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HIST1302 United States History II

Exam 2

Question 1In the presidential election of 1916, Woodrow Wilson:

Question 2The Great Depression was caused by all of the following factors EXCEPT:

Question 3The automobile:

Question 4Some 30 million Americans moved during World War II. Half of these people

Question 5At a time of widespread hunger in the United States, the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) did all of the following except

Question 6For most women workers, World War II:

Question 7In the 1920s, movies, radios, and phonographs:

Question 8As a response to the Great Depression and in contrast to previous federal economic policy:

Question 9President Wilson articulated the clearest statement of American war aims and his vision of a new postwar international order in

Question 10As part of the New Deal, which multifaceted agency was established in 1934 and hired some 3 million Americans, in virtually every walk of life, each year until it ended in 1943?

Question 11During World War I, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman empire were called

Question 12Which statement about the Social Security Act is FALSE?

Question 13This New Deal program sought to improve the conditions of poor landowning farmers and sharecroppers.

Question 14During World War II, the Axis powers were

Question 15The flapper:

Question 16How did World War I’s Committee on Public Information (CPI) inspire business in the 1920s?

Question 17Which was not a consumer good in the 1920s?

Question 18June 6, 1944, the day on which nearly 200,000 American, British, and Canadian soldiers landed in northwestern France, in Normandy, is known as

Question 19Assess the state of the Democratic Party in 1924.

Question 20“Slumming” meant:

Question 21What broad popular sentiments did the Ku Klux Klan express in the 1920s?

Question 22What was the “final solution”?

Question 23A leading characterization of U.S. foreign policy in the early twentieth century was

Question 24The Share Our Wealth movement was:

Question 25 The Wagner Act:

Question 26 Which of the following statements about World War I is NOT accurate?

Question 27The Teapot Dome scandal involved:

Question 28Why did cigarettes become known as “torches of freedom” during the 1920s?

Question 29During the 1920s:

Question 30How did the Committee on Public Information present its message to encourage Americans to remain loyal and support the war effort?

Question 31What broad popular sentiments did the Ku Klux Klan express in the 1920s?

Question 32The Office of War Information:

Question 33During World War II, Native Americans:

Question 34How did fundamentalist Christians define freedom in the 1920s?

Question 35All of the following statements about African-American participation during World War I are true EXCEPT:

Question 36The GI Bill of Rights:

Question 37The Agricultural Adjustment Act:

Question 38Which of the following statements best describes Japan’s overseas actions in the 1930s?

Question 39Which of the following best describes the economic dynamic of the Great Depression?

Question 40The Fair Employment Practices Commission:

Question 41The outbreak of World War I in 1914 was triggered by

Question 42Which was not created by the Social Security Act of 1935, which launched the American welfare state?

Question 43The Harlem Renaissance:

Question 44By 1935, the New Deal:

Question 45During World War I, the federal government:

Question 46In 1925, what was the Tennessee trial in which a public schoolteacher faced charges of violating the state's law prohibiting the teaching of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution?

Question 47The Tennessee Valley Authority:

Question 48Which of the following was not a feature of American involvement in World War II?

Question 49“Rosie the Riveter”:

Question 50Who was the first cabinet member in American history to be convicted of a felony—for accepting nearly $500,000 from businessmen to whom he leased government oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyoming?