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WorksheetsUS Sem1 Exam Review
Total questions: 154
Worksheet time: 2hrs 33mins
Which of the following was NOT a US territorial acquisition prior to 1877?
Louisiana Purchase
Northwest Territory
Florida
Hawaii
Three significant problems caused by America's industrial revolution between 1895 and 1930 include
child labor, political corruption, and urban pollution
economic depression, higher prices for consumer goods, and immigration
nationalism, nativism, and prohibition
suffrage, rising nationalism, and globalization
Which of the following best describes why Upton Sinclair and Ida Tarbell are both considered Progressive muckrakers?
Both were elected to prominent political positions from which they were able to enact laws to combat racism in the US
Both investigated corruption and used their writing skills to publish information that provided the public with insight into problems that our political system needed to address
Both were prosecuted for failing to comply with governmental regulations that had been established to protect the public
All of the above
The 19th Amendment dealt with
direct election of US Senators
women's suffrage
prohibition
lowering the voting age to 18
Which agency will take businesses to court that are accused of creating a monopoly?
Federal Communications Commission
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Trade Commission
How did the explosion aboard the USS Maine lead to the outbreak of the Spanish American War?
The explosion aboard the USS Maine killed hundreds of Spanish politicians, civilians, and military advisers.
American newspapers blamed the explosion aboard the USS Maine on the Spanish, creating public support for war.
Spanish leaders attacked the USS Maine, causing it to explode.
Cuban slaves tried to escape aboard the USS Maine, and many died.
How was the United States changed by the events of the Spanish-American War?
A B CD
The United States became isolationist and reduced trade with other countries.
The United States vowed not to go to war again and reduced the size of its military.
The United States gained territories and became a world power.
The United States increased its population by granting citizenship to people in its new territories.
Why did the United States support the Panamanian Revolution in 1903?
to gain land to build the Panama Canal
to spread democracy
to create a new state
to block Mexican expansion
Why did the United States want to build a canal in Panama?
to promote the boat industry in that nation
to try to start a war with Colombia
to provide a quick ocean route from the East Coast to the West Coast
to spend less money in the budget
Which of the following was not a reason for the Spanish-American War
Spain invaded the Florida Keys
Yellow Journalism
The Enrique de Lome Letter
The explosion of the U.S.S. Maine
Leader of the Cuban Revolution
Jose Marti
Enrique De Lome
Called President McKinley weak and a bidder for the American public
Enrique De Lome
Jose Marti
"The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof..."
The text is an excerpt from which amendment?
16th
17th
18th
19th
~Upton Sinclair exposed the unhealthy practices of Chicago's meat-packing plants
~Ida Tarbell revealed the dishonest business tactics of Rockefeller's Standard Oil
Company
~Jacob Riis wrote How the Other Half Lives, showing the conditions of the residents of
New York City tenements
What was the impact of these muckraking activities during the early 1900s?
Society changed in response to their promotion of Social Darwinism
Voters agreed to let big business owner create more profitable monopolies
Reports of their works in publications abroad caused a decline in immigration
Public reaction to their books led to new laws addressing the abuses of industrialization
"Be it enacted by... Congress... That no producer, manufacturer, or dealer shall ship or deliver for shipment in interstate or foreign commerce, any article or... product of any mine or quarry situated in the United States, in which... children under the age of sixteen years have been employed or permitted to work..."
This quote reflects the public's support for the -
control of the mining industry
abolition of child labor
regulation of product transportation
limitation of foreign trade
Gilded Age = ?
prosperity
corruption
money
poverty
Which group had a racial hatred of immigrants, and believed they took jobs from Americans for lower wages.
Nativists
Political bosses
Miners
Labor leaders
Which law was supposed to expand competition and eliminate trusts and monopolies?
Interstate Commerce Act
Homestead Act
Sherman AntiTrust Act
Dawes Act
Nickname for an American capitalist of the Gilded Age whose contributions benefited society.
Captain of Industry
Social Darwinist
Socialist
Fundamentalist
Images such as this illustrate that many US companies were —
requiring vocational training programs for children
employing children as a source of cheap labor
seeking government regulation of child labor
providing safe working conditions for child laborers
What happened as a result of the Sherman Anti-trust Act?
Trusts such as Carnegie's steel monopoly were broken up by the law.
The government heavily taxed monopolies to ensure their breakup.
Nothing. The law was undefined and difficult to enforce, and the consolidation of businesses continued as usual.
Horizontal integration was banned as a business practice, but vertical integration was not.
When a president appoints his friends and political supporters to government positions they may not be qualified for, he is practicing ____________.
patronage
civil service
graft
social gospel
Which of these was NOT a result of the Pendelton Civil Service Act?
the problem of campaign contributions affecting policy was eliminated
people now received government jobs based on merit and performance on a civil service exam
a bi-partisan civil service commission was created
the problem of unqualified people getting government jobs was reduced
What movement sought to assimilate people of a variety of cultures into the dominant culture of the USA?
Americanization Movement
Social Gospel Movement
Gentleman's Movement
Multi-cultural Movement
What did the "Gentleman's Agreement" ask the Japanese government to do?
Limit the number of Japanese immigrants to the US
Desegregate Japanese schools in the US.
Allow additional Americans to immigrate to Japan.
De-fund its advanced weapons program
What did the "Gentleman's Agreement" ask the American government to do?
Ensure that San Francisco schools accept Japanese children into formerly "white only" schools.
Enforce the Chinese Exclusion Act
Allow additional Japanese immigrants to come through Angel Island
Enforce the Sherman Anti-trust Act
Which of these was NOT something most new immigrants went through upon their arrival at Ellis Island?
They underwent a "six-second physical"
They waited for hours in lines, separated like cattle
Their fingerprints were taken, and they were photographed
They were checked for a disease called trachoma.
"Public Ignores Prohibition Restrictions"
"Evolution and Creation Debated in Scopes Trial"
"Women Bring Change to the Industrial Workforce"
“The least that this generation can do, your Honor, is to give the next generation all the facts, all the available data, all the theories, all the information that learning, that study, that observation has produced – give it to the children in the hope of heaven that they will make a better world of this than we have been able to make it. We have just had a war with twenty million dead. Civilization is not so proud of the work of the adults. Civilization need not be so proud of what the grown-ups have done. For God’s sake let the children have their minds kept open – close no doors to their knowledge; shut no door from them. Make the distinction between theology and science. Let them have both. Let them both be taught. Let them both live…”
From this, we can conclude that Malone supports ___.
