1.Which of the following killed most of the U.S. soldiers fighting against Spain in Cuba?
a. Cuban rebels b. Spanish soldiers c. disease d. Explosion of the USS Maine
2. Which of the following best describes America’s foreign policy after WWI?
a. The United States joined the League of Nations because it wanted to be invovled in European affairs. b. The US joined an alliance with Germany to help it control Europe. c. The United States became isolationist in its diplomatic and political relations. d. the US became more involved in world affairs.
3. What action by President Taft urged Americans to invest in overseas markets to increase American influence over these countries?
a. Fourteen Points b. Dollar Diplomacy c. Economic Spreading d. League of Nations
4. What was Wilson’s Plan to bring peace to the world after WWI?
a. Freedom Plan b. Fourteen Points c. Peace of Paris d. Peace of Madrid
5. Disillusioned with war after WWI, the US took a foreign policy role called….
a. Interactionism b. Isolationism c. Imperialism d. Strike first policy
6. What was the GREATEST impact on the construction of the Panama Canal?
a. Ownership of the canal would eventually be given back to Panama. b. Even though it took roughly ten years to build it was finished six months early. c. Caused Russia to be a stronger military power d. It tremendously reduced the travel time between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
7. The purpose of Woodrow Wilson’s “Fourteen Points” was to
a. address what he believed caused WWI b. encourage Italy to join the Allied Powers. c. explain why the U.S. did not enter World War I in 1914. d. explain the U.S. position concerning the Bolshevick Revolution in Russia.
8. Which of the following correctly describes how events involving the USS Maine in 1898 helped spark the Spanish American War?
a. It crashed ashore in Cuba because the captain was untrained. b. It was proven to have blow up due to a Spanish mine. c. It blew up and was assumed by many Americans to have been caused by Spanish mines. d. It got lost due to an error in navigation and ended up in Spanish waters.
9. How did the results of the Spanish American War affect the expansion of the United States?
a. The war ended U.S. expansion because of the extraordinary costs of the war. b. The war allowed the United States to acquire the Texas territory. c. The war led to increased U.S. expansion into South America. d. The war gave the United States territories in the Pacific and Caribbean..
10. Which of the following made American neutrality in WWI difficult to maintain?
a. The British naval blockade b. German submarine warfare c. Americans with cultural ties to Europe d. each of these made American neutrality difficult.
11. The 18th amendment to the United States Constitution began
a. the New Deal. b. “prohibition”. c. the Red Scare. d. the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction.
12. This trial represents the cultural division in the 1920’s where the conservative forces were at odds with emerging modern culture.
a. Plessy vs. Ferguson b. Gibbons vs. Ogden c. Scopes Trial d. The Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
13. What was the justification for having Prohibition (the banning of alcohol)?
a. so people won’t become rich on alcohol sales b. alcohol wasn’t taxed by the government c. Alcohol was made in Canada d. to eliminate the social problems that result from drinking alcohol
14. This action limited how many immigrants could come into America in a given year.
a. I14 Points Plan b. Tariffs c. Homestead Act d. Immigration quota
15. What was the fear of the spread of Communism in the 1930s called? It led to arrests and deportation of many with no trial.
a. Communist Manifesto b. Communist Facism c. Red Scare d. Lenninism
16. What were the secret bars where people could socialize and drink alcohol called?
a. Pubs b. Speakeasy c. hideaways d. Snorts