AP US History Chapters 16-21 Test Study Guide
At the end of the nineteenth century, most Americans viewed leisure time as
being desirable
By 1900, the transportation systems of American cities included
elevated railroads subways eletric trolley cars
In his books, Horatio Alger
emphasized the value of personal character in business.
Marcus Garvey
encouraged African Americans to reject assimilation into white society
In 1914-1915, the United States responded to a British naval blockade of Germany by
ending trade with germany but continuing it with Great Britinan
In the late nineteenth century, the Tammany Hall political machine
saw its most famous boss, william m. tweed, sent to prison
During the late nineteenth century, the growth of large corporations was helped by
All these answers are correct
In the late nineteenth century, the assimilation of immigrants was encouraged by
the sale of american products public education church leaders
The Chinese Boxer Rebellion of 1900 was directed at
all foreigners in china
During World War I, American ground troops
saw combat that was relatively brief but intense
Regarding women and the professions during the Progressive Era,
social work was generally thought to b an appropriate career for women
The largest number of immigrants to the United States in the late nineteenth century came from
southern and eastern Europe
The initiative and referendum were progressive-era political reforms designed to weaken the power of
state legislatures
The 1904 "Roosevelt Corollary"
stated that the US had a right to intervene in the affairs of neighboring countries
In what industry did the Homestead strike of 1892 occur?
steel
In the aftermath of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York City,
strict regulations were imposed on factory owners
In January 1917, President Woodrow Wilson, in a speech before Congress,
suggested the creation of the league of nations in the postwar period
In 1890 at Wounded Knee, South Dakota,
the U.S. Seventh Cavalry massacred more than 300 Indians.
The Treaty of Paris concluding the Spanish-American War
transferred the philippines and puerto rico to the United States
The term "muckrakers" referred to
Journalists
In the late nineteenth century, due to the growth of industrial capitalism, American workers
all these answers are correct
In order to secure control of the Panama Canal zone, the United States
assisted a revolution in panama
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
banned chinese in the US from becoming naturalized citizens
Prior to the Civil War, the steel industry in the United States
barely developed at all
During World War I, extensive systems of trenches were used by both sides
because the destructive power of warpons menat soliders could not live in the open feild
The so-called "Zimmermann telegram"
included a proposal fo rthe retun of the American southwest to mexico
During the mid-nineteenth century, Hispanics living in California
lost ownership of large areas of land
The Sabotage Act and the Sedition Act of 1918
made illegal any public expression opposing the war
Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel, The Jungle, encouraged the federal government to regulate the
meat packing industry
Regarding the Treaty of Versailles, the United States Senate decided in 1919 to
not ratify it
The recall and the direct primary were progressive-era political reforms designed to weaken
political parties
The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887
put in place a series of regulations for railroad companies had little practical effect for decades created a five-person commission to oversee the act (all the above)
During the nineteenth century, in the Far West the term "coolie"
referred to chinese indentured servents
In 1917, automobile production in the United States
saw nearly five million cars on american roads
In the 1860s, cattle drives from Texas to Missouri
saw the herds suffer heavy losses proved that cattle xould be friven to distant markets established a link to the booming urban markets of the east
A key to Henry Ford's success in the mass production of automobiles was
the moving assembly line
In the late nineteenth century, political "machines" in cities owed their existence to the
the rapid grouwht of urban american and the influence of millions of immigrants
The Chinese from California became the major source of labor for the transcontinental railroad because
they worked for lower wages than whites would accept
In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson believed the Paris Peace Conference treaty
was a success because of the acceptance of the league of nations
The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890
was used by the federal government against labor unions
The theory of Social Darwinism
was used to justify the social consequences of industrial capitalism.
To many middle-class Americans, the major labor upheavals of the late nineteenth century
were dangerous signs of social instability
In the late nineteenth century, "range wars" in the West were often between
white american ranchers and farmers
The "Cross of Gold" speech was given in 1896 by
william jennings bryan
An examination of American voters in the late nineteenth century reveals
woter turnout for both presidential and nonpresidential elections was very high.
Who among the following began to develop an oil empire by taking control of competing oil companies in Ohio?
John D. Rokefeller
At the turn of the twentieth century, progressive activists
belived in the importance of social cohesion
The immediate cause of war in Europe in 1914 was
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
In 1920, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
All these answers are correct: admitted they were anarchists. were convicted of murder. drew widespread support from the public. both admitted they were anarchists and drew widespread support from the public.
In 1920, passage of the Nineteenth Amendment
Gave women the right to vote
In the second half of the nineteenth century, the working class in the western economy was
Hifhly multicultural Highly divided along racial lines paid higher wages than workers in the east
In the late nineteenth century, the population in urban areas of the United States
Increased 700 percent in the fifty years after the civil war
In the late nineteenth century, crime in large American urban centers
Led many city governments to vreate professional public police departments and included murder rates that were higher than would occur in the 1980s and 1990s
The first significant oil production in the United States occurred in
Pennsylvania
Which tribe should be included among the Plains Indians?
Sioux Pawnee Arapaho Cheyenne
At the turn of the twentieth century, the leaders of the settlement house movement
Sirected ttheir attention to improving urban living conditions
In the nineteenth century, vaudeville theater
consisted of a variety of stage acts
The Spanish-American War began primarily because of events in
cuba
During the Progressive Era, supporters of woman suffrage argued that female voters
deserved the cote because of their unique traits as women
The policy idea behind "Dollar Diplomacy" was to
extend investments vy the US in less-developed regions
The temperance movement between 1914 and 1919
gained momentum as a result of WWI
During the late nineteenth century, college education for American women
had expanded significantly
Prior to its annexation by the United States in 1898, Hawaii
had witnessed a revolution staged by american planters
Theodore Roosevelt's famous charge in the battle of San Juan Hill, in the Spanish-American War,
has been sonsidered bold and rekless was a minor par of the battle Actually took plave on kettle hill resulted in nearly a 100 americans dead or wounded
The western cattle industry saw Mexican ranchers first develop
saddles spurs lariats, leather chaps