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HIST312 Final Exam - Capitalism and Democracy in America
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HIST312 Final Exam - Capitalism and Democracy in America
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1. The strike at Homestead (1892) demonstrated that:
2. The New Deal cemented the _________________________ hold on the White House for over thirty years.
3. Following the October 1929 American Stock Market Crash:
4. Which of the following is the most accurate description of consumer spending habits in the 1920s?
5. Most former slaves ended up as ______________________, or tenant farmers obligated to give their landlords a share of the crops they grew.
6. Between 1877 and 1893, American presidents espoused the belief that:
7. How was the American slave trade vital to the South's economy?
8. The __________________ Revolution changed technology and economics in eighteenth-century.
9. Which of the following statements best describes the effect that the Enlightenment had on North America?
10. One rapid growth job category in 1950s America was:
11. A ___________________________ is a merger between rival corporations designed to restrict trade by putting other competitors out of business.
12. Expanding middle-class consumption during the 1920s led to all of the following developments EXCEPT:
13. The assassination of ______________________ allowed vice-president Theodore Roosevelt to ascend to the presidency in 1901.
14. Initially, Europeans valued the 'New World' for its purported wealth of gold and silver.By 1650, however, most nations saw the Americas as a cheap source of _________________.
15. Before WWII, Ronald Reagan belonged to what political party?
16. Great Britain's eighteenth-century mercantilist polices included which of the following?
17. Who won the highest number of electoral votes in the election of 1824?
18. In the 1950s, many whites with the means to do so fled the __________________ in favor of life in the _____________________.
19. The Seven Years' War impacted British-colonial relations because:
20. The slave trade/plantation system:
21. Newly freed slaves identified _______________________ as the basis of freedom.
22. Early 19th century America saw the development of a new industrial system that:
23. Enlightenment philosophers argued that all social problems could be solved by:
24. The Bretton Woods System was based on:
25. In 1960, a new phase of the civil rights struggle began with the _________________ at the Woolworths lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.