DC US History Final Exam Review Questions And Correctly Well Defined Answers.

What happened on the evening of April 14, 1865? - correct answers Abraham Lincoln visited Richmond How was the Fourteenth Amendment, in the context of the times, a truly radical measure? - correct answers Never before had newly freed slaves been granted significant political rights Who were the "scalawags"? - correct answers Southerners willing to cooperate with the Republicans because they accepted the results of the war and wished to advance their own interests Who were the "carpetbaggers"? - correct answers Northerners who went to the South as idealists to help the freed slaves as freed slaves as employees of the federal government, or more commonly as settlers hoping to improve themselves What were some of the facets of the Force Acts? - correct answers Placed elections under federal jurisdiction and imposed fines and prison sentences on persons convicted of interfering with any citizens exercise of the franchise How did the Klan contribute substantially to the destruction of Radical regimes in the South? - correct answers It's depredations weakened the will of white Republicans What was the major significance of the "Compromise of 1877"? - correct answers It was not honored in every detail How had the horse effected the cultures of the Native Americans? - correct answers Indians could run down buffalo, move more easily over the country and fight more effectively, too. What were the modern weapons adopted from the white by the Indians? - correct answers Cavalry sword, and the rifle But, how did these two modern weapons adopted by the Indians cause problems? - correct answers The buffalo herds began to diminish, and warfare became bloodier and more frequent. What was the "Chivington Massacre" in 1864? - correct answers The "foulest and most unjustifiable crime in the annals of Americans" What was the new strategy tried by the government in 1867? - correct answers The "concentration" policy had evidently not gone far enough What was chiefly responsible for the slackening of fighting after "Custer's Last Stand"? - correct answers The building of transcontinental railroads and the destruction of the buffalo What was invented in 1874 by Joseph F. Glidden? - correct answers Barbed wire What had happened by the 1880's? - correct answers Thousands of miles of the new fencing had been strung across the plains, often across rods and in a few cases around entire communities What was Henry George's publication, 'Progress and Poverty'? - correct answers A best-seller What did Edward Bellamy's book, 'Looking Backward', describe? - correct answers A future America that was completely socialized all economic activity carefully planned What did Henry Demarest Lloyd's work, 'Wealth Against Commonwealth', denounce? - correct answers The Standard Oil Company When, where and by whom was the Knights of Labor founded? - correct answers1869, Philadelphia , by a group of garment workers headed by Uriah S. Stephens What actions of the union brought in recruits by the thousands between 1882 and 1886? - correct answers Successful strikes by local "assemblies" against western railroads , including one against the hated Jay Gould's Missouri Pacific What did many of the "older" Americans conclude concerning the new immigrants? - correct answers They were mostly peasants What did the Social Darwinists and people obsessed with pseudoscientific ideas about "racial purity" believe? - correct answers They found the new immigration alarming What did American workers fear? - correct answers The competition of people with low living standards and no bargaining power What were the "settlement houses"? - correct answers Community centers located in poor districts that provided guidance and services Where did the settlement house workers live, who were they, and what types of work did they do? - correct answers Most of the them idealistic, well-to-do young people, lived in the houses and were active in neighborhood affairs List some of the names of the "settlement houses" that had opened by the beginning of the 1900's. - correct answers Jane Addam's Hell House in Chicago (1889), Robert A. Woods's South and House in Boston (1892), and Lillian Wald's Henry Street Settlement in New York (1893) What were most city machines? - correct answers Loose-knit neighborhood organizations Who were some of the better known of the "ward bosses"? - correct answers" Big Tim" Sullivan of New York Lower East Side and "Hinky Dink" Kenna of Chicago List three of the "services" the ward bosses provided to their constituents. - correct answers Found jobs for new arrivals, distributed food, and other help to all in bad times What did most white Americans generally accept black inferiority as a fact? - correct answers Since nearly all contemporary biologists, physicians and other supposed experts on race were convinced that African Americans were inferior Into what and where had Booker T. Washington been born? - correct answers A slave, in Virginia In the Atlanta Compromise speech, what did he ask the blacks and the whites to do? - correct answers He asked the whites to lend the blacks a hand in their efforts to advance themselves. To the blacks he said, "Cast down your bucket where you are." by which he meant stop fighting segregation and second class citizenship and concentrate on learning useful skills. What embittered the leaders of the woman's suffrage movement? - correct answers The shock occasioned by the failure of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment to give women the vote after the Civil War What happened in 1890? - correct answers The two major women's groups combined as the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) What happened in 1919? - correct answers The amendment finally won congressional approval What occurred in 1920? - correct answers The necessary three-quarters of the states had ratified the Nineteenth Amendment; the long fight was over How did Theodore Roosevelt's elevation to the presidency alarm many conservatives? - correct answers He didn't fit their conception What did he consider as the most pressing issue of the times? - correct answers The monopoly problem What was the "bold step" Roosevelt took in 1902 to end the coal strike? - correct answers He would order federal troops into the anthrocite regions, not to break the strike but to seize and operate the mines unless a settlement was reached promptly. Describe Woodrow Wilson's rise in American politics from the spring of 1910 to the fall of 1912? - correct answers Before he had never held a been run for public office What was accomplished by Wilson's Underwood Tariff Act and Federal Reserve Act? - correct answersThe Tariff Act brought the first significant reduction of duties since before the Civil War. The Reserve Act gave the country a central banking system for the fist time since Jackson destroyed the Bank of the United States. What did W.E.B. Du Bois feel that African-American must do in order to lift themselves up by their own bootstraps? - correct answers They must establish their own businesses run their own newspapers and colleges, and write their own literature What was founded in 1909? - correct answers The centennial of the birth of American Lincoln, a group of these liberals including Oswald Villard, Jane Addams, Jon Dewey, and William Howells, founded by the NAACP What was the organization (NAACP) dedicated to? - correct answers Eradication of racial discrimination What position did W. E. B. Du Bois hold in this organization? - correct answers A national officer and the editor of its journal What happened on June 28, 1914 in Saravejo, Bosnia? - correct answers A young student, assassinated the archduke Franz Ferdinand heir to the imperial throne Which countries formed the Central Alliance? - correct answers Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Ottoman Turkey Which countries formed the Allied Powers? - correct answers Great Britain, France, and Russia What did President Wilson do when World War I broke out? - correct answersHe issued a proclamation of neutrality and asked the nation to be "impartial in thought" What determined the outcome of World War I? - correct answers America's entry in the Great War What would happen without the aid of the United States? - correct answers Allies would sue for peace When did the first units of the American Expeditionary Force reach Paris, France? - correct answers Independence Day, 1917 When did they reach the front lines at Verdun? - correct answers October What did leaders of the fundamentalist movement vigorously for in the 1920's? - correct answers Laws banning discussions of Darwinism List three socially desirable results achieved by Prohibition? - correct answers Reduced alcohol consumption, arrests, deaths from alcohol Where did the Klan have relatively little appeal? - correct answers Northeast or in metropolitan centers Where did it find many members? - correct answers Mid-sized cities and small towns of the West and Midwest states What was the "Great Depression"? - correct answers Worldwide phenomenon caused by economic imbalance What did American veterans of World War I do in June-July 1932? - correct answers20,000 Great War veterans marched on Washington What two things did Franklin Roosevelt do on March 5, 1932? - correct answers Declared a nationwide bank holiday and placed an embargo on the export of gold What happened on December 7-11, 1941? - correct answers Bombing of Pearl Harbor What was Roosevelt's greatest accomplishment? - correct answers Inspiring of industrialists workers, and farmers What did the Secretary of War propose? - correct answers Japanese Concentration Camps What was the decision of the Allied strategists? - correct answersConcentrate on the Germans first What began to happen during the summer of 1942? - correct answersAllied planes started bombing German Cities What happened on August 6, 1945? - correct answersEnola Gay dropped a nuke bomb on Hiroshima What happened on August 9, 1945? - correct answersA second nuke bomb hit on Nagasaki What happened on August 15, 1945? - correct answersJapan surrend