Final Exam Flashcards
The readings for the Gilded Age included
Gould’s Mismeasure of Man
The topics for the Gilded Age covered
Social Darwinism
The term “Gilded Age” most accurately refers to
Abundant wealth masking social inequities and corruption
Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” was published in 1859 and impacted Americans when?
in the 1870s
(T/F): Charles Darwin applied his principles of evolution to society and popularized the idea of survival of the fittest
FALSE; it was Herbert Spencer aka America’s Darwin
“Indian Removal” had been a long part of federal Indian policy. After the Civil War, American feelings about Indian removal largely:
intensified
What two industries did Native Americans’ slave labor help to boost in California?
agricultural and railroad
In his 4th chapter, Stephen J. Gould discusses which two ideas related to evolutionary theory?
recapitulation and criminal anthropology
According to Gould, Rudyard Kipling defended what belief?
White supremacy
What years was the Chinese Exclusion Act in effect from?
1882-1943
What was The Boxer Rebellion?
Movement in Asia that sought to restrict entrepreneurial and religious interests
Where in Cuba did Mckinley order a ship to dock?
Havana
“The big stick” is associated with whom?
Theodore Roosevelt
Between 1870 and 1920, about how many immigrants arrived in the US?
25,000,000
Who dubbed the Greenwood District of Tulsa, OK as the “Black Wall Street”?
Booker T. Washington
Which black intellectual produced a collection of works by black artists during the Harlem Renaissance?
Alain Locke
What event is credited with the resurgence of the KKK in the early 20th century?
Lynching of Leo Frank and the release of Birth of a Nation
(T/F): A stock market crash did not solely cause the Great Depression
TRUE; other factors included a weak banking system, collapse of farm prices, and industrial overproduction
What did the National Recovery Administration do?
suppressed child labor, sought higher pay, sought improved working environments
Hitler’s Nationalist Socialists arose after the collapse of which regime?
Weimar Republic
Which fascist first emerged into power during the second decade of the twentieth century?
Benito Mussolini
(T/F): WWII ended after Germany was defeated by allied forces.
FALSE; ended with bombing of Nagasaki and Japan surrendering
What was the significance of The Long Telegram?
Was a message that the US received denouncing Russia’s efforts to spread communism.
What two things did the Cold War pit against each other?
communism against capitalism
How did federal housing programs discriminate against Americans of color? (3 reasons)
- Redlining neighborhoods that included Americans of color
- Claiming that Americans of color were at a greater risk of defaulting on FHA loans
- Creating self-fulfilling prophecies that racially integrated neighborhoods would have depreciating home values
What two ideals in the freedom of struggle did the Civil Rights Movement combine?
Democratic ideals and biblical imagery
What were the results of Brown v. Board of Education? (3 things)
- Extended the reach of the 14th amendment (granted citizenship to all persons “born or naturalized in the United States,” including formerly enslaved people, and provided all citizens with “equal protection under the laws”)
- Overturned the legal logic of Plessy v. Ferguson (separate but equal)
- Ruled against segregated public schools
The U.S. policy of containment applied to what context?
The Cold War
Jackson Pollock was an artistic example of
American Expressionism
The monolith of American culture in the fifties and sixties was attacked because of its identity as:
White, male-dominated, conservative, and stifling
What did the Kerner Commission reveal?
Black frustration with the hopelessness of poverty prompted urban unrest
What 2 movements were the preconditions for social and political equality?
The Civil Rights Act (1964) and the Voting Rights Act (1965)
(T/F): NYT columnist James Reston’s prediction that Goldwater had “wrecked his party for a long time to come” proved to be true.
FALSE; he explains how the opposite is in fact true
Increasing racial diversity often occurred in America through an:
individualistic framework
