APUSH CH7 Quiz Review

Which of the following groups would have been most likely to oppose the policy suggested in the image?

• Social Darwinists and nativists

• Leaders of organized labor unions

• African American migrants to northern cities

• Business executives and industrialists

The policy suggested in this image was most directly a response to

• concerns that immigrants would draw on social welfare resources.

• demands that the government play a smaller role in regulating immigration.

• fears that immigrants were dangerous radicals or would increase competition for jobs.

• beliefs that immigrants would help establish a more multicultural and diverse United States.

In the period from 1900 to 1921, which of the following groups made up the largest share of immigration to the United States

• Italians and Poles.

• French and Germans.

• English and Irish.

• Mexicans and Cubans.

The ideas expressed through the image reveal that in 1901, which of the following was most true of the United

States?

• Theories of survival of the fittest had been widely rejected by the public.

• Efforts to spread democracy overseas had been largely peaceful.

• Interventionism had become a more prevalent feature of foreign policy.

• Women were encouraged to join the armed forces.

The developments referenced by the image most directly contributed to the United States involvement in -

• competition with Russia in opening trade with Japan.

• the suppression of an independence movement in the Philippines.

• acquisition of territory from Mexico through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

• an international monetary system that supported free trade between nations.

“In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human

freedoms.

“The first is freedom of speech and expression—everywhere in the world.

“The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way—everywhere in the world.

“The third is freedom from want—which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will

secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants—everywhere in the world.

“The fourth is freedom from fear—which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to

such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression

against any neighbor—anywhere in the world.”

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, State of the Union address, January 1941

Roosevelt’s speech was most likely intended to increase public support for -

• extending New Deal programs to guarantee unemployment benefits.

• integrating the United States armed forces.

• aiding the Allies in Europe during the Second World War.

• enhancing rights protected by the United States Constitution.

“In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human

freedoms.

“The first is freedom of speech and expression—everywhere in the world.

“The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way—everywhere in the world.

“The third is freedom from want—which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will

secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants—everywhere in the world.

“The fourth is freedom from fear—which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to

such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression

against any neighbor—anywhere in the world.”

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, State of the Union address, January 1941

Which of the following increased enthusiasm in the United States for upholding the freedoms outlined in the

excerpt?

• The passage of a federal law providing veterans with financial aid in housing and education

• The successful detonation of an atomic bomb as a part of the Manhattan Project

• The growing number of women working in defense manufacturing

• The attack on the United States at Pearl Harbor

Which of the following most directly contributed to Roosevelt’s view that “freedom from want” was necessary?

• The inspiration of Woodrow Wilson’s vision for an international democratic order

• The experience of domestic upheavals during the 1930s

• The memory of federal agencies violating some Americans’ civil liberties in the 1920s

• The fear of the Soviet threat to spread communism to nations in the West

“All the fresh air that ever enters these stairs comes from the hall-door that is forever slamming, and from the windows

of dark bedrooms that in turn receive from the stairs their sole supply of the elements God meant to be free. . . The

sinks are in the hallway, that all the tenants may have access – and all be poisoned alike by their summer stenches. . . .

When the summer heats come with their suffering they have meaning more terrible than words can tell. . . . This gap

between dingy brick-walls is the yard. That strip of smoke-colored sky up there is the heaven of these people. . . . A

hundred thousand people lived in . . . tenements in New York last year.”

Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives, 1890

The excerpt is best understood as a response to which of the following historical developments?

• The first Red Scare

• Industrialization

• The Great Depression

• Reconstruction

“All the fresh air that ever enters these stairs comes from the hall-door that is forever slamming, and from the windows

of dark bedrooms that in turn receive from the stairs their sole supply of the elements God meant to be free. . . The

sinks are in the hallway, that all the tenants may have access – and all be poisoned alike by their summer stenches. . . .

When the summer heats come with their suffering they have meaning more terrible than words can tell. . . . This gap

between dingy brick-walls is the yard. That strip of smoke-colored sky up there is the heaven of these people. . . . A

hundred thousand people lived in . . . tenements in New York last year.”

Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives, 1890

By the 1910s, the conditions described in the excerpt were most addressed by

• government unemployment programs.

• acceptance of immigrants by native-born Americans.

• efforts of middle-class reformers.

• consolidation of large corporations.