AP – United States History
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Daily Quiz #7A.1 – TAKE-HOME
Chapters 23-25
Directions: Complete questions 1-30 on the answer sheet provided.
1.
The Teller Amendment . . .
A. disclaimed any American designs on Cuban territory.
B. was defeated in Republicans in the Senate.
C. was promptly vetoed by President William McKinley.
D. granted United States citizenship to the inhabitants of Puerto Rico.
2.
The “Open Door” policy of the United States . . .
A. closed Chinese immigration except for spouses and children of men already in the United States.
B. proposed that foreign powers keep the China trade open to all nations on an equal basis.
C. allowed a certain number of Japanese immigrants to the United States each year in return for
special trading rights with Japan.
D. pledged economic aid to Latin American nations with struggling republics.
3.
The Roosevelt Corollary . . .
A. stated that the United States could intervene in the affairs of Western Hemisphere nations to
forestall the intervention of other world powers.
B. justified United States intervention in East Asia.
C. rescinded most of the provisions of the Monroe Doctrine.
D. Encouraged United States bankers to help finance Latin American nations.
4.
Western imperialism in the late nineteenth century was stimulated by all of the following EXCEPT:
A. an ongoing quest for new markets overseas.
B. the desire to Christianize Africa and Asia.
C. nationalistic pride and rivalries with world powers.
D. the fear of socialist ideas might advance around the globe.
5.
As a result of the Spanish-American War, the United States . . .
A. became a world power.
B. acquired Cuba as a colony.
C. was deeply divided between war supporters and opponents of the war.
D. Became a protectorate of Guam and Puerto Rico.
6.
Alfred Thayer Mahan . . .
A. thought that a canal in Central America was not in the best interest for the United States.
B. argued that sea power was essential to national greatness.
C. was a British admiral who influenced United States imperial policy under President Theodore
Roosevelt.
D. published an influential book on sea power before the Civil War.
7.
In order to acquire the Canal Zone, the United States supported Panama’s revolt against . . .
A. Colombia.
B. Nicaragua.
C. Venezuela.
D. Costa Rica.
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Chapters 23-25
8.
Emilio Aguinaldo . . .
A. was installed as Cuba’s governor in 1898.
B. was the martyred leader of the Cuban Revolution against Spain.
C. led the Spanish forces at the Battle of San Juan Hill.
D. was a Filipino rebel leader.
9.
John Fiske . . .
A. wrote a book that stressed the superior character of Anglo-Saxon peoples and institutions.
B. was a minister who added the sanction of religion to the expansionist’s argument.
C. used Darwinism concepts to show how American expansionism hurt the people of the areas America
annexed.
D. was one of the earliest government officials to speak out against imperialism.
10. The term “yellow journalism” arose from the . . .
A. use of propaganda in underground newspapers published by the Cuban insurrectionists.
B. letter written by Spanish ambassador Don Enrique Dupuy de Lôme who characterized President
William McKinley as a weak and cowardly leader.
C. use of reporters in the press coverage of the battles in the Philippines.
D. circulation war between two New York newspapers.
11. The subject of Wealth Against Commonwealth was . . .
A. Standard Oil Company.
B. municipal corruption.
C. child labor.
D. banking reform.
12. The originator of the “Wisconsin Idea” of efficient government was . . .
A. Florence Kelley.
B. Robert La Follette.
C. Louis Brandeis.
D. Lincoln Steffens.
13. The Seventeenth Amendment . . .
A. gave women the right to vote.
B. authorized the federal income tax.
C. made the production and distribution of alcohol illegal.
D. authorized the popular election of United States senators.
14. During the Anthracite Mine Coal Strike . . .
A. arbitrators awarded the miners all their demands.
B. arbitrators awarded business all their demands.
C. thousands of striking United Mine Workers marched on Washington, D.C.
D. President Theodore Roosevelt won support for his use of the “Big Stick” against big business.
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Chapters 23-25
15. In the Progressive period . . .
A. reformers were generally pessimistic about finding solutions to social ills.
B. conservative politicians destroyed any semblance of a welfare state.
C. voter turnout increased.
D. little action was taken in the area of civil rights.
16. The “Muckrakers” saw their primary objective as . . .
A. proposing detailed legislation to Congress.
B. exposing social problems to the public.
C. converting Americans to socialism.
D. destroying both the Republican and Democratic parties.
17. In his first term as president, President Woodrow Wilson did all of the following EXCEPT:
A. permitted the spread of racist practices in the federal government.
B. failed to reorganize the banking system.
C. Supported the Underwood-Simmons Tariff.
D. Supported the Federal Reserve Act.
18. Of the four presidential candidates in 1912, the one MOST likely to advocate government ownership of
big business was . . .
A. Eugene Debs.
B. Woodrow Wilson.
C. William Howard Taft.
D. Theodore Roosevelt.
19. At the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in 1911 . . .
A. Frederick Taylor first applied his scientific management principles.
B. workers died as a result of a fire.
C. the labor force was found to be made up entirely of children.
D. a strike occurred led by suffragists.
20. Progressives supported all of the following as measures to democratize government EXCEPT:
A. the initiative.
B. the referendum.
C. the poll tax.
D. the party primary.
21. One of the following pairs consists of two nations that were NOT members of the Triple Entente.
A. France and Britain.
B. Russia and France.
C. Italy and Austria-Hungary.
D. Britain and Russia.
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22. President Woodrow Wilson’s Secretary of State resigned in 1915 because . . .
A. he disapproved of Wilson’s conciliatory stance toward Germany.
B. he had plans to run for president in 1916.
C. he thought Wilson’s note to Germany denouncing the sinking of the British ocean liner S.S. Lusitania
would draw the United States closer to war.
D. he believed that Britain should be held accountable for the death of 128 Americans aboard the
ocean liner S.S. Lusitania.
23. In the case Schenck v. the United States, the Supreme Court . . .
A. stated that Eugene Debs had been arrested and held without due process.
B. overturned the Espionage and Sedition Acts.
C. upheld a conviction of a man who had circulated pamphlets against the draft.
D. ruled that labor organizations as such did not fall under the jurisdiction of the War Industries Board.
24. The Zimmermann Telegram . . .
A. asked for help from Mexico in the case of war between Germany and the United States.
B. announced the addition of three nations to the Central Powers.
C. caused the United States to break diplomatic relations with Germany.
D. created a temporary alliance between the United States and Germany.
25. Under the Espionage and Sedition Acts 1917—1918 . . .
A. criticism of government leaders or war policies became a crime.
B. censorship was aimed more at conservative “Middle America” than on socialists or other radicals.
C. speaking a writing against Germany and Italy became a crime.
D. Milwaukee and other Midwestern towns with large German populations were placed under martial
law.
26. The United States military effort in France in 1917 . . .
A. had little if any influence.
B. resulted in over 150,000 deaths in a matter of the first three weeks of conflict.
C. helped turn back several German offensives.
D. was met with several defeats along the western front in France.
27. Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points endorsed all of the following EXCEPT:
A. freedom of the seas.
B. the establishment of United States colonies in Africa and parts of the Pacific.
C. the creation a “League” of nations.
D. an end to secret treaties.
28. Which of the following is NOT associated with the major battles of the First World War?
A. Battle of the Meuse-Argonne
B. Battle of the Somme
C. Battle of Verdun
D. Battle of Berlin
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29. All of the following innovations changed warfare during the First World War EXCEPT:
A. machine guns.
B. submarines.
C. blockades.
D. airplanes.
30. The Treaty of Versailles did all of the following EXCEPT:
A. creation of new nations such as Poland and Yugoslavia.
B. included a “war guilt” clause that blamed Germany for starting World War I.
C. required veterans’ pensions to be paid by the defeated Central Powers.
D. demilitarization of the German Rhineland.
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AP – United States History
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Daily Quiz #7A.1 – TAKE-HOME
Chapters 23-25
Directions: Complete questions 31-45 on the answer sheet provided by matching the name in the left column
with the corresponding fact in the right column.
31. Alfred Thayer Mahan
32. William Jennings Bryan
33. Upton Sinclair
34. William H. Seward
35. John Hay
36. Theodore Roosevelt
37. Eugene Debs
38. George Dewey
39. Henry Cabot Lodge
40. William Howard Taft
41. John J. Pershing
42. Charles Evans Hughes
43. William Randolph Hearst
44. A. Mitchell Palmer
45. Frederick Taylor
A.
B.
acquired Alaska for the United States
proposed to return Queen Liliuokalani to the
Hawaiian throne
C.
was the leading “Reservationist” in the Senate
concerning the League of Nations
D.
repeatedly urged men to refuse to serve in the
military and given a ten-year prison sentence
E.
Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson who
resigned at the beginning of the United States entry
into the First World War
AB.
was the Secretary of State who called the SpanishAmerican War a “splendid little war”
AC.
was William McKinley’s campaign manager in the
1904 Presidential Election
AD.
headed the War Industries Board during World War I
AE.
wrote The Jungle
BC.
American general during World War I who headed
the American Expeditionary Force (AEF)
BD.
Wrote Our Country: Its Possible future and Its
Present Crisis
BE.
owned the New York Journal
CD.
United States admiral who captured Manila Bay
during the Spanish-American War
DE.
was the Republican presidential candidate in 1916
ABC.
was the United States Attorney General that led the
“Red Scare”
ABD.
was the Republican Party’s Voce-Presidential
candidate in 1900
ABE.
wrote The Influence of Sea Power upon History
ABCD. appointed as the Chief Justice to the Supreme Court
in 1921
ABCDE. was the original “efficiency expert”
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Daily Quiz #7A.1 – TAKE-HOME
Chapters 23-25
Answer Sheet
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