S2 EXAM REVIEW Flashcards
1
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Granted a large group of newly freed African-Americans “forty acres and a mule”
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Special Field Order 15
2
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Union general who waged a war of attrition against Robert E. Lee in Virginia
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Ulysses S. Grant
3
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Granted voting rights to all men, regardless of race
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15th Amendment
4
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Wealthy businessman and owner of Standard Oil
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J.D.Rockefeller
5
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President responsible for implementing “Presidential Reconstruction”
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Andrew Johnson
6
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Rejected the offer to command Union forces at the beginning of the Civil War
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Robert E. Lee
7
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Guaranteed equal protection under the law for all american citizens
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14th Amendment
8
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Union general who waged ‘total war’ on his march through Georgia
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William Sherman
9
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When a large company buys an interest in all parts of its manufacturing process
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Vertical integration
10
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Promised freedom to all enslaved African-Americans in the confederate states
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Emancipation Proclamation
11
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Battle which marked THE major military turning point in favor of Union forces in the Civil War
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Gettysburg
12
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President responsible for formulating the 10% Reconstruction Plan
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Abraham Lincoln
13
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Wealthy steel industrialist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries
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Andrew Carnegie
14
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Battle which marked the bloodiest single day in the Civil War
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Antietam
15
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Abolished the institution of slavery in the USA
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13th Amendment
16
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When a large company buys out or merges with its competitors
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Horizontal integration
17
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The term ‘carpetbagger’ was used to describe what?
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Northern Republican supporters who moved to the south after the Civil War to start new business enterprises
18
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Which Civil War battle was attended by a large audience of non-combatants?
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The Battle of Bull Run
19
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Where was the capital of the Confederacy?
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Richmond, VA
20
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Who were the two most famous Radical Republicans?
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Thaddeus Stevens and Senator Charles Sumner
21
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The Bessemer Process helped to give birth to which industry?
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The steel industry
22
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The ‘Talented Tenth’ was an expression used by which African-American activist?
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W.E.B. Dubois
23
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Where did General Robert E. Lee finally surrender to Ulysses S. Grant in April of 1865?
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Appomattox Courthouse
24
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The 1896 Supreme Court decision in the case of ‘Plessy vs. Ferguson’ upheld the controversial doctrine of __________________.
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‘Separate but equal’
25
The term 'Jim Crow' came from what source?
A minstrel show character
26
True or false: Native Americans were able to peacefully retain the majority of their ancestral lands theough negotiations with the US
False
27
Who delivered the Atlanta Exposition Speech?
Booker T. Washington
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Did George McClellan fight for the Union or Confederacy?
Union
29
What was Social Darwinism?
A social doctrine during the 19th century that explained 'survival of the fittest,' and gave an excuse for social supperiority of white wealthy people.
30
President of the American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
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Great Britain, France, nd Russia were the __________.
Triple Entente
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British passenger ship sunk by a German U-Boat in 1915
The Lusitania
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Austria-Hungary, Germany, and Turkey were known as _____________.
The Central Powers
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Author of 'The Passing of a Great Race'
Madison Grant
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1896 Presidential Candidate who advocated for the free coinage of silver and supported populists?
William Jennings Bryan
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Author of 'A Century of Dishonor'
Helen Hunt Jackson
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U. S. President who was a member of the Rough Riders
Teddy Roosevelt
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Head of America's Committee on Public Information (CPI) during WWI
George Creel
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Austria-Hungary, Germany, and Italy were known as ____________.
The Triple Alliance
40
U. S. President who led America into the Spanish-American War
William McKinley
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U. S. Battleship that mysteriously blew up in Havana Harbor in 1898
The Maine
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Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, and eventually the US, were known as _____________.
The Allied Powers
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Author of 'The Melting Pot'
Israel Zangwill
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Author of 'How the Other Half Lives'
Jacob Riis
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What were the 3 major components of anti-immigrant nativism?
* Anti-radicalism
* Anti-catholicism
* Flat out racism towards non-WASPS
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What were the 3 major reforms that populists wanted?
* Federal regulation of the railroad industry
* Federal income tax
* Free coinage of silver
47
What was the popular fashion modeled by Gibson Girls?
Shirtwaists
48
What were the 'Three C's' of Teddy Roosevelt's square deal?
* Control of corporations
* Consumer protection
* Conservation of the environment
49
What territories did the US acquire from the Spanish-American war?
* Puerto Rico
* Guam
* The Philippines
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What technological innovation helped soldiers engage in trench warfare during WWI?
Machine Guns
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Progressives opposed all of the following except:
A) direct election of US senators
B) State Referendums
C) corporate tax breaks
D) women's suffrage
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C) corporate tax breaks
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When the US entered WWI in 1917, what country pulled out of the war at the same time?
Russia
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What organization was responsible for the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand?
The Black Hand
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William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pullitzer were associated with ____________.
Yellow Journalism
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Describe 'new' immigrants
From Eastern Europe, non-english, 'bad,' not WASP
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Who wrote 'The Jungle' and what was it about?
Upton Sinclair; the horrors of the Chicago meat-packing industry
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What pulled the US into WWI?
The Zimmerman Telegram
58
Nazi Germany's 1938 annexation of Austria
Anschluss
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Hitler's minister of propaganda durinf WWII
Joseph Goebbels
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The battle plan for Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union
Operation Barbarossa
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U. S. President associate with the Teapot Dome Scandal
Warren G. Harding
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Germany, Italy, and Japan during WWII
The Axis Powers
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Head of the Manhattan Project and father of the atomic bomb
Robert Oppenheimer
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The pro-business author of 'The Man Nobody Knows'
Bruce Barton
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Supreme commander of the Luftwaffe during WWII
Hermann Goering
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England, France, Russia, and the US during WWII
The Allied Powers
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Marked a major turning point for the Allied forces in the pacific theatre in WWII
The Battle of Midway
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Nazi killing squads employed durinf Nazi Germany's invasion of Russia
Einsatzgruppen
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Secretary of the Treasury durinf the 1920's who espoused trickle-down economics
Andrew Mellon
70
Marked a major turning point for Allied Forces in Northern Africa
Battle of El Alamein
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U. S. President associated with the Great Crash and Great Depression
Herbert Hoover
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Emphasized heavy deficit spending by the government to avert depression
John Keynes
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The first 'talkie' in America
'The Jazz Singer'
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What was the Bonus Army?
A group of American WWI veterans who petitioned the US government for financial assistance during the Great Depression
75
The term 'buying on margin' refers to ____________.
Purchasing stock on credit
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True or false: the 'classic liberal' approach to republican government in the 20's was based on the writings of Montesquieu
False
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The Allied commander of the D-Day invasion was ___________.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
78
Nazi Germany went through what country in order to acquire the Sudetenland?
Czechoslovakia
79
The Lend-Lease agreement was between which two countries?
The US and England
80
The successful Nazi blitzkrieg through the Ardennes Forest led to the surrender of what country?
France
81
Who made the final decision to drop an atomic bomb on Japan?
Harry Truman
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Hitler's 'final solution' concerned his plan to __________.
Eliminate all 'undesirable' races from the world's population
83
What is 'lebensraum'?
German for living space; Hitler's plan to acquire more 'living space' for germany by expanding the country and knocking out undesirables
84
What are the three components of the New Deal, and who wrote it?
FDR; Relief, Recovery, Reform
85
Who was Edward Bernays?
The nephew of Sigmund Freud who later became the big name of advertising in the US and took advantage of America's desire-based economy.
86
What speech is associated with the Civil Rights Movement?
"I have a dream"
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Who was the president of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
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Who wrote 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'
Harriet Beecher Stowe
89
What was the first military confrontation of the Civil War?
The Battle of Fort Sumter
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Before the Civil War, slavery was prohibited in some areas by the __________.
Missouri Compromise
91
Who served as president of Washington College?
Robert E. Lee
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What was one result of the Federal Reserve's failure to prevent the collapse of the banking system prior to the Great Depression?
The money supply contracted
93
What kept the US from joining the League of Nations?
Opposition in the Senate
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What led to changing women's roles during WWII?
Lack of jobs and labor shortages
95
What amendment gave women voting rights?
19th
96
Which U. S. President encouraged minorities to vote?
Lyndon B. Johnson
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What conflict best represents an application of containment?
The Vietnam War
98
What country did Ronald Reagan call an 'evil empire'?
Russia
99
What does the Patriot Act do?
Basically gives the US government the license to spy on citizens for the sake of public safety and terrorist protection.
100
The collapse of communism in the 1980's led to the reunification of ____________.
Germany
101
What president normalized relations with Vietnam?
Bill Clinton
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What regions are the sources of recent immigration to the US?
Asia and Latin America
103
The Open Door policy is associated with what country?
China
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During the 19th century, Chinese immigrants played a major role in ___________.
The building of the Transcontinental Railroad
105
The wreckage from an invasion in Normandy, France, is from an attempt to _____________.
Liberate Europe
106
A major turning point in WWII for Germany was __________. Why?
Stalingrad; because it denied Germany access to valuable oil resources
107
Why did the Soviet Union build the Berlin Wall?
To prevent escape of Eastern Europeans to the West
108
What caused the value of stocks to drop significantly in the 20's?
Overspeculation
109
Who gave the 'iron curtain' speech?
Winston Churchill
110
What was the Truman Doctrine's policy?
Containment
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What did the marshall plan do?
Funnel money into european countries to help rebuilding and the fight against communism
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What organizations were anti-communist?
NATO and SEATO
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What organization was pro-communism?
The Warsaw Pact
114
Where is the first place you see containment?
Korea
115
When does the US get involved in the Korean war?
After north korea invaded south korea
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Who was the leader of the US resistance in South Korea?
MacArthur
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What are North Korea and South Korea divided by?
The 38th parallel
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Who led a communist revolution in Cuba?
Fidel Castro
119
What are North Vietnam and South Vietnam divided by?
The 17th parallel
120
Who were the Vietcong?
A group of Vietnamese rebels who supported Ho Chi Minh
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Who became president after JFK?
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Which president had the policy of Vietnamization?
Richard Nixon
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Who overall won the cold war?
The USA
