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11th grade US History Quiz sobre Midterm Review (Ch. 20.21.22.23.), criado por Krystal Tellez em 27-02-2019.
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Questão 1

Questão
The Populist Party’s demands for reform included which of the following?
Responda
  • more direct elections
  • the elimination of the income tax
  • freer immigration policies

Questão 2

Questão
Which of the following was not a vehicle for the farmers’ protest?
Responda
  • the Grange
  • the Mugwumps
  • the Farmers’ Alliance
  • the People’s Party

Questão 3

Questão
Mark Twain’s Gilded Age is a reference to ________.
Responda
  • conditions in the South in the pre-Civil War era
  • the corrupt politics ofthe populist movement the post-Civil War
  • the Republican Party lost its political dominance.

Questão 4

Questão
Which U.S. President was assassinated?
Responda
  • James Garfield
  • Rutherford B. Hayes
  • Chester Arthur
  • Benjamin Harrison

Questão 5

Questão
Which president made significant steps towards civil service reform?
Responda
  • Grover Cleveland
  • Chester A. Arthur
  • Roscoe Conkling
  • Benjamin Harrison

Questão 6

Questão
According to the theory that the Wizard of Oz was inspired by the march of Coxey's Army, the Scarecrow represents the American Farmer. The Tin Woodman represents the industrial worker. The Cowardly Lion is William Jennings Bryan. And, the "seemingly powerful but ultimately impotent" Wizard of Oz is a representation of _____________________ .
Responda
  • Jacob Coxey
  • the American people
  • Congress
  • the President

Questão 7

Questão
Why did the Republican Party lose political dominance in the 1870s and 1880s?
Responda
  • Republicans were criticized for granting government assistance to settlers.
  • Several third parties that opposed Republican policies were formed.
  • Americans were disappointed by the failure of Reconstruction-era policies.

Questão 8

Questão
What characterized the era known as the Gilded Age?
Responda
  • great economic diversity
  • unequaled economic prosperity
  • sweeping economic changes

Questão 9

Questão
What is the era towards the end of the nineteenth century, characterized by great transformation, commonly called today?
Responda
  • Reconstruction
  • the Gilded Age
  • the Transformative Age
  • the Age of Reason

Questão 10

Questão
Why was the period towards the end of the nineteenth century known as the Gilded Age?
Responda
  • 1t was the period in which the United States adopted the gold standard.
  • It was characterized by pretense and fraud.
  • It was a time when most American prospered financially.

Questão 11

Questão
Which of the following was most responsible for the economic difficulties in the 1890s?
Responda
  • droughts and dust storms in the Western territories
  • perceived instability of the U.S. currency
  • over-speculation in the American stock market

Questão 12

Questão
How were members of Coxey’s Army received when they arrived in Washington?
Responda
  • They were given jobs.
  • They were given an audience with the president.
  • They were given an audience with members of Congress.
  • They were arrested.

Questão 13

Questão
What position did the Populist Party support?
Responda
  • Congressmen should be appointed by governors instead of directly elected.
  • The federal income tax should be eliminated in favor of local and sales taxes.
  • The government should own all railroads and telephone and telegraph lines.

Questão 14

Questão
During the late 1800's,
Responda
  • the two major political parties remained unchallenged.
  • Presidential elections resulted in overwhelming victories.
  • U.S. Presidents had very little political power.
  • U.S. Presidents enjoyed immense political power.

Questão 15

Questão
Farmers and laborers who were displeased with the actions of the Republicans and Democrats in the 1890s formed which party as a response?
Responda
  • the Communist Party
  • the Prohibitionist Party
  • the Populist Party
  • the Greenback Party

Questão 16

Questão
Which of the following does not represent one of the ways in which William Jennings Bryan appealed to Populists?
Responda
  • He advocated for higher tariffs.
  • He supported the subtreasury system.
  • He came from farm country.
  • He supported free silver.

Questão 17

Questão
A Mugwump is
Responda
  • a liberal Democrat
  • a supporter of the spoils system
  • a former member of the Republican Party
  • a moderate Stalwart

Questão 18

Questão
What was an unintended result of the failure of Reconstruction-era policies?
Responda
  • Railroads and telegraphs were transferred into public ownership.
  • The Republican Party lost its political dominance.
  • Settlers in the Western territories suffered economically.

Questão 19

Questão
Which of the following contributed directly to the plight of farmers?
Responda
  • inadequate supply
  • labor unions
  • machine politics
  • overproduction

Questão 20

Questão
How did the Great Compromise of 1877 influence the election?
Responda
  • It encouraged southern states to support Hayes.
  • It gave new power to northern Republicans.
  • It gave the federal government new powers.
  • It allowed a bilateral government agreement.

Questão 21

Questão
A program that sought to streamline production and boost profits by systematically controlling costs and work practices.
Responda
  • ''scientific management''
  • American standard of living
  • ''effective freedom''
  • Industrial Workers of the World
  • Federal Reserve System

Questão 22

Questão
After leaving the Republican Party, Theodore Roosevelt ran for a third term as a candidate for what party?
Responda
  • the Conservation Party
  • the Progressive Party
  • the Labor Party

Questão 23

Questão
As a Progressive president, Theodore Roosevelt:
Responda
  • dismantled the Interstate Commerce Commission.
  • supported the conservation movement.
  • demanded less economic regulation.
  • supported the interests of big business.
  • established the Federal Reserve system.

Questão 24

Questão
Educated middle-class women during the Progressive period
Responda
  • began to perform the same work as men in factories and on farms.
  • assumed a more active role in the economy as consumers.
  • were actively involved in reform movements.

Questão 25

Questão
Eugene V. Debs was:
Responda
  • an immigrant.
  • a Socialist candidate for president.
  • elected vice president in 1912.
  • a railroad tycoon
  • a Social Darwinist.

Questão 26

Questão
Eugenics is the:
Responda
  • movement toward colonization in Africa by blacks from the United States.
  • modification of human behavior as described by famed psychiatrist Sigmund Freud.
  • practice of using poison gas by the Germans during World War I.
  • study of the supposed mental characteristics of different races.
  • Socialist system of infiltration of the labor unions within the United States.

Questão 27

Questão
Frederick Winslow Taylor’s management system was designed to make industry more efficient by doing which of the following?
Responda
  • increasing the quality of goods produced
  • decreasing repetition in producing goods
  • increasing the productivity of workers

Questão 28

Questão
How did some Progressives of the early twentieth century justify segregation and exclusion of African-Americans from the democratic process?
Responda
  • by supporting groups that promoted racial justice
  • by citing eugeniscists theories concerning race
  • by comparing past and present racial situations

Questão 29

Questão
In the presidential election of 1916, Woodrow Wilson:
Responda
  • was reelected when he promised to support the war effort.
  • used the campaign slogan “He kept us out of war.”
  • received fewer votes in states where women had the right to vote.
  • chose not to run for reelection.
  • lost to the Republican candidate, Charles Evans Hughes.

Questão 30

Questão
In which part of the country were the first states to grant women suffrage?
Responda
  • the East
  • the West
  • the South

Questão 31

Questão
Jane Addams:
Responda
  • supported anti-immigrant legislation.
  • believed in Social Darwinism.
  • was an economist.
  • was a birth-control advocate.
  • advocated for the working poor.

Questão 32

Questão
Muckrakers:
Responda
  • criticized the working poor.
  • were applauded by John D. Rockefeller.
  • generally sympathized with industrial corporations.
  • exposed the problems of industrial and urban life.
  • included no women.

Questão 33

Questão
Newspaper and magazine writers, who exposed the ills of industrial and urban life, fueling the progressive movement, were known as:
Responda
  • yellow journalists.
  • social reformers.
  • muckrakers.
  • freelancers
  • trustees.

Questão 34

Questão
Scientific management:
Responda
  • was a way to ensure industrial freedom.
  • was introduced by Samuel Gompers.
  • was welcomed by skilled workers.
  • was pioneered by Frederick W. Taylor.
  • put worker concerns ahead of profit.

Questão 35

Questão
The Eighteenth Amendment:
Responda
  • prohibited the manufacture and sale of any German products.
  • barred states from passing laws prohibiting alcohol manufacture or sale.
  • was never ratified.
  • protected the beer industry.
  • prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.

Questão 36

Questão
The Industrial Workers of the World:
Responda
  • was a union within the American Federation of Labor.
  • represented skilled workers only.
  • was led by Eugene Debs.
  • organized only women workers.
  • advocated a workers’ revolution.

Questão 37

Questão
The Nineteenth Amendment did which of the following?
Responda
  • allowed for a federal income tax
  • granted women the right to vote
  • prohibited the distribution of alcohol

Questão 38

Questão
The Nineteenth Amendment:
Responda
  • prohibited states from denying Chinese immigrants the right to vote.
  • barred states from using sex as a qualification for voting.
  • prohibited states from denying any immigrants the right to vote.
  • was never ratified.
  • barred states from using race as a qualification for voting.

Questão 39

Questão
The Progressive movement drew its strength from:
Responda
  • military leaders.
  • farmers.
  • middle-class reformers.
  • big business.
  • socialists.

Questão 40

Questão
The Progressive presidents were:
Responda
  • Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland, and William McKinley.
  • Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, and Theodore Roosevelt.
  • William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, and Warren G. Harding.
  • Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, and Rutherford B. Hayes
  • Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson.

Questão 41

Questão
The Triangle Shirtwaist fire:
Responda
  • brought in its wake increased union organizing among New York City garment workers and much-needed safety legislation.
  • was the worst fire in U.S. history.
  • resulted in laws that banned all manufacturing in New York.
  • destroyed the business, but there were no casualties.
  • occurred during the Uprising of the 20,000.

Questão 42

Questão
The word Progressivism came into common use around 1910 as:
Responda
  • denoting a group that appealed only to women.
  • an anti-business term.
  • a way of describing a broad, loosely defined political movement of individuals and groups.
  • another term for socialism.
  • representing those who advocated revolution.

Questão 43

Questão
What was the goal of the Niagara Movement founded in 1906 by W.E.B. DuBois?
Responda
  • to stop the spread of urban poverty
  • to shift the focus of African Americans from politics to self-improvement through education and jobs
  • political, economic, and social equality for African Americans

Questão 44

Questão
Which “muckraking” journalist advocated the reforms that led to the Pure Food and Drug Act?
Responda
  • Jacob Riis
  • Ida Tarbell
  • Upton Sinclair

Questão 45

Questão
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Progressive reformers?
Responda
  • Progressives were mainly urban and middle class.
  • Progressives pursued radical alternatives to capitalism.
  • Progressives were involved in a variety of reforms in the political, economic, and social realms.
  • Progressives believed in the spirit of human progress.
  • Progressives implemented several of the reforms advocated earlier by Populists.

Questão 46

Questão
Which of the following reform movements’ advocates were mostly women?
Responda
  • prohibition
  • conservationism
  • trade unionism

Questão 47

Questão
Which of the following social groups was NOT heavily involved in the Progressive movement?
Responda
  • white Protestants
  • big-city-machine politicians
  • the urban middle class
  • women
  • muckraker journalists

Questão 48

Questão
Which person was a Supreme Court justice and a Progressive reformer who advocated for the labor movement, free speech, and privacy?
Responda
  • Louis Brandeis
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • Eugene V. Debs
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • Samuel Gompers

Questão 49

Questão
Which U.S. President of the Progressive Era was most involved in conservationism?
Responda
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • William Howard Taft
  • Theodore Roosevelt

Questão 50

Questão
Who was NOT a candidate in the 1912 presidential election?
Responda
  • William Jennings Bryan
  • Eugene Debs
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • William Howard Taft
  • Woodrow Wilson

Questão 51

Questão
Why did the United States express limited interest in overseas expansion in the 1860s and 1870s?
Responda
  • post-Civil War reconstruction
  • the Anti-Imperialist League
  • Manifest Destiny
  • fear of attacks on their borders

Questão 52

Questão
Which of the following did Mahan not believe was needed to build an American empire?
Responda
  • the reopening of the American frontier
  • a canal through Central America
  • a navy
  • military bases around the world

Questão 53

Questão
Which is not one of the reasons the Anti- Imperial League gave for opposing the creation of an American empire?
Responda
  • concerns about the integration of other races
  • fear of competition from foreign workers
  • fear that the United States would suffer a foreign invasion
  • concerns that empire building ran counter to American democratic principles

Questão 54

Questão
How did Hay’s suggestion of an open door policy in China benefit the United States over other nations?
Responda
  • The United States was the only nation granted permission to collect taxes on the goods it traded within China’s borders.
  • The United States produced goods of better quality and lower cost than other countries.
  • The United States enjoyed a historically stronger relationship with the Chinese government.
  • The United States controlled more foreign ports than other countries.

Questão 55

Questão
How did the Boxer Rebellion strengthen American ties with China?
Responda
  • The United States sent arms and financial support to the Chinese government.
  • The United States provided troops to fight the rebels.
  • The United States thwarted attempts by Great Britain and Germany to fortify the rebels.
  • The United States supported the rebels and gained their support.

Questão 56

Questão
How did Colombia react to the United States’ proposal to construct a canal through Central America?
Responda
  • They preferred to build such a canal themselves.
  • They felt that Roosevelt’s deal did not offer enough money.
  • They preferred that no canal be built at all.
  • They agreed to sell land to the United States to build the canal, but in a less advantageous location than the Panamanians.

Questão 57

Questão
With the Roosevelt Corollary (to the Monroe Doctrine), Roosevelt sought to establish ________.
Responda
  • the idea that Latin America was free and independent from foreign intervention
  • the consequences for any European nation that involved itself in Latin American affairs
  • the need for further colonization efforts in the Western Hemisphere
  • the right of the United States to involve itself in Latin American affairs whenever necessary

Questão 58

Questão
Why did some Central American nations object to Taft’s paying off their debt to Europe with U.S. dollars?
Responda
  • because they wanted Asian countries to pay off their debts instead
  • because it made them indebted to the United States.
  • because they were forced to give land grants to the United States in return
  • because American currency wasn’t worth as much as local currencies

Questão 59

Questão
What two countries were engaged in a negotiation that led to the created of the Lodge Corollary?
Responda
  • Mexico and Japan
  • Nicaragua and France
  • Mexico and Spain
  • Colombia and Japan

Questão 60

Questão
Who is famous for his "Frontier Thesis" and advocated for expansion and American imperialism?
Responda
  • Alfred Mahan
  • Brooks Adams
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • Fredrick Turner

Questão 61

Questão
In the early 1890's, when the natives of this sugar producing island expressed anti-american resentment, Americans staged a armed revolt to protect its business interests.
Responda
  • Cuba
  • Hawaii
  • Philippines
  • Columbia

Questão 62

Questão
From a moral perspective, how was U.S. imperialism justified in the early twentieth century?
Responda
  • Americans felt that they were spiritually helping the conquered people.
  • Americans believed that the conquered people wanted to build their own businesses.
  • Americans helped the conquered people by preserving their way of life.

Questão 63

Questão
How did the Roosevelt administration react to Colombia’s refusal to allow the construction of a canal across the Isthmus of Panama?
Responda
  • by invading Colombia and holding its cities under siege
  • by offering to invest in Colombia’s major industries
  • by aiding Panama in declaring independence from Colombia

Questão 64

Questão
In the early 1900s, what was a significant factor in the establishment of the United States as a major global power?
Responda
  • its vast western frontier
  • its growing overseas empire
  • its debtor status

Questão 65

Questão
The policy of “dollar diplomacy” employed during William Howard Taft’s presidency involved which of the following?
Responda
  • sending direct aid to foreign countries
  • investing in bonds in foreign countries
  • making loans to foreign countries

Questão 66

Questão
The Roosevelt Corollary asserted which of the following?
Responda
  • the right to intervene in Latin American conflicts
  • the right to limit immigration from certain countries
  • the right to protect American industry from potential threats

Questão 67

Questão
The United States established the Open Door Policy to allow all other nations to trade with which country?
Responda
  • Japan
  • China
  • the Philippines

Questão 68

Questão
What was the primary motivator for U.S. intervention in Central America in the late 1800s and early 1900s?
Responda
  • colonial competition
  • economic gain
  • missionary zeal

Questão 69

Questão
Which of these was the first to be annexed by the United States?
Responda
  • Alaska
  • Hawaii
  • Guam

Questão 70

Questão
Which event was most responsible for causing the Spanish American War?
Responda
  • the interception of the Zimmerman Telegram
  • the U.S. invasion of Cuba
  • the sinking of the U.S.S. Maine

Questão 71

Questão
“The Great Migration” refers to:
Responda
  • Indian removal.
  • blacks moving from the North to the South.
  • whites settling the West.
  • blacks moving from the South to the North.
  • the massive influx of southern and eastern European immigrants.

Questão 72

Questão
As war broke out in Europe, Americans:
Responda
  • supported U.S. involvement.
  • mostly supported the British.
  • mostly supported the Germans.
  • were rather ambivalent.
  • were deeply divided.

Questão 73

Questão
In order to pursue his goal of using American influence overseas only when it was a moral imperative, Wilson put which man in the position of Secretary of State?
Responda
  • Charles Hughes
  • John Pershing
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  • William Jennings Bryan

Questão 74

Questão
Why was the German use of the unterseeboot considered to defy international law?
Responda
  • because they constituted cruel and unusual methods
  • because other countries did not have similar technology
  • because no international consensus existed to employ submarine technology
  • because they refused to warn their targets before firing

Questão 75

Questão
Which of the following was not enacted in order to secure men and materials for the war effort?
Responda
  • the War Industries Board
  • the Selective Service Act
  • the Sedition Act
  • the Food Administration

Questão 76

Questão
What of the following was not used to control American dissent against the war effort?
Responda
  • repressive legislation
  • National Civil Liberties Bureau
  • propaganda campaigns
  • loyalty leagues

Questão 77

Questão
Why did the war not increase overall prosperity?
Responda
  • because workers had no bargaining power due to the “no-strike pledge”
  • because women and African American men were paid less for the same work
  • because inflation made the cost of living C. higher
  • because wages were lowered due to the war effort

Questão 78

Questão
What was Article X in the Treaty of Versailles?
Responda
  • the Allies’ division of Germany’s holdings in Asia
  • the agreement that all nations in the League of Nations would be rendered equal
  • the refusal to allow Bolshevik Russia membership in the League of Nations
  • the “war guilt clause” that France required

Questão 79

Questão
Which of the following was not a destabilizing factor immediately following the end of the war?
Responda
  • political paranoia
  • high inflation and economic uncertainty
  • a flu pandemic
  • a women’s liberation movement

Questão 80

Questão
What was the inciting event that led to the Chicago Race Riot of 1919?
Responda
  • a protest march of black activists
  • a strike at a local factory
  • the assault of a white man on a streetcar by black youths
  • the murder of a black boy who swam too close to a white beach

Questão 81

Questão
When Carranza attempted to protect Mexico's mineral rights against American oil companies, President Wilson threw his support to this rebel leader.
Responda
  • Cesar Chavez
  • Victoriano Huerta
  • Deigo Rivera
  • Pancho Villa

Questão 82

Questão
Dollar Diplomacy was:
Responda
  • applied only in Asia.
  • put in place by Woodrow Wilson regarding Mexico.
  • characteristic of the foreign policy of Theodore Roosevelt.
  • seldom used and never successfully.
  • used by William Howard Taft instead of military intervention.

Questão 83

Questão
During World War I, federal powers:
Responda
  • stayed the same.
  • expanded greatly.
  • were limited.
  • were delegated to the states.
  • changed little.

Questão 84

Questão
For what reason did most of the opponents of the League of Nations believe that the United States should not join it?
Responda
  • It was a weak organization that was likely to be unsuccessful.
  • It would increase U.S. involvement in its allies’ affairs.
  • It intended to aggressively force other countries to join.

Questão 85

Questão
From 1914 to 1916, U.S. intervention in Mexico:
Responda
  • demonstrated the weaknesses of Wilson’s foreign policy.
  • liberated Mexico from Spain.
  • was welcomed by the Mexican people.
  • led to the U.S. takeover of Mexico.
  • demonstrated that the United States could successfully use force to reorder the affairs of nations.

Questão 86

Questão
Senators opposing America’s participation in the League of Nations:
Responda
  • were convinced that Great Britain was not going to join, thus making it a weak organization.
  • believed that it was too complicated an organization to join.
  • argued that it would threaten to deprive the country of its freedom of action.
  • were ultimately defeated, and the United States joined the league in 1921.
  • complained that they would only support it if the league was located in New York.

Questão 87

Questão
The Committee on Public Information:
Responda
  • was affiliated with the Socialist Party.
  • was a government agency that sought to shape public opinion.
  • was directed by William Jennings Bryan.
  • protected civil liberties.
  • was limited in its efforts.

Questão 88

Questão
The Fourteen Points attempted to:
Responda
  • quiet growing criticism from the Republicans that Wilson was an inept leader.
  • consolidate political power at home.
  • organize alliances after the war among fourteen prominent nations.
  • provide a peace agenda to create a new democratic world order.
  • outline the Progressive Party’s campaign platform for the 1920 election.

Questão 89

Questão
The Palmer Raids were targeted towards which group of people?
Responda
  • Radicals
  • Alchohol smugglers
  • Germans

Questão 90

Questão
The Treaty of Versailles:
Responda
  • required Germany to pay over $33 billion in reparations.
  • was a fair and reasonable document given the circumstances.
  • allowed Germany equal participation in the negotiation process.
  • declared Ireland’s independence.
  • rejected Wilson’s idea for a League of Nations.

Questão 91

Questão
What was one cause of the United States’ involvement in World War I?
Responda
  • the assassination of Francis Ferdinand
  • Unrestricted Submarine warfare
  • Wilson’s re-election campaign

Questão 92

Questão
Which of the following events triggered the actions that led to World War I?
Responda
  • the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia
  • the Germans’ sinking of the Lusitania
  • the assassination of Francis Ferdinand

Questão 93

Questão
Which of the following events was not used to justify the United States’ entry into World War I in 1917?
Responda
  • the interception of the Zimmermann telegram
  • the Germans’ sinking of the Lusitania
  • Selected Service Act

Questão 94

Questão
Which of the following was an indirect outcome of the United States’ entering World War I?
Responda
  • Southern African-Americans migrated to northern cities.
  • Law prohibited the production and sale of alcohol.
  • Women were granted the constitutional right to vote.

Questão 95

Questão
The sinking of the Lusitania was the immediate cause for U.S. entry into WWI.
Responda
  • True
  • False

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