Test Review Questions

Characteristics of early colonial life in North America included:

• A native population that outnumbered Europeans

During the 1880s, when Southern Blacks immigrated to the cities

• Black women found work more often than did black men

During the Teddy Roosevelt administration, the White House conference on organized sports culminated it the formation of what was to become the:

• National College Athletic Association

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the only form of popular entertainment open to large numbers of blacks was:

• Vaudeville

The Grange declined in power in the 1870s because of:

• The defeat of Granger laws and the political inexperience of its leaders

Although historians disagree as to their interpretations of Populism, the movement was significant because:

• It was one of the few third party movements to gain national influence

The populist ideology rejected the idea of

• preserving Laissez-Faire system of economics

The election of 1896

• Was resounding victory for the forces of conservatism and stability

Pendleton Civil Service Act

• Fill some government jobs on the basis of competitive examinations

Grover Cleveland lost the election of 1888 partly because of the issue on:

• Lowering tariffs

The Sherman anti-trust act of 1890 declared illegal any contract, trust, or restraint of trade in

• Interstate commerce

When it was first created, the Interstate Commerce Commission was designed to regulate

• Railroads

Before WWI, the Triple Alliance consisted of

• Germany, the Austro-Hungarian empire, and Italy

President Wilson’s actions during the first two years of the war showed that he was

• Trying not to upset either the peace faction or the war faction

During WWI, the status of African Americans changed in all of the following ways except

• Tensions developed between rural blacks and urban blacks over cultural differences

The combat role of American troops in WWI

• Involved over six months of hard fighting to stop the final German offensives of the war

All of the following were new tech in WWI except

• Rifled artillery

Which of the following is not correctly matched with the wartime agency listed below

• Food administration - Herbert Hoover

• Committee on Public info - George Creel

• War industries Board - Bernard Baruch

• Railroad admin - William Gibbs McAdoo

• National war Labor board - A Mitchell Palmer (Correct answer)

Parity, a price-raising scheme that dominated agrarian demands in the 1920s, required

• prices for agricultural commodities to be continuously based on the average price of crops during the good pre-war years

The Republican administrations of the 1920s pursued the economic policy of

• Substantially reducing taxes

Which of the following best describes the role of the federal government between 1921 and 1929 under the administrations of Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge

• The federal government took active steps to help businesses to operate with maximum efficiency but intervened in few other areas of american life.

The first feature-length film to feature “talkie” sound was

• The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson

In the 1920s, working women exhibited all of the following characteristics except

• Most belonged to the middle class

To unite public opinion behind the war effort the Committee of Public Info used all of the following methods except

• Banning the distribution of foreign journals

The 14 Points included all of the following provisions except

• The rights of the individual

• (Included the right of self-determination, a league of nations, impartial mediation of colonial claims, and reduction of arms)

Warden G. Harding - Americas greatest need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration;… not surgery; but serenity.”

The American Plan received the majority of its support from

• Business leaders

In the period from 1900 to 1921, which of the following groups made up the largest share of immigration to the United States?

• Italians and Poles

Marcus Garvey - believed in segregation, did not believe whites and black people could get along

• America was not a good place for African Americans

• Back to African movements - African Americans should leave the US and go to Africa. Start a society where people of African descents would be in charge of themselves.

Which of the following pieces of literature led to the passage of Progressive Era reforms?

• The Jungle

What event most contributed to the decline in land sales after Jackson left office?

• The decrease in the amount of land available

The official American policy of neutrality during the Spanish Civil War served to…

• Provide a major advantage to the fascists, who received aid from German and Italy

A major conclusion of the Nye Committe was hat

• Pressure from the American bankers and businessmen had beena primary factor pushing the US to enter WWI

Which of the following best characterizes American foerign policy from 1921 until 1928

• Efforts to prevent future conflicts while maintaining American freedom of action

In the mid 1930s, attempting to reverse the economic situation of the US, Fraklin Roosevelt

• Forbade American banks to make loands to nations that defaulted on their war debts to the US

President Hoover tried to improve US foreign policy in the early 1930s by all of the following methods except

• Caceling all war debts owed to the US

All of the following groups were part of the New Deal coalition except

• Business leaders

The goals of the Tennesse Valley Authority included all of the following except

• Improving railroad transportation

The Fed. reserve boards response to the depression was to

• Raise interest rates in an effort to protect its own solvency

THe scottsboro case brought attention to

• Thehigh degree of racial tensions in the South

Commercial films of the 1930s were

• Often deliberatly and explicitly escapist

In resposne to the Depression, American social values

• Seemed to change relatively little

Between 1929 and 1932, farmers in the dust Bowl of the south and midwest experience all of the following problems except

• Rapidy rising prices