Exam 3
HIST 1302 – U.S. History II
Example Assessment
This is an example of an assessment for HIST 1302. It will be completed in approximately 1 hour.
PART I – Multiple Choice
Select the best answer for each of the following questions, and mark the corresponding
letter on your Scantron. One (1) point each.
1.
______________ chose Herbert Hoover as their 1928 presidential candidate
because they thought that he would continue President Coolidge's pro-business
policies.
a) Democrats
b) Progressives
c) Socialists
d) Republicans
2.
During the Great Depression, jobless hoboes headed ______________ in search of
seasonal agricultural work.
a) To Mexico
b) To Canada
c) Northward and eastward
d) Southward and westward
3.
Marcus Garvey used the Universal Negro Improvement Association to encourage
African Americans to:
a) Gain economic and political independence
b) Assimilate into white society
c) Attend vocational schools
d) Obey segregation laws
4.
Most whites who patronized Harlem institutions in the 1920s saw the
neighborhood as:
a) The source of an exciting new cultural movement
b) Nothing more than a slum
c) A place to experience true racial equality
d) An exotic place with a lively nightlife
5.
During the 1920s, American foreign policy:
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a) Retreated into isolationism
b) Embraced Wilsonian internationalism and the League of Nations
c) Rejected Wilsonian internationalism but remained involved in the world economically and
politically
d) Emphasized state action over private-sector diplomacy
6.
In the eyes of rural dwellers of the 1920s, cities were:
a) Seldom of interest
b) More interesting than the countryside
c) Better than the countryside because they were more diverse
d) A menace to traditional values
7.
When the stock market hesitated in the fall of 1929, investors:
a) Saw a chance to get stocks at bargain prices
b) Ignored the dip
c) Expressed confidence in its soundness
d) Began selling their overvalued stock
8.
Republicans hoped the 1921 Washington Disarmament Conference would:
a) Revise the Treaty of Versailles
b) Stop research into sophisticated new weapons
c) End war completely
d) Preserve peace without forcing the United States to join the League of Nations
9.
Welfare capitalism was created by:
a) Traditional labor unions to assist workers
b) Socialists
c) The government to address the needs of the less fortunate
d) Businesses to encourage loyalty to the company
10. The automobile industry changed American life by:
a) All of the other choices
b) Allowing workers to move out of cities and commute to work from the suburbs
c) Creating related industries that increased employment opportunities
d) Causing small towns to decay
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11. In its effort to concentrate on prosperity at home, the Harding
administration supported:
a) The deregulation of industry
b) High tariffs to protect American businesses
c) All of the above
d) Price supports for agriculture
12. The Dawes Plan:
a) Halved Germany's annual reparations payments and initiated American loans to Germany
b) Made provisions for the United States to assume Germany's war debts
c) Authorized the mobilization of United States military forces to ensure that Germany would
pay reparations
d) Called for the United States to join the League of Nations
13. The Hoover administration responded to the problems of the American people
during the Great Depression by:
a) Censoring writings that were critical of the government
b) Asking the rich to accept a tax increase
c) Coordinating government relief programs to relieve the suffering of jobless Americans
d) Insisting that no one was starving
14. The relatively new industry in the 1920s that linked the possession of material
goods to the fulfillment of spiritual and emotional needs was:
a) Advertising
b) Steel manufacturing
c) Chemical manufacturing
d) Public relations
15. Professional baseball in the 1920s:
a) Was played on weekdays, when workers could not attend games
b) Remained dominated by college rivalries
c) Attracted players and spectators from the working class
d) Was fully integrated, both on the field and in the seats
16. Among its achievements, the Fair Labor Standards Act curbed ______________.
a) Price gouging
b) Lockouts
c) Unemployment
d) Child labor
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17. Bitter opponents of discrimination charged that NRA stood for
"______________."
a) Not Really Appropriate
b) Negro Removal Administration
c) Negroes' Rights Abolished
d) Negro Run Around
18. The Southern Farm Tenants Union criticized the Agricultural Adjustment Act
because it primarily benefited ______________.
a) Land owners
b) Whites
c) Consumers
d) Northerners
19. The experience of growing up in an environment of substantial wealth and
Christian values left Franklin Roosevelt with a code of ethics that:
a) Made him believe only elites were suited for leading the country
b) Left him wondering how to reconcile capitalism and Christianity
c) Deemed that the privileged should look after the welfare of the poor and weak
d) Made him feel that the values of self-reliance and religion separated the strong from the
weak
20. The 1936 Supreme Court decision against the AAA sided with:
a) Small tenant farmers
b) Agricultural processors and distributors
c) Large southern farmers
d) Upton Sinclair, who argued the case in front of the Court
21. In 1932, supporters of the Democratic Party:
a) Were divided by region, religion, culture, and ethnicity
b) Had little enthusiasm for Franklin Roosevelt
c) Were accustomed to winning elections
d) Thought that foreign policy and cultural issues should get more priority than economic
concerns
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22. The American Liberty League's well-financed publicity campaign:
a) Led to community protest across the nation.
b) Helped prove that the socialist critique of the new deal was legitimate.
c) Led Democratic Party leaders to question whether Franklin Roosevelt should run for
reelection in 1936.
d) Underscored the divisions between the business class and the Roosevelt administration.
23. In most American's minds, Franklin Roosevelt's "fireside chats" became a fixture
of his administration and:
a) Established him as an international leader with the potential to enchant audiences in much
the same way as Adolf Hitler or Benito Mussolini
b) Created national feelings of confidence and optimism
c) Were not all that popular because of the alternative radio entertainment available
d) Proved hypocritical to the New Deal programs
24. One of the most impressive achievements of the New Deal was:
a) That the United States did not abandon democracy to confront the nation's economic crisis
b) That it stabilized agriculture in the United States through the end of the century
c) Its strengthening of the military-industrial complex
d) The privatization of Social Security
25. The Wagner Act:
a) Prohibited African Americans and immigrants from joining unions
b) Had expanded union membership almost fivefold by 1945
c) Prohibited assembly-line workers from joining unions
d) Had no effect on union membership
26. As a result of President Roosevelt's fiscal decisions in 1937:
a) The New Deal got a shot in the arm.
b) Unemployment figures dropped.
c) The country returned to normalcy.
d) The country suffered a recession.
27. Before winning the presidential election of 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt had:
a) Served as the Republican mayor of New York City
b) Worked his way through college
c) Been the governor of New Jersey
d) Served as President Wilson's assistant secretary of the navy and as governor of New York
28. The New Deal most improved the quality of life in rural America by:
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a) Opening new markets overseas for farmers
b) Providing electricity through the Rural Electrification Administration
c) Expanding railroad lines
d) Ensuring that sharecroppers and tenant farmers received a fair share of government benefits
29. President Roosevelt was able to restore America's confidence in government and
the private banking system by:
a) Holding daily press conferences
b) Promising the people that they had “nothing to fear but fear itself”
c) Getting Congress to pass all the bills he proposed
d) Broadcasting his fireside chats on the radio
30. To overcome strong objections to the program, the framers of Social Security
agreed that the program would be funded by:
a) Raising income taxes
b) The federal government's general tax fund
c) Tax contributions from workers and their employers
d) A progressive tax on workers
31. In 1939, Congress defeated a bill to admit more ______________ refugees to the
United States.
a) Chinese
b) Jewish
c) German
d) Polish
32. On May 2, 1945, the Red Army captured ______________, but only after three
weeks of vicious fighting.
a) Berlin
b) Vienna
c) Dresden
d) The Danube
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33. ______________, Franklin Roosevelt's running mate in the 1944
election, was selected to satisfy urban Democratic leaders and because he posed
no threat to southern segregationists.
a) Harry S. Truman
b) A. Philip Randolph
c) Henry Wallace
d) Thomas E. Dewey
34. After Pearl Harbor, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto swiftly ordered the Japanese to
attack American airfields and outposts ______________.
a) On the United States Pacific coast
b) In Australia, New Zealand, and the Dutch East Indies
c) In Hawaii and on Midway Island
d) In the Philippines, Guam, and Wake Island
35. At Yalta, a seriously ill Franklin Roosevelt felt that he had gotten what he wanted
from Joseph Stalin when the Russian leader agreed to:
a) Allow the self-determination of eastern European countries
b) Stay out of the governance of Korea and Manchuria
c) Withdraw all troops from Berlin after the war
d) Institute democratic reforms at home during the postwar
36. The Selective Service Act:
a) Required people of Japanese ancestry to report to internment camps in the Rocky Mountain
region
b) Registered men of military age to be drafted into the armed services
c) Prohibited African Americans from serving in the U.S. military
d) Reorganized the military into three branches: the army, navy, and Marine Corps
37. The Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act of 1934 gave the president the power to:
a) Impose tariffs on European fascist countries but still trade with them regardless of their tariffs
on American goods
b) Reduce high American tariffs on a nation-by-nation basis for countries that would set the
same tariff standards in return
c) Use military force, if necessary, to persuade Latin American nations to open their doors to
free trade and lower tariffs
d) Ship goods to warring nations as long as they paid in cash, reduced their tariffs, and shipped
the goods on their own boats
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38. The invasion of France, called D-Day, took place on June 6, 1944, at:
a) Normandy
b) Pas de Calais
c) Paris
d) Antwerp
39. The war overseas had a strong impact on the domestic United States economy:
a) Forcing Americans to live in conditions even more constrained than during the Great
Depression
b) Dramatically expanding employment and wages
c) Producing severe food shortages
d) Producing dramatic deflation
40. Although undermanned and outgunned, the Royal Air Force won the Battle of
Britain through determination and:
a) New radar technology and access to German secret codes
b) Help from the American Army Air Corps and its pilots
c) An advanced type of airplane that the Germans could not match
d) The last-minute arrival of French planes and pilots that had escaped the blitzkrieg
41. The great migration to urban areas brought both economic progress for African
Americans and:
a) Racial antagonism
b) Smooth integration into urban neighborhoods
c) Strong increases in union membership
d) Less discrimination
42. The Double V campaign called for both victory in the war and victory for:
a) Thomas Dewey in the presidential election of 1944
b) Republicans in Congress
c) African Americans over racial prejudice at home
d) Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the presidential election of 1944
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43. June 6, 1944, the date the Allies unleashed an assault against the
German army on the beaches of Normandy, is known as:
a) VJ Day
b) D-Day
c) DE Day
d) VE Day
44. An immediate consequence of the Nazi-Soviet treaty of nonaggression in August
1939 was:
a) Confirmation of the effectiveness of appeasement
b) Hitler's invasion of Poland
c) The end of Hitler's aggression in Europe
d) A United States declaration of war against Germany
45. Just after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941:
a) Hitler and Mussolini offered to negotiate a peace
b) Japan's emperor issued an official apology
c) Proponents of neutrality in the United States stepped up their appeals in Congress to keep
the nation out of war
d) Congress endorsed President Roosevelt's call for a declaration of war
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PART II – Map Questions
Identify the letter from each map that corresponds with the given location. One (1) point
each.
Map 1
46. Two Gulf coast states that showed very strong population growth between 1920
and 1930:
a) Letters A & C
b) Letters A & I
c) Letters C & I
d) Letters G & K
47. A Midwestern city that experienced rapid growth between 1920 and 1930:
a) Letter E
b) Letter H
c) Letter I
d) Letter J
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Map 2
48. Center of severe drought and wind erosion:
a) Letter B
b) Letter C
c) Letter D
d) Letter G
49. Okies' route to California:
a) Letter A
b) Letter C
c) Letter D
d) Letter E
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Map 3
50. Nation invaded by Germany in the first action of the war:
a) Letter A
b) Letter B
c) Letter E
d) Letter G
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