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| 610126831 | Nativism | Which of the following terms refers to a fear or hatred of immigrants, ethnic minorities, or alien political movements? | 1 | |
| 610126832 | American Protective Association | The new nativism of the late nineteenth century was exemplified by the | 2 | |
| 610126833 | basketball | In 1891, James Naismith invented the game of | 3 | |
| 610126834 | social Darwinists' fears that immigrants would undermine American "racial purity." | One of the causes which eventually led to restrictions on immigration was the | 4 | |
| 610126835 | football as a major sport. | Walter Camp played a major role in establishing | 5 | |
| 610126836 | southern and eastern Europe. | Beginning in the 1880s, the source of American immigration shifted to new immigrants from | 6 | |
| 610126837 | the development of the skyscraper. | Louis H. Sullivan was closely associated with | 7 | |
| 610126838 | Social Gospelers | Believed the church should focus on improving the lives of the poor, ending child labor, and regulating the power of big corporations. | 8 | |
| 610126839 | tenement. | A residential apartment building, common in New York in the late 1800s, that was built on a tiny lot without consideration of proper lighting and ventilation was known as a | 9 | |
| 610126840 | settlement houses. | The community centers started by idealistic young people to guide and help the urban poor were | 10 | |
| 610126841 | wealthy founders of new universities. | In the late nineteenth century, Johns Hopkins, Jonas Clark, and John D. Rockefeller were all | 11 | |
| 610126842 | realism. | The new literary style of the 1870s and 1880s which often examined social problems such as slum conditions and portrayed people of every social class was | 12 | |
| 610126843 | smaller because women married later in life and practiced abstinence. | Middle-class families in the late nineteenth century became | 13 | |
| 610126844 | rare exceptions. | Real-life rags-to-riches experiences, like those of Andrew Carnegie, were | 14 | |
| 610126845 | immigrants | Many Americans believed that ________ were responsible for cholera epidemics. | 15 | |
| 610126846 | theorized that middle-class consumption was done mainly for superficial purposes. | In Thorstein Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) he | 16 | |
| 610126847 | jurisprudence. | The emphasis of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. on evolutionary change had a profound impact upon twentieth-century | 17 | |
| 610126848 | realism. | The new literary style of the 1870s and 1880s which often examined social problems such as slum conditions and portrayed people of every social class was | 18 | |
| 610126849 | build public libraries. | Industrialist Andrew Carnegie donated millions of dollars to help | 19 | |
| 610126850 | Sister Carrie. | One of the first books to treat sex forthrightly was | 20 | |
| 610126851 | realism. | American painters of the late nineteenth century such as Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins painted in a style called | 21 | |
| 610126852 | small and intellectually stagnant with few professors of any intellectual repute. | In 1870, most American colleges were | 22 | |
| 610126853 | Chautauqua movement. | A form of education which illustrated the popular desire for new information in the late nineteenth century was the | 23 | |
| 610126854 | education was the fundamental method of social progress. | The educator John Dewey insisted that | 24 | |
| 610126855 | argued that the roots of democracy and the rule of law were found in the ancient tribes of northern Europe. | The late-nineteenth-century theory of the Teutonic origins of democracy | 25 | |
| 610126856 | elective | In 1869, Harvard introduced the _____ system and took the lead in reforming higher education in the Gilded Age. | 26 | |
| 610126857 | Marcus Alonzo Hanna. | In the election of 1896, McKinley's campaign manager, who raised an enormous campaign fund from business, was | 27 | |
| 610126858 | Colored Farmers' Alliance. | Southern black Populists often joined the | 28 | |
| 610126859 | was insignificant because within two decades the country abandoned basing the volume of currency on bullion. | Ultimately, the battle between gold and silver, | 29 | |
| 610126860 | post-Civil War sectional tensions. | The "bloody shirt" issue of the late 1800s refers to | 30 | |
| 610126861 | Grand Army of the Republic. | The mammoth organization of Union army veterans that quickly became a powerful national political pressure group was the | 31 | |
| 610126862 | Jacob Coxey. | The small-town businessman who led an "army" of the unemployed on a march to Washington, D.C. in 1894 was | 32 | |
| 610126863 | were weak leaders. | The presidents during the last quarter of the nineteenth century | 33 | |
| 610126864 | James A. Garfield | In 1881 President ________ was assassinated by Charles Guiteau, an unbalanced office-seeker. | 34 | |
| 610126865 | William Marcy Tweed. | The most notorious of all city bosses was | 35 | |
| 610126866 | William Jennings Bryan. | The dramatic "Cross of Gold" speech won the 1896 Democratic presidential nomination for | 36 | |
| 610126867 | muckrakers. | Theodore Roosevelt called the progressive-era journalists who investigated corruption and fraud in American business and politics | 37 | |
| 610126868 | W. E. B. Du Bois. | One of the most prominent black militants of the Progressive Era was | 38 | |
| 610126869 | Progressivism | Which of the following is a cluster of movements for various forms of social change--some of them contradictory--during the early twentieth century? Supporters of such movements generally opposed corruption and inefficiency in government, monopoly power among corporations, and wayward behavior among immigrants and others. | 39 | |
| 610126870 | the solution to social problems was to change faulty institutions. | Progressive reformers tended to believe that | 40 | |
| 610126871 | conservation. | Taft got into political hot water in the 1910 Ballinger-Pinchot controversy, which dealt with | 41 | |
| 610126872 | New Freedom | Which of the following was Democratic candidate Woodrow Wilson's term in the 1912 presidential campaign for a proposed policy that would restore competition by breaking up the trusts and punishing corporations that violated rules of business conduct? | 42 | |
| 610126873 | women's moral superiority would clean up politics if they were given the vote. | One of the suffragists' more successful justifications was the "purity" argument that | 43 | |
| 610126874 | felt their ambitions and sense of importance were undermined by the new giant corporations. | Many in the middle class were attracted to progressive reforms because they | 44 | |
| 610126875 | economic and sociological evidence. | In Muller v. Oregon (1908) attorney Louis Brandeis presented a "Brandeis brief" to the Supreme Court, which was based on | 45 | |
| 610126876 | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. | The organization formed in 1909 by a group of liberal whites and blacks to eradicate racial discrimination was the | 46 | |
| 610166309 | Plessy v. Ferguson | The doctrine of "separate but equal" facilities was handed down by the Supreme Court in | 47 | |
| 610166310 | "Crime of '73" | The Coinage Act of 1873, which demonetized silver, came to be known as the ________ by the silver interests. | 48 | |
| 610166311 | graduated income tax. | The platform of the People's or Populist party called for a | 49 | |
| 610166312 | Senate | During the late 1800s, the legislative body known as a "rich man's club" was the | 50 | |
| 610166313 | Booker T. Washington. | The black leader who identified with the Atlanta Compromise was | 51 | |
| 610166314 | Cities | The progressives attempted their first political reforms in the | 52 | |
| 610166315 | Progressivism | Which of the following is a cluster of movements for various forms of social change--some of them contradictory--during the early twentieth century? Supporters of such movements generally opposed corruption and inefficiency in government, monopoly power among corporations, and wayward behavior among immigrants and others. | 53 | |
| 610166316 | regulate rather than eliminate them. | Theodore Roosevelt believed that the most effective means of dealing with big corporations was to | 54 | |
| 610166317 | Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" | Roosevelt sent officials to Chicago to investigate the condition of its slaughterhouses based on which of the following books? | 55 | |
| 610166318 | Theodore Roosevelt | The first progressive president and the advocate of the "Square Deal" was | 56 | |
| 610166319 | Robert La Follette was particularly associated with | promotion of specialized technical knowledge and legislative reference services to promote progressive reform | 57 | |
| 610166320 | gave the country a central banking system for the first time since Jackson | When it was passed in 1913, the Federal Reserve Act | 58 | |
| 610245064 | William H. Seward. | The aggressive secretary of state who instigated the purchase of Alaska and pushed his expansionist policies was | 59 | |
| 610245065 | an American-led coup and the abolition of the monarchy. | Queen Liliuokalani's "Hawaii for Hawaiians" movement led to | 60 | |
| 610245066 | Cuba was forced to promise to grant naval bases to America and to avoid treaties with any foreign power which might compromise its independence. | Under the Platt Amendment, | 61 | |
| 610245067 | carry out God's will to spread the virtues of the Anglo-Saxon race beyond North America. | One reason for growing support for an overseas empire among Americans after the Civil War was the desire to | 62 | |
| 610245068 | Colombia. | In order to build the Panama Canal on the terms he wanted, President Roosevelt intervened militarily to aid the Panamanian revolt against | 63 | |
| 610245069 | Isolationism | Which of the following is a national policy that eschews foreign alliances, such as was propounded by George Washington in his "Farewell Address"? This policy was also embraced by part of the Monroe Doctrine of 1823 and after the First World War, when the United States refused to join the League of Nations and sought to distance itself during the 1930s from the rumblings of another world war. | 64 | |
| 610245070 | Maine | In February 1898 the American battleship ________ mysteriously exploded in Havana harbor. | 65 | |
| 610245071 | Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. | Early in the twentieth century, the United States announced that it must "exercise...an international police power" in the Western Hemisphere in the | 66 | |
| 610245072 | be unconstitutional if statehood was not a possibility. | Some anti-imperialists objected to annexing the Philippines because it would | 67 | |
| 610245073 | were accustomed to protecting American interests in Latin America under the Monroe Doctrine. | Americans had stronger reasons for extending their influence in Latin America rather than in the Pacific because they | 68 | |
| 610245074 | American policy toward the warring powers. | In the presidential election of 1916, the leading issue was | 69 | |
| 610245075 | League of Nations. | Wilson believed that any weaknesses in the Versailles Treaty could be overcome by the | 70 | |
| 610245076 | the belief by many Americans that unions were associated with communism. | The work of radicals in the labor movement led to | 71 | |
| 610245077 | poorly prepared. | When the United States entered the Great War, from a military point of view, the country was | 72 | |
| 610245078 | John J. Pershing. | The American Expeditionary Force was commanded by General | 73 | |
| 610245079 | Sedition | During the Great War, mere criticism of the government became cause for arrest and imprisonment under the ________ Act. | 74 | |
| 610245080 | Henry Cabot Lodge. | The leader of the Republican opposition in the Senate to Wilson's League of Nations was | 75 | |
| 610245081 | assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, by a Serbian nationalist. | The Great War was precipitated by the | 76 | |
| 610245082 | Zimmermann | In February, 1917, the U.S. learned of the ________ Telegram in which Germany offered a military alliance to Mexico if the U.S. entered the war on the Allied side. | 77 | |
| 610245083 | Mexico | In 1916, United States troops, commanded by General John J. Pershing, invaded ________ to capture "Pancho" Villa. | 78 | |
| 610296685 | Taft | President ________ called his policy of influencing other countries without actually controlling them "dollar diplomacy." | 79 | |
| 610296686 | China | At the turn of the twentieth century, the so-called Boxer Rebellion broke out in | 80 | |
| 610296687 | devastated the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay | In the first battle of the Spanish-American War, Commodore George Dewey | 81 | |
| 610296688 | Navy | Alfred Thayer Mahan argued in the 1890s that national security and prosperity rested on a powerful | 82 | |
| 610296689 | Teller Amendment | Which of the following was a rider to the 1898 war resolution with Spain whereby Congress pledged that it did not intend to annex Cuba and that it would recognize Cuban independence from Spain? | 83 | |
| 610296690 | Congress was not bound to follow the Constitution in legislating for colonies. | In the "insular cases" the Supreme Court ruled that | 84 | |
| 610296691 | Lusitania | Many Americans were shocked and outraged when the British liner ________ was torpedoed and almost 1200 people died. | 85 | |
| 610296692 | Herbert Hoover. | The former mining engineer and head of the Belgian Relief Commission, whom Wilson named to mobilize America's agricultural resources, was | 86 | |
| 610296693 | buy "Victory" and "Liberty" bonds. | During the Great War, the federal government asked citizens to | 87 | |
| 610296694 | Americans traditionally feared entanglement in European affairs. | Many Americans favored neutrality during the Great War because | 88 | |
| 610296695 | Woodrow Wilson | The idealistic president who set out to raise the moral tone of American foreign policy by denouncing dollar diplomacy was | 89 | |
| 610296696 | Fourteen Points. | President Wilson's plan for a lasting peace after the Great War was known as the | 90 | |
| 610296697 | War Industries Board. | During the Great War, the government agency which had almost dictatorial powers to allocate scarce materials and fix prices was the | 91 |
