APUSH Period 7 Study Guide

What is the most likely reason that Truman dropped the atomic bombs?

• The Japanese started the war, so the U.S. would end it

• To prevent additional loss of life that might accompany a prolonged war

• It would be cheaper than a land war in Japan

• To promote American business interests

Which advances most closely accompanied the development of the atomic bomb(s)?

• American cooperation with the USSR in developing new tech

• new educational institutions that allowed soldiers to pursue advanced study

• adopting German &/or Japanese technology

• the involvement of U.S. businesses in developing products for the war effort

One significant effect of the move to northern cities such as Chicago was

• the breakdown of African American families

• the outbreak of race riots as white immigrants viewed blacks as competitors for jobs

• decreased educational opportunities for African Americans

• the return of the majority of black families to the South after the North failed to meet expectations

How did the U.S. acquire the Philippines and Guam?

• They were acquired through a joint resolution of Congress.

• The indigenous residents of the islands petitioned for annexation.

• They were ceded by Spain after the War of 1898.

• They were acquired after a U.S.-engineered coup deposed the Filipino monarch.

Which of the following was a contributing factor to U.S expansion in the Pacific?

• the belief that Americans had much to learn from the indigenous cultures of the Pacific islands

• the idea that the U.S. had an obligation to increase the material standard of living in undeveloped areas

• the goal to subjugate all of Asia and establish a U.S.-controlled global empire

• the idea that the U.S. had a mission to foster democracy and Protestant Christian civilization

Which of the following was a direct effect of American expansion into the Pacific?

• the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act and an increase in anti-Asian prejudice

• the conflict with Russia over the purchase of Alaska

• the acquisition of territories—not future states—with inhabitants who were not U.S. citizens, but “subjects”

• the initiation of “yellow journalism” and the rise of mass-circulation newspapers

Which of the following groups contributed most directly to exposing economic, social, and political evils in the Progressive era?

• activist policemen

• populist farmers

• muckraking journalists

• immigrant anarchists

President Wilson ended the policy of U.S. neutrality in response to which of the following?

• Germany’s policy of unrestricted submarine and air warfare

• the fear of an immediate attack on the U.S. by Mexico

• Germany’s policy of unrestricted submarine warfare and the Zimmermann telegram

• distrust of the activities of German Americans within the United States

Which of the following most directly led to the post-World War I “Red Scare”?

• the fear that the Soviet Union would invade the U.S.

• the fear that Soviet spies were in the highest level of U.S. government

• the fear that Marxists would destroy the business monopolies

• the fear that U.S. labor strikes were linked to the Russian Revolution

Which of the following precipitated the end of the Palmer Raids?

• the death of A. Mitchell Palmer

• lack of evidence of a widespread conspiracy

• support for a broad-based international organization to prevent revolutionary activity

• treaty of friendship negotiated with the Bolshevik government in Russia