unit 3

Question 1

Who served two nonconsecutive terms as President?

Answer 1

Grover Cleveland

Question 2

What state/country was annexed by the United States in 1989?

Answer 2

Hawaii

Question 3

Which amendment created a national income tax?

Answer 3

Sixteenth Amendment

Question 4

In 1883, which bridge was the longest in the world once it was completed?

Answer 4

Brooklyn

Question 5

Which amendment held the direct election of senators?

Answer 5

Seventeenth Amendent

Question 6

Who exposed the mistreatment of the mentally ill?

Answer 6

Elizabeth Cochran

Question 7

Which amendment guaranteed voting rights regardless of race?Fifteenth Amendment

Answer 7

Fifteenth admendment

Question 8

Who was assassinated before taking office for their Presidency?

Answer 8

James Garfield

Question 9

What was a time of growth and prosperity?

Answer 9

Gilded Age

Question 10

The Great Compromise was also known as what?

Answer 10

Great Betrayal

Question 11

Immigrants the contribute to the many cultures of America is called what?

Answer 11

Melting Pot

Question 12

What state/country fought the United States in a war in 1898

Answer 12

Spain

Question 13

At the Battle of Manila Bay, who secured the Philippines for the United States?

Answer 13

George Dewey

Question 14

Who decided to attack San Juan Heights during the Spanish-American War?

Answer 14

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 15

What is it called when immigrants blend into American culture?

Answer 15

Americanization

Question 16

After the Spanish-American War, what came under U.S control?

Answer 16

Puerto Rico

Question 17

Mandatory public school attendance is called

Answer 17

Compulsory

Question 18

______ failed in attempt to build Panama Canal

Answer 18

Booker T. Tilden

Question 19

The Sherman Silver Purchase Act established ___.

Answer 19

bimetallism

Question 20

United States settled border issues in Treaty of Washington

Answer 20

canada

Question 21

settled Alabama Claims with the United States

Answer 21

Great Britain

Question 22

Great rail road strike of ____

Answer 22

1877

Question 23

The Supreme Court upheld _____ in Plessy v. Ferguson.

Answer 23

segregation

Question 24

The Great ______ Fire led to improved building codes and firefighting techniques.

Answer 24

Chicago

Question 25

Tammany Hall was home to wealthy financiers and politicians who controlled ____________ politics.

Answer 25

New york

Question 26

The _____ defined America’s desire to police Latin America.

Answer 26

Roosevelt Corollary

Question 27

Roosevelt’s ___ toured the world to show off America’s military might.

Answer 27

Great White Fleet

Question 28

The ___ was founded to regulate trade between the states.

Answer 28

Interstate Commerce Commission

Question 29

Chester Arthur helped pass the _____, ending patronage.

Answer 29

Pendleton Civil Service Act

Question 30

The Sixteenth Amendment created a(n) national _______ tax.

Answer 30

income

Question 31

______ wrote The Jungle, exposing the meatpacking industry

Answer 31

upton sinclair

Question 32

failed in attempt to build Panama Canal

Answer 32

France

Question 33

implement Progressive initiatives

Answer 33

Implementing Progressive initiatives required legislation that (increased )government involvement in the lives of citizens, businesses, and institutions, sometimes limiting personal freedoms in the name of the greater good. Progressive programs required additional government funding, much of which came from a new income tax that (redistributed wealth.)