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WorksheetsAH2 Final Exam Review
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 31mins
Which of the following ended Native American tribal life, divided reservations into farms, and involved the Americanization of Native Americans?
Pacific Railway Act
Homestead Act
Morrill Land Grant Act
Dawes Act
On settling the Great Plains, the majority of cowboys were:
gunfighters at the OK Corral
Seen as cattle ranchers who made money on the Long Drive
thought of as rich industrialists trying to make money in the sewing industry
set up industries and big businesses such as oil and steel
Helen Hunt Jackson's book "A Century of Dishonor" was about:
Native Americans killing US Government Troops to gain land.
The broken promises of the US Government to Native Americans
The fact that Native Americans formed alliances to take US troops
The conspiracy of Native Americans to bring down the US government.
All of the following help explain why individuals started to settle the Great Plains in the late 1800s EXCEPT:
New expansion by the railroads provided access to the Great Plains
Homestead Act offered free land to settlers
US Government troops did NOT exist on the Plains so they could not protect US settlers there
Free land was a chance to live the "American Dream"
As a result of many African - Americans facing discrimination and violent attacks after the Civil War, many:
African Americans moved to the North to pursue jobs in agriculture
African Americans known as Exodusters moved west to the Great Plains in pursuit of the American Dream.
The federal government sent African Americans to live in California
African American supported an end to Reconstruction
¨That any person owning and residing on land may, under the provisions act, enter other land lying contiguous to his or her said land, which shall not, with the land so already owned and occupied, exceed in the aggregate ONE HUNDRED and SIXTY ACRES."
The above except which aided in the settlement of the Great Plains region was called the:
Pacific Railway Act
Homestead Act
Morrill Land Grant Act
Dawes Act
CHAP. CXX - An Act to aid in the CONSTRUCTION OF A RAILROAD AND Telegraph Line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure the Government the Use of the same for Postal, Military and Other Purposes., are hereby created and erected into a body corporate and politic in deed and in law, by the name, style and title of ¨The Union Pacific Railroad Company¨ and the said corporation is hereby authorized and empowered to layout, locate, construct, furnish, maintain, and enjoy a continuous railroad and telegraph...
The above excerpt which aided in the development of the Great Plains:
Pacific Railway Act
Homestead Act
Morrill Land Grant Act
Dawes Act
Which of the following Robber Barons is matched INCORRECTLY with the industry they monopolized?
Andrew Carnegie - Steel
John D. Rockefeller - Mining
J.P. Morgan - Banking
Cornelius Vanderbilt - Railroads
Social Darwinism was used by the Robber Barons to
help out workers with their needs.
justify their monopolistic actions when eliminating competition
help the public understand they were losing business to monopolies
make labor unions an important part of their business life.
Which of the following as an example of Nativism towards immigrants in America?
The Homestead Steel Strike
The passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act
The established immigration stations at Ellis and Angel Island
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Strike
The main type of housing that most immigrants lived in during the Gilded Age were:
Row Houses
Tenements
In large expensive buildings
Large estates on the Hudson River
Which Alexander Graham Bell invention had the greatest impact on communication?
Telephone
Typewriter
Telegraph
Airplane
All of the following inventions are CORRECTLY matched with their inventors EXCEPT:
Thomas Edison - Light Bulb
Christopher Sholes - Typewriter
Alexander Graham Bell - Telephone
Orville and Wilbur Wright - Automobile
Which of the following are TRUE of the ways in which monopolies eliminated competition
by using the Chinese Exclusion Act and the Gentlemen's Agreement
Passing the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and the Interstate Commerce Act
Using vertical and horizontal integration to obtain companies
Writing books to help out striking workers in need
Which of the following is NOT true concerning Ellis and Angel Islands?
They were major immigration stations
Health inspections occurred on immigrants
They were viewed as processing stations
Immigrants never visited these places
In what area of reform did Progressives FAIL to make significant changes?
Regulating Monopolies
Civil Rights
Labor Issues
Prohibition
What is a TRUE statement when describing muckraking journalism?
Muckraking is when they added anything to the meat.
Muckraking is publishing untrue stories about businesses or industries.
Muckraking is comparing parts of US Society to nature
Muckraking is exposing problems so that solutions can be found.
Which of the following people wanted SOCIAL equality for African-Americans and helped start the Niagara Movement and the NAACP?
Robert La Follette
Lincoln Steffens
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois
In which of the cases did the Supreme Court decide that segregation was okay as long as facilities were equal?
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Lochner v. New York (1905)
Muller v. Oregon (1906)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Which of the following is NOT an amendment passed during the Progressive Era?
15th
17th
18th
19th
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire resulted in:
Less rights for workers in America
Building codes and fire codes implemented in factories
Railroad land sales throughout the US
The development of fewer labor unions
The Muckrakers wrote about all of the following matters EXCEPT:
Corruption in the cities
Procedures followed in the food industries
Problems on Native American reservations
Big business eliminating competition
Which of the following was the leader of the Progressive Movement?
Woodrow Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt
William McKinley
William Howard Taft
All of the following were causes of WWI EXCEPT:
imperialism
militarism
neutrality
alliance system
What was the name of Teddy Roosevelt's Foreign Policy?
Moral Diplomacy Towards Mexico
Watchful Waiting Diplomacy towards South America
Big Stick Diplomacy showing the power of the US to the world
Neutrality Proclamation towards European Powers
What was the main reason for US Imperialism?
To test the strength of the US navy against other countries
to limit the power of Great Britain, France, and other European Powers
to open new markets for American-made goods overseas
to find new sources of cheap labor
What is the significance of the Spanish-American War?
The US was defeated
The US was recognized as a world power
The US defended its territory from European aggression
Spain was recognized by the US as a power in the Western Hemisphere
The United States went to war with Spain because of:
the USS Main Incident
The De Lome Letter
the Hearst and Pulitzer newspaper accounts of the Spanish (yellow journalism)
all of the above
Which of the following was the IMMEDIATE cause of World War I?
assassination of the Austria-Hungarian heir to the throne (Archduke Franz Ferdinand)
imperialism of Great Britain
Secret Alliance between Russia and Serbia
Economic summit between the US and Great Britain
Which European nation was forced to accept total responsibility for WWI in the war guilt clause of the Treaty of Versailles?
Germany
Russia
Austria-Hungary
Ottoman Empire (Turkey)
Which was NOT a territory acquired by the US immediately AFTER the Spanish American War?
Philippines
Puerto-Rico
Guam
Alaska
The Harlem Renaissance refers to
a population increase in Harlem in the 1920s
a program to promote African-American owned businesses
a struggle for Civil Rights led by the NAACP
the expression of African American culture in literature and art
During the 1920s, Prohibition referred to the fact that
it was illegal to hire children in factories
it was illegal to have or drink alcohol
ownership of new cars was prohibited by the government
African Americans had no civil rights
Which idea BEST explains Herbert Hoover's philosophy regarding government power to assist individuals during the Great Depression?
Hoover believed in rugged individualism
Hoover believed in more federal power over states
Hoover disagreed with laissez-faire policies
Hoover supported government payments to the poor
Which of the following is a CORRECT statement about the New Deal (FDR's plan to fix the Great Depression) ?
New Deal Programs did not bring an end to the depression
The federal government first took a sympathetic attitude towards big business
New Deal laws were influenced by member's of Hoover's cabinet
Relief, Recovery and Reform plus deficit spending fixed the problems
What were Americans afraid of in the Red Scare?
Communism
Sectionalism
Rugged Indivdualism
Isolationism
Which of the following forced many Americans to relocate/leave the Midwest during the 1930s because of drought and windstorms?
Dust Bowl
Great Migration
Stock Market Crash
Prohibition
FDR's handling of the Great Depression can closely be associated with which of the following?
Laissez-Faire government policies
The government did not enact any policies to help out the people
the government was very involved in society by putting the New Deal into effect
Big Business was allowed to grow without government intervention
In the 1920s, which event was associated with the drastic increase in crime and violence in America?
the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti
mass production of the automobile
the prohibition of alcohol
high unemployment because of mine closings
Which of the following events led the United States to join World War II?
invasion of Poland
invasion of the Sudetenland
attack on Midway
attack on Pearl Harbor
Which of the following dictators is NOT matched with its country?
Franco - Italy
Tojo- Japan
Hitler - Germany
Mussolini - Italy
Which group suffered discrimination and were put in internment camps by the US government during WWII?
German-Americans
Chinese Immigrants
French- Americans
Japanese Americans
Which of the following was not an Allied power (WWII)?
Soviet Union
United States
Great Britain
Italy
World War II started in Europe with the:
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
German Blitzkrieg on Poland
French Invasion of the Rhineland
Italian attack on neighboring Spain
Why did Harry S. Truman drop the bombs on Japan (ending WWII)?
to completely help the Japanese during the war
to save American lives from a land invasion of Japan
to aid the Chinese navy in its takeover of Japan
The use of forced labor by Japan
Which of the following is NOT a turning point battle during WWII?
Berlin
Stalingrad
Midway
Coral Sea
Which list of terms ONLY applies to the European theater in WWII?
Lusitania, Doughboys, 14 Points
Allies, Kamikaze, Unconditional surrender
Island hopping, atomic bomb, Bataan Death March
D-Day, Blitzkrieg, Stalingrad
The dividing line between Communist North Korea and Democratic South Korea is located at the
23rd Parallel
38th Parallel
17th Parallel
20th Parallel
How did the Vietnam War impact the election of 1968?
Lyndon Baines Johnson did not run for re-election because he was ruined by Vietnam
John F. Kennedy was elected president
Hubert Humphrey ran on a platform of support for the North Vietnamese
the New Left organization sparked a Free-Speech Movement
During the Cold War, which of the following is an accurate statement?
The United Nations ended Communism in the Soviet Union
There was no fighting during the period between the two superpowers. (US and USSR)
The UN was the only international organization active during the Cold War
There was a movement to decrease military strength
Which of the following is a CORRECT statement regarding the Vietnam War?
the US armed forces achieved many victories
the general public in the US supported the entire war effort
the war was an embarrassing defeat and protested by the people.
the US was able to contain communism.
Mao Zedong led a communist revolution in which country in 1949?
Taiwan
Korea
Cuba
China
In which of the following did the US get involved in a war to contain communism in 1950?
Taiwan
China
Cuba
Korea
What was Richard Nixon's policy of withdrawing US forces and allowing S. Vietnam to fight their own war?
Americanization
Vietnamization
Containment
Detente
Which amendment to the Constitution lowered the voting age to 18?
26th Amendment
15th Amendment
22nd Amendment
24th Amendment
Which of the following events did Richard Nixon get caught spying on the Democratic Party, committed illegal acts and with the release of his edited video tapes lead to his resignation?
McCarthyism
SALT I
Watergate
Detente
What was the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KS?
the court declared that Plessy v. Ferguson was unconstitutional and ended segregation in schools.
the court upheld its earlier decision in Plessy v. Ferguson
the court rejected the idea of desegregation of the public school system
the court supported the declaration of constitutional principles issued by Congress
In his domestic program calling for the building of the Great Society, President Lyndon Johnson wanted to help which group of people?
women
wealthy industrialists
the poor
the youth in America
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
banned discrimination on the basis of race in public places
abolished the poll tax
gave African Americans the right to vote
abolished slavery
What "Great Society" program provided government funded health insurance for the elderly?
VISTA
Head Start
Medicaid
Medicare
