Semester Exam

The right that enables voters to remove unsatisfactory elected officials from office.

What is the best title for this chart?

The illegal manipulation of contracts by a construction and finance company associated with the Union Pacific Railroad.

1882 act that prohibited all immigration of Chinese laborers.

In the Crédit Mobilier scandal, Union Pacific investors got rich by

People who risk their own money to organize and run businesses are known as

A policy that allowed each foreign nation in China to trade freely in the other nations’ sphere of influence.

Which of the following best describes why both Americanization strategies failed to assimilate Native Americans?

Why is the battle of Gettysburg considered a turning point in the Civil War?

Extreme nationalism marked by aggressive foreign policy.

Rose from slavery to become a prominent leader of the antislavery movement.

Opened in 1892, this is one of the immigration stations in the United States.

Many ______ became rich when the mines they created generated huge profits.

What describes the purpose of settlement houses?

The practice of letting voters accept or reject measures proposed by the legislature.

The Comstock strike turned the town of ___ ___, Nevada, into a boomtown.

Declared that the right to vote “shall not be denied…on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

Migrants had many reasons to make the journey to the United States. Which of the following reasons is a “pull" factor

The rapidly growing communities that appeared at the site of mineral strikes were called ______.

The Treaty of Paris (1898) formally ended the Spanish-American War. Which of the following was granted independence?

1899-1901 uprising in China that was focused on removing the Western influence from China.

The right of citizens to place a measure or issue before the voters or the legislature for approval.

The acquisition of money in dishonest ways, as in bribing a politician.

What event caused South Carolina’s secession from the United States?

Which of the following best completes the graphic organizer that lists events leading to the Spanish-American War?

World War I might have involved ONLY two nations, Austria-Hungary and Serbia, if not for

A journalist who uncovers abuses and corruption in a society.

Who wrote a series of articles on the unethical business practices of Standard Oil and John D. Rockefeller?

The British entered World War I when

The Texas ______ was a breed of cattle descended from Spanish cattle that had been brought to Mexico

The “long drive” was when

The “open range” referred to a vast area of grassland owned by the _____.

A combination of firms or corporations formed by a legal agreement, especially to reduce competition.

Steel strike in 1892 that ended in a battle between strikers and private security agents.

Applied Christian ethics to social problems.

Ended slavery in the United States and its territories.

Issuing stock allows a corporation to raise large amounts of money for big projects while

Which of the following abolished slavery in the North and the Border States?

A policy that government should interfere as little as possible in the nation’s economy.

What was the aim of "total war" as practiced by Union generals Grant and Sherman?

How did the Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson reflect the effect of Jim Crow laws on African Americans

Artificial waterway that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean

Laissez-faire relies on _____ to regulate prices and wages

What is a goal of the Meat Inspection Act (1906) and the Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)?

The total value of all goods and services that a country produces is its

The right to vote.

An institution located in a poor neighborhood that provided numerous community services such as medical care, child care

Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction.

In the late 1800s, workers’ buying power generally increased because

In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposed

Who were muckrakers?

During the early days of industrialization, many members of Congress believed that tariffs were necessary to

What idea emphasized an intense pride in one’s homeland and was a factor that contributed to the start of World War I?

Even before the invention of the automobile, petroleum was in high demand because it could

What event was the immediate cause of World War I?

Leading American railroad developer and speculator – he was one of the ruthless robber barons

What practice is symbolized by the HUGE figures in the back row of the political cartoon shown?

A policy of joining the business interests of a country with its diplomatic interests abroad.

Declared that no state could deny any person “equal protection of the laws.”

Because militarism had been a major cause of the war, the framers of the Treaty of Versailles