US HISTORY S. 1

Which of the following was an effect of the publication of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

• It aided the growth of federal social services.

• It contributed to the development of settlement houses.

• It influenced the passage of the Meat Inspection Act.

• It led to the development of child labor laws.

What was an important effect of the Emancipation Proclamation?

• It gave a moral purpose to the war.

• It united the Republican party.

• It immediately freed Southern slaves.

• It kept Great Britain out of the war.

The Monroe Doctrine was largely a response to

• European nations' interest in colonies in North and South America.

• the debate over admitting slave states to the Union.

• the need to strengthen the national economy despite sectional differences.

• fighting between western settlers and North America.

Social Darwinism was used to justify all of the following except

• the success of big business.

• the existence of poverty.

• the power of millionaire industrialists.

• government regulation of business.

Skyscrapers were made possible by the invention of

• larger bricks and stronger cement.

• safer fire escapes.

• the airplane and the bicycle.

• the elevator and a steel framework.

The primary goal of the NAACP was

• better working conditions.

• voting rights for women.

• regulation of the banking industry.

• equality among the races.

On what did the Roosevelt Corollary build upon?

• Monroe Doctrine

• Hay-Pauncefote Treaty of 1901

• Open Door Policy

• Platt Amendment

The Boxer Rebellion was an attempt by Chinese revolutionaries to

• remove foreign influence from China.

• restore the Manchu dynasty to power.

• set up a democratic government in China.

• set up a Communist government in China.

Which of the following was not as a cause of World War I?

• American isolationism

• imperialist competition

• the stockpiling of weapons

• imperialist competition

The policy that kept the United States out of the war for three years was called

• the alliance system.

• nationalism.

• neutrality.

• the convoy system.