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1898-1920 Benchmark review

Total questions: 80

Worksheet time: 40mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who became the most decorated soldier in American history after his heroic actions in the Meus-Argonne Offensive?

a)

Alvin York

b)

Alfred Thayer Mahan

c)

Theodore Roosevelt

d)

John J. Pershing

2.

Who was the military tactician who said that a great nation must have a great navy?

a)

Alvin York

b)

John J. Pershing

c)

Alfred Thayer Mahan

d)

Theodore Roosevelt

3.

Who was the military tactician who said that a great nation must have a great navy?

a)

Alvin York

b)

John J. Pershing

c)

Alfred Thayer Mahan

d)

Theodore Roosevelt

4.

Who commanded the American Expeditionary Force on the Western Front in WWI?

a)

Alvin York

b)

Alfred Thayer Mahan

c)

Theodore Roosevelt

d)

John J. Pershing

5.

Who was nicknamed “Black Jack” for his time commanding the buffalo Soldiers?

a)

Alvin York

b)

Alfred Thayer Mahan

c)

Theodore Roosevelt

d)

John J. Pershing

6.

Who commanded the American military force who chased Pancho Villa in Mexico?

a)

Alvin York

b)

Alfred Thayer Mahan

c)

Theodore Roosevelt

d)

John J. Pershing

7.

What was the official name for the Act that allowed for the drafting of soldiers to fight in WWI?

a)

Conscription Act

b)

Drat Act

c)

Selective Service Act

d)

Espionage Act

8.

What law originally passed in 1917 was created to prohibit interference with military operations or recruitment, to prevent insubordination in the military, and to prevent the support of United States enemies during wartime.

a)

Conscription Act

b)

Drat Act

c)

Selective Service Act

d)

Espionage Act

9.

What is a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the prior event of the United States entering World War I against Germany?

a)

Versailles Treaty

b)

Selective Service Act

c)

Zimmerman Telegram

d)

Fourteen Points

10.

What is a statement of the war aims of the Allies, made by President Wilson on January 8, 1918.

a)

Versailles Treaty

b)

Selective Service Act

c)

Zimmerman Telegram

d)

Fourteen Points

11.

What officially ended combat in WWI?

a)

Versailles Treaty

b)

Selective Service Act

c)

Zimmerman Telegram

d)

Fourteen Points

12.

What is another word for a peace treaty?

a)

Cease Fire

b)

Hand Shake Agreement

c)

Gentleman's Agreement

d)

Armistice

13.

What ship blew up in Havanna Harbor, Cuba signaling the beginning of the Spanish American War?

a)

USS Maine

b)

HMS Lusitania

c)

Titanic

d)

USS Missouri

14.

What ship was attacked by German submarines signaling a need for a quick end to unrestricted submarine warfare?

a)

USS Maine

b)

HMS Lusitania

c)

Titanic

d)

USS Missouri

15.

In what year did the Spanish-American War begin?

a)

1861

b)

1917

c)

1898

d)

1914

16.

In what year did the First World War Begin?

a)

1861

b)

1917

c)

1898

d)

1914

17.

Who was the only president of the Republic of Hawaii?

a)

Kamehameha

b)

Lilukolani

c)

Edwin stanton

d)

Sanford Dole

18.

What territory was added as a state to the USA in order to provide the USA with a major Pacific Theater Base?

a)

Alaska

b)

Puerto Rico

c)

Guam

d)

Hawaii

19.

Whose assassination triggered the outbreak of the First World War?

a)

President Abraham Lincoln

b)

Queen Lilukolani

c)

President Hindenberg

d)

Archduke Franz ferdinand

20.

What nation practiced unrestricted Submarine Warfare?

a)

Germany

b)

France

c)

Britain

d)

USA

21.

What new weapon made trench warfare essential during WWI?

a)

Poison Gas

b)

AIrplanes

c)

Tanks

d)

Machine Guns

22.

Which president instigated a civil war in Columbia in order to build a transcontinental canal?

a)

T. Roosevelt

b)

Taft

c)

Wilson

d)

Harding

23.

What territories did the USA gain control of following the Spanish-American War?

a)

Hawaii, Guam and the Philippines

b)

Alaska, Cuba and Hawaii

c)

Guam, Philippines and Cuba

d)

Puerto Rico, Philippines and Guam

24.

What policy did the USA adopt in order to create free trade with China?

a)

Open Door

b)

NAFTA

c)

CAFTA

d)

OPEC

25.

Which president adopted “Gun Boat Diplomacy?”

a)

Theodore Roosevelt

b)

William H. Taft

c)

Woodrow Wilson

d)

Jebediah Bartlett

26.

Which president adopted “Big Stick Diplomacy?”

a)

Theodore Roosevelt

b)

William H. Taft

c)

Woodrow Wilson

d)

Jebediah Bartlett

27.

Which president adopted “Moral Diplomacy?”

a)

Theodore Roosevelt

b)

William H. Taft

c)

Woodrow Wilson

d)

Jebediah Bartlett

28.

Which president adopted “Dollar Diplomacy?”

a)

Theodore Roosevelt

b)

William H. Taft

c)

Woodrow Wilson

d)

Jebediah Bartlett

29.

What new global political organization was founded after WWI in order to prevent future wars?

a)

United Nations

b)

Arab League

c)

League of Extraordinary Gentleman

d)

League of Nations

30.

Who was the popular ecologist and naturalist who inspired Theodore Roosevelt to create the National Park System?

a)

John Adams

b)

Upton Sinclair

c)

John Muir

d)

William Taft

31.

Who was the muckraker who wrote "The Jungle?"

a)

John Adams

b)

Upton Sinclair

c)

John Muir

d)

William Taft

32.

What book by Upton Sinclair painted an image of the meat packing industry as dangerous, unsanitary and wild?

a)

Pilgrim's Progress

b)

How the Other Half Lives

c)

Sense and Sensibility

d)

The Jungle

33.

Which amendment called for the direct election of United States Senators?

a)

13

b)

14

c)

15

d)

17

34.

Which Amendment called for Women’s suffrage?

a)

17

b)

19

c)

15

d)

14

35.

What does Suffrage mean?

a)

Extreme pain or discomfort

b)

To answer a nations call to duty

c)

The outlawing of the production, sale and consumption of Alcohol

d)

To vote

36.

What does Prohibition mean?

a)

Extreme pain or discomfort

b)

To answer a nations call to duty

c)

The outlawing of the production, sale and consumption of Alcohol

d)

To vote

37.

What law was inspired by the Muckraking work “The Jungle?”

a)

Clean Air Act

b)

Endangered Species Act

c)

Selective Service Act

d)

Pure Food and Drug Act

38.

A United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. The Act required that railroad rates be "reasonable and just," but did not empower the government to fix specific rates.

a)

Pure Food and Drug Act

b)

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

c)

Interstate Commerce Act

d)

AMerican Indian Citizenship Act

39.

A period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States, from the 1890s to the 1920s. The main objectives were eliminating problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and corruption in government.

a)

Progressive

b)

Populist

c)

Antebellum

d)

Imperialist

40.

Unfair treatment : a situation in which the rights of a person or a group of people are ignored.

a)

Life

b)

Class Structure

c)

Social Justice

d)

Social Injustice

41.

Place the progressive Presidents in order

a)

Taft

T. Roosevelt

Wilson

b)

Wilson

T. Roosevet

Taft

c)

T. Rooseelt

Wilson

Taft

d)

T. Roosevelt

Taft

Wilson

42.

A process that enables citizens to bypass their state legislature by placing proposed statutes and, in some states, constitutional amendments on the ballot.

a)

Initiative

b)

Recall

c)

Referendum

d)

Direct primary

43.

Functions as a preliminary election whereby voters decide their party's candidates.

a)

Initiative

b)

Recall

c)

Referendum

d)

Direct primary

44.

Procedure by which voters can remove an elected official from office through a direct vote before that official's term has ended.

a)

Initiative

b)

Recall

c)

Referendum

d)

Direct primary

45.

Allows citizens of manyU.S. states to place new legislation on a popular ballot, or to place legislation that has recently been passed by a legislature on a ballot for a popular vote.

a)

Initiative

b)

Recall

c)

Referendum

d)

Direct primary

46.

African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement who wrote extensively on the evils of lynchings in the American South.

a)

Upton SInclair

b)

John Updike

c)

Susan B. ANthony

d)

Ida B. Wells

47.

A reformer of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, known especially for her advocacy of women's suffrage. She was also active in the cause of abolitionism before the Civil War.

a)

Ida B. Wells

b)

Susan B. Anthony

c)

Mary Kate Olsen

d)

Amelia Earhardt

48.

Created and established the central banking system of the United States, and created the authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes

a)

Federal Reserve Act

b)

Selective Service Act

c)

Espionage Act

d)

Sister Act

49.

Who won the election of 1912?

a)

Taft

b)

Roosevelt

c)

Wilson

d)

Debs

50.

Who was the Indpendent candidate in the Election of 1912?

a)

Taft

b)

Roosevelt

c)

Wilson

d)

Debs

51.

Aa self-made man, immigrated to the United States from Scotlandwithout money and made millions in the steel industry.

a)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

b)

John Updike

c)

Andrew Carnegie

d)

Sanford Dole

52.

Person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices

a)

Money Magnate

b)

Rebel Leader

c)

Robber Baron

d)

Economic Wizard

53.

Article written by Andrew Carnegie in June of 1889 that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich.

a)

Gospel of Welath

b)

Social Gospel

c)

Social Darwinism

d)

Progressivism

54.

Theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to laws of natural selection.

a)

Gospel of Welath

b)

Social Gospel

c)

Social Darwinism

d)

Progressivism

55.

An area of land where vegetation has been lost and soil reduced to dust and eroded, especially as a consequence of drought or unsuitable farming practice.

a)

Great Plains

b)

Central Plains

c)

Salad Bowl

d)

Dust Bowl

56.

Flagship boarding school in the United States from 1879 through 1918. Used to assimilate Native American into American society.

a)

Geronimo Indian School

b)

Professor X's School for Giften Youngsters

c)

Custer's Indian School

d)

Carlisle Indian School

57.

Began on January 24, 1848, when goldwas found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill

a)

Californiua Gold Rush

b)

Georgia Gold Rush

c)

Klondike Gold Rush

d)

Pacific Gold Rush

58.

A federal law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and landowners by providing cooperating families with 160 acres of reservation land for farming or 320 acres for grazing.

a)

Reservation Act

b)

Dawes Act

c)

Klondike Act

d)

Transcontinental Railroad

59.

A train route across the United States, finished in 1869. It was the project of two railroad companies: the Union Pacific built from the east, and the Central Pacific built from the west. The two lines met in Utah.

a)

Dawes Act

b)

Transcontinental Railroad

c)

California Gold Rush

d)

Immigration Act

60.

The time between the Civil War and World War I during which the U.S. population and economy grew quickly, there was a lot of political corruption and corporate financial misdealings and many wealthy people lived very fancy lives.

a)

Age of Empire

b)

Progressive Era

c)

Populist Movement

d)

Gilded Age

61.

in U.S. history, politically oriented coalition of agrarian reformers in the Middle West and South that advocated a wide range of economic and political legislation in the late 19th century.

a)

Age of Empire

b)

Progressive Era

c)

Populist Movement

d)

Gilded Age

62.

A period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States, from the 1890s to the 1920s. The main objectives of the Progressive movement were eliminating problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and corruption in government.

a)

Age of Empire

b)

Progressive Era

c)

Populist Movement

d)

Gilded Age

63.

A sowing device that sows the seed precisely in the soil at proper depth and distance. Then it covers them with soil

a)

Steel Plow

b)

McCormick's Reaper

c)

Seed Drill

d)

Steel WIndmill

64.

A special act of Congress (1862) that made public lands in the West available to settlers without payment, usually in lots of 160 acres, to be used as farms.

a)

Dawes Act

b)

Homestead Act

c)

Klodike Act

d)

Indian Removal Act

65.

Group in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses (usually campaign workers), who receive rewards for their efforts.

a)

Political Party

b)

Election Machine

c)

Political Boss

d)

Political Machine

66.

A steel-making process, now largely superseded, in which carbon, silicon, and other impurities are removed from molten pig iron by oxidation in a blast of air in a special tilting retort.

a)

Bessemer Process

b)

Oxidation Process

c)

Ironing Process

d)

Carbonation Process

67.

American businessman of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; a founder of the Standard Oil Company.

a)

Andrew Carnegie

b)

John D. Rockefeller

c)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

d)

Bill Gates

68.

A room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments.

a)

Tenement

b)

Studio

c)

Slum

d)

Penthouse

69.

Who is most asscoiated with the assembly line?

a)

J.P. Morgan

b)

Andrew Carnegie

c)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

d)

Henry Ford

70.

American financier and banker who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation in the United States of America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

a)

J.P. Morgan

b)

Andrew Carnegie

c)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

d)

Henry Ford

71.

What new innovation most contributed to increases in factory production in the USA in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

a)

Electricity

b)

Steam

c)

Telegraph

d)

Railroads

72.
Who was the president during WWI
a)
Herbert Hoover
b)
Abraham Lincoln
c)
Robert Taft
d)
Woodrow Wilson
73.

What is it called when countries claim territories outside of their land to make an empire?

a)

Militarism

b)

Imperialism

c)

Alliances

d)

Nationalism

74.

The assassination of this man led to World War I in Europe.

a)

Tsar Nicholas II

b)

Queen Victoria

c)

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

d)

Kaiser Wilhelm II

75.

Which of these countries were part of the Allied Powers in World War I? (3 correct)

a)

Germany

b)

Great Britain

c)

Russia

d)

Austria-Hungary

e)

Serbia

76.

Which of the following countries were part of the Central Powers during World War I? (3 correct)

a)

Germany

b)

Great Britain

c)

Austria-Hungary

d)

France

e)

Bulgaria

77.

Which of these was a reason that the United States got involved in World War I?

a)

a song called "Over There"

b)

the Zimmermann Telegram

c)

Food Shortages

d)

Belleau Wood

78.

What was the name of the peace plan that Woodrow Wilson created at the end of World War I?

a)

The 13 Points

b)

The 14 Points

c)

The 15 Points

d)

The 16 Points

79.

The United States didn't join the League of Nations because...

a)

the Supreme Court ruled against it

b)

Woodrow Wilson refused to join

c)

American people didn't want the US to join

d)

the US Senate failed to ratify the treaty

80.

Before and after World War I, the United States practiced ____________________________, meaning the US didn't get involved in other countries fights.

a)

Isolationism

b)

Imperialism

c)

Globalization

d)

Conservationism