U.S. History Review 3

What was one major effect of the influx of European immigrants on the United States in the 1800s?

• It caused an economic depression among American citizens.
• It provided sufficient labor for the Industrial Revolution.
• It created an influenza epidemic within cities.
• It created an increase in the crime rate within cities.

Which group had a racial hatred of immigrants, since they took jobs from Americans for lower wages. 

• Nativists
• Political bosses
• Miners
• Labor leaders

The law where settlers got 160 acres of land free if they agreed to live on it for 5 years was called _________________________.

• Acting Act
• Homestead Act
• Dawes Act
• Farming Act

He was the leader of the Populist movement nationally

• Eugene V. Debbs 
• J. P. Morgan 
• Samuel Gompers
• William Jennings Bryan 

Who wrote the expose piece of literature that revealed the extensive corrupt monopolistic business practices of Standard Oil?

• Ida Tarbell
• Lewis Hines 
• Jacob Riis
• Upton Sinclair

Who was the person who founded the settlement house (Hull House) for the Assimilation and Americanization of the immigrant poor?

• Elixabeth Cady Stanton
• Jane Addams
• Susan B. Anthony
• Belle Starr

What is isolationism?

• The choice to remain neutral on foreign affairs
• When countries decide to defend each other.
• When countries agree to not fight in wars.
• The answer is not present.

Which of the following is not a reason the US joined WW1?

• Attack on American-owned Trade Ships
• Sinking of the Lusitania
• Zimmerman Telegram
• Yellow Journalism

Author who's depiction of the black experience was essential to the Harlem Renaissance.

• Babe Ruth
• Langston Hughes
• Marcus Garvey
• Clarence Darrow

What was the purpose of prohibition?

• A complete ban on the sale of food
• A complete ban on the sale of alcohol
• A complete ban on the sale of clothes
• A complete ban on the sale of cars