Short Answer all tests

Question 1

What famous speech did Lincoln give to dedicate a war cemetery for one of the bloodiest battles of the war

Answer 1

Gettysburg address

Question 2

What term means the draft , or the compulsory enrollment of men into military service

Answer 2

Conscription

Question 3

Which state was unconstitutionally admitted into the union during the war

Answer 3

West Virginia

Question 4

What term refers to the national governments attempt to rebuild the south according to radical ideas

Answer 4

Reconstruction

Question 5

What act of Congress was designed to protect cabinet members from being fired by the president

Answer 5

Tenure of office act

Question 6

What was the most severe depression in the first one hundred years of America’s history

Answer 6

Panic of 73

Question 7

What government agency was designed to help former slaves during the war

Answer 7

Freedmans bureau

Question 8

Which extremist group opposed radical reconstruction and sought to prevent blacks from voting during reconstruction

Answer 8

KKK

Question 9

Which scandal involved a group of criminal use of funds intended for railroad construction

Answer 9

Credit mobilizer

Question 10

What term was applied to the political agreement whereby federal troops would be removed from the south

Answer 10

Compromise of 1877

Question 11

What invention enabled farmers to fence their land on the treeless plains

Answer 11

Barbed wire

Question 12

What was the last major effort by the Indians to retain their land

Answer 12

Sioux war

Question 13

What term is used for tracts of land set aside for Indians

Answer 13

Reservations

Question 14

What Chinese rebellion against foreigners was stopped by an international military force that included US troops

Answer 14

Boxer rebellion

Question 15

What term means the extension of power by one people or country over another for the benefit of the controlling country

Answer 15

Imperialism

Question 16

What term means mission boards that are not supported by guaranteed funds from a denomination

Answer 16

Faith missions

Question 17

What term was given to the sensationalized news reporting that became popular in the US late in the 19th century

Answer 17

Yellow journalism

Question 18

In which war the US fight over the independence of Cuba

Answer 18

Spanish American war

Question 19

In what year did the US enter the Great War

Answer 19

1917

Question 20

What term was popularly used to refer to American soldiers in ww1

Answer 20

Dough boys

Question 21

On what exact date did the German sign an armistice ending world war

Answer 21

November 11 1918

Question 22

What name was given to the clause in the peace treaty making German responsible for the war

Answer 22

War guilt clause

Question 23

What unreasonable economic demand did Britain and France impose on Germany in the treaty of Versailles

Answer 23

War reparations

Question 24

What was the name given to the economic crisis in the 1930s

Answer 24

Great Depression

Question 25

What crisis swept the nation at the very end of Hoover’s administration threatening economic chaos

Answer 25

Banking crisis

Question 26

What was the name attached to Roosevelt’s Efforts to conquer the depression

Answer 26

New deal

Question 27

What was the name given to the group of advisors who helped Roosevelt formulate a plan to overcome the depression

Answer 27

Brain trusts

Question 28

Was was the southern Great Plains called during the devastating drought of the 1930s

Answer 28

Dust bowl

Question 29

What act empowered the president to supply any allied nation on almost any terms he wished

Answer 29

Lend lease act

Question 30

What agreement between Churchill and Roosevelt listed their common principles and goals in the war effort

Answer 30

Atlantic charter

Question 31

In which section of northern France did the allied expeditionary force land in 1944

Answer 31

Normandy

Question 32

At which winter battle did the nazis counterattack against the allied invasion of Europe almost stopping the advance into Germany

Answer 32

Battle of the Bulge

Question 33

Which country did German soldiers invade beginning ww2

Answer 33

Poland

Question 34

Where did general mcarthur launch a brilliant amphibious invasion of North Korea that saved South Korea

Answer 34

Inchon

Question 35

What 1961 operation against communist Cuba was originally backed by the US but resulted in disaster when aid was withdrawn at the last minute

Answer 35

Bay of pigs

Question 36

What did east Germany begin building In 1961 to prevent refugees from escaping to the west

Answer 36

Berlin Wall

Question 37

What nickname was given to the conservative southern democrats who joined the states rights party in 1948

Answer 37

Dixiecrats

Question 38

What term was coined to describe accusations based on lies distortion , and innuendo

Answer 38

McCarthyism

Question 39

What government health insurance program was instituted in 1965 to help elderly people pay their medical expenses

Answer 39

Medicare

Question 40

What were pro communist south Vietnamese guerrillas called

Answer 40

Viet cong

Question 41

Where did North Vietnamese meet with the US for peace talks

Answer 41

France, Paris

Question 42

What was presidents Nixon policy of reducing American forces in Vietnam and increasing the role of the south Vietnamese called

Answer 42

Vietnamization

Question 43

At what university were 4 students killed during a 1970 anti war protest

Answer 43

Kent state

Question 44

What two other southeast Asian nations fell to communism after the fall of south Vietnam

Answer 44

Laos Cambodia

Question 45

What was the technical name for Reagan’s economic philosophy

Answer 45

Supply side economics

Question 46

What were anti Sandinista guerrillas in Nicaragua called

Answer 46

Contras

Question 47

In what country did the mujahideen resist soviet occupation for ten years

Answer 47

Afghanistan

Question 48

Who was Walter Mondales vice presidential running mate

Answer 48

Geraldine Ferraro

Question 49

What does the term perestroika mean

Answer 49

Restructuring

Question 50

What was the proper name for the project that critics derisively called starwars

Answer 50

SDI

Question 51

What label did bill Clinton coin for himself in the 1992 campaign by backing away from big government , high taxes and free spending

Answer 51

New Democrat

Question 52

What was presidents ford main weapon in his stand off with congress

Answer 52

Veto

Question 53

What term was applied to the combination of high energy prices and oil shortages in the 1970s

Answer 53

Energy crisis

Question 54

What do economists call the simultaneous occurence of high inflation and high unemployment

Answer 54

Stagflation

Question 55

What is the result when a nation imports more than it exports

Answer 55

Trade deficit

Question 56

What faction was driven by social and moral issues to join the traditional conservatives in the late 1970s and early 1980s

Answer 56

New right

Question 57

What presidential power that congress finally passed did the Supreme Court strike down as unconstitutional

Answer 57

Line item veto

Question 58

As he had in 1992 , who turned up In the 1996 presidential election as the reform party candidate

Answer 58

Ross Perot

Question 59

Which African country did American forces leave after a failed peacekeeping mission

Answer 59

Somalia

Question 60

Bill Clinton was the second president to have this happen to him , Andrew Johnson the first

Answer 60

Impeachment

Question 61

Name one of Obama’s two Supreme Court nominees during his first 2 Years in office

Answer 61

Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan