HIS 132 Study Guide

Which act established a commission that had the task of investigating unfair business practices and stopping them if necessary?

Federal Trade Commission Act

All of the following were reasons for the depth and length of the Great Depression, except

High taxes on Americans

The term "Gilded Age" was coined by

Mark Twain.

The first mail-order business was

Montgomery Ward.

All of the following are true statements about Prohibition except

Most people embraced it as a solution to the social problems caused by alcohol and alcoholism.

The National American Woman's Suffrage Association, working state to state between 1911 and 1914, gained the right to vote for women in several states, but not in the state of

New York.

Theodore Roosevelt was the first president to make effective use of the

Sherman Antitrust Act.

Within twenty years of the first oil discovery, ____ Oil Company controlled 90 percent of the country's petroleum.

Standard

In the years following the Civil War, those most interested in the newly opened lands in the West were

corporate interests with headquarters in northern cities.

During the winter of 1932-1933, the Depression

deepened, with neither the lame duck president nor the president-elect able to act effectively.

The 19th Amendment

granted women the right to vote.

Lincoln's plan for bringing the southern states back into the Union was viewed by many Republican members of Congress as

much too lenient.

The new Panama Canal that began operation in 1914

opened just before World War I broke out.

Hoover's only significant attempt to address the economic crisis was to

establish the Reconstruction Finance Corporation that loaned money to businesses.

The Emergency Banking Relief Act of 1933

established federal control over banks and rescued those in trouble with government loans.

The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 created

a regional banking system under control of the federal government.

The "spark" that set World War I into motion was

the assassination of the Austrian Archduke, Franz Ferdinand, by a Serb nationalist.

In the improving American economy of the 1920s,

the percentage of national wealth that went to the poorest 60 percent fell by almost 13 percent during the 1920s, causing the wealthy to increase their wealth at the expense of the poor.

When President Theodore Roosevelt spoke of his "square deal," he referred to his fair and balanced approach to

the relationship between labor and business.

Grant's presidential administration is remembered most for

political chicanery and corruption.

Between 1880 and 1920, approximately ____ people came to America from other countries.

10 million

The Homestead Act of 1862 provided a way for settlers to move West, occupy land for five years, and then claim as their own a total of

160 acres.

Muckrakers were investigative writers who exposed

All of these choices.

The disruptive effects of the Dust Bowl on residents included

All of these choices.

The railroad strike of 1877 is evidence of

All of these choices.

What effect did the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments have on the women's suffrage movement?

All of these choices.

Which was true for most immigrants to America?

All of these choices.

The makeshift towns put together by the homeless during the Depression were often called

Hoovervilles.

As the Industrial Revolution progressed in America, all of the following occurred except

Immigration became less important to America.

What did the 18th Amendment do?

It made prohibition the law of the land.

One of the earliest American preservationists was

John Muir.

Which of the following agencies put millions of men to work building roads and creating national parks?

Public Works Administration

Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens were members of a group known as

Radical Republicans.

When General George Armstrong Custer attempted to protect white prospectors on sacred Indian lands, Sioux and Cheyenne warriors annihilated them, led by

Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.

Booker T. Washington's speech, now referred to as the Atlanta Compromise, suggested that

Southern blacks should improve their economic standing through self-help but remain separate from white society except to work together to reach common economic ground.

What event marked the failure and end of Reconstruction in the South?

The Compromise of 1877 brought moderate Republican Rutherford B. Hayes to the White House where he promptly withdrew federal troops from the South.

All of the following were part of the treaty that ended the Spanish-American War except

The U.S. gained Hawaii.

Which of the following is the most accurate statement about rural Americans during the Great Depression?

The Great Depression simply exacerbated a decade-long problem of overproduction and lowered revenues.

The first moving picture with sound was

The Jazz Singer.

Who summed up his foreign policy with this statement: "Speak softly and carry a big stick"?

Theodore Roosevelt

Congress responded to Lincoln's Ten-Percent Plan, as it was known, by passing the

Wade-Davis Bill.

"Robber barons" or "captains of industry" were businessmen who

amassed large fortunes between 1865 and 1900 with ruthlessness and ingenuity.

Henry Ford revolutionized the automobile industry by developing the

assembly line.

Because of his concern with the nation's dwindling natural preserves President Theodore Roosevelt

created five national parks and fifty wildlife refuges.

The Dawes Act

divided tribal lands among native families into individual plots of land and put the land titles in a federal trust.

The major industries that developed in the South prior to 1900 included all of the following except

electricity.

The Haymarket strike led to

growing anti-union sentiment nationwide.

By the time the stock market crash had reached the bottom in 1932, stocks had

lost almost 90 percent of their original value.

By 1920, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that for the first time,

more people lived in urban areas than in non-urban (rural) areas.

During the Civil War, Congress took advantage of the absence of southerners in the House and Senate to do all of the following, except

prohibit child labor.

The Fifteenth Amendment

prohibited any state from denying citizens the right to vote on the grounds of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Although corrupt, New York's Tammany Hall appealed to

recent immigrants and job seekers.

The purpose of the 21st Amendment, enacted in December 1933, was to

repeal the Prohibition Amendment.

In the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court held that segregation laws governing public accommodations such as railroads and public schools were constitutional based on the Court's finding that

separate public facilities for each race had been provided and that no qualitative difference existed between the two racially-based sets of public accommodations.

The first target of Progressive reform was

the cities.

As a result of the Panic of 1873,

the nation blamed Republicans for the economic crisis, enabling the Democrats to win seventy-seven congressional seats in the 1874 election.

Immediately after the Civil War, many white landowners

tried without success to force blacks who had once been their slaves to work under very similar conditions, even to the point of using the whip.

After the Spanish-American War ended and the peace treaty was signed, the United States passed the Platt Amendment, which

was added to the Cuban constitution and gave the United States the right to intervene militarily should revolution threaten.

In the aftermath of the Civil War, women's rights activists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Olympia Brown did all of the following, except

wholeheartedly campaign on behalf of the political and economic rights of black men.