US History since the Civil War

How many soldiers perished during World War I worldwide?

10 million

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

25 million

In the late nineteenth century, the Republican Party found particularly strong support among

African-Americans

Among the following, who was a "captain of industry"?

Andrew Carnegie

What group of people outside of the United States in the 1920s and 1930s carefully studied the American eugenicist movement?

German members of the Nazi Party

What was the name of the organization that advocated a workers' revolution to seize control of the means of production and abolish the state?

Industrial Workers of the World

Which statement accurately describes sharecropping?

It allowed a black family to rent part of a plantation, with the crop divided between worker and owner at the end of the year.

Why did the Society of American Indians form in 1911?

It was formed to provide Native Americans with remedies for social injustice.

The author of How the Other Half Lives (1890) was

Jacob Riis

Who was the leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, a movement for African independence and black self-reliance?

Marcus Garvey

What Supreme Court justice famously said, regarding a case involving eugenics, "Three generations of imbeciles are enough."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

What landmark United States Supreme Court decision gave approval to state laws requiring separate facilities for whites and blacks?

Plessy v. Ferguson

What U.S. President, a century after the rise of exclusionary immigration laws passed by Congress in the late 1800s, generated a bitter public and international debate for launching an effort to build an actual wall along the U.S.-Mexico border?

President Donald Trump

In November 1917, during World War I, a communist revolution broke out in what country?

Russia

Under this act, American men were required to register with the draft.

Selective Service Act

Which of the following was John D. Rockefeller's company?

Standard oil company

In this Supreme Court ruling, San Francisco was ordered to admit Chinese students to public schools.

Tape v. Hurley

Which man was a leader of the Radical Republicans?

Thaddeus Stevens

Which of the following was a principle of the American Federation of Labor?

The labor movement should devote itself to negotiating with employers for higher wages and better working conditions.

The worst race riot in American history occurred in 1921, when more than 300 blacks were killed and over 10,000 were left homeless after white mobs burned an all-black section of which city to the ground?

Tulsa, Oklahoma

Dollar Diplomacy, the U.S. foreign policy that emphasized economic investment and loans from American banks, rather than direct military intervention, was the policy of

William Taft.

The founder of the Oregon System of direct legislature was

William U'Ren.

The event marking the end of four centuries of armed conflict between the continent's native population and European settlers and their descendants was called

Wounded knee

Which of the following was a military technology used during World War I?

airplanes

William "Buffalo Bill" Cody was

an entertainer who had a traveling show showcasing reenactments of battles with Indians.

Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

assassination of President McKinley; Meat Inspection Act; unveiling of Woodrow Wilson's "New Freedom" program; Federal Reserve Act

The Women's Christian Temperance Union began by demanding the prohibition of alcoholic drinks, but developed into an organization

calling for economic and political reforms, including the right to vote.

During the Progressive era, economic production shifted from capital goods to

consumer products.

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

direct election of United States senators.

In 1890, the distribution of wealth in the United States was

disproportionate, as the top 1 percent of Americans owned more property than the remaining 99 percent.

Which of the following was a grievance of the Farmers' Alliance and the Populists?

excessive power of the banks and railroads

Between 1900 and 1904 membership in the American Federation of Labor

exploded to triple their earlier membership numbers.

Although Reconstruction brought profound changes, the postwar South was peopled with the same social classes as it always had been.

false

American presidents during the Gilded Age exerted strong, effective, executive leadership.

false

As part of the 1907 Gentlemen's Agreement, Japan agreed to end migration to the United States except for agricultural workingmen to aid in the food for troops.

false

At the Battle of Little Big Horn, General George Armstrong Custer's troops were victorious.

false

By 1912, the Socialist Party had dwindled, losing many of their political office posts and lessening ties with radical newspapers and magazines.

false

In the 1880s and 1890s, blacks no longer served in the United States Congress.

false

Only after Spain threatened to invade America did the United States elect to go to war.

false

President Roosevelt declined to assert U.S. authority over the Canal Zone until the citizens of Panama had a chance to vote on the matter.

false

Presidential Reconstruction (1865-1867) was a success.

false

Progressives worked to reform the structure of government to increase the power of political bosses.

false

The Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I was a savvy and fair, if short, document that equitably distributed culpability for the war among all warring factions.

false

The West was a remarkably homogeneous region--only in the twentieth century would it become ethnically diverse.

false

The first president to hold regular press conferences in order to influence public opinion directly was Theodore Roosevelt.

false

Theodore Roosevelt's "New Nationalism" called for vigorous federal intervention in the economy, while Woodrow Wilson's "New Freedom" called on government to stay out of business affairs.

false

Who benefitted the most from the Wassaja newsletter?

future American activists

The 1887 Dawes Act

led to the loss of tribal lands and the erosion of Indian cultural traditions.

Which of the following was one of the devices used by southern whites to keep blacks from exercising suffrage?

literacy tests

A leader in the new feminism, Margaret Sanger

opened a clinic and began distributing contraceptive devices to poor women.

What port did the United States want to continue to possess as a naval base, which motivated it in part to annex the Hawaiian islands in the 1890s?

pearl harbor

The Bureau of Indian Affairs established boarding schools for the purpose of

removing Indian children from their parents and tribes and assimilating them into "white ways.

The Redeemers in the South

slashed state budgets and reduced spending on public schools.

The poem by Emma Lazarus including "huddled masses yearning to breathe free" is located on which American landmark?

statue of Liberty

President Wilson articulated the clearest statement of American war aims and his vision of a new postwar international order in

the Fourteen Points.

The first federal agency intended to regulate economic activity, and ensure that railroad rates were reasonable and favoritism was avoided was

the Interstate Commerce Commission.

The idea of a romanticized version of slavery in the Old South, focusing on the Confederate experience, was called

the Lost Cause.

What was the name of the 1899 policy established by Secretary of State John Hay regarding China?

the Open Door policy

What war lasted from 1899 to 1903, in which 4,200 Americans and over 100,000 Filipinos perished?

the Philippine War

The "splendid little war" of 1898 was

the Spanish-American War

After emancipation, many freedwomen elected to withdraw from work in the fields and focus their energies at home.

true

Among the important accomplishments of Reconstruction state governments was the establishment of the South's first state-supported public schools.

true

Another important example of federal intervention and a new activism on the part of the national government into the economy was passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) by which the federal government became the agent policing the labeling and quality of food and drugs.

true

As late as 1940, only 3 percent of adult black southerners were registered to vote.

true

As the subordination of blacks grew more rigid, American attitudes toward immigrants grew more tolerant.

true

At age 42, Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest president in American history.

true

By 1880, persons of Chinese descent made up over half of California's farm workers.

true

By 1890, the majority of the remaining Indian population had been removed to reservations scattered across the western states.

true

Cities expanded so rapidly that by 1920 for the first time more Americans lived in towns and cities than in rural areas.

true

Directly or indirectly, J. P. Morgan controlled 40 percent of the financial and industrial capital in the United States in the opening years of the twentieth century.

true

During Reconstruction, a number of state governments initiated civil rights legislation that made it illegal for railroads, hotels, and other institutions to discriminate on the basis of race.

true

During the 1872 elections, the Liberal Republicans argued that Reconstruction was a failure.

true

During the Progressive era, numerous products utilized the image of the Statue of Liberty as a sales device.

true

Eugene V. Debs, a Socialist Party leader, was imprisoned for delivering an antiwar speech.

true

Eugenics studied the mental characteristics of different ethnicities and races, and blamed many social problems on people with defective genes.

true

Following the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, the vast majority of eligible African-Americans registered to vote.

true

In 1911, the U.S. Immigration Commission listed no fewer than forty-five immigrant "races" in a dictionary published that year.

true

In setting out to destroy the Indian economy and way of life after the Civil War, U.S. generals decimated the buffalo population.

true

In the last year and a half of Wilson's presidency, his wife, Edith, headed the government.

true

One result of Muller v. Oregon was that women were still considered weak, dependent, and incapable of enjoying the same economic rights as men.

true

Reparations payments at the end of World War I demanded Germany pay, in effect, to repair the damages it had inflicted on the Allies (reparations payments were estimated variously to be between $33 billion and $56 billion).

true

Segregation was more than a form of racial separation; it was one part of an all-encompassing system of white domination.

true

The Federal Reserve System (1913) and the Federal Trade Commission (1914) were major examples of the remarkable expansion of the role of the federal government in the economy during the Progressive era.

true

The Haymarket Affair resulted in the hanging of four convicted anarchists.

true

The Sixteenth Amendment made the income tax constitutional.

true

The civil rights era of the 1950s and 1960s is sometimes called the "Second Reconstruction."

true

The most famous American Indian victory in American history took place in June 1876 when General George A. Custer and his 250 men perished.

true

Tom Watson was Georgia's leading Populist.

true

Twenty million people were killed by the flu (epidemic of influenza) at the end of World War I.

true

During World War I, popular words of German origin were changed; "hamburger" became

"liberty sandwich."