Cumulative Exam Answers

In the early 1900s, what did it mean for cities to be “dry”?

In the 1800s, mass production led to

The circle graph shows US population incomes in 1890.US Population Incomes, 1890What does the graph show about the distribution of income during the late 1800s?

What was the purpose of setting 4 time zones in the continental United States?

Why was the USS Maine sent to Cuba in 1898?

Which best describes the impact of railroad expansion on the steel industry?

Emancipation meant that Southern landowners

During Reconstruction, nearly 700 African American men

Look at the graph. Based on the graph, in what year was the urban population of the United States roughly equal to the rural population?

In the late 1800s, the Populist movement arose out of the concerns of

Which best describes the result of the Uprising of the Twenty Thousand?

A direct effect of gaining the right to vote was that women

Which of the following best describes the aim of the Dawes Act?

Which two developments caused industrialization and the economy to grow during the Gilded Age?

During 1915 and 1917, U-boats attacked not only enemy ships but also

How did Progressives plan to improve government?

What condition most directly contributed to the spread of disease in city tenements in the early 1900s?

Who was William Jennings Bryan?

The Plains Indians embraced the Ghost Dance movement because they were

What was Jacob Riis’s goal in the late 1800s?

In 1908, the Supreme Court ruled in Muller v. Oregon that

Look at the idea web. American Society in the Late 1800sHow would a member of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union most likely fill in the center of this web?

Isolationists objected to the League of Nations because

Which change in the West was brought about by railroad expansion?

Under the spoils system in federal and state governments,

In the Teapot Dome Scandal, Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall leased

What changes did the invention of the radio bring to Americans?

The position of the United States toward Latin America in the 1800s can be characterized as

What was the main goal of President Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan?

The Homestead Act greatly impacted the Indigenous People of the Great Plains by

When government inspectors investigated the claims made by Upton Sinclair in The Jungle, they found that

Companies attempted to intimidate union organizers by

Why were Democrats angry after the presidential election of 1876?

How did nativists treat immigrants in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

Why was Carnegie Steel considered a vertical monopoly?

Read the quotation. “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that men and women are created equal.”Which of the following best describes the origins of this quotation as it relates to women’s equality?

Many African Americans during World War I

Booker T. Washington believed that the best strategy to end racial segregation was for African Americans to

In Plessy v. Ferguson, Homer Plessy claimed that “separate but equal” violated his rights under the

Poll taxes and literacy tests effectively negated the rights African Americans had gained with the

What position on international trade did President Wilson’s Fourteen Points take?

Which factor most contributed to delays in construction for the Central Pacific Railroad?

Which of the following best explains why Chinese immigrants moved to the United States in the 1800s?

What conditions led Pullman workers to go on strike in 1894?

Why might the United States under President Roosevelt be described as a police officer in Latin America?

The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments all

Which of the following best describes a major effect of Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle?

When an industry was monopolized by one company or trust during the Gilded Age, what happened to workers’ wages?

In what areas of the world did the US gain influence as a result of the Spanish-American War?

What fueled the consumerism of the 1920s?