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All of the following factors contributed to explosive economic growth during the Gilded Age EXCEPT:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
2.
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
worked as farmers.
worked as independent craftsmen.
worked in the mining industry.
were moving into the middle class.
worked for wages.
3.
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
4.
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
oil industry
railroads
iron industry
textiles
cotton gin
5.
In 1883, ____________ divided the nation into the four time zones still used today.
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
6.
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
unheard of.
used only rarely.
against the law.
seen as beneficial by consumers.
ways that manufacturers sought to control the marketplace.
7. Between 1897 and 1904, a wave of financial mergers led to the creation of the following corporations, all of which dominated
major parts of the economy EXCEPT:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
U.S. Steel.
J.P. Morgan.
Standard Oil.
International Harvester.
Quaker Oats.
8.
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
9.
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
13. The economic development of the American West was based on:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
farming solely.
lumber, mining industries, tourism, and farming.
the continued reliance on self-sufficient farming.
transportation modes other than the railroad.
the cooperation of the Plains Indians.
14. What did hunters shoot while riding the railroads across the West?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
horses
deer
antelope
Indians
Buffalo
15. Which statement about Chief Josephs appeal to an audience in Washington, D.C., in 1879 is FALSE?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
He
He
He
He
He
did not wish to speak to the audience, but had been coerced to do so by President Hayes.
asked the white man for more than just talk, as he saw talk as broken promises.
believed that the Indians and the white man could live in peace, without trouble between them.
asked the policymakers of Washington to extend the same laws to the Indians as to the white man.
attempted to convince his audience that its belief that Indians were like wild animals was false.
16. What was the aim of Carlisle, a boarding school for Indians?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
to
to
to
to
to
22. One of the reasons that the Great Strike of 1877 was important is that:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
not since the Civil War had so many people been killed.
it underscored the tensions produced by the rapid industrialization of the time.
the victory won by labor was the greatest for the labor movement in American history.
it proved the theory of Social Darwinism.
it demonstrated how effective the Knights of Labor could be in organizing workers.
26. Farmers believed that their plight derived from all of the following EXCEPT:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
31. How were federal troops used in the Pullman Strike of 1894?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Indians
working-class families
Chinese
blacks
white sharecroppers
led to an increase in civil rights for Chinese people and Chinese-Americans living in the United States.
only barred immigration of Chinese women.
led to the deportation of the 105,000 Chinese people living in the United States in 1882.
led to a decrease in discrimination and violence against the Chinese.
was the first time race was used to exclude an entire group of people from entering the United States.
40. The American Federation of Labors founder Samuel Gompers used the idea of freedom of contract to:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
began in 1890.
was a feature of American life since well before independence.
began with the Spanish-American War.
began with the war in the Philippines.
began with the Monroe Doctrine.
42. Journalists who worked for newspapers like William Randolph Hearsts New York Journal, which sensationalized events to sell
papers, were called:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
yellow journalists.
trustees.
social reformers.
muckrakers.
freelancers.
The war lasted only four months and resulted in less than 400 battle casualties.
Congress indicated that it was going to war to annex Cuba.
The war came as little surprise given the fact that William McKinley campaigned in 1896 on a platform favoring imperial expansion.
Admiral Dewey secured Manila Bay by defeating the Spanish in a bloody three-day battle.
The treaty that ended the war granted U.S. citizenship to the peoples of the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam.
44. In 1899, President William McKinley explained in an interview with Methodist Church leaders that his decision to annex the
Philippines:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
was
was
was
was
was
47. All of the following statements about Emilio Aguinaldo are true EXCEPT:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Aguinaldo
Aguinaldo
Aguinaldo
Aguinaldo
Aguinaldo
51. The word Progressivism came into common use around 1910:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
as a way of describing a broad, loosely defined political movement of individuals and groups.
as an anti-business term.
denoting a group that appealed only to women.
as another term for socialism.
and represented those who advocated revolution.
big business.
farmers.
middle-class reformers.
military leaders.
socialists.
54. Newspaper and magazine writers, who exposed the ills of industrial and urban life, fueling the progressive movement, were known
as:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
yellow journalists.
trustees.
social reformers.
muckrakers.
freelancers.
55. The writer whose work encouraged the passage of the Meat Inspection Act was:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Henry George.
Theodore Dreiser.
Upton Sinclair.
Ida Tarbell.
Lincoln Steffens.
new immigration from southern and eastern Europe reached its peak.
overall immigration declined dramatically.
the main point of entry for European immigrants was Boston.
the vast majority of immigrants came from Ireland.
all immigration was banned.
60. In the early twentieth century, the Socialist Party advocated for all of the following EXCEPT:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
62. Which statement about the American Federation of Labor in the early twentieth century is FALSE?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
63. What Progressive-era issue became a crossroads where the paths of labor radicals, cultural modernists, and feminists intersected?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
trust-busting
the initiative and referendum
womens suffrage
unionism
birth control
Progressives
Progressives
Progressives
Progressives
Progressives
65. Which of the following social groups was NOT heavily involved in the Progressive movement?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
big-city-machine politicians
the urban middle class
women
muckraker journalists
white Protestants
66. All of the following statements about Urban Progressives are true EXCEPT:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
They
They
They
They
They
67. Progressive governor of Wisconsin, Robert La Follette, instituted all of the following reforms EXCEPT:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
69. All of the following measures expanded democracy during the Progressive era EXCEPT:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
regulating industry.
womens suffrage.
prohibiting alcohol.
civil rights for blacks.
reducing the poverty of the cities.
72. Who used the Sherman Antitrust Act to dissolve J. P. Morgans Northern Securities Company?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Theodore Roosevelt
Samuel Gompers
William Howard Taft
Louis Brandeis
Woodrow Wilson
was
was
was
was
was
Theodore Roosevelts campaign pledge that government should have a greater regulatory role.
Eugene Debss campaign pledge that government should abolish all private property.
Woodrow Wilsons campaign pledge that government should renew economic competition with less government intervention.
the campaign slogan of the womens suffrage movement.
a term coined by Margaret Sanger for the birth-control movement.
76. Between 1898 and 1934, the United States intervened militarily numerous times in Caribbean countries:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
77. Theodore Roosevelts taking of the Panama Canal Zone is an example of:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
his ability to speak softly in diplomatic situations when he knew he was outgunned.
international Progressivismthe United States was intervening with the sole purpose to uplift the peoples of Central America.
liberal internationalism, since he worked closely with the French to work out a deal favorable to Panama.
his belief that civilized nations had an obligation to establish order in an unruly world.
one of the many wars in which Roosevelt involved the United States.
claimed the right of the United States to act as a police power in the Western Hemisphere.
claimed the right of the United States to act as a police power in Asia.
claimed the right of the United States to act as a police power in Africa.
was also known as Dollar Diplomacy.
contradicted the Monroe Doctrine.
85. Wilsons Fourteen Points included all of the following principles EXCEPT:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
an end to colonization.
self-determination for all nations.
freedom of the seas.
open diplomacy.
free trade.
92. The Espionage Act (1917) and the Sedition Act (1918):
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
93. The anti-German crusade included all of the following measures EXCEPT:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
94. W. E. B. Du Bois:
a) agreed with Booker T. Washington that blacks should accept segregation.
b) chose scholarship over political action.
c) founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
d) worked closely with Woodrow Wilson.
e) agreed with Booker T. Washington that vocational education was best for
African-Americans.
95. The Great Migration refers to:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
W. E. B. Du Bois
Booker T. Washington
Frederick Douglass
Langston Hughes
Marcus Garvey
97. In response to the Russian Revolution that led to the creation of the communist Soviet Union, the United States:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
98. How did World War I and the rhetoric of freedom shape the labor movement and workers expectations?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
103. Railroads were to the late nineteenth century what ____________ were to the 1920s.
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
cars
radios
stock markets
telephones
airplanes
104. The backbone of economic growth during the 1920s was the increased consumption of:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
televisions.
railroad cars.
automobiles.
steel.
textiles.
voting.
owning her own property.
the ERA.
the right to choose her lifestyle.
becoming a wife and mother.
117. All of the following statements about the1924 Immigration Act are true EXCEPT:
a)
the 1924 Immigration Act reflected the Progressive desire to improve the quality of democratic citizenship and to employ scientific
methods to set public policy.
b) the 1924 Immigration Act satisfied the demands of large farmers in California, who relied heavily on seasonal Mexican labor, by
not setting limits on immigration from the Western Hemisphere.
c) the 1924 Immigration Act barred immigration from Asia.
d) the 1924 Immigration Act limited immigration from Europe.
e) the 1924 Immigration Act sought to ensure that more immigrants came from southern and eastern Europe than from northern and
western Europe.
118. The 1924 Immigration Act:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
included writers and poets such as Langston Hughes and Claude McKay.
included singers such as Etta James and Dinah Washington.
privileged an African heritage over that of the black experience in the South.
downplayed racism in America.
represented a rejection of capitalism.
won the presidency, primarily because of his sterling reputation and the general, apparent prosperity of the nation.
lost the presidency, primarily because he was a Catholic.
called for repeal of Prohibition.
ran for president as a Democrat.
had little government experience.
121. The Great Depression was caused by all of the following factors EXCEPT:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
123. Hoovers response to the Depression included all of the following measures EXCEPT:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
a tax increase.
higher tariffs.
the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
the Federal Home Loan Bank System.
a reduction in the size of the army.
127. During the Roosevelt administration, the Democratic Party emerged into a coalition that included all of the following EXCEPT:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
farmers.
the white supremacist South.
the business elite.
industrial workers.
northern African-Americans.
129. The Great Depression and the economic crisis that ensued discredited supporters of:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Keynesian economics.
liberalism.
unregulated capitalism.
fascism.
communism.
130. In his 1932 campaign for the presidency, Franklin D. Roosevelt promised Americans a policy change he called the:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
New Freedom.
New Nationalism.
New Deal.
Fair Deal.
Great Society.
132. The first thing that Roosevelt attended to as president was the:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
housing crisis.
farming crisis.
banking crisis.
unemployment crisis.
tariff crisis.
136. Which New Deal program put the federal government for the first time in the business of selling electricity in competition with
private companies?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
the
the
the
the
the
raised farm prices by establishing quotas and paying farmers not to plant more.
lowered farm prices by establishing quotas and paying farmers to grow more.
was beneficial to sharecroppers and tenant farmers.
established a government program of distributing food to the hungry.
was limited to the West Coast.
was a series of experiments, some of which succeeded and some of which failed.
led to the construction of few public facilities.
ended unemployment.
ended the Great Depression.
provided relief to very few Americans.
139. Which two New Deal programs did the Supreme Court rule unconstitutional?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
141. Which statement best describes Huey Long, Upton Sinclair, and Dr. Francis Townsend?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
They all ended up in jail during World War II for having communist sympathies.
led by Dr. Francis Townsend and directed at Americans over the age of sixty.
led by Henry Ford and directed at auto manufacturers.
led by Father Charles E. Coughlin and directed at Catholics.
led by Louisiana senator Huey Long and gained a national following.
introduced by Franklin Roosevelt as part of the New Deal.
146. Why did FDR try to change the balance on the Supreme Court?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
He
He
He
He
He
feared the Supreme Court might invalidate the Wagner and Social Security acts.
was worried about being able to run for a third term as president.
needed the Courts support for upcoming war measures against Germany.
feared that the Supreme Court might invalidate the National Recovery Act or the Agricultural Adjustment Act.
feared that the Supreme Court might deem sit-down strikes unconstitutional.
undermined racism.
expanded funding to integrated neighborhoods.
weakened the power of local governments.
reinforced residential segregation.
was part of the Social Security Act.
149. In 1938, Congress established the House Un-American Activities Committee, which:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
was part of the expanded notion of civil liberties under the New Deal.
subscribed to an expanded definition of un-American that included liberal Democrats and labor organizers.
was immediately vetoed by the president.
focused on racism in the South.
focused only on communists.
hope.
an economic recovery.
jobs.
social security.
labor reform.
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Francisco Franco
Joseph Stalin
Hideki Tojo
155. France and Britains policy toward Germany of giving concessions in hopes of avoiding war was called:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
isolationism.
dtente.
internationalism.
appeasement.
provocation.
156. As fascism rose in Europe and Asia during the 1930s, most Americans:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
158. Men like Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and Father Coughlin were members of the
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
160. December 7, 1941, is known as a date that will live in infamy, referring to:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
imprisoned isolationists.
cast the Wars sole goal as retaliation against the Japanese.
attempted to stir up nationalist hysteria.
was a New Deal social program.
used radio, film, and press to give the war an ideological meaning.
were viewed as permanent workers after the war, so long as they did a good job.
were told by advertisers that they were fighting for freedom.
had little impact on the war effort.
were small in number, as most women took clerical work or joined the military service as nurses.
were all young, single women who left their jobs once they got married.
167. The program that began in 1942 that allowed experienced Mexican agricultural workers to cross the border to work under
government labor contracts was called the:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
bracero program.
Chicano program.
migrant-worker program.
zoot suit program.
pueblo program.
d)
e)