far west
Rural southern Blacks moving to the northern industrial cities
Question 10
In the 1920s, the FLAPPER lifestyle:
Had a particular impact on lower middle class and single women
Was evidence that women were losing their morality
Was evidence that women would no longer desire to marry
Was only a clothing fad
Question 11
In THE GREAT GATSBY (1925), F. Scott Fitzgerald:
GLorified wealthy Americans for their hard work in their success
Ridiculed the hypocritical beliefs of Southern Baptists
Satirized the American political system
Criticized the American obsession with material wealth
Question 12
Who was the poineer of the American birth control movement?
Helen Keller
Margaret Sanger
Dorothea Dix
Jane Addams
Question 13
All of the following are authors and/or poets from the HARLEM RENAISSANCE--EXCEPT FOR:
Jean Toomer
Langston Hughes
Toni Morrison
Zora Neal Hurston
Question 14
What do the spread of the KKK, Prohibition, and the Scopes Trial all have in common? HINT: what is going on in the 1920s and how are people reacting?
Fear of change
Fear of immigrants
Fear of African Americans
All of the above
Question 15
The 18th Amendment:
Made alcohol illegal
Was supported mainly by women
was violated by thousands of bootleggers
All of the above
Question 16
ALl of the following were causes of the Great Depression EXCEPT for:
Lack of regulation in the banking industry
Stock market speculation
Lack of housing in the construction market
Unpaid debts from the European countries (WWI loans)
Question 17
What did Americans (angry at the government) call shanty towns built by the unemployed on the outskirts of cities?
Shantyvilles
Poverty towns
Hoover Towns
Hoovervilles
Question 18
What was the Great Plains region called during the drought of the 1930s?
Dust Range
Iron Range
Dust Bowl
Dry Range
Question 19
What did President Hoover order in response to the Bonus Army protest? What was the consequence of this order?
Bonus payments to help impoverished people to eat in the Great Depression
The Third Cavalry forced protesters to leave causing over 100 injuries
Food payments that saved the lives of 100s of army veterans
Protesters were given temporary shelter during the winter
Question 20
The 1931 Scottsboro court case saw:
Black teenagers accused of rape by two white women
A Georgia jury convict three white boys of murder
Eight of the convicted youths executed for their crime
None of the above
Question 21
The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) of 1933:
Sought to raise crop prices by paying farmers not to plant
Set minimum prices for retailers selling farm products
Provided farmers with free seed and fertilizer
All of the above
Question 22
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation:
Offered depositors assurance that their funds would be protected
Attempted to win back the support of the American public
Did not affect the majority of American banks hit by the Depression
All of the above
Question 23
The Works Progress Administration provided federal assistance to :
Writers and artists
Actors
Historians
All of the above
Question 24
All of the following statements about the INDIAN REORGANIZATION ACT are correct EXCEPT FOR:
John Collier enforced the act for President Roosevelt
The act encouraged American Indians to return to tribal customs
The act helped American Indians regain many lands lost to them
The Act ended up cutting federal aid to many reservations during the Great Depression
Question 25
Franklin D. Roosevelt was the only US PRESIDENT:
Elected four times by the American people
Elected three times by the American people
Who died in office
Who led the country in two world wars
Question 26
The 21st Amendment repealed what earlier Amendment and ended what?
Repealed Prohibition (18th Amendment)
Repealed voting restrictions (15 Amendment)
Repealed the voting age (19th Amendment)
None of the above
Question 27
What program created jobs, electricity for the South and a dam?
National Industrial Recovery Act
Tennessee Valley Authority
Federal Emergency Relief Adminstration
Civil Works Administration
Question 28
What program created jobs for urban, young men so they would work in rural settings building roads, bridges and parks?
National Industrial Recoverty Act
Tennessee Valley AUthority
Civilian Conservation Corps
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Question 29
What country invaded Manchuria in 1931 and later expanded throughout Asia?
China and we started a new pact with japan
Japan and we started an oil embargo
Russia and we facilitated the Nazi Soviet Pact
None of the above
Question 30
After Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia, England and France promised to assist WHAT COUNTRY if Hitler invaded them next (oh, and of course he did....)
France
Belgium
Poland
Italy
Question 31
The Lend Lease Act:
Allowed the United States to essentially give weapons to the British
Charged interest on any weapon loaned to the British and French
Was rejected by the Senate
Saw England call for American bases to be built in their country
Question 32
By 1940, NAZI expansion into Europe included the defeat of:
Poland
Belgium
France
All of the above
Question 33
All of the following statements about PEARL HARBOR are true EXCEPT FOR:
The state department believed Japan to be a strong ally at the time
American aircraft carriers were removed before the attack
Japanese suffered few casualties in the attack
Americans were shocked that anyone could attack the US
Question 34
Unlike the trench warfare of WWI, what was the NAZI's new STYLE OF WARFARE called?
Blitzkrieg
Munich March
Berlin Attack
Lend Lease
Question 35
All of the following NEW technologies aided our success in WORLD WAR II EXCEPT FOR:
Aircraft carriers
Atomic Bomb
Poisonous Gas
Aircraft bombing
Question 36
The BATTLE OF MIDWAY in 1942:
Saw the United States suffer great loses
Was a stunning defeat of the Japanese navy
Was a turning point in the war of the Pacific
All of the above
Question 37
In regards to European Jewish refugees (1939-1945), the United States
Refused to accept Jewish refugees
Agreed to take several thousands of Jewish children
Made efforts to help refugees escape the Nazi death camps
Was working out a deal with the Russians to help them
Question 38
The end of the GREAT DEPRESSION came:
Right before World War II
During the Roosevelt era due to the New Deal programs
During World War II due to war time spending
Never came; we are still in it
Question 39
In 1943, the ZOOT SUIT RIOTS in Los Angeles:
Resulted from tensions between Black and Mexican American gangs
Illustrated the respect that servicemen had for all racial and ethnic groups
Led to a city-wide ban on wearing Zoot Suits
All of the above
Question 40
The American public contributed to the war effort by:
Buying war bonds
Recycled matals and rubber (like a kid's bike!)
Used their ration booklets
All of the above
Question 41
What was EXECUTIVE ORDER 9066 and what impact did it have on Japanese and Japanese Americans living on the West Coast?
Ended immigration into the US during WWII to protect the current Japanese residents
Sent Japanese Americans to internment camps for "security purposes"
Sent Japanese Americans back to Japan for "security purposes"
All of the above
Question 42
In World War II, all of the following are true EXCEPT
African Americans fought in separate units
Japanese Americans fought in separate units
Mexican Americans fought in separate units
Women did not fight in combat
Question 43
What was the MANHATTAN PROJECT?
Creation of the first aircraft carrier
Creation of the Atomic Bomb
Creation of nuclear missiles
Creation of underwater sonar
Question 44
All of the following statements about the end of World War II are true EXCEPT FOR:
The United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan
The Japanese were only bombed after they had created an alliance with the Soviet Union
The bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki because the Emperor of Japan refused to surrender without condition
The bombs were dropped as a message about American power to the Soviet Union
Question 45
All of the following were great writers of the 1920s-30s EXCEPT:
Langston Hughes
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Toni Morrison
John Steinbeck
Question 46
What are some goals or justifications for imperialism?
Expansion into Africa for new trade markets and world power
Expansion into South America for better relationships with countries
Expansion to model powerhouse Russia for money and world power
Expand into the Pacific for new trade markets and world power
Question 47
Later evidence related to the explosion that sank the USS MAINE suggested that the likely cause was:
An accident in the engine room
A bomb planted by the Spanish
A terrorist action
Someone's cigarette in the bomb storage area
Question 48
We went to war with Spain for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
The outcry over the explosion of the USS Maine
The support of Cuban nationalists
The need to support France over Spain for new trade markets
McKinley was embarassed by the de Lome letter
Question 49
What did Hay's Open Door Notes ask for?
New routes to China
Equal access to trade with Japan
Equal access to trade with China
All of the above
Question 50
The theory that naval development was the key to world power was developed and promoted by:
Teddy Roosevelt
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Douglass Mac Arthur
Question 51
The Filipino Revolt was led by:
Emiolio Cruz
Penelope Cruz
Emiliano Aguinaldo
Pancho Villa
Question 52
Samuel Clemens was:
Famous novelist Mark Twain
An anti-imperialist
An outspoken critic of the Moro Massacre by the American troops
All of the above
Question 53
Sometimes, though, there is a ghostly rumble among the drums, an asthmatic whisper in the trombones that swings me back into the early twenties when we drank wood alcohol and every day in every way grew better and better...."
Who is the author of this quote (from the Voices document)?
Langston Hughes
Rose Chernin
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nate Cobb
Question 54
In Bartolomeo Vanzetti's document he:
Described hyow he was unfairly accused of a train robbery
Admitted that he had committed several crimes that he was not accused of doing
Explained that he had never stolen, killed, or even "spilled blood" of anyone in his life
Encouraged anarchists to "seize the moment" and change history
Question 55
"Sister got sick And the Doctor wouldn't come Cause we couldn't pay him The proper sum..."
Who is the author? (Voices document)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Langston Hughes
John Steinbeck
Helen Keller
Question 56
Mary Licht wrote about the Scottsboro defense. All of the following statements are true about this incident, EXCEPT:
Eight of the Scottsboro boys were sentenced to death
This case illustrated the injustices suffered by African Americans in the "legal" system
The boys were accused of armed robbery and the murder of the paymaster
The communist party demanded justice for the boys and supported their legal fight
Question 57
"For about twenty years after the war, I couldn't look at any film on World War II...I hated to see how they glorified war."
Who is the author? (see Voices documents)
Gene Larocque
Richard Wright
Yuri Kochiyama
Paul Fussell
Question 58
According to Richard Wright, the conditions in the North for African Americans:
Include segregation on trains, but not streetcars or housing complexes
Offer the opportunity to go to the best schools available
Can be described as being surrounded in a "world of things"
All of the above
Question 59
"They took those who were leaders of the community, or Japanese school teachers, or were teaching martial arts, or were Buddhist priests.
Those categories which would make them very 'Japanesesy' were picked up."
Who is the author? (seeVoices documents)
Yamaoka Michiko
Gene Laroque
Pete Seeger
Yuri Kochiyama
Question 60
The author of this Voices document was almost killed by the atomic bomb:
Rose Chernin
Yuri Kochiyama
Yamaoka Michiko
Paul Fussell.