Unit 3: US History Test Review

Question 1

Act that allowed the federal inspection of food and medicine.

Accepted Answer

Pure Food and Drug Act

Question 2

Act was put in place to get recruits to enlist in the US military

Accepted Answer

Selective Service Act

Question 3

Intercepted telegram that proposed an alliance with Germany and Mexico that led the US into WW1

Accepted Answer

Zimmerman Note

Question 4

The colonizing country removes raw materials & ships them back home to benefit its own economy.

Accepted Answer

Extractive Economies

Question 5

Policy of not using force to assert world influence, but instead work to promote human rights.

Accepted Answer

Moral Diplomacy

Question 6

World organization established after WW1 to promote peaceful cooperation between countries.

Accepted Answer

League of Nations

Question 7

Key battle front between Allies and Central Powers in Europe during World War 1.

Accepted Answer

Western Front

Question 8

US statement that the government did not want colonies in China, but favored free trade there.

Accepted Answer

Open Door Policy

Question 9

People who supported the annexation of the Philippines

Accepted Answer

Pro Imperialist

Question 10

People who were against the annexation of the Philippines

Accepted Answer

Anti Imperialists

Question 11

Policy of strong nations extending their control over weaker territories.

Accepted Answer

Imperialism

Question 12

Glorification of the military with the growing number of soldiers and stockpiling of weapons.

Accepted Answer

Militarism

Question 13

Pledged the the US would leave so that the Philippines could become an independent nation.

Accepted Answer

Jones Act

Question 14

A wave of US widespread fear of suspected communists

Accepted Answer

Red Scare

Question 15

Group of merchant ships sailing together, protected by warships.

Accepted Answer

Convoy

Question 16

Policy of creating & using, when necessary, a strong military to achieve American goals.

Accepted Answer

Big Stick Diplomacy

Question 17

Military historian who played a key role in transforming America into a naval power.

Accepted Answer

Alfred Mahan

Question 18

Gave the gov't the authority to set railroad rates & prices for ferries/bridges/oil pipelines

Accepted Answer

Hepburn Act

Question 19

Isolationist senators who opposed the Treaty of Versailles

Accepted Answer

“Irreconcilables” & The “Reservationists”

Question 20

Gave women the right to vote.

Accepted Answer

19th Amendment

Question 21

Won the 1920 US Presidential Election

Accepted Answer

Warren Harding

Question 22

Job was to convince the American public that the war was just.

Accepted Answer

George Creel

Question 23

1902 law that gave the federal government the power to decide where and how water would be distributed through the build

Accepted Answer

National Reclamation Act

Question 24

Policy of expanding American investments abroad.

Accepted Answer

Dollar Diplomacy

Question 25

Worked to place government controls on corporations in order to benefit small businesses.

Accepted Answer

Wilson's New Freedom

Question 26

Allowed the federal government to inspect meat sold across state lines.

Accepted Answer

Meat Inspection Act

Question 27

Created to respond to the pressures of industrialization & urbanization by promoting reforms.

Accepted Answer

Progressivism

Question 28

Form of non-traditional warfare involving hit-and-run attacks by small bands of fighters.

Accepted Answer

Guerrilla Warfare

Question 29

Amendment that gave Congress the authority to levy an income tax.

Accepted Answer

16th Amendment

Question 30

Treaty that officially ended the Spanish American War.

Accepted Answer

Treaty of Paris

Question 31

Newspapers that used sensational headlines & exaggerated stories in order to promote readership

Accepted Answer

Yellow Press

Question 32

The treaty that ended World War I.

Accepted Answer

Treaty of Versailles

Question 33

Was the original leader in the fight for women to get the right to vote.

Accepted Answer

Susan B Anthony

Question 34

Upton Sinclair's book that describes the filthy conditions in a meatpacking plant.

Accepted Answer

The Jungle

Question 35

Reforms to keep the wealthy/powerful from taking advantage of small business owners & the poor.

Accepted Answer

Roosevelt's Square Deal

Question 36

Writers who uncovered and exposed the misconduct in politics or business.

Accepted Answer

Muckrakers

Question 37

List of terms for resolving World War I and future wars

Accepted Answer

Wilson's Fourteen Points

Question 38

An election in which citizens themselves vote to select nominees for upcoming elections.

Accepted Answer

Direct Primary

Question 39

Final period of WWI, when the Allies launched a series of offensives against the Central Powers

Accepted Answer

Hundred Days Offensive

Unit 3: US History Test Review

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Unit 3: US History Test Review

Questions 39