Mother Of All Quizs (US History 1st Semester)

Question 1

This act made land in the West available to immigrants and settlers.

Accepted Answer

Homestead Act

Question 2

After the Spanish American War the US acquired what territories?

Accepted Answer

Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam

Question 3

Assembly lines had workers focus on producing a single component of larger products in order to

Accepted Answer

Cut cost and increase efficiency

Question 4

What government policy during the 20s led to the rapid increase of the stock market?

Accepted Answer

Laissez-faire

Question 5

How did Progressive Era election reforms like the 17th and 19th Ammendment help people?

Accepted Answer

Gave people more access to the elections.

Question 6

Which trial on evolution displayed the tension between traditional values and modern views?

Accepted Answer

The Scopes Monkey Trial

Question 7

This is the term for using credit to buy speculative investments on the Stock Market

Accepted Answer

Buying on margin

Question 8

The railroad led to which of the following?

Accepted Answer

More settlement in the plains and timezones

Question 9

Progressives believe that the government to take an active role in improving people's lives.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 10

Susan B. Anthony was a champion of what cause?

Accepted Answer

Women's suffrage

Question 11

Which muckraker wrote The Jungle, exposing unhealthy practices of the meat packing industry?

Accepted Answer

Upton Sinclair

Question 12

This is the policy of protecting the interests of native-born inhabitants against immigrants.

Accepted Answer

nativism

Question 13

The Populist Movement wanted to put more money into circulation in order to...

Accepted Answer

raise the prices of crops.

Question 14

During the 1800s immigrants were often subject to which of the following?

Accepted Answer

Tenement housing and dangerous working conditions

Question 15

The 16th Amendment allowed the Federal Government to collect what?

Accepted Answer

Income taxes

Question 16

These individuals wrote novels and essays to expose the evils of society.

Accepted Answer

Muckrakers

Question 17

What event led to the first-time conviction of a Presidential Cabinet member?

Accepted Answer

Teapot Dome Scandal

Question 18

Which 1919 Supreme Court case limited free speech during war?

Accepted Answer

Shenck vs. United States

Question 19

Increased investment in the stock market during the 1920s led to a...

Accepted Answer

Economic boom

Question 20

The Cuban Independence and what 'term' caused the US to enter the Spanish American War?

Accepted Answer

Yellow journalism

Question 21

German unrestricted submarine warfare and the sinking of the Lusitania led to...

Accepted Answer

US entry into WWI

Question 22

This movement brought reform efforts into the economic, political, and social arenas of America

Accepted Answer

Progressivism

Question 23

Corrupt government officials and immigration led to the increase of...

Accepted Answer

influence of political machines.

Question 24

The stock market crash known a Black Tuesday occurred in what year?

Accepted Answer

1929

Question 25

Trench warfare along the Western Front led to what?

Accepted Answer

Stalemate between forces

Question 26

What did the 17th Amendment do?

Accepted Answer

Allowed direct election of Senators by the people

Question 27

Which term means to take smaller group of people and bring them into your larger group?

Accepted Answer

assimilate

Question 28

Caused by opportunities for jobs in northern factories for African Americans during World War I

Accepted Answer

Great Migration

Question 29

One of the major causes of the Great Depression can be attributed to what?

Accepted Answer

Over-speculation in the stock market

Question 30

How did the railroad industry benefit from the government?

Accepted Answer

Grants of free land

Question 31

This was the American Expeditionary Forces largest battle in WWI.

Accepted Answer

Battle Argonne Forest

Question 32

"Separate but equal" was established by what Supreme Court case?

Accepted Answer

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 33

What did Charles Lindbergh do for a living?

Accepted Answer

Aviation

Question 34

What type of organization advocates for the rights of workers in a market economy?

Accepted Answer

Labor unions like the Knights of Labor

Question 35

Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism (MAIN) led to the beginning of what?

Accepted Answer

World War I

Question 36

"Return to Normalcy" slogan was used by who to help the US recover from the previous decade?

Accepted Answer

Warren G. Harding

Question 37

The US gaining the Phillipines and Guam after the Spanish-American war is an example of what?

Accepted Answer

Imperialism

Question 38

Buying on credit, Prohibition, and flappers are characteristic of what era?

Accepted Answer

The Roaring 20s

Question 39

Which war was fought between 1914 and 1918?

Accepted Answer

World War I

Question 40

Which policy uses supply and demand to regulate prices and wages?

Accepted Answer

laissez-faire

Question 41

This man's entrepreneurship helped the United States become a world industrial power

Accepted Answer

Andrew Carnagie, John D. Rockefeller

Question 42

American Indians were placed on reservations in order to...

Accepted Answer

to give their land to white people.

Question 43

Which individual helped immigrants integrate into American society?

Accepted Answer

Jane Addams

Question 44

This Medal of Honor winner captured 132 enemy soldier during World War I.

Accepted Answer

Alvin York

Question 45

This US general went to West Point and led US Expeditionary Forces in World War I.

Accepted Answer

John J. Pershing

Question 46

What period in history helped spread African American culture across the United States?

Accepted Answer

Harlem Renaissance

Question 47

The railroad industry benefited from labor from which immigrant group?

Accepted Answer

Chinese

Mother Of All Quizs (US History 1st Semester)

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Mother Of All Quizs (US History 1st Semester)

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