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First Semester Exam Review
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1
Who is most associated with political machines in New York?
Jacob Riis
Samuel Gompers
William "Boss" Tweed
Thomas Nast
2
What is an accurate cause and effect?
Spanish American War - Sinking of Lusitania
Panama Canal built - Spanish American war begins
USS Maine exlpodes in Havana Cuba - Spanish American War begins
USS Maine Sunk - Sussex pledge
3
Which headline would have come during the Red Scare?
Stop Progressives!
Prohibition Works!
Suffrage Now!
Limit Immigration!
4
As america expanded he convinced the government to build a modern Navy -
Franklin Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt
Jacob Riis
Alfred T. Mahan
5
Opened in 1914, increased trade between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans -
Pearl Harbor
Suez Canal
Panama Canal
Roosevelt expressway
6
What word best describes the US in 1898?
Communist
Patronage
Isolationist
Imperialist
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Which headline would have come out during the Red Scare?
Limit Immigration!!
Suffrage Now!!
Prohibition Works!!
Stop Progressives!!
8
The Espionage Act showed that at times the government is willing to -
Hold spies without a trial
Put spies in concentration camps
use spies on other nations
limit freedom of speech
9
Open door policy is most associated with -
China
England
Japan
Germany
10
Social Reformer, Founder of Hull House
Susan B. Anthony
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
Jane Addams
11
Why were Mexican Americans deported by the government during the Great Depression?
Fulfill terms of international peace treaty
Prevent communist influence on labor unions
Reduce competition for jobs
Protect national security
12
What is an accurate cause and effect -
Social Darwinism - Prohibition Laws
Treaty of Versailles - The New Deal
Harlem Renaissance - Influence on Civil Rights Movement
Fascism - The Red Scare
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"European nation takes aggressive action against the US" - this cause the US to enter?
Spanish American War
Isolationist phase
Great Depression
World War I
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What was the purpose of the Sherman Anti-trust Act?
Help Business expand
Break up labor unions
Increase trust in the banking system
Dissolve monopolies
15
Decline in worldwide trade, ____, and bank failures - what is the missing cause of the Great Depression?
Increase in consumer spending
Over speculation in the Stock Market
Decrease in military spending
Government subsidization of agriculture
16
The acquisition of Guam, Puerto Rico, Philippines and Cuba was the result of -
Territorial Acquisition Act
WW I
Spanish American War
Treaty of Verailles
17
What made the American Federation of Labor different than other labor unions?
excluded unskilled workers
Only allowed railroad workers
allowed all workers
allowed women and other minorities
18
The first attempt by government to regulate business, the ICC, was aimed at -
Railroad Industry
Oil Industry
Steel Industry
Automobile Industry
19
Which New Deal agency began to guarantee bank deposits?
TVA
Social Security
FDIC
AAA
20
What book is a primary source on immigrant life in the 1890's?
The Great Gatsby
Grapes of Wrath
How The Other Half Lives
The Jungle
21
Homesteader = Farmer - Muckraker = ?
Journalist
Entrepreneur
Industrialist
Philanthropist
22
Major drought, bank failures, widespread unemployment, government expands all associated with -
1920-1929
1940-1949
1900-1909
1930-1939
23
Journalists who exposed the problems of the Gilded Age?
Yellow Journalists
Mudrakers
Muckrakers
Social Darwinists
24
Which is a direct cause of the US entering WW I?
Sinking of the Lusitannia
Zimmerman Telegram discovered
Germany invades netrual Belgium
Blowing up the the USS Maine
25
Because of the 19th Amendment -
Black males could vote
Stock Market Crashed
Senators were elected by the people
Women could vote
26
How does the 17th amendment give more power to the individual voter?
Allowed for the direct election of senators by the people
Allowed people to vote on laws
Gave women the right to vote
Gave black males the right to vote
27
Booker T Washington believed African-Americans would achieve acceptance by -
becoming econimicly independent
Protesting inequalities
joining labor unions
Working for voting rights
28
The rise of organized crime was a direct result of -
Prohibition
World War I
Stock Market Crash
Red Scare
29
What was the main cause of the Stock Market Crash?
Buying on Margin (credit)
Overproduction
Smoot-Hawley Tarrif
Laissez-Faire policies
30
John Muir convinced President Roosevelt to increase spending for -
Job Training
National Parks
Panama Canal
Modern Navy
31
The Dust Bowl was a result of -
poor farming practices and too many farmers
El Nino and poor water conservation
Poor Irrigation and too little farming
Drought and poor farming practices
32
What book contributed directly to regulation of food products?
Grapes of Wrath
Great Gatsby
The Jungle
How the Other Half Lives
33
Civil Service reform was a response to -
The Robber Barons
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
Spoils System
Social Darwinism
34
What peace plan attempted to correct the abuses of colonization after WW I?
Treaty of Versailles
Roosevelt Corollary
Treaty of Paris
14 Points
