Worksheets1898-1920 Benchmark review
Total questions: 80
Worksheet time: 40mins
Who became the most decorated soldier in American history after his heroic actions in the Meus-Argonne Offensive?
Alvin York
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Theodore Roosevelt
John J. Pershing
Who was the military tactician who said that a great nation must have a great navy?
Alvin York
John J. Pershing
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Theodore Roosevelt
Who was the military tactician who said that a great nation must have a great navy?
Alvin York
John J. Pershing
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Theodore Roosevelt
Who commanded the American Expeditionary Force on the Western Front in WWI?
Alvin York
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Theodore Roosevelt
John J. Pershing
Who was nicknamed “Black Jack” for his time commanding the buffalo Soldiers?
Alvin York
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Theodore Roosevelt
John J. Pershing
Who commanded the American military force who chased Pancho Villa in Mexico?
Alvin York
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Theodore Roosevelt
John J. Pershing
What was the official name for the Act that allowed for the drafting of soldiers to fight in WWI?
Conscription Act
Drat Act
Selective Service Act
Espionage Act
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.
Conscription Act
Drat Act
Selective Service Act
Espionage Act
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?
Versailles Treaty
Selective Service Act
Zimmerman Telegram
Fourteen Points
What is a statement of the war aims of the Allies, made by President Wilson on January 8, 1918.
Versailles Treaty
Selective Service Act
Zimmerman Telegram
Fourteen Points
What officially ended combat in WWI?
Versailles Treaty
Selective Service Act
Zimmerman Telegram
Fourteen Points
What is another word for a peace treaty?
Cease Fire
Hand Shake Agreement
Gentleman's Agreement
Armistice
What ship blew up in Havanna Harbor, Cuba signaling the beginning of the Spanish American War?
USS Maine
HMS Lusitania
Titanic
USS Missouri
What ship was attacked by German submarines signaling a need for a quick end to unrestricted submarine warfare?
USS Maine
HMS Lusitania
Titanic
USS Missouri
In what year did the Spanish-American War begin?
1861
1917
1898
1914
In what year did the First World War Begin?
1861
1917
1898
1914
Who was the only president of the Republic of Hawaii?
Kamehameha
Lilukolani
Edwin stanton
Sanford Dole
What territory was added as a state to the USA in order to provide the USA with a major Pacific Theater Base?
Alaska
Puerto Rico
Guam
Hawaii
Whose assassination triggered the outbreak of the First World War?
President Abraham Lincoln
Queen Lilukolani
President Hindenberg
Archduke Franz ferdinand
What nation practiced unrestricted Submarine Warfare?
Germany
France
Britain
USA
What new weapon made trench warfare essential during WWI?
Poison Gas
AIrplanes
Tanks
Machine Guns
Which president instigated a civil war in Columbia in order to build a transcontinental canal?
T. Roosevelt
Taft
Wilson
Harding
What territories did the USA gain control of following the Spanish-American War?
Hawaii, Guam and the Philippines
Alaska, Cuba and Hawaii
Guam, Philippines and Cuba
Puerto Rico, Philippines and Guam
What policy did the USA adopt in order to create free trade with China?
Open Door
NAFTA
CAFTA
OPEC
Which president adopted “Gun Boat Diplomacy?”
Theodore Roosevelt
William H. Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Jebediah Bartlett
Which president adopted “Big Stick Diplomacy?”
Theodore Roosevelt
William H. Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Jebediah Bartlett
Which president adopted “Moral Diplomacy?”
Theodore Roosevelt
William H. Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Jebediah Bartlett
Which president adopted “Dollar Diplomacy?”
Theodore Roosevelt
William H. Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Jebediah Bartlett
What new global political organization was founded after WWI in order to prevent future wars?
United Nations
Arab League
League of Extraordinary Gentleman
League of Nations
Who was the popular ecologist and naturalist who inspired Theodore Roosevelt to create the National Park System?
John Adams
Upton Sinclair
John Muir
William Taft
Who was the muckraker who wrote "The Jungle?"
John Adams
Upton Sinclair
John Muir
William Taft
What book by Upton Sinclair painted an image of the meat packing industry as dangerous, unsanitary and wild?
Pilgrim's Progress
How the Other Half Lives
Sense and Sensibility
The Jungle
Which amendment called for the direct election of United States Senators?
13
14
15
17
Which Amendment called for Women’s suffrage?
17
19
15
14
What does Suffrage mean?
Extreme pain or discomfort
To answer a nations call to duty
The outlawing of the production, sale and consumption of Alcohol
To vote
What does Prohibition mean?
Extreme pain or discomfort
To answer a nations call to duty
The outlawing of the production, sale and consumption of Alcohol
To vote
What law was inspired by the Muckraking work “The Jungle?”
Clean Air Act
Endangered Species Act
Selective Service Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
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.
Pure Food and Drug Act
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Interstate Commerce Act
AMerican Indian Citizenship Act
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.
Progressive
Populist
Antebellum
Imperialist
Unfair treatment : a situation in which the rights of a person or a group of people are ignored.
Life
Class Structure
Social Justice
Social Injustice
Place the progressive Presidents in order
Taft
T. Roosevelt
Wilson
Wilson
T. Roosevet
Taft
T. Rooseelt
Wilson
Taft
T. Roosevelt
Taft
Wilson
A process that enables citizens to bypass their state legislature by placing proposed statutes and, in some states, constitutional amendments on the ballot.
Initiative
Recall
Referendum
Direct primary
Functions as a preliminary election whereby voters decide their party's candidates.
Initiative
Recall
Referendum
Direct primary
Procedure by which voters can remove an elected official from office through a direct vote before that official's term has ended.
Initiative
Recall
Referendum
Direct primary
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.
Initiative
Recall
Referendum
Direct primary
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.
Upton SInclair
John Updike
Susan B. ANthony
Ida B. Wells
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.
Ida B. Wells
Susan B. Anthony
Mary Kate Olsen
Amelia Earhardt
Created and established the central banking system of the United States, and created the authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes
Federal Reserve Act
Selective Service Act
Espionage Act
Sister Act
Who won the election of 1912?
Taft
Roosevelt
Wilson
Debs
Who was the Indpendent candidate in the Election of 1912?
Taft
Roosevelt
Wilson
Debs
Aa self-made man, immigrated to the United States from Scotlandwithout money and made millions in the steel industry.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
John Updike
Andrew Carnegie
Sanford Dole
Person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices
Money Magnate
Rebel Leader
Robber Baron
Economic Wizard
Article written by Andrew Carnegie in June of 1889 that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich.
Gospel of Welath
Social Gospel
Social Darwinism
Progressivism
Theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to laws of natural selection.
Gospel of Welath
Social Gospel
Social Darwinism
Progressivism
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.
Great Plains
Central Plains
Salad Bowl
Dust Bowl
Flagship boarding school in the United States from 1879 through 1918. Used to assimilate Native American into American society.
Geronimo Indian School
Professor X's School for Giften Youngsters
Custer's Indian School
Carlisle Indian School
Began on January 24, 1848, when goldwas found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill
Californiua Gold Rush
Georgia Gold Rush
Klondike Gold Rush
Pacific Gold Rush
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.
Reservation Act
Dawes Act
Klondike Act
Transcontinental Railroad
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.
Dawes Act
Transcontinental Railroad
California Gold Rush
Immigration Act
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.
Age of Empire
Progressive Era
Populist Movement
Gilded Age
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.
Age of Empire
Progressive Era
Populist Movement
Gilded Age
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.
Age of Empire
Progressive Era
Populist Movement
Gilded Age
A sowing device that sows the seed precisely in the soil at proper depth and distance. Then it covers them with soil
Steel Plow
McCormick's Reaper
Seed Drill
Steel WIndmill
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.
Dawes Act
Homestead Act
Klodike Act
Indian Removal Act
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.
Political Party
Election Machine
Political Boss
Political Machine
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.
Bessemer Process
Oxidation Process
Ironing Process
Carbonation Process
American businessman of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; a founder of the Standard Oil Company.
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Bill Gates
A room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments.
Tenement
Studio
Slum
Penthouse
Who is most asscoiated with the assembly line?
J.P. Morgan
Andrew Carnegie
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Henry Ford
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.
J.P. Morgan
Andrew Carnegie
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Henry Ford
What new innovation most contributed to increases in factory production in the USA in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Electricity
Steam
Telegraph
Railroads
What is it called when countries claim territories outside of their land to make an empire?
Militarism
Imperialism
Alliances
Nationalism
The assassination of this man led to World War I in Europe.
Tsar Nicholas II
Queen Victoria
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Which of these countries were part of the Allied Powers in World War I? (3 correct)
Germany
Great Britain
Russia
Austria-Hungary
Serbia
Which of the following countries were part of the Central Powers during World War I? (3 correct)
Germany
Great Britain
Austria-Hungary
France
Bulgaria
Which of these was a reason that the United States got involved in World War I?
a song called "Over There"
the Zimmermann Telegram
Food Shortages
Belleau Wood
What was the name of the peace plan that Woodrow Wilson created at the end of World War I?
The 13 Points
The 14 Points
The 15 Points
The 16 Points
The United States didn't join the League of Nations because...
the Supreme Court ruled against it
Woodrow Wilson refused to join
American people didn't want the US to join
the US Senate failed to ratify the treaty
Before and after World War I, the United States practiced ____________________________, meaning the US didn't get involved in other countries fights.
Isolationism
Imperialism
Globalization
Conservationism
