US history final PART 2

The american artistic movement known as the "ashcan school"

included the painter Edward Hopper

During the 1930s, the Southern Tenant Farmers Union

sought to organize the rural poor across racial lines

The agricultural adjustment act

south to raise crop prices by paying farmers not to plant

By the 1890s, the largest number of immigrants to the United States came from

southern and eastern Europe

The 1904 "Roosevelt Corollary"

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

In the 1890s, the black journalist Ida B Wells devoted her writing to attacking

the crime of lynching

The chinese from california became the major source of labor for the transcontinental railroad in part because

they worked for lower wages than what whites would accept

Prior to 1932, Franklin Roosevelt had been all of the following EXCEPT

vice president of the united states

In the 1920s, "welfare capitalism"

was a paternalistic approach used by corporate leaders on their workers

The Tennessee Valley Authority of 1933

was an experiment in regional planning by the federal government

Throughout the late nineteenth century, the federal government

was largely inactive

During the 1920s, the trend toward industrial consolidation

was most pronounced in industries dependent on large-scale mass production

During the 1920s, the brotherhood of sleeping car porters

was one of the few unions led by African americans

In 1919, the red scare in the United states

was partly motivated by a series of bombings

The Kellog-Briand pact of 1928

was signed with wide international acclaim

The principal force behind the creation of great public buildings in the late nineteenth century was

wealthy residents

For many middle class americans, the major labor upheavals of the late nineteenth century

were dangerous signs of social instability

The farmers' alliances

were far more widespread than the Grange movement

In 1941, prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

President Franklin Roosevelt froze all Japanese assets in the US

Advocates of the "New South"

Promoted southern industry and railroad development

The leader of Hawaii who was forced to yield authority to the american government upon annexation was

Queen Liliuokalani

All of the following nations were signatories to the five-power pact of 1922 EXCEPT

Russia

The abraham lincoln brigade is associated with

Spanish Civil War

Which of the following statements regarding the Spanish-American battle casualties

U.S Army soldiers were well-equipped and supplied

Which statement about education in the late nineteenth century is FALSE

funding for public education was highest in rural areas

In the late nineteenth century, which of the following was NOT a major western industry that relied on the East for markets and capital

fur trading

In the 1930s, the congress of Industrial Organizations

grew out of a dispute within the American Federation of Labor

In the 1930s, the congress of industrial organizations

grew out of dispute within the American Federation of labor

During the Progressive Era, the women's club movement

had a national organization to coordinate club activities

In the 1920s, the "flapper" lifestyle

had a particular impact on urban lower-middle class and working-class single women

During Theodore Roosevelt's, first three years as president

he desired to win for government the power to investigate corporations and publicize the results

The washington conference of 1921

attempted to prevent a global naval arms race.

During the early twentieth century, the Industrial workers of the world

Advocated a single union for all workers

The Hoover administration addressed the economic situation of American farmers with the

Agricultural Marketing Act

During the late nineteenth century, anarchists in the United States

All of these answers are correct

The Dawes Plan of 1924

All of these answers are correct

In the early stage of the Spanish-American war, commodore George Dewey destroyed the Spanish fleet in

Manila harbor

The most prominent exponent of black nationalism following World War 1 was

Marcus Garvey

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

England, Ireland, and northern Europe

During the 1920s, the National Women's Party campaigned primarily for the

Equal Rights Amendment

During the progressive era, the acknowledged leader of American socialism was

Eugene V. Debs

As part of the foreign policy, president herbert hoover moved to withdraw american troops from

Haiti

In the late nineteenth century, as veterans of the civil war retired

a majority of the black and white population in the North received federal pensions

During the 1920s, the agricultural economy of the US saw

a sharp decline in farmer's incomes

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

a single land tax to replace all other taxes

In the late nineteenth century, the assimilation of immigrants was encouraged by

all answers are correct

During the first year of the national recovery administration,

all of these answers are correct

In the 1920s, the development of practical radio communication was furthered by

all these answers are correct

Northern commitment to reconstruction waned as a result of

all these answers are correct

The interstate commerce act of 1897

all these answers are correct

The Neutrality Act of 1937

allowing warring nations to purchase nonmilitary goods in the US if they paid cash

In the late nineteenth century, fences for plains farms were usually made from

barbed wire

The federal government's response to the "bonus army" included

both the use of six tanks to rout the veterans from washington, and the injuring of over 100 members

In the campaign of 1896, William Mckinley

campaigned largely from his house

By the 1890s, populations in the biggest urban areas

consisted mostly of foreign-born immigrants and their children

In his 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

criticized the American obsession with material wealth

Following the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939, President Franklin Roosevelt

declared the US would remain neutral

At the turn of the twentieth century, the leaders of the settlement house movement

directed their attention to improving urban living conditions

In the 1930s, President Franklin Roosevelt carried out international policies that

established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union

During the 1920s, most American industrial workers experienced all of the following EXCEPT

few opportunities to join a company union

American agriculture at the turn of the century benefited from

foreign crop failures

During the late nineteenth century, all of the following innovations occurred in consumer goods except the

formation of credit card companies

in his books, Horatio Alger

inspired readers with stories of Americans rising from "rags to riches"

Which of the following statements about the American railroad industry in the late nineteenth century is false

it saw Congress outlaw railroad combinations

In 1932, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation

lent funds only to financial institutions with sufficient collateral

During WW1, the council of national defense eventually organized the national economy by creating

local defense councils

In 1939, after the soviet union signed a nonaggression pact with Nazi Germany, the american communist party

lost a significant portion of its membership

In 1932, Franklin Roosevelt's promise of a "new deal" for America included a commitment to

none of these answers are correct

The Hawley-Smoot tariff of 1930

none of these answers is correct

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

one percent of corporations controlled one-third of all manufacturing

During the Harding administration, the United States

proposed a dramatic reduction in the fleets of the United States, Britain, and Japan

The sheppard-towner act of 1921

provided federal funds for child health care programs

During WW1, the US government primarily financed the war through

public bond sales and new taxes

In the late nineteenth century, urban political bosses did all of the following EXCEPT

reduce the costs of city services

In his writings during the late 1800s, the popular author Hamlin Garland

reflected the growing disillusionment of western farmers

In his foreign policy for Latin America, President Herbert Hoover

repudiated the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine