US History Third Term Test Review
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According to the Social Contract, what do men give up?
According to the Social Contract, what do men consent to be?
What does the government promise in the Social Contract?
Which philosopher says by nature, men are bad and need government to protect us from
destroying each other, often times leading to a tyrant?
Which philosopher says men are good by nature but inequalities among us including wealth,
land, and possessions make us bad and we need a government to keep order?
Identify the three reasons American became imperialist.
Which future state was bought out of imperialistic reasons?
Which future state was essentially taken over by the military for imperialistic reasons?
Who was President while the Spanish-American War happened?
What event sparked the Spanish-American War?
Which future president led the Rough Riders in the Battle of San Juan Hill, the only notable
engagement of the Spanish-American War?
Where did the fighting begin in the Spanish-American War?
What piece of land was the key to the conflict of the Spanish-American War?
What is the name of the treaty ending the Spanish-American War?
What three lands did the United States own after the Spanish-American War?
Which one of the three lands from the Spanish-American War is now an independent country?
What event helped #16 become an independent nation?
Define spheres of influence.
How did the Boxer Rebellion affect the government of China?
What did the US desire in China?
What was one of the main causes of tension between the US and Japan?
What are the two parts of the Gentleman’s Agreement?
What did President Theodore Roosevelt believe the moral responsibility of the US was?
What is big stick diplomacy?
What is one instance of the US using big stick diplomacy?
What is dollar diplomacy?
What is moral diplomacy?
What is one instance of the US using moral diplomacy?
What is the difference between a state and nation?
How did nationalism affect World War I?
Identify the three powers of the Triple Alliance.
Identify the three powers of the Triple Entente.
What was the 450 mile area from Belgium to Switzerland called where most of the fighting took
place during World War I?
What brought the US into World War I?
What was used to protect American ships on the route from the US to Britain?
Which country was forced to pull out of World War I due to a communist revolution?
37. Which side won World War I: Triple Alliance or Triple Entente?
38. What did President Woodrow Wilson propose at the end of World War I but the US never
joined?
39. What killed more people than World War I?
40. What is the Red Scare?
41. Why was birth control so important to women in the Progressive time period?
42. What amendment guarantees women the right to vote?
43. Which organization is the unofficial voice of African Americans?
44. Which act calls for truth in labeling?
45. How did the Galveston Flood change local governments?
46. What does the 17th amendment do?
47. What is the definition of the Social Contract?
48. What two things made Ford Motor Company unique about how they paid employees?
49. Due to the economic boom, more Americans lived in __________ for the first time in history.
50. How much crime involved alcohol during Prohibition?
51. What new science was created by Detective Goddard by his investigation of the St. Valentine’s
Day Massacre?
52. What allows the US government to tax personal income?
53. Define Square Deal.
54. Define Federal Trade Commission.
55. Most economic growth after World War I came from what industry?
56. Define scientific management.
57. What did advertising focus on in the 20s? Over what?
58. Define installment buying.
59. What did President Warren G. Harding and Andrew Mellon work together to reduce?
60. Define Teapot Dome Scandal.
61. What did President Calvin Coolidge believe regarding the role of government?
62. Define Kellogg-Briand Pact.
63. Define Dawes Plan.
64. What ended the success of the Dawes Plan?
65. What was America’s “democratic art”?
66. Who was the biggest celebrity of the 1920s?
67. Describe “laissez faire” economics.
68. What percentage of people in America earned less than the standard of living in the 1920s?
69. What is one gauge that tells people how America’s economy is doing?
70. What was the Dust Bowl?
71. How high was unemployment during the Great Depression?
72. How did Hoover and FDR differ in their beliefs of how the depression should be handled?
73. Define New Deal.
74. What were the three goals of the First New Deal?
75. What did the FDIC do?
76. Why did some think the TVA is socialist?
77. What is collective bargaining?
78. Why was 1937 a turning point for the Supreme Court?