History 102 Exam 1
How many articles in the NV Constitution?
19
What requirements are set for the office of gov?
25, resident for 2 years
The governor is elected to a term of how many years?
4
As many as 25 percent of the cowboys who participated in the Texas cattle drives were
African American
Why was mass transit vital to developing cities?
Allowed people to commute and live away from the central city
Why did Wilson travel around the country giving speeches in 1919?
He wanted to drum up support for his version of the war treaty
The major champion of the New South gospel was
Henry W. Grady
Where are amendments to the NV Const. inserted?
Into the article in which they are most closely related
What is "yellow journalism"?
It refers to sensationalist news coverage that was designed to sell papers and manipulate public opinion
Why was Birmingham, Alabama named the "Pittsburgh of the South"?
It was an iron center
the us supreme court ruling in the case of ____ established the "separate but equal" doctrine
Plessy v Ferguson
Who was president when the United States acquired the right to build a canal across Panama?
Roosevelt
Roosevelt's "Gentlemen's Agreement"
Roosevelt's "Gentlemen's Agreement"
Congress passed the Homestead Act
To encourage settlement of the western lands
Which occurred last? -US entrance into WWI -End of the Span/Amer War -annexation of HI
US entrance into WWI
Who became chief justice of the Supreme Court after serving as president?
William Howard Taft
with the __ telegram germany offered mexico an alliance as us entrance into wwi approached
Zimmerman
The event that triggered World War I in Europe was
a Serb's assassination of the Austrian archduke
Theodore Roosevelt's close friend Gifford Pinchot was
a forestry expert and leading conservationist
The Comstock Lode refers to
a mining discovery of gold and silver in Nevada
The Seventeenth Amendment
authorized the popular election of U.S. senators
The postwar South suffered from an acute shortage of
capital
The Red Scare of 1919-1920 was directed against
communists
The American Tobacco Company
dominated the U.S. tobacco industry by the twentieth century
Increased nationalism, militarization, competing imperial agendas, and _______________ in Europe helped bring about World War I
entangling alliances
The muckrakers saw their primary objective as what?
exposing social problems to the public
Tenement houses in nyc
higher mortality rates
Proponents of the New South believed that the South should
industrialize
Why was the Supreme Court decision Munn v. Illinois was significant to understanding the power of government to regulate industry?
it upheld the right of state and local governments to regulate industry essential to the public interest
The de Lôme letter
referred to President McKinley as a weak and cowardly leader
As railroads spread into Texas and across the plains, the cattle business
spread with them
A major factor in Woodrow Wilson's victory in the 1912 presidential campaign was the fact that
the Republican party had split in two
Which occured first? -Plessy v Ferguson supreme ct decision -The end of Reconstruction -New state const. in the south to take away black rights to vote
the end of reconstruction
Western imperialism in the late nineteenth century was stimulated by all of the following EXCEPT
the fear that Bolshevik ideas might advance around the globe
The historian Frederick Jackson Turner argued that
the frontier shaped America's national character
Why did Theodore Roosevelt send the "Great White Fleet" on a world tour between 1907 and 1909?
to demonstrate that the United States had arrived as a world power
The Zimmerman telegram
urged the Mexican government to invade the United States
What do cholera, typhoid, and yellow fever all have in common?
water related diseases