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Exam #3
US History Since 1877
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. The prominent political movements between the end of Reconstruction and World War I ignored which of the following goals? | bringing full equality to blacks |
| 2. Why were the presidents in office during the period from 1877 to 1895 generally undistinguished and ineffectual? | Extremely close elections limited their ability to maneuver and take tough political stands. |
| 3. The national political stalemate of the 1880s and early 1890s originated in part because of | the incredible population growth resulting from immigration |
| 4. Which of the following was the first federal law ever passed to regulate trusts? | Sherman Antitrust Act |
| 5. Which president advocated measures to protect black voting rights in the South after the end of Reconstruction? | benjamin harrison |
| 6. Why did Senator Henry Cabot Lodge’s bill to create a bipartisan federal election board fail to pass in the Senate in 1890? | Northern liberals were afraid that it provided for too much democracy. |
| 7. Who stepped in to aid the federal government when the U.S. Treasury’s gold supplies dwindled badly in 1895? | J. P. Morgan and a syndicate of bankers |
| 8. Which of the following was a reason for fanning the fire of racial prejudice in the South? | To prevent a Populist coalition between poor whites and African Americans |
| 9. Which of the following was a result of the laws passed to disenfranchise blacks across the South in the 1890s and early 1900s? | Segregation laws barring blacks from public and private places such as hotels, parks, and public drinking fountains were passed. |
| 10. Advocates of free silver believed it would | encourage borrowing and stimulate industry |
| 11. During the mid-1890s, many middle-class and prosperous Americans reformers neglected | woman´s sufferage |
| 12. What did William Jennings Bryan mean when he stated, “You shall not crucify mankind on a cross of gold” in his famous 1896 speech? | The United States should abandon the gold standard to stimulate industry. |
| 13. Why was McKinley’s campaign in the 1896 presidential election superior to Bryan’s? | McKinley raised and spent a great deal of money donated by corporations. |
| 14.To bring big coal companies to the negotiating table during the 1902 coal strike, President Theodore Roosevelt threatened to | nationalize the coal companies |
| 15. What was the outcome of the Supreme Court’s decision in the 1911 Standard Oil case? | The monopoly was broken up into several competing companies. |
| 16. Between 1910 and 1917, all the industrial states enacted laws that | provided insurance for on-the-job accidents. |
| 17. Organized in 1905, the Niagara Movement embraced | equality opportunity for African-American |
| 18. Which of the following was promoted by Republican governor Robert La Follette (1901–1905) as the Wisconsin Idea? | Greater government intervention in the economy |
| 19. In the early 1900s, the Industrial Workers of the World were committed to achieving | a new society run by and for workers. |
| 20. What prevented Theodore Roosevelt from achieving the Republican presidential nomination in 1912? | Taft controlled the party caucuses, whose leaders chose the candidate at the national convention. |
| 21. Which of the following contributed to America expanding its markets into Latin America and Asia in the 1890s? | The wide-reaching impact of the Panic of 1893 |
| 22. What did the Venezuelan and Cuban crises of the 1890s have in common? | They were both US foreign policy challenges to European nations |
| 23. Which of the following statements describes Hawaii in the 1890s? | American sugar planters overthrew Hawaii's Queen Liliuokalani and applied for U.S. annexation. |
| 24. The American victory at San Juan Hill in Cuba can be credited mostly to | four African American US regiments that bore the brunt of the fighting |
| 25. Which of the following describes the guerrilla war that followed the conquest of the Philippines? | The conflict far exceeded in ferocity the war just concluded with Spain |
| 26. In the Insular Cases(1901), the Supreme Court ruled that | the Constitution did not automatically extend citizenship to people in newly acquired territories |
| 27. Theodore Roosevelt’s big-stick policy was demonstrated | with the strength and effectiveness of the U.S. Navy |
| 28. How did the United States acquire the land it needed to build the Panama Canal? | The United States lent covert assistance to free Panama from Colombia. |
| 29. The United States was cleared to begin an American-controlled Central American canal project as a result of | the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty. |
| 30. When Woodrow Wilson became president in 1913, he | vowed that the United States would not seek further territorial gains by conquest. |
| 31. Which of the following factors contributed to the rising tensions in Europe in the early 1900s that eventually resulted in World War I? | European competition for African and Asian colonies |
| 32. What was Woodrow Wilson’s primary reason for wanting to keep the United States neutral at the outbreak of World War I? | He wanted to arbitrate among the combatants and to influence the settlement of the war |
| 33. Which of the following statements describes Americans’ views about entering into World War I in 1915 and 1916? | Many Irish Americans viewed England as the enemy because of its occupation of Ireland |
| 34. Which of the following helped the United States turn the tide and win World War I? | Huge numbers of troops and supplies |
| 35. During World War I, federal agencies expanded the national government’s role by | establishing an eight-hour day for war workers with generous overtime pay. |
| 36. In Abrams v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that | authorities may prosecute speech when it represents a clear and present danger |
| 37. The term Great Migration refers to | African Americans moving from the South to the North during the war. |
| 38. Which of the following statements describes changes in the lives of Mexican Americans during World War I? | Political instability in Mexico and the lure of wartime jobs caused many Mexicans to relocate to the United States |
| 39. Besides the League of Nations, which of the following goals did Woodrow Wilson achieve in the post–World War I peace settlement? | Self-Determination for Central Europe's newly independent nations |
| 40. Which of the following assesses the impact of World War I on the international balance of power? | World War I weakened France and England while it strengthened the United States. |
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