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- 1. Multiple Choice
Why did the members of the Constitutional Convention place a provision in the U.S. Constitution that allowed it to be amended?Most of the members of the Convention opposed slaveryThey feared the decisions of the U.S. Supreme CourtThey wanted to enable the Constitution to adjust to changing timesThey needed support in state legislatures for ratification - 2. Multiple ChoiceGuarantees freedom from testifying against yourself1st Amendment3rd Amendment5th Amendment7th Amendment
- 3. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following words are part of the Declaration of Independence?"They are endowed by the Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.""All persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens of the United States.""No solider shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner.""Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
- 4. Multiple Choice
The urban population began to decline after this new innovation was put in mass production.
Immigrants began to move to rural areas to work on the new innovation.
Less farm jobs were needed thus rural laborers sought work in cities.
This innovation caused the Native Americans to move to the Great Plains to become farmers.
- 5. Multiple ChoiceNineteeth-century nativist organizations advocated -limited federal military power through the oraganization of local militiasconserving natural resources through the creation of national parksglobalizing the economy through participation in free-trade agreementspromoting an ethnically homogeneous society through restrictions on immigration
- 6. Multiple ChoiceWhich statement best completes this list?Congress passed legislation imposing tariffs on imported beef.Most cowboys on cattle drives were European immigrants.The cattle industry was nationalized under the Dept. of Agriculture.The need to process large amounts of cattle made meatpacking a major industry.
- 7. Multiple ChoiceThe primary objective of the Dawes Act was to--promote cultural assimilation of American Indians.turn American Indian reservations into corporate farmlands.end warfare between American Indians and the U.S. military.promote American Indian investment in private industry.
- 8. Multiple ChoiceInvention of the steel plow, the passage of the Homestead Act, and the completion of the transcontinental railroad all contributed to thedevelopment of the Great Plainsgrowth of the plantation system of agricultureextension of slavery into the western territoriesgold rushes in California and Nevada
- 9. Multiple Choice
Which describes Andrew Carnegie?
The creator of the Standard Oil company and the richest man in American history
The creator of the Carnegie Steel company and a famous philanthropist
The creator of General Electric and American Telephone and Telegraph
The leader of Tammany Hall, a political machine that controlled New York City
- 10. Multiple Choice
Due to the rapid urbanization of the U.S. governments were unable to build services including roads and swewers called-
Transit Services
Superstrictures
Infrastructure
Sanitation services
- 11. Multiple Choice
During the Gilded Age came the rise of monopolies which were-
government bargains with organized crime
businesses so large and powerful they had no competition
large donation from rich individuals to public charities
corrupt political engines which controlled city governments
- 12. Multiple Choice
government service based on merit rather than on patronage or spoils system
Pendleton Act
Civil Rights Act
Equal Rights Act
Voting Rights Act
- 13. Multiple Choice
This period during the 1870s to 1900 is known for it's rise of railroads, big business, industrialization and social problems in the United States.
World War I
Progressive Era
Gilded age
Roaring Twenties
- 14. Multiple Choice
Under this policy in 1887, the Government gave Native Americans land in order to farm land, just like European farmers.
Dawes Act
Ghost Dance
Trail of Tears
Laws Act
- 15. Multiple ChoiceWhose book caused the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act to be passed?Upton SinclairLincoln SteffensIda TarbellJacob Riis
- 16. Multiple ChoiceWriters that dig up the bad things going on in societySuffragistsMuckrakersStudentsChaffinators
- 17. Multiple ChoiceWho was the photographer who revealed to the world how the lower class lived?Alexander BellJacob RiisUpton SinclairTheodore Roosevelt
- 18. Multiple ChoiceCo-founder of Hull Houses- which was an all-purpose community center for poor immigrant people living in crowded city neighborhoods.Jane AddamsIda TarbellFrances WillardSusan B Anthony
- 19. Multiple Choice
income tax
direct election of senators
women's suffrage
banned alcohol
- 20. Multiple Choice
The Jungle Upton Sinclair
Standard Oil Ida Tarbell
How The Other Half Lives Jacob Riis
Frank Norris Abuses of Railroads on Farmers
- 21. Multiple Choice
What amendment provided suffrage for women (1920)?
16th
17th
18th
19th
- 22. Multiple ChoiceBanned people from making, drinking or selling alcohol17th Amendment18th Amendment19th Amendment21st Amendment
- 23. Multiple Choice
Exaggerated or sensationalized stories to sell newspapers.
Industrialism
Militarism
Yellow Jouralism
Imperialism
- 24. Multiple Choice
US policy that says the US can trade within any "sphere of influence" in China
Open-Door Policy
Colonialism
Monroe Doctrine
Roosevelt Corollary
- 25. Multiple Choice
Why did industrialized countries seek to set up colonies or "spheres of influence" in less developed countries?
for vacation destinations
their countries were overpopulated
3rd world countries were exotic
they wanted raw materials and new markets
- 26. Multiple Choice
What effect did the Roosevelt Corollary have on the Monroe Doctrine?
The United States would permanently station troops in the Philippines and other Pacific islands.
The United States reserved the right to intervene in the affairs of Central America and the Caribbean.
The United States had the right and duty to expand its colonial possessions in Asia.
The United States would provide military aid to Europe to resist communism.
- 27. Multiple Choice
Who led American sugar plantation owners to seize power in Hawaii and ask for annexation which contributed the expansion of the U.S.?
William Libby
Susan B. Anthony
Sanford B. Dole
Theodore Roosevelt
- 28. Multiple Choice
Alfred Thayer Mahan books influenced U.S. efforts to become a world power primarily by-
Advocating overseas expansion
emphasizing the needed for protectionist tariffs
demonstrating the political risks of foreign trade
arguing against forming overseas alliances
- 29. Multiple Choice
Which was the following was primarily responsible for the change depicted in this illustration?
New immigrant screening procedures at Ellis Island
A crack down on anarchism after the assassination of President William McKinley
Overseas expansion associated associated with the Spanish American War
An increase in circulation currency after the discovery of gold in Nome, Alaska
- 30. Multiple Choice
1878
1998
1898
1968
- 31. Multiple ChoiceThis is the term for a contest for colonies which occurred during the late 19th Century amongst European nations and America.ImperialismProtectorateMilitarismAlliance Systems
- 32. Multiple Choice
This was created to prevent future wars.
League of Nations
Nationalism
Treaty of Peace
Treaty of Versailles
- 33. Multiple ChoiceBiased communication intended to influence people’s thoughts and actions is known as ____________________.PropagandaEspionageSeditionDissent
- 34. Multiple Choice
Types of weapons used in WW1
Poison Gas
machine guns
airplanes
all of the above
- 35. Multiple ChoiceWhat are the name of the acts that made it illegal to criticize the U.S. involvement in the war or encourage draft resistersEspionage and Sedition ActsTreaty of Versailles and the Fourteen Pointsthe Yalta Agreement and the Treaty of VersaillesThe Espionage Act and the Fourteen Points
- 36. Multiple Choice
Which of the following caused President Wilson to declare war on Germany?
the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of the Austro-Hungarian empire
unrestricted submarine warfare and the Zimmerman telegram
the selling of weapons to Great Britain by the United States
disputes over German colonial claims to Samoa and the Marshall Islands
- 37. Multiple Choice
What was the impact of new technologies during World War 1, such as the use of machine guns, poison gas and barbed wire?
Casualties were low because soldiers were protected.
Soldiers were able to advance rapidly on one another.
Field commanders believed it was important to attack first.
Soldiers lived in trenches when they could not advance without heavy casualties.
- 38. Multiple ChoiceWhat act when 21 to 30 men had to register with the government in order to be randomly selected for military service in 1917?Lend-Lease ActSelective Draft ActSelective Service Act
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