US History Exam 1 (CH 16-21)

Compared to most other immigrant ethnic groups in the late nineteenth century, Jewish immigrants

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During the late nineteenth century, the growth of large corporations was helped by

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In the early twentieth century, the United States' actions toward Mexico included

All these answers are correct.

In the late nineteenth century, American universities

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In the late nineteenth century, leisure activities tended to be divided by

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The man appointed to supervise a major overhaul of the armed forces was

Elihu Root.

Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward discovered a utopian world in eighteenth-century America.

False

Management of Indian affairs by the federal government was in the hands of the army.

False

Progressive reforms tended to increase voter turnout in presidential elections.

False

The Treaty of Paris of 1898 required Spain to cede Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Guam to American control, without any compensation.

False

The history of American business organization saw the "pool" replace the "trust."

False

The middle-class women's club movement confined itself to working on middle-class issues.

False

White hostility to Chinese immigrants was rooted in the perception that they were lazy.

False

Which of the following statements about the American railroad industry in the late nineteenth century is FALSE?

It saw Congress outlaw railroad combinations.

Which American writer is LEAST associated with the trend toward social realism in literature in the late nineteenth century?

Mark Twain

The first significant oil production in the United States occurred in

Pennsylvania.

A number of Chinese immigrants worked in the mines of California before turning to the railroad for employment.

True

In early 1915, virtually the entire European continent was at war after the assassination of an Austrian archduke provided the spark to hostilities on the continent.

True

In the 1870s, nearly one out of every eighty miners was killed on the job.

True

President Wilson refused to consider any Republican amendments or reservations to the Treaty of Versailles.

True

Prior to the late nineteenth century, few Americans placed much value in leisure.

True

The American oil industry emerged in the late nineteenth century largely in response to the needs of the steel industry.

True

The new consumer economy appealed to women as consumers and hired women as sales clerks.

True

The temperance movement was strengthened by World War I.

True

The western working class was highly multiracial and stratified along racial lines.

True

Voter turnout for presidential elections in the late nineteenth century was much higher in terms of percentages than is the case today.

True

In 1892, the People's Party called for

a government network of crop warehouses.

After the elections of 1914, President Woodrow Wilson

began another round of progressive legislation.

During World War I, the War Industries Board (WIB)

coordinated government purchases of military supplies.

At the turn of the twentieth century, the leaders of the settlement house movement

directed their attention to improving urban living conditions.

Marcus Garvey

encouraged African Americans to reject assimilation into white society.

In the 1890s, Florence Kelley and the National Consumers League sought to

force retailers and manufacturers to improve wages and working conditions for women workers.

During the late nineteenth century, college education for American women

had expanded significantly.

Beginning in 1898, the American war in the Philippines

lasted for years and resulted in thousands of American deaths.

Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel, The Jungle, encouraged the federal government to regulate the

meatpacking industry.

In the 1840s and 1850s, in the Far West, the response by white Americans to the Chinese

moved from initial acceptance to gradual hostility.

Regarding the Treaty of Versailles, the United States Senate decided in 1919 to

not ratify it.

In Owen Wister's novel, The Virginian (1902), the American cowboy was

portrayed as a simple and virtuous frontiersman.

The Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890 called for the federal government to

purchase silver but not coin it.

Until its repeal in 1885, the Labor Contract Law

put many new immigrants in debt to American businessmen.

During the nineteenth century, in the Far West the term "coolie"

referred to Chinese indentured servants.

The Haymarket Square riot of 1886

resulted in the conviction and execution of several anarchists.

Between 1890 and 1910, incomes in the United States

rose for almost all Americans.

The Comstock Lode primarily produced

silver.

During the progressive era, significant voting rights for women were first won in

the Far West.

As governor of Wisconsin, the progressive reformer Robert La Follette helped win approval for

the direct primary, initiative, and referendum.

The Spanish-American War revealed to American military planners

the need to correct glaring deficiencies in the army.

President Theodore Roosevelt's policies, in regard to Asia, were intended

to prevent both China and Russia from becoming dominant there.

In the late nineteenth century, the surge of farming settlement in the West

was a result of many factors, but the most important was the railroad.