Old Tests

Question 0

The political machines such as Tammany Hall, which ran American cities at the turn of the century, derived their strongest support from

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Poor immigrants and ethnic communities in the inner city

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Booker T. Washington

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Believed that self help was the best plan for African Americans

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The Sherman silver purchase act of 1890

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Required the federal government to purchase silver

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William Jennings Bryan’s “Cross of gold” oration was primarily an expression of his

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Advocacy of free and unlimited coinage of silver

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Which of the following court decisions severely crippled the Sherman antitrust act?

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United States v. E.C. Knight

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In the decision ink the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court held that

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Separate but equal facilities for different races were constitutional

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The Pendleton act

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Provided a merit system for the national government

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“Competition is a Law…survival of the fittest” this quote is an example of what

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Social Darwinism

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Which of the following best accounts for the success of the American federation of labor in organizing labor in the late 1800s?

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It’s policy of organizing only skilled craftsmen

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Jane Addams was a turn of the century activist most known for her work in

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Settlement houses

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What was established to help provide isolated farmers with social and cultural activities?

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National Grange

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Jacob Riis’s “How the Other Half Lives” is a study of

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Immigrant urban poverty and despair in the 1890s

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A Social Gospel minister believed that

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The church must actively participate in society

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The precipitating factor in the 1894 Pullman Strike was Pullman’s

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Cutting wages without proportional cuts in company housing rents

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Edward Bellamy’s book Looking Backward was

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A futuristic utopian society

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The settlement house movement drew its workers from which of the following groups?

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Young affluent, college educated women

Question 16

The “free silver” campaign of 1896 received its greatest popular support from

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Farmers, who hoped that a more generous money supply would ease their debt burdens

Question 17

Mark Twain’s classic stories, such as Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, were primary examples of what trend in turn of the century American Literature?

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Realistic

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The interstate commerce commission

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Was designed to protect railroads

Question 19

The leader of the Knights of Labor was

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Terence Powderly

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Standard Oil is and example of

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A trust

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The Haymarket incident involved

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A riot between striking workers and the police

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The “Zimmerman Telegram” was infamous because it

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Exposed a German plot to enlist Mexico into an alliance with Germany in a war against the U.S.

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In the Arabic and Sussex Pledge of 1916, Germany promised not to

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Sink passenger ships without warning

Question 24

The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, enunciated by President Teddy in his annual message to congress in May 1904, did all the following except

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Proposed a massive foreign aid program to stabilize the governments of Latin America

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The Creel committee during WW1 represented the United States' first successful attempt at large-scale governmental

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Propaganda

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The underwood tariff of 1913

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Was the first tariff cut in nineteen years

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The Niagara Movement resulted in

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The formation of the NAACP

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Which of the following regulatory laws was passed as a result of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle?

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The Pure Food and Drug Act

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Of his fourteen points, Wilson was most concerned with establishing

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Point XIV: A general association of nations formed to provide political independence and territorial integrity of all nations.

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The "yellow journalism" of the late nineteenth century might best be described as

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Reporting the news in an exaggerated, distorted, and sensationalized manner

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The term "Seward's Folly" referred to Secretary of State William Seward's

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Negotiation of the purchase of Alaska from Russia

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The "Open Door Policy" in 1899 primarily concerned

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Trade with Asia

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Woodrow Wilson's "New Freedom" and Theodore Roosevelt's "New Nationalism" were similar in that both

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Expanded the government's role in regulating businesses and business monopolies

Question 34

Which of the following emerged during the Progressive Era as the most influential advocate of full political, economic, and social equality for Black Americans?

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W.E.B Dubois

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The leaders of the Progressive movement were primarily

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Middle class reformers concerned with urban and consumer issues

Question 36

The Nineteenth Amendment, added to the United States Constitution in 1920, did which of the following?

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Enfranchised women

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The "Great Migration" which involved the movement of African Americans from the South to the industrial cities of the North and West, occurred primarily

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During and after World War I

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Herbert Hoover oversaw the most successful of President Woodrow Wilson's war bonds during World War I. That agency was

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Committee on Public Information

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The Ballinger-Pinchot Affair (1909) was

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A dispute between the Secretary of the Interior and the Chief Forester over the sale of public lands

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The Muckrakers

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I, II, and III

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During William H. Taft's, the federal government moved to strengthen its regulatory control

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Passage of the Mann-Elkins Act

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Following World War I, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge led the fight against the

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League of Nations

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The Social Security Act provided for all of the following EXCEPT

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Aid to the nation's immigrants

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Senator Huey Long attacked the New Deal, suggesting that

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There should be a "share the wealth" program

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The dismal plight of the "Dust Bowl" refugees was captured in

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John Steinbeck's - The Grapes of Wrath

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The Wagner Act dealt with the rights of

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Labor Unions

Question 47

Throughout the 1920s, American farmers suffered from depressed agricultural prices. As a result, President FDR hoped to stabilize the farm economy by attempting to control production and fixing the price of farm goods. The agency in charge of monitoring the agricultural sector of the economy was the

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AAA

Question 48

A "Flapper" was

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A young woman who challenged traditional gender roles in the 1920s

Question 49

All of statements about the Civilian Conservation Corps are true EXCEPT

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It eventually came to employ over 1/3 of the American workface

Question 50

Which battle was the turning point in the Pacific War between Japan and U.S.

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Midway Island

Question 51

At the time if the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the US found itself

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Partially prepared by over a year because of the nation's first peace time draft

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The Marshall Plan was

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An effort to provide economic aid to countries devastated by World War II

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The Lend-Lease Act was designed to

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Help Great Britain in the war against Germany

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Marcus Garvey, leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, argued do

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A return to Africa

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The Scopes Trial had the effect of

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Highlighting the intolerance of religious fundamentalism and it's conflict with contemporary science and secularism

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The 1932 demonstration known as the "Bonus March" involved

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World War I vets demanding financial aid from the federal government

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The "Lost Generation" refers to

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Young writers disillusioned by the materialism, decadence, and conformity dominating 1920s America

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The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 had the effect of

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Forbidding unions from closing shops to nonunion employees

Question 59

The internment of Japanese-Americans by the United States during World War II was primarily

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They were Japanese

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The Truman Doctrine was issued in response to

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The threat of Communist expansion in Greece and Turkey

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President Franklin Roosevelt's "court-packing plan" called for

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The addition of up to 6 new justices if present justices over the age of 70 did not retire

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Which of the following was LEAST likely a factor in the decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

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Hope that a quick victory in the Pacific would hasten an Allied victory in Europe

Question 63

All of he following authors are correctly paired with one of their works EXCEPT

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Langston Hughes- The Great Gatsby