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WorksheetsUS History 9 Summer 2018 Final
Total questions: 124
Worksheet time: 2hrs 8mins
Negotiations between workers' union and employers for employment conditions, wages, hours, etc:
collective bargaining
Strike
Scab
Lockout
Poorly built, overcrowded housing where many immigrants lived
Tenements
Ghetto
Hull House
Settlement
A muckraker who took photos of tenement houses and life of new immigrants, opening many American eyes to poor conditions in our cities. Wrote "How the Other Half Lives"
Jacob Riis
Ida Tarbell
Upton Sinclair
Ida B. Wells
Captain Turbot
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, what was the difference between "new" immigration and "old" immigration?
"Old" immigrants were from South America, and "new" immigrants were from Africa.
"Old" immigrants were from Asia, and "new" immigrants were from South America.
"Old" immigrants were from western Europe, and "new" immigrants were from eastern and southern Europe.
"Old" immigrants were from eastern and southern Europe, and "new" immigrants were from western Europe.
There were no differences between them.
The President of the union known as the American Federation of Labor for over 30 years
Samuel Gompers
Mayor Goodway
John P. Morgan
Henry Bessemer
Following the Gold Standard resulted in ________money in circulation, and thus_______the prices for farm goods.
less, lowering
more, raising
foreign, higher
What is inflation?
A general increase in prices and fall of the value of purchasing money
A general decrease in prices and the rise of the value of purchasing money
new inventions that result in more efficient techniques of work
Arby's Beef and Cheddars
What explanation below explains why railroad companies were able to charge high prices to farmers to ship their crops in the late 1800s?
There was a great deal of competition between various railroad companies
The railroads foreclosed on many farms and took the farmers’ properties
The railroad companies had essentially no competition.
They were able to charge high prices because the railroad companies owned the Grange.
The Omaha Platform of the People's (Populist) Party included all of the following except for:
condemnation of political corruption
increased government regulation over the railroads
adoption of the silver and/or bimetallic standard
limiting elections to candidates from 2 parties only
The Monroe Doctrine allowed the United States to:
remain neutral and not interfere with foreign affairs regardless of where an incident occurred
maintain peace between Confederate and US governments
prevent Europeans from intervening in South and North American affairs
Juggle at least 3 chainsaws while eating an apple
The US gained each of the following areas resulting from the Spanish-American War EXCEPT for:
Puerto Rico
Philippines
Cuba
Jamaica
The right to intervene and exercise power over Latin American countries if they were guilty of "chronic wrongdoing" was part of the
Declaration of Independence
Roosevelt Corollary
Bill of Rights
Constitution of the United States
By what name is the "Righteous Order of Harmonious Fists" group of Chinese nationalists better known?
Qing
Boxers
Defenders
Taiping
The main reason President Theodore Roosevelt supported a Panamanian rebellion against Colombia in 1903 was to
increase the number of democratic nations in Latin America
gain the right to complete a canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
reduce European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere
prevent a foreign power from seizing land in Central America
The President responsible for the policy motto of "Speak softly and carry a big stick" was:
Abraham Lincoln
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Bill Clinton
William McKinley
When people went to the bank to withdraw their money and the banks had no money was known as the
Bank "Runs"
Black Tuesday
Stock Market Crash
New Deal
This President enacted the New Deal and saw America through most of the Great Depression and World War II.
Dwight Eisenhower
Harry Truman
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Who was the Prime Minister of England for most of World War 2?
Roosevelt
Churchill
Hitler
Truman
Who ruled as a fascist dictator in Italy during WW2?
Hitler
Stalin
Mussolini
The major Allied Powers of WW2 consisted of:
Japan, Germany, and America
US, France, and Brazil
United States, U.S.S.R, and Britain
Germany, China, Japan, and Hawaii
Who was the British Prime Minister during most of the war
Woodrow Wilson
Adolf Hitler
Winston Churchill
Basil Fawlty
The reason the US ended its neutrality and finally went to war in WWII
bombing of Pearl Harbor
invasion of Poland
Holocaust
attack on the Soviet Union
Dictator of the Soviet Union during WWII
Benito Mussolini
Winston Churchill
Joseph Stalin
Adolph Hitler
WWI began when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia shortly after this event in Sarajevo:
Serbia tried to take more of Austria-Hungary's land.
Serbia burned the Austro-Hungarian flag.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated.
Serbia beat Germany in Olympic hockey.
On May 7, 1915, a German U-boat torpedoed and sank this ship, angering Americans:
the Maine
The Titanic
The Lusitania
The Queen Mary
S.S. Minnow
Which of these is a type of fighting used in World War One?
Trench Warfare
Atomic Bomb
Guerilla Warfare
No-Man's Land
This former New Jersey governor was the President of the United States during WWI, and won re-election in 1916 on a campaign of "He Kept Us Out of War":
Woodrow Wilson
Grover Cleveland
Teddy Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
A 1920s style that many women adopted of shorter dresses, short hair, and rejecting the more traditional fashion and lifestyle for women.
Women's Liberation
Flapper
Bird
Suffrage
A hate-group based in the former Confederate states that was anti-immigrant, anti-catholic, anti-jewish, anti-African-American, and spread through much of the US in the 1900s
Nativists
Ku Klux Klan
White Liners
Make America Great Again
The post-WWI time period known for US isolationism, increasing art, writing, and music expression, and great economic prosperity
Great Depression
Doldrums
Prohibition
Roaring Twenties
When speaking about the "Holocaust," what time period are we referring to?
1933-1945
1925-1930
1945-1950
1970-1975
Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor the Japanese had already attacked which nation?
China
Italy
Hawaii
Somalia
Who was the Prime Minister of Japan when Japan joined the Axis and attacked Pearl Harbor?
Hideki Tojo
Hideki Matsui
Chin Ho Kelly
Joseph Stalin
Which President is known for promising a series of reforms known as the "Square Deal"?
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Chester A. Arthur
Which change to the US Constitution established Prohibition-making buying and selling of alcohol illegal?
16th amendment
17th amendment
18th amendment
19th amendment
Which change to the US Constitution established rules for giving women in the U.S. suffrage (voting rights)?
16th amendment
17th amendment
18th amendment
19th amendment
McKinley
Garfield
This man was elected after T. Roosevelt hand-picked him to continue the progressive reform agenda.
Andrew Johnson
Franklin Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
William McKinley
What political party nominated T. Roosevelt for President in the election of 1912?
Democrat
Republican
Bull Moose
Libertarian
How did the policy of appeasement lead to WWII?
European powers let Germany continually get away with aggressive actions until Germany felt no one would stop them
It caused the global economic depression
France let Germany invade with little resistance
It prevented Germany from developing its military, thus angering German leadership
One idea left over from the Populist Party that is law today is
the income tax
bimetalism
capital punishment
Dogs are allowed to drive in Adventure Bay
This pilot was the first to make a solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean and later became an advocate for Isolationism and supporting Hitler.
Glenn Curtiss
Henry Ford
Charles Lindbergh
Marcus Garvey
Members of the Political Machines rallied ______________to vote for them by offering gifts or services such as food, jobs, housing, etc.
Immigrants
rural workers
African Americans
Old Ladies
__________was the most infamous leader of the political machine at Tammany Hall in New York City?
Roscoe Conkling
U.S. Grant
Theodore Roosevelt
Boss Tweed
What was the United States warship that exploded in Havana Harbor, killing over 200 American sailors and sparking a war against Spain?
USS Maryland
USS Maine
USS Maybe
US Maritime
Corollary means something that naturally follows a previous proposition or idea. What was the Roosevelt Corollary an addition to?
The Phillippines
Monroe Doctrine
Roosevelt Doctrine
President Monroe's wish list
This Mexican Revolutionary attacked a town in the US state of New Mexico:
Emilio Aguinaldo
Pancho Villa
Theodore Roosevelt
Francisco Madero
WW1 saw the widespread use of many new weapons and technologies, except for
tanks
flame throwers
X-Ray machines
Airplanes
talking dogs
The program of the USA providing weapons, food, and equipment to the Allies even before the US actively joined the fighting
Lend-Lease
Party-Time
Ally Cooperation
To The Lookout!
These banks serve the financial needs of National and member banks only, not individual customers.
Bull Moose
Federal Reserve Banks
Conservation
Savings and Loans
This post-WW1 organization was the idea of Woodrow Wilson, but the US did not join it:
United Nations
IWW
League of Nations
Justice Society of America
· Initiative
· Referendum
· Recall
· Direct Primary
· 17th Amendment
How did the reforms listed above impact America?
The founder of the Tuskegee Institute and leader of much of the African-American community was at odds with more militant leaders like W.E.B. Dubois.
Booker T. Washington
George Washington Carver
W.E.B Dubois
Upton Sinclair
This leader of Filipino rebels fought for the independence of the Philippines from Spain, then against "liberating" Americans after Spain's defeat.
Emilio Aguinaldo
William Gorgas
John Hay
Walter Reed
William Howard Taft
People who adhere to this idea believed in survival of the fittest and that certain people were naturally selected to succeed:
Social Darwinism
political bosses
Nativism
political machines
The idea that religious groups should work to improve society as well as meeting the spiritual needs of a congregation:
Vindication
Social Gospel
Temperance
Big Stick
Nonprofit business owned and managed by the people who use the service, like what farmers set up during the Grange era:
Cooperative
Corollary
Social Gospel
Conservation
What was an overall objective of the Grange?
band farmers together to increase economic power and rights
raise prices on gold and silver to reduce cash
elect Republican candidates in local elections
Destroy the Rebel Alliance on Ice Planet Hoth
What is interstate commerce?
business that stays within a state border
business that is conducted between a state to another state
nonsense
business that is illegal
What explanation below explains why railroad companies were able to charge high prices to farmers to ship their crops in the late 1800s?
There was a great deal of competition between various railroad companies
The railroads foreclosed on many farms and took the farmers’ properties
The railroad companies had essentially no competition.
They were able to charge high prices because the railroad companies owned the Grange.
The Populist movement held a national convention to establish a party platform in 1892 in this city
Detroit
St. Louis
New York City
Omaha
Situation that occurs when the number of dollars in circulation decreases while the amount of goods and services does not decrease or may even increase, as in farm production during the late 1800s.
Deflation
Inflation
Conflation
Conflagration
Populists and others worried that government injustice breeds "two great classes- tramps and ____"
thieves
gypsies
millionaires
police
One major result of the Spanish American War was the the United States
established a foreign aid program
obtained overseas colonies
Got a really cool story to tell
settled disputes by relying on international peace organizations.
What did Filipinos believe when they were fighting alongside American soldiers?
They believed that the United States would be a kinder ruler than Spain.
They believed and hoped that they would become a U.S. colony, giving up an independent government.
They believed that the U.S. would protect them from Japan in the coming World War.
They believed that they were fighting for their Independence from Spain and that America would support this..
The treaty that ended the Russo-Japanese War was the Treaty of:
Ghent
Versailles
Portsmouth
Potterville
Munich
In 1901 President T. Roosevelt sent what person to serve as civilian governor of the Philippines, helping to ease tension there.
William Howard Taft
Thomas Jefferson
William McKinley
Bob the Builder
Frank Crowe was the lead engineer on this mammoth project during the Great Depression:
Grand Canyon
The Alaskan Highway
Hoover Dam
The Mystery Machine
A person who argues for high tariffs to help protect US industry
Protectionist
Free Trader
Abolitionist
Social Darwinist
Nickname for overcharging the government for work done and then paying a % to the corrupt government officials who helped them get the work
patronage
socialism
rider
kickback
Type of government proposed by Eugene Debs and Edward Bellamy that proposes much more calls for public and government- rather than private- ownership or control of property and natural resources.
Socialism
Democracy
Laissez-faire
Mayor Humdinger Plan
During the Great Depression and WW2, she was the "Eyes and Ears" of the President and traveled the nation to help identify and solve problems:
Amelia Earhart
Angela Ross
Eleanor Roosevelt
Jane Addams
City in France where the armistice ending WW1 was signed.
Versailles
Flanders
Chateau-Thierry
Dunkirk
These 2 men, one German, one American, fought 2 heavyweight bouts in the years leading up to WW2, that riveted their nations to the radio to listen to the fights. Identify both men.
Max Schmeling
Joe Louis
Joe Frazier
James Braddock
As part of the New Deal, FDR created a program to provide for a pension system for people who reach old age and no longer work. This act was the
Dawes Act
Free Silver
Hawley-Smoot Bill
Social Security Act
"Fireside Chats" were a series of calming, sincere speeches to the American public from what President?
Franklin D Roosevelt
Calvin Coolidge
Woodrow Wilson
Herbert Hoover
