Unit 7 mock test pt.3
Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives is a study of
immigrant urban poverty and despair in 1890's
Jacob Riis is best known for his work in the 1890s as a Responses
journalist and photographer who publicized the wretched conditions in which many immigrants lived
Conservative Republican opponents of the Treaty of Versailles argued that the League of Nations would
limit United States sovereignty
The leaders of the Progressive movement were primarily
middle-class reformers concerned with urban and consumer issues
The purpose of the Lend-Lease Act was to
provide military supplies to the Allies
Jacob Riis's principal involvement in the reform movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was his effort to
publicize poor housing and sanitation in urban tenements
The United States home front during the First World War was marked by an increase in all of the following EXCEPT
support of individual liberties by the Supreme Court
In its report for 1890, the United States Census Bureau indicated that
the American frontier could no longer be distinguished from settled areas
One means by which President Hoover attempted to fight the Great Depression was
the establishment of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
The Supreme Court ruling in Korematsu v. United States upheld the constitutionality of
the internment of Japanese Americans as a wartime necessity
During the Second World War, Japanese Americans were relocated because of
fear of possible subversive activity against the war effort
The purpose of the Liberty Loan Campaign illustrated in the drawing above was to
finance American involvement in the First World War
Which of the following most likely contributed to the decline of the "political radicalism" referred to in the excerpt? (Darlene Clark Hine, historian, The Black Chicago Renaissance, 2012)
Anticommunist measures during the Cold War
The excerpt could best be used by historians to explain which of the following historical situations? (John Paton Davies, United States diplomat in China, "Observations on the Struggle for Power in China," 1943)
Attempts by the United States to use its power to influence postwar peace settlements
The excerpt's point of view best explains the issues in which of the following? (John Paton Davies, United States diplomat in China, "Observations on the Struggle for Power in China," 1943)
Debates about how to address the consequences of the war in the Pacific
The excerpt is best understood as a response to which of the following historical developments? (Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives, 1890)
Industrialization
Despite its isolationist position in the 1920's, the United States government actively intervened throughout the decade in which of the following areas of European affairs?
International finance and reparations
The purpose of the excerpt is best explained as promoting which of the following? (John Paton Davies, United States diplomat in China, "Observations on the Struggle for Power in China," 1943)
Negotiating a peaceful settlement in China to limit Soviet influence after the Second World War
Which of the following best explains a conclusion about United States foreign policy in the early 1900s supported by the point of view expressed in the excerpt? (Theodore Roosevelt, "National Duties," address given at the Minnesota State Fair, September 1901)
Political leaders continued to promote the earlier idea of predestined national expansion.
Which of the following was a common experience on the United States home front during the Second World War?
Rationing of basic consumer goods
The trend depicted in the graph most directly contributed to which of the following developments after 1920 ?
Restrictions on immigration from eastern and southern Europe
The speech's point of view can best be used to support which of the following historical arguments about the early 1900s? (Theodore Roosevelt, "National Duties," address given at the Minnesota State Fair, September 1901)
Some Americans advocated economic development of overseas countries in order to justify imperialism.
The conflict described in the excerpt is most similar to conflict in what other period? (James M. McPherson and James K. Hogue, historians, Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction, 2010)
The period from after the First World War through the 1920s
The poster above advertising a 1913 labor union pageant was designed to do which of the following?
The poster above advertising a 1913 labor union pageant was designed to do which of the following?
Which of the following is a limitation of using the excerpt to study the long-term influences on United States involvement overseas in the early 1900s? (Theodore Roosevelt, "National Duties," address given at the Minnesota State Fair, September 1901)
The speech was given during the period when this development occurred
All of the following concerns were addressed during the "Hundred Days" of the New Deal EXCEPT
court restructuring
The "political radicalism" referred to in the excerpt was most directly a response to the experience of (Darlene Clark Hine, historian, The Black Chicago Renaissance, 2012)
economic depression
By the 1910s, the conditions described in the excerpt were most addressed by (Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives, 1890)
efforts of middle-class reformers
The purpose of the immigration restriction acts passed in the 1920s was to Responses
favor northern and western European immigration
Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast of the United States in early 1942 were sent to internment camps on the alleged grounds that they
were a potential threat to the security of the United States
