US History - EOC Practice Test #4 (Modern Era)

Which factor is most closely associated with the decision of the US to declare war on Spain in 1898?

• isolationist policy

• labor union pressure

• yellow journalism

• unrestricted submarine warfare

The newspaper headline below describes a significant event in U.S. foreign affairs.

DAILY NEWS

– MAY 7, 1915 –

LUSITANIA SUNK: OVER ONE HUNDRED AMERICANS LOST AT SEA

How did this event contribute to the United States’ entry into World War I?

• It furthered anti-government protests in the United States

• It encouraged anti-immigration campaigns in the United States

• It became necessary for President Wilson to propose a plan for peace

• It became difficult for President Wilson to defend a policy of neutrality

The convictions of Sacco and Vanzetti in the 1920s most closely reflected the

• increase in nativist attitudes

• federal government's war on crime

• corruption of political machines

• rise in labor unrest

The cartoon seen here was probably drawn by someone who felt that the United States

• should not enter World War I

• should join the League of Nations

• was taking advantage of smaller nations

• should not join the League of Nations because it might be pulled into other nation's disputes

This agreement was outside the League. This Pact outlawed war. Initially 15 countries, and eventually 68 countries, agreed never again to use war as foreign policy.

• Locarno Pacts 1925
• Treaty of Rapallo
• Dawes Plan 1924
• Kellogg-Briand Pact 1928

How did President Harry S. Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb affect international relations? 

• It initiated the arms race with the Soviet Union.
• It prompted other nations to begin investigations of war crimes. 
• it enabled the United Nations to administer territory in Japan. 
• It led to the establishment of the first global peacekeeping force. 

In 1890, during the Gilded Age, who wrote about and photographed the horrible living conditions of America's working poor in the Book, How the Other Half Lives?

• Upton Sinclair
• Ida Tarbell
• Ida Wells
• Jacob Riis

In 1889, during the Gilded Age, a Settlement House called Hull House was opened in Chicago.  It was designed to help working class women, many recent immigrants, move out of poverty and dependence on others.  It sought to address some of the excesses of industry and business.  Who founded Hull House?

• Margaret Sanger
• Jane Addams
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Susan B. Anthony

believed in giving his money back under his 'Gospel of Welath" policy

• Andrew Carnegie
• John Rockefeller
• Eugene Debs
• Cornelius Vanderbilt

This act provided monthly pensions for retired people.

• Social Security Act (SSA)
• Works Progress Administration (WPA)
• Townsend Act
• Revenue Act