AS American Sem 1 Final Review

Question 1

When one company controls an industry and causes prices to increase it is called?

Accepted Answer

Monopoly

Question 2

Urbanization caused all of the following problems in cities, EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

Debt

Question 3

This Constitutional Amendment granted women the right to vote

Accepted Answer

19th

Question 4

Thomas Edison invented...

Accepted Answer

the lightbulb

Question 5

Which President was associated with the Dollar Diplomacy?

Accepted Answer

W. Taft

Question 6

System of laws in the South that disenfranchised Black Americans

Accepted Answer

Jim Crow Laws

Question 7

Black leader who argued for gradual improvements for Blacks through education and economics

Accepted Answer

Booker T. Washington

Question 8

Congress refused to sign the Treaty of Versailles in part because of which of the 14 Points

Accepted Answer

Establishment of League of Nations

Question 9

After WWI, which factor was the major cause of the migration of many Black to the North?

Accepted Answer

increased job opportunities in Northern cities

Question 10

This Constitutional Amendment established Prohibition

Accepted Answer

18th

Question 11

Which of the following was NOT one of the MAIN causes of World War I?

Accepted Answer

Industrialization

Question 12

What is it called when citizens put an issue on the ballot?

Accepted Answer

Initiative

Question 13

Which of the following was NOT one of the reasons the United States entered WWI?

Accepted Answer

Central Propaganda

Question 14

Which of the following was NOT one of the goals of the Progressives?

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Promote civil right

Question 15

What entrance point did Asian immigrants use to enter the United States?

Accepted Answer

Angel Island

Question 16

Not believing that expanding into Lat. Am. is an American value is most likely a belief held by

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Anti-Imperialists

Question 17

This Constitutional Amendment ended slavery

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13th

Question 18

Believing that a navy is an important resource is a belief most likely held by

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Imperialists

Question 19

Which of the following was NOT a cause of the Spanish American War?

Accepted Answer

Zimmerman Note

Question 20

When citizens vote on an issue they put on the ballot, it is called:

Accepted Answer

Referendum

Question 21

Which Amendment established citizenship for African Americans?

Accepted Answer

14th

Question 22

The Roosevelt Corollary was an extension of the

Accepted Answer

Monroe Doctine

Question 23

The behavior of the Flappers demonstrated...

Accepted Answer

traditional values and changing lifestyles

Question 24

Which President was associated Moral Diplomacy?

Accepted Answer

W. WIlson

Question 25

This Amendment est the election of Senators by citizens of the st. instead of st. legislatures

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17th

Question 26

Journalists who exposed problems in society like poverty and corruption

Accepted Answer

Muckrakers

Question 27

Which Amendment repealed Prohibition?

Accepted Answer

21st

Question 28

In the second wave of immigration (1880-1920) most immigrants were from?

Accepted Answer

South and East Europe

Question 29

Which of the following characterizes President Hoover's response to the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

Relied on business to not fire people and keep prices low.

Question 30

Which of the following artists was a famous jazz artist in New Orleans?

Accepted Answer

Louis Armstrong

Question 31

Which Pres. established the system of government controlled banks that regulate interest rates

Accepted Answer

W. Wilson

Question 32

The Open Door Policy was

Accepted Answer

equal privileges among countries trading with China

Question 33

Franz Ferdinand was the future leader of which country?

Accepted Answer

Austria-Hungary

Question 34

The Espionage and Sedition Acts showed...

Accepted Answer

Individual rights can be limited in the national interest

Question 35

When citizens hold an election to remove a elected official

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Recall

Question 36

This Constitutional Amendment granted the right to vote to Black men.

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15th

Question 37

“The business of America is business.” — Coolidge.Coolidge was expressing his support for

Accepted Answer

the free-enterprise system

Question 38

Trusts and monopolies were eliminated with

Accepted Answer

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Question 39

Which Pres. was responsible for the passing of the Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act?

Accepted Answer

T. Roosevelt

Question 40

A result of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s was the

Accepted Answer

recognition of African-American writers and musicians

Question 41

Which of the following best characterized American foreign policy during the 1920s and 1930s

Accepted Answer

limited isolationism

Question 42

The 1925 trial of John Scopes reflects the conflict between

Accepted Answer

science and religion

Question 43

Which of the following resources was least important for industrial growth?

Accepted Answer

Wood

Question 44

The Constitutional Amendment that established an income tax

Accepted Answer

16th

Question 45

a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering.

Accepted Answer

Laissez Faire

Question 46

Which President was responsible for the Teapot Dome Scandal

Accepted Answer

W. Harding

Question 47

Which events best support the image of the 1920’s as a decade of nativist sentiment?

Accepted Answer

the passage of the Nat Origins Act + the Ku Klux Klan

Question 48

This Black leader wanted immediate reform to grant Black Americans equality

Accepted Answer

WEB DuBois

Question 49

The location that immigrants from Europe entered the United States was called

Accepted Answer

Ellis Island

Question 50

African Americans faced all of the following obstacles to vote, EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

Segregation

AS American Sem 1 Final Review

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AS American Sem 1 Final Review

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