EOC U.S. History Review #5

For what reason did the US imperialize?

• to gain raw materials for industry
• to create military bases around the globe
• to develop markets to sell goods
• all of these

Improvements in technology and business structure leads to the growth of American cities; also leads to growth in corruption and pollution.

• Americanization
• Westward Expansion
• Progressive Era
• Urbanization

Period of rapid business growth.  As business and cities grew workers faced ever harsher conditions (leading to the growth of labor unions).

• Gilded Age
• Urbanization
• New Deal
• Imperialism

America works to build an empire, focusing on Asia and Latin America.

• Imperialism
• Gilded Age
• Westward Expansion
• Cold War

This movement lead primarily by middle class women looked to correct the abuses of the rich against the urban poor.

• Progressive Movment
• Populist Movement
• Americanization Movement
• Prohibition Movement

At first thought of as a "Return to Normalcy" after global upheaval, this decade saw traditional norms challenged by new views and science.

• Roaring 20s
• Civil Rights
• End of Cold War
• Great Depression

Ideological war between two "superpowers," that was fought through several smaller proxy wars.

• World War I
• World War II
• Cold War
• Vietnam War

Which situation does this cartoon from an early 1900s pamphlet illustrate?

• The deportation of many Chinese immigrants in the Northwest
• The recruitment of Chinese immigrants by large labor unions in the Midwest
• The fear in the West of losing jobs to Chinese immigrants
• The lack of available resources in the East to support a large influx of Chinese immigrants

Which sentence correctly completes this diagram?

• The Bracero program was introduced.
• The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed.
• Russian radicals joined labor unions in the United States
• Irish families immigrated to the United States

How did the expansion of railroad transportation most benefit farmers in the United States?

• By raising the consumer prace of agricultrual products
• By increasing the variety of locally grown crops
• By providing farmers with affordable access to distant markets
• By encouraging farmers to form the first agricultural cooperatives