U.S. History Final Exam Questions and Answers – Flashcards
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What did the Puritans believe?
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Salvation was predetermined, Christ was not present in the Eucharist, A learned sermon was the heart of worship.
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Why was John Rolfe important to the eventual success of the Jamestown settlement?
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He discovered that the colonists could grow tobacco and export it to England for a profit.
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According to the Puritans, the saints were
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People who had been saved.
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Harvard College was founded to train
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Ministers
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How did the colonists attempt to reconcile with England in 1775?
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They presented the Olive branch Petition to King George III to show their concerns.
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The Northwest Ordinance declared that a territory could become a state when
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its population exceeded the population of the smallest state.
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Which of the following men was not a leading Federalist?
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George Mason
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Why are the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions so significant to American history?
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They claimed that a state had the right to nullify federal laws it deemed unconstitutional.
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What did the slogan "Millions for defense, not one cent for tribute" refer to?
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The XYZ Affair
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Which of the following was not a reason why the 1800 presidential election was so significant?
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George Washington set the precedent of not running for a third term as president.
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What did the Supreme Court decide in McCulloch v. Maryland?
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It argued that states do not have the right to tax a federal entity.
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The Rush-Bagot Treaty demilitarized...
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the Great Lakes
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In Worchester v. Georgia, the supreme court ruled that the Cherokee nation
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was a distinct political community and entitled to federal protection.
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The Erie Canal connected
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Lake Erie to the Hudson River.
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The Whig party was made up of former Federalists and former Republicans who
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believed that the national government should encourage economic development.
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How did John Quincy Adams win the 1924 presidential election?
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He was selected by the house of representatives.
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What was the dispute in the 1830s nullification crisis?
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South Carolina questioned whether a stae was bound by congressional legislation.
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How did the penny press influence publishing?
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Because it made publishing cheaper, the penny press, or newspapers, could be more independent from political parties.
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What is Joseph Smith's significance to American history?
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He founded the Mormon Church.
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Why is the Battle of the Alamo significant?
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It provided a rallying point for Texans in their struggles against Mexico.
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What did the supreme Court rule in Dred Scott v. Sandford?
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Slaves were not citizens; therefore, they could not sue in federal courts.
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What was the cornerstone of the southern defense of slavery?
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It was up to states to deal with slavery because there was nothing in the Constitution to forbid it.
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What happened at Pottawatomie Creek?
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John Brown massacred a group of pro-slavery settlers.
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Why did the Confederacy expect assistance, or at least diplomatic recognition, from France or Great Britain?
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The French and British upper classes were thought to be sympathetic to the South. A permanent division fo the United States would benefit European colonial designs in the Western Hemisphere. Britain depended on the South for Four-fifths of its cotton.
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What happened at the First Battle of Bull Run?
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Amateur armies on both sides fought a bloody battle, with confederate forces ultimately prevailing.
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Where were Confederate forces defeated after their first incursion into the North in 1862?
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Battle of Antietam.
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What brought the Radical and moderate Republicans together in an alliance against President Johnson?
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President Johnson vetoed the Freedmen's Bureau bill and the Civil Rights Act of 1866.
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With the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment, Congress sought to
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protect the citizenship rights of males.
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Who won the 1876 presidential election?
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Rutherford Hayes
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The Freedmen's Bureau was designed to
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ensure the election of former slaves to public office.
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What did the Fort Laramie Treaty require?
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It required northern Plains Indians to move to a reservation in South Dakota.
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Who fed the rags-to-riches myth in his novels?
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Horatio Alger
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How did James Duke influence American Society in the nineteenth century?
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He used trading cards, box-top premiums, and so-called scientific endorsements to sell cigarettes to Americans.
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What did Henry Grady advocate?
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He advocated diversifying the economy and expanding industrial production in the south.
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What happened to the USS Maine?
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It lew up in Havana Harbor in 1898.
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Who was known as the king of ragtime?
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Scott Joplin
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Who led the National American Woman Suffrage Association into the twentieth century?
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Carrie Chapman Catt
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The Grange was an
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organization of farmers.
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What did the Curtis Act do?
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It dissolved the Indian Territory and abolished tribal governments.
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Which of the following amendments is not accurately defined?
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The seventeenth Amendment allows the direct election of members of the house of representatives.
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In the jungle, Upton Sinclair exposed the corruption in
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the meatpacking industry
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Whose assassination triggered WWI?
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Franz Ferdinand
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Which of the following statements concerning the 1918 influenza pandemic is true?
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It killed as many as 30 million people worldwide.
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Which of the following examples reveals the nativism in the United States in the 1920s?
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President Harding issued an executive order limiting the number of non-British immigrants.
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What did Rudolph Valentino, Charlie Chaplin, and Mary Pickford have in common?
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They all became celebrities in the 1920s because of their acting in movies.
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Which New Deal Legislation from 1933 provided jobs for young men in restoration and environmental projects?
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Civilian Conservation Corps
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Which of the following statements is not true about the new deal?
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The new deal brought about full economic recovery, and by 1939 unemployment was no longer a serious problem.
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Where did the United States drop the first atomic bomb?
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Hiroshima
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How did Germany's persecution of Jews during the 1930s benefit the Allies during WWII?
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Many leading European scientists and intellectuals fled German control and aided the Allies during the war.
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Why was the United States called the "arsenal of democracy?"
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It produced 300,000 airplanes, 2.6 million machine guns, 6 million tons of bombs, and numerous other war materials.
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President Harry Truman developed the Truman Doctrine in 1947 because he wanted to
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provide military and economic aid for turkey and Greece so they could resist the spread of communism.
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Why was the 1947 National Security Act significant?
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It unified the armed forces under a single Department of Defense; Created the central intelligence agency; established the national security council.
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In which country did the united states fight a war in the early 1950s?
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Korea
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Which of the following shows was the number one show on television throughout most of the 1950s?
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I love Lucy
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Why did President Eisenhower eventually support the desegregation of public schools?
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He was forced to defend the law of the land after seeing the defiance of Arkansas governor Orville Faubus.
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What did Dr. Benjamin Spock argue in common sense book of baby and child care?
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He urged mothers to stay at home; parents to comfort crying babies, parents to avoid spankings.
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During the Cuban Missile crisis the united states
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instituted a quarantine of Cuba.
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Which of the following accurately describes Lyndon Johnson's policy on civil rights?
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He enacted a sweeping civil rights law that granted the federal government new powers to fight segregation.
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Where did a major race riot occur in 1965 that signaled an increase in racial violence for the next several years?
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Los Angeles
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When he used shuttle diplomacy, where was Henry Kissinger attempting to achieve a peace settlement?
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The Middle East
