American History Test

NFP3601
timer Asked: May 9th, 2018

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The Women's Christian Temperance Union was formed in order to

  1. promote the conversion of non-believers to Christianity.
  2. work for the right of women to vote.
  3. change laws prohibiting women from owning land.
  4. fight against the drinking of alcohol.

In the late nineteenth century, American farmers became increasingly disillusioned with American elected officials because

  1. banking interests had forced Congress to use gold and silver to back American currency.
  2. they voted to support farmers' interests on all occasions.
  3. more and more elected officials were coming from cities and not rural areas.
  4. too many had been involved in bribery scandals.

"The chief business of the American people is business." The American president who spoke these words in a 1925 speech expressing his economic policies was

  1. Warren G. Harding.
  2. Herbert Hoover.
  3. Calvin Coolidge.
  4. Andrew Mellon.

Assassin Charles Guiteau shot President James A. Garfield in 1881 because

  1. he disagreed with Garfield's policies concerning Chinese immigrants.
  2. he believed the Republican Party had not kept its promise to give him a government job.
  3. Guiteau had supported Garfield's opponent in the presidential race.
  4. Guiteau thought Garfield's religious views were too extreme.

Investigative journalists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who uncovered a wide range of ills in American society were known as

  1. carpetbaggers.
  2. scalawags.
  3. scoundrels.
  4. muckrakers.

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Course Name: American History 2 Student: Aryash Chauhan Course ID: SSTH034060 ID: F68560331 Submittal: 51 Progress Test 1 Although the progress test is similar in style to the unit evaluations, the progress test is a closed-book, proctored test. You may not have access to notes or any of the course materials while you are taking the test. It is important that you do your own work. Select the response that best completes the statement or answers the question. ____ 1. The Women's Christian Temperance Union was formed in order to a. b. c. d. ____ 2. In the late nineteenth century, American farmers became increasingly disillusioned with American elected officials because a. b. c. d. ____ 3. Warren G. Harding. Herbert Hoover. Calvin Coolidge. Andrew Mellon. Assassin Charles Guiteau shot President James A. Garfield in 1881 because a. b. c. d. ____ 5. banking interests had forced Congress to use gold and silver to back American currency. they voted to support farmers' interests on all occasions. more and more elected officials were coming from cities and not rural areas. too many had been involved in bribery scandals. "The chief business of the American people is business." The American president who spoke these words in a 1925 speech expressing his economic policies was a. b. c. d. ____ 4. promote the conversion of non-believers to Christianity. work for the right of women to vote. change laws prohibiting women from owning land. fight against the drinking of alcohol. he disagreed with Garfield's policies concerning Chinese immigrants. he believed the Republican Party had not kept its promise to give him a government job. Guiteau had supported Garfield's opponent in the presidential race. Guiteau thought Garfield's religious views were too extreme. Investigative journalists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who uncovered a wide range of ills in American society were known as a. b. c. d. carpetbaggers. scalawags. scoundrels. muckrakers. ____ 6. The American naval commander credited with "opening" Japan in 1853 to trade with the rest of the world was a. b. c. d. ____ 7. All of the following were causes of World War I except a. b. c. d. ____ 8. imperialism. alliances. militarism. isolationism. The 1920 trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti was an example of a wave of widespread fear of communists and radicals that became known as the a. b. c. d. ____ 9. Matthew Perry. Stephen Decatur. John Paul Jones. Alfred Thayer Mahan. Great Influenza. Red Scare. Communist Plague. American Civil Liberties Union. The Sussex Pledge was a. b. c. d. a German proposal to end attacks on enemy passenger ships. a German proposal to end all hostilities in Europe because of the war's high loss of life. a German proposal to try to recruit Mexico into the war to attack the United States. the announcement of the death of Kaiser Wilhelm II from tuberculosis. ____ 10. The national organization founded in 1913 to fight against discrimination against American Jews was the a. b. c. d. Anti-Defamation League. National Urban League. National League. American Federation Movement. ____ 11. __________________ expanded the size of the U.S. military in preparation for World War I. a. b. c. d. The National Defense Act The Sussex Pledge The Naval Construction Act Council of National Defense ____ 12. The War Industries Board was in charge of ______________ during World War I. a. b. c. d. regulating all war industries during the war putting out propaganda for the war raising money for the war creating the Council of National Defense ____ 13. During the 1910s in the United States, the Great Migration was a. b. c. d. American soldiers being called up to fight in World War I. the displacement of Native Americans by the European American moving west. the movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North in search of jobs. the spread of Irish Americans from east coast cities to cities all over the United States. ____ 14. One of the new technologies used in World War I by the Germans to try to blockade shipping to the island of Britain was a. b. c. d. the airplane. the submarine. poison gas. the machine gun. ____ 15. Differing from W.E.B. DuBois, civil rights leader Booker T. Washington believed that a. b. c. d. blacks should work hard and well in common laboring jobs and assimilate into middle class society. blacks should aspire to the professions. blacks should demand access to trade and agricultural schools. blacks should go on strike against unreasonable employers. ____ 16. The big issues that brought about the creation of the Populist Party in the 1890s were a. b. c. d. political corruption, an inadequate monetary supply, and unresponsive government. not enough railroads, war with Spain, and drought in the American South. the huge increase in the price of steel and government subsidies for dairy farms. bribery scandals in the Cleveland and McKinley administrations. ____ 17. During the late nineteenth century, Republicans argued that a high tariff on imported goods would a. b. c. d. keep prices on manufactured goods at an affordable level for the middle class. cause domestically-produced goods to be more expensive than imported goods. make domestically-produced goods cheaper than imported goods. make it easier for American farmers to sell their goods in foreign countries. ____ 18. All of the following individuals influenced the unique American culture of the Harlem Renaissance except a. b. c. d. Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. Charles Lindbergh and Sigmund Freud. Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. Jean Toomer and Claude McKay. ____ 19. After the Dust Bowl the Midwest, many families were forced to leave their homes and head to California or other major cities. These family groups were called a. b. c. d. dust families. Okies. drifters. migrant workers. ____ 20. To put more electoral power in the hands of voters, Wisconsin Progressive governor Robert Lafollette established a new way to select candidates, known as a. b. c. d. the referendum. the direct primary. the electoral college. the special election. ____ 21. One of the most important and lasting by-products of the general availability of commercial radio in the 1920s was a. b. c. d. lost productivity among employees who listened to the radio at work. an increase in the nation's security from foreign invasion. an increase in attendance at movie houses. a standardized popular culture in America. ____ 22. One of the most famous secret societies in China were "the Righteous and Harmonious Fists" also known as a. b. c. d. the Boxers. the Samurai. the Dragons. the Protectors. ____ 23. The United States eventually entered World War I because a. b. c. d. in 1916, the Germans attacked an unarmed American passenger ship on the way to Europe. in 1917, British intelligence intercepted a German telegram making an offer to Mexico to attack the United States. German forces had taken over American factories in Germany in 1916. German forces sank the Sussex, which had been carrying American supplies. ____ 24. In the beginning of World War I, _________________ in France became the critical battle location. a. b. c. d. the Eastern Front the Western Front Alsace-Lorraine the Seine river ____ 25. The immediate causes of the Great Depression in 1929 and in the early 1930s were a. b. c. d. the October, 1929, stock market crash and subsequent bank failures. the failure of the economy in Weimar Germany and subsequent German depression. an increase in the prices farmers were paid for their crops and livestock as well as the rise of mail order businesses. the failure of the government to invest in gold and to include silver in backing American currency. ____ 26. The quota system created by the National Origins Act of 1924 made it so that a. b. c. d. Mexicans could not immigrate to the U.S. Asians could immigrate in large numbers. the numbers of immigrants allowed from certain countries were limited. state governments could decide whether to let citizens cross state borders. ____ 27. In the early 20th century, Jane Addams opened Hull House in Chicago in order to a. b. c. d. set up the headquarters for the first national hotel chain. provide a site for research into new and improved methods of crop production. test a new and improved form of architecture in single-family homes. provide refuge for the urban poor, with housing, child care and instruction in English for immigrants. ____ 28. In order to secure control of the land for the construction of the Panama Canal, the United States a. b. c. d. purchased the land from the nation of Colombia. signed a treaty with the French to develop the canal together. orchestrated a revolution in Panama against Colombia and negotiated a deal with the Panamanians. invaded Colombia and took over that country's government. ____ 29. In 1882, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act because a. b. c. d. many Chinese immigrants carried communicable diseases. Chinese terrorists had blown up many bridges in California. Chinese immigrants were not Christian. many felt Chinese workers were taking American jobs. ____ 30. The 1906 law that sought to regulate the contents of over-the-counter patent medicines and the safety of the American food supply was a. b. c. d. the Pure Food and Drug Act. the Sherman Antitrust Act. the Hepburn Act. the Payne-Aldrich Act. ____ 31. Progressives, in their effort to help the large number of immigrants looking for work in the U.S.; taught immigrants English, and tried to change how they lived. This process was called a. b. c. d. immigrant training. immigrant plan. Americanization. foreign education. ____ 32. The United States government decided to overthrow the government of Hawaiian Queen Liliuokalani in 1893 because a. b. c. d. Hawaiian troops had fired on American warships that were docked in Pearl Harbor. she abolished the Hawaiian constitution that had given power to American sugar farmers in Hawaii. an American dictator was threatening to execute native Hawaiians. the queen was threatening to invade the west coast of California. ____ 33. This muckraker published, "The Shame of the Cities" which highlighted political corruption in 1903. a. b. c. d. Lincoln Steffens John D. Rockefeller Ida Tarbell Upton Sinclair ____ 34. In 1900, the ________________ established a civil government in Puerto Rico that allowed the president to appoint a governor and part of a Puerto Rican legislature. a. b. c. d. Foraker Act Platt Amendment Roosevelt Corollary Monroe Doctrine ____ 35. Farmers who objected to the lack of funds available to them to borrow formed a third political party for the 1892 presidential election known as a. b. c. d. the Know Nothing Party. the Republican Party. the Populist Party. the Whig Party. ____ 36. _____________ was the most famous criminal of the prohibition era; running illegal bars, prostitution rings, and gambling establishments until his conviction in 1931. a. b. c. d. Bugs Moran Johnny Torrio Al Capone Eliot Ness ____ 37. _______________ fueled the new consumer revolution of the 20's by allowing people to make a small down payment possibly with credit, then pay the rest in regular monthly payments. a. b. c. d. Margin buying Consumerism Scientific management Installment buying ____ 38. The industrialist who introduced the concept of mass production to the manufacturing of automobiles in the early twentieth century was a. b. c. d. Ransom E. Olds. Francis Stanley. Thomas Alva Edison. Henry Ford. ____ 39. The shantytowns and campgrounds where many homeless Americans sought shelter during the early years of the Great Depression became known as a. b. c. d. depression cities. boxcar motels. victory villages. Hoovervilles. ____ 40. The Progressive movement election reform that allowed voters to remove an elected official from office was and is a. b. c. d. the recall vote. the direct primary. the general election. the referendum. ____ 41. _________________ can best be described as people bettering their situation in the depression by their own efforts and not with the government's help. a. b. c. d. Rugged individualism Volunteerism Trickle down economics Localism ____ 42. When an imperial country takes raw materials from a colony and ships them back to the home country, that colony is known as a. b. c. d. an extractive economy. a satellite nation. an alliance. an importing economy. ____ 43. Wilson's "Moral Diplomacy" consisted of all of the following except a. b. c. d. promoting independence for all Latin American countries. promoting human rights. promoting national integrity. promoting opportunities for the U.S. in Foreign Affairs. ____ 44. As the United States Senate debated approval of the Versailles Treaty in the fall of 1919, President Woodrow Wilson was not able personally to fight for the treaty because a. b. c. d. he suffered a stroke after a cross-country train trip to campaign for the treaty. he was wounded in the arm by an assassin in Cincinnati, Ohio. he was bedridden with a case of the Spanish Flu and nearly died. he was badly injured in a riding accident at a horse farm in Virginia. ____ 45. The woman's voting rights leader who was convicted in 1872 for voting in an election in Rochester, New York was a. b. c. d. Amelia Bloomer. Sojourner Truth. Carrie Chapman Catt. Susan B. Anthony. ____ 46. Democrat Woodrow Wilson won election as president in 1912 in large part because a. b. c. d. he appealed to both northerners and southerners. President Taft and former President Roosevelt split the Republican vote. President Taft was under investigation for bribery. he was endorsed by former President Roosevelt, a Republican. ____ 47. The event that caused the United States to send troops to fight Spanish troops in Cuba in 1898 was a. b. c. d. the Spanish invasion of New Orleans, Louisiana. the election of William McKinley as president of the United States. an explosion on board the battleship Maine in Havana Harbor that sank the ship. the publication of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. ____ 48. The only part of President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points that was agreed to by the negotiators at the Versailles conference was a. b. c. d. self-determination for all nations of the world. that Germany should pay war reparations to Great Britain and France. the return of the Alsace and Lorraine regions to France. the creation of a League of Nations. ____ 49. This amendment, after more than a decade, repealed prohibition and legalized drinking in the U.S. once again. a. b. c. d. 21st amendment 18th amendment 16th amendment 17th amendment ____ 50. Released in 1927, the first motion picture with sound synchronized to the action was a. b. c. d. The Jazz Singer. The Wizard of Oz. Gone With the Wind. The Gold Rush. Carefully review your answers on this progress test and make any corrections you feel are necessary. 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