Transcript Unit 2 Industrialization and the U.S. Role as a World Power

Mr. Belcastro US History
UNIT 2
INDUSTRIALIZATION AND THE U.S. ROLE AS A
WORLD POWER
1 WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING WAS AN
EFFECT OF THE PUBLICATION OF UPTON
SINCLAIR’S THE JUNGLE (1906)?
a)
b)
c)
d)
It aided the growth of federal social
services.
It contributed to the development of
settlement houses.
It influenced the passage of the Meat
Inspection Act.
It led to the development of child labor
laws.
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c)
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d)
2. THE AMERICANIZATION MOVEMENT OF THE
EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY SOUGHT TO
a)
b)
c)
d)
Assimilate ethnic immigrant groups
into the dominant culture.
Restrict the military involvement of
the United States in foreign
conflicts.
Protect domestic businesses from
foreign competition.
Diminish the role of government in
the regulation of industry.
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a)
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b)
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c)
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3. DURING THE LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH
CENTURIES, URBAN IMMIGRANTS GENERALLY
SUPPORTED LOCAL POLITICAL MACHINES THAT
a)
b)
c)
d)
Discouraged the new immigrants
from participating in civic affairs.
Were usually supported by urban
reformers.
Provided essential services to the
immigrants.
reminded immigrants of political
practices in Their homelands.
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a)
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b)
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c)
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d)
4. THE MUCKRAKING JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATED
WITH THE PROGRESSIVE ERA WERE KNOWN
PRIMARILY FOR THEIR
a)
b)
c)
d)
Willingness to expose the corruption
of U.S. society.
Articles supporting the economic
benefits of laissez-faire economics.
Use of the media to advocate the
passage of the Equal Rights
Amendment.
support for the formation of U.S.
military Alliances with European
countries.
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a)
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b)
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5. FORD’S PRODUCTION OF MODEL TS IN
THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY
DEMONSTRATED THE ECONOMIC
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SPECIALIZATION
AND
a)
b)
c)
d)
Reduced labor demand.
Greater efficiencies in production.
Higher production costs.
Decreased union organization.
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6. DURING THE LATE NINETEENTH AND
EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY’S, THE U.S.
GOVERNMENT ATTEMPTED TO FACILITATE
THE GROWTH OF DOMESTIC INDUSTRY BY
a)
b)
c)
d)
Placing high tariff barriers on foreign
imports.
Encouraging the growth of labor
unions.
Repealing the Sherman Antitrust Act.
Providing subsidies to small
businesses
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7. HOW DID THE GROWTH OF U.S.
MANUFACTURING AFFECT THE COUNTRY’S
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS DURING THE LATE
NINETEENTH CENTURY?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Increasing industrial production led to
support for an isolationist foreign policy.
Increasing demand for natural resources led
to the U.S. acquisition of African colonies.
Increasing demand for markets contributed
to support for an Open Door policy in China.
Increasing need for trading partners
encouraged the United States to lower tariff
Rates
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8. THE FOLLOWERS OF THE SOCIAL GOSPEL
MOVEMENT BELIEVED THAT ORGANIZED
RELIGION MUST PLACE GREATER EMPHASIS ON
a)
b)
c)
d)
Reconstructing
American society.
Raising funds.
Supporting the
Populist Party.
Stopping
immigration to the
United States.
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b)
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c)
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9. MEMBERS OF THE POPULIST PARTY
SUPPORTED PUBLIC OWNERSHIP OF
RAILROADS BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT IT
WOULD
a)
b)
c)
d)
Help small farmers.
Reduce immigration.
Decrease income taxes.
Change monetary policy.
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10. DURING PRESIDENT THEODORE
ROOSEVELT’S ADMINISTRATION,
CONGRESS GAVE THE INTERSTATE
COMMERCE COMMISSION THE POWER TO
a)
b)
c)
d)
Enforce legislation regulating railroad
rates.
Construct a national canal system.
Impose lower import tariffs on foreign
goods.
Mint a national currency.
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c)
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d)
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b)
c)
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11. IN 1900 THE UNITED STATES DECLARED AN
OPEN DOOR POLICY THAT REFLECTED WHICH
OF THE FOLLOWING BELIEFS?
The Chinese were secretly negotiating
trade privileges with European
countries.
Japan might conquer China and cut
off all foreign trade.
All countries should have equal
trading rights in China.
American consumers would be hurt
by international trade.
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12. THE UNITED STATES SUPPORTED A
REVOLUTION IN PANAMA AT THE TURN OF
THE 20TH CENTURY IN ORDER TO
a)
b)
c)
d)
Stop human rights abuses in Latin
American countries.
Prevent the spread of communism in
Latin America.
Secure the right to build a canal
through Central America.
End European colonialism in Central
America.
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13. THEODORE ROOSEVELT’S “SPEAK
SOFTLY AND CARRY A BIG STICK” POLICY
RELIED ON THE UNITED STATES HAVING A
a)
b)
c)
d)
Competitive economy.
System of military alliances.
Strong navy.
Tax on imports.
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14. WHAT DID THE ROOSEVELT COROLLARY TO
THE MONROE DOCTRINE STATE?
a)
b)
c)
d)
The United States would permanently station
troops in the Philippines and other Pacific
islands.
The United States reserved the right to
intervene in the affairs of Central America
and the Caribbean.
The United States had the right and duty to
expand its colonial possessions in Asia.
The United States would provide military aid
to Europe to resist communism.
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15. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS THE MOST
ACCURATE EXAMPLE OF PRESIDENT TAFT’S
POLICY OF “DOLLAR DIPLOMACY”?
a)
b)
c)
d)
allowing for the nationalization of Latin American
property owned by U.S. citizens
exerting economic influence rather than military
force in Latin American countries
using international trade organizations to stabilize
Latin American economies
maintaining a military force to discourage European
colonization in Latin America The Espionage Act of
1918 included punishments for speaking or writing
“disloyal, scurrilous or abusive language about the
American form of government, the Constitution, the
armed forces, or the flag. . . .
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16. THE PASSAGE AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF
THE ESPIONAGE ACT BY THE WILSON
ADMINISTRATION REFLECTED THE BELIEF THAT
THE
a)
b)
c)
d)
Fourteenth Amendment permitted
suspending the Bill of Rights in wartime.
Nation is war effort would be threatened
if dissenters were allowed free speech.
Public should be shielded from hearing
about the reality of the war.
Other countries at war had already
curtailed civil liberties
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17. THE “RED SCARE” IN THE UNITED
STATES IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING WORLD
WAR I WAS A REACTION TO
a)
b)
c)
d)
President Wilson is attempts to include
the U.S. in the League of Nations.
The perceived growth of organized
crime in major urban areas.
A perceived threat of a communist
revolution in the United States.
A rise in the number of immigrants from
Germany.
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