EOI Terms

Question 1

Which historical event marked the end of Reconstruction?

Answer 1

Withdrawal of Federal Troops

Question 2

Withdrawal of Federal Troops

Answer 2

Industry was increasing in importance

Question 3

Which of the following was not invented in the late 1800s?

Answer 3

Airplane

Question 4

Who were the muckrakers?

Answer 4

Writers

Question 5

From where did most immigrants to the U.S. Come during the 1890s?

Answer 5

Southern and Eastern Europe

Question 6

What city on the East coast of the U.S. Was the major city for immigrants

Answer 6

New York

Question 7

What best described living conditions on immigrant ships?

Answer 7

Crowded

Question 8

Which was not a goal of reformers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?

Answer 8

Give workers more power

Question 9

What was Haymarket Square the setting for in 1886?

Answer 9

Clash between workers and police

Question 10

Who were progressives?

Answer 10

Reformers

Question 11

Which of the following Americans was not a wealthy industrialists?

Answer 11

Upton Sinclair

Question 12

Whose foreign policy was captured by the slogan “speak softly and carry a big stick”?

Answer 12

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 13

Which of the following territory was not acquired by the U.S. as a result of the Spanish American War?

Answer 13

Hawaii

Question 14

What event triggered the Spanish American War?

Answer 14

Explosion of the battleship Maine

Question 15

During the Progressive Era, which group of workers were least successful in their efforts to organize?

Answer 15

Farmers

Question 16

Who wrote the Jungle?

Answer 16

Upton Sinclair

Question 17

Which group of Americans did the Glided Age apply to?

Answer 17

Political machines

Question 18

What president called for a Square Deal for all Americans?

Answer 18

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 19

The U.S. Built the Panama Canal so ships would not have to travel around the southern tip of which continent?

Answer 19

South America

Question 20

What historic event took place at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903?

Answer 20

Wright brothers flew their airplane

Question 21

Which phrase best describes the U.S. Population during the late 1800s and early 1900s?

Answer 21

Population became more urbanized

Question 22

Where did the famous land rushes take place in the 1890s?

Answer 22

Oklahoma

Question 23

What was the U.S. Position toward WWI during the first 3 years of the conflict?

Answer 23

U.S. Remained neutral

Question 24

When was the U.S. Participating in WWI?

Answer 24

1917-1918

Question 25

Who were the American doughboys of WWI?

Answer 25

Soldiers

Question 26

President Wilson proposed how many points to guide the peace settlement at the end of WWI?

Answer 26

14

Question 27

What officially end of WWI?

Answer 27

Treaty of Versailles

Question 28

At the end of WWI, which country was stripped of its armed forces and much of its territory, and was forced to pay reparations?

Answer 28

Germany

Question 29

What country in Europe was created after WWI?

Answer 29

Poland

Question 30

What amendment granted women’s suffrage?

Answer 30

19

Question 31

Why are the Roaring Twenties so called?

Answer 31

Booming economy and fast-paced

Question 32

What did the 18th amendment create?

Answer 32

Prohibition

Question 33

Charles Lindbergh made the first solo flight across which ocean?

Answer 33

Atlantic

Question 34

Which began on a large scale during the 1920s?

Answer 34

Radio

Question 35

Who were Flappers?

Answer 35

Young Women

Question 36

Which phrase best describes the U.S. economy during the 1920s?

Answer 36

Growth

Question 37

Who was the silent president of the 1920s?

Answer 37

Calvin Coolidge

Question 38

What happened on Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929?

Answer 38

Stock market crashed

Question 39

Which of the following was not a cause of the Great Depression?

Answer 39

Growth of mass media

Question 40

What were Hoovervilles?

Answer 40

Shantytowns

Question 41

The CCC, WPA, and FCA were part of what?

Answer 41

New Deal

Question 42

What state is most closely associated with the Dust Bowl?

Answer 42

Oklahoma

Question 43

When did the Reconstruction end?

Answer 43

1877