Guideline and Study Questions for the Third Examination December 3rd History 1378 Fall Semester 2014 Professor T. Tillery The final examination will consist of two parts, multiple-choice and essay questions. There will be 65 multiple choice questions worth one point each. The essay section will require students to write on ONE of the following questions, there will be NO choice. The essay will be worth 35 points. Essay questions for the Third Examination: 1. Discuss the history between America and Japan that led to the attack on Pearl Harbor in l941. 2. The Civil Rights Movement (l945-1965) included a legal attack “and” a grassroots attack on racism and segregation. Discuss why both approaches were needed and give example of both …show more content…
D. Agricultural Adjustment Administration. 15. One of the most important achievements of the New Deal in the area of banking was included in a l933 act. This key reform A. Was the uniting of investment and commercial banking so that bankers could more readily transfer depositors money. B. Was the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, so that the government would guarantee bank deposits. C. Allowed weak banks to default on corporate loans, so that they could meet their obligation to individual depositors. D. Was the creation of the Federal Reserve System to regulate the banking industry. 16. Which of the following did the Supreme Court declare wholly or partly unconstitutional? A. Tennessee Valley Authority and Civilian Conservation Corps. B. National Recovery Act and Agricultural Adjustment Act. C. Civilian Works Administration and Works Progress Administration. D. National Labor Relations Act and Social Security. 17. Which one of the following men did NOT challenge New Deal policies? A. Charles Coughlin. B. Harry Hopkins. C. Dr. Francis Townsend. D. Huey Long. 18. Roosevelt’s administration, under the prodding of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harold Ickes, A. Began to support racial integration, and banned discrimination in certain programs. B. Gave assistance to Mexican Americans but offered little support to Indians. C. Was passionate in its devotion to complete racial integration. D. Supported an anti-lynching bill. 19. What best describes the character
5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
Final Exam: Between the beginning of World War II and the present decade, the United States underwent significant reform through key legislative acts, which addressed race relations, poverty, and gender. Explain these different categories of reform, their early proponents, their evolution into legislation, and whether or not this legislation truly addressed the issues.
In a juxtaposition of each half of the 1960s, the methods and goals of the Civil Rights movement evolved immensely. However, unlike more commonly known forms of evolution, this one was not positive. As a result of the continued oppression and segregation, African-Americans began to lose their patience with the government and took matters into their own hands by utilizing a more direct approach than they formerly had. Hence, a vast alteration of methods of the Civil Rights movement occurred as a result of the hardships experienced.
Analyze the changes that occurred during the 1960’s in the goals, strategies, and support of the movement for African American civil rights.
Secondly, out of the twenty-five stockholders of the Bank, five of these were government owned. Thus showing support of the Bank by subscribing to one-fifth of its $35 million (Schlesinger 74). In addition, among the Bank’s functions was to hold all government money, sell all government bonds, and make commercial loans. However, no voters could dictate its policies or reign in its power, due to its privately owned status (Roughshod 2). Finally, the government also allowed bank notes to be used as payment for taxes.
Chapter 21 Question 2: What key issues and events led the federal government to intervene in the civil rights movement? What were the major pieces of legislation enacted, and how did they dismantle legalized segregation?
3) In what ways did Charles Hamilton Houston and W.E.B. DuBois differ in their approaches to school integration? Why? [Optional: Who do you think was right and why? You may use extra lines if you would like to respond.]
The civil rights movement was time when racial equality was prominent in America. In this essay it will address the ways in which people challenged the ways of life to one day achieve racial equality. Jim crows laws and segregation was a dominant factor in the way that the courts ruled in favour of racial inequality.
Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois offered different strategies for dealing with the problems of poverty and discrimination faced by Black Americans at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Assess the appropriateness of each of these strategies in the historical context in which each was developed.
A debate in civil rights history appeared in the decades following the well-publicized struggles of the early 1960s and continues today. This debate is of whether the movement was finished with its goals when it attained equal treatment under the law, or whether it had changed to a new goal of fighting all forms of discrimination, not just the formal version found in Jim Crow.
#2) Describe the role the Supreme Court plays in the policymaking process. Compare and contrast Judicial Activism and Judicial Restraint. Explain 5 Amendments in the Bill of Rights. How does a society balance possible contradictions and inconsistencies with respect to national security, and the rights of the individual? Discuss some of the conflicts, issues and problems that arose during the Civil Right 's movement in the 1950 's and 1960 's, as well as current Civil Rights issues.
Question 2: Discuss and differentiate the philosophies and strategies within the 1960’s Civil Rights Movement. Which organizations held what philosophy? If an organization’s philosophy changed over time, explain in detail. Were there other movements which held competing philosophies? If yes, what were they?
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is a government corporation that was established by Congress in 1933. On June 16, 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt signed an Act known as ‘The Banking Act of 1933. The act was created during the Great Recession in order to restore the trust of the public in the American banking system, due to the fact of how frequent bank runs were happening. A bank run is a result of so many people demanding to withdrawal their deposits from the Bank’s reserves, that it leads to the banks becoming insolvent and not being able to return their depositor’s money, which lead to many banks filing for bankruptcy. During this time thousands of banks failed and because of this many people lost faith in the American
3. Write an essay on the civil rights movement since 1953 in which you discuss the major factors that have contributed to its success and its major gains. Be sure to discuss more than one group and to cite examples from each decade of the 1950s through the 1990s.
The purpose of this investigation is to analyze the extent to which the US's economic sanction and trade embargo on Japan was responsible for the cause of Pearl Harbor which occurred in December 7, 1941. The analysis will inspect U.S's role in the cause of Pearl Harbor as well as look at other reasons that contributed a role to the cause of Pearl Harbor. It will observe the effect of the Pearl Harbor on the U.S, as well as how it affected Japanese Americans. This investigation will include an evaluation of the origin, purpose, value, and limitation of two documents used for