US History 2 Midterm UNG

During the progressive era, significant votive rights for women were first won in the

Far West.

In 1913, a major reform of American banking was achieved with the creation of the

Federal Reserve Act.

Which statement about education in the late nineteenth century is FALSE?

Funding for public education was highest in rural areas.

As a result of Germany's sinking of the British passenger liner Lusitania

Germany pledged to the United States that it would not repeat such an action.

As a result of Germany's sinking of the British passenger liner Lusitania,

Germany pledged to the United States that it would not repeat such an action.

During the 1870s and 1880s, most of the immigrants to the United States came from

Great Britain and northern Europe.

Samuel Gompers was the leader of the

American Federation of Labor.

The annexation of Hawaii by the United States saw

American marines used to carry out the action.

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

Both A and B

As part of his Asian diplomacy, President Theodore Roosevelt

Both a and b

In 1918, President Woodrow Wilson angered Republicans when he

Both a and b

In its war in the Philippines, the U.S. military

Both a and b

In regards to race, during the progressive era,

Both a and b

In the year before the passage of Nineteenth Amendment,

Both a and b

The western cattle industry saw Mexican ranchers first deveop

All of the above.

in 1918, President Wilson's Fourteen Points received significant political support from

Neither a nor b

During Reconstruction, most "carpetbaggers" were

Northern white veterans who moved to the South.

In the American business community at the end of the nineteenth century

One percent of business controlled one-third of all manufacturing.

Eugene Debs played a leading role in what labor event?

Pullman strike

Prior to the Civil War, the steel industry in the United States

Saw little development

Congressional Reconstruction might have been more effective if:

The federal government had better enforced the laws designed to assist Blacks.

Marcus Garvey impacted race relations in the United States

by discouraging Black assimilation into White society.

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

William Jennings Bryan.

The 1920 census of the United States revealed that

a majority of Americans lived in "urban" areas.

In the late nineteenth century, the social writer Henry George argued in favor of

a single land tax to replace all other taxes.

By 1900, the nation's labor and seen a dramatic rise in

administrative jobs.

The National War Labor Board of 1918 pressured industries to modify labor policies to include:

all of the above

At the end of the nineteenth century, most Americans view leisure time

as being desirable.

The United States' casualties in World War I were

as likely to be from death due to disease as from combat.

When war erupted in Europe in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson

asked the American public for complete impartiality.

The Knights of Labor

began as a secret fraternal organization.

In the early twentieth century, United States' action toward Mexico included

both a and b

President Theodore Roosevelt defined "civilized" and "uncivilized" nations on the basis of

both a and b

In the early twentieth century, progressive reformers

both a and b - Supported limiting the number of new immigrants to the US. Favored a quick assimilation of new immigrants into American society.

In 1919, the racial climate in the United States worsened in

both the North and the South.

In his 1895 "Atlanta Compromise" speech, Booker T. Washington

called for tacit acceptance of the emerging system of racial segregation.

In the election of 1916, supporters of Woodrow Wilson

claimed his Republican opponent would lead the nation into war.

In the nineteenth century, vaudeville theater

consisted of a variety of stage acts.

Arguments used by Social Darwinists in the United States to justify expansionism

contended that all nations were engaged in a struggle to survive.

In 1865, Southern whites defined "freedom" as

controlling their future without Northern interference.

The Pullman strike of 1894 began with George Pullman, owner of the company,

cut wages by twenty-five percent due to a slumping economy.

To John D. Rockefeller, the great "curse" of business in the late nineteenth century

cutthroat competition.

During the progressive era, the power of the political parties

declined, as did voter turnout.

In the 1880s, the open range cattle industry declined as a result of

drought.

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

weaken political parities.

The initiative and referendum were progressive-era political reforms designed to

weaken state legislatures.

In 1914-1915, as England used a naval blockade of Germany, the United States

ended trade with Germany but continued it with Great Britain.

During Reconstruction, schools for educating southern Blacks:

eventually reached forty percent of all Black children.

The Steel Strike of 1919

failed and labor leaders did not get their demands.

In the early twentieth century, leaders in the settlement house movement tended to be

female

The Fourteenth Amendment

gave citizenship rights to all people born in the United States.

In 1920, passage of the Nineteenth Amendment

gave women the right to vote.

During the progressive era, the women's club movement

had a national organization to coordinate club activities.

The term "muckrakers" referred to

journalists.

The Molly Maguires were a militant

labor union in the coal industry.

In 1900, in regards to the work conditions in American factories,

laborers could expect to work at least sixty hours a week.

In 1865, Southern blacks defined "freedom" as

land reform.

In 1900, the emergence of research laboratories in American corperations

led to a diversification of research interests.

In 1900, the emergence of research laboratories in American corporations

led to a diversification of research interests.

During the 1840s, Hispanics living in California

lost ownership of large areas of lands.

The principal force behind the creation of significant public buildings in the late

wealthy residents.

In the 1840s and 1850s, in the Far West, the response by white Americans to the Chinese

moved from initial acceptance of them to gradual opposition.

During the progressive era, one of the first targets for political reformers was

municipal governments.

In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson

neither a nor b

As president, Andrew Johnson

offered amnesty to Southerners who pledged their loyalty to the United States.

Women in nineteenth-century western mining towns

often found work doing domestic tasks.

During the late nineteenth century, Plains farm life

often lacked access to the outside world.

In his dealings with Pancho Villa, President Woodrow Wilson

ordered a military expedition into Mexico to capture Villa.

In Owen Wister's novel, The Virginian (1902), the American cowboy was

portrayed as a simple and virtuous frontiersman.

The so-called Zimmerman telegram

proposed to return portions of the United States for war.

In the last decades of the nineteenth century, incomes in the United States

rose for almost all Americans.

During World War I, the "Great Migration" in the United States referred to

rural southern blacks moving to northern industrial cities.

During World War I, American ground troops

saw combat that was relatively brief bu intense.

In the late nineteenth century, industry in the United States

saw the federal government egar to assist in its growth.

The Pullman strike of 1894

saw the president of the United States order federal troops to break the strike.

According to the philosophy of pragmatism, society should be guided by

scientific inquiry.

The Comstock Lode primarily produced

silver.

The fifteenth Amendment dealt with the issue of

suffrage.

The Paris Peace Conference of 1918-19

tended to be guided by self-interest, threat of communism and distrust of the new Nationalist governments in Eastern Europe.

The 1896 election results saw

the Populist movement suffered a crippling defeat.

the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution dealt with

the direct election of senators.

The progressive reformer and Wisconsin governor Robert La Follette helped create

the direct primary.

The major target of political reformers in western states during the progressive era was

the federal government.

According to the ideas expressed by Andrew Carnegie in his gospel of Wealth,

the rich had great responsibilities to society.

In the late nineteenth century, Social Darwinists argued that people who failed economically in the United States did so because

they had poor individual character.

Second-generation immigrants, compared with the first generation, were more likely

to break from their traditional culture.

The treaty that concluded the Spanish-American War

transferred the Philippines and Puerto Rico to the United States.

The Panic of 1893

triggered the nation's most severe depression up to that point.

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

use interchangeable parts.

The socialist movement in the united states was hurt by World War I because

war generated anti radical feelings in the country.

Before 1860, the traditional policy of the federal government was to regard Indians as

wards of the president of the United States.

By the mid-1840s, the American West

was extensively populated.

During the progressive era, the woman suffrage movement

was the single largest reform movement of the early twentieth century.