US History II Final review
Chapter 17
1. The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire was made worse because…
2. What was the 18th Amendment and why did reformers support it?
3. What is recall, initiative, referendum, and a direct primary?
4. What is a trust?
5. What positive result came out of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?
6. How would you characterize working conditions in the late 1800s?
7. What did Ida Tarbell write?
8. How did steel change the development of cities?
9. What is horizontal integration?
10. What is vertical integration?
11. Why was the Women’s Christian Temperance Movement founded?
12. What movement was focused on fixing urban problems in America in the 19 th and 20th centuries?
13. What organization was created to try to end racial discrimination?
14. Who controlled the oil industry in the 19th/20th Centuries?
15. Who controlled the steel industry in the 19 th/20th Centuries?
16. How did T. Roosevelt become president?
17. In what country did the secret ballot originate in?
18. What 2 consumer protection laws were passed in 1906?
19. Why were muckrakers so effective in making progressive changes?
20. What was the 16th Amendment?
21. Before the 17th Amendment, how were senators chosen?
22. Why was Woodrow Wilson able to win the 1912 Pres. Election?
23. What author/ photographer showed Americans how the poor lived?
24. Who were the two different AA civil rights leaders during the Progressive Era?
25. What was the 19th amendment?
26. What means the right to vote?
Chapter 18
1. What areas did the US receive in the Spanish American War?
2. What is social Darwinism?
3. Why did the US become imperialistic – 3 reasons?
4. What helped trigger the Spanish American War?
5. What was Big Stick Diplomacy and whose idea was it?
6. What was the name of the policy developed by Roosevelt to allow fair trading in China?
Chapter 19
1. Name of German submarines that disrupted the Allied movement in the Atlantic Ocean during WWI.
2. What were 3 weapons first introduced in WWI?
3. What are 3 reasons why the US entered WWI?
4. When was WWI fought? When did the US enter?
5. Who was the president during WWI?
6. What role did US women play during WWI?
7. What was the name of the US’ presidential plan for peace during WWI?
8. What were 3 major points of the plan for the question in #8?
9. Describe the major type of fighting that occurred in the western front of Europe.
10. What was the effect of the Sedition Act?
11. Who was assassinated that led to the start of WWI?
12. What countries made up the Allied Powers?
13. Who were the irreconciables and the reservationists?
14. What type of policy did the US follow when WWI initially started? (not neutrality)
15. What country dropped out of WWI due to a revolution in its country?
16. What is the date of the end of WWI?
17. What was the goal of the Committee of Public Information?
18. Who led US forces during WWI?
19. What was the name of the northern movement of AA into cities during WWI?
20. What was the name of the organization that was developed after WWI to mediate problems between other countries?
Chapter 20
1. Why were nativists opposed to immigration?
2. What was the name of the threat of Communism that ran throughout the US after WWI?
3. What music style came out in the 1920s?
4. What was the famous case that showed Americans’ distrust of immigrants after WWI?
5. What president died in office in the 1920s?
6. What company made the Model T?
7. What method did the company in #6 use to make cars so cheaply and efficiently?
8. What mobster in Chicago dominated the bootlegging business?
9. What amendment repealed Prohibition?
10. What was the name of the new, independent women in the 1920s?
11. What American was the first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in a plane?
12. What trial contested the legality of teaching evolution in schools?
13. What was the name of the movement in NYC that led to great works of art and creativity by AA?
14. What were the ideas of the “Lost Generation?”
15. Name of the raid against anarchists and socialists in the 1920s?
16. Who were the presidents of the 1920s?
Chapter 21
1. What was the name of the thing that gave food to the needy during the Depression?
2. Why did banks start to fail during the Great Depression?
3. Why did the global economy start to fail during the Depression?
4. Why did Hoover oppose direct relief to the needy during the Dep?
5. Who were usually the first people laid off during the Dep?
6. What did many urban workers sell to make money during the Dep?
7. What does it mean to buy on margin?
8. Why were farmers struggling during the Great Depression?
9. What is a bull market? Bear market?
10. What did the Bonus Army want from the gov’t?
11. What is laissez- faire?
12. What was the term for the economic downturn from 1929 to the 1940s?
13. What was the name of the makeshift shelters that were constructed during the Dep?
14. What were 3 social effects of the Depression?
15. What political party had a majority in both houses of congress after the Election of 1932?
Chapter 22
1. Who headed FERA and was a close advisor of FDR?
2. What region of the US was called the Dust Bowl?
3. What was the Dust Bowl caused by?
4. Name 3 things the Tennessee Valley Authority did.
5. What did the SEC do?
6. What economist influenced many of FDR’s recovery programs?
7. Who proposed the Share-Our-Wealth campaign?
8. Why did people criticize the New Deal?
9. What state did most Dust Bowlers leave to?
10. What were FDR’s fireside chats?
11. What was the Rural Electrification Administration? AAA?
12. What was the bank holiday supposed to do?
13. Who produced the photograph Migrant Mother?
14. What was the FDIC?
Chapter 23-24
1. Who made the decision to drop the atomic bomb? Reasons?
2. What was the “Europe First” strategy?
3. What political party rose up in Germany in the 1930s?
4. What invasion allowed the US and its allies to start invading Germany?
5. Why did FDR put an embargo on Japan?
6. What act was considered economic war against the Axis Powers?
7. What did the Neutrality Act of 1939 do?
Questions also on 1950s and Cold War, Vietnam, and the 1960s