HIS 132 Final Exam Review (Ch. 15 - Week 4 Quiz)

Approximately what percent of early rodeo contestants were women?

10%

Which census first revealed that a majority of Americans were living in cities?

1920

By 1900, the richest ten percent controlled perhaps 90 percent of the nation's wealth.

90%

What was the Zimmerman Telegram?

A German offer to help Mexico recover land lost in the Mexican-American War if Mexico would side with Germany in WWI Where did Germany first

What was the Open Door Policy?

A call for all western powers to have equal access to Chinese markets

All of the following statements regarding the National Women's Party are true EXCEPT

Advocated violent resistance to sexism

How did black churches help to develop political organization in black communities?

All of the above

In "Answering Objections to Women's Suffrage" published in 1917, Alice Stone Blackwell provides a response to multiple anti-women's suffrage arguments. She provided responses to which of the following arguments:

All of the above

Which of the following environmental thinkers advocated preservation rather than conservation?

All of the above

Which of the following statements regarding Jane Addams' activism are true?

All of the above

What was Frederick Jackson Turner's "Frontier Thesis?"

American culture was forged by the struggle between civilized settlers and savage frontier life, giving it a democratic and hardworking spirit

Why did the League of Nations fail?

Americans refused to join

What was the particular spark that ignited World War I?

Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and Grand Duchess Sophie

When did Reconstruction begin?

Before the war ended

In Woodrow Wilson's Excerpt from The New Freedom: "What is Liberty?" he references which former president?

Beveridge

Which of these authors criticized Victorian era gender norms?

Both of these

By 1913, the United States produced one-third of the world's industrial output. This was more than __________.

Britain, France, and Germany combined.

How did the Roosevelt Corollary modify the Monroe Doctrine?

By stating The United States will act as an international police power in the Western Hemisphere and intervene to prevent intervention by other powers.

Which city served as the most important railroad hub, connecting the East and the West?

Chicago

Women served in the armed forces during World War I. They served in all of the following positions EXCEPT

Commissioned officers

The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution did which of the following?

Declared all people born on U.S. soil to be citizens

Women participated in the global influence of the United States in many ways, including as all of the following EXCEPT

Diplomats

The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution did which of the following?

Ended slavery throughout the entire United States

The Homestead Act granted official title to 160 acre plots of land after how many years of settlement?

Five years

Which of the following goal of freed people was the least successful?

Gaining access to land

What economic opportunity drew the most migrants to the West?

Gold mining

Which of the following events most seriously damaged the Knights of Labor?

Haymarket Affair

Why did William Jennings Bryan attack the Gold Standard?

He wanted to increase inflation to lower the burden of farmers debts

Taylorism attempted to use scientific principles to better handle which aspect of business?

Industrial population

Which of the following definition best describes the work of muckrakers?

Investigative journalists

Why did women's rights leaders oppose the Fourteenth Amendment?

It introduced the word "male" into the Constitution for the first time

W. E. B. Du Bois, founder the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, broke with his former mentor Booker T. Washington because, Du Bois believed that Washington _______.

Lacked the skills to organize a large movement

Most practices and objects associated with American cowboys were modified from ______ ranchers.

Mexican

During the nineteenth century, American interests in the Middle East revolved around all of the following EXCEPT

Oil

What was the term for the African American ladies memorial association that arranged the mourning for Union soldiers buried in Charleston?

Patriotic Association

Between roughly 1890 and 1908, what tactics were used to disenfranchise black voters?

Poll taxes and literacy tests kept many blacks from voting

How did the United States respond to the Boxer Rebellion in China?

President McKinley sent the U.S. Army into China without consulting congress

All of the following groups provided cultural space for immigrants to maintain their arts, languages, and traditions EXCEPT

Rotary clubs

General William T. Sherman's Special Field Order No. 15 was intended to do which of the following?

Set aside land in Georgia and South Carolina as homesteads for freed people

What was the most common labor pattern in postbellum cotton agriculture?

Sharecropping

How did many black leaders, including W. E. B. DuBois respond to the war?

Supporter the war effort and lobbied to include black soldiers in front-line combat positions

What most directly explains the boost in production of McCormick reapers

The adoption of interchangeable parts

The Dakota Uprising of 1862 began with what event?

The death of five white settlers at the hands of four young Santee men

Which constitutional amendment guaranteed the right to vote for all American males regardless of race?

The fifteenth amendment

What was the purpose of Western cattle drives?

To bring cattle to eastern markets, mostly through railroad hubs

What was the purpose of the Dawes General Allotment Act?

To speed up the process of assimilation

In The American Yawp Primary Reader, the "I Want You" poster from 1917 featuring Uncle Sam is an example of propaganda used to mobilize military resources and cultivate support for the war.

True

In The American Yawp, there is a text titled "Alan Seeger on World War I." Part of the text includes a letter he wrote to The New York Sun in 1914. The letter is considered a secondary source because it was written at the time the event occurred.

True

A wave of mergers peaked between 1897 and 1904. The largest of these mergers created the first billion dollar American corporation. What was that corporation?

United States Steel