American History II Final Exam - Chapter 15-28
The settlement house movement of the early twentieth century helped spawn the profession of...
Social Work
In 1950, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were accused of spying for...
The Soviet Union.
The business structure of Carnegie Steel was a good example of...
Vertical Integration.
The Treaty of Paris, which concluded the Spanish-American War...
Was a document that made Spain cede Guam and Puerto Rico to the United States and transfer the Philippines and Puerto Rico to the United States.
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882...
banned Chinese immigration into the United States for ten years and barred Chinese already in the country from becoming naturalized citizens.
The National Origins Act of 1924...
banned immigration from East Asia entirely and reduced the quota for Europeans to 3 to 2 percent.
In the last two decades of the nineteenth century, fences for plains farms were usually made from...
barbed wire.
In the 1890s, the journalist Ida B. wells devoted her work to attacking...
lynching after the three of her hometown friends in Memphis, Tennessee.
One of the chief obstacles in John Kennedy's presidential bid in 1960 was his...
religion as a Catholic.
The Glass-Stegall Act of 1933 established...
the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
The first atomic explosion in history took place in 1945 in...
the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
The Teapot Dome Scandal during the Harding Administration involved...
the rich naval oil reserve at Teapot Dome, Wyoming, and Elk Hills, California.
The majority of U.S. soldiers in the Spanish-American War...
were made up of volunteers.
Only weeks after taking office, President Johnson declared...
"War on Poverty."
In 1932, the unemployment rate in Toledo, Ohio, was one of the worst in the nation, at...
80 percent.
The first American to be launched into space, in 1961, was...
Allen Shepherd.
Samuel Gompers was the leader of the...
American Federation of Labor.
In 1914, the Triple Entente consisted of...
Britain, France, and Russia.
In the 1930s, the largest Japanese American and Chinese American population were found in...
California
By the 1890s, more than half of all immigrants to the United States were coming from...
Eastern and Southern Europe.
The country that lost the greatest number of lives in World War I was...
Germany will 2 million losses.
The Tripartite Pact was a defensive alliance among...
Japan, German, and Italy.
In 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
declared that an attack on one member nation was an attack on all.
The assassination of President Lincoln...
involved a larger conspiracy to kill other members of the administration.
In 1933, two days after he took office, President Franklin Roosevelt...
issued a proclamation on closing all American banks for four days.