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AP US History Blizzard Bag 2014 - 2015 Growth of Industrial American
1. As the Populist Party became more concerned with the issue of American currency, they
nominated which candidate for the 1896 presidential election?
A. Theodore Roosevelt
B. William McKinley
C. William Jennings Bryan
D. Henry Cabot Lodge
E. Grover Cleveland
2. What was the purpose behind the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)?
A. to establish a stronger Catholic presence within the city
B. to rid society of such social ills as alcoholism and prostitution
C. to prohibit the consumption of alcohol in homes with children present
D. to rebuild society after the stock market crash of 1893
E. to create new laws forbidding the use of guns
3. Which of these was a resolution to the economic problems plaguing the recently freed slaves
of the South?
A. the scalawags
B. the Thirteenth Amendment
C. sharecropping
D. women's suffrage
E. the election of 1872
4. The Socialist Party of America was formed in 1901 under the leadership of
A. Eugene Debs
B. Andrew Carnegie
C. Karl Marx
D. Daniel De Leon
E. Henry Clay Frick
5. In 1882, the federal government passed a law banning which ethnic group from further
immigration into the United States?
A. Mexicans
B. Chinese
C. Germans
D. Irish
E. Turks
6.
What does this political cartoon best represent?
A. the exploitation of child laborers
B. the rise of big businesses
C. the increase in birth rates during industrialization
D. the power of businessmen
E. the encouragement of monopolies
7.
Who took this photograph while exposing the horrible conditions in which poor immigrants
were forced to live?
A. Carrie Chapman Catt
B. Ida Tarbell
C. Jacob Riis
D. Alice Paul
E. Upton Sinclair
8. American urbanization became inevitable because of the connection between it and
A. immigration
B. industrialization
C. education
D. transportation
E. emigration
9. Which of the following describes a major political change of the late decades of the
nineteenth century?
A. the amount of federal government involvement within private industry
B. the way the U.S. government handled relations with the Native Americans
C. the diplomatic pattern from isolationism to imperialism
D. the formation of new political parties
E. the ideals of both the Republican and Democratic parties
10. During the maturing industrial period in America, Frederick W. Taylor used his "scientific
management" to
A. create a monopoly over the railroad industry
B. organize large labor unions
C. expose the corruption within industry
D. develop new ways of repairing machinery parts
E. achieve the maximum work from each individual worker
11.
This photograph best represents which of the following?
A. job discrimination
B. tenement living
C. immigration
D. mass transit
E. industrialization
12. Which nation was greatly angered by the United States' annexation of Hawaii?
A. Japan
B. North Korea
C. China
D. Russia
E. Cuba
13.
This image is synonymous with the Jim Crow Laws, which were a system of
A. lynching in the South
B. forced migration for African Americans
C. legal separation of races in the South
D. mandatory voting tests given to African Americans
E. black disenfranchisement
14. Samuel Gompers was the leader of
A. the Knights of Labor
B. the Homestead Strike
C. the American Federation of Labor
D. the Haymarket Square Riot
E. the Pullman Boycott
15. All of the following individuals were muckrakers EXCEPT
A. Jacob Riis
B. Lincoln Steffens
C. Ida Tarbell
D. Jane Addams
E. Upton Sinclair
16. "Why emigrate to Kansas? Because it is the garden spot of the world. Because it will grow
anything that any other country will grow, and with less work. Because it rains here more than
any other place, and at just the right time."
This quote, published in a testimonial for Western Trail, relates to which of the following?
A. Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
B. the Kansas Pacific Railroad
C. the Plains Wars
D. the Homestead Act
E. the Reservation policies
17.
This political cartoon portrays which result of the Spanish American War?
A. U.S. reluctance to control the Philippines
B. Spain's refusal to recognize Cuba's independence
C. Spanish imperialistic desires
D. anger from the Philippines over annexation by the United States
E. the passing of the Platt Amendment
18. All of the following could be considered interests of the United States during the Spanish
American War EXCEPT
A. retaliating for the explosion of the U.S.S. Maine
B. projecting American commerce in Asia
C. weakening Spain's economic influence in the global market
D. assisting the oppressed Cubans
E. protecting American interests in Cuba
19. As the city's people became deeply interested in news involving all issues from crime and
scandal to sensational events, newspapers were the way to become informed. In 1883, Joseph
Pulitzer bought the New York World. Two years later, another newspaper owner bought
the New York Journal, thus beginning the great newspaper circulation war. Who was this
newspaper tycoon?
A. James Gordon Bennett
B. Charles A. Dana
C. P.T. Barnum
D. William Dean Howells
E. William Randolph Hearst
20.
This photograph shows the body of Chief Big Foot of the Lakota Sioux after he was killed during
A. the Creek War
B. the Battle of Little Big Horn
C. the Seminole War
D. the Wounded Knee Massacre
E. the Battle of Fallen Timbers