Final Exam Review Fall ‘08
____1. Which of the following marked the end of the wars between the federal government and the Plains Indians?
____2. Why did the policy of treating the Great Plains as a huge reservation change?
____3. Which of the following events occurred first?
____4. Which of the following was not central to the life and culture of the Plains Indians in the 1800s?
____5. Who were the exodusters?
____6. Why did little of the free land offered by the Homestead Act end up being claimed by settlers?
____7. Which of the following was most responsible for bringing an end to the era of the wide-open western frontier?
____8. Why did Plains farmers in the late 1800s tend to support bimetallism?
____9. Which of the following did not intensify the debts that Plains farmers had during the late 1800s?
____10. Which of the following marked the collapse of Populism?
____11. The main immigration processing station in San Francisco was called
____12. The main goal of the Chinese Exclusion Act was to
____13. The main goal of the Americanization movement was to
____14. The row house was a new type of housing that conserved space by
____15. Settlement houses were founded in the late 1800s by
____16. The illegal use of political influence for personal gain is called
____17. Tammany Hall was the name of
____18. An example of patronage would be
____19. The Stalwarts were strong supporters of
____20. The Pendleton Civil Service Act required
____21. The progressive movement regarded all of the following as worthy goals except
____22. Muckrakers were
____23. A bill that originates from the people rather than legislators is known as
____24. In the mid-1800s, the majority of women who held jobs worked as
____25. All of the following were actively involved in securing the right to vote for women except ____26. In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposed
____27. The first person to use the presidency as a "bully pulpit" was
____28. The law that required truthful labels was the
____29. The primary goal of the NAACP was
____30. In the election of 1912, the candidate considered least pleasing to reformers was
____31. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were charged with, and convicted of,
____32. To expand its membership in the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan engaged in all of the following except
____33. The immigration policies of the 1920s limited immigration from all of the following countries except
____34. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer believed that he needed to protect the American people from
____35. During the 1920s, union membership
____36. The first practical peacetime use of airplanes was for
____37. The main factor causing urban sprawl in the 1920s was
____38. The Teapot Dome scandal centered around
____39. The Fordney-McCumber Tariff was meant to
____40. To protect their own interests, employers often accused striking workers of being
____41. To obtain liquor illegally, drinkers went underground to hidden nightclubs known as
____42. The Harlem Renaissance refers to a. a struggle for civil rights led by the NAACP. b. a population increase in Harlem in the 1920s. c. a celebration of African-American culture in literature and art.
____43. John T. Scopes challenged a Tennessee law that forbade the teaching of
____44. Fundamentalists believed that
____45. "Double standard" refers to
____46. F. Scott Fitzgerald described the 1920s as the
____47. Charles Lindbergh was famous as a(n)
____48. The NAACP did all of the following except
____49. Jazz music was born in New Orleans and was spread to the North by such musicians as
____50. _____ marked the works of many famous writers of the 1920s, including the Lost Generation.
____51. ___ were least likely to be a part of the New Deal coalition.
____52. By decreasing farm surpluses, New Deal policies helped to ___. ____53. ___ claimed that the New Deal policies were inadequate and proposed a social program called Share-Our- Wealth.
____54. The Federal Emergency Relief Administration was most helpful to___.
____55. The American public perceived many characteristics in President Roosevelt, but ___ was probably not one of them.
____56. ___ used music to express the hardships of American life during the Depression.
____57. ___ helped organize the "Black Cabinet," a group of influential African Americans who advised the Roosevelt administration on racial issues.
____58. The Supreme Court ruled that the ___ was unconstitutional on the grounds that its provisions were local matters and should be regulated by the states.
____59. Of the following New Deal policies, ___ had the biggest long-term impact on the American economy.
____60. The _____ reflected President Roosevelt's concern for the natural environment.
____61. Which of the following increased in the 1920s?
____62. Which was not a cause of the Great Depression?
____63. Which was not a cause of the Dust Bowl?
____64. After the stock market crash, how did President Hoover try to help the economy?
____65. Who made up the Bonus Army that marched on Washington?
____66. Which candidates ran for president in 1932?
____67. What does buying a stock on margin mean?
____68. Which of the following was not an effect of the Great Depression?
____69. What name was given to the men and boys who rode the rails as they searched for work?
____70. Which of the following describes a government system for giving payments or food to the poor?