Angelo’s American History Midterm

Crowded, run-down apartment buildings in low-income areas are called what?

What did liberals believe was the best economic approach in the Great Depression?

Progressivism shared man similarities to the rural movement called what?

Who was a famous member of organized crime that blossomed in the 1920s?

What progressive reform was designed to give voters more power to choose candidates for public office?

How did the outcome of the Spanish-American War change U.S. foreign policy?

How did investors respond to the bear market in 1929, and what was the effect of this response?

What did Upton Sinclair expose to readers with his 1906 novel “The Jungle”?

Flappers were known for what?

Why did President Wilson establish the Federal Reserve System?

How did government assistance change under the New Deal legislation?

What impact did the 19th Amendment have?

Why were many children forced to work throughout the 1800s?

What is a pull factor for immigration?

What was the purpose of the grandfather clauses in the South?

President Harding wanted to return ___ after the war.

What happened in the 1932 election?

Why did many immigrants live in ethnic neighborhoods?

Which is NOT a threat of living in tenements in the slums?

A ___ is a government-issued certificate sold to raise money for the Allied war effort.

Ho did the invention of the machine gun affect military strategy?

What new innovation in film emerged in the 1920s?

Which element of his 14 Points did Wilson consider to be the most important?

What nation was NOT a part of the Central Powers?

What did the popular term “Hooverville” represent?

A political machine is an organization of politicians that what?

How did the US government build the large fighting force it would need to enter WWI?

What was the life of a factory worker in the late 1800s?

One difficulty for returning American troops after WWI was what?

In the 1900s, hat was the progressives’ main goal?

The outpouring of creativity among African American poets, writers, and artists in the 1920s is known as what?

What was WWI’s initial impact on the American economy?

Why did Andrew Carnegie state, “anyone who dies rich dies disgraced?”

Small factories with poor working conditions are often referred to as what?

What was the most significant way in which women helped the war effort during WWI?

How did the political bosses take advantage of immigrants in need?

What power did the Sedition Act give the federal government during WWI?

What would a conservative MOST likely have recommended at the onset of the Depression?

Booker T. Washington believed that for African Americans to gain respect and get ahead, they had to what?

What did NOT caused murder of the archduke escalate into global conflict?

What did Roosevelt call his program of emergency legislation?

Why did so many people come to oppose prohibition?

What minority group made up the majority of the Central Pacific workforce?

What invention by Samuel Morse revolutionized long-distance communication?

Powerful new weapons such as machine guns and heavy artillery led both sides to what?

Which of the following was the primary cause of the natural disaster on the Great Plains known as the Dust Bowl?

What is a muckraker’s purpose during the Progressive Era?

Why did the United States support the Panama’s rebellion against Colombia?

What is a speakeasy?

Harlem Renaissance writers explored what or African Americans?

In the Zimmerman note, what did Germany promise Mexico in return for its support during WWI?

How did access to electricity change American industry?

What amendment did Alice Paul fight for?

What happened on Black Tuesday?

Where was the Spanish-American War fought?

What is the policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially other countries?

What is a push factor for immigration?

Self-determination refers to the right of people in other nations to what?

During the 1900s, how were African Americans in the South being treated?

What’s a monopoly?

How did financial backers protect their investments in inventions?

What event do historians say sparked WWI?

What was the main cause of war against Germany by the United States?

What economic practice contributed MOST to the development of a consumer culture in the 1920s?

How did John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil grow to become a monopoly?

The economic system where assets are privately owned rather than government controlled is known as what?

What innovations contributed most to the development of a national popular culture in the 1920s?

How did New Deal programs like the CCC and the WPA provide relief to the needy?

What did the Pullman Strike, Haymarket Affair, and Homestead Strike have in common?

How did Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson NOT work to protect the environment?

What did members of the Populist Party support in the late 1800s?

Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington are BEST known for their contributions to which kind of music?

The result of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was to what?

What amendment banned alcohol?

Who was the President that led the charge for American acquiring the Panama Canal?

What political ideology arose from discontented western farmers?

The 18th amendment made what illegal?

What here is considered a headline for yellow journalism?

Who was an influential leader in the women’s suffrage movement?

Why was the USS Maine in Havana harbor in 1898?

Which foreign policy is illustrated in the cartoon?

What was a characteristic of the United States by the year 1900?

What country was not part of the Big Four at the Paris peace conference that was a surprise?

What is a party boss?

Why did many Americans sympathize with the rebellion in Cuba against Spanish rule?

What was an impact of the Bessemer process?

Why was the immigration process at Angel Island much tougher than Ellis Island?

Which presidential candidate declared, “You shall no crucify mankind on a cross of gold?”

Which of the following is an essential characteristic of a free enterprise system?

What provoked war between the U.S. and the Philippines in 1899?

What argument finally convinced Wilson to accept women’s suffrage?

What is collective bargaining?

What is a weapon used by labor unions when negotiations with business owners fail?

What happened during the First Hundred Days?

What is the practice of gaining control of many businesses that make up all phases of a product’s development?

The 6-second exam made it so that what?

How did Henry Ford dramatically reduce the price of automobiles?

What happened to urban areas as immigrants poured into America?

What words characterize the American economy in the 1920s?

What style of journalism was designed to attract readers?