APUSH 7.7, 7.8

Multiple Choice

Which event led to the United States acquiring Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam?

• The Panama Canal construction

• The Spanish-American War

• The Boxer Rebellion

• The Monroe Doctrine

Fill in the Blank

Which policy aimed to propose equal trading policies among imperial powers and preserve China's territorial integrity and sovereignty? _____

Multiple Choice

Who was the President of the United States during the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment, which prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol?

• William McKinley

• Woodrow Wilson

• William Howard Taft

• Theodore Roosevelt

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements BEST defines the Open Door Policy?

• The US would encourage greater immigration from Europe and Asia.

• The US would seek spheres of influence in China.

• Japan would not be permitted to trade in China.

• All nations should have equal trading right in China.

• All nations should have equal trading rights world-wide.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was the most IMMEDIATE cause of the Spanish-American War?

• Cuban Nationalism

• US expansion policies in Latin America

• "Yellow Journalism"

• the sinking of the Maine

• business needs for raw materials

Multiple Choice

__________ were journalists who exposed the "hidden" problems of Gilded Age society.

• Yellow journalists

• muckrackers

• Investigative journalists

• Jingoism

Multiple Choice

The __th Amendment granted women the right to vote in 1920.

• 16

• 17

• 18

• 19

Fill in the Blank

The ______ _____ was constructed beginning in 1904 in order to facilitate trade and naval travel between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Multiple Choice

After the Scopes "Monkey Trial" in Dayton, Tennessee:

• Fundamentalist religion remained the undisputed dominant force in American spiritual life

• John Scopes was sentenced to serve time in jail

• Christians found it increasingly difficult to reconcile the revelations of religion with modern science

• The gap between theology and biology began to close

• The conflict between evolution and creationism was finally settled in America

Multiple Choice

Symbolic of the popular fears of immigrants, communism, change, and diversity, this group became very powerful during the 20s with a reputed 5 million members and hatred for anyone who was foreign, Catholic or Jewish, liberal or different. What was the group?

• American Legion

• NAACP

• Ku Klux Klan

• Mafia

• American First Committee

Multiple Choice

Which of the following became a symbol for corruption of the Harding administration?

• Muscle Shoals

• Sacco-Vanzetti

• Teapot Dome

• McNary-Haugen

• Greenwich Village

Multiple Choice

African American migration to the urban North during the First World War was due primarily to

• racially integrated residential neighborhoods in Northern cities

• increased educational opportunities resulting from affirmative-action programs

• recruitment efforts by labor unions

• expanded job opportunities in Northern factories

• encouragement by White Protestant churches in the North

Multiple Choice

Around 1920, the number of children aged 10 to 15 in the industrial workforce began to decline for which of the following reasons?

• Introduction of the minimum wage made child labor uneconomical.

• The American birth rate declined, thus reducing the number of children available to work.

• Factory owners advocated state child labor laws.

• States began to require children to attend school until a certain age and to limit the ages at which they could be employed.

Multiple Choice

What was the name of the British steamship that the Germans torpedoed which killed 100 US citizens?

• Lusitania
• Prince William
• King George
• Queen Anne

Multiple Choice

What did Germany send to Mexico that offered to help them win land back from the United States if Mexico would start a war with the US?

• The Zimmerman Telegram
• The Outlandish Letter
• The Surprising Phone Call

Multiple Choice

_____ journalism, the sensationalizing of news to help sell newspapers, contributed to the U.S. entry into the Spanish-American War.

• Green

• Yellow

• Blue

• Red

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was NOT a reason for the relative economic prosperity in the 1920s?

• increased consumer buying aided by easy credit

• increased savings by most Americans

• availability of oil for fuel and innovations for its use

• the development of the assembly line

• pent up demand from the war which had to be satisfied by material goods

Multiple Choice

The most important change that the census of 1920 showed in America was that:

• the frontier was closed

• urban dwellers now outnumbered rural ones

• most people had electricity

• population had doubled in a decade

• a majority of the people owned automobiles

Multiple Choice

Business leaders who wanted to promote a higher level of consumption of their products and get rid of the old ideas of thrift developed:

• advertising

• installment buying

• scientific management

• consumer savings

• retail selling

Multiple Choice

After the Scopes "Monkey Trial" in Dayton, Tennessee:

• Fundamentalist religion remained the undisputed dominant force in American spiritual life

• John Scopes was sentenced to serve time in jail

• Christians found it increasingly difficult to reconcile the revelations of religion with modern science

• The gap between theology and biology began to close

• The conflict between evolution and creationism was finally settled in America

Multiple Choice

Symbolic of the popular fears of immigrants, communism, change, and diversity, this group became very powerful during the 20s with a reputed 5 million members and hatred for anyone who was foreign, Catholic or Jewish, liberal or different. What was the group?

• American Legion

• NAACP

• Ku Klux Klan

• Mafia

• American First Committee

Multiple Choice

Who was the charismatic political leader of the United Negro Improvement Association who eventually ended up being deported back to his Jamaican homeland for mail-fraud against his own people?

• Marcus Garvey

• Langston Hughes

• Andrew Mellon

• Louis Armstrong

• Dr. W.E.B. DuBois

Multiple Choice

1923-1929, replaced the corrupt Harding, restoring honesty to the presidency. He was a pro-business president, and continued the laissez-faire policies of Harding. This allowed for short-term prosperity from 1923-1929. He also accelerated tax cuts and wanted to keep tariffs in place.

• Calvin Coolidge

• John Calvin

• Harry Daugherty

• Grover Cleveland

Multiple Choice

Concentration on producing and distributing goods for a market which must constantly be enlarged.

• Capitalism

• Industrialism

• Consumerism

• Nativism

Fill in the Blank

What were the people in the 1920s who shared the belief that they were lost in a greedy, materialistic world that lacked moral values and often chose to flee to Europe (could also be referred to writers who wrote about how depressing the 1920s was in America) called?

Multiple Choice

The fear that Communists might seize power led to a nationwide panic: the fear that communism would take over America, especially after the rise of the Bolsheviks in Russia. Many Americans were afraid of any communist ties, which led to Mitchell Palmer hunting down many suspected socialists and anarchists, the formation of the KKK, and anti-foreigner acts.

• Red Scare

• Communism Scare

• Bolshevism Scare

• Collectivism Scare

Fill in the Blank

The 1925 prosecution of a science teacher for teaching evolution in a Tennessee public school, which a recent bill had made illegal.

Fill in the Blank

People had started moving from Rural to ---- areas.