Angelo’s American History Midterm

Why did so many people come to oppose prohibition?

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

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

What’s a monopoly?

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

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

What impact did the 19th Amendment have?

What is a speakeasy?

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

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

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

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

What event do historians say sparked WWI?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The 6-second exam made it so that what?

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

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

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

What amendment banned alcohol?

What political ideology arose from discontented western farmers?

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

What happened in the 1932 election?

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

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

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

What did the popular term “Hooverville” represent?

What nation was NOT a part of the Central Powers?

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

Which foreign policy is illustrated in the cartoon?

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

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

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

Harlem Renaissance writers explored what or African Americans?

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

What is a push factor for immigration?

What style of journalism was designed to attract readers?

What new innovation in film emerged in the 1920s?

What is a pull factor for immigration?

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

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

Progressivism shared man similarities to the rural movement called what?

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

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

What did Roosevelt call his program of emergency legislation?

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

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

How did Henry Ford dramatically reduce the price of automobiles?

President Harding wanted to return ___ after the war.

A political machine is an organization of politicians that what?

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

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

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

Why did President Wilson establish the Federal Reserve System?

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

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

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

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

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

What happened during the First Hundred Days?

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

What was an impact of the Bessemer process?

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

Flappers were known for what?

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

What words characterize the American economy in the 1920s?

Why was the USS Maine in Havana harbor in 1898?

What is collective bargaining?

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

How did access to electricity change American industry?

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

What invention by Samuel Morse revolutionized long-distance communication?

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

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

What is a party boss?

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

How did financial backers protect their investments in inventions?

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

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

How did government assistance change under the New Deal legislation?

One difficulty for returning American troops after WWI was what?

The 18th amendment made what illegal?

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

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

What happened on Black Tuesday?

Why did many immigrants live in ethnic neighborhoods?

Where was the Spanish-American War fought?

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

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

What amendment did Alice Paul fight for?

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

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

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

What happened to urban areas as immigrants poured into America?

What here is considered a headline for yellow journalism?