Practice TestUS HistoryUnit Five

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Members of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union fought for this cause by entering saloons, singing, praying,

and asking saloonkeepers to stop selling alcohol.

• Answer– Prohibition

This allowed for the popular, or direct, election of U.S. senators.

• Answer– 17th Amendment

This is a bill initiated, or launched, by citizens.

• Answer– Initiative

This enabled voters to remove public officials from elected positions by forcing them to face an election before the end

of their term if enough voters requested it.

• Answer– Recall

This is a vote on an initiative.

• Answer– Referendum

This a term used to describe a journalist who exposed government abuses and big business corruption to the

readers of mass circulation magazines and newspapers.

• Answer– Muckrackers

An advocate for improving the lives of women and children

• Answer– Florence Kelley

Muckraking journalist who exposed the terrible conditions of the meatpacking industry

• Answer– Upton Sinclair

The movement to protect America's natural resources

• Answer– Conservation

The term used to describe the progressive reforms of President Theodore Roosevelt

• Answer– Square Deal

Watchdog agency given the power to stop unfair business practices

• Answer– Federal Trade Commission

President whose actions split the Republican party after he angered both progressives and

conservationists

• Answer– William Taft

This legislation was used by Roosevelt to file 44 antitrust suits.

• Answer– Sherman Antitrust Act

At 42 years old, he was the youngest president.

• Answer– Theodore Roosevelt

This was settled when Roosevelt got involved in the negotiations.

• Answer– 1902 Coal Miner’s Strike

Wilson’s plan that reformed how American banks were organized

• Answer– Federal Reserve System

A leader of the woman suffrage movement

• Answer– Susan B. Anthony

The progressive movement regarded all of the following as worthy goals except

a. protecting social welfare.

b. promoting business monopolies.

c. fostering efficiency in the workplace.

d. creating economic reform.

Muckrakers were

• Answer– Journalists

A bill that originates from the people rather than legislators is known as

• Answer– Initiative

In the mid-1800s, the majority of women who held jobs worked as

• Answer– Servants

In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposed

• Answer– unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing

industry.

The law that required truthful labels was the

• Answer– Pure Food and Drug Act

The primary goal of the NAACP was

• Answer– equality among the races.

Which of the following was not a result of the introduction of the assembly line?

• Answer– decreased productivity

Who gained most from the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment?

• Answer– Ordinary citizens

Which of the following best states the primary goal of prohibitionists?

• Answer– to eliminate the use of alcohol in society

Why were early progressive attempts to enact federal bans on child labor

unsuccessful?

• Answer– The Supreme Court ruled such bans

unconstitutional.

Which strategy was not employed by woman suffragists to obtain their goal?

• Answer– They called for female workers to strike.

Which statement best characterizes Roosevelt's position on trusts?

• Answer– Some trusts were harmful to the public

interest.

Which of the following actions led to the defeat of Taft in 1912?

• Answer– his failure to unify the Republican Party

What was the primary motivation for passage of the Sixteenth Amendment?

• Answer– to replace revenue lost by enacting lower

tariffs

What effect did World War I have on the suffragist movement?

• Answer– It hastened passage and ratification of the

Nineteenth Amendment.

This is a sensational style of writing that exaggerates the news to lure readers.

• Answer– Yellow Journalism

This volunteer cavalry unit fought in a famous land battle near Santiago, Cuba.

• Answer– Rough Riders

This Cuban poet and journalist launched a Cuban revolution in 1895.

• Answer– Jose Marti

Soon after this was destroyed, the United States declared war on Spain.

• Answer– USS Maine

This nation gained its independence in the Spanish-American War.

• Answer– Cuba

This general forced Cubans to relocated to concentration camps where thousands of them died.

• Answer– General Valeriano Weyler

Its criticism of the American president caused American resentment toward Spain to turn to outrage.

• Answer– De Lome letter

After the war, the United States paid 20 million dollars to Spain for the annexation of this land.

• Answer– Philippine islands

This term refers to the policy of using the U.S. government to guarantee loans made to foreign

countries by American business people.

• Answer– Dollar Diplomacy

Its construction ranks as one of the world's greatest engineering feats.

• Answer– Panama Canal

This term refers to the policy of denying recognition of Latin American governments that the United States viewed as

oppressive, undemocratic, or hostile to U.S. interests.

• Answer– Missionary Diplomacy

Also known as "big stick" diplomacy, this official American policy stated that disorder in Latin America could force the

United States to send its military into Latin American nations to protect American economic interests.

• Answer– Roosevelt Corollary

Which of the following did not stimulate U.S. imperialism?

a. thirst for new economic markets

b. need for a new source of cheap labor

c. a belief in the cultural superiority of the Anglo-Saxon culture

d. desire for military strength

Which country's residents became citizens of the United States in 1917?

• Answer– Puerto Rico

In which of the following conflicts were U.S. military troops not involved?

a. the Boxer Rebellion

b. Cuba's second war for independence

c. the Russo-Japanese war

d. the Hawaiian revolution

Which of the following did the United States insist that Cuba include in its constitution?

a. the Roosevelt Corollary

b. the Teller Amendment

c. the Platt Amendment

d. the Boxer Protocol

What was included in the de Lôme letter?

• Answer– criticisms of President McKinley

What war ended with the Treaty of Paris of 1898?

• Answer– Spanish-American War

What was the purpose of the Foraker Act?

• Answer– to end military rule and set up civil

government in Puerto Rico

All of the following were imperialist powers in the late 1800s except

a. Japan.

b. the United States.

c. China.

d. Spain.

All of the following countries came under some form of U.S. control as a result of the Spanish-

American War except

a. Hawaii.

b. Cuba.

c. the Philippines.

d. Puerto Rico.

Of the following statements, the one that best reflects an anti-imperialist attitude is

a. "Fate has written our policy for us; the trade of the world must and shall be ours. . . .“

b. "The expansion of our trade and commerce is the pressing problem.“

c. "Is there no nation wise enough, brave enough to aid this blood-smitten land?“

d. "It is not necessary to own people to trade with them."

The Boxer Rebellion was an attempt by Chinese revolutionaries to

• Answer– remove foreign influence from China.

The United States gained control of the land it needed to build the Panama Canal by

• Answer– encouraging and supporting Panamanian

independence.

The Open Door Policy was designed as a way for the United States to further

• Answer– its trade interests.

The rapid growth of industry in the United States helped fuel imperialism because

• Answer– the United States was producing too many

goods for its own people to buy.

Teddy Roosevelt's approach to foreign policy reflected the proverb "Speak softly and carry a

big stick“ because

• Answer– his negotiations were always backed by

the threat of military force.

His assassination sparked World War I

• Answer– Archduke Franz Ferdinand

This British liner was sunk by a German U-boat.

• Answer– Lusitania

These people opposed World War I because they perceived all wars as evil.

• Answer– Pacifists

These people opposed World War I because they saw it as an imperialist struggle.

• Answer– Socialists

In 1914, this alliance consisted of France, Great Britain, and Russia.

• Answer– Allies/Triple Entente

In 1914, this alliance consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire.

• Answer– Central Powers/Triple Alliance

This contained a suggestion of an alliance between Mexico and Germany that deeply

angered the American people.

• Answer– Zimmerman Note

This long-term cause of the war involved the development of the armed forces and their use

as a tool of diplomacy.

• Answer– Militarism

Closely linked with industrialization, this long-term cause of the war involved a contest for

colonies.

• Answer– Imperialism

In the Battle of the Somme, this resulted in the exchange of seven miles of territory at the cost

of 1.2 Million casualties.

• Answer– Trench Warfare

This long-term cause of the war encouraged competitiveness between nations and encouraged various ethnic groups to

attempt to create nations of their own.

• Answer– Nationalism

Admiral William S. Sims convinced the British to use this as a hindrance to German U-boat

attacks.

• Answer– Convoy System

This term describes a person who opposes warfare on moral grounds.

• Answer– Conscientious Objector

This began with the introduction of the tank and the airplane as weapons

• Answer– Mechanized Warfare

Having shot down at least 29 enemy planes, he was America's leading ace pilot in the war.

• Answer– Captain Eddie Rickenbacker

This involved merchant vessels traveling in large groups with naval ships acting as guards.

• Answer– Convoy System

This required men to register with the government in order to be randomly selected

for military service.

• Answer– Selective Service Act

Which of the following was not a cause of World War I?

a. the stockpiling of weapons

b. European nationalism

c. imperialist competition

d. American isolationism

Where did the assassination that triggered World War I occur?

• Answer– Bosnia

What caused widespread starvation in Germany?

• Answer– The British Blockade

What did the United States use to overcome the threat of German U-boats?

• Answer– Groups of guarded ships

Which of the following was a result of the Selective Service Act?

• Answer– Men were required to register for military

service.

Which weapons of mechanized warfare were introduced in World War I?

• Answer– Airplanes and tanks

Which of the following nations was not a member of the "Big Four"?

a. France

b. Russia

c. Italy

d. Great Britain

Who rejected Wilson's "Fourteen Points" peace plan?

• Answer– Allied Leaders

What reason did Senators give for opposing U.S. membership in the League of Nations?

• Answer– It would drag the United States into European

conflicts

The policy that kept the United States out of the war for three years was called

• Answer– Neutrality/isolationism

Because militarism had been a major cause of the war, the framers of the Treaty of Versailles

• Answer– Barred Germany from maintaining an army

The war might have involved only two nations, Austria-Hungary and Serbia, if not for

• Answer– The alliance system

The Schlieffen Plan was effective because it

• Answer– Allowed Germany to drive quickly toward the

French capital

Of the following, the most compelling reason for the United States to enter the war was

a. concern over the repayment of Allied debts to American banks.

b. the outrage of American citizens over German submarine warfare.

c. a moral obligation to halt the refugee crisis in Belgium.

d. a desire to become more involved in the affairs of Europe.

The Espionage and Sedition Acts affected freedom of speech because they

• Answer– allowed the government to silence ideas

that challenged its authority.

Labor leaders were targeted by the Espionage and Sedition Acts because they

• Answer– demanded better conditions for workers,

even during a war crisis.

Gains made by American women during World War I include

• Answer– increased support for women's right to

vote.

The Treaty of Versailles overlooked the importance of

• Answer– Treating all nations justly, including the losers

of a war.

What conclusion is a reader of this advertisement expected to draw about the people who oppose prohibition?

Political Cartoon Questions

1. To what does the door in this cartoon open?

2. Who is waiting outside the door?3. Who holds the key to the door?4. What does the size of the man

holding the key indicate?5. What does the cartoon imply about

the Open Door Policy?