AP US History Chapters 16-21 Test Study Guide

At the end of the nineteenth century, most Americans viewed leisure time as

being desirable

By 1900, the transportation systems of American cities included

elevated railroads subways eletric trolley cars

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 1914-1915, the United States responded to a British naval blockade of Germany by

ending trade with germany but continuing it with Great Britinan

In the late nineteenth century, the Tammany Hall political machine

saw its most famous boss, william m. tweed, sent to prison

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

All these answers are correct

In the late nineteenth century, the assimilation of immigrants was encouraged by

the sale of american products public education church leaders

The Chinese Boxer Rebellion of 1900 was directed at

all foreigners in china

During World War I, American ground troops

saw combat that was relatively brief but intense

Regarding women and the professions during the Progressive Era,

social work was generally thought to b an appropriate career for women

The largest number of immigrants to the United States 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 legislatures

The 1904 "Roosevelt Corollary"

stated that the US had a 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 the creation of the league of nations in the postwar period

In 1890 at Wounded Knee, South Dakota,

the U.S. Seventh Cavalry massacred more than 300 Indians.

The Treaty of Paris concluding the Spanish-American War

transferred the philippines and puerto rico to the United States

The term "muckrakers" referred to

Journalists

In the late nineteenth century, due to the growth of industrial capitalism, American workers

all these answers are correct

In order to secure control of the Panama Canal zone, the United States

assisted a revolution in panama

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

banned chinese in the US from becoming naturalized citizens

Prior to the Civil War, the steel industry in the United States

barely developed at all

During World War I, extensive systems of trenches were used by both sides

because the destructive power of warpons menat soliders could not live in the open feild

The so-called "Zimmermann telegram"

included a proposal fo rthe retun of the American southwest to mexico

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

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

not ratify it

The recall and the direct primary were progressive-era political reforms designed to weaken

political parties

The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887

put in place a series of regulations for railroad companies had little practical effect for decades created a five-person commission to oversee the act (all the above)

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

referred to chinese indentured servents

In 1917, automobile production in the United States

saw nearly five million cars on american roads

In the 1860s, cattle drives from Texas to Missouri

saw the herds suffer heavy losses proved that cattle xould be friven to distant markets established a link to the booming urban markets of the east

A key to Henry Ford's success in the mass production of automobiles was

the moving assembly line

In the late nineteenth century, political "machines" in cities owed their existence to the

the rapid grouwht of urban american and the influence of millions of immigrants

The Chinese from California became the major source of labor for the transcontinental railroad because

they worked for lower wages than whites would accept

In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson believed the Paris Peace Conference treaty

was a success because of the acceptance of the league of nations

The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890

was used by the federal government against labor unions

The theory of Social Darwinism

was used to justify the social consequences of industrial capitalism.

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, "range wars" in the West were often between

white american ranchers and farmers

The "Cross of Gold" speech was given in 1896 by

william jennings bryan

An examination of American voters in the late nineteenth century reveals

woter turnout for both presidential and nonpresidential elections was very high.

Who among the following began to develop an oil empire by taking control of competing oil companies in Ohio?

John D. Rokefeller

At the turn of the twentieth century, progressive activists

belived in the importance of social cohesion

The immediate cause of war in Europe in 1914 was

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

In 1920, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti

All these answers are correct: admitted they were anarchists. were convicted of murder. drew widespread support from the public. both admitted they were anarchists and drew widespread support from the public.

In 1920, passage of the Nineteenth Amendment

Gave women the right to vote

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the working class in the western economy was

Hifhly multicultural Highly divided along racial lines paid higher wages than workers in the east

In the late nineteenth century, the population in urban areas of the United States

Increased 700 percent in the fifty years after the civil war

In the late nineteenth century, crime in large American urban centers

Led many city governments to vreate professional public police departments and included murder rates that were higher than would occur in the 1980s and 1990s

The first significant oil production in the United States occurred in

Pennsylvania

Which tribe should be included among the Plains Indians?

Sioux Pawnee Arapaho Cheyenne

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

Sirected ttheir attention to improving urban living conditions

In the nineteenth century, vaudeville theater

consisted of a variety of stage acts

The Spanish-American War began primarily because of events in

cuba

During the Progressive Era, supporters of woman suffrage argued that female voters

deserved the cote because of their unique traits as women

The policy idea behind "Dollar Diplomacy" was to

extend investments vy the US in less-developed regions

The temperance movement between 1914 and 1919

gained momentum as a result of WWI

During the late nineteenth century, college education for American women

had expanded significantly

Prior to its annexation by the United States in 1898, Hawaii

had witnessed a revolution staged by american planters

Theodore Roosevelt's famous charge in the battle of San Juan Hill, in the Spanish-American War,

has been sonsidered bold and rekless was a minor par of the battle Actually took plave on kettle hill resulted in nearly a 100 americans dead or wounded

The western cattle industry saw Mexican ranchers first develop

saddles spurs lariats, leather chaps