US History Semester Review Part 2

Question 1

T/F During the period of Industrialization and Urbanization, the ideaof “going out” developed.

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 2

Which of the following is NOT how the USgovernment financed WWI?

Accepted Answer

taking over Canada and all its riches

Question 3

T/F Vaudeville was a hodge-podge of entertainment that developed between 1865-1900.

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 4

What Supreme Court case established the“separate but equal” principle, legalizing segregation?

Accepted Answer

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 5

Name the movement that tried to reform society by makingthe government moredemocratic.

Accepted Answer

Progressive Movement

Question 6

True orFalse. Nativism is the extreme liking of immigrants by native-born people.

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 7

Whichof the following is not a cause of industrial expansion?

Accepted Answer

the end of the Reconstruction era

Question 8

Why did progressives believe that they could change the United States?

Accepted Answer

technology

Question 9

During the WWI, who took the jobsthat needed to be filled to keep production levels high?

Accepted Answer

women, blacks, Mexican immigrants

Question 10

Whichof the following best describes who a progressive was?

Accepted Answer

Well-educated, middle-class, urban, socialworker

Question 11

What is the term that is used for the right tovote?

Accepted Answer

suffrage

Question 12

Which lists of amendments tothe U.S. Constitution are “progressive” amendments?

Accepted Answer

16, 17, 18, 19

Question 13

What did progressives workfor, concerning adult workers who were injured or killed on the job?

Accepted Answer

workers’ compensation laws

Question 14

What term did many of the wealthy believe during the late 1800s “survival of the fittest?”

Accepted Answer

Social Darwinism

Question 15

What was the root of the conflict between NativeAmericans and white settlers on the plains?

Accepted Answer

land

Question 16

Which businessman usedhorizontal integration to take control of most of the US oil market?

Accepted Answer

John D. Rockefeller

Question 17

How many points were in Wilson’s 14 Point Plan?

Accepted Answer

14

Question 18

Which of the following is not a “push” factor for immigrants between the years 1865-1900?

Accepted Answer

democratic political system

Question 19

Which is one way that increased supply of capital helped industrialization in the UnitedStates?

Accepted Answer

more factories and transportation systems were built

Question 20

Whydid the United States enter World War I?

Accepted Answer

German u-boat attacks, Germany's Zimmerman Note, British and French needed help

Question 21

True or False. After the Civil War, the U.S. Army focused on the Indian Wars.

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 22

Whatbook horrified Congress intoprotecting and fixing food production procedures?

Accepted Answer

The Jungle

Question 23

What did many prairie settlers make their homesout of?

Accepted Answer

sod

Question 24

Which Amendment to the Constitution,ratified on August 26, 1920, gave women the right to vote?

Accepted Answer

19th Amendment

Question 25

Which is not an example of Andrew Carnegie’s the Gospel of Wealth(philanthropy)?

Accepted Answer

allowing the poor to starve to death

Question 26

What is the term for those whoinvestigated poor social conditions and political corruption?

Accepted Answer

muckrakers

Question 27

Which businessman used verticalintegration to take control of most of the U.S. steel market?

Accepted Answer

Andrew Carnegie

Question 28

Who proposed the League of Nations?

Accepted Answer

Woodrow Wilson

Question 29

Which of the following women began fighting forwomen’s rights at Seneca Falls, NY, in 1848?

Accepted Answer

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Question 30

T/F During the 1920s many consumer goods came about including facialtissues and deodorants.

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 31

T/F The US experienced a period of progress andgovernment expansion during the Progressive Era.

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 32

Whichof the following groups of immigrants took jobs working on the docks of NewYork City?

Accepted Answer

Italians

Question 33

Which amendment to the Constitution allowed for a national income tax?

Accepted Answer

16thAmendment

Question 34

Which constitutional amendment was designed to lower crime rates, but ended up raising them?

Accepted Answer

Prohibition

Question 35

Which of the following terms were used for the1920s?

Accepted Answer

The Roaring Twenties, The Jazz Age

Question 36

Whois considered to be a hero of the Spanish-American War?

Accepted Answer

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 37

Whatgroup fought against segregation and discrimination through legal actions?

Accepted Answer

NAACP

Question 38

What made the settlement of the plains, transporting millions of tons of goods possible?

Accepted Answer

railroads

Question 39

Economic stability and growth was an impact ofWorld War I on which country?

Accepted Answer

United States

Question 40

Which of the following brought an end to thecattle drive era?

Accepted Answer

barbed wire, blizzard of 1886-1887

Question 41

Name the buildings where many ofthe immigrants who came to New York City rented an apartment?

Accepted Answer

tenement buildings

Question 42

Which of the following was the biggestlimitation of the progressive movement?

Accepted Answer

prohibition

Question 43

Which of the following was a building code thatwas passed during the Progressive Era?

Accepted Answer

fire escapes

Question 44

When did the fighting stop and World War I endfor all intents and purposes?

Accepted Answer

November 11, 1918

Question 45

T/F During the Urbanization era in the US, some immigrants to the US were from Canada.

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 46

Which group immigrated to US because of a civil war known as the Taiping Rebellion?

Accepted Answer

Chinese

Question 47

Where did the Union Pacific and Central Pacific rail lines meet?

Accepted Answer

Utah

Question 48

What was the last battle of the Indian Warswhich resulted in a massacre of Native Americans?

Accepted Answer

Battle of Wounded Knee

Question 49

T/F During the Industrialization of the US, the development of new technology wasn't important.

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 50

The area between the frontline trenches wascalled what?

Accepted Answer

no man’s land

Question 51

What was found in the Comstock Lode nearVirginia City, Nevada?

Accepted Answer

Silver

Question 52

Who invented the telephone?

Accepted Answer

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 53

Whichof the following changed how buildings and bridges were built?

Accepted Answer

steel

Question 54

Which of the following is not a “pull” factorfor immigrants between the years 1865-1900?

Accepted Answer

population pressures

Question 55

T/F The “old immigrants” from northern Europewere welcomed and accepted in the United States.

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 56

Which of the following businessmen ran one ofthe nation’s most successful rail lines?

Accepted Answer

CorneliusVanderbilt

Question 57

T/F After the Civil War, African Americans were able tovote and live freefrom violence.

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 58

Whichof the following inventors has over one thousand patents in his name?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Edison

Question 59

Whatdocument formally ended World War I?

Accepted Answer

the Treaty of Versailles

Question 60

What progressive reform permitted citizens to introduce legislation in to state legislature?

Accepted Answer

initiative

Question 61

Which was the workers’ way ofbeing able to have power in negotiating with the company owner?

Accepted Answer

unions

Question 62

Whatdoes “laissez-faire” mean in terms of the US economic system between 1865 and 1900?

Accepted Answer

Ourgovernment should “leave it alone” - the US economy.

Question 63

Commissions and council-manager systems areexamples of reforms at which level of government?

Accepted Answer

city

Question 64

Whatwere Theodore Roosevelt’s reform programs called?

Accepted Answer

TheSquare Deal

US History Semester Review Part 2

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US History Semester Review Part 2

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