American II Final Review

How did the Pendleton Civil Service Act affect American politics?

•   It provided additional regulation of railroads.

• It ended patronage in the hiring of government employees

• It ended campaign contributions to political candidates.

• it required government employees to pass a drug test.

How did economic opportunities encourage the Chinese and the Irish to immigrate to the West Coast?

• The massive cattle drives lacked cowhands.

• The transcontinental railroad needed builders.

• Oil companies in Texas required drillers.

• Corporate farms employed temporary farmhands.

Which explains the growth of labor unions in the United States during the Industrial Revolution?

• The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 proved to be ineffective.

• Workers sought to improve their pay and working conditions.

• Business leaders encouraged workers to organize unions to enhance productivity.

• The federal government supported the collective bargaining rights of railroad workers.

Which of the following was a Social Darwinist argument in favor of imperialism?

• Western nations needed outlets for their growing populations

• increased trade would benefit all peoples

• Colonies would bring wealth and prestige to the home country

• Westerners thought they had a duty to bring civilization to inferior races

What was the purpose of poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses enacted by Southern state legislatures in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

• To attract Northern investment capital

• to prevent interracial marriage

• To disenfranchise African Americans

• to prevent African Americans from migrating north

In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the U.S. Supreme Court established the general principle that

• Sates could not prevent blacks from voting just because their grandparents had been slaves.

• States could require separate accommodations on trains, in schools, and the like for blacks and whites as long as the accommodations were equal.

• state could lose seats in the U.S. House of Representatives if the state refused to allow blacks to vote.

• States could use poll taxes and literacy tests to establish voting qualifications.

Which statement about the philosophies of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois is most accurate?

• They differed as to the best way that African Americans could effectively achieve equality.

• Both demanded programs that would provide for immediate social equality.

• Both believed that vocational training would provide the most important kind of education for African Americans.

• Neither wanted the Federal Government to play a major role in protecting the civil rights of African Americans.

Why was the League of Nations provision of the Treaty of Versailles unacceptable to Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and the Republicans?

• They thought it would cost too much

• The league would obligate foreign aid to adversarial nations.

• the league was perceived as a threat to American sovereignty.

• The league had committed to the cause of global decolonization.

Which events best support the image of the 1920s as a decade of nativist sentiment? 

• The Passage of the Emergency Quota Act and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan

• The Scopes Trial and the passage of women’s suffrage

• The Washington Naval Conference and the Kellogg-Briand Pact

• The growth of the auto industry and the Tea Pot Dome Affair

How was the Harlem Renaissance a turning point for U.S. society?

• It allowed African-American artists to escape the effects of the Great Depression.

• it helped African Americans find artistic careers in southern cities.

• It gave exposure to African-American writings, art, music, acting, and dance.

• It offered preferential treatment to African-American stage actors.