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Question 1

The homestead strike at the carnegie factory affect what vital industry in 1892

Answer 1

None of the above: oil, railroads, cola, banking

Question 2

WHo was not a believe in socialism

Answer 2

Gompers

Question 3

Who said “show me a country where there are no strikes and I’ll show you a country where there is no liberty:

Answer 3

Gompers

Question 4

The Indian chief who led the Lakota Sioux against Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn was

Answer 4

Sitting Bull

Question 5

The Massacre at Wounded Knee resulted in the death of

Answer 5

More than 200 unarmed Sioux

Question 6

At the Chivington Massacre of 1864

Answer 6

US Army troops led by Colonel John Chivington murdered 450 Cheyenne Indians

Question 7

Geronimo was famous for his resistance to forced reservation life. Captured by American military troops, he said, “Once I moved like the wind. Now I surrender to you, and that is all.” The next day he escaped from military custody. To what tribe did he belong?

Answer 7

Apache

Question 8

Helen Hunt Jackson

Answer 8

Helped begin a national Indian rights movement with her book A Century of Dishonor (1881)

Question 9

In 1866, the ___________ launched a surprise attack that wiped out 80 U.S. soldiers and came to be known as the Fetterman massacre

Answer 9

Sioux

Question 10

The final armed encounter between the American army and Indians occured in 1890 at

Answer 10

Wounded Knee

Question 11

The Comstock Lode was

Answer 11

The largest silver mine in America

Question 12

Which was NOT a boomtown?

Answer 12

Denver, Colorado

Question 13

Who was NOT at the Battle of Little BigHorn?

Answer 13

Geronimo

Question 14

Which of these is NOT a Southwestern (warm) tribe?

Answer 14

Pawnee

Question 15

Which tribe was slaughtered at the Massacre at Wounded Knee?

Answer 15

Sioux

Question 16

What tribe was portrayed as the bad guys in our film?

Answer 16

Pawnee

Question 17

Who was NOT in the new wave of immigrants?

Answer 17

Germans

Question 18

The ____ formed in 1887 and vowed to protect white America

Answer 18

American Protective Association

Question 19

The 1882 Immigration Law banned

Answer 19

Paupers, criminals, convicts

Question 20

The 1882 chinese exclusion act banned all immigration from China until

Answer 20

1943

Question 21

His book “progress and poverty” influenced ideas about poverty and taxation and sold over 3 million copies

Answer 21

henry george

Question 22

Civil war general lewis wallace wrote a book called _____ it was the uncle tom’s cabin of the anti darwinists movement because it supported the scriptures

Answer 22

ben hur

Question 23

In 1892 the populists were defeated in the presidential election by

Answer 23

cleveland

Question 24

An imperialist foreign policy was supported in the late 19th century bu all the following EXCEPT

Answer 24

William J. Bryan

Question 25

America seems to have entered the Sp.-Am. War largely

Answer 25

To aid the Cuban independence movement and to bring stability to the island

Question 26

Which of the following is the least related to the other four? (geographically) The Maine Commodore Dewey Kettle Hill Santiago Harbor Guantanamo Bay

Answer 26

Dewey

Question 27

The great naval theorist who wrote that America needed a strong navy, the Spanish commander whose mistreatment of Cubans fueled revolution, and the engineer who oversaw the completion of the panama canal were, respectively,

Answer 27

Mahan, Valeriano Weyler, Ferdinand de Lesseps

Question 28

The Platt Amendment, drafted after the Spanish-Am. War,

Answer 28

Gave the US authority to intervene in Cuban affairs, as well as land privileges which led to an Am. naval base at Guantanamo Bay

Question 29

America was spurred to issue the Roosevelt corollary to the Monroe Doctrine by Britain’s aggression towards

Answer 29

Venezuela

Question 30

The US began to flex its muscles enforcing TR’s Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine when it sent troops into _____ in 1905.

Answer 30

Dominican Republic

Question 31

An important political aim of the Progressive movement was to?

Answer 31

Stimulate democratic jobs for the unemployed

Question 32

Which of these progressive political reforms would allow citizens to directly propose legislation?

Answer 32

The initiative

Question 33

Which of these progressive political reforms would allow citizens to directly vote on legislation?

Answer 33

Referendum

Question 34

The Hepburn Act strengthened the authority of the Interstate Commerce Commission by

Answer 34

Giving it the power to set maximum rates that railroads could charge

Question 35

The classic trustbusting decision of TR’s administration was Northern Securities (1904), in which the Court held that

Answer 35

A railroad merger in the Northwest was monopolistic in nature & thus violated the Sherman A-T Act

Question 36

Gifford Pinchot, appointed by TR and fired by Taft was head of the

Answer 36

Forestry Service

Question 37

To show he was a conservationist, Taft created the _______________

Answer 37

Bureau of Mines

Question 38

The Jones Act of 1916

Answer 38

Gave the filipinos territorial status

Question 39

Which of these countries did the US not send troops to or acquire in the WIlson administration

Answer 39

Columbia

Question 40

The Triple Alliance was composed of which three nations for most of the war?

Answer 40

Germany, ottoman empire, and A-H

Question 41

The Triple ENtente was composed of which 3?

Answer 41

France, GB, and Russia

Question 42

In March of 1917, 2 events happened which finally convinced Wilson to involve the US in WWI. One was the 1st Russian Revolution; the other was

Answer 42

The sinking of US merchant ships

Question 43

The Sussex Pledge was a

Answer 43

Promise by Germany to end surprise submarine attacks on merchant ships

Question 44

The treaty of Brest- Litovsk

Answer 44

Ended fighting between Germany and Russia during WWI

Question 45

During WWI, the Committee on Public Information

Answer 45

Promoted public support for the war

Question 46

During WW1, John J. Pershing

Answer 46

Commanded the American Expeditionary Forces

Question 47

At the Battle of Belleau Wood, American marines saved

Answer 47

Paris

Question 48

During WW1, Herbert Hoover

Answer 48

Was in charge of the Food Administration

Question 49

What WW1 battle, first proved Americans could fight?

Answer 49

Cantigny

Question 50

Alvin York

Answer 50

Was an American WW1 hero who received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his single-handed attack on a German machine gun nest

Question 51

In the Balfour Declaration, Great Britain

Answer 51

Promised support for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine

Question 52

He was the overall leading Ace of WW1

Answer 52

Von Richtofen

Question 53

Georges Clemenceau

Answer 53

Represented France at the Versailles Peace Conference

Question 54

Henry Cabot Lodge

Answer 54

Represented Great Britain at Versailles

Question 55

14. In the Schenck Decision, the Supreme Court:

Answer 55

E. said constitutional rights are not absolute

Question 56

39. The Saint Valentines Day Massacre (February 1929) occured during what administration?

Answer 56

Coolidge

Question 57

In 1932 Hoover did try to stimulate the economy through the

Answer 57

C. RFC

Question 58

The Bonus Army was routed from Washington DC by the army led by General

Answer 58

C. MacArthur

Question 59

The League of Nations was first shown to be powerless in

Answer 59

A. Manchuria

Question 60

Hoover’s good Neighbor Policy was most like that of

Answer 60

B. Taft

Question 61

The novel most associated with the flight of Dust Bowl farmers fleeing to California is

Answer 61

The Grapes of Wrath

Question 62

Her photographs of Dust Bowl victims alerted the nation to their plight

Answer 62

Dorothea Lange

Question 63

Two members of the US Olympic track team were not allowed to compete in the 1936 games because they were

Answer 63

Jewish