APUSH
During the Great Depression in the rural U.S.,
1/3 of all farmers lost their land
The Spanish-American War began primarily because of events in
Cuba
Who among the following began to develop an oil empire by taking control of competing oil companies in Ohio?
John D. Rockefeller
The first significant oil production in the U. S. occurred in
Pennsylvania
All of the following factors were causes of the Great Depression except
The causes: an unstable European economy, lack of diversification in U.S. economy, misdistribution of purchasing power, weak consumer demand
The "Cross of Gold" speech was given in 1896 by
William Jennings Bryan
The 1930s films of director Frank Capra typically displayed
admiration for ordinary Americans
In 1920, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
admitted they were anarchists, were convicted of murder, and drew wide spread support from the public
At the turn of the twentieth century, progressive activists
believed in the transformational enlightenment of the public opinion
In 1933, two days after he took office, President Franklin Roosevelt
closed all the banks
In the nineteenth century, vaudeville theater
consisted of a variety of stage acts
The Scopes trial of 1925 was a legal battle between
creationism and evolution
In his 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
criticized American obsession with material wealth
During the Progressive Era, supporters of woman suffrage argued that female voters
deserved the vote because of the unique traits of women
The Social Security Act of 1935
did not begin making payments to participants for years
At the turn of the twentieth century, the leaders of the settlement house movement
directed their attention to improving urban living conditions
In the 1920s, artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance
drew heavily from their African heritage
BY 1900, the transportation systems of American cities included
elevated railroads, subways, electric trolleys and cable cars, suspension bridges
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 1914-15, the U.S. responded to the British naval blockade of Germany by
ending trade with Germany and continuing trade with Britain
The National Origins Act of 1924
entirely banned immigration from East Asia to the U.S.
In the late nineteenth century, crime in large American urban centers
led many city governments to create professional public police departments, crime swelled in the 20 years between 1880 and 1900, was often blamed on the violent proclivities of immigrant groups
During the 1930s, regarding radio,
listening was often a community experience
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
In the workplace, the "open shop" meant
no worker was required to join a union
Regarding the Treaty of Versailles, the U.S. Senate decided in 1919 to
not ratify the treaty
The recall and the direct primary were progressive-era political reforms designed to weaken
political parties
In 1933, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
protected assets of bank depositers
The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887
put in place a series of regulations for railroads, little real effect for decades, created a 5 person commission to oversee it
The Civilian Conservation Corps
put unemployed to work on rural and wilderness areas
In the nineteenth century, political "machines" in cities owed their existence to the
rapid growth of urban America and the influx of millions of immigrants
During the nineteenth century, in the Far West the term "coolie"
referred to Chinese indentured servants
Between his election in 1932 and the inauguration in 1933, Franklin Roosevelt
refused to make any agreements with previous president Hebert Hoover
The western cattle industry saw Mexican ranchers first develop
saddles, spurs, lariats, and leather chaps
During the late nineteenth century, the growth of large corporations was helped by
sales of company stock to the public, limited liability laws, realization that ventures could not be financed by a single person
In 1917, automobile production in the U.S.
saw 5 million cars on American roads
In the late nineteenth century, due to the growth of industrial capitalism, American workers
saw a rise in their standard of living, experienced a loss in their control over their own work, were forced to contend with arduous and dangerous working conditions
During WWI, American ground troops
saw combat that was brief but intense
In the late nineteenth century, the Tammany Hall political machine
saw its most famous boss, William M. Tweed, sent to prison
Prior to the Civil War, the steel industry in the U.S.
saw little development
Throughout the 1920s, the performance of the U.S. economy
saw nearly uninterrupted prosperity with severe inequalities
In the 1860s, cattle drivers from Texas to Missouri
saw the herds suffer heavy losses, proved that cattle could be driven to distant markets, and established a link to booming urban markets of the East
Regarding women and the professions during the Progressive Era,
social workers were thought as an appropriate career for woman
The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933
sought to raise crop prices by paying farmers not to plant
The largest number of immigrants to the U.S. 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 legislators
The 1904 "Roosevelt Corollary"
stated that the U.S. had the 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 creation of a League of Nations
During the 1920s, products that grew dramatically in use in the U.S. included
synthetic fibers, plastics, home appliances, and electronics
In 1890 at Wounded Knee, South Dakota,
the U.S. Seventh Calvary massacred three hundred Indians
The immediate cause of was in Europe in 1914 was
the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
A key to Henry Ford's success in the mass production of automobile was
the assembly line
President Herbert Hoover responded to the onset of the Great Depression by
urging voluntary cooperation from business leaders
An examination of American voters in the late nineteenth century reveals
voter turnout for both presidential and non-presidential elections was very high
Which tribe should not be included among the Plains Indians?
Does include: Sioux, Arapaho, Pawnee, and Cheyenne
In order to secure control of the Panama Canal zone, the U.S.
assisted with a revolution in Panama
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
banned Chinese in the U.S. from becoming naturalized citizens
During WWI, extensive systems of trenches were used by both sides
because of the destructive power of weapons which meant soldiers couldn't live on the open field
At the end of the nineteenth century, most Americans viewed leisure time as
being desirable
In response to President Franklin Roosevelt's first days in office, the American people
felt a mixture of relief and hope
The Chinese Boxer Rebellion of 1900 was directed at
foreigners
The temperance movement between 1914 and 1919
gained momentum due to WWI
In 1920, passage of the Nineteenth Amendment
gave women the right to vote
The policy idea behind "Dollar Diplomacy" was to
get investments and U.S. influence in less developed regions
Prior to its annexation by the U.S. in 1898, Hawaii
had a revolution staged by American planters
In the 1920s, the "flapper" lifestyle
had an impact on the lower middle class and single women
During the late nineteenth century, college education for American women
had expanded significantly
In the second half of the nineteenth century, the working class in the western economy was
highly multiracial, highly divided along racial lines, and paid higher wages than workers in the East
The so-called "Zimmermann Telegram"
included proposal of return of American Southwest to Mexico
The term "muckrakers" referred to
journalists
The theory of Social Darwinism
justified the social consequences of industrial capitalism
In the late nineteenth century, the assimilation of immigrants was encouraged by
the sale of American products, public education, church leaders, religious reform
The federal government's response to the "Bonus Army" included
the use of 6 tanks to route the veterans, injuring over 100 marchers
During the 1920s, as a result of the 18th Amendment,
there was a substantial reduction in the consumption of alcohol, considerable violation of the law banning alcohol, organized crime gained access to an enormous lucrative industry
The Chinese from California became the major source of labor for the transcontinental railroad because
they worked for lower wages than what whites would accept
The Treaty of Paris concluding the Spanish-American War
transferred the Philippines and Puerto Rico to the U.S.
Franklin Roosevelt's victory over Herbert Hoover in 1932
was a convincing mandate
In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson believed the Paris Peace Conference treaty
was a success because of the acceptance of the League of Nations
Theodore Roosevelt's famous charge in the battle of San Juan Hill, in the Spanish-American War,
was considered bold and reckless, was minor part of the battle, took place on Kettle Hill, and resulted in 100 American dead or wounded
President Franklin Roosevelt's proposal to expand the Supreme Court
was defeated in Congress
The "Dust Bowl" in the 1930s
was the product of changing environmental conditions
The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890
was used by the federal government against labor unions
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, the population in urban areas of the U.S.
were most often foreign born immigrants and their children
In the late nineteenth century, "range wars" in the West were often between
white American ranchers and farmers