U.S. History 1877 to present quiz questions

All of the following were members of the Rough Riders Regiment EXCEPT:

DMX

True or False: Mississippi's "Black Codes" allowed freedmen to own and/or carry firearms.

False

Which country's leadership collapsed in 1917, which then threw the course of the war into question?

Russia

Which of the following is NOT a representation of the right-wing backlash against "new" 1920's values?

The Lost Generation

Buffalo soldiers were:

The nickname given to the first peacetime U.S. Army African-American cavalry regiments by the native Americans hey fought

World War I laid the groundwork for all of the following EXCEPT:

lasting peace across the Western world

Which of the following was NOT promoted by the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s?

none of the above Protestant fundamentalism Devout patriotism White supremacy

Most labor unions were interested in obtaining all of the following EXCEPT:

A communist revolution

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, ___________was a monopoly or cartel associated with the large corporations of the Gilded and Progressive Eras which entered into agreements, legal or otherwise, or consolidations to exercise exclusive control over a specific product or industry under the control of a single entity.

A trust

In the early twentieth century, Many American reformers associated _________with nearly every social ill, including domestic abuse, poverty, crime, and disease. More insidiously, reformers also associated it with cities and immigrants, maligning by extension America's immigrants, Catholics, and working classes in their moral crusades.

Alcohol

In which of the following ways did white, middle-class, Christian women participate in American imperialism?

All of the Above They worked as representatives of American business. They served as missionaries, teachers, and medical professionals. As artists and writers, they popularized imperialist themes.

Which of the following were a result of Henry Ford's assembly line?

All of the Above By 1925, Ford's factories were turning out a Model-T every ten seconds. By 1929, Americans owned more cars than Great Britain, Germany, France, and Italy combined. In the late 1920s, 80 percent of the world's cars drove on American roads.

Dubbed the "Disease of the Age," Neurasthenia a symptom of which of the following?

All of the Above Victorianism was falling apart The older Victorian values were not working, which created nervousness among Victorians The widespread belief in Neurasthenia suggests the steady devaluing of Victorian cultural currency

Which of the following is TRUE regarding lynchings across the South during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

All of the above Victims were not simply hanged, they were mutilated, burned alive, and shot, while perpetrators posed for photos and collected mementos Lynchings could become carnivals, public spectacles attended by thousands of eager spectators where vendors sold souvenirs and keepsakes.

The creation of the railroads required which of the following?

All of the above the use of incorporation, legal innovation that protected shareholders from losses, and enormous amounts of government support

How did Americans justify American imperialism in light of the country's history as a former colony that was established on the principles of freedom, liberty, and sovereignty?

All the Above American imperialism was justified as a Protestant, civilizing mission. American imperialism was justified as the extension of a never-ending westward American expansion and as destiny. American imperialism was justified by the opportunities the Philippine Islands presented for access to Asian markets.

Which of the following was NOT a feature of American "gunboat diplomacy" at the turn of the twentieth century?

American naval forces and Marines engaged in humanitarian relief efforts to address poverty in Latin American and Caribbean countries in order to foster cordial relations and goodwill.

The Germans, realizing that submarine warfare could spark an American intervention, hoped the European war would be over before American soldiers could arrive in sufficient numbers to alter the balance of power. A German diplomat, _________, planned to complicate the potential American intervention by offering German support to the Mexican government in its struggle to regain Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. Mexican national leaders declined the offer, but the revelation of the German offer helped push the United States into the war.

Arthur Zimmerman

Which of the following is FALSE regarding American railroad companies?

As they crisscrossed the nation, they created dozens of regional markets, intensifying the country's regional economies, and seemingly, regional cultures.

In the 1920's, perhaps no sports figure left a bigger mark than did_________. The "Sultan of Swat," who grew up in an orphanage in Baltimore's slums, hit fifty-four home runs in 1920, which was more than any other team combined. More Americans could recognize him than they could the president, Warren G. Harding.

Babe Ruth

Which of the following was NOT a part of the Big Three that dominated early twentieth-century American political life?

Big Religion

Who was NOT a member of the Lost Generation, the leftist backlash against 1920s consumerism?

Billy Sunday

Which of the following was NOT a major form of racial violence in the Reconstruction period?

Black riots against White political authority

Which of the following is NOT a consumer value of the 1920s?

Character

Who first "diagnosed" neurasthenia?

Charles M. Beard

Which of the following was NOT a role for white women in the U.S. military during World War I?

Commissioned officers in military medical units

National Progressives sought to address political corruption in American cities in all of the following ways EXCEPT:

Corporations would be broken up in order to return the urban economy to the traditional Victorian free market economy.

_______ revolutionized the world. It powered the Second industrial Revolution, allowing factories to operate anywhere at any hour, allowed cities to build out, and because of elevators, to build cities up.

Electricity

Work breaks, recreation lounges, company-sponsored sports teams, company picnics, company swag and gear were all the results of ________ and his research into industrial psychology and production.

Elton Mayo

True or False: Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation committed the United States to the abolition of slavery. The proclamation freed enslaved people throughout the United States and applied to everyone and anyone in bondage no matter where they lived.

False

True or False: In his "Gospel of Wealth," steel magnate Andrew Carnegie deplored the modern world and yearned for a return to "the good old times"

False

True or False? Local progressives were associated with local, urban areas, and had accepted the place of corporations and mass politics as a result. They sought to reform, not to destroy, the new corporate trends in the American economy.

False

True or False? National progressives were associated with the sprawling countryside, and generally came from rural backgrounds in the Midwest and West. National progressives were suspicious of Urban America and its big cities. They sought to break up big corporations to allow small business and individuals to flourish.

False

True or False? The United States played a significant role in early-twentieth century global diplomacy: it often forayed into internal European politics; the federal government participated in international diplomatic alliances, and championed and assisted with the expansion of the transatlantic economy.

False

Which of the following did NOT immediately occur following the end of World War I in 1918?

Farmers enjoyed a bonanza of skyrocketing demand and soaring prices for their produce.

During the 1920s, northern, urban, single, young, middle-class women, who cut their hair short, sore short skirts, and engaged in smoking, drinking, and sexual experimentation might BEST be described as, " _________."

Flappers

___________ made the assembly line famous, allowing the production of automobiles to skyrocket as their cost plummeted.

Henry Ford

A business strategy that involves buying out the competition at one level of the production chain is known as ________.

Horizontal Integration

Which of the following was NOT part of the Victorian "strenuous life"?

Industrial Labor

______ was the most important factor that drew immigrants to the United States between 1880 and 1920.

Industrial capitalism

In 1890, New York City journalist, _________, published,___________, which not only vividly described turn-of-the-century urban squalor, but also documented it with photography, giving readers an unflinching view of urban poverty. The book led to housing reform in New York and other cities and helped instill the idea that society bore at least some responsibility for alleviating poverty.

Jacob Riis, "How the Other Half Lives"

"Muckrakers" were:

Journalists who exposed business practices, poverty, and corruption and aroused public demands for reform.

In his Principles of Scientific Management, Frederick Winslow Taylor argued for which of the following?

Management designed industrial production processes, not workers. Workers do what they're told.

_____________, an Afro-Jamaican who immigrated to New York City and the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Organization in 1914, argued that in order to thrive, Black America needed to go its own way. He advocated for "Black Capitalism," the idea that African-American businesses would cater to African-American customers, which would create a thriving economy apart from White America.

Marcus Garvey

Which of the following was NOT a revolution in American industry in the decades immediately following the Civil War?

New regulations were passed intended to address corruption in American business and politics.

In 1896, The United States Supreme Court established in __________,the legal principle of "separate but equal." Racially segregated facilities were legal provided they were equivalent. In practice, this was almost never the case.

Plessy vs. Ferguson

Immigrants into the United States in the 1840s and 1850s had primarily come from northwest Europe from Ireland and Germany specifically. Starting in the 1880s, the new main regional source of immigration into the United States shifted to:

Southern and Eastern Europe

In 1900, American troops joined a multinational force that intervened in China to prevent the closing of trade, by putting down the__________, a movement opposed to foreign businesses and missionaries operating in China. President McKinley sent the U.S. Army without consulting Congress, setting a precedent for U.S. presidents to order American troops to action around the world under their executive powers.

The Boxer Rebellion

Teddy Roosevelt insisted that the "big stick" and the persuasive power of the U.S. military could ensure U.S. hegemony over strategically important regions in the Western Hemisphere. As president, Roosevelt continued the policies he established as assistant secretary of the navy and expanded the U.S. Navy. He sent________ , sixteen battleships, around the world between 1907 and 1909 to demonstrate America's new power.

The Great White Fleet

Although British naval blockades that often stopped or seized ships proved annoying and costly, the unrestricted and surprise torpedo attacks from German submarines were deadly. In May 1915, Germans sank the ________. Over a hundred American lives were lost. The attack, coupled with other German attacks on American and British shipping, raised the ire of the American public and stoked the desire for war.

The RMS Lusitania

______ began when many Comanche bands refused to settle on reservations and the American military then launched expeditions into the Plains to subdue them, which culminated in the defeat of the remaining roaming Comanche bands in the canyonlands of the Texas Panhandle.

The Red River War

Which of the following powers were not involved in the start of World War I?

The United States

According to William T. Hormady , all of the following were reasons for the steep decline in bison numbers EXCEPT:

The glut of contradictory laws to protect the animals, but which were ineffective

What was the "Invisible Empire?"

The influence of the Ku Klux Klan across America as Klansmen were elected to local, county, and state governments.

Teddy Roosevelt advocated for the annexation of Hawaii for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

The islands lay well outside of America's sphere of influence, and Hawaiian annexation would demonstrate America's global power.

Andrew Carnegie made is fortune in:

The steel industry

Which of the following DIRECTLY led to British involvement in World War I?

The violation of Belgian neutrality in the course of German military maneuvers

As a treatment for her "neurasthenia," her doctor told Charlotte Perkins Gilman to do all of the following EXCEPT:

To avidly pursue her intellectual and emotional interests

The majority of American involvement in the Middle East prior to World War I came from all of the following interests EXCEPT:

Trade

True or False: Despite official segregation in the American military, Black leaders viewed military service as an opportunity to demonstrate to white society the willingness and ability of Black men to assume all duties and responsibilities of citizens, including wartime sacrifice. They reasoned that if Black soldiers were drafted and fought and died on equal footing with white soldiers, then white Americans would see that they deserved full citizenship.

True

True or False: During the war, more soldiers died from influenza than combat. The pandemic continued to spread after the armistice before finally fading in the early 1920s. No cure was ever found.

True

True or False: In his "Gospel of Wealth," steel magnate Andrew Carnegie accepted and welcomed the concentration of industrial and commercial business in the hands of a few industrialists, which he believed was essential for the future progress of humanity.

True

True or False: In his "Gospel of Wealth," steel magnate Andrew Carnegie also argued that it was the duty of the wealthy to give back to the community, in the form of philanthropy, to ensure that ll society benefited from the advances of industry,

True

True or False: Jim Crow segregation in both the military and the civilian sector stood as a barrier for Black women who wanted to give their time to the war effort. The military prohibited Black women from serving as enlisted or appointed medical personnel. The only avenue for Black women to wear a military uniform existed with the armies of the allied nations.

True

True or False: Mississippi's "Black Codes" granted some rights to African Americans, like the right to own property, to marry, and to make contracts.

True

True or False: Mississippi's "Black Codes" required all freedmen to carry papers proving they had means of employment. If they had no proof, they could be arrested., fined, or even re-enslaved and leased out to their former owners.

True

True or False: The American economy had lagged behind Britain, Germany, and France as recently as the 1860s, but by 1900 the United States was the world's leading manufacturing nation. Thirteen years later, by 1913, the United States produced one third of the world's industrial output-more than Britain, France, and Germany combined.

True

True or False: The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement rather than a political movement that stressed cultural identity more so than political action and stood as a proud affirmation of black culture in the American society.

True

True or False? In 1915, the European war had developed into a series of bloody trench stalemates that continued through the following year. Offensives, largely carried out by British and French armies, achieved nothing but huge numbers of casualties.

True

In 1906, ________published ________, a novel dramatizing the experiences of a Lithuanian immigrant family who moved to Chicago to work in the stockyards. Although intended to reveal the brutal exploitation of labor in the meatpacking industry, and thus to build support for the socialist movement, the novel's major impact was to lay bare the entire process of industrialized food production.

Upton Sinclair, "The Jungle"

_____ were a unique variety of popular entertainments. These traveling circuit shows first appeared during the Civil War and peaked between 1880 and 1920, and featured comedians, musicians, actors, jugglers, and other talents that could captivate an audience. Unlike earlier rowdy acts meant for a male audience that included alcohol, they were considered family-friendly entertainment, although the acts involved offensive ethnic and racial caricatures of African Americans and recent immigrants.

Vaudevilles

"Speakeasies" were:

Venues where illegal alcohol was publicly consumed, and where entry was gained by whispering a password.

A business strategy that involves controlling every phase of business (raw materials, transportation, manufacturing, distribution) is known as ________.

Vertical Integration

Who of the following was NOT a member of the Harlem Renaissance?

Warren G. Harding

What were the consequences of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920?

Women gained the right to vote.

Who was the American President during World War I, who was also the architect behind the League of Nations, the forerunner to the United Nations?

Woodrow Wilson

How did southern states like Mississippi accomplish black voter disfranchisement, when the Fifteenth Amendment clearly prohibited states from denying any citizen the right to vote on the basis of race?

all of the above The establishment of a poll tax, which required voters to pay for the privilege of voting. Strip suffrage from those convicted of petty crimes most common among southern African Americans. Requiring voters to pass a literacy test that was administered by local voting officials, who were responsible for judging whether voters were able to read and understand a section of the Constitution.

which of the following is NOT a provision of the fourteen amendment?

ensures that state laws could deny due process or discriminate against particular groups in the name of "states' rights"