Fall Semester Exam

Question 1

This ritual celebrated a hope that the settlers would disappear the buffalo would return, and they would be reunited with their dead ancestors?

Answer 1

Ghost Dance

Question 2

What was the name of the battle where Custer would die?

Answer 2

Battle of Little Big Horn

Question 3

What was the name of group that would track down and punish wrongdoers in the west?

Answer 3

Vigilance committees

Question 4

Who referred to the plains as the “Great American Desert”?

Answer 4

Major Stephen Long

Question 5

What act provided states with 30,000 acres of land to fund existing colleges or to found agricultural and mechanical schools?

Answer 5

Morrill Land Grant Act

Question 6

Who believed the frontier provided a safety-valve of social discontent?

Answer 6

Fredrick Jackson Turner

Question 7

What was the name of the trail that ran from Laramie, WY up into the Montana mines?

Answer 7

Bozeman trail

Question 8

What was the name of the event where Colonel John Chivington of the Colorado Volunteers attacked Black Kettle’s camp?

Answer 8

Sand Creek Massacre

Question 9

At what location would Sitting Bull be shot and killed?

Answer 9

Wounded Knee

Question 10

What group of men did Custer lead?

Answer 10

7th Calavary

Question 11

The railroad boom began in 1862 with the passage of the ____________

Answer 11

Pacific Railway Act

Question 12

_____________ argued that the basic force shaping capitalist society was the class struggle between workers and owners.

Answer 12

Karl Marx

Question 13

Who was the Scottish immigrant that came to America and created his own steel company?

Answer 13

Andrew Carnegie

Question 14

The _________________ was a severe recession that struck the American economy and forced many companies to cut wages.

Answer 14

Panic of 1873

Question 15

Who invented the telephone?

Answer 15

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 16

Unions were tied to the idea of _______________.

Answer 16

Marxism

Question 17

Workers who tried to organize a union or strike were fired or place on a ________.

Answer 17

Blacklist

Question 18

What was the most successful transcontinental railroad?

Answer 18

Great Northern

Question 19

Who divided the country into four time zones?

Answer 19

American Railway Association

Question 20

The _______________ founded in 1869, called for an eight-hour work day, equal pay for women, no child labor, and worker-owned factories.

Answer 20

Knights of Labor

Question 21

_____________ was the largest political machine located in New York.

Answer 21

Tammany Hall

Question 22

Who wrote “rags-to-riches” novels?

Answer 22

Horatio Alger

Question 23

___________ were statutes enacted to enforce segregation.

Answer 23

Jim Crow laws

Question 24

In 1890 Congress passed the ____________ to curb the power of the large business combinations known as trusts.

Answer 24

Sherman Antitrust Act

Question 25

In 1882 Congress passed the _______________ which barred Chinese immigration for 10 years and prevented the Chinese already in the country from becoming citizens.

Answer 25

Chinese Exclusion Act

Question 26

The ________________ prohibits states from denying citizens the right to vote on the basis of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

Answer 26

15th Amendment

Question 27

What Supreme Court case upheld Louisiana law and the doctrine of “separate but equal” facilities for African Americans.

Answer 27

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 28

__________ is an extreme dislike of immigrants by native-born people.

Answer 28

Nativism

Question 29

What was the nickname given to republicans who supported the democratic candidate, Grover Cleveland in the 1884 presidential election?

Answer 29

Mugwamps

Question 30

___________ was concerned with African Americans protecting and exercising voting rights.

Answer 30

WEB DuBois

Question 31

Who applied the theory of Social Darwinism?

Answer 31

Herbert Spencer

Question 32

_____________, documented slum life in his 1890’s book How the Other Half Lives.

Answer 32

Jacob Riis

Question 33

The _________, intended to protect American industry from foreign competition, instead it helped trigger a steep rise in the price of all goods.

Answer 33

McKinley Tariff

Question 34

_________ was the nickname for people who supported patronage.

Answer 34

Stalwarts

Question 35

___________ was the belief that no matter how humble their origins, Americans could rise in society and go as far as their talents and commitment would take them.

Answer 35

Individualism

Question 36

________ is the idea that the United States and Latin American nations should work together.

Answer 36

Pan Americanism

Question 37

What was the name of the volunteer cavalry unit that was a mix of cowboys, miners, and law officers?

Answer 37

Rough Riders

Question 38

What was Roosevelt’s foreign policy motto, borrowed from a West African saying?

Answer 38

Speak softly and carry a big stick

Question 39

___________ is the economic and political domination of a strong nation over weaker ones.

Answer 39

Imperialism

Question 40

What connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean?

Answer 40

Panama Canal

Question 41

A __________ is a section of a country where a foreign nation enjoys special rights and powers.

Answer 41

Sphere of influence

Question 42

__________ was a policy that allowed each foreign nation in China to trade freely in the other nations’ leaseholds.

Answer 42

Open Door policy

Question 43

_________ is a type of sensational, biased, and often false reporting for the sake of attracting readers?

Answer 43

yellow journalism

Question 44

In 1854, Japan signed the ___________, giving the U.S. the rights to two trade ports in Japan.

Answer 44

Treaty of Kanagawa

Question 45

______ stated the United States would intervene in Latin American affairs when necessary to maintain economic and political stability in the Western Hemisphere.

Answer 45

Roosevelt Corollary

Question 46

What treaty ended the Spanish American War?

Answer 46

Treaty of Paris

Question 47

One stipulation of the ____________ stated that Cuba’s debts had to be kept low to prevent foreign countries from landing troops to enforce payments.

Answer 47

Platt Amendment

Question 48

_________ is a form of aggressive nationalism?

Answer 48

jingoism

Question 49

McKinley sent the __________ to Cuba to protect Americans living there?

Answer 49

USS Maine

Question 50

Who was the publisher of the New York Journal?

Answer 50

William Randolph Hearst

Question 51

What amendment granted women the right to vote?

Answer 51

19th

Question 52

What amendment provided for the direct election of senators?

Answer 52

17th

Question 53

What was the name of the Progressive Party that put up a presidential candidate in 1912?

Answer 53

Bull Moose Party

Question 54

What act was intended to strengthen the Interstate Commerce Commission by giving it the power to set railroad rates?

Answer 54

Hepburn Act

Question 55

The main purpose of the _________ was to ban foreign and interstate traffic in adulterated or mislabeled food and drug products, and it directed the U.S. Bureau of Chemistry to inspect products and refer offenders to prosecutors.

Answer 55

Pure Food and Drug Act

Question 56

The ________ works to prevent adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products from being sold as food and to ensure that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.

Answer 56

Meat Inspection Act

Question 57

What act authorized the use of federal funds from public land sales to pay for irrigation and land development projects in west?

Answer 57

Newlands Reclamation Act

Question 58

Who reported on vote stealing and other corrupt practices of urban political machines?

Answer 58

Lincoln Steffens

Question 59

What was Roosevelt’s stamp on his presidency?

Answer 59

Enivornmental Conservation

Question 60

What does NAACP stand for?

Answer 60

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Question 61

What was the name provided to crusading journalists who uncovered abuses and corruption in society?

Answer 61

Muckrakers

Question 62

The ________ believed that the best strategy was convincing state governments to grant women the right to vote first.

Answer 62

American Women’s Suffrage Association

Question 63

While Roosevelt was president, his reform programs became known as the __________.

Answer 63

Square Deal

Question 64

The ____________ gave federal antitrust suits precedence on the dockets of circuit courts.

Answer 64

Expedition Act

Question 65

What term means a settlement imposed by an outside party?

Answer 65

Arbitration

Question 66

What was the name provided to the group of Senators that assailed the League of Nations as the kind of “entangling alliance” that the Founders had warned about?

Answer 66

Irreconcilable

Question 67

Who went to the South to recruit African Americans to come to work in the North during World War I?

Answer 67

Henry Ford

Question 68

What was the name of the treaty that ended World War I between the Allies and Austria-Hungary?

Answer 68

Treaty of Saint-Germain

Question 69

Who was assassinated in Sarajevo which led to the start of World War I?

Answer 69

Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand

Question 70

British intelligence intercepted the ________, that was being sent to Mexico promising if they waged war with America that they would receive in return lost lands in the American southwest.

Answer 70

Zimmerman Telegram

Question 71

Britain France, and Russia were known as the what?

Answer 71

Triple Entente

Question 72

What was Woodrow Wilson’s peace plan known as?

Answer 72

14 points

Question 73

What was the name of the treaty that ended World War I between the Allies and Germany?

Answer 73

Treaty of Versailles

Question 74

Who was the leader of the Bolshevik Party in Russia?

Answer 74

Vladimir Lenin

Question 75

To prevent strikes from disrupting the war effort, the government established the __________.

Answer 75

National War Labor Board

Question 76

Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary was known as the _________.

Answer 76

Triple Alliance

Question 77

In ________________ Supreme Court case, words cannot present a clear and present danger.

Answer 77

Schenck v. United States

Question 78

_________ is information designed to influence ones opinion.

Answer 78

Propaganda

Question 79

A. Mitchell Palmer created a special division within the Justice Department that is known as the ____________ today.

Answer 79

FBI

Question 80

The movement of 300,000 to 500,000 African Americans to the north was known as the _______.

Answer 80

Great Migration