Final Flashcards
Both Manifest Destiny and imperialismo led to military conflicts The war with Mexico resulted in the acquisition of California and the New Mexico Territory. The war with Spain resulted in the acquisition of Louisiana.
False
Reconstruction was a profoundly important moment in the American history. In the North, Reconstruction solidified the power of the Democratic Party.
False
Who was the commander of the Army who assembled and army in Tampico?
Winfield Scott
The removal of the Indians was launched by:
Andrew Jackson
The ideology behind the Hispanic American War was written by:
John O’Sullivan
President Monroe exposed his Doctrine Monroe in
1823
The Christianity of the black people in the South included some of:
Voodoo and polytheistic religions
Social Darwinists during the late nineteenth century believed that Darwin’s theory of the survival of
the fittest could be applied to the rise and fall of the nations,
True
The Compromise of 1850 Compromise was agreed before the Civil War. It established that each state
should decide the status for joining the Union: Salve or non slave.
True
Who was Eli Whitney:
He invented the Cotton Gin
The first settlers in the British Colonies settled by a variety of migrants who sought social mobility, economic prosperity, and religious freedom. Religious motives played a dominant role in the New England colonies, while the economic motives played dominant role in the Chesapeake colonies.
True
The booming economic growth of the 1950’s, and the anxiety over the Cold War , shaped the politics and the culture of the decade.
True
What was the Missouri compromise?
The division of the north and southern states.
The Underwood-Simmons Act 1913, promoted women’s vote.
False
At the center of middle-class culture in the 1950’s was a growing preoccupation with consumer goods, as a result of increased prosperity, greater variety and availability of products, and the adeptness of advertisers in creating demand.
True
The Muckraker Movement was an organized efort during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to limit or outlaw the consumption and production of alcoholic beverages in the United States.
False
The temperance movement was a strong force in U.S. politics in the early 20th century, enabling it to win passage of the Eighteenth Amendment, the prohibition.
True
Why is the American Revolution called by some historians as “Kind of a Revolution?
It was an armed movement with no changes in the status quo.
During the colonies times, resistance to slavery was the way to win freedom. Southern colonies enacted laws allowing slaves to earn money and to read and write.
False
The Spanish American War began in?
1898
The Seven Year’s War was in:
1756 - 1763
Who was sent to negotiate Tratado de Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Nicholas Trist
The Emancipation Proclamation of 1861 granted freedom to all slaves in the United States.
False *Thirteenth Amendment freed all slaves in the United States 1865
The first state to rebel against the Union during before the Civil war was Illinois.
False *South Carolina
Who enacted the Indian Removal Act?
Andrew Jackson
Which of the following is not a progressive President in the US?
Ulysses Grant
Who were the bosses during the time of the industrial supremacy.
The robber barons
During the IIWW Roosevelt began to make subtle changes in the American role in the war. Great Britain was virtually bankrupt and could no longer meet te cash and carry requirements imposed by the Neutrality Acts. e president, therefore, proposed a new system for supplying Britain: “lend-lease”.
True
Ater the Civil War the end of the sectional antagonisms diminished happened with the civil war and social antagonism also disappeared.
False
Which of the following is not an achievement of the progressives of the end of the 19th Century and the first decades of the 20th Century.
Election of Senators by the House of Representatives
Who commanded the ofensives in New Mexico and California in 1846?
Stephen Kearny
Who was Herbert Spencer?
The ideologist behind social Darwinism
In 1860, all pretense of common sentiment collapsed when no political party presented a presidential candidate capable of attracting national support.
False
After the civil war and the beginning of the progressives and new antagonism emerged between the rich and the poor.
True
Raised in the most prosperous society the world had ever known, hippies, nonetheless rejected the values of hard work, neat appearance, and economic success taught y their parents. Instead the new counterculture emphasized wearing long hair, jeans, sandals and love beads instead of business suites and dresses.
True
The Kansas-Nebraska Controversy was….
The admission of Kansas and Nebraska as new states under slave/free states
The Lowell system was?
A system of work for women in factories
Joseph McCarthy was a Senator who exploited the policitical climate of paranoia. In the 1920’s he
denounced that America’s foreign policy had been inluenced by communists.
False
Who were Nicola Saco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti?
Italians victims of the Red Scare
President Eisenhower had a strong compromise towards the integration of the South. He actively promoted the Civil Rights Act and during his term it was passed on Congress.
True
What led slavery become an established institution?
Whites established a control system that inhibited rebellion
Who was Herbert Spencer?
Sociologist and philosopher, an early advocate of the theory of evolution,
American foreign policy during the IWW was determined to do nothing that would limits its own
freedom of action, the only exception was to join the League of Nations
False
Thomas Jefferson is the President who…
Bought the Louisiana territory
Blacks in the depression…
Suffered the worst part of the Depression
Who commanded the army that invaded Mexico though Texas during the Mexican-American War?
Zachary Taylor