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WorksheetsMidterm for Honors
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
What is true of family life in the 1920s?
Parental influence increased
The percentage of families with five or more children increased
Family members devoted more time to family tasks
The divorce rate rose
The constancy with which same-aged children were brought together during the 1920s and after did what?
Made the transition to adolescence easy for most children
Increased the importance of the peer group in socializing children
Made children more accepting of their parents
Reduced the self-esteem of most children
What is true of women in the work force in the 1920s?
Women began moving into occupations previously restricted to men
Married women made up the majority of women workers by the end of the decade
Married women joined the work force in increasing numbers
Sex segregation in the workplace became less noticeable
What is true of the Klu Klux Klan of the early 1920s?
It was anti-Immigrant, anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish, and anti-Black
It was confined to the Deep South
It repudiated the vigilante tactics of its forerunner
It appealed to fewer people than its forerunner
The Immigration quotas established by Congress in the late 1920s:
Reflected a desire to increase immigration
Favored northern and western Europeans
Were opposed by labor unions
Were opposed by business executives
Modernists claimed victory in the Scopes trial because:
They believed testimony in the trial proved fundamentalism to be illogical
They believed that William Jennings Bryan's eloquent defense of academic freedom led to greater national acceptance of that concept
The supreme Court subsequently overturned the conviction of John Scopes
The state of Tennessee repealed its law prohibiting public-school instructors from teaching the theory of evolution
Prohibition seems ultimately to have failed, why?
It became obvious that the "noble experiment" caused serious economic problems
Americans were willingly to break laws tht interfered with their personal quest for pleasure
Americans became disillusioned with it once it became linked with organized crime
It was completely outside the traditional American value system
What was the common theme expressed in The Great Gatsby, Babbit, and Elmer Gantry?
The overemphasis on money in American society
The decline of intellect
The decline of manhood
The sexual liberation of women
What is considered America's most distinctive art form?
Jazz
Motion Pictures
Musical Comedies
Ragtime
How did Hoover respond to the 1929 stock market crash?
He assured the nation that the economy was sound
He closed the stock market for a week
He ordered an end to buying stock on margin
He personally bought $10,000 dollars worth of stock to restore confidence
What factors contributed to the depression?
Misdistribution of income
A high rate of inflation
The elimination of protective tariffs
A large and growing federal deficit
Why did European nations begin to default on repaying their debts to the US in the late 1920s?
They had begun massive rearmament programs
They were experiencing severe inflation
They were pouring massive amounts sums into social welfare programs
They depended on reparation payments from Germany to pay their loans and since American banks stopped making loans to Germany, those reparation paymentsceased
What best expresses prevailing thought in 1929 concerning economic depressions?
Massive government aid to business is the best way to overcome a depression
Economic downturns are natural and must simply be allowed to run their course
The proper course during a depression is to lower tariff levels and raise taxes
The key to overcoming a depression is to raise interest rates
In the early 1930, Mexican-born workers in the United States:
Continued to provide a docile, reliable farm labor force
Were sometimes subjected to deportation by immigrant officials
Benefited significantly from the AAA
Steadily replaced whites in California's migratory work force
What was true of urban school systems in the early 1930s?
Kindergarten programs were discontinued in all urban school systems
Many urban school systems reduced the school year to six months due to lack of funds
Most urban school systems refused to hire married women as teachers
A majority of urban school systems began offering free after-school day-care programs
Which was most acceptable to President Hoover as a way to responding to the depression?
Reduction of the Nation's tariff rates
Cutting federal taxes to generate spending
Direct federal relief to that nation's unemployed through public-works projects
Business and professional groups, coordinated by the federal government, voluntarily working together to solve the nation's problems
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
It weakened the economy because it resulted in other nations having less money to buy American products
It strengthened the American economy by keeping foreign goods out of the country
It strengthened the economy by stimulating competition that brought prices down
It weakened the economy by making foreign products cheaper than American products
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation was designed to provide:
Direct relief to the unemployed
Direct loans to the unemployed
Federal loans to the homeowners who could not pay their mortgages
Federal loans to banks, insurance companies, and railroads
The Bonus Expeditionary Force was designed to provide:
Radical agitators
Unemployed veterans of World War 1
College Students
Dispossessed farmers
The banking crisis that began in the US in 1929 was caused in part by:
The Federal Reserve Board's decision to raise the discount rate several times during the previous year
Enactment of legislation during the Coolidge administration to impose higher taxes on interest income
Risky loans made in the 1920s
The collapse of the World Bank
Describe the leaders who guided American foreign relations between 1865 and 1914:
Failed to recognize the relationship between expansion and economic growth
Allowed foreign policy to be shaped almost exclusively by public opinion
Believed that exertion of American influence abroad would help maintain prosperity at home
Rejected the concept of power politics, advancing instead the idea that all nations are equals in the world community
Describe the leaders who favored economic expansion but not annexation of overseas territory:
Became more vocal and began to dominate government decision making
Gradually lost ground to those who advanced both formal and informal imperialism
Completely abandoned their position in the aftermath of the Spanish-American-Cuban-Filipino War
Came to the concentrated almost exclusively in the Republican Party
The massacre at Rock Springs, Wyoming, in 1885 is evidence of what?
Miners and railway workers in the American West often reacted with violence against newly hired Hispanic workers
Labor strikes often led to disorder and violence in mining communities in the American West in the late nineteenth century
Discrimination against African-Americans was just as prevalent in the American West as in the South during the late nineteenth century
Hatred against Chinese immigrants was prevalent in the American West in the late nineteenth century
William H. Seward was successful in his effort to acquire:
Alaska
Guam
Puerto Rico
The Virgin Islands
Captain Alfred T. Mahan argued that the nation's well being depended on:
A commitment to educational excellence
Building of a strong, efficient navy
Doubling the size of the United States Army
The spread of democratic principles throughout the world
One way to arouse patriotism and gain local support for naval expansion was to:
Name ships after prominent Americans
Name ships after states and cities
Ask local politicians to christen ships
Have sailors from only one state serve on board a ship
Describe the Venezuelan crisis:
Indicated that England was spoiling for a was with the US
Showed the subtleties and caution of US foreign policy
Indicated that the US wanted war with England
Indicated that the rights of smaller nations are often not considered wen two major powers confront each other
Describe the consequences of the sinking of the Maine:
Congress authorized President McKinley's request for $50 million in defense funds
Spain agreed to allow the US to arbitrate the dispute between Cuban insurgents and the Spanish government
Cuban terrorists bombed the Spanish embassy in Washington DC
Enrique Dupuy De Lome publicly belittled President McKinley
The US declaration of war on Spain in 1898 did what?
Resulted in Spain's refusal to respond to US diplomatic proposals
Came after Spain made diplomatic concessions to the US
Came after Spain stepped up its reconcentration policy
Resulted in Spain's rejection of a US offer to buy Cuba
Most American deaths in the Spanish-American-Cuban-Filipino Was were caused by:
Combat wounds
Tainted food
Diseases
Heat Stroke
Describe African American soldiers at the time of the Spanish-American-Cuban-Filipino War:
Faced Racism within the military just like everywhere else
Served only in the Corps of Engineers
Were not allowed to engage in combat
Were not allowed to become commissioned officers
What was a provision of the Treaty of Paris ending the Spanish-American-Cuban-Filipino War?
The United States would pay Spain $20 million for the territories aquired
Cuba would belong to the US
The Philippines would be independent
Wake Island would become a US Protectorate
The US opposed the existence of spheres of influence in China for what reason?
Such spheres threatened American trading interests in China
Such spheres posed a direct threat to American troops stationed in the Far East
Treaty obligations required the US to defend China against outside interference
The US believed in self-determination for the Chinese people
The Boxer Rebellion against foreign presence in China
Drove the imperialist powers out of China
Led the major powers officially to approve the Open Door Policy
Was brought to an end when the imperialist powers, including the US, sent troops to China
Brought the US and Japan to the verge of war because of American support for the nationalist Chinese rebels
What best expresses the ideology of the Open Door policy?
Freedom of the seas will lead to the enrichment of the world community of nations
All nations must be allowed to develop their own political and economic systems
All nations of the world should be considered equals
The closing of any area to American products, citizens, or ideas threatens the survival of the US
What is true of the Platt Amendment
It committed Cuba to representative democratic government
It granted the US the right to intervene in Cuban Affairs
It linked Cuba and the US in a mutual defense pact
It gave the US special trading advantage with Cuba
What is true of the economic relationship between the US and Mexico by 1910?
American capitalists owned Mexico's railroads and mines
Porfirio Diaz had begun to nationalize American investments in Mexico
American investors had begun to divest themselves of their business interests because of violent anti-American demonstrations
Mexico had ceased to be an economic satellite of the US
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, relations between the US and Great Britain were:
Remained cool, aloof, and neutral
Were so poor that war at times seemed imminent
Deteriorated into deep hostility
Became increasingly friendly
President Wilson responded to the sinking of the Lusitania by:
Demanding that Germany cease submarine warfare
Breaking diplomatic relations with Germany
Stopping Americans from travelling on belligerent ships
Demanding that passenger vessels be prohibited from carrying war goods
What factors contributed to Harrison's victory in the 1888 election?
Cleveland's stand in favor of free coinage of silver
His opposition to the Pendleton Civil Service Act
Bribery and multiple voting in Indiana and New York
The charge that Cleveland had committed adultery
The only American president to serve two nonconsecutive terms was:
Benjamin Harrison
James Garfield
Grover Cleveland
Chester Arthur
In the 1870s the southern states began to enact poll taxes to:
Raise revenue for public schools
Provide public funds for state political campaigns
Pay off Civil War debts
Reduce the power of African Americans
The Supreme Court applied the separate-but-equal doctrine to schools in:
The Civil Rights cases
Lawton vs. Maryland
Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
Cummins vs. County Board of Education
Jim Crow laws spread rapidly through the South after:
Southern workers began forming labor unions
Northern states passed immigration restriction quotas
The Supreme Court upheld the separate-but-equal doctrine
African Americans began a massive migration into southern cities
What does "waving a bloody shirt" mean?
Lauding the pioneer heritage
Appealing for labor solidarity
Exploiting Civil War animosities for political gain
Advocating a military foreign policy
Describe the Pendleton Civil Service Act:
It covered all federal jobs
It applied to incumbents as well as to new applicants
It permitted future presidents to increase the number of jobs covered by the act
It was signed by President James Garfield
Describe Munn vs. Illinois
Upheld the principles of state regulation of railroad rates
Outlawed the practice of railroad regulation
Declared state regulation of railroads to be unconstitutional
Upheld ownership and management of the railroads by the federal government
Describe the Wabash case:
Upheld federal legislation mandating an eight hour workday for railroad employees
Declared government regulation of industry to be unconstitutional
Declared that only Congress could regulate the rates of railroad lins engaged in interstate commerce
Upheld the right of consumer groups to sue railroad companies for engaging in illegal pricing practices
What was going on with the two political parties in the Gilded Ages?
Differed greatly in leadership and organization
Worked diligently to heal the sectional divisions left from the Civil War and Reconstruction
Catered to the interests of ethnic minorities rather than to the middle class majority
Were split from within by internal squabbling and disagreement
How were the elections viewed as during the Gilded Age?
Were seldom covered by the nation's newspapers
Aroused very little public interest
Often served as a form of recreation
Seldom dealt with issue that voters deemed important
