1. The Fourteenth Amendment:
A) guaranteed equal legal protection to all citizens
B) passed Congress but was rejected by the states
C) rarely provokes conflicting interpretations
D) was advocated by President Johnson
E) ended Reconstruction
2. The postwar South suffered from an acute shortage of:
A) capital
B) labor
C) cotton
D) domestic help
E) water
3. What industry was "the first big business, the first magnet for the great financial markets, and the first industry to develop a large scale management bureaucracy?:
A) oil
B) railroads
C) steel
D) telephone
E) telegraph
4. The Morrill Act of 1862 and 1890:
A) restricted Chinese immigration
B) placed severe quotas on "new immigrants" from Europe
C) established vocational schools aimed at giving job skills to immigrants
D) established and funded land-grant colleges
E) said hat interstate trade of alcohol was illegal
5. The Farmers' Alliances:
A) had millions of members, mostly in the Northeast.
B) urged Congress to adopt the gold standard.
C) helped establish the Populist Party.
D) excluded African Americans and women.
E) helped organize the Republican resistance in the 1890's.
6. The term "yellow journalism" arose from the:
A) use of native reporters in the press coverage of the battles in the Philippines
B) press coverage of the trials of three Cuban officials who were accused of accepting bribes in the form of gold shipments from insurrectionists
C) circulation war between two New York newspapers
D) use of propaganda in underground newspapers published by the Cuban insurrectionists
E) "scared" journalists who filed their stories from Key West, Florida
7. The Seventeenth Amendment:
A) authorized the popular election of U.S. senators.
B) gave women the right to vote.
C) called for direct primaries.
D) authorized the federal income tax.
E) made the production and distribution of alcohol illegal.
8. The congressional resolution for war:
A) came quickly in response to the sinking of the Lusitania
B) passed overwhelmingly
C) was divided strictly along party lines
D) included a provision that the United States would accept only an unconditional surrender from Germany
E) passed unanimously in both the House and the Senate
9. The amendment to the constitution that barred the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors was ratified in:
A) 1911
B) 1919
C) 1922
D) 1928
E) 1932
10. Part of the reason for the stock market crash was:
A) the high rate of deflation in the 1920's.
B) the tax policies of the 1920's that hurt the wealthy, who might otherwise have bought more stocks.
C) the buying of great amounts of stock "on margin."
D) the low tariff, which allowed imports to corner several important American markets.
E) the remarkably poor returns on government bonds in 1929.
True/False
11. _______ Despite the New Deal, full recovery from the Depression did not come until the crisis of World War II.
12. _______ Following the aerial Battle of Britain, Germany invaded England
13. _______ Spain conceded to practically all of the American demands concerning Cuba before the United States declared war.
14. _______ The Fifteenth Amendment was ratified during the Civil War
15. _______ Methods used to reduce the black vote stripped many poor whites of the vote as well.
16. _______ Black American soldiers generally served in desegregated units during World War II
17. _______ The Fourteenth Amendment recognized the validity of Confederate debts.
18. _______ The Hawley-Smoot Tariff raised import duties to an all-time high
19. _______ The adoption of the convoy system dramatically reduced Allied losses to German submarines.
20. _______ As a nonmember, the United States refused to have anything to do with the League of Nations in the 1920's and 1930's.