Sample Test

Part I – Discuss the importance of the following people (what they did):

1) JP Morgan





2) Ulysses S. Grant




3) General MacArthur




4) Eugene Debs



5) Thomas Stonewall Jackson



6) Franklin Roosevelt



7) Hideki Teojo



8) Robert E. Lee



9) Tecumseh Sherman




Part II – Discuss the importance and outcome of the following battles:

10) Pearl Harbor




11) Battle of Shiloh



12) Battle of the Bulge



13) Battle of Midway



14) Gettysburg




Part II – General History Questions

15) What was the Truman Doctrine really about?




16) What were Lincoln’s reasons for the Emancipation Proclamation?





17) Discuss the importance of the Montgomery Bus Strike.




18) What lands did the U.S. receive from winning the Spanish-American War?






19) Who were the Robber Barons and what did they do?





20) How did Sherman use “Total War” against the South?





21) What were the 13th, 14th, 15th and 19th   Amendments?






22) What was the outcome of the conflict in Korea?






23) How was Vietnam different than Korea?  Why?






24) What was the Gulf of Tonkin?






25) James Polk made what four promises to the American public during the election of 1844.







26) What was important about Brown vs. Board of Education?






27) What were some of the advantages that the North had at the beginning of the Civil War?








28) What were some of the advantages that the South had at the beginning of the Civil War?







29) What was the Cold War?







30) List the various arguments (at least three) for dropping Atomic weapons on Japan.







31) Who were the Axis Powers?




32) How were stocks inflated?  How did this cause the crash?





33)  What is Zinn’s general view on war?