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History Final

Questão 1 de 51

1

Two pioneers in skyscraper architecture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were:

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Louis Sullivan & William Randolph Hearst

  • Louis Sullivan & Daniel Burnham

  • Frederick Law Olmstead & W E B Du Bois

  • George Eastman & Daniel Burnham

Explicação

Questão 2 de 51

1

Two bicycle manufacturers from Dayton, Ohio who had their first successful airplane flight on December 17, 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina were

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Alfred Sullivan & Lewis Sullivan

  • John Wright & Theodore Wright

  • Frederick Law Olmstead & George Eastman

  • Orville Wright & Wilbur Wright

Explicação

Questão 3 de 51

1

The prominent African American educator who believed that racism would end once blacks acquired useful labor skills and proved their economic value to society was:

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Booker T Washington

  • Rosa Parks

  • W E B Du Bois

  • Frederick Law Olmstead

Explicação

Questão 4 de 51

1

The African American teacher, journalist, and activist who fought against lynching was:

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Rosa Parks

  • Ida B Wells

  • Booker T Washington

  • Daniel Burnham

Explicação

Questão 5 de 51

1

The novelist and humorist that inspired a host of other young authors when he declared his independence of “literature and all that bosh” even though “The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn” continue to be an American classic was:

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Mark Twain

  • Joseph Pulitzer

  • Booker T Washington

  • W E B Du Bois

Explicação

Questão 6 de 51

1

Turn of the century technology included all of these EXCEPT:

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Skyscrapers

  • Smart Phones

  • Electric Streetcars

  • Steel Cable Suspension Bridges

Explicação

Questão 7 de 51

1

One goal of public education for immigrants was to:

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Marginalize them

  • Send them home

  • Americanize them

  • Create an accurate census

Explicação

Questão 8 de 51

1

The expansion of education had all these effects EXCEPT:

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Decreased technology

  • More libraries

  • Increased fiction sales

  • More galleries and museums

Explicação

Questão 9 de 51

1

Southern legislation that separated the blacks and the whites was:

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Atlanta Compromise

  • Poll Tax

  • Debt Peonage

  • Jim Crow Laws

Explicação

Questão 10 de 51

1

Turn of the century leisure activities included all these EXCEPT:

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Bicycling

  • Motion Pictures

  • Drag Racing

  • Vaudeville

Explicação

Questão 11 de 51

1

_______ is the policy in which stronger nations extend their economic, political, or military control over weaker territories.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Capitalism

  • Imperialism

  • Socialism

  • Fascism

Explicação

Questão 12 de 51

1

_______ is a sensational style of writing, which exaggerates the news to lure and enrage readers.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Black Journalism

  • White Literalism

  • Yellow Journalism

  • Fascism

Explicação

Questão 13 de 51

1

A _______ is a country whose affairs are partially controlled by a stronger power.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Territory

  • Protectorate

  • Isthmus

  • Neutrality

Explicação

Questão 14 de 51

1

_______ was the policy of having private loans backed by the United States government.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Open Door Policy

  • Dollar Diplomacy

  • Interventionist

  • Boxer Rebellion

Explicação

Questão 15 de 51

1

American support for the Cuban revolt peaked with the news of _______.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Cubans in concentration camps

  • Poisoned wells and murdered children

  • the USS Maine explosion

  • The Treaty of Paris

Explicação

Questão 16 de 51

1

His notes protected US access to China.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • John J Pershing

  • George Dewey

  • Woodrow Wilson

  • John Hay

Explicação

Questão 17 de 51

1

Led revolts against the Mexican government.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Francisco “Pancho” Villa

  • Emilio Aguinaldo

  • Jose Marti

  • Theodore Roosevelt

Explicação

Questão 18 de 51

1

Established “Big Stick” US diplomacy.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Woodrow Wilson

  • Theodore Roosevelt

  • John J Pershing

  • George Dewey

Explicação

Questão 19 de 51

1

Activist for Cuban independence.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Francisco “Pancho” Villa

  • Emilio Aguinaldo

  • Valeriano Weyler

  • Jose Marti

Explicação

Questão 20 de 51

1

Filipino rebel leader.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Francisco “Pancho” Villa

  • Emilio Aguinaldo

  • Valeriano Weyler

  • Jose Marti

Explicação

Questão 21 de 51

1

Throughout the 19th century, politics in the Western world were deeply influenced by the concept of _______ - a devotion to the interests and culture of ones nation.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Militarism

  • Capitalism

  • Nationalism

  • Fascism

Explicação

Questão 22 de 51

1

Passed in May 1917, this act required men to register with the government in order to be randomly selected for military service.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Militia Act of 1862

  • Selective Service Act

  • Land Ordinance of 1785

  • Homestead Act

Explicação

Questão 23 de 51

1

Passed in 1917 and 1918, these acts allowed people to be fined up to $10,000 and sentenced to 20 years in jail for interfering with the war effort or saying anything disloyal, profane, or abusive about the government or the war effort.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Espionage and Sedition Acts

  • Intolerable Acts

  • Civil Rights Acts

  • Open Range Acts

Explicação

Questão 24 de 51

1

President Woodrow Wilson insisted that the United States join the _______ at the close of WWI.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • United Nations

  • European Union

  • League of Nations

  • World Banking Organization

Explicação

Questão 25 de 51

1

A policy of pulling away from involvement in world affairs.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Nativism

  • Communism

  • Isolationism

  • Despotism

Explicação

Questão 26 de 51

1

Adopted in 1922, the _______ raised taxes on some US imports to 60% - the highest level ever.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Mongrel Tariff

  • Fordney-McCumber Tariff

  • Reciprocal Tariff Act

  • Whiskey Rebellion Tariff Act

Explicação

Questão 27 de 51

1

The _______ enabled people to buy goods over an extended period with having to put down much money at the time of purchase.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Installment Plan

  • Debt Up to your Eyeballs Plan

  • Foreclosure Plan

  • Account Debit Plan

Explicação

Questão 28 de 51

1

The eighteenth amendment launched an era known as _______, during which the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages was illegal.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Extortion

  • Fundamentalism

  • Prohibition

  • Tea Act

Explicação

Questão 29 de 51

1

During the twenties, a new ideal emerged for some women: the _______, an emancipated young woman who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the day.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Speakeasies

  • Bootlegger

  • Harlequin

  • Flapper

Explicação

Questão 30 de 51

1

The decade of the 1920’s had this slogan for a nickname.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • The Tumultuous Twenties

  • The Stagnant Twenties

  • The Roaring Twenties

  • The Industrial Twenties

Explicação

Questão 31 de 51

1

His assassination sparked the beginning of WWI.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Warren G Harding

  • Charles A Lindbergh

  • Calvin Coolidge

  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Explicação

Questão 32 de 51

1

He led the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) as it included men from widely separated parts of the country.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • General Louis Armstrong

  • General John J Pershing

  • General Clarence Darrow

  • General George Creel

Explicação

Questão 33 de 51

1

He was the muckraking journalist who led the Committee of Public Information.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • George Creel

  • F Scott Fitzgerald

  • Al Capone

  • Clarence Darrow

Explicação

Questão 34 de 51

1

This President of the United States suffered from scandal.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Warren G Harding

  • Calvin Coolidge

  • Theodore Roosevelt

  • F Scott Fitzgerald

Explicação

Questão 35 de 51

1

This American president said, “The chief business of the American people is business.”

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Theodore Roosevelt

  • George Washington

  • Calvin Coolidge

  • Warren G Harding

Explicação

Questão 36 de 51

1

He was the most famous mobster of all time as he headed a criminal empire by the age of 26.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Clarence Darrow

  • Al Capone

  • Louis Armstrong

  • F Scott Fitzgerald

Explicação

Questão 37 de 51

1

Hired by the ACLU to defend John T Scopes in the Scopes Trial, he was the most famous trial lawyer of his day.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Clarence Darrow

  • George Creel

  • Charles A Lindbergh

  • Al Capone

Explicação

Questão 38 de 51

1

He made the first non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic ocean.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Louis Armstrong

  • General John J Pershing

  • F Scott Fitzgerald

  • Charles A Lindbergh

Explicação

Questão 39 de 51

1

He coined the term “Jazz Age” to describe the 1920’s and he wrote The Great Gatsby.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • George Creel

  • F Scott Fitzgerald

  • Louis Armstrong

  • Clarence Darrow

Explicação

Questão 40 de 51

1

He was a trumpet player who went to become perhaps the most influential musician in the history of jazz.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Calvin Coolidge

  • Al Capone

  • Louis Armstrong

  • George Creel

Explicação

Questão 41 de 51

1

The first president of the United States of America.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Abraham Lincoln

  • Thomas Jefferson

  • John Adams

  • George Washington

Explicação

Questão 42 de 51

1

The decline in new housing impacted such industries as:

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Automobiles and Railroads

  • Coal and Oil

  • Furniture and Appliances

  • Agriculture and Farm Equipment

Explicação

Questão 43 de 51

1

An effect of the Great Depression was an increase in:

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • International Unemployment

  • The demand for WWI Reparations

  • Imported European Goods

  • The use of the Gold Standard

Explicação

Questão 44 de 51

1

For children, the great depression meant:

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Longer School Days

  • Direct Relief Payments

  • Frequent Doctor’s Visits

  • Poor Nutrition

Explicação

Questão 45 de 51

1

Hoover’s pledge of “A Chicken in Every Pot” promised a:

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Nutritious Hot Dinner

  • Spread of Prosperity

  • Hen for Every Household

  • Less-Involved Government

Explicação

Questão 46 de 51

1

Hoover’s political life ended as a result of the:

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Infantry attacking the Bonus Army

  • Bonus Army attacking the Infantry

  • Veto of the Patman Bill

  • Passage of the Patman Bill

Explicação

Questão 47 de 51

1

Roosevelt and Congress helped restore faith in banks by:

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Giving Every Family $5000

  • Cosing Unstable Banks

  • Vetoing a Banking Act

  • Creating the FDIC

Explicação

Questão 48 de 51

1

All these measures helped to regulate the stock market EXCEPT:

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Requiring full financial disclosure

  • Setting stock prices

  • Establishing a governing bureau

  • Making companies accountable

Explicação

Questão 49 de 51

1

All these were indicators that a second new deal was needed EXCEPT

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • High Unemployment

  • Low Production Levels

  • The Collapse of Small Farms

  • The Recovery of Rural Towns

Explicação

Questão 50 de 51

1

The organization started by whites and blacks but ignored by new deal programs was the:

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Tennessee Valley Authority

  • Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union

  • Home Owners Loan Corporation

  • Rural Electrification Admintration

Explicação

Questão 51 de 51

1

Movies were popular during the depression because they:

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Presented American Propaganda

  • Were Cheap and Plentiful

  • Provided Hope and Escape

  • Showed Real Life Conditions

Explicação