W11 Exam 5

Question 1

Generally speaking, “new immigrants” ________

Answer 1

Arrived between 1890 and 1914

Question 2

T/F: The Supreme Court decision in Brown V Board of Education overturned the ruling of “separate but equal” in Plessy V Ferguson

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The official justifications for Japanese Internment during World War II included all of the following except which?

Answer 3

Settlers were needed in the more barren parts of the West.

Question 4

What is a good definition of nativism?

Answer 4

The fear that “others threaten the dominant culture and its institutions

Question 5

Which events helped foster the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s?

Answer 5

The Great Migration, WWII, the creation of the NAACP

Question 6

T/F: Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, immigration was largely characterized by an “Open Door” policy and little regulation

Answer 6

true

Question 7

What made the “new immigrants” different than earlier waves of immigration?

Answer 7

They were from Southern and Eastern Europe, largely Catholic and Jewish, and were seen as too different from more established Americans.

Question 8

The Reconstruction period after the Civil War is viewed as a missed opportunity and a tragic era for many reasons. Which are some of those reasons?

Answer 8

Jim crow laws emerged, Northern political power lost interest in African-American equality, the KKK was allowed to intimidate and threaten newly freed slaves.

Question 9

Which of the following could be considered legacies of the Civil Rights Movement?

Answer 9

It reduced discrimination, injustices were brought to light, it ended segregation. (All answers are correct).

Question 10

Which of the following statements describes the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown V Board of Education?

Answer 10

Plessy V. Ferguson is overturned, and separate schools are inherently unequal.

Question 11

Which of the following were tactics employed by the Civil Rights Movement?

Answer 11

Sit-ins of segregated places, lobbying for federal court orders and protection, boycotts

Question 12

The great migration involved what?

Answer 12

Blacks to Northern cities

Question 13

The two major political parties in the United States __________________

Answer 13

Are considered middle-of-the-road because they must attract the vast majority of American voters who are also in the enter of the ideological continuum.

Question 14

How is the period from 1952 to today characterized?

Answer 14

Declining political loyalties, decreased voter turnout, voting based on ideology. (All of the answers are correct).

Question 15

What were the names of the original two major political parties during the time period of 1790 to 1828?

Answer 15

Federalists and Democratic Republicans

Question 16

All but one statement correctly describes a reason for the existence of a two-party system in america. Choose the statement that is NOT true.

Answer 16

All of the founding generation believed that two political parties would create a helpful and positive spirit of democracy and mass participation.

Question 17

Which period in the development of the two-party system is correctly matched with a significant characteristic of that period?

Answer 17

1860-1932: Republicans become the majority party, Democrats solidify their strength in the South; the loyalty of the people to a political party is very strong; and party symbols are adopted.

Question 18

T/F: The election of Thomas Jefferson in 1800 showed the world that power could be transferred peacefully from one political faction to another in a republic.

Answer 18

True

Question 19

The idea of the “rise of the common man” is linked to which of the following?

Answer 19

Andrew Jackson

Question 20

The Declaration of Sentiments in 1848 borrowed the language of _______________.

Answer 20

The Declaration of Independence

Question 21

T/F: During the Second Party System, the rise of the “common man” ideal helped push many states towards universal manhood suffrage.

Answer 21

True

Question 22

Which political party emerged in the 1850s and saw itself as the party of western growth, finance, industry, anti-slavery, and anti-polygamy

Answer 22

Republican

Question 23

Which of the following statements is true of political ideology for the two-party system in the United States?

Answer 23

At any given time through most of our history, two large moderate parties have existed, and seldom did anyone except members of those two parties get elected to public office.

Question 24

Which of the following correctly link a political party to the leading individual of that party?

Answer 24

Democrat-Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 25

Who defends the status quo against major changes and protects traditional ideas, values, and institutions?

Answer 25

Conservative

Question 26

T/F: The goals of extremists on the ideological continuum are the same, but their methods for accomplishing those goals are different.

Answer 26

False

Question 27

What two animals taken from political cartoons by Thomas Nast represent the two current political parties in America?

Answer 27

Donkey and Elephant

Question 28

In 1920 women gained the right to vote throughout the US by which Constitutional amendment?

Answer 28

19th

Question 29

Which of the following would NOT be considered one of the major types of third parties in American political history?

Answer 29

Secular parties

Question 30

T/F: The phrase “democratization of America” means that over the years America has changed its governmental form from a republic to a democracy.

Answer 30

False

Question 31

What is the desire to change, reform, and experiment, as well as a greater willingness to accept new ideas, values and institutions?

Answer 31

Liberalism

Question 32

Which of the following is most closely associated with the period 1932-1952?

Answer 32

New Deal Coalition

Question 33

According to current election laws, __________________

Answer 33

only those parties whose candidates ran in the last general election automatically show up on the next ballot.

Question 34

T/F: In the late 1700s and early 1800s, liberals supported popular government and the free-market.

Answer 34

True

Question 35

Which statement is true regarding American political traditions and the ideological continuum?

Answer 35

Most Americans are in the middle, so parties must stay there to attract the greatest number of voters.