4th Quarter Test - US History 8

Which groups comprised the primary labor forces working on the transcontinental railroad?

• Irish and Chinese

• Black and Irish

• Soldiers and Chinese

• Immigrants and Japanese

• Native Americans and Mexicans

Which two railroad companies built the transcontinental railroad?

• Central Pacific

• Union Pacific

• B&Q Railroad

• California Pacific

• American Pacific

What brought an end to Reconstruction?

• Wade-Davis Bill

• Compromise of 1876

• 15th Amendment

• Black Codes

• Jim Crow Laws

Which principle was at the center of Plessy v. Ferguson?

• separate but equal justifies segregation

• blacks can be held as property and moved across state lines

• public schools and facilities must be integrated

• separate is inherently unequal

Who is NOT associated with the correct industry?

• Carnegie; railroads

• Rockefeller; oil

• Edison; electricity

• Vanderbilt; transportation

• Chase; investment

What is Laissez Faire?

• the ability to workers to negotiate with owners and strike if necessary

• an expression of risk that "rough necks" took in building skyscrapers

• the idea that the government should be "hands off" of business and interfere as little as possible

• the idea that immigrants and people from diverse people can all become Americans if they adopt its values

In the early 20th century which are true of the US's foreign policy?

• it shifted from isolationism to imperialism

• it shifted from imperialism to isolationism

• it stayed consistently isolationist

• it stayed consistently imperialistic

Which is NOT one of Teddy Roosevelt's primary domestic achievements as president?

• Pure Food and Drug Act

• conserving wilderness land as Public Land and National Parks

• intervening in labor disputes

• breaking apart and regulating corporate monopolies and trusts

• winning the Spanish-American War and annexing the Philippines

Which weapon caused the majority of casualties in WWI?

• artillery and machine gun

• gas attacks

• tanks

• submarines

• airplanes

Who are the members of the Triple Alliance?

• Italy

• Germany

• Britain

• Russia

• Austria-Hungary