US History Semester 1 Study Guide

The laissez-faire argument for the best way to preserve public land was to...

The Constitution bans states from imposing tariffs, helping goods to flow freely around the country

In a direct primary,

Many members of Congress voted to reject the representatives that Southern voters elected to Congress because they...

Department stores changed the idea of shopping by...

The "Big Four" were enthusiastic about Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen points and added most to the Treaty of Versailles

The main charge at President Johnson's impeachment trial was that he had...

Before ___ arrived in Edo Bay, the Japanese had never seen steamships.

According to the Selective Service Act, the order in which men were called to service was determined by...

Immigrants who failed a medical inspection may be separated from their families and returned to Europe

The Mexican government assumed that American settlers in Texas would eventually come to see them as their own country

With long work, most immigrants found that their move had not improved their standard of living

Mexico invited Americans and other foreigners to settle in Texas because...

Theodore Roosevelt became president when William Mckinley was assassinated

President Andrew Johnson opposed the Fourteenth Amendment

Fisk, Atlanta, and Morehouse were part of the network of African American colleges and universities

In the late 1800s, support grew in the US for building a large modern navy to...

A shortage of workers in California forced the Central Pacific Railroad to hire about 10,000 workers from...

Supporters of laissez-faire believed that government should interfere in the economy only to...

For the diagram part of the test remember...

The Chinese Exclusion Act prevented Chinese people already in the United States from becoming citizens

The fencing of the open range resulted in...

The organization that became the Federal Bureau of Investigation was originally formed of...

After World War l, most Americans wanted to avoid future wars by...

Jim Crow laws enforced segregation

The Battle of Little Bighorn started when Cheyenne warriors attacked an army detachment near the Little Bighorn River

Economic depression in Europe in the late 1800s stimulated immigration to the United States

Louis Armstrong introduced an improvisational, early form of jazz

What philosophy stated that some people failed in life because of certain circumstances beyond their control?

The Pike's Peak strike was really a hoax because there really was no gold in the area

The Comstock Lode was a rich deposit of...

The Zimmerman telegram proposed that Mexico became an ally to Germany

Social Darwinists believed that the government should play a more active role in solving society's problems

Most unions in the late 1800s excluded woman

The need for woman to work in factories during World War l began a trend toward woman working outside the home

In 1844 presidential race, candidate James K. Polk promised to

Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction called for...

Measurements taken of the Union soldiers during the Civil War led to the development of...

An innovation instituted by International Harvester in 1926 was...

Calvin Coolidge became president when...

Many Radical Republicans had been abolitionists before the Civil War

Theodore Roosevelt became president...

The Hawaiian monarchy was overthrown by...

The introduction of the tank in World War l revolutionized warfare

The first pioneers became known as squatters because they...

The British had started building a canal across Panama before turning the job over to the United States

Some scalawags were...

Individualism was the belief that...

Laissez-faire relies on ____ to regulate prices and wages

When a single company achieves control of an entire market, it is known as...

The triple Entente included...

What was the overall purpose of black codes passed by the Southern legislatures?

Poll taxes violated the Fifteenth Amendment

Theodore Roosevelt tried to win the Republican nomination from William Howard Taft, because he believed that Taft...

As a result of the war between Japan and China in 1894, Japan acquired...

A steel company that owns the coal mines, limestone quarries, and iron ore fields depends it on is an example of...

Socialists believe in...

Most Native American nations on the Great Plains had lived as nomads

In the late 1800s, city drinking water was often contaminated

Parts of Oregon had been claimed by

American settlers in Hawaii quickly discovered that the climate and soil of the islands were suitable for...

Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for negotiating peace...

In 1907 the Serbs became furious when...

Commercial radio began its rise in November 1920, with news about...

By the 1920s, the automobile had become an accepted part of American Life

The Supreme Court set the stage for legalized segregation by overturning the...

Unlike American Woman of the time, Hispanic woman in the California territory retained control of their...

Which of the following happened during the Panic of 1873?

The Platt Amendment effectively made Cuba into an American

Conclusive evidence has proven that the American warship 'Maine' was blown up by a Spanish mine

Russia lost substantial territory when it pulled out of World War l

The _____ was a secret society, started in Pulaski, Tennessee

Most Plains Indians practiced a religion based on a belief in the spiritual power of the natural world

In 1903, the United States negotiated with ___ for the right to build a canal through its providence of Panama

In the 1920s, most African American voters in the North cast their votes for Republicans, the party of Lincoln

By the 1920s, the United States was the dominant economic power in the world

Army nurses were the only women in the military to be sent overseas during World War l

The world's first skyscraper, built in 1885, was

The Dakota Sioux uprising occurred as a result of...

Laissez-faire advocates support high tariffs

Before Commodore Perry arrived in Edo Bay, the Japanese had never seen steamships

The "Big Four" who attended the peace conference were the leaders of the United States, Britain, France, and...

Supporters of James K. Polk cried "Fifty-four Fourty or Fight," which means they wanted all

Puerto Rico is now an independent country (common guys we know this...)

The Supreme Court ruled over Keating-Owen Child Labor Act unconstitutional

People using the phrase "Pike's Peak or Bust!" were...

In the late 1800s, the most common form of mass transit was...

In the early 1860s, Chinese Immigrants came to the United States to...

The Rough Riders were a cavalry unit commanded by Theodore Roosevelt

Henry Ford's business philosophy was to increase sales by...

The Texans won their first victory against the Mexican army at the Alamo

In 1888, the president candidate with the most popular votes...

President Andrew Johnson was impeached and removed from office

The new morality of the 1920s glorified...

World War l was the first war in which...

Ulysses S. Grant believed that the role of the president was to...

The British entered World War l when Germany troops crossed into Belgium

Even before the invention of the automobile, petroleum was in high demand because it could...

With the treaty of Paris ending the Spanish-American war, the United States became an imperial power

James K. Polk agreed to split the Oregon territory with Great Britain