USH Sem. 1 Final Exam Study Guide 2025

The ____________amendment allowed women's suffrage (right to vote)

• 16th 
• 17th 
• 18th 
• 19th 

Why did critics disapprove of the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)?

• It took away local jobs
• Gov't control of business/power companies
• It would destroy the habitat of the Bald Eagle
• They didn't want the military around on a daily basis

Who benefitted most from a formal education?

• Urban workers; gained important skills
• Farmers; gained important farming skills
• immigrants
• the rich

Which of the following statements is NOT true about women in the 1920s?

• Many wanted to challenge tradition boundaries

• Many women shortened their dress hemline

• Women became more conservative and stayed at home

• Many women cropped their hair into a bob

Which of the following was not a right or issues that African Americans lost/faced even after the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments were passed?

• marriage

• segregation

• violence

• Jim Crow laws

Which act was used in an attempt to assimilate the Native Americans? 

• Dawes Act 
• Alien Act
• Hepburn Act 
• Patriot Act 

Who did Coolidge think benefited from the creation of wealth?

• The poor and homeless
• The nation as a whole
• The working class
• the welathy

Which New Deal Program helped those who were retired or were going to retire?

• Civilian Conservation Corps

• Agricultural Adjustment Aat

• Works Progress Administration

• Social Security Act

Which of the following addressed the living and working conditions in Chicago's stockyards and inspired the Meat Inspection Act?

• The Jungle

• The Bosses in the Senate

• The Shame of Cities

• How the Other Half Lives

Life consists of competitive struggles in which only the strong survives is an example of

• Prohibition

• Social Darmwinism

• Spheres of influence

• "Big Stick" dimplomacy