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AMH 2020 Final Exam questions with complete solutions
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AMH 2020 Final ExamJackson Pollock - correct answer ✔✔An influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract
expressionist movement
Levittown - correct answer ✔✔The name of four large suburban developments created in the United
States of America by William Levitt and his company Levitt & Sons. Built in the post-WW2 era for
returning veterans and their new families, the communities offered attractive alternatives to cramped
central city locations and apartments
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas - correct answer ✔✔A US Supreme Court case, which
declared state laws established separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional
Emmett Till - correct answer ✔✔An African-American boy murdered in Mississippi in 1955 at the age of
14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman. His murder received a lot of attention from the press
and is noted as a pivotal event motivating the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
Greensboro Sit-ins - correct answer ✔✔A series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina in
February 1960 that sparked a new passion for civil rights protests, using direct action tactics mostly led
by black college students
Freedom Rides - correct answer ✔✔The Freedom Rides (1961) were used to challenge segregation on
public transportation in southern states and declare it as unconstitutional
Cuban Missile Crisis - correct answer ✔✔A 14-day confrontation in October 1962 between the Soviet
Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other side. The Cuban Missile Crisis was the
closest the world ever came to nuclear war.
Students for a Democratic Society - correct answer ✔✔A student activist movement in the United States
that was one of the main representations of the New Left. The organization developed and expanded
rapidly in the mid-1960s before dissolving at its last convention in 1969.
,The Feminine Mystique - correct answer ✔✔A 1963 book by Betty Friedan which is widely credited with
sparking the beginning of second-wave feminism in the United States.
Vietnamization - correct answer ✔✔Upon taking office in 1969, U.S President Richard Nixon (1913-1994)
introduced a new strategy called Vietnamization that was aimed at ending American involvement in the
Vietnam War (1954-1975) by transferring all military responsibilities to South Vietnam.
Equal Rights Ammedment - correct answer ✔✔A proposed amendment to the United States
Constitution designed to guarantee equal rights for women. It was passed by the Senate in 1972.
Rape of Belguim (1914) - correct answer ✔✔German mistreatment of civilians during the invasion and
subsequent occupation of Belgium during World War I.
Alice Paul (1916) - correct answer ✔✔American suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one
of the main leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution, which prohibits sex discrimination in the right to vote.
Jeanette Rankin (1917) - correct answer ✔✔was an American politician and women's rights advocate,
and the first woman to hold federal office in the United States.
Zimmerman Telegram (1917) - correct answer ✔✔was a secret diplomatic communication issued from
the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and
Mexico in the prior event of the United States entering World War I against Germany.
CPI (1917) - correct answer ✔✔promoted public support for the war; this government propaganda
agency, headed by Creel, attracted progressive reformers and muckraking journalists - educating citizens
about democracy, promoting national unity, assimilating immigrants, and breaking down the isolation of
rural life
Sedition Act (1917) - correct answer ✔✔was an Act of the United States Congress that extended the
Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of
opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light
, Espionage Act (1918) - correct answer ✔✔made it a federal offense to use "disloyal, profane, scurrilous,
or abusive language" about the Constitution, the government, the American uniform, or the flag.
Fourteen Points (1918) - correct answer ✔✔Fourteen goals of the United States in the peace
negotiations after World War I. President Woodrow Wilson announced the Fourteen Points to Congress
War Labor Board (1918-1919) - correct answer ✔✔was made up of political, business and labor leaders
and was tasked with providing labor-policy recommendations. Used to resolve labor disputes during the
course of the war
18th Amendment (1919) - correct answer ✔✔effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic
beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal
19th Amendment (1919) - correct answer ✔✔unified suffrage laws across the United States (gave
women the right to vote).
NAWSA (1919) - correct answer ✔✔advocate in favor of women's suffrage in the United States
Carrie Catt (1919) - correct answer ✔✔an American women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the
Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women the right to vote in
1920.
The Treaty of Versailles (1919) - correct answer ✔✔document signed between Germany and the Allied
Powers following World War I that officially ended that war.
W.E.B Dubois (1919) - correct answer ✔✔wrote extensively and was the best known spokesperson for
African-American rights during the first half of the 20th century. He co-founded the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People (N.A.A.C.P.) in 1909.
Mohandas Ghandi (1919) - correct answer ✔✔political and spiritual leader during India's struggle with
Great Britain for home rule; an advocate of passive resistance
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