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1. According to the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, the United States
A) annexed most of Canada and Mexico
B) claimed the right to intervene in the financial and political affairs of Latin American countries
C) would not undertake an isthmian canal project without British consultation and cooperation
D) occupied former Dutch colonies in South Africa in defiance of the British
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1.The McKinley Tariff was all of the following except:
a. the highest tariff that had ever been passed
b. a reason for Cleveland defeating Harrison in the 1892 election
c. part of the Interstate Commerce Act
d. a new law that imposed very high import duties
2.Oliver H. Kelly was:
a. a US Senator
b. a trust owner
c. founder of the Grange
d. founder of the Populist party
3.The Populist party platform included all of these elements, except:
a. graduated income tax
b. a decrease in the circulation of silver
c. a shorter workday
d. social and political reforms
4.Radical African-American leader who called for an immediate revolution:
a. Booker T. Washington
b. Jacob Riis
c. W.E.B. DuBois
d. Oliver H. Kelly
5.Which two were passed by Congress due to pressure from farmers?
a. the Sherman Anti-trust Act and the Sherman Silver Purchase Act
b. the Bland-Allison Act and the Sherman Silver Purchase Act
c. The Interstate Commerce Act and the Bland-Allison Act
d. The Sherman Silver Purchase Act and the McKinley Tariff
1.In what year did the rail way companies agree to divide the country into four standard time zones?
a.1890
b.1833
c.1900
d.1870
2.What was a pool?
a.Combined a number of corporations in the same field
b.Business alliances
c.An informal agreement among competing companies to fix prices
d.Two or more companies joined to form a larger one
3.What was the main form of public transportation?
a.Trains
b.Railroads
c.Buses
d.Streetcars
4.Who was one of the founders of the AFL?
a.Samuel Gompers
b.Andrew Carnegie
c.William Kelly
d.Laney Littleford
5.Which of these is NOT a reason growth continued after the civil war?
a.The national government maintained high tariffs to protect American industry form foreign competition.
b.Railroad lines extended all the way across the United States, and the track mileage increased.
c.A network of railroads opened up national markets to manufacturers
d.Abundant natural resources supplied industry with raw materials.
1.Who established the first successful underwater telegraph cable across the Atlantic in 1866?
a)William Kelly
b)Henry Bessemer
c)Cyrus Field
d)Guglielmo Marconi
2.Which of the following is NOT one of the three important developments in the generation and use of electricity in the 1870s?
a)Dynamo – a machine that could produce a sustained flow of electric current
b)The invention of the electric light bulb by Thomas Edison
c)The use of the electric motor
d)The invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell
3.In what year was the Statue of Liberty unveiled?
a)1886
b)1860
c)1900
d)1901
4.Who was the founder of the Hull House?
a)Jacob Riis
b)Jane Addams
c)Lillian Wald
d)John H. Vincent
5.Where was the first public kindergarten opened?
a)Chautauqua, New York
b)St. Louis, Missouri
c)Boston, Massachusetts
d)Richmond, Virginia
1) What was not an improvement in electrical power in the 1870’s?
a. Charles F. Brush invented the dynamo
b. Landlines helped connect electricity from house to house
c. The electric motor came to use
d. Thomas Edison invented the electric light bulb
2) Why did several industries form trusts in the 19th century?
a. It combined a number of corporations in the same field together, and stockholders would sign their stock over to the trustees, and then the stockholders received trust certificates
b. Allowed the separation of industries so they could expand and branch out
c. Divided the industry between the north and south
d. Formed teams of small organizations to create a big one
3) How was the urban league formed?
a. It protested working conditions for African Americans
b. It supported segregation
c. It helped African Americans get better jobs and housing, particularly in the cities
d. It loaned money to the African Americans
4) What was a contribution to the election of Woodrow Wilson in 1912?
a. The progressive party attracted many republicans so the vote was split, splitting the votes between Taft and Roosevelt
b. Wilson’s competitors were disqualified from the presidential campaign
c. The original president and vice president were assassinated
d. Wilson was able to carry most of the votes throughout the south
5) How did the dollar diplomacy affect foreign affairs?
a. It spread the use of the American money
b. It lowered the costs of manufactured goods and shipping costs
c. It encouraged American business people to invest in countries of strategic importance to the United States
1) Who founded his own steel company that used the Bessemer to produce large amounts of steel?
a) Edwin L. Drake
b) Andrew Carnegie
c) Thomas A. Edison
d) John D. Rockefeller
2) Who organized the first successful trust?
a) John D. Rockefeller
b) Andrew Carnegie
c) J. Pierpont Morgan
d) James B. Duke
3) A holding company is where
a) You own related companies
b) You hold a controlling interest of stock in related companies
c) You own several warehouses
d) You are a company of movers
4) In the election of 1912 who lost the Republican election and started the progressive party?
a) William Taft
b) George Washington
c) Theodore Roosevelt
d) Woodrow Wilson
5) The commission plan was__________?
a) Where the people elected a group of commissioners who would head the major parts of city government
b) A law put in place that every time you made a sale you would be paid a commission
c) Where one man was appointed to office and would choose the rest of government
d) Was a plan to increase the economy and create more jobs
1. What did a Trust do?
a. combined two or more companies to form a larger one
b. Informal agreement among competing companies to fix prices, share profits, etc.
c. combined a number of corporations in the same field
d. held a controlling interest in the stock of several related companies
2. In the election of 1912, who was the third party candidate?
a. Taft
b. Roosevelt
c. Wilson
d. Michael Jackson
3. What did the 19th Amendment do for Women?
a. Allow them to Join the military
b. Allow them to achieve a college education
c. Allow them to vote in the Nations elections
d. Allowed the property and earnings of a married woman to be protected
4. When was the Progressive Era?
a. 1850- 1950
b. 1890- 1900
c. 1901- 1917
d. 1899-1999
5. The Knights of Labor lost support as a result of the
a. invention of the light bulb
b. rise of Tammany Hall
c. Haymarket riot
d. Homestead strike
The Bland Allison Act did what?
a. Required the government to buy and coin a certain amount of silver each month
b. Forced the Native Americans onto reservations
c. Established an income tax, ending the laissez-faire era
d. Annexed Hawaii
Who won the election of 1896?
a. Coxey
b. Harrison
c. Cleveland
d. Hayes
What was America’s nickname for Alaska following its purchase?
a. Glacierland
b. Mahan’s Folly
c. McKinley’s Empire
d. Seward’s Icebox
What did America get out of the Spanish-American War?
a. A strong influence in the Caribbean
b. New technologies
c. An alliance with France
d. All of the above
Which action of the Germans’ most helped galvanize American opinion of them?
a. Taking Paris
b. Assassinating Franz Ferdinand
c. Declaring war on England
d. Sinking the Lusitania
1. The ______ banned rebates and different rates for short and long hauls.
a. The Grange
b. The Interstate Commerce Act
c. The Interstate Commerce Commission Act
d. The Sherman Anti-trust act
2. ______ is the practice of acquiring territories or of gaining political or economical control over certain areas.
a. Imperialism
b. Open door policy
c. Spheres of influence
d. Armistice
3. Construction on the Panama Canal was started in 1881 by the _____.
a. Spanish
b. Americans
c. English
d. French
4. The peace treaty signed after the Spanish-American War in 1898 granted independence to _____.
a. The Philippines
b. Cuba
c. Spain
d. Puerto Rico
5. In 1917, Congress granted all of the following to Puerto Rico except _____.
a. U.S. citizenship
b. Control over the Philippines
c. Made the upper house of the legislature an elective body
d. Changed to an organized territory
1) What where German submarines called (in english)?
A) U-Turns
B) Gesundheits
C) Torpedo-Shooters
D) U-Boats
2) About how many American men signed up for the armed services when the USA joined The Great War?
A) 20 Million
B) 500 Thousand
C) 10 Million
D) 2.5 Million
3) Who had tried to make a canal through Central America before the United States?
A) Panama
B) Germany
C) France
D) Japan
4) About how long did the Pony Express last?
A) 10 Years
B) 1 Month
C) 50 Years
D) 1 Year
5) William Bryan’s loss in the 1896 election marked the end of what two things?
A) Free Silver and Democracy
B) Free Silver and Populism
C) Democracy and laissez-faire
D) Gold standard and inflation
Nathan Akers US History10-Mr. Dalton 3/10/09
1: Who ultimately stopped reconstruction, saving the South from further abuse?
A. President Lincoln C. The Ku Klux Klan
B. Rutherford B. Hayes D. Jacob S. Coxey
2: Which Act, passed by congress in 1890, required the government to purchase and coin a certain amount of silver each month?
A. The Tea Act C. The Sherman Silver Purchase Act
B. The Interstate Commerce Act D. The Indian Removal Act
3: These skilled reporters sought to expose terrible working and living conditions and report them to the public and destroy corruption in big businesses.
A. Muckrakers C. Carpetbaggers
B. Feminists D. Progressives
4. Why did Woodrow Wilson come out of the election of 1912 the victor?
A. bribery C. his view of destroying trusts
B. he was a Yankees fan D. a fatal split between two opposing republican parties which led to a democratic landslide victory
5. What was the name of the British liner that was destroyed by German’s in 1915 killing many passengers, some of which were American?
A. The Lusitania C. The titanic
B. The Queen Mary II D. The Maine
1.Who is another Sioux leader besides Sitting Bull?
a.George A. Custer
b.Crazy Horse
c.Grover Cleveland
d.Carl Schurz
2.What is the main reason of Russia offered to sell Alaska to U.S.?
a. Alaska has a big value
b. try to be nice to America.
c. Fearing Great Britain might seize it in case of war.
d. For the future easy to deal with America.
3.Which of the following, which was NOT a similarity shared by Alaska and Hawaii?
a. not connect to U.S.
b.Diplomatic motives acquired
c. no one cared for it
d. varied resources
4.Which of the following was NOT the unsettled land of the U.S. at the end of the civil war.
a. South of Mississippi River
b. Settlement in California
c. the Northwest
d. the Southwest
5.Which of the following was NOT the causes in American-spanish War?
a. U.S. battle ship blown up by Cuba
b. U.S. has the bad relationship with Spain for a long time
c. American Propaganda
d. Cuba rebels against Spain
1. What American planter staged the revolt in Hawaii that led to a new government and eventual American annexation in 1898?
a. William Seward c. Queen Liliuokalani
b. Sanford Dole d. Adolf Hitler
2. What was the name of the American ship that exploded in the harbor of Havana to stimulate America’s declaration of war on Spain?
a. USS Arizona c. SS Hamilton
b. Perry’s Pearl d. USS Maine
3. Public ownership and operation of the transportation services, “free silver”, and restrictions on immigration were some of the platforms of the____ party? (During the late 1800s)
a. Democratic c. Populist
b. Republican d. Socialist
4. “You will shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.” Was the famous line of ______, who favored bimetallism in the election of 1896?
a. William McKinley c. Rasputin the Rouski
b. William Taft d. William Jennings Bryan
5. What Latin American nation possessed Panama, the prospect site of a canal that would connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, before the Panamanian revolution of 1903?
a. Mexico c. Ecuador
b. Haiti d. Columbia
1. The “Ghost Dance” was _____
a. A traditional dance thought to enlighten the soul and mind
b. A religion practiced to restore freedom and old way of life
c. A dance usually done around a fire, most of time involving sacrifices
d. A religion that promised to create a victory for the Native Americans
2. The “Jim Crow laws” said that _____
a. Segregation be put into place in practically every social setting
b. A theater owner must allow African Americans to sit on floor seats
c. The Supreme Court must listen to African Americans’ complaints about segregation and do everything possible to change it.
d. African Americans were to be allowed every freedom that whites experience.
3. The Grange was _______
a. A union of skilled and unskilled workers that presided mostly in rural areas
b. A protest led to Washington by John Coxey
c. An act passed to liberate everyone suppressed by segregation
d. An organization created to make farmer’s voices heard
4. The United States asked for a declaration of war in ____
a. 1917
b. 1914
c. 1904
d. 1913
5. The League of Nations did all of the following EXCEPT
a. Settled international disputes
b. Strove to better labor conditions
c. Have complete power over members
d. Held conferences in order to better living situations
1) Which of the following was not a transcontinental railroad built by 1900?
A: the Great Northern
B: the Central Atlantic
C: the Southern Pacific
D: the Northern Pacific
2) What were the Rough Riders?
A: a labor union of cowboys
B: professional stuntmen
C: a cavalry group in WWI
D: a cavalry group in the Spanish-American War
3) What was the U-boat?
A: a submarine
B: a boat shaped like a “U”
C: a bomber plane
D: a new type of car
4) What was the AEF? (American Expeditionary Force)
A: a group sent to explore Alaska
B: the consolidated name for all the military divisions sent to Europe during WWI
C: an elite force of men sent to protect Ferdinand Foch, the French commander
D: a group of hikers that met up once a month to go hiking together
5) Which of these is a reason that the League of Nations failed?
A: The US did not join it
B: It could not punish an aggressor nation, only suggest members to take action
C: members accused of aggression withdrew from the League instead of meeting its demands
D: members did not unite against aggression unless it was in their best interests
E: All of the above
F: none of the above
1) Which of the following was not a transcontinental railroad built by 1900?
A: the Great Northern
B: the Central Atlantic
C: the Southern Pacific
D: the Northern Pacific
2) What were the Rough Riders?
A: a labor union of cowboys
B: professional stuntmen
C: a cavalry group in WWI
D: a cavalry group in the Spanish-American War
3) What was the U-boat?
A: a submarine
B: a boat shaped like a “U”
C: a bomber plane
D: a new type of car
4) What was the AEF? (American Expeditionary Force)
A: a group sent to explore Alaska
B: the consolidated name for all the military divisions sent to Europe during WWI
C: an elite force of men sent to protect Ferdinand Foch, the French commander
D: a group of hikers that met up once a month to go hiking together
5) Which of these is a reason that the League of Nations failed?
A: The US did not join it
B: It could not punish an aggressor nation, only suggest members to take action
C: members accused of aggression withdrew from the League instead of meeting its demands
D: members did not unite against aggression unless it was in their best interests
E: All of the above
F: none of the above
MINDA:
1. B
2. C
3. D
4. A
5. B
ROSIE:
1. C
2. A
3. C
4. C
5. C
CHRIS:
1. D
2. B
3. A
4. C
5. B
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