HIST 2 CH. 1-6

Who invented the telephone?

 

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Henry Ford

• Thomas Edison

• Christopher Sholes

Alexander Graham Bell

This steel company owner practiced vertical integration in which he bought out all of the suppliers including the mines, freighters, and railroads.

 

• Granville Woods

• Andrew Carnegie

• Gustavus Swift

• Cyrus Field

Andrew Carnegie

When immigrants entered the United States, which processing center did they go through? 

 

• Ellis Island

• Harbor Island

• Maine Island

• Statue of Liberty Island

Ellis Island

Who delivered the infamous speech on gold standard? 

 

• Henry Ford

• Samuel Gompers

• William McKinley

• William Jennings Bryan

William Jennings Bryan

What was the idea that business will survive, thrive, or die without government intervention called?

 

• Social Darwinism

• horizontal integration

• vertical integration

• Credit Mobilie

Social Darwinism

Who built the Model T?

 

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Christopher Sholes

• Henry Ford

• Mary Harris Jones

Henry Ford

The fast-growing national rail system encouraged the expansion of the ___________.

 

• electorate

• Knights of Labor

• economy

• patent system

economy

A group of national trade unions formed this organization ____________.

 

• American Pullman's Union

• National Miners' Union

• International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union

• American Federation of Labor

American Federation of Labor

A labor union leader who was an exceptional leader for the rights of the miners and children.

 

• Henry Ford

• Christopher Sholes

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Mary Harris Jone

Mary Harris Jone

Who was the newspaper publisher who sought to increase word typing productivity?

 

• Christopher Sholes

• Mary Harris Jones

• Henry Ford

• Alexander Graham Bell

Christopher Sholes

The ___________________________ blew cold air over hot iron which rid of impurities and made steel stronger and cheaper to produce.

Bessemer Process

In 1887, Congress passed the ____________________________ which gave federal regulation over railroads.

Interstate Commerce Act

The ______________________ were established with the goal of assimilating native youth into white culture by stripping them of their own culture, tradition, and ways of worship.

Boarding schools

The main goals of the __________________________ were to increase wages and have shorter work weeks.

American Federation of Labor

By 1900, roughly _____ of children under the age of 16 were employed in industrial work.

18%

The ___________________ set out to educate farmers on topics including low interest rates and government influence on railroads and banking.

Farmers’ Alliance

The _________________ allowed for factory workers to complete the same task repeatedly so the automobile could be produced in record time.

assembly line

The ____________ focused on breaking up reservation land by granting land parcels to individual Native Americans.

Dawes Act

This person championed for protection for women and children in the workplace.

 

• Margaret Sanger

• Jane Addams

• Lucretia Mott

• Florence Kelley

Florence Kelley

A system of legal segregation was called ________________.

 

• Robert La Follette

• Jim Crow

• muckrakers

• temperance movement

Jim Crow

This process allowed for more citizen participation by letting citizens demand via petition that a law passed by the legislature be sent to voters for their approval.

               

• recall

• initiative

• referendum

• direct primary

referendum

This person championed state level changes and pushed for a minimum wage and progressive taxation.

 

• Susan B. Anthony

• Robert La Follette

• Booker T. Washington

• Jane Addams

Robert La Follette

This man easily defeated the Democratic candidate for the presidency in 1908.

 

• Theodore Roosevelt

• William Howard Taft

• Woodrow Wilson

• William McKinley

William Howard Taft

This person wrote about the experiences about tenement slums.

 

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Susan B. Anthony

• Upton Sinclair

• Jacob Riis

Jacob Riis

These journalists were well known for their attempts to alert the public to the wrongdoings occurring within society.

 

• Florence Kelley

• Muckrakers

• Robert La Follette

• Jane Addams

Muckrakers

This person founded the Tuskegee Institute which was a vocational school for African Americans in the South.

 

• Lucretia Mott

• Margaret Sanger

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. Du Bois

Booker T. Washington

Who established the settlement house?

 

• Robert La Follette

• Jane Addams

• Florence Kelley

• muckrakers

Jane Addams

This amendment to the Constitution gives women the right to vote. 

 

• Fifteenth Amendment

• Twentieth Amendment

• Seventeenth Amendment

• Nineteenth Amendment

Nineteenth Amendment

Both _______________ and _______________ kept African Americans from voting.

Literacy test, poll tax

Because numerous groups sought to bring positive change and progress in society, this period of American history from 1890 to 1920 is known as the ________________________________.

Progressive Era

The primary components of Roosevelt’s push for reform included three C’s: _____________

_____________________, ____________________________, and _______________________.

Control over corporations, consumer protections, conservation

The passage of the ___________________________ established prohibition, or a ban on the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.

 

18th Amendment

The passage of the _______________________________ in 1906 put a stop to the sale of contaminated foods and medicines while also calling for truth in labeling.

Pure Food and Drug Act

The ______________ worked primarily through the courts to strive for the equal rights of African Americans and achieve an end to segregation.

NAACP

The tragedy of the _______________________________ highlighted the inhumane working conditions to which many industrial workers were subjected to.

Triangle Shirtwaist Company

In the 1906 novel, _________________, Upton Sinclair revealed the unsanitary conditions of the meatpacking industry.

The Jungle

Under President Theodore Roosevelt, this was built on isthmus to protect American interests at home and abroad.

 

• Panama Canal

• Hay-Herran Treaty

• Suez Canal

• Anti-Imperialist League

Panama Canal

Who argued that the American character, innovation, and democracy had been profoundly shaped by the frontier?

 

• Frederick Jackson Turner

• Josiah Strong

• Sanford B. Dole

• William Seward

Frederick Jackson Turner

This Navy Academy graduate became the man who provided the rationale for American empire and a powerful navy to back it.

 

• Liliuokalani

• Valeriano Weyler

• Josiah Strong

• Alfred Thayer Mahan

Alfred Thayer Mahan

Known for his ability to pacify rebels, this person used the reconcentration policy to end the hit-and-run tactics of guerilla-style warfare that the Cubans practiced against the Spanish.

 

• Valeriano Weyler

• Josiah Strong

• Alfred Thayer Mahan

• Frederick Jackson Turne

Valeriano Weyler

The people of Cuba lived under this country’s rule for centuries. 

 

• Mexico

• Great Britain

• Russia

• Spain

Spain

This incident led to Congress declaring war on Spain. 

 

• capture of San Juan Hill by Rough Riders

• explosion of the USS Maine

• capture of the Philippines

• decimation of the Spanish fleet

explosion of the USS Maine

The over-the-top style of reporting that emphasized eye-catching headlines over concern for the facts became known as __________________________.

 

• Rough Riders

• Teller Amendment

• Yellow Journalism

• Anti-Imperialist League

Yellow Journalism

In 1891, this person called for a "Hawaii for the Hawaiians" that constitutionally restricted the political power of U.S. planters in favor of Native Hawaiians.

 

• Liliuokalani

• William Seward

• Sanford B. Dole

• George Dewey

Liliuokalani

The policy of extending political, economic, and military control over other nations is known as ______________________.

 

• Open Door Policy

• Panama Canal

• imperialism

• Liliuokalani

imperialism

Out of the Boxer Rebellion came a second ____________________.

 

• Platt Amendment

• Open Door Policy

• annexation

• Foraker Act

Open Door Policy

_____________ argued that America had a moral responsibility to fulfill a divinely-appointed destiny of bringing the blessings of liberty and Christianity to less enlightened races.

Josiah Strong

In a series of Supreme Court decisions collectively known as the ______________________, the Congress could extend U.S. citizenship rights to those in the newly acquired territories as it deemed necessary.

Insular Cases

The ________________________________, also known as the Philippine Insurrection, was a brutal guerilla conflict that lasted three long years before United States troops captured Aguinaldo and asserted control over the island.

Philippine-American War

A secret society of Chinese nationalists known as the _______________________________ wanted to eliminate the foreign influences from China.

Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists

Secretary of State John Hay declared in May of 1900 that the United States would expect the __________________________ to be the law of the land in governing trade relations among the powers in China.

Open Door Policy

——————-— saw the trade routes and markets of China and Asia as a significant key to American prosperity.

William Seward

Filipino insurgent, led by __________________________, gained control over most of the Philippine archipelago.

Emilio Aguinaldo

On April 25, the fleet commander, Commodore ______________________, received the orders to take the fleet to the Philippines.

George Dewey

Comprised of the Great Britain, France, and Russia, _________________ fought against the Central Powers.

 

• Sussex Pledge

• Nationalism

• Triple Entente

• Triple Alliance

Triple Entente

A feeling of intense loyalty to one’s country or group is called ________________.

 

• alliance systems

• nationalism

• entente

• militarism

nationalism

Not one American soldier bound for Europe was lost to submarine attacks because of _______________.

 

• convoys

• airplanes

• alliances

• entente

Convoys

In 1917, British cryptographers intercepted a message that called for an alliance between Germany and Mexico against the United States.

 

• Sussex Pledge

• Zimmerman telegram

• Espionage Act

• Sedition Act

Zimmerman telegram

Of the Fourteen Points, the one Woodrow Wilson considered the most important concerned the __________________________.

 

• League of Nations

• freedom of the seas

• national self-determination

• call for free trade

League of Nations

After declaring war on Germany, Americans immediately began ___________________.

 

• dissenting

• mobilization

• antiwar propaganda

• sabotaging the Germans

mobilization

On June 28, 1919, the Big Four and the leaders of the defeated nations signed a peace treaty officially ending WWI.

 

• Selective Service Act

• Sussex Pledge

• Treaty of Versailles

• League of Nations

Treaty of Versailles

The first woman elected to Congress and voted no for war.

 

• Charles Schenck

• Jeannette Rankin

• Doughboys

• Arthur Zimmerman

Jeannette Rankin

This German weapon affected the United States and changed the course of the war.

 

• automobiles

• trenches

• U-boats

• airplanes

U-boats

One of the major alliances which entangled the major powers inside of Europe was the _________________.

 

• Militarism

• Zimmermann telegram

• Triple Alliance

• Triple Entente

Triple Alliance

On June 28, 1914, _____________________, a young Serbian nationalist, fired two shots at the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his young wife Sophie.

Gavrilo Princip

In the fall of 1918, the U.S. suffered a life-threatening crisis as an _________________________ had reached American shores.

International flu pandemic

In May, 1917, Congress passed the ___________________ that authorized the government to carry out a military draft to raise the requisite number of troops.

Selective Service Act

The __________________________ was tasked with regulating and controlling industries responsible for producing war related materials.

War Industries Board

______________, the former journalist from Kansas City was tasked with “selling” the war to the American public.

George Creel

_____________________, a prominent socialist, distributed literature encouraging young men to resist the draft.

Charles Schenck

_________________ is the belief or desire of a government or people that a country should maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use it.

Militarism

The ___________________________ stated that unrestricted submarine warfare had to stop.

Sussex Pledge

In Detroit, there was an estimated number of illegal bars between 15,000 to 25,000 known as _______________.

• flappers

• speakeasies

• jazz

• moonshine

speakeasies

The panic that ___________________ would take over the country prompted the Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer to take decisive action in order to combat the communism.

 

• nativism

• capitalism

• Ku Klux Klan

• "Reds"

"Reds"

_________, a uniquely American form of music, came to epitomize 1920s culture and the Harlem Renaissance.

 

• Rock n Roll

• Jazz

• Ragtime

• Blues

Jazz

This legislation reduced immigration of each nationality to 3 percent in America.

 

• Isolationism

• Nineteenth amendment

• Gentlemen's Agreement

• Emergency Quota Act

Emergency Quota Act

On May 7, 1925, ______________________, a general science teacher in Tennessee, was arrested for violation of the Butler Act which forbid the teaching of any theory that denied the biblical story of creationism.

 

• flappers

• A. Mitchell Palmer

• Al Capone

• John T. Scopes

John T. Scopes

When the Boston police force went on strike in 1919, they all ___________________________________.

 

• received higher wages

• were fired

• were given shorter work hours

• were saluted by the public

were fired

The total value of all goods and services produced in a country is called ___________________________.

 

• the gross national product

• installment buying

• productivity

• on margin

the gross national product

This amendment established Prohibition. 

 

• Twentieth Amendment

• Nineteenth Amendment

• Seventeenth Amendment

• Eighteenth Amendment

Eighteenth Amendment

________ pushed conventional boundaries that defined the way that women were expected to look and act in the 1920s.

 

• "Reds"

• jazz

• fundamentalism

• flappers

flappers

This writer, who came out of the Harlem Renaissance, focused on African American themes that addressed the struggles that black Americans endured.

 

• Marcus Garvey

• Babe Ruth

• F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston

At its height, ________________________ membership swelled to four million people during the 1920s.

Ku Klux Klan

One of the most notorious gangsters in Chicago was ________________, whose bootlegging empire netted more than $60 million a year.

Al Capone

The Attorney General, _____________________ took decisive action in order to combat the “Red Scare.”

A. Mitchell Palmer

In a _______________, where stock prices are rising, an investor could make money on the stock as its value increased greater than what they paid for it.

Bull market

In November of 1919, the president of the United Mine Workers, ______________________ called for his workers to strike in protest of long workdays and low wages.

John Lewis

Small town pilot, _____________________ became famous with his first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic in May of 1927.

Charles Lindbergh

Singer _________________ was regarded for her strong vocal ability.

Bessie Smith

Baseball’s most legendary star, New York Yankee, _______________ hit home run after home run in the 1920s.

Babe Ruth

On Tuesday, October 29, 1929, stock prices crashed.

 

• Black Tuesday

• Dust Bowl

• Hoovervilles

• Great Depression

Black Tuesday

In the 1930s the United States went into a severe economic state called the ______________________.

 

• Great Downturn

• Great Inflation

• Great Recession

• Great Depression

Great Depression

During the summer of 1932, these veterans petitioned Congress to issue the payment of their bonuses.

 

• Frances Perkins

• Civilian Conservation Corps

• Hoovervilles

• Bonus Army

Bonus Army

One of the New Deal's most regarded programs was the ________________________________.  It had a dual purpose of putting young American men to work as well as environmental conservation.

 

• Agricultural Adjustment Act

• Tennessee Valley Authority Act

• Farm Security Administration

• Civilian Conservation Corps

Civilian Conservation Corps

The Great Plains suffered a phenomenon that became known as the _____________________.

 

• Dust Bowl

• Relief

• Farm Security Administration

• Domestic Allotment Act

Dust Bowl

This member of Roosevelt’s Black Cabinet worked for the State Department. 

 

• Dorothea Lange

• Walker Evans

• Carl Mydans

• Mary McLeod Bethune

Mary McLeod Bethune

This New Deal program built dams to provide cheap electricity to some of the most poverty-stricken areas of the country.

 

• Civilian Conservation Corps

• Agricultural Adjustment Act

• Social Security Act

• Tennessee Valley Authority Act

Tennessee Valley Authority Act

This act provided monthly pensions for elderly people.

 

• Agricultural Adjustment Act

• Social Security Act

• Tennessee Valley Authority Act

• Works Progress Administration

Social Security Act

She was the first woman ever appointed as the Secretary of Labor.

 

• Eleanor Roosevelt

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Frances Perkins

• Mary McLeod Bethune

Frances Perkins

These shantytowns consisted largely of shacks emerged on the outskirts of cities.

 

• Bonus Army

• Dust Bowl

• Black Tuesday

• Hoovervilles

Hoovervilles