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HIS 105 Week 2 Quiz 1
Question 1
Immediately after the Civil War, many white landowners
Question 2
Congress impeached Johnson because
Question 3
What effect did the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments have on the women's suffrage movement?
Question 4
Radical Republicans in Congress sought to
Question 5
White Redeemers terrorized African Americans in the South with arson, assassinations, and intimidation in order to
Question 6
"Robber barons" or "captains of industry" were businessmen who
Question 7
Industrialists justified their growing financial and political strength in all of the following ways EXCEPT
    Question 8
As the Industrial Revolution progressed in America, all of the following occurred except
Question 9
During the Civil War, Congress took advantage of the absence of southerners in the House and Senate to do all of the following, EXCEPT
Question 10
Among the American Federation of Labor's successes were all of the following except
HIS 105 Week 4 Quiz 2
Question 1
Housing for factory workers was so bad in the late 1800s, and city sanitation was so poor, that epidemics of ____ swept through whole cities.
Question 2
Ida B. Wells-Barnett, an editor and writer, concentrated her reform efforts on the social issue of
Question 3
Henry Grady's speech, "The New South," could best be classified as
Question 4
The Dawes Act
Question 5
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Question 6
In his book, The Lost Cause, published just one year after the Civil War ended, Edward Pollard argued that the real reason the Civil War happened was
Question 7
The Grange was
Question 8
The final act in the U.S. war against the Plains Indians took place at
Question 9
The rapid growth of the southern textile industry established it as
Question 10
The major industries that developed in the South prior to 1900 included all of the following except
HIS 105 Week 5 Quiz 3
Question 1
Municipal housekeeping is a term that describes
Question 2
Hull House was founded by
Question 3
Which of the following was a function of settlement houses?
Question 4
The woman who dedicated herself to educating women about birth control was
Question 5
Progressive governor Robert "Battling Bob" La Follette secured passage of his "Wisconsin Idea," which produced laws in all of the following areas, except
Question 6
Alfred Thayer Mahan argued that the United States would never sustain itself as a world power without
Question 7
In his famous 1893 essay, historian Frederick Jackson Turner bemoaned the loss of a frontier in America, because he believed that
Question 8
The strained relations between Queen Lili'uokalani and American businessmen came to a head in 1893, when
Question 9
Which of these was not a reason for the onset of the Spanish-American War?
Question 10
The Teller Amendment
HIS 105 Week 7 Quiz 4
Question 1
Immigration to America changed a great deal during the 1920s, as all of the following happened EXCEPT
Question 2
Which of the following agencies put millions of men to work building roads and repairing national parks?
Question 3
The Harlem Renaissance was an African American movement characterized by all of the following except
Question 4
Passed in 1935, the Wagner Act
Question 5
Hollywood during the 1930s
Question 6
As approved, the Social Security Act (1935) would
Question 7
The purpose of the 21st Amendment, enacted in December 1933, was to
Question 8
Which of these events did not happen at Potsdam?
Question 9
The "Double V" campaign refers to
Question 10
The task of the War Relocation Authority was to
HIS 105 Week 8 Quiz 5
Question 1
The revival of the women's movement in the 1960s is often identified with the publication of Betty Friedan's book
Question 2
Critics thought NSC-68 was a gross overreaction by U.S. officials to communism until
Question 3
The Tonkin Gulf Resolution gave President Johnson specific permission to
Question 4
Stalin initiated the blockade of the city of West Berlin in order to
Question 5
What was the most common reaction of Americans to Cold War uncertainties and fears of Communism?
Question 6
The main reason that the Dixiecrats broke with Truman in 1948 and formed their own party was his
Question 7
The Chicano Movement led by Caesar Chavez
Question 8
Truman eventually managed to break the Berlin blockade by
Question 9
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was designed to
Question 10
Johnson ran for election in 1964 advocating a "mandate for change," which he dubbed the
HIS 105 Week 10 Quiz 6
Question 1
Stagflation is an economic crisis that combines
Question 2
The activism of the 1960s ran into roadblocks in the 1970s, which included all of the following, EXCEPT
Question 3
Proposition 13
Question 4
All of the following is true about young conservatives in the late 1950s under the leadership of William F. Buckley, EXCEPT
Question 5
The Pentagon Papers
Question 6
Several issues plagued Carter in his bid for reelection, including all of the following except
Question 7
Why did manufacturers claim they left northern cities during the 1980s for the South and West?
Question 8
Reagan was the perfect conservative candidate and president because of his belief in
Question 9
The Iran Contra affair involved clandestine sales of American armaments to provide money for a guerilla group in
Question 10
All of the following Supreme Court Justices were on the bench between 1980 and 1992, EXCEPT:
HIS 105 Week 11 Quiz 7
Question 1
Digital technology sparked economic growth by
Question 2
Bill Clinton took office with a decidedly centrist world view, as evidenced by his
Question 3
Which of these is descriptive of the nation's economy during the last half of the 1990s?
Question 4
The word that would best describe what took place in corporate America during the 1990s would be
Question 5
Which of these was true of the 1996 election?
Question 6
The rationale given for attacking and invading the country of Iraq in 2003 was that
Question 7
After September 11, it became clear that the al Qaeda network operated from a base of power in
Question 8
Kenneth Lay was the head of
Question 9
According to the USA PATRIOT Act
Question 10
One of the biggest successes of Obama's presidency was
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