U.S. History
After the conflict between Russia and Japan in 1904-1905...
President Roosevelt took no direct action against Japan.
Which tribe should NOT be included among the Plains Indians?
The Chumash.
The 1920 Census of the United States revealed that...
a majority of Americans lived in "urban" areas.
During President Franklin D. Roosevelt's early days in office...
he promised to take drastic, even war-like, action against economic conditions.
The process of making steel developed by Henry Bessemer...
included both blowing air through molten iron and adding ingredients to molten iron. American, William Kelly developed it with him.
The open-hearth process of making steel...
made the production of large-dimension pieces possible.
President Theodore Roosevelt defined civilized and uncivilized nations on the basis of...
race and economic development.
"Muck-rakers"...
refers to journalists.
After 1929, in the face of the worsening global economic crisis, the United States...
refused to alter the payment schedule of debts owed by European Nations to America.
In the late nineteenth century, the most striking feature of the American Party System was it's...
remarkable stability.
Throughout the 1920's, the performance of the U.S. economy...
saw nearly uninterrupted prosperity coupled with severe inequalities.
In the late nineteenth century, industry in the United States...
saw the federal government eager to assist in its growth.
Beginning in February 1928 and lasting through most of 1929, the American stock market...
saw the number of shares traded daily soar.
As part of his Asian diplomacy, President Theodore Roosevelt
signed a secret agreement with Japan to ensure continued American trade in Asia, sent a fleet of battleships to Japan as a show of American military power, extracted from Russian a recognition of Japan's territorial gains in the Russo-Japanese War. (ALL ANSWERS ARE CORRECT.)
By the 1890s, the largest number of immigrants to the United States came from...
southern and eastern Europe.
The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 established...
the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
In 1904, Ida Tarbel published a highly critical study on...
the Standard Oil Trust.
In the mid-nineteenth century, the Plains Indians were...
the most widespread Indian groups in the West.
President Theodore Roosevelt's policies, in regard to Asia, were intended...
to prevent both Russia and China from becoming dominant there.
An examination of American voters in the late nineteenth century reveals...
voter turnout for both presidential and non-presidential elections was very high.
By the mid-1840's, the American west...
was extensively populated.
Throughout the late nineteenth century, the federal government...
was relatively inactive.
At the turn of the twentieth century, Progressive activists...
were "antimonopoly" and feared concentrated power.
During the 1920's, airplanes...
were largely a source of entertainment.
The Economy Act of 1933...
A. proposed to balance the federal budget and cut government workers' salaries.
In the 1920's, the development of practical radio communication was furthered by...
All Answers are Correct.
During the 1920's, products that grew dramatically in the United States included...
All answers are correct.
While Progressivism has many meanings it tended, in this period, to be based on the central assumption that...
American society was capable of improvement.
In the late nineteenth century, Democrats tended to attract greater numbers of...
Catholics.
Which Indian tribes were NOT found on the Pacific Coast of the far west?
Creek.
Prior to the Civil War, the steel industry in the United States...
barely developed at all.
In 1933, two days after he took office, President Franklin Roosevelt...
closed all banks for a short period.
All of the following factors contributed to the Great Depression EXCEPT...
conservative banking policies that restricted the availability of loans.
By 1890, populations in the biggest urban areas...
consisted mostly of foreign-born immigrants and their children.
In the late 1920's, the European demand for agricultural and manufacturing goods was...
declining.
In the late nineteenth century, immigrants in the United States...
generally lacked the capital to buy farmland.