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HIST 1302 – U.S. History II | Final Exam Q&A (80+ Questions) – Cold War, Civil Rights, Modern America

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This document contains over 80 thoroughly answered and verified questions from the HIST 1302 (U.S. History II) Final Exam for the 2025/2026 academic year. The content spans key historical developments from the post-Civil War era through modern-day America, with a strong emphasis on 20th- and 21st-century political, social, and economic transformations. Major topics include the Cold War, Korean and Vietnam Wars, McCarthyism, and U.S. foreign policy during the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Reagan administrations. Domestically, the material covers the Civil Rights Movement (MLK Jr., Malcolm X, Civil Rights Act), women's rights, Roe v. Wade, and movements for social equality. Other sections address Watergate, Nixon’s resignation, the Iran-Contra affair, Clinton’s impeachment, the War on Terror, and landmark Supreme Court decisions. This resource is ideal for college students in U.S. history, American studies, political science, and social sciences. It also supports high school AP U.S. History review and general exam preparation for understanding modern American history through key figures, legislation, conflicts, and societal shifts. Keywords: hist 1302, us history II, cold war, civil rights movement, vietnam war, korean war, mccarthyism, watergate, roe v wade, reaganomics, clinton impeachment, war on terror, 9/11, segregation, affirmative action, great society, iran-contra, truman doctrine, kennedy, eisenhower, modern american history

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Wade-Davis Bill - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a bill proposed in 1864 that would treat

southern states as conquered provinces, allowed Republican party to

organize in the south, slow the readmission program, require an oath of

allegiance, establish military rule with a governor, and required southern

states to repeal secession, abolish slavery, and repudiate northern dept.


Wade Davis Bill reaction - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Lincoln pocket vetoed it, thinking

that it was to harsh

,10 percent plan - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔was a proclamation of amnesty and

economic reconstruction, consisted of an oath of allegiance to the US,

abolished slavery in states constitutions, creates a republican form of

government, also provide for education of African Americans .


10 percent plan reaction - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔it was too radical for

conservatives and too conservative for radicals.


13th amendment - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Abolition of slavery, passed Congress in

January 1865, ratified in December 1865.


14th Amendment - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1) Citizenship for African Americans, 2)

Repeal of 3/5 Compromise, 3) Denial of former confederate officials from

holding national or state office, 4) Repudiate (reject) confederate debts


15th Amendment (1870) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔States cannot deny any person

the right to vote because of race.


Black Codes - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Laws denying most legal rights to newly

freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War


The Black Codes consisted of what? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Allowed to marry

and hold some property, no jury service, more severe punishment for

,crimes, cannot sue in interracial disputes, cannot own weapons or horses,

a limited rights to assemble and vagrancy laws enhanced and enforced

strictly.


What did the Freedmen's Bureau do? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Assisted former

slaves in education, housing, and also work.


What did the Civil Rights Act of 1866 do? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔stated "All

persons born in the United States", excepting Native Americans, were

citizens entitled to "full and equal benefits of the law".


The Tenure of Office Act - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔required Senate approval before

the president could remove a cabinet member, was a slap in the face to

Johnson.


What were the republican policies in the South? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The

benefits are voting reforms, property rights for the women, state

responsibility for hospitals, asylums, etc, and also the tax burden to all

property holders. Consequences were after 10 year rule, republicans will

not gain traction in southern states until the 1990s.


Carpetbaggers - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A northerner who went to the South

immediately after the Civil War; especially one who tried to gain political


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, advantage or other advantages from the disorganized situation in southern

states


Scalawags - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Southern whites who supported Republican

policy through reconstruction


Land grants and right of war to railroads - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Received

government subsidies and regulations, both on a large scale. Cheap

land=high regulation.

In 1862to 1892, 79 railroads received 131 million acres, all acreage from

federal government, eminent the domain question.


Communication management - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Set standards for business

in America by borrowed concepts from the army, geographical departments

and central command, capital accounting, also daily and weekly reports.


Communication and Information management - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Information

from a distance, telegraph to transatlantic cable (1857), information in the

office are typewriters, pneumatic tubing.


Edison and Menlo Park - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔He was the father of invention

and research facility, and had research teams in his "invention factory" in

New Jersey.

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