Test Notes

TEST:
What was the verdict in President Johnson's impeachment trial?
c. He escaped conviction by one vote

The Fourteenth Amendment was part of a series of laws that
b. ensured the civil rights of African Americans.

Which amendment gave voting rights to black men?
c. 15th

What did southerners call southern white republicans who supported congressional reconstruction?
a. scalawags

Southern state governments restricted the rights of former slaves by
a. passing black codes

Please select the word from the list that best fits the definition
After President Johnson tried to fire his Secretary of War, the House of Representatives voted to ___ him.
impeach

Please select the word from the list that best fits the definition
personal liberties guaranteed by law
civil rights

The constitutional Amendment directly led to the first African American elected to the U.S. Senate
c. 15th amendment

Please select the word from the list that best fits the definition
legislation stating that all the persons born or naturalized in the United States were citizens and no state could restrict their rights
Fourteenth Amendment

In 1870, thanks to the Fifteenth Amendment, southern black men
a. voted for the first time.

Which of these was an important provision of the Radical Republican' Reconstruction Act of 1867?
d. It put the South under military rule.

Please select the word from the list that best fits the definition
guaranteed that all people born or naturalized in the United States were citizens and that no state could restrict their rights
Fourteenth Amendment

Please select the word from the list that best fits the definition
With the ratification of the ___, African American males gained the right to vote.
Fifteenth Amendment

The Radical Republicans passed a series of laws designed to
NOT A (reestablish slavery in a different form.) OR B (unfairly tax the South.).

When Johnson violated the Tenure of Office Act, he was
d. impeached by the House.

Under Johnson's Reconstruction plan, white southerners began to enact laws that
d. gave whites power over African Americans.

Please select the word from the list that best fits the definition
unflattering name for white southern Republican
scalawag

After reconstruction, one major change in agriculture was ______________.
b. the rise of merchants

Between 1860 and 1890 the steel, lumber, tobacco, and textile industries in the south ______.
a. stayed about the same as before this period.

Reconstruction succeeded in rebuilding many of the South's
c. railroads.

Please select the word from the list that best fits the definition
a system of farming in which farmers paid to rent land
tenant farming

About one-half of _______ were destroyed in the south during the Civil War.
c. farm implements and livestock

Please select the word from the list that best fits the definition
farmer who grows a crop on someone else's land and gives the landowner part of the annual yield sharecropper

Southern cities were equivalent to Northern cities with regards to their infrastructure and wealth.
FALSE

Please select the word from the list that best fits the definition
A _____ rents the land on which he or she grows crops.
tenant farmer

One of the methods of farming in the South after the war involved renting land from a big land owner thereby paying all of the expenses and also reaping any profits, this was called:
b. tenant farming

Most of the South's postwar industrial growth came from
a. cotton mills.

Even though the industry grew in the South after the Civil War, most of it supplied raw materials to Northern manufacturers.
TRUE

The Plantation slave system was replaced by small farms owned by African Americans who proved to be quite prosperous and independent, while many freed slaves moved to the city.
FALSE

Please select the word from the list that best fits the definition
A ____ grows a crop on a land owned by someone else and gives the landowner part of the annual yield.
sharecropper

Much corruption was involved in the rebuilding of the South's roads, railroads, cities, and canals. These physical elements of a society are specifically called its:
d. infrastructure

Please select the word from the list that best fits the definition
the public property and services that a society uses
infrastructure

This law was passed in 1875 prohibiting segregation in public facilities. Name the law.
a. The Civil Rights Bill of 1875

In the West, the combination of big business and new agricultural techniques resulted in
c. bonanza farms

After Rutherford B. Hayes became President in 1877, he
b. removed federal troops from the South.

The main goal of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction was to
a. prevent African Americans from exercising their rights.

A major failure of Reconstruction was that
c. racist attitudes continued in the North and South.

The Supreme Courts limitations on post-Civil War amendments severely hurt the civil rights intended to protect African Americans.
TRUE

designed to allow Americans of all races voting rights
Enforcement Act of 1870

removed federal troops from southern states
Compromise of 1877

The Compromise of 1877 helped Democrats regain
a. control of southern politics.

By the end of Reconstruction it could be argued that with the exception of freedom of movement, the status of blacks had changed little in the South.
TRUE

farmer who grows a crop on someone else's land and gives the landowner part of the annual yield
TENANT FARMER

The Fourteenth Amendment was part of a series of laws that
b. ensured the civil rights of African Americans

About one-half of ______ were destroyed in the south during the Civil War.
c. farm implements and livestock

What was not only a popular method of administering justice, but also a form of entertainment?
b. lynching

to charge a government official with wrongdoing in office
IMPEACH

The ____ stated that everyone born or naturalized in the United States was a citizen and was entitled to equal protection of the law.
FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT

According to the cartoon, who does the KKK want to run the government?
white men

These trailblazers drew a picture of the American West as a land of promise, a paradise of plenty, filled with fertile valleys and rich land. During the 1840s, tens of thousands of Americans began the process of settling the West beyond the Mississippi River. The trailblazers included all EXCEPT:
c. businessmen

All of the following are reasons for westward expansion EXCEPT:
b. farming tobacco

All of the following led to the defeat of the Plains Indians EXCEPT:
c. the battle of Little Big Horn

Which of the following was a cause of conflict between Native Americans and the United States government?
a. Native Americans wanted to maintain their traditional culture.
b. Native Americans had violent conflicts with white settlers.
c. The United States wanted to use the land for while settlers.
d. All of the above.
CORRECT ANSWER IS D. ALL OF THE ABOVE

Which act of Congress divided up tribal lands into 65 hectare parcels to be given to the head of each family?
d. The Dawes Act

What "white" technology limited the movement of buffalo and interfered with the Plains Indians traditional way of life?
b. Fences

The United States government encouraged attempts to
c. take Native American lands.

Many agreements between Native Americans and the federal government fell apart because
a. Native Americans and settlers had differing concepts of land ownership.

Many white reformers believed that Native Americans should
d. be "civilized" and adopt white culture.

What happened at the Massacre at Wounded Knee?
a. American soldiers killed more than 200 unarmed Sioux.

The US government's treaties were just ways of moving the Native Americans around so that it and its interests could exploit the Indians land and resources.
TRUE

Conflicts arose between the US government and the Plains Indians because the Indians wanted to live on reservation land and farm.
FALSE

In the 1860s a cow could be bought for three to five dollars in Texas and sold in Dodge City, Kansas for ______ dollars.
C. $30-50

Farm merchanization resulted in
A. an increase in farm production.

Which one of the following did the Populists support?
B. a progressive income tax

What law allowed the use of silver as part of the national monetary policy?
A. Bland-Allison Act

William Jennings Bryan lost the election of 1896 because he could not
D. carry the urban and industrial centers.

Farmers were concerned about _____________ and the money supply.
A. deflation

This was a major weapon used against labor unions by the government. Name the weapon.
B. injunctions

Why did the institution of slavery develop in Africa?
B. slaves were valued as goods to be sold and traded

Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government was
C. a loose alliance of states

Southern States adopted the northern system of
A. cash-crop agriculture

What was a negative impact of "bonanza" farms?
D. oversupply led to lower prices

The bimetallic standard reders to
c. the currency (gold and silver) used by the United States until 1873.

The idea of a progressive income tax, which is still a standard taxing policy U.S. today, was aggressively sought by the Populist Party.
TRUE

Many of the reform ideas of the Populist Party would be embraced by other parties in American politics.
TRUE

The Bland-Allison Act required the federal government to coin more silver, which would increase the money supply and help farmers increase their profits.
TRUE

In their platform, the Populists included provisions for
a. free silver, a progressive income tax, and an eight-hour day.

The Interstate Commerce Act was passed to
c. regulate railroad rates and practices.

ran as the Democratic and Populist Party nominee in the presidential election of 1896
William Jennings Bryan

The government responded to the cries of the farming community by instating the Interstate Commerce Act in order to avoid unionization and retain federal control of land.
FALSE

Farmers favored inflation because it would
a. increase crop prices

In William Jennings Bryan's famous speech, "The Cross of Gold", he called for
a. a nation free from the bondage of the gold standard.

The policy of free silver, the unlimited coining of silver dollars, was
c. Sherman Silver Purchase Act.

helped farmers form cooperatives
the Grange

Bankers supported deflation because this policy would
c. increase the value of money.

Quite a bit of land resulting from this Act was purchased by land speculators
b. Morril-Land Grand Act

Which statement best describes the lifestyle of homesteaders?
d. Homesteaders often had to struggle even for the necessities.

All of the following contributed to the decline in farming at the end of the nineteenth century EXCEPT:
a. low interest rates

Custer's cavalry was wiped out at the ____.

inventor who developed a new way to make steel
Henry Bessemer

The Transcontinental Railroads run from ____ to ____. I. North II. South III. East IV. West
c. III and IV

Railroad shipping rates _______.
c. favored larger shippers.

One of the major advances in railroad transportation was _______.
a. electric engines

Name the process that transformed iron into steel.
b. the Bessemer converter

Edwin Drake struck oil in what US state?
c. Pennsylvania

inventor who established the American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Thomas A. Edison

When building the Transcontinental Railroad the Union Pacific Railroad started in the ______
d. East
license to make, use, or sell an invention
patent

improved the process of making steel
Bessemer process

a railroad extending from coast to coast
transcontinental railroad

The invention of electricity and its development helped business and industry but had little effect on individuals and their private and social lives.
FALSE

Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse both worked wonders with
d. electricity

inventor who patented the telegraph
Samuel F. B. Morse

This person's name is synonymous with electricity because of his development of and inventions for its use.
d. Edison

Which of the following made possible the American industrial growth of the late 1800s?
b. technological advances

inventor who established the American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Alexander Graham Bell

Tammany Hall was a
d. political machine.

During this period in America, middle-class salaries were about twice that of the average factory worker.
TRUE

Whose nine-story skyscraper in Chicago revolutionized big city downtown landscapes?
b. William Jenney

tall steel frame buildings
skyscrapers

Which political cartoonist, from Harper's weekly, helped bring down New York City's "boss" Tweed?
a. Thomas Nast

This  product allowed for the buildings in American cities to be built higher in the late 1800s.
c. steel

The political machines of the large cities determined what type of projects would be funded by tax dollars and for the most part they were honest organizations.
FALSE

America's industrialization not only made some people wealthy; it also helped create a growing
b. middle class

Political machines provided new city dwellers with necessities such as jobs, housing, and police protection in exchange for
c. votes

Only in power the political machines dominated daily life in the cities that they controlled and they held the purse strings for all technological contracts.
TRUE

Most people who lived in "street suburbs" were
b. middle class

William M. Tweed was
d. a corrupt party boss in a political machine.

What was the famous New York Democratic political machine called?
a. Tammany Hall

Tin played an important role in the skyscraper boom.
FALSE

belief that a person could rise in society, and go as far as their talents and commitment would take them
individualism

wrote "rags-to-riches" novels
Horatio Alger

According to the article, the _____ was the most popular ride at Coney Island?
a. whirl-the-whirl

realistic writer who wrote The Age of Innocence, a stark portrait of upper-class New York society
Edith Wharton

During the "Gilded Age", states passed what kinds of laws to prohibit most forms of business operating on Sunday?
b. blue laws

The idea of philosopher Herbert Spencer and others applied Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection to human society and was called
a. Social Darwinism.

Just as Darwin had looked at the natural world scientifically, a new movement in art and literature moved away from romanticism and was called
b. realism.

wrote the first truly American novel
Mark Twain

won the Pulitzer prize for the novel The Age of Innocence, a stark portrait of upper-class New York society in the 1870s
Edith Wharton

One aspect of industrialization was a shorter work day resulting in more leisure time for people.
TRUE

The first salaried baseball team was the
b. Cincinnati Red Stockings.

"The Trip to the Moon, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the chutes, the scenic railway, and the other features of Luna Park were all patronized. A new feature, known as the whirl-the-whirl, proved to be a money coiner....Police Commissioner McAdoo...[said] that the new Coney Island was clean, moral, and magnificent." --from a New York Times article
Which of the following best explains how New Yorkers might have felt about Coney Island as it is described in this excerpt from the New York Times article?
c. This was a place to escape from reality.

By calling their era the Gilded Age, Mark Twain and Charles Warner were sounding
c. an alarm that beneath the surface lay corruption.

Charles Darwin's concept relating to the survival of the fittest as applied to business was called Social Darwinism and promoted competition to be the best.
TRUE

_____ was the philosophy that wealthy Americans bore the responsibility of using their great fortunes to further social progress.
b. Gospel of Wealth

revivalist who believed the way to help the poor was by redeeming their souls and reforming their character
Dwight L. Moody

"That morning's experience was a baptism of fire. Deserted were the laboratory and the academic work of the college. I never returned to them....it seemed certain that conditions such as these were allowed because people did not know, and for me there was a challenge to know and to tell...."--from The House on Henry Street
According to the excerpt, conditions such as those described existed because
c. people did not understand the reality of living poverty.

Edward Bellamy published Looking Backward, 2000-1887, a novel that depicted ideas opposite of Social Darwinism and laissez-faire, and so were essentially a form of
a. socialism.

The opening of private women's colleges such as Vassar, Wellesley, and Smith and of women's colleges on the campuses of Harvard and Columbia Universities served to increase the number of women attending college.
TRUE

All of the following were early twentieth century reforms by many states to help the poor EXCEPT:
b. social security

Rural areas were ahead of cities in the rush to fund education.
FALSE

Lester Frank War argued in his book Dynamic Sociology that government could regulate the economy, cure poverty, and promote education much more efficiently than could competition in the marketplace.
TRUE

published a book describing a perfect society in 2000
Edward Bellamy

From about 1870 until 1920, reformers worked to better conditions in cities according to biblical ideals of charity and justice in the
c. Social Gospel movement

the idea that people succeed in the world not because of their ability to compete, but because of their ability to cooperate
Reform Darwinism

Social critics in the late 1800s saw a large gap between the rich and poor and attacked the concept of Social Darwinism.
TRUE

His book, Progress and Poverty, was an attack on the wealthy as undermining the democratic principles of the country.
b. Henry George

"The gulf between the employed and the employer is growing wider; social contrasts are becoming sharper; as liveried carriages appear, so do barefoot children."--from Progress and Poverty
What is the meaning of this excerpt?
c. Employers make too much money and workers do not

Baptist minister and leader in the Social Gospel movement
Walter Rauschenbusch

Dwight L. Moody's preaching and Ira Sankey's hymns drew thousands of people to revival meetings in the 1870s and 1880s.
FALSE

According to naturalists, leaving society and the economy unregulated did not always lead to the best results.
TRUE

Populists argued that currency should also be backed by ________, to increase the money supply.
b. silver

The Populist party supported all of the following EXCEPT:
c. a protective tariff

The 1893 economic depression was triggered by the failure of one of the country's leading railroad companies.
TRUE

Farmers wanted the government to back paper money with silver, instead of gold, because it would put more money in circulation, thereby _____________.
a. reducing the value of the dollar and enabling them to pay off debts more easily.

Failing prices for farm crops was the major factor that caused hardships for farmers during the late 1800s.
TRUE

The power of the Populist Party ended with their defeat in the 1896 election.
TRUE

Gold versus silver was the major economic issue of the election of 1896.
TRUE

The National Grange's main goal was to force states to regulate railroad freight and grain-storage rates.
TRUE

Because of the rapidly growing urban population and the surge in industrialization, farmers found a ready market for their produce and prospered.
FALSE

The Farmers' Alliance
a. lobbied for a graduated income tax.

A ______________ was one of the changes lobbied for by the Alliance.
graduated income tax

This act prohibited railroads from giving refunds to large shippers.
Interstate Commerce Act

The first major farmers' organization was the _________________.
National Grange

The ________________, which included Alliance members, farmers, labor leaders, and reformers, called for a graduated income tax, bank regulation, and government ownership of railroad and telegraph companies.
Populist Party

supported public libraries, believing that access to knowledge was the key to getting ahead in life
Andrew Carnegie

established in poor neighborhoods where middle-class residents lived and helped the poor residents
settlement houses

early advocate of the Social Gospel
Washington Gladden

Social Darwinism resulted in large companies merging, all of which stopped with the passage of which act in 1890?
Sherman Anti-Trust Act

What was the famous New York Democratic political machine called?
Tammany Hall

The Populist Party lost its influence and faded from the national scene because
c. farmers' economic situations improved and they lost interest in the party.

United State universities established in the late nineteenth century were modeled after schools found in which European country?
b. Germany

Which phrase best summarizes what women and African Americans experienced when they sought to attend college in the late 1800s?
a. a real struggle

What did W.E.B. Du Bois encourage students to seek in school?
b. higher education

Public schools played an important role in
b. helping immigrant children assimilate.

the ability to read and write
literacy

The Niagara Movement called for
c. full civil liberties for African Americans.

Public schools in America during the late 1800s wanted immigrants to adopt American values, this is called:
d. assimilation

This African American leader believed that training in trades and learning a skill was the way of improvement.
a. Booker T. Washington

The major focus of public schools in the late 1800s was the literacy, the process of trying to make everyone similar.
FALSE

By 1910, nearly 60 percent of American children were in school because
d. many states required school attendance by law.

People who give donations to a worthy cause are known as _____.
philanthropists

During the early 1900s, most African Americans who went to college attended
b. African American colleges

Why did parents pressure local governments to reform public schools?
b. to extend their children's knowledge beyond the basic skills

African American leaders like Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois favored education as a way of improving social and economic status and escaping poverty.
TRUE

What was America's first modern amusement park?
c. Coney Island

The American Dream of Rising From "rags to riches" was reflected in
c. Horatio Alger's Ragged Dick stories.

Which became the most popular American sport during the late 1800s?
b. baseball

term used to describe "sensational" new coverage
yellow journalism

a type of inexpensive variety show that became popular in the 1870s
vaudeville

A popular form of entertainment at the turn of the twentieth century was ______.
c. playing musical instruments at home.

What caused newspaper publishers to encourages "sensational" reporting?
a. competition for readers

Which of the following were popular forms of entertainment in the late 1800s?
a. vaudeville
b. moving pictures
c. trolley parks.
d. all of the above
ANSWER IS D. ALL OF THE ABOVE

Which form of music is largely attributed to the varying cultures in and around New Orleans and has its origins linked to old funeral marches?
d. jazz

This new form of entertainment was demeaning to African Americans because the performers colored their faces black.
c. minstrel shows

Which sport was the most popular at the end of the century?
c. baseball

A new form of entertainment at the turn of the 20th century was a series of performances with a variety of acts called:
c. vaudeville

_____ attracted readers by presenting "sensational" news stories.
yellow journalism

musical style that originated among African Americans musicians in the South and Midwest in the 1880s
ragtime

According to the lecture, which of the following was NOT characteristic of early movies?
c. Each town showed one movie per week.

Madam C. J. Walker is remembered for
c. overcoming discrimination to become a self-made millionaire.

Who co-founded the NAACP and believed that the only way to defeat segregation was through agitation?
Dubois

the murder of an accused person by a mob without lawful trial
lynching

fee that some southern states demanded before a person could vote
poll tax

Which of the following provided self-help guidance for African Americans?
c. the National Negro Business League

What was one result of northern whites' fears of racial equality?
a. race riots

At the end of the nineteenth century insulting a white person in the south could get a black person ______.
b. lynched

The act of lynching might best be described as
a. seizure and execution of a person by a mob.

The NAACP was largely supported by which industrialist?
c. Andrew Carnegie

A system of laws called ____ legally segregated and degraded African Americans.
Jim Crow

The discriminatory fee was required to vote in some states after Reconstruction and had a significant effect on African Americans..
d. poll tax

Financially successful African Americans in the South potentially face ___________.
a. lynching

laws that exempted men from voting restrictions
grandfather clause

Jim Crow laws were passed  by many states after Reconstruction to separate or segregate blacks and whites.
TRUE

African Americans enjoyed a bit of renaissance during the early 1900s by forming business groups and opening new businesses.
TRUE

Which of the following is an example of "separate but equal"?
c. The creation of separate waiting rooms at the train station for whites and coloreds.

All of the following reasons supported denying women the rights to vote EXCEPT:
d. women were not intelligent enough

All of the following states allowed women to vote before 1900 EXCEPT:
a. Arizona

a post office service extended to farmers in 1896
rural free delivery

As women began to make their way into professional jobs, they worked mainly in
b. education, health care, and social work.

Which of the following was not an issue for women in the late 1800s?
b. the right to raise children

During the late 1800s, women from which of these groups were most likely to work outside the home?
d. young single women

Participation in volunteer organizations helped many women
a. take their first steps toward public life.

The "new woman" of the early 1900s promoted the idea that women should
a. adopt more convenient hair and dress styles.

Why did middle-class women join volunteer organizations after the Civil War?
b. need for intellectual and social stimulation

Farm families gained greater access to what cities had to offer through _____.
mail-order catalogs

printed materials selling goods by mail
mail-order catalogs

Which of the following helped reduce the time needed to do housework?
a. technological advances

Which best describes the popular amusements of the late 1800s?
c. They were inexpensive and readily available to large numbers of people.

In The Bitter Cry of the Children, author John Spargo reported that
b. few child laborers had ever attended school.

The American Federation of Labor
a. refused to accept unskilled laborers as members.

leader of the American Federation of labor
Samuel Gompers

More than 140 workers died in a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in 1911.
TRUE

The Industrial Workers of the World
a. sought to end capitalism.

Most members of labor unions
c. wanted to preserve the capitalist system but make changes to it.

The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire was made worse because
c. the fire doors were kept locked, blocking escape.

a workplace where all employees are required to belong to a union
closed shop

Progressives and labor union activists worked to
a. pass new laws to prohibit or limit child labor.

a workplace where employees may choose whether or not to belong to a union
open shop

She informed the press of a lack of enforcement of workplace safety laws that led to reform and actual enforcement.
c. Rose Schneiderman

In spite of the many deaths and the horror of how the women died, the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire received little news coverage.
FALSE

The American Federation of Labor believed it was necessary to replace the capitalist system with socialism.
FALSE

During World War I, the U.S. Navy refused to ban the consumption of alcohol despite pressure from prohibitions at home.
FALSE

a writer who published Following the Color Line, a book about lynching
Ray Stannard Baker

All of the following were fears regarding immigrants after WWI EXCEPT:
a. immigrants would overrun universities

Progressives were most concerned about the plight of the poor and the discrimination faced by African Americans.
FALSE

organization dedicated to ending racial discrimination
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

a leading architect and city planner of the early 1900s
Daniel Burnham

influential African American leader
W.E.B. Du Bois

an ex-baseballplayer who became a Presbyterian minister and supported prohibition
Billy Sunday

leader of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union who built it into a strong national force
Frances Willard

Some progressives
d. expressed open prejudice against African Americans and American Indians.

Which amendment was passed by Congress in 1917 that made prohibition law?
d. Eighteenth Amendment

Reformers pushed for passage of the Eighteenth Amendment, arguing that
c. alcohol caused crime and broke up families.

Women who worked for suffrage won the vote by
b. persuading both men and women that the issue was important.

In the presidential election of 1912 Wilson
c. campaigned on a platform of tariff reduction and banking reform.

Which act of Congress passed in 1916 and supported by Wilson was an attempt to help farmers?
b. The Farm Loan Act

The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 created
a. stability in financial systems.

Woodrow Wilson was elected in 1912 on a platform that called for
d. tariff reduction, banking reform, and antitrust legislation.

The Adamson Act, passed in 1916, was a bill
d. reducing the railroad workers' workday from 10 to 8 hours with no loss of pay.

The Underwood Tariff Act of 1913
a. reduced tariffs and introduced a graduated income tax.

What did the Keating-Owen Child Labor Act do?
d. outlawed the interstate sale of goods produced using child labor

The Federal Trade Commission was created during the Wilson years to protect consumers (against false advertisement among other things).
TRUE

Women won the right to vote in state elections in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania in 1915.
FALSE

This Act of Congress passed during the Wilson years helped agricultural interests to borrow money.
c. Federal Farm Loan Act

The Adamson Act mandated an eight hour workday for railroad workers.
TRUE

A very successful practice favored labor unions during the early 1900s was their ability to dictate to management who could be hired, this was called:
b. the closed shop

the Hawaiian queen who wanted to restore Hawaii's independence
Liliuokalani

Which rebellion in China fought against westernization in 1900?
b. The Boxer Rebellion

_____________ is the first westerner to have a positive relationship with Japan and open up dialogue about trade with the United States.
Matthew Perry

Which statement below is an accurate summary of Henry Cabot Lodge's reasons for imperialism?
c. The United States could use imperialism to expand its influence and power

Japan's victories over two countries, around the turn of the twentieth century, sealed its place as a world power. What two countries did it control?
d. Russia and China

took the position that the United States should establish naval bases outside the country
Alfred Thayer Mahan

Senator Henry Cabot Lodge supported imperialism in the U.S. foreign policy.
TRUE

All Hawaiian natives approved of the U.S. annexation of Hawaii in 1898.
FALSE

Hawaiian Queen Liliuokalani was deposed as a result of collusion on the part of U.S. agricultural interests and Hawaiians who saw personal financial gain.
TRUE

America had a two-fold imperialistic interest in Hawaii, one was using it as a base for Asian interests and the other was to develop this industry.
b. sugar

Another name for the Hawaiian Islands.
Sandwich Islands

Matthew Perry convinced Japanese leaders to agree to foreign trade with the United States. Japan quickly industrialized, building up its army and navy to ensure future defense and independence.
TRUE

The slogan "Hawaii for the Hawaiians" was championed by Secretary of State John Hay.
FALSE

regions where a particular country has exclusive rights over the mines, railroads, and trade in another country's territory
spheres of influence

When Queen Liliuokalani announced plans to publish a new Hawaiian constitution, which would give more power to native Hawaiians,
c. supporters of annexation set up a separate government.

Who was the leader of the Mexican Revolution?
a. Emilio Zapata

In August of 1915, a commission representing eight Latin American countries and the United States recognized ________ as the lawful authority in Mexico.
a. Carranza

All of the following were presidents during the Mexican Revolution except:
d. Zapata

Which of the following circumstances surrounding U.S. occupation in Mexico proved harmful to political relations?
a. increased death and destruction

Which individual took power of the Mexican government, after Diaz was removed from power?
b. Madero

During the Mexican Revolution U.S. troops under the leadership of General Pershing invaded deep into Northern Mexico.
TRUE

The 1917 Mexican Constitution was named for this Mexican President.
c Carranza

Pancho Villa was a well-known
d. revolutionary.

When Carranzo came to power, he wanted to unite the Mexican people, and
c. establish a constitution.

General John Pershing captured Pancho Villa in Mexico.
FALSE

Victoriano Huerta
c. was a Mexican general who seized power and imprisoned President Madero.

The Open Door policy was embraced and welcomed by both the Chinese government and its people.
FALSE

Which of the following would be considered exemplary of Carranzo's progressive reforms?
a. 8-hour work day

During the Boxer Rebellion
b. rebels laid to siege to the walled-in foreign settlement in Beijing.

regions where a particular country has exclusive rights over the mines, railroads, and trade in another country's territory
spheres of influence

The United States decided to enter the war in response to
c. the Czar's growing support in Russia.

Americans thought German submarine warfare was
c. uncivilized.

Germany's promise that its U-boats would warn ships before attacking
Sussex pledge

Which political groups replaced the czar's monarchy during the Russian Revolution?
b. Bolsheviks

Which of the following was a major factor in the decision of the United States' to enter World War I?
b. Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare

This pledge was a promise by the German government to stop sinking non-military merchant marine and passenger ships, it was ultimately rescinded.
b. Sussex

The United States broke off diplomatic relations with Germany when
b. Germany violated the Sussex pledge.

What did the Sussex Pledge state?
a. German U-boats would avoid attacking passenger ships.

The German U-boats changed the rules of naval warfare because it
b. remained hidden and fired without warning.

The Russian Revolution gave Germany the incentive to accelerate the war and indirectly led to the entry of the United States.
TRUE

In the _____, Germany proposed an alliance with Mexico.
Zimmermann note

Because Czar Nicolas II held absolute power in Russia and rarely considered the needs of his people, he is considered a(n)______________.
a. autocrat

organized killing of an entire people
genocide

Which statement correctly describes the changes in Europe caused by World War I?
d. The map of Europe had changed significantly because many nations' borders had changed.

The influx of American forces led the Austro-Hungarian Empire to ask for peace, Turkey and Bulgaria to stop fighting, and Germany to request _______. The American presence had turned the tide in favor of the Allies.
a. an armistice.

cease-fire between opponents in a war
armistice

A major turning point of the war was _________________.
c. The United States liberation of Paris

In 1918, Marshal Ferdinand Foch, the leader of the French army, assumed command of the allied forces. Foch's troops, aided by _______ American soldiers, launched a furious counteroffensive that pushed German forces away from Paris back to the Belgian border.
c. 85000

The death toll from World War I was
c. extraordinarily high.

What was the purpose of the convoy system?
c. to transport troops safely across the Atlantic

African Americans fighting in World War I were used mostly
a. for manual labor.

a group of unarmed ships surrounded by armed ships
convoy

within eighteen months of declaring war, the United States had deployed how many troops to France?
d. 1750000

The Selective Service Act was very popular, it included all young men above a certain age, it allowed the men to select the branch of the military in which they would serve.
FALSE

The Selective Service Act was a means of
c. drafting young men for the military forces.

Who was the first female to fly across the Atlantic ocean in 1928?
c. Amelia Earhart

One of the most exciting heroes of this era was the baseball star
a. Babe Ruth.

Spanish-speaking neighborhood
barrio

Which particular ethnic group moved in large numbers from rural to urban areas during the first two decades of the 20th century?
b. Blacks

At first, some women did not exercise their newly won right to vote because
a. they did not feel comfortable voting.
b. they could not leave their children to go to the polls.
c. their families discouraged them from voting.
d. all of the above.
ANSWER IS D. ALL OF THE ABOVE.
In 1920 women were given the right to vote and they showed up in large numbers especially in the big cities at the polls and affected changes that benefited them.
FALSE

One major demographic shift of the 1920s was the movement of
a. large numbers of Americans to the suburbs.

Flappers danced the Charleston, a new dance that embodied the spirit of
b. the Jazz Age.

African Americans moved to the North in the 1920s because
a. jobs in the South were scarce and low-paying.
b. many southern factories refused to hire them.
c. many jobs opened up for them in the North.
d. all of the above.
ANSWER IS D. ALL OF THE ABOVE.

How did life change for American women in the 1920s?
a. Many women felt freer to experiment with bolder styles and manners.

Hispanic communities called this were established where Spanish speaking people lived in the West.
d. barrios

In Charles Lindbergh and other heroes, Americans recognized
a. a hunger for fame.

_____ became a national hero after flying nonstop from New York to Paris.
Charles Lindbergh

statistics describing populations
demographics

Spanish-speaking neighborhood
barrio

case about the teaching of evolution in schools
Scopes trial

Jamaican-born leader of movement promoting African American pride
Marcus Garvey

set of religious beliefs based on a literal interpretation of the Bible
fundamentalism

Prohibition failed because of all of the following EXCEPT:
b. violators were investigated by the Justice department.

The KKK's growth after WWI occured for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
a. many immigrants joined the organization

What did Marcus Garvey urge African Americans to do?
a. return to Africa

Marcus Garvey led a movement to
b. build up African American self-respect and economic power.

Which of the following was a long-term effect of Prohibition?
b. the growth of organized crime

a bar that operated illegally
speakeasy

William Jennings Bryan took up the cause of fundamentalist Christians
c. at the Scopes trial.

set of beliefs held by religious traditionalists
fundamentalism

supporter of free speech in the Scopes trial
Clarence Darrow

In the 1920s, fundamentalists gained attention for their belief in
c. a literal interpretation of the Bible.

During the 1920s this African American man called for a back to Africa movement.
b. Marcus Garvey

The passage of the Fordney-McCumber Tariff, which raised import taxes to very high levels,
b. hurt both U.S. industry and European nations that had to pay back war debts.

a numerical limit
quota

"The business of the American people is business," observed _____, President from 1923 to 1927.
Calvin Coolidge

Immigrants whose murder convictions provoked controversy
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti

In the _____, 15 nations pledged not to threaten each other with war in their joint dealings.
Kellogg-Briand Pact

The main opponent of prohibitionist Herbert Hoover in the 1928 presidential election was
c. Alfred E. Smith

Presidents Harding and Coolidge had a foreign policy that embraced disarment and:
c. isolation

Many Americans believed that Sacco and Vanzetti were executed because they were
d. immigrants with radical beliefs during the Red Scare.

Teapot Dome was a successful government project that displayed the Harding administration policy of laissez faire government.
FALSE

The action by Attorney General Mitchell Palmer further led to a fear that radical political elements were set to disrupt American society.
d. raids

the policy of avoiding political or economic alliances with foreign countries
isolationism

The National Origins Act of 1924 reduced the number of people who could
a. enter the United States

Calvin Coolidge supported _____ business policy.
laissez faire

Many American newspapers fanned the flame of fear of communism which resulted in a "Red Scare" and often associated it with labor organizations.
TRUE

The Red Scare was a response to
c. the Russian Revolution.

Which group of Americans were largely left out of the prosperity of the 1920s?
b. the farmers

During the 1920s, the government gave private business all of the following EXCEPT:
a. A favorable tariff policy for agriculture

The economy grew in the 1920s as consumers
d. began to buy goods on credit.

Which of the following is an example of people bypassed by the industrial boom?
a. Rural farmers

The increase in automobile led to the rise of new businesses such as
c. motels and gas stations.

Businessman and inventor who developed and mass-produced automobiles
Henry Ford

Ford's success came partly from
b. vertical consolidation.

The _____ made it possible for Henry Ford to produce cars quickly and cheaply.
assembly line

A consumer economy is one that depends on a large amount of
b. spending.

How did installment plans affect the American economy in the 1920s?
c. They fuled the growth of the consumer economy.

Which was a result of the boom in the automobile industry?
b. New roads were built.

Though relatively few in number, flappers represented
b. women's desire to break with the past.

Many Americans believed that Communists were behind the
a. labor strikes of 1919.




CRITICAL THINKING:
Determining Relevance Identify and describe the importance of one major piece of Reconstruction legislation.
Thirteenth Amendment