History Review 1

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The War Industries Board, which coordinated government purchases of military supplies, was headed by Herbert Hoover.

False

The wild acclaim given by the European public to President Wilson allowed him to dominate the terms of the Paris Peace Conference.

False

A homestead unit of 160 acres was too small for grain farming of the Great Plains

True

A naval court of inquiry reported the Maine had been blown up by an external explosion

True

The first American subway system came into use in Boston 1897

True

American casualties in World War I

not-60k

In the 1850s U.S. policy of "concentration" for Indians

not-affirmed and continued

In the early 20th century, Cuba

not-attracted little

The first civilian governor of the Philippines who gave Filipinos broad local autonomy was..

Not- Emilio

In 1900, the average yearly income of American workers.

Not-Allowed most workers

Which American writer is LEAST associated with the trend toward social realism in literature in the late 19th century?

Not-Dreiser, Norris

During the last 18 months of Woodrow Wilson's Presidency

Not-He became more pragmatic and willing to compromise

During the progressive era the acknowledged leader of American social was.

Not-Kelley

The national network of grocery stores that started in the 1850s was

Not-Piggly wiggly

In 1870s, the "internal combustion engine" was developed in

Not-US

The Sand Creek Massacre of 1864

Not-all of above, saw the death of Chief

In 1920, Sacco and Vanzetti

Not-both admitted they were anarchists

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

Not-both the birth and french govts.

After the elections of 1914, President Woodrow Wilson

Not-encouraged

At its height 1886. the Knights of Labor were led by

Not-frick

The 2nd half of the 19th century, the working class in the western economy was

Not-highly stratified

Beginning 1898, the American war in the Philippines

Not-saw U.s. withdraw

In 1869, Princeton and Rutgers played the first intercollegiate game in America of

Not-soccer

Which of the following statements regarding Coney Island is FALSE?

Not: many visitors Victorian

In 1894, the Immigration Restriction League

Proposed screening immigrants to only allow the desirable ones to enter

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

State legislatures

The 1904 "Roosevelt Corollary"

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

In the late 19th century the popular image of the American West

All of these answers are correct

The brilliant lawyer Louis D. Brandeis, who later became a Supreme Court justice, argued that the federal government should work to break up the largest corporations because the "curse of bigness"

All of these answers are correct

During Theodore Roosevelt's 1st three years as presidents

He desired to win for government the power to investigate corporate activities

In 1894, Jacob Coxey and his supporters

Called for a public works program for the unemployed

In the late 19th century, regarding western agriculture

Commercial famers were not self-sufficient and made little effort to become so

During WWI, (WIB)

Coordinated government purchases of military supplies

Describe the participation of women and children in the industrial economy around the turn of the century. What sorts of laws or regulations were passed to protect children in particular? Were they effective?

Essay

From the time of initial colonial contact to the close of the nineteenth century, the relationship between Native Americans and white Americans was marked by a high degree of violence by whites toward Natives. What were the popular ideas and cultural beliefs found in white American society that motivated this violence?

Essay

At the end of the 19th century the average income of an American worker was somewhat higher than minimum required to maintain reasonable level of comfort.

False

The 1912 Republican convention was an ideological contest between

NOT-both different types of progressivism, new freedom, and new nationalism

Which of the following statements regarding the Spanish American War is FALSE?

true-more than 5,000

The Platt Amendment left the Philippines only nominally independent, politically.

False

The Red Scare was primarily result of anti-radical actions by various state governments

False

Passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, granting women the right to vote, marked the beginning of a new era of progressive reform.

False

By the turn of the century, primary and secondary education were nearly universal in the U.S.

False

During its short life, Populism was able to attract significant industrial labor support

False

The Homestead strike of 1892, the Pinkertons were brought in on side of labor

False

By 1880, more than 200,000 Chinese had settled in the U.S.

True

Coney Island provided a way of experiencing mass American culture on an equal footing with people from different backgrounds.

True

Custer's defeat at Little Bighorn in 1876 was made possible in part by an unusually large gathering of tribal warriors

True

Former "mugwumps" become important supporters of progressive political reform activity

True

Herbert Spencer and William Graham Sumner could both be called social Darwinists

True

The assimilation process of the late 19th century was aided by the public schools

True

The great railroad strike of 1877 was put down by both state militias and federal troops

True

The new People's Party sought to build a broad coalition but appealed mostly to farmers.

True

Which tribe should NOT be included among the Plains Indians?

Yurok

During World War I, extensive systems of trenches were used by both sides

not-because trenches prevented tanks from reaching soldiers

During the progressive era, the women's club movement

not-both

The settlement house movement of the early 20th century helped spawn the profession of

not-charitable foundations

According to the terms of the 1901 Platt Amendment.

not-cuba could only form treaties

In the election of 1908, William Howard Taft

not-decicisively defeated his republican opponent

The Federal Trade Commission Act

not-defined the standard

The Pullman strike of 1894

not-ended when george pullman dropped

Tenement building in urban America

not-first constructed in chicago

in 1894, the population density of Manhattan was

not-greater than all american cities except boston

American agriculture at the turn of the century benefited from

not-new fed crop subsidies

William Jennings Bryan was nominated for president in the 1896 election by the

not-republicans

Thorstein Veblen argued that

not-the philanthropy

The treaty of Paris concluding the Spanish American War

not-was quickly ratified


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