American History Final

American History Test 2
Name:_________________________________________________
True or False
1. The clash between the Monitor and the Marrimac spelled he end of the age of wooden ships.____________________
2. Galesburg became the key to the Mississippi campaign. _________________________
3. Ranchers raised Angus cattle for the cattle drives. ____________
4. Faith missions have no guaranteed income. __________
5. In a referendum the people are allowed to vote yes or no in a regular election to determine whether a law should be enacted or rejected.___________________
6. American leaders feared that if the Philippines were granted independence too quickly, they might fall prey to another major power, such as Norway. ________
7. The most offensive provisions of the Versailles treaty to Germany was having to pave the autobahn. ___________
8. The stock market crashed in 1931. ______________
9. The Bonus Army became a problem to the Hoover administration. ____________
10. Hitler's last gamble to win the war in the West was at the Battle of the Bulge. __________
11. Radio was Kennedy's new political weapon. ___________
12. Technically, a civil right is a specific privilege or entitlement that is granted by law and that the government is responsible for actively protecting from both government and individual encroachment. ____________
13. Laos and China fell to communism after the fall of South Vietnam. ________
14. Tapes showed that although the president had not known about the Watergate break-in beforehand, he had participated in attempts to cover up involvement of his White House subordinates. _______________
15. Stagflation is an economic condition with high inflation and low unemployment. ____________
16. The Soviet Union never invaded Afghanistan. _______________
17. Reagan's Tax Axe increased taxes. ______________
Short Answer
1. What were Sherman's two purposes in launching the March to the Sea?_______________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________
2. What is suffrage?____________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________
3. What was beneficial about Reconstruction? *Extra Credit: What was harmful?
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4. Name two of Thomas Edison's most influential inventions. ____________________
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5. Name at least three popular leisure-time activities in the late nineteenth century. _______________________________________________________________________________
6. What three factors hastened the U.S. Towards war with Spain?__________________
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7. What temporary panic concerning fears of a leftist revolution beset America in 1919? _____________________________________________________________________________
8. Name two of the four men whose philosophical and scientific theories helped to reshape the moral attitudes of the 1920s in ways detrimental to some Christians. __________________________________________________________________________
9. What was the “Fireside Chats?” __________________________________________________
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10. What nation was forced to surrender one region of its land to Germany at the Munich Conference? *Extra Credit: What was the name of that region?
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11. List at least two of the factors that made the Vietnam War harder to win than American politicians and military leaders had thought. ____________________
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12. What is the goal of the Right-to-Life movement? ___________________________
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Multiple Choice
1. What was the most notorious extremist vigilante group in the South during Reconstruction? ________________
a. al-Qaeda b. Ku Klux Klan
c. Hell's Angels d. Neo-Natzis
2. Why did the great Indian victory at Little Bighorn actually work to the advantage of the U.S. Army? _____________
a. Sioux left the force thinking the war was won b. More Casinos
c. They gained sympathy from France d. Custer was annoying
3. A major piece of legislation concerning business that passed during Wilson's first term was the ________________.
a. Warsaw Pact b. Equal Rights Amendment
c. Lend Lease d. Clayton Antitrust Act
4. What two inventions of the Progressive Era eventually transformed American transportation? ________________
a. Space shuttles & hovercrafts b. Hot air balloons & bicycles
c. Airplanes & automobiles d. Surfboards & mopeds
5. The German invasion of what nation brought Great Britain into World War I? ____________
a. Belgium b. Holland
c. France d. Poland
6. What WWI offensive was the largest and costliest military campaign in American history up to that time? ______________
a. Operation Barbarossa b. The Argonne Offensive
b. The Battle of Salamis d. Operation Dessert Storm
7. Whose infant son was kidnapped in 1932? _______________
a. Orson Wells b. John Dillinger
c. Henry Hudson d. Charles Lindbergh
8. The turning point of the Pacific war in WW2 was _______.
a. Nuremberg b. the Battle of Midway
c. Dunkirk d. Iwo Jima
9. The largest sea battle in history was the ___________.
a. Battle of Leyte Gulf b. Third Battle of Bach Dang
c. Battle of Trafalgar d. Operation Praying Mantis
10. What was the last Eastern European nation to fall to Soviet domination after WW2? ____________
a. Hungary b. Mongolia
c. Czechoslovakia d. Xanadu
11. What was the worst urban riot in the U.S. In the 1960's? __________
a. Los Angeles b. Detroit
c. New York d. Fargo
12. What two major American leaders died violently in 1968? _________
a. Bonny & Clyde b. Martin Luther King Jr & Robert Kennedy
c. John Lennon & Elvis d. John F. Kennedy & Martin Luther
13. Terrorism in what Middle Eastern country gave Reagan the most foreign policy setbacks?
a. Norway b. Egypt
c. Lebanon d. Qatar
14. Why was the National Voter Registration Act commonly called the “motor voter act”? __________
a. voters registered when they applied for a drivers license
b. the act was passed at the Indy 500
c. it was signed in the great motor city of Detroit
d. the more motor vehicles you have the more votes you can cast
15. Clinton administration's African military disaster. _____________
a. Nigeria b. Bosnia
c. Somalia d. Ivory Coast
16. Electoral votes in what state ultimately decided the 2000 presidential election? __________
a. Michigan b. Iowa
c. Road Island d. Florida
Essay
Why did the South think it was right in the Civil War? Why did the North think it was right?
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