Exam

Question 1

What happened in 1906 during ‘the progressive era?”

Answer 1

3 black men were falsely accused of rape and burned alive, near a replica of the Statue of Liberty.

Question 2

Who was excluded from progressive ideas of freedom?

Answer 2

African Americans due to disenfranchisement

Question 3

What did WW1 do to American foreign policy?

Answer 3

Made it less isolationist

Question 4

What were percentage of New Orleans were African Americans at the time of hurricane Katrina?

Answer 4

67%

Question 5

What percentage of black and white people believed Femas delayed response was due to prejudice at the time of hurricane Katrina?

Answer 5

60% black

12% white

Question 6

What did Bush describe 9/11 as?

Answer 6

“A change in attitude”

Question 7

What did the 19th amendment passed in 1920 do?

Answer 7

Prohibited States from disqualifying women to vote on the grounds of gender.

Question 8

In what ways was Wilson racist?

Answer 8

• southerner

- endorsed “birth of a Nation”, a racist film the NAACP were campaigning against

Question 9

Describe the scholarly debate on why America entered WW1

Answer 9

Othodox - submarine warfare, like Arthur Link.

Revisionist - never really neutral

Post-revisionist - to protect the balance of power in wurop

Question 10

What did Margaret Sanger argue?

Answer 10

Women have the right to decide when they want to be mothers, and that she used to be quite the feminist.

Question 11

When was the progressive era?

Answer 11

1900-1917

Question 12

How did 9/11 change foreign policy?

Answer 12

• became more aggressive
• targeted Iraq and Afghanistan
• in 2001 congress passed the USA patriot act which extended US powers to intercept and obstruct terrorism, meaning they could wage a preemptive war against any ‘threatening’ Nation.

Question 13

Who was Alice Paul and what did she say about WW1?

Answer 13

“How can America fight for democracy abroad and not have it at home?”

Question 14

What did DuBois say to African American about WW1?

Answer 14

That they should close ranks with white Americans?

Question 15

Who won the 1912 election and entered WW1?

Answer 15

Woodrow Wilson

Question 16

What was the emergency immigration act? And when was it passed?

Answer 16

1921

Called a halt to immigration

Question 17

Did WW1 help African Americans?

Answer 17

Nope.

Brown ruling was not passed until 1954 and the post war society say the rise of nativism and anti immigration sentiments, and the second key klux klan re emerged.

Question 18

What was progressivism?

Answer 18

• middle class movement to talk social and political ills.
• prohibition, regulation and social justice.
• wanted Party Primary, efficiency in business and regulation of big business.

Question 19

Who did white leaders of the suffrage campaign exclude?

Answer 19

Black people, wanted votes for “free born white women”

Question 20

Why was King less effective in the North?

Answer 20

Racism more overt and less pervasive

Question 21

What happened to NAACP membership after WW11?

Answer 21

Increased ten fold.

Question 22

How many Japenese were removed from their homes and businesses on the west coast?

Answer 22

100000, transported to war relocation camps.

Question 23

What did some citizens do in California after WW11?

Answer 23

Launched a campaign to stop Japenese resettling.

Question 24

Who talks about racial violence during WW11?

Answer 24

Harvard Sitkoff

Question 25

What was the double V campaign and who talks about it?

Answer 25

Launched by black leaders to fight both fascism and racism abroad.

Harvard Sitkoff

Question 26

How was Bush emphasising American freedom of action?

Answer 26

Unrestricted by international treaties and institutions, had criticised Clintons Nation Building, pushed ahead with missile defence systems ignoring treaties, did not adhere to Kyoto protocol

Question 27

What countries did bush accused of harbouring terrorists?

Answer 27

North Korea, Iraq, Iran..”axis of evil” - used freedom rhetoric.

Question 28

Who wrote ‘how the right invented Barack X’

Answer 28

Edward Williams

Question 29

Who talks about Japenese experiences?

Answer 29

Kevin Leonard.

Question 30

What did twentieth century fox release in 1942?

Answer 30

Little Tokyo

Question 31

Who pointed out the contradictions in America’s treatment of Japanese Americans?

Answer 31

Robert Shaffer

Question 32

Who wrote ‘black presidents and women MPs do not alone mean equality and justice”?

Answer 32

Gary Younge

Question 33

Who talks about web de bois and ww1?

Answer 33

Mark Ellis

Question 34

When was the emergency immigration act?

Answer 34

1921

Question 35

When were women awarded suffrage?

Answer 35

1920

Question 36

Who is George Monbiot?

Answer 36

Guardian columnist, stated that Sadam was no threat, and he had no regard for un law.

Question 37

When was Wilson president?

Answer 37

Progressive era