Cumulative Exam US History UPDATED Actual Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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Cumulative Exam US History UPDATED
Actual Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Which group did Wilson most want to help during the second half of his term?
big business
women
everyday workers
entrepreneurs - CORRECT ANSWER- everyday workers
Cumulative Exam US History UPDATED
Actual Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Which group did Wilson most want to help during the second half of his term?
big business
women
everyday workers
Which of the following was the first public movement in which American women took
leadership roles?
the temperance movement
the abolition movement
the suffrage movement
the property rights movement - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔the abolition movement
The Plessy v. Ferguson ruling stated that
segregation was unconstitutional.
the Fourteenth Amendment was unconstitutional.
segregation was necessary to preserve public peace.
the Separate Car Act was unconstitutional. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔segregation was
necessary to preserve public peace
The main reason alcohol abuse caught the attention of the public in the early 1900s was an
increase in
the number of men expressing concern about alcohol.
concern for improving cleanliness and hygiene in cities.
concern by young families for improving their lives.
the negative social effects of excessive drinking. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔the negative
social effects of excessive drinking.
,Which was a direct result of bank failures in the 1920s and 1930s?
Unemployment rose.
Companies slowed production.
Depositors lost their savings.
People could not pay back their loans. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Depositors lost their
savings.
An important environmental debate in the United States in 1900 was
whether to use wilderness resources.
whether to ban factories in cities.
whether to drill for oil offshore.
whether to use coal. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔whether to use wilderness resources.
Which of the following is a legacy of Roosevelt's environmental policies?
clean air and water
national parks and forests
bans on deforestation
bans on hunting - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔national parks and forests
Which US group was one of the first to go on strike because of wage cuts?
the American Federation of Labor
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
the American Railway Union
Which of the following did Emma Hart Willard accomplish in 1826?
She persuaded Oberlin College to admit women.
She persuaded the courts to legalize contraception.
She organized the Seneca Falls Convention.
, She founded the first all-girls high school in the US. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔She
founded the first all-girls high school in the US.
Read the quotation from William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech."You shall not
press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon
a cross of gold." Which of the following best describes Bryan's opinion about currency?
Working people do not make as much gold as the wealthy.
Free silver would ruin the economy of the United States.
The gold standard hurts every worker in the United States.
Workers would prefer to earn gold coins instead of silver. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The
gold standard hurts every worker in the United States
A major reason Irish immigrants came to the United States in the 1840s was
to find jobs as skilled laborers.
to escape a potato famine.
to live in less crowded conditions.
to escape oppression. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔to escape a potato famine
What was one reason for anti-immigrant sentiment in the early 1900s?
tolerance for other cultures
a decline in patriotism
competition for jobs
an increase in war protests - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔competition for jobs
Read the quote from President Wilson's letter to the National Child Labor Committee."As the
labor situation created by the war develops I am more interested than ever, if that were
possible, in throwing all the safeguards possible around the labor of women and children."
The "labor situation" Wilson refers to most likely concerned him because:
going to war meant US industry had to begin manufacturing military supplies.
women and children had to do the jobs of male workers who became soldiers.
no one was left to support families when men enlisted and went to war.
women and children had to replace striking factory workers. - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔women and children had to do the jobs of male workers who became soldiers
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