APUSH

During the Great Depression in the rural U.S.,

1/3 of all farmers lost their land

The Spanish-American War began primarily because of events in

Cuba

Who among the following began to develop an oil empire by taking control of competing oil companies in Ohio?

John D. Rockefeller

The first significant oil production in the U. S. occurred in

Pennsylvania

All of the following factors were causes of the Great Depression except

The causes: an unstable European economy, lack of diversification in U.S. economy, misdistribution of purchasing power, weak consumer demand

The "Cross of Gold" speech was given in 1896 by

William Jennings Bryan

The 1930s films of director Frank Capra typically displayed

admiration for ordinary Americans

In 1920, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti

admitted they were anarchists, were convicted of murder, and drew wide spread support from the public

At the turn of the twentieth century, progressive activists

believed in the transformational enlightenment of the public opinion

In 1933, two days after he took office, President Franklin Roosevelt

closed all the banks

In the nineteenth century, vaudeville theater

consisted of a variety of stage acts

The Scopes trial of 1925 was a legal battle between

creationism and evolution

In his 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

criticized American obsession with material wealth

During the Progressive Era, supporters of woman suffrage argued that female voters

deserved the vote because of the unique traits of women

The Social Security Act of 1935

did not begin making payments to participants for years

At the turn of the twentieth century, the leaders of the settlement house movement

directed their attention to improving urban living conditions

In the 1920s, artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance

drew heavily from their African heritage

BY 1900, the transportation systems of American cities included

elevated railroads, subways, electric trolleys and cable cars, suspension bridges

In his books, Horatio Alger

emphasized the value of personal character in business

Marcus Garvey

encouraged African Americans to reject assimilation into white society

In 1914-15, the U.S. responded to the British naval blockade of Germany by

ending trade with Germany and continuing trade with Britain

The National Origins Act of 1924

entirely banned immigration from East Asia to the U.S.

In the late nineteenth century, crime in large American urban centers

led many city governments to create professional public police departments, crime swelled in the 20 years between 1880 and 1900, was often blamed on the violent proclivities of immigrant groups

During the 1930s, regarding radio,

listening was often a community experience

During the mid-nineteenth century, Hispanics living in California

lost ownership of large areas of land

The Sabotage Act and the Sedition Act of 1918

made illegal any public expression opposing the war

Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel, The Jungle, encouraged the federal government to regulate the

meat packing industry

In the workplace, the "open shop" meant

no worker was required to join a union

Regarding the Treaty of Versailles, the U.S. Senate decided in 1919 to

not ratify the treaty

The recall and the direct primary were progressive-era political reforms designed to weaken

political parties

In 1933, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

protected assets of bank depositers

The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887

put in place a series of regulations for railroads, little real effect for decades, created a 5 person commission to oversee it

The Civilian Conservation Corps

put unemployed to work on rural and wilderness areas

In the nineteenth century, political "machines" in cities owed their existence to the

rapid growth of urban America and the influx of millions of immigrants

During the nineteenth century, in the Far West the term "coolie"

referred to Chinese indentured servants

Between his election in 1932 and the inauguration in 1933, Franklin Roosevelt

refused to make any agreements with previous president Hebert Hoover

The western cattle industry saw Mexican ranchers first develop

saddles, spurs, lariats, and leather chaps

During the late nineteenth century, the growth of large corporations was helped by

sales of company stock to the public, limited liability laws, realization that ventures could not be financed by a single person

In 1917, automobile production in the U.S.

saw 5 million cars on American roads

In the late nineteenth century, due to the growth of industrial capitalism, American workers

saw a rise in their standard of living, experienced a loss in their control over their own work, were forced to contend with arduous and dangerous working conditions

During WWI, American ground troops

saw combat that was brief but intense

In the late nineteenth century, the Tammany Hall political machine

saw its most famous boss, William M. Tweed, sent to prison

Prior to the Civil War, the steel industry in the U.S.

saw little development

Throughout the 1920s, the performance of the U.S. economy

saw nearly uninterrupted prosperity with severe inequalities

In the 1860s, cattle drivers from Texas to Missouri

saw the herds suffer heavy losses, proved that cattle could be driven to distant markets, and established a link to booming urban markets of the East

Regarding women and the professions during the Progressive Era,

social workers were thought as an appropriate career for woman

The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933

sought to raise crop prices by paying farmers not to plant

The largest number of immigrants to the U.S. in the late nineteenth century came from

southern and eastern Europe

The initiative and referendum were progressive-era political reforms designed to weaken the power of

state legislators

The 1904 "Roosevelt Corollary"

stated that the U.S. had the right to intervene in the affairs of neighboring countries

In what industry did the Homestead strike of 1892 occur?

steel

In the aftermath of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York City,

strict regulations were imposed on factory owners

In January 1917, President Woodrow Wilson, in a speech before Congress,

suggested creation of a League of Nations

During the 1920s, products that grew dramatically in use in the U.S. included

synthetic fibers, plastics, home appliances, and electronics

In 1890 at Wounded Knee, South Dakota,

the U.S. Seventh Calvary massacred three hundred Indians

The immediate cause of was in Europe in 1914 was

the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

A key to Henry Ford's success in the mass production of automobile was

the assembly line

President Herbert Hoover responded to the onset of the Great Depression by

urging voluntary cooperation from business leaders

An examination of American voters in the late nineteenth century reveals

voter turnout for both presidential and non-presidential elections was very high

Which tribe should not be included among the Plains Indians?

Does include: Sioux, Arapaho, Pawnee, and Cheyenne

In order to secure control of the Panama Canal zone, the U.S.

assisted with a revolution in Panama

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

banned Chinese in the U.S. from becoming naturalized citizens

During WWI, extensive systems of trenches were used by both sides

because of the destructive power of weapons which meant soldiers couldn't live on the open field

At the end of the nineteenth century, most Americans viewed leisure time as

being desirable

In response to President Franklin Roosevelt's first days in office, the American people

felt a mixture of relief and hope

The Chinese Boxer Rebellion of 1900 was directed at

foreigners

The temperance movement between 1914 and 1919

gained momentum due to WWI

In 1920, passage of the Nineteenth Amendment

gave women the right to vote

The policy idea behind "Dollar Diplomacy" was to

get investments and U.S. influence in less developed regions

Prior to its annexation by the U.S. in 1898, Hawaii

had a revolution staged by American planters

In the 1920s, the "flapper" lifestyle

had an impact on the lower middle class and single women

During the late nineteenth century, college education for American women

had expanded significantly

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the working class in the western economy was

highly multiracial, highly divided along racial lines, and paid higher wages than workers in the East

The so-called "Zimmermann Telegram"

included proposal of return of American Southwest to Mexico

The term "muckrakers" referred to

journalists

The theory of Social Darwinism

justified the social consequences of industrial capitalism

In the late nineteenth century, the assimilation of immigrants was encouraged by

the sale of American products, public education, church leaders, religious reform

The federal government's response to the "Bonus Army" included

the use of 6 tanks to route the veterans, injuring over 100 marchers

During the 1920s, as a result of the 18th Amendment,

there was a substantial reduction in the consumption of alcohol, considerable violation of the law banning alcohol, organized crime gained access to an enormous lucrative industry

The Chinese from California became the major source of labor for the transcontinental railroad because

they worked for lower wages than what whites would accept

The Treaty of Paris concluding the Spanish-American War

transferred the Philippines and Puerto Rico to the U.S.

Franklin Roosevelt's victory over Herbert Hoover in 1932

was a convincing mandate

In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson believed the Paris Peace Conference treaty

was a success because of the acceptance of the League of Nations

Theodore Roosevelt's famous charge in the battle of San Juan Hill, in the Spanish-American War,

was considered bold and reckless, was minor part of the battle, took place on Kettle Hill, and resulted in 100 American dead or wounded

President Franklin Roosevelt's proposal to expand the Supreme Court

was defeated in Congress

The "Dust Bowl" in the 1930s

was the product of changing environmental conditions

The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890

was used by the federal government against labor unions

To many middle-class Americans, the major labor upheavals of the late nineteenth century

were dangerous signs of social instability

In the late nineteenth century, the population in urban areas of the U.S.

were most often foreign born immigrants and their children

In the late nineteenth century, "range wars" in the West were often between

white American ranchers and farmers