US History Fall Final -- Study Guide
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Which statement best describes one way that Enlightenment affected many Europeans during the late 18th century?
According to the Enlightenment philosopher John Locke, if a government does not protect people's "natural rights," then:
After 20 years of reform and war, President Harding promised that the 1920s would bring
American Progressives at the turn of the 20th century believed that
anarchists.
Antifederalists opposed ratifying the Constitution because they
At the beginning of World War I in 1914, most Americans
At the end of the 1800s, most factory jobs offered
At the turn of the 20th century, American nativists
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer believed that he needed to protect the American people from
attorney general during the Red Scare
Before 1920, most immigrants to the United States came from
Big Stick Diplomacy, Dollar Diplomacy, and Moral Diplomacy were all intended to
By 1775, belief in Enlightenment ideas influenced many American colonists' desire to
Churches gave the Progressive movement strong support in its efforts to
During the 1920s, the main activities of the Ku Klux Klan were
During the 1920s, union membership
During the Constitutional Convention, the debate between slave states and free states about fair representation in government was resolved
Gains made by American women during World War I include
Great changes in America's landscape were tied mostly closely to a large increase in the use of automobiles in
Harding's presidency was noted for the _______ of his advisors.
Immigrants in the late 1800s often supported political machines because that system
In a monopoly, a company has
In the early 1900s, trade with China was important to the United States because
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, some factory owners preferred to hire women rather than men because
In the late 1800s, many Americans thought building a canal across Central America would help the United States to
In the U.S. government, the supreme law of the land is
In which of the following areas did the South have an advantage over the North in the Civil War?
Increases in production related to the Industrial Revolution prompted the United States to
installment plan.
Manifest Destiny can be most readily defined as:
Many immigrants were attacked in the 1800s because others were afraid of their religion and because the immigrants
Most children who worked in factories
Nativists who found fault with the Emergency Quota Acts of 1921 would have been most likely to say which of the following?
new industries during the 1920’s
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were charged with, and convicted of,
Of all the ideas that President Wilson championed at the Paris Peace Conference following WWI, his critics in the Senate were opposed to
One country’s ‘acquiring political or economic control over a land and its people is:
Red Scare
Social Darwinism and the Social Gospel movement are linked because
Social Darwinism explained the success of industrial tycoons by saying that these business owners
Important strikes during the early 1900’s
Suffrage
The "Great Migration" of 1910-1920 refers to the movement of ___.
The book "The Jungle" influenced the passage of:
The Civil War's effect on U.S. industry was that
The Constitution limits the power of the federal government by
The Dawes plan
The First Amendment was added to the Constitution because delegates at the Constitutional Convention wanted
The first practical peacetime use of airplanes was for
The Fordney-McCumber Tariff
The immigration policies of the 1920s limited immigration from all of the following countries except
The industrial revolution encouraged more Americans to settle
The largest population increases during the 1920s occurred
The Mormon community moved from New York to Utah because
The muckrakers were:
The NAACP did all of the following except
The Nullification Crisis involved a conflict over whether
The primary goal of the NAACP
The quota system
The reformers who proposed and supported the Social Gospel
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The revival meetings of the Great Awakening and Second Great Awakening were
The Teapot Dome scandal centered on
To expand its membership in the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan engaged in all of the following except
To protect their own interests, employers often accused striking workers of being
Under popular sovereignty, who would decide whether slavery would be allowed in a territory?
Washington Naval Conference
What action did the United States take at the outbreak of WWI?
What did the Supreme Court declare in the Dred Scott decision?
What effect did World War I have on the suffragist movement?
What key difference between the North and the South ultimately led to the Civil War?
What was an important effect of the Emancipation Proclamation?
What was the aim of "total war" as practiced by Union generals Grant and Sherman?
What was the main purpose of Secretary of State John Hay's Open Door policy?
Which best describes the Irish immigrants who were persecuted in cities between 1830 and 1860?
Which goal best exemplifies the Progressive movement?
Which group or groups helped spark the organization of the Populist Party?
Which of the following called for the abolition of private property in order to equally distribute wealth and power?
Which of the following is not considered a direct result of the growing popularity and availability of the automobile?
Which of the following rose dramatically in the early 1920s?
Which of the following was most closely tied to the public's negative reactions to organized labor in the 1920s?
Which of the following would rural people most likely approve of?
Which reaction to the Americanization movement was most common among immigrants at the turn of the century?
Which strategy was not employed by woman suffragists to obtain their goal?
Who were the Populists?
Who made the “Cross of Gold” speech?
Who supported the “free silver” movement?