Reference no: EM13751722

1. What is Leon Czolgosz most remembered for?

Anarchism

Assassination

Socialism

Terrorism

2. At the end of the Spanish-American War, what defined the way that the United States attempted to exert its economic will over Cuba?

Treaty of Paris

Platt Amendment

Teller Amendment

Newlands Resolution

3. Which amendment to the Constitution brought Prohibition to the United States?

Eighteenth Amendment

Nineteenth Amendment

Twentieth Amendment

Twenty-first Amendment

4. Americans had always felt the desire to grow, move, and acquire territory as expressed through the ideal of Manifest Destiny. The nation explored new areas of expansion in the 1890s for several reasons. Which of the following was not one of them?

Natural resources

Social Darwinism

Military power

Reclaiming lost territory

5. President Woodrow Wilson played a key role in directing the nation into and through the war, but he also had a vision of how the post-war world should look. He first articulated his plan in January 1918 in a plan called:

Paris Peace

Fourteen Points

League of Nations

Collective Security

6. Women made many contributions during World War I. Which area did they make the least impact?

Nurses in the war

Heavy industry

Maintaining farms

Truck drivers

7. Theodore Roosevelt's life was perhaps the perfect symbol for the United States. Which of the following was he not known for?

Cowboy

War hero

Mayor

Governor

8. When a nation goes to war. it must engage in a process called mobilization, which means that it prepares the weapons, supplies, and people needed for battle. Which of the following was not a component of American mobilization for World War II?

War Industries Board

National Defense Act

Uncle Sam

Rosie the Riveter

9. Efficiency was a central theme of the reform movement. Who of the following was not an example of someone striving to examine every aspect of life itself and determine, often through new scientific principles, how to do more work with less energy?

Frederick W. Taylor

Robert Wiebe

Henry Ford

Theodore Roosevelt

10. While business in the United States grew larger, there was a greater opportunity for corruption. Though there were some attempts at reform in the late 19th century, these were not as successful as hoped. What was the method preferred by Progressives?

Laissez-faire

Redistribute wealth

Break-up large companies

Regulation.