APUSH Unit 4 Study Questions

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A leading characterization of U.S. foreign policy in the early twentieth century was

"Dollar Diplomacy."

Which census revealed for the first time that there were more non-farming jobs than farming jobs in the United States?

1880

Between 1870 in 1920, how many immigrants arrived from overseas?

25 million

Which of the following was not true of the second industrial revolution?

A boom in automobile manufacture spurred the rise of oil, rubber, and steel production.

The politics of Gilded Age America was said to be

A time of dishonesty and corruption in which corporations battled each other for special consideration by local state and federal governments.

Which of the following was not a key episode of the "great upheaval" of 1886?

America's first nationwide railroad strike

Who was a socialist that challenged both Woodrow Wilson and William Taft in the presidential election of 1912?

Eugene Debs

The 1892 presidential election was won by

Grover Cleveland, the Democrat.

Which of the following can be associated with the death of the Knights of Labor?

Haymarket Square

What did both Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt work towards in their presidencies?

Increasing the power of the executive branch

In the late nineteenth century, the Republican Party found particularly strong support among all of the following except

Irish-Americans.

What did the creation of the Federal Reserve System in 1913 do?

It made currency and credit more elastic.

What was the Red Scare mainly caused by?

It was mainly caused by a rash of massive labor strikes.

The leader of the band of several hundred unemployed men who marched on Washington in May 1894 to demand economic relief was

Jacob Coxey.

The book in which Henry George proposed a "single tax" on real estate that would replace all other taxes is titled

Progress and Poverty.

What was not an objective of Progressivism?

Replacing capitalism with socialism

Taft alienated progressive Republicans and voters by supporting what reform?

The Tariff Reform

What social and economic changes resulted in America due to WWI?

There was an extensive migrations of blacks to the North.

What did women receive as a reward due to their help in propaganda during WWI?

They received the right to vote.

How were blacks mostly treated in Europe during WWI?

They were mostly treated with dignity. The Americans had to tell the French to stop treating them as equals so that they didn't get any ideas about being equals in America.

The political "boss" of New York City in the early 1870s was

William Marcy Tweed.

What did the 19th Amendment enforce?

Women enfranchisement

The organization of middle-class and upper-class women and impoverished immigrants founded in 1903 to bring women workers into unions was called the

Women's Trade Union League.

The 1892 People's Party platform, written by Ignatius Donnelly and adopted at the party's Omaha convention, proposed all of the following except

a decentralization over the control of currency.

The "subtreasury plan" was

a plan to establish federal warehouses where farmers could store crops until they were sold.

Which of the following was not a focus of debate between Democrats and Republicans during the Gilded Age?

federal income tax levels

The right to dissent from government policy during World War I

met sweeping repression.

What was the name of the 1899 policy established by Secretary of State John Hay with regard to China?

the Open Door policy

The name for the coalition of black Republicans and anti-Redeemer Democrats that governed the state of Virginia from 1879 to 1883 was

the Readjuster movement.


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