US History EOC review
This is a quote from Gilded Age reformer Henry George's boom "Poverty and Progress." Who, among the various choices below, would George have categorized in the "House of Have." "So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent."
"Robber-barons"
This is a political cartoon created during the early years of Reconstruction published in Harper's Weekly. Who may hold an opinion as the one being communicated in the cartoon? "Difference between republican and democratic principles."
A Boston newspaper editor unhappy that Civil War divisions persist
From whose perspective might this political cartoon from Reconstruction be representing? "THE FREEDMAN'S BUREAU! An agency to keep the NEGRO in... at the EXPENSE of the white man."
A Southern Democrat
The political cartoon below was created in reference to the building of the Panama Canal. In 1911, Theodore Roosevelt stated that: "I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the Canal does also." What option below best explains both the 1911 quote, and the political cartoon?
A debate in Congress over whether to appropriate funds to build the Panama Canal
The table below represents plans for Reconstruction. - 10% of voters must swear to an oath of allegiance to the Union. - Voters may elect delegates to draft a revised state constitution. - All southerners, except high-ranking Confederates will given a full pardon. - The federal will protect private property. - Conquered southern territory will be divided into five military districts governed by a Union general. - Martial law will be declared. - A Constitutional amendment will be ratified to guarantee equal rights to citizens. - Union troops will oversee voter registration. What are the BEST titles for the columns of this chart?
Abraham Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction, the Radical Republicans plan for Reconstruction
The flow chart below illustrates agricultural events during the late 19th century. New mechanized farm tools lead to increased production -----------Crop output rises steadily from 1970----------------------------------Prices for agricultural products fall- ? Which conclusion is the MOST accurate.
Advancements in technology reduced the number of farms
The map below shows the world in 1917. Which conclusion can best be drawn from this map?
American Imperialists saw their nation's main opportunities in the Pacific and the Caribbean
The graph below shows the promotion of rural and urban populations of the United States form 1860 to the early 20th century. Which factor contributed to the shift from rural to urban in the years?
Better jobs in industry attracted farmers and fam laborers to cities.
This cartoon was published in the New York-American Journal in 1902. Which legislation was directed at remedying the evils depicted in the cartoon? "For sale to the highest bidder." (Kid in a pedestal)
Child labor laws
This button commemorates the 1963 March on Washington. "March on Washington, for jobs & freedom." Based on this button, what was needed for the march to be effective?
Coalition between different groups
The following table demonstrates the impact of a Progressive reform. -Year 1871: 80% Literacy in English -Year 1880: 83% Literacy in English -Year 1890: 87% Literacy in English -Year 1900: 89% Literacy in English -Year 1910: 92% Literacy in English -Year 1920: 94% Literacy in English What progressive reform effort MOST contributed to effects demonstrated in the table?
Compulsory Schooling Movement
June 1948: Soviets close roads to Berlin; Berlin airlifts begin. August 1948: Alger Hiss is accused of being a communist. April 1949: Formation of NATO. May 1949: Soviets open roads to Berlin; Berlin airlifts end. August 1949: Soviet Union explodes its first atomic bomb. October 1949: Communists seize power in China. June 1950: Communist North Korea invaded South Korea. Which foreign policy did American leaders follow in response to these events?
Containment
Use the following list to answer the question. Title ______?_____ -Labor Unions -Progressives -Skyscrapers -Urbanization What is the Most appropriate title for the above list?
Effects of the Second Industrial Revolution
The quote is from Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty. Use this quote and your knowledge of US History to answer the question. "The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defense recognized by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area." Which action was a Soviet response to the organization created by this treaty?
Formation of the Warsaw Pact
This title of this political cartoon, "History Repeats Itself.--The Robber Barons of the Middle Ages and the Robber Barons of Today," alludes to the feudal systems of the past where lords would rule over serfs who rented land and paid tribute to their given lord. The cartoon particularly points out that the "tariff" and the "monopoly" worked together with "legislation" to help make the robber-barons fat and rich. What is the best option below that bets summarizes how tariffs, monopoly, and legislation worked together in this period to exacerbate the divisions between workers and the owners of capital?
High tariffs helped protect American industries from competition from certain foreign products, which encouraged the growth of monopolies within certain industries, which all needed the assistance of politicians to pass the high tariff in the first place.
The timeline below shows events from the early American labor movement. 1869: Formation of Knights of Labor 1881: Formation of future American Federation of Labor. 1886:Haymarket Riot 1892:??? 1894: Pullman Strike Which option below completes the timeline by replacing the question mark?
Homestead Strike at Carnegie's steelworks
"AMERICANS.... DON'T PATRONIZE REDS!!! YOU can drive the reds out of television, radio and holly-wood..." What action was supported by literature like this?
House Un-American Activities Committee investigations
H.T. Johnson wrote "The Black Man's Burden" in response to Rudyard Kipling's poem, "The White Man's Burden." "Pile on the Black Man's Burden. 'Tis nearest at your door; Why heed long bleeding Cuba, or dark Hawaii's shore? Hail ye your fearless armies, Which menace feeble folks Who fight with clubs and arrows and brook tour rifle's smoke. Pile on the Black Man's Burden His wail with laughter drown You've sealed the Red Man's problem. And will take up the Brown, In vain ye seek to end it, With bullets, blood or death Better by far defend it With honor's holy wreath." What option best summarizes the point of view that Johnson expressed?
Imperialism seeks to conquer and exploit rather than help
The following is and excerpt from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948. "Now, Therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction." How does this declaration support the goals of the United Nations?
It endorses tolerance, acceptance, and peaceful coexistence
Use the political cartoon below to answer the next question. What does the cartoon imply about the Open Door Policy?
It favored American interests over other foreign interests in China
The following quote is from the Progressive Era. "The bulk of the sweater's work is done in the tenements, which the law that regulates factory labor does not reach... In [them] the child works unchallenged from the day he is old enough to pull a thread. There is no such thing as as a dinner hour; men and women eat while they work, and the day' is lengthened at both ends far into the night." Which of the following government actions was intended to address the problem described in the quote?
Keating-Owen Pact
The following diagram is about African American civil rights. -Universal Negro Improvement Association + -Return to African Movement = - Views of a civil rights leader. The above diagram BEST represents the views of what civil rights leader?
Marcus Garvey
The following 1950s poster "Look behind the mask! Communism is death" What ideology does this poster illustrate?
McCarthyism
- Laws - Wage - Fair trades - Interstate Commerce Regulation - Wagner Labor Relations Act - Social Security - Child Labor Law - Modern Government What generalization about the New Deal can be made from the above cartoon?
New Deal legislation faced constitutional challenges
This photograph is from the 1965 March to Selma, Alabama. Which strategy did the Southern Christian Leadership Conference employ for this march?
Non-violent demonstration
CAUSES OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION - Uneven distribution of income - Speculation on the stick market - Farm crisis - High tariffs restrict international trade -??? Which phrase BEST completes the graphic organizer above?
Overproduction of goods
The excerpt below was published in 1904 by Ida B. Tarbell in her book "The History of the Standard Oil Company." "So long as Standard Oil Company can control transportation as it doe stoday. it will remain master of the oil industry, and the people of the United States will pay for their indifference and folly in regard to transportation a sound tax on oil, and they will yearly see an increasing concentration of natural resources and transportation systems in the Standard Oil crowd." Which action took place in response to these criticisms and others like them?
President Roosevelt filed a lawsuit to breakup the Standard Oil Company.
Below is a 1948 map of Berlin What conclusion about post war Europe can be made?
Relations between wartime allies became confrontational
In 1902, Lincoln Steffens and Claude Wetmore published the article below about St. Louis in McClure's magazine. "About 1890, public franchises and privileges were sought, not only for legitimate profit and common convenience but for loot. Taking but slight and always selfish interest in the public councils, the big men misused politics. The riff-raff, catching the smell of corruption, rushed into the Municipal Assembly, drive them out of the respected men, and sold the city - its streets, its wharves, its markets, and all that it had - to the now greedy businessmen and bribers." Which type of activity does this article illustrate?
Reporting, by muckrakers.
The political cartoon below, drawn in 1904, depicts Theodore Roosevelt and lions each marked with the name of a business trust. Use your knowledge of U.S. history to answer the following question. What do you think is the cartoonist's view on trust-busting in the early-20th century.
Roosevelt is admired for his powerful stance on destroying trusts within the U.S.
The map below represents the presidential election of 1860. Which cause of the Civil War does this map illustrate?
Sectionalism
This political cartoon was produced in 1883, and is titled "The Tournament of Today--A Set To Between Labor and Monopoly." What is the bets description of the cartoon's main idea?
That the railroad "monopoly" overwhelmed the forces of labor," supported by "robber barons unconcerned with the plight of the working poor.
- The Arms Race - Nationalist Movements - Sarajevo - Pan-Slavism - Triple Alliance - Colonial - Naval Race - Triple Entente - The Dangerous Balkans - Bosnia - Algeciras - Agadir - Rivalry What is the BEST title for this things?
The Causes of World War 1
The list below displays a sequence of events in the late-1940s and eraly-1950s -March 21, 1947: Truman establishes Loyalty Review Boards with Executive Order 9835. -October 1947: The House Un-American Activities Committee questions the Hollywood Ten. -August 3, 1948: Whitaker Chambers accuses State Department official Alger Hiss of being a communist. -February 9, 1950: Senator Joseph McCarthy claims 205 communists are in the State Department. -March 1951: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are tried and convicted for giving away atomic secrets. What would be the most appropriate title for this list?
The Cold War Creates an Atmosphere of Suspicion at Home
The illustration below is an illustration commemorating President Theodore Roosevelt's plan to have the American Navy sail around the world. A primary feature of this trip was to show off a new set of American battleships. What was the name of the group of ships?
The Great White Fleet
This photograph is from the early 1950s "You are now crossing 38th Parallel COB 728MP" During which 1950s conflict was this location important?
The Korean War
How did the Platt Amendment differ from the Teller Amendment?
The Platt Amendment preserved Cuban independence but claimed the right to intervene in Cuban affairs.
Below is an excerpt from a letter from U.S. Secretary of State Hay to Andrew D. White. "...Earnestly desirous to remove any cause of irritation and to insure at the same time to the commerce of all nations in China the undoubted benefits which should accrue from a formal recognition by the various powers claiming "spheres of interest" that they shall enjoy perfect equality of treatment for their commerce and navigation within such "spheres", the Government of the United States would be pleased to see His German Majesty's Government give formal assurances, and lend its cooperation in securing like assurances from the other interested powers, that each, within its respective sphere of whatever influence-- First. Will in no way interfere with any treaty port or any vested interest within any so-called "sphere of interest" or leased territory it may have in China." After observing how the European great powers had carved out "spheres of influence" in China, what action did U.S. Secretary of State Hay propose?
The United States and other foreign nations should enjoy equal trading rights in China
What was the main idea of the political cartoon below? (American guy from tiny and weak, all the way to a strong and powerful man)
The acquisitions of Hawaii, Cuba, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico had made the United States unhealthily large.
What is the idea of the political cartoon below? (An Spanish monkey) "Maine sailors murdered by Spain."
The sinking of the U.S.S. Maine justified the declaration of war on Spain by the United States
The following graph pertains to late 19th century labor union membership. What can BEST be concluded about union membership in th elate 19th century?
They Haymarket Riot impacted membership in the Knights of Labor
The list below identifies some of the key reformers of the Progressive Era. Which characteristic was shared by all five reforms? -Initiative -Referendum -Recall -Direct Primary -17th Amendment
They gave citizens a greater voice in government
The excerpt below is from a speech by Senator Albert J. Beveridge to the U.S. Senate on January 9, 1900. "Mr. President, the times call for [honesty]. The Philippines are ours forever', territory belonging to the United States', as the Constitution calls them. And just beyond the Philippines are China's [unlimited] markets. We will not retreat from either. We will not repudiate our duty in the archipelago. We will not abandon our opportunity in the Orient." Based on the speech, what conclusion can be made about the views of American imperialists in 1900?
They saw the Philippines as a useful base for increasing American trade with East Asia
- Government Exhibit 2 - U.S. Imperialism - Saigon Puppet What purpose did photographs like this serve?
They shaped public opinion against U.S. involvement in Vietnam
Mitchell Palmer
U.S. attorney general who rounded up thousands of alleged Bolsheviks in the red scare of 1919-1920
