US History Semester Exam Review

Assimilation of the Plains Indians was MAINLY intended to

• help them adapt to white culture

• help them meet their basic needs

• encourage them to stop fighting each other

• allow them to keep as much of their land as possible

Andrew Carnegie, and other monopolists, gained control of a large percentage of the steel and other industries by doing all of the following EXCEPT

• buying out his suppliers.

• buying out his competitors.

• underselling his competitors

• cutting the quality of his products

In the late 1800’s, collective bargaining was a technique used to

• expand industry

• win workers rights

• restrict labor unions

• organize labor unions

An immigrant who went through Ellis Island was LEAST likely to have come from

• Asia

• Eastern Europe

• Southern Europe

• Northern Europe

Upton Sinclair’s book, The Jungle led to the passage of the

• Meat Inspection Act

• Interstate Commerce Act

• National Child Labor Act

• National Reclamation Act

Which nation tried to achieve its independence by going to war against the U.S. during the era of imperialism?

• China

• Cuban

• Puerto Rico

• Philippines

All of the following stimulated or were reasons for U.S. imperialism EXCEPT

• a need for a new source of cheap labor

• economic competition with other nations

• political and military competition with other nations

• a belief in the moral superiority of the Anglo-Saxon (white/Western & Northern European) culture

All of the following countries came under some form of U.S. control as a result of the Spanish-American War and the Treaty of Paris EXCEPT

• Cuba

• Hawaii

• Puerto Rico

• Philippines

All of the following have historically been considered to be causes of World War I EXCEPT

• American isolationism.

• the stockpiling of weapons or militarism

• imperialist competition

• the nationalism of ethnic groups

Woodrow Wilson's "Fourteen Points" speech described his

• war plans

• peace plans

• rebuilding plans

• isolation plans