American Studies 1st Semester Final review 25

Construction of the Union Pacific Railroad pushed west from

• Omaha, Nebraska

• Ogden, Utah

• St. Louis Missouri

As the Progressive moment gained momentum, many women realized that they needed the vote to

• achieve equality in the workplace

• promote reforms and pass labor laws

• amend the Constitution

Spanish General Valeriano Weyler herded hundreds of Cubans into "reconcentration camps" in order to

• prevent them from aiding Cuban rebels

• encourage American intervention in Cuba

• damage American investments in Cuba

Who overthrew the Russian govt in Nov of 1917 and established a Communist government there?

• Czar Nicholas II

• Vittorio Orlando

• Vladimir Lenin

Who was William M. Tweed?

• the designer of the first skyscraper

• the party boss of a political machine

• the leader of the Workingman's Party

George Custer attacked a large group of Lakota and Cheyenne warriors at

• Wounded Knee

• the Black Hills

• the Little Bighorn River

The wave of immigrants that arrived in the late 19th century changed American society by

• changing the face and size of American cities

• forming ethnic neighborhoods in many communities

• rapidly assimilating into mainstream American cultures

In the late nineteenth century, southern states passed Jim Crow laws in order to

• enforce discrimination

• protect African Americans

• put limits on voting rights

What law authorized federal funds from public land sales to pay for irrigation & land develop projects?

• the Expedition Act

• the Newlands Act

• the Payne-Aldrich Act

"Selling" support for World War I to the American people was the task of

• the War Industries Board

• the Committee of Public Information

• the War Propaganda Board