9 Weeks Test Review
US History
1.
What stimulated American expansionism abroad as championed in a book by Alfred Thayer
Mahan?
2.
What is a true statement about the growth of railroads in the late 1800s?
3.
How would you describe the effects of the Spanish American War on the United States?
4.
What would account for the large increase in the population of the West after 1860?
5.
Throughout history many non-violent methods have been used in order to expand voting rights in the United States. What methods were used to gain voting rights for women?
6.
How did the 17 th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution give more political power to the individual voter?
7.
Passenger ships would not be targeted, merchant ships would not be sunk until the presence of weapons had been established, merchant ships would not be sunk without provision for the safety of passengers and crew – Which reason for U.S. entry into WWI best describes this list?
8.
What was the fundamental difference between the AFL and the Knights of Labor concerning union membership?
9.
Marches for Women’s rights, Civil Service Reform, Rise of Social Darwinism, Immigrant
Exclusion Acts all occurred during which era?
10.
What was considered the most important reason to annex Hawaii?
11.
What did Frances Willard focus her efforts on as a reformer?
12.
Expansionism, growth of modern warfare, practice of Diplomacy, and global conflict all describe which historical era?
13.
What did Susan B. Anthony believe was the only way for women to acquire the “blessing of liberty”?
14.
What was an effect of the Progressive Era political reforms of initiative, referendum, and recall?
15.
What was one of the main reasons for the development of a stalemate on the Western Front?
16.
What lead to the creation of the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Federal Trade
Commission, and the Food and Drug Administration?
17.
Between the Civil War and 1900, steam and electricity replaced human muscle, iron replaced wood, and steel replaced iron (before the Bessemer process, iron was hardened into steel at a rate of 3 to 5 tons a day; now the same amount could be processed in 15 minutes).-Howard Zinn,
A People's History of the United States- What does this quote refer to in the Gilded Age?
18.
Propaganda fuels anti-German feelings, Germany sinks the Lusitania, Germany resumes U-Boat attacks, and the Zimmerman Telegram are all reasons for what?

19.
What political changes occurred within the United States as a result of declaring war on Germany in WWI?
20.
How did Nativists feel about immigration from Europe?
21.
Which concern led some in the U.S. Senate to decline the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles and the Covenant for the League of Nations?
22.
Why did the muckrakers write about the nature of the Progressive reform movement?
23.
What is the correct sequence of events for the Spanish American War?
24.
Why political cartoonists of the Progressive Era portray monopolists as a larger size than the senators?
25.
Where were the boundary changes for the territory that Germany lost as a result of WWI written?