PART 2: U.S. History Midterm STUDY GUIDE

Question 1

This limited immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe by setting monthly limits of who could come into the country.

Accepted Answer

Emergency Quota Act

Question 2

This was Germany’s plan for a two-front war in order to crush France in the West and defeat Russia on the East:

Accepted Answer

Schlieffen Plan

Question 3

What were the consequences of the explosion of the U.S.S. Maine?

Accepted Answer

It was blamed on the Spanish and the US declared war on Spain.

Question 4

Which president used Dollar Diplomacy?

Accepted Answer

William Howard Taft

Question 5

Journalists who exposed social problems during the Progressive Era

Accepted Answer

Muckrakers

Question 6

Italian anarchists were put on trial for robbery and murder; it showed how scared Americans were of Communism:

Accepted Answer

Sacco & Vanzetti Trial

Question 7

What year did WWI end?

Accepted Answer

1918

Question 8

What year did WWI begin?

Accepted Answer

1914

Question 9

Economic or political domination of a strong nation over weaker ones is:

Accepted Answer

Imperialism

Question 10

Agreement between two or more countries to give each other help if needed is:

Accepted Answer

Alliances

Question 11

Granted women the right to vote

Accepted Answer

19th Amendment

Question 12

______________ tested the Tennessee law that banned the teaching of evolution and caught national attention.

Accepted Answer

The Scopes Trial

Question 13

Which of the following is NOT one of the MAIN causes of WWI?

Accepted Answer

Assassination

Question 14

Militarism, Alliances, __________________, and _________________ are all part of the MAIN causes of WWI.

Accepted Answer

Imperialism, Nationalism

Question 15

What year did the US join WWI?

Accepted Answer

1917

Question 16

These were underground/secret bars people went to during Prohibition to purchase alcohol:

Accepted Answer

Speakeasies

Question 17

_________________ was forced to take full responsibility for the war.

Accepted Answer

Germany

Question 18

Which president used Big Stick Policy/Diplomacy?

Accepted Answer

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 19

Which of the following were new weapons of WWI?

Accepted Answer

machine guns, tanks, airplanes, grenades, chemical warfare/gas, land mines

Question 20

Banned the manufacture, transportation, sale and use of alcohol

Accepted Answer

18th Amendment

Question 21

When 1910s/1920s African Americans moved from rural areas to the North and West to work in factories, it was called the:

Accepted Answer

Great Migration

Question 22

Economic or political domination of a strong nation over weaker ones

Accepted Answer

Imperialism

Question 23

Wrote The Jungle, which led to the Meat Inspection Act

Accepted Answer

Upton Sinclair

Question 24

Which word means a skill of handling foreign affairs?

Accepted Answer

Diplomacy

Question 25

The Palmer Raids, Sacco and Vanzetti case, and the Emergency Quota Act all related to the:

Accepted Answer

Red Scare

Question 26

This guy participated in the Spanish-American War by leading the Rough Riders

Accepted Answer

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 27

Suffragette who founded the National Woman Suffrage Association to fight for women’s rights

Accepted Answer

Susan B. Anthony

Question 28

What was the first territory to allow women the right to vote?

Accepted Answer

Wyoming

Question 29

After the Attorney General was attacked by a mail bomb, immigrants suspected of Communism were ambushed and deported.

Accepted Answer

Palmer Raids

Question 30

Resulted from The Jungle exposing harmful practices in the meat-packing industry

Accepted Answer

Meat Inspection Act

Question 31

Suffrage means:

Accepted Answer

the right to vote

Question 32

People who smuggled alcohol into the US and sold it illegally were called:

Accepted Answer

Bootleggers

Question 33

Use of sensational stories, big headlines, and shocking pictures to sell more newspapers

Accepted Answer

Yellow Journalism

Question 34

Which president used Moral Diplomacy?

Accepted Answer

Woodrow Wilson

Question 35

Exposed Standard Oil’s corrupt practices

Accepted Answer

Ida Tarbell

Question 36

Which 1920s clash is missing: Rural vs. Urban Values, Christians vs. Scientists, Christian Women vs. Flapper Women?

Accepted Answer

Pro-Prohibition vs. Anti-Prohibition of alcohol

Question 37

Stated that the US had the right to intervene in Latin America

Accepted Answer

Roosevelt Corollary

Question 38

The Father of the modern automobile was:

Accepted Answer

Henry Ford

Question 39

Organized crime, speakeasies, bootleggers, and the government lost tax money were effects during:

Accepted Answer

the Prohibition Era

Question 40

The widespread fear of Communism spreading in the US during the 1920s was called the:

Accepted Answer

Red Scare

Question 41

Money left after paying bills; led to the purchasing of life/labor-saving devices (fridges, vacuums, washing machines)

Accepted Answer

Disposable Income

Question 42

One-sided information designed to persuade an audience is called:

Accepted Answer

Propaganda

Question 43

Who controlled Panama and refused to allow the US to build the Panama Canal?

Accepted Answer

Colombia

Question 44

A rise in military spending to increase military forces is:

Accepted Answer

Militarism

Question 45

Which list of countries were part of the Allied Powers at the beginning of WWI?

Accepted Answer

Great Britain, France, Italy, Portugal, Russia

Question 46

Paying for goods on a monthly basis rather than all at once

Accepted Answer

Installment buying

Question 47

The revival of African American culture and art during the 1920s as a form of expression was called the:

Accepted Answer

Harlem Renaissance

Question 48

Telegram sent to the German ambassador in Mexico proposing an alliance between Germany and Mexico was called the:

Accepted Answer

Zimmermann Telegram

Question 49

Theodore Roosevelt was the presidential candidate for THIS party in 1912.

Accepted Answer

Progressive Party, Bull Moose Party

Question 50

Who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand?

Accepted Answer

Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian nationalist

Question 51

Choose MORE THAN ONE: Which of the following describe 1920s Flappers?

Accepted Answer

more politically independent; could vote due to 19th Amendment, smoked and drank publicly; went to speakeasies without chaperones, wore short, “bobbed” hair and shorter dresses than previous generations

Question 52

What was America’s first step towards imperialism?

Accepted Answer

Buying Alaska from Russia

Question 53

Created by Wilson; funds banks could borrow from regional banks in emergencies

Accepted Answer

Federal Reserve System

Question 54

Strong devotion and support of rights and interests of one’s own nation is:

Accepted Answer

Nationalism

Question 55

Perfected by Henry Ford; system of manufacturing divided into smaller tasks for efficient production

Accepted Answer

Assembly Line

Question 56

This was a steep dive in stock market that caused a panic; was not what caused the Great Depression

Accepted Answer

Stock Market Crash

Question 57

Which list of countries were part of the Central Powers at the beginning of WWI?

Accepted Answer

Austria-Hungary, Germany, Ottoman Empire

Question 58

Identify two main causes of the Dust Bowl

Accepted Answer

Stock Market Crash

Question 59

A widespread reform movement during the 19th and 20th centuries to change the government

Accepted Answer

Progressive Era

Question 60

The strategy of having ditches dug in the ground to protect soldiers during battle was called:

Accepted Answer

Trench warfare

Question 61

The economic and political system based on a single political party and no private property is:

Accepted Answer

Communism

Question 62

Wrote How the Other Half Lives, which led to the Tenement Act of 1901

Accepted Answer

Jacob Riis

Question 63

MANIA includes the MAIN causes of WWI plus the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand.

Accepted Answer

True

PART 2: U.S. History Midterm STUDY GUIDE

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PART 2: U.S. History Midterm STUDY GUIDE

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