US HISTORY A FINAL EXAM REVIEW 2020

TWO ANSWERS HERE: Without the Bessemer process, Americans might not have been able to create

• skyscrapers.

• sewing machines.

• the Morse code.

• suspension bridges

Americans feared the Communists because they were

• known as Bolsheviks.

• the only political party in Russia.

• openly hostile to American values.

• preparing to invade the United States.

One group that suffered economically during the 1920s were

• steelworkers.

• farmers.

• publishers.

• heroes.

During the early 1900s, the NAACP was an example of how African Americans

• used the court system to fight discrimination.

• formed their own political parties.

• ended all degregation in the South.

• founded settlement houses in black neighborhoods.

What was one demonstrates the result of Upton Sinclair’s book?

• Use child labor in the oil industry was outlawed.

• Fair housing laws for African Americans in urban areas were passed.

• Foods and drugs made for humans had to be tested by the Food and Drug Administration.

• Safety features like fire escapes were required for tenement buildings.

The banana republics of Central America were

• controlled by American business interests.

• annexed by the US in 1867.

• popular with American tourists.

• invaded by several European nations in the late 1800s.

To support their view, anti-imperialists argued that

• imperialism would reduce U.S. military forces.

• the United States should get more involved in foreign affairs.

• imperialism rejected the American ideal of “liberty for all.”

• imperialism would make the United States more admired in the world.

President Roosevelt's Progressive record included all the following except

• conservation of forest land.

• break up of several trusts deemed harmful to the public.

• regulation of food and drugs.

• establishment of the Federal Reserve System.

Suffragists achieved some early success persuading

• states to allow women to vote.

• Congress to pass a constitutional amendment.

• President Wilson to back them.

• the Supreme Court to rule in their favor.

An underlying cause of World War I was

• the ongoing dispute over the convoy system.

• the web of alliances European nations created for their defense.

• an alliance between the autocratic rulers of Germany and Russia.

• American insistence on neutrality.