Practice Test US History Unit Five

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2. Members of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union fought for this cause by entering saloons, singing, praying, and asking saloonkeepers to stop selling alcohol. • Answer • Prohibition

3. This allowed for the popular, or direct, election of U.S. senators. • Answer • 17th Amendment

4. This is a bill initiated, or launched, by citizens. • Answer • Initiative

5. This enabled voters to remove public officials from elected positions by forcing them to face an election before the end of their term if enough voters requested it. • Answer • Recall

6. This is a vote on an initiative. • Answer • Referendum

7. This a term used to describe a journalist who exposed government abuses and big business corruption to the readers of mass circulation magazines and newspapers. • Answer • Muckrackers

8. An advocate for improving the lives of women and children • Answer • Florence Kelley

9. Muckraking journalist who exposed the terrible conditions of the meatpacking industry • Answer • Upton Sinclair

10. The movement to protect America's natural resources • Answer • Conservation

11. The term used to describe the progressive reforms of President Theodore Roosevelt • Answer • Square Deal

12. Watchdog agency given the power to stop unfair business practices • Answer • Federal Trade Commission

13. President whose actions split the Republican party after he angered both progressives and conservationists • Answer • William Taft

14. This legislation was used by Roosevelt to file 44 antitrust suits. • Answer • Sherman Antitrust Act

15. At 42 years old, he was the youngest president. • Answer • Theodore Roosevelt

16. This was settled when Roosevelt got involved in the negotiations. • Answer • 1902 Coal Miner’s Strike

17. Wilson’s plan that reformed how American banks were organized • Answer • Federal Reserve System

18. A leader of the woman suffrage movement • Answer • Susan B. Anthony

19. The progressive movement regarded all of the following as worthy goals except a. protecting social welfare. b. promoting business monopolies. c. fostering efficiency in the workplace. d. creating economic reform.

20. Muckrakers were • Answer • Journalists

21. A bill that originates from the people rather than legislators is known as • Answer • Initiative

22. In the mid-1800s, the majority of women who held jobs worked as • Answer • Servants

23. In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposed • Answer • unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry.

24. The law that required truthful labels was the • Answer • Pure Food and Drug Act

25. The primary goal of the NAACP was • Answer • equality among the races.

26. Which of the following was not a result of the introduction of the assembly line? • Answer • decreased productivity

27. Who gained most from the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment? • Answer • Ordinary citizens

28. Which of the following best states the primary goal of prohibitionists? • Answer • to eliminate the use of alcohol in society

29. Why were early progressive attempts to enact federal bans on child labor unsuccessful? • Answer • The Supreme Court ruled such bans unconstitutional.

30. Which strategy was not employed by woman suffragists to obtain their goal? • Answer • They called for female workers to strike.

31. Which statement best characterizes Roosevelt's position on trusts? • Answer • Some trusts were harmful to the public interest.

32. Which of the following actions led to the defeat of Taft in 1912? • Answer • his failure to unify the Republican Party

33. What was the primary motivation for passage of the Sixteenth Amendment? • Answer • to replace revenue lost by enacting lower tariffs

34. What effect did World War I have on the suffragist movement? • Answer • It hastened passage and ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.

35. This is a sensational style of writing that exaggerates the news to lure readers. • Answer • Yellow Journalism

36. This volunteer cavalry unit fought in a famous land battle near Santiago, Cuba. • Answer • Rough Riders

37. This Cuban poet and journalist launched a Cuban revolution in 1895. • Answer • Jose Marti

38. Soon after this was destroyed, the United States declared war on Spain. • Answer • USS Maine

39. This nation gained its independence in the Spanish-American War. • Answer • Cuba

40. This general forced Cubans to relocated to concentration camps where thousands of them died. • Answer • General Valeriano Weyler

41. Its criticism of the American president caused American resentment toward Spain to turn to outrage. • Answer • De Lome letter

42. After the war, the United States paid 20 million dollars to Spain for the annexation of this land. • Answer • Philippine islands

43. This term refers to the policy of using the U.S. government to guarantee loans made to foreign countries by American business people. • Answer • Dollar Diplomacy

44. Its construction ranks as one of the world's greatest engineering feats. • Answer • Panama Canal

45. This term refers to the policy of denying recognition of Latin American governments that the United States viewed as oppressive, undemocratic, or hostile to U.S. interests. • Answer • Missionary Diplomacy

46. Also known as "big stick" diplomacy, this official American policy stated that disorder in Latin America could force the United States to send its military into Latin American nations to protect American economic interests. • Answer • Roosevelt Corollary

47. Which of the following did not stimulate U.S. imperialism? a. thirst for new economic markets b. need for a new source of cheap labor c. a belief in the cultural superiority of the Anglo-Saxon culture d. desire for military strength

48. Which country's residents became citizens of the United States in 1917? • Answer • Puerto Rico

49. In which of the following conflicts were U.S. military troops not involved? a. the Boxer Rebellion b. Cuba's second war for independence c. the Russo-Japanese war d. the Hawaiian revolution

50. Which of the following did the United States insist that Cuba include in its constitution? a. the Roosevelt Corollary b. the Teller Amendment c. the Platt Amendment d. the Boxer Protocol