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Question 1

What early Union was destroyed by the economic downturn of the 1870s?

Answer 1

National labor union

Question 2

Who believed the path to civil and political rights for African-Americans was economic independence?

Answer 2

Booker t Washington

Question 3

What was a major weakness of Spain in the Spanish American wAr?

Answer 3

The poor condition of its navy

Question 4

What was the “one big Union” that advocated cooperatives and arbitration?

Answer 4

Knights of labor

Question 5

Name of the Chinese uprising intended to eliminate all foreigners?

Answer 5

Boxer rebellion

Question 6

By what Supreme Court decision were women provided special rules and protection on the job?

Answer 6

Muller vs Oregon

Question 7

The two routes considered for a canal through Central America were…

Answer 7

Panama and Nicaragua

Question 8

How did T. R. resolve the anthracite coal strike of 1902?

Answer 8

Threatened to take over the mines and operate them with federal troops

Question 9

What was the term for Tafts foreign policy?

Answer 9

Dollar diplomacy

Question 10

According to Wilsons Fourteen Points, what would provide a system of collective security after WW1?

Answer 10

League of Nations

Question 11

What were three notable results of the election of 1912?

Answer 11

• one party won both the presidency and control of compass
• winning candidate received less than a majority of the popular vote
• the incumbent president finished third

Question 12

What was known as the “magna carta of labor”?

Answer 12

Clayton Anti-trust Act

Question 13

The most significant scandal of Hardings administration was…explain.

Answer 13

The Teapot Dome scandal-involved mishandling of naval oil reserves

Question 14

President Hoover believed in using various means to end the Great Depression EXCEPT…

Answer 14

Except direct aid to the people

Question 15

What factors contributed to the Dust Bowl?

Answer 15

Wind; drought; soil erosion; dry-farming techniques

Question 16

By what act was collective bargaining passed into law?

Answer 16

Wagner act

Question 17

Who was the Democratic candidate for president in 1940? The Republican candidate?

Answer 17

Franklin Roosevelt; Wendell Willkie

Question 18

In return for several old destroyers, what did the U. S. receive in exchange from Britain?

Answer 18

Eight naval bases

Question 19

What 1942 battle was the turning point of WW2 in the European theater?

Answer 19

Stalingrad

Question 20

The major factor in the prosperity of the “sunbelt” was…

Answer 20

Influx of money from the federal government

Question 21

At what conference was an ultimatum issued to Japan?

Answer 21

Potsdam

Question 22

At what conference did Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill agree that their primary war aim was to demand the unconditional surrender of Germany and Japan?

Answer 22

Casablanca

Question 23

What was established by president Truman to detect communists within the government?

Answer 23

Loyalty review board

Question 24

When the Soviet Union cut off western access to Berlin, what was Trumans response?

Answer 24

Berlin airlift

Question 25

What policy toward the Soviet Union did Kennedy advocate?

Answer 25

Peaceful coexistence

Question 26

What national security council memo called for massive military spending during the Cold War?

Answer 26

NSC-68

Question 27

To where did president Lyndon Johnson direct educational aid?

Answer 27

Public and parochial schools

Question 28

What 1962 act reduced American tariffs?

Answer 28

Trade Expansion act

Question 29

What revelation during the Senate Watergate hears did significant damage to Nixions defense?

Answer 29

Nixions conversations in person and on the telephone had been recorded on tape

Question 30

What was the most explosive racial issue of the 1970s?

Answer 30

Busing

Question 31

What did the Twenty-sixth Amendment do?

Answer 31

Lowered the voting age to eighteen

Question 32

Reagans primary goal as president was....

Answer 32

To reduce the size of the federal government

Question 33

What Grant administration scandal involved railroad construction kickbacks?

Answer 33

Credit mobilier

Question 34

Why were the standard time zones established?

Answer 34

Major railroad companies wanted to keep schedules and avoid wrecks

Question 35

"Separate but equal" facilities were declared constitutional in what 1896 Supreme Court decision?

Answer 35

Plessy vs Ferguson

Question 36

List, in order the four Presidents who have been assassinated.

Answer 36

Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, Kennedy

Question 37

What was the first major attempt by the federal gov to regulate business?

Answer 37

Interstate Commerce Act

Question 38

In what endeavor did each of the following entrepreneurs make his fortune? James duke; john d. Rockefeller; J. P. Morgan; Andrew Carnegie

Answer 38

Tobacco; oil; banking; steel

Question 39

What 1862 act gave public land to states to support higher education?

Answer 39

Morrill act

Question 40

"One big union" that promoted producer cooperative and arbitration

Answer 40

Knights of labor

Question 41

Who were the three major presidential candidates in 1896?

Answer 41

Rep-McKinley; Dem- W. J. Bryan; populist- Bryan

Question 42

What was organized in the lake 1800s to break the strangling grip of the railroads?

Answer 42

Farmers' Alliance

Question 43

Why was the election of 1876 so controversial?

Answer 43

Two sets of election returns were submitted by SC, FL, and LA

Question 44

Who was head of the Great Northern railroad line? The New York Central? the central pacific?

Answer 44

James Hill; Cornolius Vanderbilt; Leland Stanford

Question 45

What amendment was interpreted for the benefit of large corporations against antitrust actions by state governments?

Answer 45

Fourteenth

Question 46

Who talked about the "talented tenth" that would lead African-Americans to social and political equality?

Answer 46

W. E. B. DuBois

Question 47

What act promised Indians citizenship in twenty-five years, dissolved many tribes as legal entities, wiped out tribal ownership of land, and tried to make Indians into rugged individualists?

Answer 47

Dawes Act

Question 48

What book described the grim history of Indian-white relations? Who was the author?

Answer 48

A century of dishonor by Helen Hunt Jackson