Industrial America
The Progressive Era
Imperialism and WWI
The 1920s
Depression/New Deal
100
THIS major advancement in 19th century transportation technology was a major reason for America's industrial success.
What is the railroad?
100
(1) THIS black leader was the first black man to receive a PhD from Harvard University, and he stressed that blacks should demand immediate civil rights; While (2) THIS black leader founded the Tuskegee Institute to train African Americans in trades & vocations.
Who are (1) W.E.B. Du Bois and (2) Booker T. Washington?
100
Identify THREE reasons why the US decided to become an imperialist power beginning around the 1890s.
Possible answers: (1) the desire for more raw materials/natural resources, (2) the desire for new economic markets, (3) naval bases for a new modern navy to protect economic markets, (4) yellow journalism excites supremacist nationalism, (5) the desire to spread American democratic and moral ideals, (6) racialism (Anglo-Saxonism), (7) extension of Manifest Destiny
100
THIS 1920s communications invention completely revolutionized news, entertainment, advertising, and even home life.
What is the radio?
100
Identify (1) TWO causes and (2) TWO consequences of the Dust Bowl.
What is (1) poor farming practices; years of drought; wind storms; (2) migration to California as "Okies," dire poverty, sicknesses and deaths from dust storms, New Deal aid (Soil Conservation Act etc.).
200
Tammany Hall was the headquarters of THIS infamous political boss's political machine. Political cartoonist Thomas Nast helped expose his corruption to the public in the 1870s.
Who is William "Boss" Tweed?
200
(1) THIS faith-based movement created organizations to help the needy and improve society through education. The Salvation Army and the YMCA are two examples. (2) THIS movement used the scientific treatise "On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection" to argue for a "survival of the fittest" social ethic.
What is (1) the Social Gospel Movement and (2) Social Darwinism?
200
Identify FOUR nations, territories, or regions where the US exerted imperialist control as a result of either the Spanish-American war or other imperialist ventures of the era.
What is (1) the Philippines, (2) Cuba as protectorate, (3) Puerto Rico, (4) Guam, (5) Hawaii, (6) Latin America becomes subject to Roosevelt Corollary and "Big Stick," (7) Panama Canal Zone?
200
Identify THREE consequences of the mass production of automobiles by auto manufacturers such as Henry Ford.
(1) Cars more affordable and widespread, (2) Related industries (steel, rubber, glass) boom, (3) new freedoms for people, especially the young, (4) the growth of suburbs, (5) auto accidents increase, but public services such as police, fire, ambulance also become more efficient.
200
Identify at least FOUR causes of the Great Depression.
(1) Overproduction in manufacturing & agriculture, (2) buying on margin, (3) overextension of credit (especially for margin), (4) bank failures, (5) stock market crash, (6) high tariffs (Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930 etc.), (7) cycle of rising unemployment, (8) laissez-faire/government inaction
300
Match the inventor/businessman with the appropriate invention or business venture: (1) Alexander Graham Bell; (2) Andrew Carnegie; (3) John D. Rockefeller; (4) JP Morgan; (5) Cornelius Vanderbilt
What are (1) the telephone; (2) steel industry/vertical integration; (3) Standard Oil/horizontal integration; (4) Banking and Finance; (5) Steamships and later Railroads
300
This 1890s political party proposed many reforms later taken up by the Progressives. Although short-lived, this farmer-oriented party's key goals were bimetallism (gold- and silver-backed currency), federal ownership of railroads and public utilities, and a graduated income tax.
What is the Populist Party?
300
Identify FOUR major causes of World War I in 1914 (the US remained neutral until 1917, don't confuse the causes of WWI with the causes of American entry into the war years later)
What is (1) Militarism, (2) Alliance Systems, (3) National self-determination movements, (4) Imperialist rivalries, (5) Assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, (6) colonial disputes
300
What were people afraid of during the First Red Scare?
Communist (Bolshevik) revolution overthrowing the US government. The Russian Revolution had just recently seen the overthrow of the tsar and of a democratic government in 1917.
300
(1) THIS New Deal program insured bank deposits by the federal government, and (2) THIS New Deal agency supervised the stock market and made many unfair stock exchange practices illegal.
What is (1) the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and (2) the Securities and Exchange Commission?
400
Identify the regions/countries where (1) "old" immigrants came from, where (2) "new" immigrants came from, and (3) name the law that forbade a certain East Asian group from immigrating to the US beginning in 1882.
What is (1) Northern and Western Europe, (2) Southern and Eastern Europe, and the (3) Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
400
The Sherman Act of 1890 and the Clayton Act of 1914 addressed WHAT issues?
The Sherman and Clayton acts were anti-trust or anti-monopoly laws. The Clayton act strengthened the Sherman act and closed some loopholes.
400
Identify THREE reasons that led Woodrow Wilson to ask Congress to declare war in April 1917?
(1) Germany's unrestricted submarine (U-boat) warfare, (2) the Zimmermann Note proposing a war alliance between Germany & Mexico against the US, (3) Economic motivations (trade & loans much greater with Allies), (4) Defend Democracy ("Make the world safe for democracy")?
400
Al Capone and the bootleggers became rich and infamous during the 1920s because of THIS.
Prohibition (the 18th Amendment)
400
(1) THIS was the largest, most expensive public works program of the New Deal; it also had a special work program for artists, musicians, actors, and writers. (2) THIS was a special work program for young men aged 18-25 working for the US Forestry Service.
(1) the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and (2) the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
500
Most foreign immigrants were processed at (1) THIS immigrant station in New York; and many settled in urban settlement houses, such as Hull House founded by (2) THIS woman.
What is (1) Ellis Island and (2) Jane Addams
500
The 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th Amendments are sometimes known as the Progressive Amendments because they were all passed during the Progressive era. Identify what EACH amendment did.
16th: Federal Income Tax; 17th: Direct Election of US Senators; 18th: Prohibition of Alcohol; 19th: Woman's Suffrage
500
(1) THIS severely flawed peace treaty ending the First World War helped set the stage for Second World War 20 years later, especially with its harsh punishments of Germany; and the US rejected this treaty partly because we refused to join (2) THIS world peace organization, because we didn't want to get tangled up in Europe's wars anymore.
(1) The Treaty of Versailles, and (2) the League of Nations
500
Match the 1920s celebrities with their appropriate field/achievement? (1) Charlie Chaplin, (2) Charles Lindbergh, (3) Babe Ruth, (4) Bessie Smith, (5) Louis Armstrong/Duke Ellington
(1) Movie star (first silent movies, later "talkies"); (2) First non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean (New York to Paris); (3) Baseball player for Yankees, home-run king; (4) Blues singer; (5) Jazz musicians
500
THIS New Deal law (1) set a minimum wage, maximum hours, and regulated child labor; and (2) THIS New Deal law provided an old-age pension, unemployment insurance, disability insurance, and help for mothers with dependent children.
What is (1) the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and (2) Social Security Act of 1935?
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