unit 7 test review
Which of the following can be concluded based on the historical context in which the excerpt was produced?
Americans were uncertain how to deal with the transition from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Which of the following would most likely be considered a significant limitation of the excerpt resulting from its purpose?
Because the excerpt suggests that the Standard Oil Company was undemocratic and unethical, it overlooks the benefits of economic consolidation.
Which of the following best explains a connection between policies intended to address the Great Depression and earlier Progressive Era reform policies?
Both sought to create a stronger financial regulatory system.
The ideas expressed in the excerpt best reflect which of the following developments?
Debates emerged over the proper role of the United States in the world.
Which of the following best explains the main cause of the Great Depression of the 1930s?
Episodes of credit and market instability undermined the financial system.
Which of the following contexts between 1900 and 1919 best helps to explain the developments in the excerpt?
Global conflicts led to new United States foreign policy to protect national security.
Which of the following explains a similarity between the United States economy in the early 1900s depicted in the excerpt and the United States economy in the first half of the 1800s?
In both periods, new technology increasingly connected Americans to commerce and markets.
Which of the following best explains the factor that most directly prompted United States entry into the Second World War in 1941 ?
Japan attacked the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor.
Demands for labor like that depicted in the image explains which of the following related effects?
Men and women migrated from rural areas to cities in order to work in defense industries.
Which of the following best explains changes in the federal government resulting from the Great Depression?
Policymakers developed a limited welfare state to reduce the effects of mass unemployment and social upheavals.
Which of the following best explains a long-term political change resulting from the New Deal?
Political alignments shifted as African Americans came to support the Democratic Party.
The purpose of the speech in the excerpt best supports which of the following arguments about United States foreign policy in the 1910s?
Political leaders advocated applying democratic principles to relationships between countries.
Which of the following pieces of evidence could best be used to modify the argument made in the excerpt?
Population growth in the South slowed as many people moved to the North and West.
The situation depicted in the excerpt was most significant because it led to which of the following outcomes?
Progressive Era reformers sought federal legislation and court action to help regulate economic markets.
The point of view of the first two paragraphs of the excerpt can best be used to support which of the following historical arguments?
Some political leaders pointed to traditions of self-determination when making foreign policy.
Which of the following best explains changes in migration patterns in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s?
The Great Depression of the 1930s and the increased demand for war production in the 1940s led many Americans to migrate to cities in search of economic opportunities.
In which of the following ways did the New Deal mark a departure from previous government practices?
The New Deal actively used government power to stimulate economic recovery.
The development depicted in the image best helps explain which of the following effects on United States foreign relations?
The United States and its allies won the war in part because they had sufficient military supplies.
Which of the following pieces of evidence could best be used to support the argument made in the excerpt?
The United States experienced persistent racial violence throughout the early twentieth century.
Which of the following social contexts best helps to explain the development discussed in the excerpt?
The United States population shifted from rural to urban areas.
Which of the following best explains how the United States sought to engage in world affairs in the 1920s and 1930s, the decades immediately following the First World War?
The United States used peace treaties and select military intervention to promote international order.
Which of the following is a limitation of using Bryan's speech to study the differences between imperialism and anti-imperialism in the early 1900s?
The anti-imperialist idea in the speech about the racial differences between Filipinos and White Americans was similar to the racial theories of imperialists.
The speech could best be used by a historian studying which of the following historical situations related to the First World War?
The changes in traditional ideas about United States noninvolvement in Europe
Which of the following long-term developments in the second half of the 1800s best helps to explain the change in United States culture depicted in the excerpt?
The creation of new manufacturing methods allowed factories to greatly increase production.
Which of the following developments during the mid-to-late 1910s could best be used as evidence to refute the argument made in the excerpt?
The economic situation of many African Americans in urban areas improved.
The excerpt can best be used to explain which of the following situations that resulted from the Spanish-American War?
The emergence of nationalist movements in areas under United States control
The excerpt could best be used to explain which of the following postwar situations?
The emergence of the United States as a global superpower
The development by the early 1900s depicted in the excerpt represented a continuation of which of the following earlier developments?
The growth of the middle class during the Gilded Age
The excerpt best explains which of the following historical situations during the late nineteenth century?
The increased involvement of the United States in Asia and the Pacific
The excerpt could best be used by a historian studying which of the following historical developments?
The persistence of popular isolationist sentiment in the United States in the early 1900s
The point of view expressed in the excerpt most directly contributes to a historical understanding of which of the following issues?
The role of the United States in the establishment of postwar peace settlements
Evidence from the excerpt could best be used to support which of the following arguments about journalists during the Progressive Era?
They feared that unfair corporate practices were undermining smaller companies and promoting economic inequality.
The publication of the excerpt most likely had which of the following purposes?
To increase opposition to the United States annexation of the Philippines
Which of the following contexts helps to explain the economic changes that contributed to the production of the excerpt?
Women experienced growing opportunities to earn wages.
Which of the following best explains the cause of the historical development depicted in the image?
Workforce shortages led to calls for women to perform jobs previously reserved for men.
Other world leaders most likely interpreted the excerpt as indicating that the United States was
taking a leading role in world diplomacy.
A context that helps to explain the development discussed in the excerpt is that, after 1920, Americans were debating
the appropriate gender roles for women in society
A limitation of using the speech excerpted to study opposition to the League of Nations is that the speech
was given before the Treaty of Versailles was concluded