U.S. History 2012 Exam

Which of the following most allowed manufacturers to build their factories away from rivers?

electricity

The primary goal of the NAACP was

equality among races

Who were the exodusters?

former slaves from the South who settled on the Great Plains

Which of the following did Social Darwinism discourage?

government regulation

When the Civil war began, what was Abraham Lincoln's main goal?

to restore the Union

The main immigration processing station in San Francisco was called

Angel Island

On what did the Roosevelt Corollary build?

Monroe Doctrine

Which country's residents became citizens of the United States in 1917?

Puerto Rico

The law that required truthful labels was the

Pure Food and Drug Act

Which event was a direct result of the Compromise of 1850?

California became a free territory

All of the following were actively involved in securing the right to vote for women except

Florence Kelly

Tammany Hall was the name of

New York customs House

Which of the following did the United States insist that Cuba include in its constitution?

Platt Amendment

Which of the following events occurred first?

Sand Creek Massacre

What war ended with the Treaty of Paris of 1898?

Spanish-American War

In which of the following conflicts were U.S. military troops not involved?

The Russian-Japanese War

In which of the following places did 146 female workers die in a fire?

Triangle T-shirt

The first person to use the presidency as a "bully pulpit" was

Theodore Roosevelt

Why did the policy of treating the Great Plains as a huge reservation change?

White settlers began wanting the land on the Plains

In the election of 1912, the candidate considered least pleasing to reformers was

William H. Taft

Who told the artist Frederic Remington, "You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war"?

William Randolph Hearst

Daniel Burnham's plan for the city of Chicago emphasized?

a lakefront park system

Cities in the late 19th century expanded with development of all of the following except

airplanes

The main goal of the Americanization movement was to

assimilate people of various cultures into the dominant culture

What did the Supreme Court declare in the Dred Scott decision?

being in free territory did not make a slave free

What was included in the de Lome letter ?

criticisms of President Mckinley

The main goal of Chinese Exclusion Act was to

decrease Chinese immigration

Southern states sometimes used the grandfather clause to allow them to

deny voting rights to African Americans who passed the literacy test

Why was Pullman, Illonois, an unusual town?

it was built by a company to house its workers

Muckrakers were

journalists

Which of the following was not central to the life and culture of the Plains Indians in the 1800s?

land ownership

In which of the following areas did the South have an advantage over the North in the Civil war?

military leadership

Which of the following did NOT stimulate U.S. imperialism?

need for a new source of cheap labor

For which action did Theodore Roosevelt win the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize?

negotiating an end to war between Russia and Japan

The progressive movement regarded all of the following as worthy goals except

promoting business monopolies

The factor that prevented the greatest number of children from attending public highschools was

racism

A bill that originates from the people rather than legislators is known as

referendum

Under popular sovereignty, who would decide whether slavery would be allowed in a territory?

residents of the territory

In the mid-1800s, the majority of women who held jobs worked as

servants

Settlement houses were founded in the late 1800s by

social reformers

Which of the following marked the end of the wars between the federal government and the Plains Indians?

the Treaty of Fort Laramie

What made it possible to construct skyscrapers in the 1800s?

the invention of the elevators

Skyscrapers were made possible by the invention of

the the elevators and steel framework

What was the purpose of the Foraker Act?

to end military rule and set up civil government in Puerto Rico

In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposed

unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry