Quizes I've taken for test 1

In the aftermath of the sinking of the British passenger liner Lusitania,

American public opinion became more anti-german.

While progressivism has many meanings, it tended in this period to be based on the central assumption that

American society was capable of improvement.

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

William Jennings Bryan.

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

because newly improved weaponry made conventional field battles too destructive.

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

both sales of company stock to the public and "limited liability" laws. sales of company stock to the public. "limited liability" laws. the realization that great ventures could not be financed by any single person. Answer: All these answers are correct.

Compared with the first generation, second-generation immigrants were more likely to

break from their traditional culture.

In 1894, Jacob Coxey and his supporters

called for a public works program for the unemployed.

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

carried out the overthrow of the president of Panama.

In the late nineteenth century, many immigrants to the United States

formed close-knit ethnic communities within cities.

In 1894, the population density of Manhattan was

greater than the most crowded European cities.

During the Progressive Era, the Socialist Party of America

grew stronger.

The so-called "Zimmermann telegram"

included a proposal for the return of the American Southwest to Mexico.

Tenement buildings in urban America were

initially praised as an improvement in housing for the poor.

In his books, Horatio Alger

inspired readers with stories of Americans rising from "rags-to-riches."

The term "muckrakers" referred to

journalists.

Beginning in 1898, the American war in the Philippines

lasted for years and resulted in thousands of American deaths.

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

meatpacking industry.

In 1913, to offset the loss of revenues from other legislation, Congress

passed a graduated income tax.

As President, Woodrow Wilson

promoted the racist, pro-KKK movie "Birth of a Nation" ran for President on the assertion he would keep America out of WWI. segregated the U.S. military. adhered to a belief in Eugenics. All these answers are correct.

In the 1890s, Jacob Riis

reported on the living conditions of the urban poor to encourage improvements.

Between 1890 and 1910, incomes in the United States

rose for almost all Americans.

In 1917, automobile production in the United States

saw nearly five million cars on American roads.

Regarding women and the professions during the Progressive Era,

social work was generally thought to be an appropriate career for women.

The settlement house movement of the early twentieth century helped spawn the profession of

social work.

The 1904 "Roosevelt Corollary"

stated that the U.S. had a right to intervene in the affairs of neighboring countries.

The "city beautiful" movement in the United States was inspired, in part, by

the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

When President Woodrow Wilson presented the Treaty of Versailles to the Senate,

the Senate refused to ratify it.

According to the terms of the 1901 Platt Amendment,

the United States had the right to intervene in Cuba to protect life and property.

The immediate spark for hostilities in Europe in 1914 was

the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

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

the moving assembly line.

After the United States entered World War I,

the playing of German music was banned in many American communities. sauerkraut in the U.S. was renamed "liberty cabbage." most German Americans supported the American war effort. German books were removed from many American schools and libraries. All these answers are correct.

The business structure of Standard Oil is a good example of

vertical and horizontal integration.

The business structure of Carnegie Steel was a good example of

vertical integration.

The 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn

was a short-lived Indian victory.

In the early twentieth century, eugenics

was supported by many progressives.

The theory of Social Darwinism

was used to justify the social consequences of industrial capitalism.

Arguments used by Social Darwinists in the United States to justify expansionism

were created and first promoted by Charles Darwin himself.

In 1914, the "Triple Entente" consisted of

Great Britain, France, and Russia.

In the United States, the steel industry first emerged in

Pennsylvania and Ohio.

The first significant oil production in the United States occurred in

Pennsylvania.

As Republicans planned for Reconstruction,

Radicals sought a range of punishments for white Southerners.

In what industry did the Homestead strike of 1892 occur?

Steel

Roughly what percentage of the populations of Chicago, New York, and Detroit was made up of immigrants by 1890?

80-90 percent

The author who called on the United States to increase its naval forces in his book, The Influence of Sea Power upon History, was

Alfred T. Mahan

Charles Darwin's theories of evolution met initial resistance from

All these answers are correct.

The Spanish-American War began primarily because of events in

Cuba.

The 1920 census of the United States revealed that

a majority of Americans lived in "urban" areas.

At the end of the Civil War, the number of slaves that emerged from bondage was

about 3.5 million.

In the 1850s, the U.S. policy of "concentration" for Indians

assigned all tribes to their own defined reservations.

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

banned Chinese in the United States from becoming naturalized citizens.

The designers of New York City's Central Park

deliberately created a public space that would look as little like the city as possible.

In the 1860s, Black Codes were

designed to give whites control over freedmen.

The decimation of American buffalo herds in the late nineteenth century

destroyed the ability of Plains Indians to resist the advance of white settlers. was fostered by the railroad companies. was accelerated by the booming new market for buffalo hide. happened almost entirely in the space of two decades. Answer: All these answers are correct

The Freedmen's Bureau

distributed food to millions of former slaves.

In the late nineteenth century, Social Darwinists argued that people who failed economically in the United States did so because

they were not fit enough to survive in the market.

Orville and Wilbur Wright's first successful airplane flight in 1903

took place near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

The Treaty of Paris concluding the Spanish-American War

transferred the Philippines and Puerto Rico to the United States.

In 1918, President Woodrow Wilson antagonized many Republicans

when he pushed for the election of Democrats to Congress. both when he tied support of his peace plans to the midterm elections and when he pushed for the election of Democrats to Congress. when he tied support of his peace plans to the midterm elections. when he refused to put prominent Republicans on the peace conference negotiating team. All these answers are correct.