Ch.1 & 2
What was the cause of the Stamp Act?
Britain needed $$$
What business model is defined by owning every step of the process to create a product?
Vertical integration
restricted (1) the number of immigrants (1) allowed to come to America (1)
National Origins Act of 1924
What did the arrival of Matthew C. Perry's black ships encourage the Japanese to do?
Japan began to westernize
What amendment banned the sale and consumption of alcohol?
18th
What is the significance of the three branches of power (Legislative, Judicial, and Executive)?
Each branch limits and monitors the other 2
What idea did Manifest Destiny promote?
the nation was meant to spread all the way to the Pacific
A valuable national oil reserve (1) was leased by the Secretary of the Interior, (1) Albert Fall, (1) to private interest (1) in exchange for gifts and “loans” (1) during the Harding presidency (1)
Teapot Dome
What has been the impact of these authors and their books on American society?
How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis (1890)
The Jungle, Upton Sinclair (1906)
The Shame of the Cities, Lincoln Steffens (1904)
influence on social, political, and economic reforms
The Espionage and Sedition Act of 1918 were designed to...
limit opposition to the war in the United States
What problem arose when Missouri requested to be admitted as an enslaved state?
it would upset the balance of power between slave and free states in the senate
Which of the following is the most significant consequence of the Resurgence of Nativism in the late 19th century?
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Lead by George Creel (1) who directed the office for American propaganda (1) assured Americans that the war was being fought to keep the world safe for democracy (1)
Committee of Public Information
What caused the rise of progressivism?
laissez-faire economics with its emphasis on an unregulated market AND the poverty, filth and crime of urban society
The greatest number of immigrants to the United States came from which region in the early 20th century?
Southern and Eastern Europe
Which of the following proved to be a major source of agreement among Southerners in the decade leading up to the Civil War?
The election of 1860 proved to be the deciding factor in seceding from the Union
Businesses formed trusts, pools, and holding companies mainly to...
increase profits by eliminating competition
required all men 21-31 to register for military service (1) 10 million men enlisted for the draft (1)
Selective Service Act
The Roosevelt Corollary was a statement of American policy that built upon the_______
Monroe Doctrine
What did Marcus Garvey not support?
Integration
Why did California seek admittance into the United States in 1850?
the population increased because of the Gold Rush
What variables determined the success of the “New Immigrants”?
How well immigrants adjusted depended on how quickly they learned English, adapted to American culture, their skills, amount of money they possessed AND settling among members of their own ethnic group.
Germany announced (1) that it would sink any ships (1) sailing in the waters surrounding Great Britain (1)
Unlimited Submarine Warfare
How the search for new markets pushed the United States to become a world power?
The idea of “American Exceptionalism” had convinced many Americans that they had a destiny to dominate the world.
WHY did nativism increase in the 1920s?
Many Americans reacted to the bombings, strikes, and recession of the postwar years by blaming Immigrants