History

Approximately what percent of early rodeo contestants were women?

10%

When did the United States begin trading with China?

1784

Which census first revealed that a majority of Americans were living in cities?

1920

By 1890, in most large northern cities, immigrants and their children amounted to what percent of the population?

60%

What was the Open-Door Policy?

A call for all western powers to have equal access to Chinese markets

What was the Lost Cause?

A glorification of the memory of the Confederacy and a romanticization of the Old South as a pastoral land with benevolent masters and happy slaves

What economic opportunity drew the most migrants to the West?

Access to land for agriculture

The Paiute prophet Wovoka promised that which of the following would occur if Indians obeyed his instructions and participated in the ceremony that came to be called the Ghost Dance

All of these

The Socialist Party of America achieved which of the following gains in the early twentieth century?

All of these

What explains the popularity of Wild West shows?

All of these

What tactics were used to disenfranchise Black voters?

All of these

Which of the following factors contributed to William McKinley's victory over William Jennings Bryan in the 1896 election?

All of these

Which of the following statements regarding "muscular Christianity" are true:

All of these

By 1913, the United States produced one-third of the world's industrial output. This was more than __________.

All of these combined

What was Frederick Jackson Turner's "Frontier Thesis?"

American culture was forged by the struggle between civilized settlers and savage frontier life, giving it a democratic and hardworking spirit

Which of these authors criticized Victorian era gender norms?

Both of these

Which city served as the most important railroad hub, connecting the East and the West?

Chicago

Which ethnic group faced the most rigid immigration restrictions?

Chinese

As President, Theodore Roosevelt transformed the American navy by emphasizing which of the following strategies?

Creating battleships and a "blue water" navy that would win battles against rival fleets

How did the Roosevelt Corollary modify the Monroe Doctrine?

Declaring that the U.S. had the right to preemptive action through intervention in any Latin American nation to correct administrative and fiscal deficiencies

Immigrant Americans tended to vote for which political party?

Democratic Party

The Homestead Act granted official title to160 acre plots of land after how many years of settlement?

Five Years

Which of the following events most seriously damaged the Knights of Labor?

Haymarket Affair

Why did William Jennings Bryan attack the Gold Standard?

He wanted to increase inflation to lower the burden of farmers debts

________________, wrote an influential book, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases and helped inspire the anti-lynching movement.

Ida B. Wells

Which of the following groups was the most radical?

Knights of Labor

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Lesson 2

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Lesson 3

Most practices and objects associated with American cowboys were modified from ______ ranchers.

Mexican

During the nineteenth century, American interests in the Middle East revolved around all of the following EXCEPT

Oil

How did the United States respond to the Boxer Rebellion in China?

President McKinley sent the U.S. Army into China without consulting congress

Catholic clergymen who took up the name "Americanists" believed in all of the following EXCEPT

Public schools were a danger to the Catholic faith

Which group received more land from the government?

Railroad companies

All of the following groups provided cultural space for immigrants to maintain their arts, languages, and traditions EXCEPT

Rotary Clubs

Which group founded the People's Party (also known as the Populists)?

Small farmers in the South, Midwest, and Great Plains

Which of the following most accurately describes the arguments of Social Darwinism?

State welfare and private charity would lead to degeneration by perpetuating the survival of the weak

What most directly explains the boost in production of McCormick reapers?

The adoption of interchangeable parts

All of the following statements regarding the boosters of the New South are true EXCEPT

They saw economic independence as a means of limiting connections between North and South

All of the following statements regarding the Guano Islands Act of 1856 are true EXCEPT

This legislation put Guano Islands on a path to statehood that later was rejected

What was the purpose of Western cattle drives?

To bring cattle to eastern markets, mostly through railroad hubs

A wave of mergers peaked between 1897 and 1904. The largest of these mergers created the first billion-dollar American corporation. What was that corporation?

United States Steel

The Spanish-American War resulted in the United States acquiring all the following territories from the Spanish EXCEPT

the Philippines