1st Semester Review

In the 1800s, settlers moving west had problems with which group of people?

• California Mexicans

• Englishmen

• The French

• American Indians

Henry Ford incorporated an ___________ to mass produce automobiles?

• Electric Lighting

• Assembly Line

• Oil refining

• Bessemer process

Which was not a technological innovation of the 1800s?

• Airplane

• Commercial telephone

• First Steam Engine

• Oil drilling and refining

In this economic system, factories, equipment and other means of production are owned by private citzens.

• Communism

• Totalitarianism

• Socialism

• Capitalism

During the 1840s to 1920s, European immigrants typically?

• continued their agricultural lifestyles.

• arrived with little money of few possessions.

• were banned from immigrating to the US.

• were warmly welcomed in the US because of their diverse ideas.

Initiative allows citizens to

• Pass and propose laws without involving the state legislatures.

• Introduce law in the state legislatures.

• Become active duty military members and work full time jobs.

• To become naturalized through the citizens exam.

The purpose of the Palmer Raids were to

• find suspected subversives (troublemakers)

• end postwar tension.

• to stop that nationwide strikes

• to stop the police strikes

The Scopes trial was about whether _______ should be taught in schools?

• reading

• biology

• religion

• evolution

Which of the following statement would have been made by a modernist.

• The prohibition of alcohol is needed to reduce crime.

• The teaching of evolution should be banned in schools.

• Young people dress way to provocatively.

• Banning alcohol actually increases crime.

The Social Security Act was created to?

• To lessen poverty in retirement.

• To less poverty in youth.

• To provide help to the wealthy.

• To provide help to immigrants.