History Review 1
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