US History Semester 1 Study Guide

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

The Rough Riders were a cavalry unit commanded by Theodore Roosevelt.

The new morality of the 1920s glorified...

Theodore Roosevelt became president when William McKinley was assassinated.

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

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

The Hawaiian monarchy was overthrown by...

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

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

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

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

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

The Supreme Court ruled the Keating-Owen Child Labor Act unconstitutional.

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

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

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

Laissez-faire advocates support high tariffs.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Puerto Rico is now an independent country.

President Andrew Johnson opposed the Fourteenth Amendment.

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

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

Many Radical Republicans had been abolitionists before the Civil War.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

President Andrew Johnson was impeached and removed from office.

Louis Armstrong introduced an improvisational, early form of jazz.

Calvin Coolidge became president when...

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

Laissez-faire relies on ____ to regulate prices and wages

Theodore Roosevelt became President...

Poll taxes violated the Fifteenth Amendment.

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

Individualism was the belief that...

The fencing of the open range resulted in...

Socialists believe in...

The introduction of the tank in World War l revolutionized warfare.

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

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

In a direct primary,

The Mexican government assumed that American settlers in Texas would eventually come to see themselves as part of Mexico

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

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

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

The Comstock Lode was a rich deposit of...

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

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

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

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

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

Department stores changed the idea of shopping by...

In 1907 the Serbs became furious when...

Most unions in the late 1800s excluded woman.

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

Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction called for...

The Zimmerman telegram proposed that Mexico became an ally to Germany.

Which of the following happened during the Panic of 1873?

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

The world's first skyscraper, built in 1885, was how tall?

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

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

Some scalawags were...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Parts of Oregon had been claimed by

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

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

Jim Crow laws enforced segregation.

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

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

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

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

The Triple Entente included...

Most immigrants found that their move to America had not improved their standard of living.

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

The Platt Amendment effectively made Cuba into an American

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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