What type of union only allowed workers with a certain skill set?

craft unions, such as the American Federation of Labor

What is urbanization?

the process of growing cities and people migrating to them

Who were Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst?

yellow journalists who exaggerated stories about Span-Am War

What role did the railroad play in the settlement of the West?

travel was easier, shipping crops, displaced Natives

What is the legacy of the New Deal?

federal gov't is bigger and more involved in people's lives

Why did workers join together to form unions?

low wages and poor working conditions

What were the 1920s known for?

Prohibition, the Harlem Renaissance, economic prosperity, flappers and mobsters

What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?

Banned immigration of the Chinese to the US

Why is the Cuban Missile Crisis considered the height of the Cold War?

Closest the world has been to nuclear war

Authors like Horatio Alger wrote books to teach children that...

anyone can work their way up from "rags to riches"

What inventions aided the Homesteaders?

the steel plow, windmill, and barbed wire

Which of the following was not a reason for the US to join WWI?

the assassination of Franz Ferdinand

What was the purpose of the Homestead Act?

encourage Westward expansion and settlement

What problems were muckrackers trying to expose?

unfair business practices and corruption

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1
Which is not true of Communism?
Government owns all property
Usually has a dictator
Freedom of the Press
Classless society; egalitarian
2
What type of union only allowed workers with a certain skill set?
industrial unions, such as the Knights of Labor
professional sporting leagues, such as the NFL
craft unions, such as the American Federation of Labor
credit unions, such as State Employees' Credit Unions
3
What is urbanization?
the process of growing cities and people migrating to them
the migration of people away from cities
the creation of new farming areas
the process of expanding railroads
4
Which two immigrants were accused of murder and sentenced to death because of the Red Scare?
Lappa and Elfranc
Danku and Millin
Sacco and Vanzetti
Orstad and Buchacheck
5
How did the government "repay" women for their role in war production?
ratify the 19th Amendment
pass new laws allowing women to work factory positions
made women eligible for the military draft
Increased the minimum wage
6
Who were Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst?
muckrakers who exposed political corruption
robber barons who sold watered down stock options
industry leaders who helped build the railroads
yellow journalists who exaggerated stories about Span-Am War
7
What role did the railroad play in the settlement of the West?
travel was easier, shipping crops, displaced Natives
mobilized the US Army, transported factory workers
increased cattle herding and factory transportation
helped Native Americans, transportation of heavy metals
8
What act helped draft over 3 million troops in WWI and still exists today?
The Selective Service Act
The GI Bill
The Social Security Act
The Affordable Care Act
9
What is the legacy of the New Deal?
federal gov't is bigger and more involved in people's lives
the gov't should be laissez-faire
the gov't is unresponsive to the needs of citizens
the gov't refused to regulate banking industry
10
Why did workers join together to form unions?
banning of females employees
unpaid vacation and maternity leave
physical punishment of workers
low wages and poor working conditions
11
Which famous muckraker wrote "How the Other Half Lives" about tenement housing?
William Tweed
Jacob Riis
Upton Sinclair
Ida Tarbell
12
Progressive Amendment: What did the 18th Amendment do?
women's suffrage
Prohibition
direct election of senators
federal income tax
13
What were the 1920s known for?
Prohibition
the Harlem Renaissance
economic prosperity
flappers and mobsters
14
Which term describes a fear of communism after WWI?
The Red Scare
The Commie Alert
Duck and Cover
McCarthyism
15
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Banned the Chinese from attending public schools
Banned immigration of the Chinese to the US
banned Americans from going to China
interned Chinese Americans during WWII
16
In the 1920 election, which US President promised a "Return to Normalcy" if elected?
H. Truman
W. Wilson
F.D. Roosevelt
W. Harding
17
Which form of diplomacy was embraced by Taft?
Open Door diplomacy
Big Stick diplomacy
Moral diplomacy
Dollar Diplomacy
18
What theory was used to justify why the rich were successful and the poor were not?
Social Gospel
Social Darwinism
Evolution
Gospel of Truth
19
What political party did T. Roosevelt represent in 1912?
The Democratic Republican Party
The Dixiecrats
The Populist Party
The Bull Moose Party
20
Why is the Cuban Missile Crisis considered the height of the Cold War?
Closest the world has been to nuclear war
All of the above
It won the Cold War for America
It ended the space race
21
Authors like Horatio Alger wrote books to teach children that...
anyone can work their way up from "rags to riches"
the wealthy will always take advantage of the poor
nobody should be born into poverty
the wealthy should not give their money to foolish people
22
Which President is known for their "trickle down" economic policy?
Trump
Nixon
Carter
Reagen
23
What inventions aided the Homesteaders?
The tractor, the train, and the combine
The saw, the electric drill, and concrete
The combine, hay baler, and irrigation
the steel plow, windmill, and barbed wire
24
Which was not a major cause of the Stock Market Crash?
farming issues
access to easy credit
buying on margin
stock speculation
25
What was the US foreign policy during the early Cold War?
Detente
Domino Theory
Containment
McCarthyism
26
What is it called when the government requires laborers to end strikes and return to work.
scab workers
picketing
injunction
collective bargaining
27
Which of the following was not a reason for the US to join WWI?
the Zimmerman telegram
sinking of the Lusitania
unrestricted submarine warfare
the assassination of Franz Ferdinand
28
Which was the most unpopular war in US history?
The Cold War
The Korean War
The Vietnam War
The Spanish American War
29
Why will December 7, 1941 be a day that "lives in infamy"?
America joins WWI
First atomic bomb dropped
D-Day
Attack on Pearl Harbor
30
What was Carnegie's theory that stated men should donate their money to good causes?
Social Darwinism
The Social Gospel
Philanthropic charity
The Gospel of Wealth
31
What significant event did not occur in 1968?
RFK assassination
JFK assassination
MLKJ assassination
Tet Offensive
32
Who established the Hull House?
Robert LaFollette
Margaret Singer
Jane Addams
F.D. Roosevelt
33
Who said "I will fight no more forever" after US troops chased his people thousands of miles?
Chief Joseph
Chief Three Feathers
Sitting Bull
Crazy Horse
34
How did the US respond to the outbreak of WWI?
remain neutral
Cash-and-carry
offer financial assistance
refuse to acknowledge it.
35
What business strategy did Carnegie use to dominate his industry?
picketing and scabs
trusts
calculated risk
vertical integration
36
How did the Allies support West Berlin after the USSR cut off their supplies?
Berlin Airlift
Berlin Wall
Berlin Blockade
Berlin War
37
A ______________ has complete control over a product or industry.
horizontal integration
trust
corporation
monopoly
38
When was the US Highway system developed?
The 1990s
The 1970s
The 1950s
The 1930s
39
In what war did the US gain Guam, The Philippines, and Puerto Rico?
The Cold War
The Mexican-American War
The Spanish American War
WWI
40
What problem was a result of Prohibition?
a bad economy
flapper fashion
HIV
Bootlegging
41
What type of action was not advertised to "citizen soldiers" during WWII?
Enlist
Produce
Conserve
Invest
42
What was the purpose of the Homestead Act?
eliminate Native American tribes from the West
encourage Westward expansion and settlement
assimilate Native Americans
provide federal funding for the railroad and telegraph
43
What problems were muckrackers trying to expose?
illegal immigration and global warming
Communism and restriction of consumer rights
unfair business practices and corruption
the Jim Crow laws and segregation
44
What terrorist organization was reborn in the 1920s by white radicals?
KKK
ISIL
HUAC
Al Qaeda
45
What as the result of the Bay of Pigs?
Castro hates the US and allies with Khrushchev
Undercover cuban exiles were killed and tortured
All of the above
Made the US look bad
46
What amendment established the two-term limit for US Presidents?
27th
22nd
19th
21st
47
What is a tariff?
taxes on imported goods
trade restrictions on foreign markets
an exported good/product
law governing international trade
48
What political party was born out of the problems facing farmers and factory workers?
The Socialist Party
The Federalist Party
The Populist Party
The Bull Moose Party
49
When a strong country uses military, economic, or political power to control a weaker territory
imperialism
isolationism
democracy
capitalism
50
Who is the only US President to have resigned from office?
Kennedy
Carter
Ford
Nixon
51
In the United States, industrialization occurred most rapidly in the...
Northeast
Southeast
Southwest
Northwest
52
Which was not a major cause of WWI?
Militarism
Isolationism
Nationalism
Alliances
53
Japanese Internment was made possible by the passing of...
Executive Order 9066
Korematsu v. US
The Japanese Exclusion Act
The War Industries Board
54
What term is used to describe a government with little to no involvement in business/industry?
liberal
non-interventionist
laissez-faire
slack-jawed
55
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is responsible for
enforcing environmental regulations
regulating national security
regulating military spending
protecting US industry
56
Nixon's policy of easing tensions during the Cold War is called...
Vietnamization
Triangular Diplomacy
Triad of War
detente
57
Woodrow Wilson's plan for peace after WWI was called...
The United Nations
The Fourteen Points
The Versailles Treaty
The League of Nations
58
What is an initiative?
a law that is never voted on
a law proposed by a non-citizen
a law proposed by the President
a law proposed by a citizen
59
What animals destruction contributed to the downfall of the Plains Indians?
Antelope
Buffalo
Deer
Horse
60
What was joined at Promontory Point, Utah?
The Transcontinental Railroad
The Interstate Highway System
The Pony Express
The Interstate Railway System
61
Which of the following was never a US territory?
The Philippines
Hawaii
Guam
Cuba
62
What domestic attack had the largest death toll?
Assassination of JFK
9/11
The Oklahoma City Bombings
Pearl Harbor
63
Progressive Amendment: What did the 17th Amendment do?
Prohibition
women's suffrage
direct election of senators
federal income tax
64
What law was designed to reduce government corruption and end the spoils system?
The Interstate Commerce Act
The Federal Trade Commission Act
The Sherman Anti-trust Act
The Pendleton Civil Service Act
65
What trial of the 1920s showed the growing tension between religion and science?
The Scopes Trial
The Nixon Trial
The Rosenburg Trial
The Nuremburg Trials
66
The Bessemer Process provided a new, faster, and less expensive method of making...
steel
oil
concrete
plastics
67
What period of cultural expansion created a positive identity for African Americans?
The Back to Africa Movement
The Atlanta Compromise
The Black Power Movement
The Harlem Renaissance
68
What was the name of the imperialist policy that opened trade with China?
Missionary Diplomacy
SALT Talks
NAFTA
The Open Door Policy
69
Which Supreme Court case said the government could restrict free speech during wartime?
Bush v Gore
US v Schneck
Swain v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Scopes Trial
70
The Iran Hostage Crisis...
occurred when Iranian rebels attacked the US embassy
ended with Carter's presidency
was directed by the Shah of Iran
occurred when US troops captured the Iranian embassy
71
What act took away tribal customs and attempted to make Native Americans "more American"?
The Interstate Commerce Act
The Assimilation Act
The Homestead Act
The Dawes Act
72
Who coined the term "The Gilded Age"?
John D. Rockafeller
Mark Twain
Andrew Carnegie
Teddy Roosevelt
73
What is a recall?
a vote to undo a law that has already passed
a vote that doesn't count because of voter fraud
a vote to remove an official from office
a vote to take a candidate off the ballot
74
Which military strategy was not used by the US in WWII?
island hopping
trench warfare
kamikaze pilots
the atomic bomb
75
What is collective bargaining?
Striking to force an employee to improve working conditions
negotiations between many union representatives & employers
negotiations between workers and the US military
agreements between managers and their employees
76
Why was trench warfare largely unsuccessful?
took too long to build them
soldiers were exposed to the elements for the first time
soldiers couldn't protect themselves from chemical attacks
led to a stalemate
77
Vanderbilt, Rockefellar, Carnegie, and Morgan were...
wealthy industrialists
Congressmen
US Presidents
state governors
78
Which is an example of a push factor for immigration?
land ownership
job opportunities
freedom of speech
religious persecution
79
Which US President was known as the "trustbuster"?
W. Taft
T. Roosevelt
W. Wilson
C. Coolidge
80
What was William Jennings Bryan's famous "Cross of Gold" speech about?
bimetallism
the wage gap between rich and poor
unfair railroad prices
the banking crisis
81
What industry did John D. Rockefeller dominate?
railways
banking
oil
steel
82
Progressive Amendment: What did the 16th Amendment do?
Prohibition
women's suffrage
direct election of senators
created a federal income tax
83
The mass movement of African Africans into Northern cities is known as...
The Jim Crow Migration
The Great Migration
The Exoduster Movement
The Mass Exodus
84
What US President was blamed for the Great Depression?
F.D. Roosevelt
H. Hoover
C. Coolidge
T. Roosevelt
85
Who is the only US President to be elected more than twice?
F.D. Roosevelt
H. Truman
B. Clinton
T. Roosevelt
86
Which of the following was not a goal of The New Deal?
rebuild
recover
relief
reform
87
What was FDR's domestic program that helped address the Great Depression?
The New Frontier
The New Deal
The Square Deal
The Great Society
88
Which word best describes The Iron Curtain?
Detente
Separation
Ultimatum
Microsocialism
89
What were the primary factors pulled Americans westward?
cities and factory jobs
religious freedom
land, gold, adventure
crime and lawlessness
90
What were some of the problems with immigration in the early 1900s?
lack of jobs, consumerism, corporate greed
language barriers, travel bans, terrorism
overcrowding, sanitation issues, crime, ethnic neighborhoods
larger military, welfare programs, job competition
91
How did Hoover respond to the Great Depression?
hired Keynes as an economic advisor
encouraged Rugged Individualism
passed the Hawley-smoot Tariff
closed the banks until they could pass inspection
92
How did the Roosevelt Corollary expand the Monroe Doctrine?
it said Europe could have colonies in the Western Hemisphere
it said the US would expand to Europe
It said the US would police the Western Hemisphere
it said we would take 1/3 of Mexico
93
The smaller wars fought during the Cold War period were called...
proxy wars
prohibition wars
potato wars
nuclear wars
94
Who were the exodusters?
African Americans who fled from the south
Native Americans who fled the US Army
African Americans who did not survive in the West
Native Americans who fled from the Trail of Tears
95
Which muckraker exposed the political corruption of Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall?
Author, Upton Sinclair
Journalist, Ida Tarbell
Cartoonist, Thomas Nast
Publisher, Ida B. Wells
96
Jim Crow laws were ________ laws that....
state; enforced racial segregation in the South
federal; enforced racial segregation in the US
state; banned racial segregation in the South
federal; banned racial segregation in the US
97
The Indian Wars
characterized Native resistance to white expansion
were largely over land disputes
led to violent conflict between Natives and the US military
included the Battle of Little BigHorn
98
What change did not occur for women in the 1920s?
they had household cleaning products advertised to them
they embraced shocking fashion choices, like short hair.
they smoke and drank in public
they were more sexually liberated
99
Who was not a famous writer, author, or musician of the Harlem Renaissance?
Langston Hughes
Charlie Chapman
Zora Neale Hurston
Duke Ellington
100
Who said "Speak softly and carry a big stick"?
W. Wilson
D. Eisenhower
B. Obama
T. Roosevelt

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