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WorksheetsAPUSH Period 8 Test
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
What posed the greatest barrier to FDR's New Deal?
Senate Republicans
The Supreme Court
Opposition from the American people
Lack of money
Taft's Dollar Diplomacy is based on the idea of:
Expanding democracy though military intervention
Establishing military bases in developing nations
Using economics rather than the military to gain influence abroad
Allowing free trade of goods to China
Which amendment gave women the right to vote?
15th
16th
18th
19th
The 16th amendment created -
The Federal Reserve
The Income Tax
The FDIC
The FDA
The Harlem Renaissance is most closely associated with -
Black music and literature that generated cultural pride
Fear of racism and lynching in the South
Racial separatism and black nationalism
The writings of W.E.B. DuBois, such as The Souls of Black Folk
Eugene Debs was
A socialist
A multi-time candidate for president
The key labor leader in the Pullman Strike
Convicted of violating the Sedition Act in WWI
The Fourteen Points included:
Freedom of the Seas
Reduction of trade barriers
Self-Determination
League of Nations
How was the US's involvement in WWI and WWII similar?
The US attempted to stay neutral
The US only joined after a direct attack on US soil
The US played a decisive role in the victory
The US was heavily involved in post-war peace deals
How did WWII change the role of women in the US?
Women took more roles in politics.
Women were allowed to enlist in all branches of the military
After the war women married older and had fewer kids
Women took on key industrial jobs during the war
The Pure Food and Drug Act created -
The Federal Reserve
The Department of Agriculture
The Food and Drug Administration
The IRS
Two of the most important adovates for child labor reform were:
Florence Kelley and Mother Jones
Frances Perkins and Alice Paul
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Jane Addams
Carry Nation and Margaret Sanger
Though Progressives brought many changes, they failed to address:
Monopolies
Women's Rights
Segregatation
The issues of farmers
Henry Luce's American Century was published during WWII and argues -
That the US should play a more active role in the world
That isolationism is the best long-term plan for the US
The imperialism of the Progressive Era was against American values
That the US should share its wealth with less fortunate nations
John Scopes was put on trial for -
Violating Prohibition laws
His involvement with the KKK
Being suspected of communist activity
Teaching Evolution
Fordism impacted the US by -
Allowing for cheap mass production
Increasing access to consumer goods
Improving working conditions in factories
Encouraging the assimilation of immigrants
As a response to the problems or rural poverty and drought in the 1930s, many families -
Moved out of the Great Plains
Switched to the Republican party
Joined the Populist Party
Supported the New Deal
How was the Second Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s different from the First Klan
It was more secretive than the first klan
There were fewer members in the second klan than the first
The Second Klan targeted Jews, Catholics, and immigrants in addition to blacks.
The Second Klan had little political influence, unlike the first klan
Flappers did all of the following except:
Wore revealing clothes
Smoke and drank alcohol
Took birth control
Supported a fundamentalist worldview
During WWII the US interned Japanse Americans under -
Executive Order 8802
Executive Order 9981
Executive Order 9066
Executive Order 8675
The American Plan impacted labor by -
outlawing the "closed shop"
encouraging union membership
reviving the Knights of Labor
Advocating for strikes and work stoppages
According to the Schenck v. US ruling, limits on the freedom of speech are -
always unconstitutional
constitutional, but only during wartime
constitutional if the speech presents a "clear and present danger"
constitutional since the Executive Branch has wide freedom to interpret the Constitution
Woodrow Wilson's key goal of involvement in WWI was -
to make the world safe for democracy
to retaliate against repeated treaty violations
to fight for an end to the imperialism of the era
to improve the US's economic standing in the world
Jane Addams' Hull House was a settlement house that -
supported immigration quotas
Americanized immigrants
Offered services in exchange for immigrant votes
exemplified the philosophy of the Social Gospel
Why is the Spanish-American war referred to as the "Splendid Little War"?
It ended quickly with few casualties
Yellow Journalists wanted it to have a positive nickname to make it easier for the people to support
It was a victory that gave the US control of colonies like Puerto Rico and Guam.
The Spanish agreed to rules of engagement that made it more dignified than other conflicts
People who support imperialism because they think it "civilizes" lesser peoples believe in -
Social Darwinism
The White Man's Burden
The Gospel of Wealth
The Social Gospel
Why is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire considered the most significant workplace disaster in US History?
It was the only time immigrant workers died on the job in large numbers
It led to new fire and safety regulations
It mostly killed white men, which made society take the tragedy more seriously
It led to the establishment of minimum wages and child labor laws
Which of the following was not a muckraker of the Progressive Era?
Upton Sinclair
Jacob Riis
Ida Tarbell
Margaret Sanger
The greatest scandal of Warren G. Harding's presidency was -
his long-running affair
the Teapot Dome Scandal in which a government official accepted bribes from an oil company
his handling of the Bonus Army March, in which he deployed the military to end the protest
his attempt to break into the offices of his political rivals during his reelection campaign
The New Deal program that created the first federal safety net program was -
The TVA
The CCC
Social Security
The Wagner Act
The turning point battle in the Pacific Theater of WWII was -
Midway
Guadalcanal
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
