America: The Last Best Hope
Chapter 13—The American Dynamo
1. The 1890 book of photos called How the Other Half Lives catalogues the deplorable conditions in which
A Native Americans lived
B Southern blacks lived
C city slum dwellers lived
D the rural poor lived
2. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle describe the terrible conditions in
A city slums
B coal mines
C meat packing plants
D factories
3. The publishing of The Jungle led to passage of the
A Pure Food and Drug Act
B Sherman Anti-Trust Act
C National Declamation Bill
D Federal Reserve Act
4. Progressives supported all of the following reforms except
A direct elections of Senators
B a federal income tax
C referendum
D elimination of tariffs
5. Progressives supported all of the following reforms except
A women voting rights
B equal rights for blacks
C direct primaries to select Presidents
D recall and initiatives
6. The Federal Reserve Act reformed and regulated the nations
A meat packing industry
B banking system
C national park system
D federal budget process
7. The Spanish-American War became known as
A “A Superb Little War”
B “A Fraudulent Little War”
C “A Dirty Little War”
D “A Splendid Little War”
8. Prior to becoming President, Teddy Roosevelt was governor of
A Pennsylvania
B Virginia
C Massachusetts
D New York
9. The motto of the “Yellow Press” was
A “give ‘em what they want”
B “politics first”
C “nothing but the truth”
D “if it bleeds, it leads”
10. American desire to fight Spain was due to reports of Spanish atrocities in
A Cuba
B Puerto Rico
C Mexico
D Argentina
11. The United States declared war on Spain after
A Spain deported American citizens in Havana
B Poncho Villa raided American towns
C the USS Maine exploded in Havana
D Spain seized American property
12. The “Rough Riders” was the nickname given to regiment led by
A John J. Pershing
B Teddy Roosevelt
C Joseph Pulitzer
D William Howard Taft
13. The “Rough Riders” became famous for their battle at
A San Juan Hill
B Mani-Mani
C Puerto Rico
D Manila
14. The “Buffalo Soldiers” fighting in the Spanish-American War had first gained fame as
A formers slaves who fought Indians on the frontier
B Italian immigrants who fought Indians on the frontier
C Irish immigrants who fought Indians on the frontier
D white southerners who fought Indians on the frontier
15. Following the Spanish-American War, the United States took direct control of all of the following locations except
A Philippines
B Cuba
C Guam
D Puerto Rico
16. In the same period as the Spanish-American War, the United States also took the opportunity to annex the
A Midway Islands
B MarshallIslands
C Hawaiian Islands
D Solomon Islands
17. The United States faced a violent insurrection after they took control of
A Puerto Rico
B Guam
C Hawaii
D Philippines
18. The United States “Open Door Policy” was an attempt to allow free access to the markets of
A India
B Japan
C China
D Indochina
19. The “Boxer Rebellion” was a reaction to European imperialism in
A Indochina
B China
C Japan
D India
20. Which European country’s soldiers became known as the “Huns” after their emperor told them to fight with “all the ferocity of the Huns of old?”
A Britain
B Germany
C Russia
D Austria
21. In Up From Slavery, Booker T. Washington said African Americans could best help themselves through
A marches, protests, and boycotts
B demands for civil rights
C education and training
D use of the legal system
22. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded on the principle that African Americans should demand civil rights though use of
A civil disobedience
B legal action in federal courts
C boycotts
D protest marches and demonstrations
23. The Wright Brothers gained famed with their historic 1903 invention of the first
A airplane
B Model T automobile
C Zeppelin
D Blimp
24. The 1912 split in the Republican Party led to the election of which Democrat in 1912?
A Grover Cleveland
B William JenningsBryan
C Franklin D. Roosevelt
D Woodrow Wilson
25. The immediate cause of World War I was the
A assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria
B murder of Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his family
C Vladimir Lenin’s communist takeover in Russia
D German invasion of France
26. The Clayton Anti-Trust Act of 1914 protected the rights of
A farmers
B immigrants
C labor
D business