Exam (elaborations) Sophia US History II - Final Milestone Perspectives in History

Exam (elaborations) Sophia US History II - Final Milestone Perspectives in History SOPHIA U.S. History II Final Milestone 1. Choose the true statement about the National Origins Act of 1924. Policymakers subjected European immigrants to quota requirements based on nationality. 2. Choose the statement that reflects a success for President Jimmy Carter’s foreign policy. He oversaw the drafting of a historic peace treaty that marked the recognition of Israel by an Arab nation. 3. Several ideologies – social Darwinism, the self-made man, and the Gospel of Wealth – emerged in the Gilded Age, each with its advocates. Choose the statement most likely spoken by Horatio Alger. “A person born into a disadvantaged situation can succeed through ingenuity and hard work.” 4. Prior to Brown v. Board of Education, in 1946, President Harry Truman worked on advancing civil rights. What was a civil rights achievement undertaken by the Truman administration? The armed forces were desegregated through an executive order. 5. Which of the following are examples of the New World Order following the Cold War? Israel granted a measure of self-rule to Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank of Israel. 6. When the United States entered World War I, suffragists saw the opportunity to enact a women’s suffrage amendment. What was one of their main reasons for optimism? They found it hypocritical to fight a war to defend freedom and democracy abroad and deny the vote to women at home. 7. Select a factor that shifted American foreign policy toward imperialism in the 1890s. Navy officials supported the acquisition of Pacific islands to establish bases and coaling stations. 8. Read the excerpt from a memoir written by Allan Pinkerton about the Great Railway Strike of 1877. “For this reason, the strike of ’77 was a complete failure. Although in many instances riotous excesses were not committed, the attempt of which they were all guilty – to prevent the movement of trains – made their strike as truly a riotous proceeding as the pillage, arson, and murder of Pittsburgh could have made it. By this act the strikers placed themselves in an attitude of defiance to all law and to society, and as surely arrayed law, order, and society against them. Had they won, it would have been a triumph of anarchy; and anarchy is a something impossible to exist. No community can exist save under law and order; and no riotous strike is possible of success short of revolution; while revolution itself is a failure, unless it brings to a people a still purer law and a more secure order.” What group of people would most likely agree with Allan Pinkerton’s opinion? President Hayes 9. Study the political cartoon published in Puck in 1899. All of the following are aspects of U.S. foreign policy during the Progressive Era represented in this political cartoon EXCEPT dollar diplomacy. 10. U.S. forces finally captured the former leader of this country, who was found guilty of crimes against his own people and executed in 2006. Choose the map that accurately indicates in red the country where this occurred. (the U.S. invasion of Iraq, which is located just southeast of Syria)