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1
Name the Gilded Age characteristic
expansion of rights for women
reform efforts to deal with urbanization
growth of business and westward expansion
revival of lit and art
2
Allowed the US Government to collect income taxes
15th Amendment
16th Amendment
14th Amendment
17th Amendment
3
What act led to immediate conflicts between new settlers and Native Americans
Homestead
Pendleton
Sedition
Dawes
4
This Act was relatively unsuccessful in regulating monopolies due to its general wording
Sherman Antitrust
Homestead
Dawes Antitrust
Pendleton Antitrust
5
What had the most impact on the US economy at the turn of the century
electricity
assembly line
urbanization
immigration
6
Fear of Communism and distrust of foreigners led to
Red Scare
Civil Rights
Teapot Dome
21st Amendment
7
The Progressive from Wisconsin
Wilson
Debs
LaFolette
DuBois
8
A negative and unintended effect of protective tariffs were
Encouraged imports
Discouraged the purchase of US agriculture abroad
Generated jobs for farmers
Created trade barriers between warring countries
9
Defines citizenship and equal protection under the law
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
16th Amendment
17th Amendment
10
What act led to immediate conflicts with the Native Americans
The Homestead Act
The Dawes Act
The Sedition Act
The Pendleton Act
11
This amendment gave women the right to vote
20th
21st
14th
19th
12
What event is correctly matched to its year
Dust Bowl - 1925
WWI ends - 1926
Black Tuesday -1931
Great Depression Starts - 1929
13
Gave citizens of states the power to directly elect senators
17th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
16th Amendment
14
What act enforced Prohibition
Homestead
Volstead
Pendlton
Dawes
15
What caused the other three?
Farmers conflict over railroads over shipping prices
settler conflict with Native Americans
The Homestead Act
creation of cities along the rail
16
What was the main point of Wilson's 14 points
The League of Nations
War reparations for Germany
Punishment for Germany
Democracy across Europe
17
Henry Ford's assembly line
took more time to make a car
was inefficent
was a combination of lines to make a complete car
raised the cost
18
Pride in African American culture especially in music and literature in NYC was called
Back to Africa
Harlem Renaissance
Jim Crow
NAACP
19
The Nye Committee is associated with what US Foreign policy
Isolationism
Imperialism
Imperialism
Interventionism
20
Filled with corruption and scandal best describes the administration of
Harding
T. Roosevelt
F. D. Roosevelt
Coolidge
21
The United States caused an economic crisis in Cuba by
Passing a sugar tariff
Preventing trade with Spain
Not letting others use the Panama Canal
Selling American railroads and sugar interests in Cuba
22
What year did the United States join the league of nations?
1921
1920
19Never
1919
23
Which of the following would be a cause (Pull factor) of immigration to the United States
Better job opportunty
Corrupt government
War
High Unemployment
24
The inability to sale crops abroad let to overproduction which lowered profits in the 1890s led
Led to farmers mortgaging their lands
Led to farmers buying more land
Led to record income for farmers
Led to farmers becoming more Nativist
25
The large influx of people from rural areas to urban areas led to
A large amount of unused land
large college enrollment
decline in economic growth
unsanitary conditions and slums
26
After WWI, African Americans
Faced racism and had to compete for housing and jobs
Were returned to southern plantations
Returned as heros
Gained equal rights
27
What helped standardize culture in America
Radio and movies
Magazines
Yellow Journalism
Fireside Chats
28
A series of new legislation passed by Congress designed to meet the economic crisis ----
New Deal
The Great Depression
"Hundred Days"
Court Packing
29
What did muckrakers do?
Limited government controls on the economy
fought corruption by exposing it
Passed the 18th Amendment
Raked Muck
30
Who created settlement housing for immigrants?
Jane Addams
John Adams
Vanderbuilt
Rockefeller
31
Harding won the presidency by promising
The New Deal
Return to normal life after the war
Become a world power
Repeal prohibition
32
Why didn't the United States ratify the Treaty of Versailles and join the League of Nations
they accepted Communist Russia
Too many reparations
it could have threatened traditional American ideals
it changed the boundaries of Europe
33
The economic boom of the 1920s was partially caused by
The movement towards war
installment buying and an unregulated stock market
18th Amendment
government regulation on big business
34
Guaranteed African American voting rights
16th Amendment
14th Amendment
17th Amendment
15th Amendment
35
Hearst and Pulitzer are associated with what
Pineapple farming
Yellow Journalism
Imperialism
Sugar Plantations
36
Discrimination against immigrants during the Gilded Ages was due to all of the below except
Because they were from Western Europe
People thought they would steal jobs
the idea they had different beliefs
People thought they would hurt wages
37
This image refers to what court case?
Eugene v. Debs
Plessy v. Ferguson
Reynolds v. Sims
Wabash v. Illinois
38
Which was not a major demand of the labor unions
Better wages
Better working conditions
Better hours
worker owned factories
39
What amendment repealed the 18th amendment
22nd
19th
21st
20th
40
Who wrote The Influence of Sea Power Upon History(1890)
Dewey
Mahan
Hayes
Lodge
41
What summarizes the Progressive Movement?
settlement of the American west
Improvement of social and economic postitions
Protection of business
abolition of slavery
42
Name the era: reform of political parties, big business and labor
Progressive
1920s
Gilded
Industrialization
43
Back to Africa movement leader
Ellington
Booker T Washington
Dubois
Garvey
44
Why did Congress refuse Roosevelt's court packing plan
Gave too much power in the judicial branch
Increased taxes
Needed to be a constitutional amendment
Threatened the checks and balances sustem
45
This caused increase demand in steel, rubber and gas
farming
factories
Harlem Reniassance
auto industry
46
W.E.B. DuBois founded
the KKK
NAACP
Back to Africa movement
USSR
47
What was the party that supported farmers and wanted to use silver coins
Libertarians
Populists
Republicans
Grangers
48
Which amendment expanded the amount of voters
15th
17th
16th
14th
49
Prohibited the manufacture, sale and transport of alcoholic beverages
21st Amendment
14th Amendment
16th Amendment
18th Amendment
50
Distrust in elected officials began with
The New Deal
Assassination of Lincoln
The Teapot Dome Scandal
Watergate
51
Who was put on trial for teaching evolution
Byran
Scopes
Darrow
Plessy
52
The Great Migration during WWI was the flow of
African Americans moving from the north to the south
African Americans moving from the east to the south
Moving Native Americans onto reservations
African Americans moving from the south to the north
53
What was the main argument that labor unions had opposing immigration
The would work for low wages
They did not speak English
They hated unions
They had no skills
54
Return to Normalcy, Teapot Dome and Supply side Economics is associated with what President
Harding
Coolidge
Hoover
Roosevelt
55
One negative result of laissez-faire was
Businesses were free to create what they wanted
Owners had complete control of their company
Profits were high
employees were taken advantage of
56
All of these made politicians more responsive to voters except
referendum
recall
18th Amendment
initiative
57
Repealed the 18th Amendment
18th Amendment
14th Amendment
16th Amendment
21st Amendment
58
Ethnic neighborhoods created feelings of security in a new environment
False
True
59
This amendment gave citizens more control of the government
16th
14th
15th
17th
60
The Zimmerman Note promised land to
Mexico
Germany
Canada
Russia
61
Railroad companies had their rates, in several western states, limited by
Pendleton Act
Granger laws
Prohibition
Dawes Act
62
All of these are characteristics on the 1920s except
political isolation
nativist feelings
World War I
economic prosperity followed by a sharp decline
63
The image is a great example of this
Absorption
Adaptation
Assimilation
Acclimation
64
Why did farmers begin to lose their crops in 1932
Drought
Too much rain
Wrong crops were planted
Railroads charged too much to ship
65
Speculation led to
Buying stocks on margin
anti-trust laws
High interest rates
bank runs
66
What act reallocated Native American lands for placement onto reservations?
Dawes
Thespian
Homestead
Sedition
67
American city where organized crime was the greatest in the 1920s
Dallas
New Jersey
Austin
Chicago
68
What can best be attributed to the Transcontinental Railroad's rapid construction
The Homestead Act
Industrialization
Immigrant workers
Government land grants
69
Tin Pan Alley was famous for
Music
Stock Market
Harlem Renaissance
Food
70
What symbolized American ingenuity, courage and ability in 1927?
The Charleston
Teapot Dome
Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic
The Nativist movement
71
A rise in crime can be contributed to the passage of what amendment
17th
16th
21st
18th
72
The Interstate Commerce Act was the first large scale attempt to
Move Native Americans to reservations
Tax businesses in the US
Promote civil rights
regulate business in the interest of society
73
What happened first
The Social Security Act passes
Supreme Court rules NLRB is unconstitutional
Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected President
Black Tuesday
74
Which of the following innovations is most responsible for trench warfare
zeppelins
machine guns
tanks
U boats
75
Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" was responsible for
Passage of the 18th Amendment
the Nativist movement
passage of civil rights laws
passage of consumer protection laws
76
A period of rapid expansion, which led to a series of political, social and economic problems.
The Gilded Age
The Progressive Era
The Great Depression
The New Deal
77
What amendment gave women the right to vote?
18th
16th
19th
17th