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1) What term BEST describes the U.S. government's policies towards businesses in the late 19th
century?
A) Imperialist
B) Laissez-faire
C) Mercantilist
D) Protectionist
2) In order to help expand railroads throughout the country after the Civil War, Congress
A) brought in thousands of laborers from China.
B) provided railroad companies land free of charge.
C) spent tax money researching steam engine technology.
D) taxed the Confederate States heavily to fund construction.
3) One American inventor held over one thousand patents and invented the phonograph, the light bulb,
and motion pictures. Who was this famous American inventor?
A) Henry Ford
B) Thomas Edison
C) Andrew Carnegie
D) Alexander Graham Bell
4) The Transcontinental Railroads that opened up the West had a devastating effect on
A) cattle ranchers.
B) Native Americans.
C) merchants on the West coast who relied on trade across the Pacific for their livelihood.
D) U.S. soldiers who had just fought in the Civil War and were now transferred to the West to keep
the peace.
5)· "Robber Barons" and "Captains of Industry"
· Andrew Carnegie, J.P Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Andrew Mellon
· Monopolies, trusts, and controversial business practices
· The "Gospel of Wealth" and "Social Darwinism"
With which era of American history are these terms and people MOST closely associated?
A) the Gilded Age
B) Reconstruction
C) the Progressive Era
D) the Antebellum Period
6) Businessmen during the Gilded Age of the late 19th century often favored relaxed immigration laws
because they
A) remembered their immigrant heritage
B) were advocates of multicultural education.
C) were supporters of the Temperance Movement.
D) valued cheap and relatively unskilled labor
7) The ending of the Pullman Strike is significant because it
A) demonstrated unions’ superiority and solidarity.
B) demonstrated the US government's support of worker's rights.
C) demonstrated the US government’s pro-business alliances.
D) showed that the US government was unwilling to get involved in business matters
8) Chief Sitting Bull led Sioux warriors at the June 1876 conflict known as
A) Sand Creek.
B) Wounded Knee.
C) the Fetterman Massacre.
D) the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
9) Which of these is the 1890 event that is generally considered to be the last major violent Indian
conflict in North America?
A) Sand Creek Massacre
B) Wounded Knee Massacre
C) Battle of Horseshoe Bend
D) Battle of Little Big Horn
10) Late-19th Century immigration to the United States would not have been possible without
A) electricity.
B) European wars.
C) transatlantic flight.
D) transatlantic steamships.
11) "Jim Crow" laws can BEST be described as laws that
A) restricted the rights of blacks.
B) helped poor blacks attain citizenship.
C) caused blacks to move from the north to the south.
D) allowed blacks and whites to live and work together.
12) Ida Tarbell is known as being a muckraking journalist for her exposing of abuses in which industry?
A) oil
B) steel
C) automobile
D) meatpacking
13)"We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held
secure by any one person or class; but we have not yet learned to add to that statement, that unless
all people and all classes contribute to a good, we cannot even be sure that it is worth having."
-- Jane Addams
The "settlement houses" that were established in poor urban areas were designed to
A) help veterans returning from the First World War adjust to civilian life.
B) help newly freed African-Americans in their adjustment to life in the northern cities.
C) further the goals of the Temperance Movement by ending spousal abuse and family neglect.
D) provide social services like daycare, education, and health care to immigrants, women, and the
poor.
14) "The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by
the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State
shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State
legislatures."
This is part of the text of which amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
A) 15th Amendment
B) 17th Amendment
C) 19th Amendment
D) 21st Amendment
15) What was the major impact of Plessy v. Ferguson upon American society?
A) This case made no impact upon American society.
B) It made segregation illegal and said that "separate was not equal."
C) It upheld segregation laws and made segregation the law of the land.
D) It made the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments invalid in the Constitution.
16) The Roosevelt Corollary, issued in 1904, was a revision to what earlier statement of U.S. foreign
policy?
A) the Madison Treaty
B) the Monroe Doctrine
C) the Open Door Policy
D) the Kellogg-Briand Pact
17) Which of these BEST represents the "Big Stick" in Theodore Roosevelt's "Big Stick" diplomacy?
A) U.S. Army
B) U.S. Navy
C) Square Deal
D) Monroe Doctrine
18) The U.S. Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act to prevent immigrants from that country
entering the U.S. during the
A) mid 1900s
B) late 1700s
C) early 1800s
D) late 1800s
19) President Theodore Roosevelt sent forces to support Panamanian rebels in the fight against
Colombia so that
A) the Panamanians could build their own canal.
B) Panamanians could be free from Colombian imperialism.
C) Colombians would allow the US to build a canal through its urban areas.
D) the US could build a canal in Panama at a lower price than in other Latin American territories.
20) Which is TRUE about the Monroe Doctrine?
A) It gave Europe the message that the Western Hemisphere was no longer open for colonization.
B) It called for an embargo of any European nation competing for colonies in Africa and Asia.
C) It led to a government policy of non-intervention in the domestic affairs of Latin America.
D) It called for military intervention in any Latin American country experiencing political instability.
21) When World War I began, the official United States policy was
A) to enter on the side of the Allied Powers.
B) to enter on the side of the Central Powers.
C) to remain militarily and politically neutral.
D) to support the Central Powers by providing war materials.
22) Which of these provisions of the Treaty of Versailles was the most crucial to what President
Woodrow Wilson sought in the hope that World War I would be a "war to end all wars"?
A) freedom of the seas to neutral nations
B) the establishment of the League of Nations
C) burdening Germany with heavy reparations to help pay for war damages
D) forcing Germany and the Central Powers to give up their overseas colonies
23) The 19th Amendment
A) ended the prohibition era.
B) gave women the right to vote.
C) provided for the popular election of senators.
D) established the terms of presidential succession.
24)
The men in the picture shown are gathering in their opposition to the ratification of what amendment?
A) 1st Amendment
B) 10th Amendment
C) 19th Amendment
D) 26th Amendment
25) The Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918 showed that Americans
A) were fearful of the French presence in the country.
B) were fearful of possible German activity in the U.S.
C) were targeting minorities as scapegoats for causing the war.
D) were fearful of Communist influences in the federal government.
26) II. Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in
war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement
of international covenants.
-Woodrow Wilson, Fourteen Points Speech, 1918
President Wilson is referring specifically to
A) the attack on Pearl Harbor
B) unrestricted submarine warfare.
C) the sinking of the Titanic.
D) Italian dominance in the Mediterranean.