FINAL EXAM REVIEW
This
exam has a total of 150 points that you can receive. Each objective item (multiple choice, true /
false, matching, etc.) is worth 1 point.
The open-ended section is worth 20 points. Your numerical grade for the exam will be
calculated using the following formula:
(Number
of points earned) / (150)
X 100 = your
grade
Chapters to study: 10, 11,
12, 13, 14
1.
why
did some Americans want to annex new
territories in the late 1800s?
2.
why In
1903 did President Roosevelt plot to support a revolution in Panama against
Colombia ?
3.
How
did Japan react to the settlement of the Russo-Japanese War ?
4.
List
some disputes that the United States was called upon to mediate in the early
1900s?
5.
Who
controlled most commercial and industrial endeavors in Mexico in the early 1900s ?
6.
Describe
the European soldier on the Western Front during WW1?
7.
How
did most Americans feel at the beginning of WW1?
8.
Why did President Wilson
asked Congress to declare war on Germany?
9.
What
was the Zimmermann Note? What did it try
to accomplish?
10.
What
did the book Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter?
11.
How
was it determined that a person would serve in World War I ?
12.
Describe
American soldiers during World War I.
13.
Describe
the intolerance in the United States that was caused by World War I?
14.
After
the WW1, what did Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., rule about
freedom of speech?
15.
Describe
Europe after World War I.
16.
Name
the Big Four that negotiated the Treaty of Versailles?
17.
Why
did President Wilson advocate both democracy and the elimination of colonies?
18.
Which
provision of Wilson's Fourteen Points had not been rejected in the Treaty of
Versailles?
19.
Why
did the United States fail to join the League of Nations? What did it do to the League?
20.
Many
people felt that Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
were found guilty of murder because of what reason?
21.
List
the indicators that the height of the Red Scare was over by midsummer 1920?
22.
From
1920 to 1930, the African American population in industrial cities increased by
more than what percent?
23.
During
World War I, anti-saloon advocates successfully linked Prohibition with what?
24.
The
Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act of 1921 provided funds for states to what?
25.
How
were the policies pursued by Presidents Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover in the
1920s similar?
26.
Why
did the Interstate Commerce Commission become ineffective during the Harding and
Coolidge administrations?
27.
Herbert
Hoover became a household name in the United States as a result of what?
28.
What
did Charles E. Hughes ask fellow world leaders to do at the Washington Naval
Conference?
29.
What
kind of relations did the United States have with Latin America after World War
I?
30.
At
the beginning of World War I, the United States had owed other countries money,
but by the early 1920s the United States was what kind of nation?
31.
List new industries in the 1920s?
32.
How
did the corporate revolution culminate in the 1920s?
33.
During
the 1920s almost every leading university established its own
_______________school.
34.
List
some Supreme Court ruling favoring management over labor in the 1920s.
35.
The
assembly line sped up car manufacturing and did what else?
36.
Why
did Henry Ford double workers' wages in 1914 at his plant in Highland Park,
Michigan?
37.
By
1925 United States corporations had spent how much money on advertising?
38.
By
1930, 44 percent of employed women worked what kind of jobs?
39.
List
some positive effects of assembly lines?
40.
Compared
to people overseas, rate the standard of living for Americans in the 1920s
41.
How
did the use of electricity to power machines in industries affect the coal
mining industry?
42.
Why
did many textile workers in the Northeast and South lose their jobs in the
1920s?
43.
Before
World War I, women in the United States were often arrested for doing what in
public?
44.
By
1930 the number of young people going to college was ?
45.
In
the 1920s the entertainment field that defined and created American culture
more than any other field was what?
46.
For
what reasons did Americans begin to participate avidly in sports in the 1920s?\
47.
list
reasons tabloid newspapers swept the country in the 1920s?
48.
What
did John Dos Passos, in his trilogy, U.S.A.,
John Dos Passos suggested about the United States?
49.
In
1925 John Scopes was tried for breaking the law under the Butler Act because he
did what?
50.
What
did the Scopes trial symbolize?
51.
Between
1919 and 1929, the production of corn sugar increased sixfold
for what reason?
52.
Why
did the Ku Klux Klan begin to sink into obscurity in 1925?
53.
During
the 1920s immigration to the United States did what?
54.
A few
days before the stock market crash of 1929, 5 of the nation's leading bankers
pledged to pump undisclosed millions into the stock market in order to?
55.
Characterize
an economic depression.
56.
One
factor that blocked international trade during the late 1920s was what?
57.
The
Republican President in 1928, Herbert C. Hoover, was known for what?
58.
The
final blow to President Hoover's political career was ?
59.
Dust
storms that plagued the Great Plains were caused in part by what?
60.
The
upheaval in agriculture during the 1930s caused a disproportionate amount of
suffering among which people?
61.
Why
did Okies face hostility from other workers?
62.
How
did People who were wealthy before the Depression generally fare when the
depression hit?
63.
During
the Depression many men deserted their families and lived in hobo camps because
of what reason?
64.
During
the 1930s the third-largest industry in the United States was which one?
65.
During
the late 1930s, electricity was brought to many
isolated regions through?
66.
List some
advantages of 1930s electrical equipment?
67.
Radio
programs during the 1930s tended to avoid controversial issues for what reason?
68.
Why
did musicals during the 1930s become very popular movies ?
69.
Describe
the United States when Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in 1933.
70.
President
Hoover had been widely unpopular partly because of what reason?
71.
Describe
how most Americans were reacting to their economic plight in early 1933.
72.
Name
the provisions of the National Industrial Recovery Act?
73.
FDR's
legislative programs, known as the First New Deal, passed Congress largely
because of what fact?
74.
Describe
the Social Security program proposed by Dr. Francis E. Townsend.
75.
Why was Father Charles E. Coughlin considered a demagogue?
76.
Unemployed
teachers, artists, writers, and actors found work with which New Deal program?
77.
The
Public Utility Holding Company Act helped to do what?
78.
The
Revenue Act of 1935 angered business leaders because it proposed what?
79.
How
did NRA codes often hurt women compared to men?
80.
The PWA's contracts contained a clause requiring that the
number of African Americans hired for a project be what?
81.
A
direct legacy of the New Deal was?
82.
Roosevelt's
black cabinet was made up of?
The following
are terms and people that the matching section will come from: I will choose 15 of the terms and 15 of the
people for the matching section.
1.
ENTREPENEUR
2.
STOCK
3.
REBATE
4.
CORPORATION
5.
SOCIAL DARWINISM
6.
TRUST
7.
HOLDING COMPANY
8.
LAISSEZ-FAIRE
9.
VERTICAL INTEGRATION
10.
HORIZONTAL
INTEGRATION
11.
SHERMAN ANTITRUST
ACT
12.
TRIPLE ALLIANCE
13.
TRIPLE ENTENTE
14.
DOUGHBOYS
15.
WAR INDUSTRIES
BOARD
16.
COMMITTEE ON
PUBLIC RELATIONS
17.
14 POINTS
18.
TREATY OF
VERSAILLES
19.
MOBILIZATION
20.
ALLIES
21.
VICTORY GARDEN
22.
SELECTIVE SERVICE
23.
PROHIBITION
24.
SUFFRAGE
25.
ANARCHIST
26.
IMPEACH
27.
DEPRESSION
28.
RECESSION
29.
BUYING ON MARGIN
30.
STOCK MARKET
31.
RATIFY
32.
TARIFF
33.
18TH
AMENDMENT
34.
19TH
AMENDMENT
35.
20TH
AMENDMENT
36.
22ND
AMENDMENT
37.
BONUS ARMY
38.
SOCIALISTS
39.
COMMUNISTS
40.
CONSERVATIVE
41.
LIBERAL
42.
SUPPLY
43.
DEMAND
44.
INSTALLMENT BUYING
45.
SPECULATION
46.
HOOVERVILLES
47.
SECURITIES
48.
HARLEM
RENNAISSANCE
49.
FORDNEY-MCCUMBER
TARIFF
50.
ZIMMERMANN NOTE
51.
FLAPPER
52.
ROARING TWENTIES
53.
WASHINGTON
CONFERENCE
54.
OPEN SHOP UNION
55.
CLOSED SHOP UNION
56.
DOMESTIC GOODS
57.
FOREIGN GOODS
58.
“HUNDRED DAYS”
59.
CCC
60.
FDIC
61.
AAA
62.
FERA
63.
SSA
64.
PWA
65.
CWA
66.
TVA
67.
SEC
68.
NRA
69.
WAGNER ACT
70.
NEW DEAL
71.
“ALPHABET SOUP”
72.
THE DOLE
73.
DUST BOWL
74.
FIRESIDE CHATS
75.
PUMP PRIMING
76.
BANK HOLIDAY
77.
BONUS ARMY
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1.
ZIMMERMANN
2.
HUERTA
3.
WOODROW WILSON
4.
JOHN D.
ROCKEFELLER
5.
F.W. TAYLOR
6.
HORATIO ALGER
7.
THOMAS EDISON
8.
IDA TARBELL
9.
ANDREW CARNEGIE
10.
CORNELIUS
VANDERBILT
11.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM
BELL
12.
GUSTAVUS SWIFT
13.
BERNARD BARUCH
14.
THE BLACK HAND
15.
FRANZ FERDINAND
16.
GAVRILO PRINCIP
17.
ALFRED E. SMITH
18.
HERBERT HOOVER
19.
CALVIN COOLIDGE
20.
F.D. ROOSEVELT
21.
T. ROOSEVELT
22.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
23.
MARCUS GARVEY
24.
DUTCH SCHULTZ
25.
AL CAPONE
26.
OHIO GANG
27.
ALBERT B. FALL
28.
CLARENCE DARROW
29.
JOHN T. SCOPES
30.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
31.
KU KLUX KLAN
32.
HAROLD ICKES
33.
HUEY LONG
34.
DR. TOWNSEND
35.
FATHER COUGHLIN
36.
FRANCES PERKINS
OPEN ENDED QUESTIONS
You
will have three open ended questions on the final exam. The following topics will be where the
specific questions will come from:
131.
muckrakers
(who, what, how, etc)
132.
USA
and WW1
133.
choose
three people OR three events and write an essay explaining how they have
contributed towards your understanding of American history