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Question 1

John D. Rockefeller gained control over much of the oil industry by

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Managing trust made up of standard oil and controlling most refineries

Question 2

The government contributed to the building of the transcontinental railroad by

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Awarding loans and land grants to private companies to build railroads

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Critics of powerful industrialists referred to them as

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Robber barons

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How did industrial growth affect the distribution of wealth in the United States?

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Wealth was concentrated in the hands of a few

Question 5

The strike at the Carnegie plant in homestead eventually ended after Henry Frick

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Was nearly assassinated

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How did Andrew Carnegie gain control of the steel industry?

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By practicing verticals consolidation

Question 7

According to the theory of social Darwinism, the government should

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Stay out of the affairs of businesses

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Economists call periods of boom and bust

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Business cycles

Question 9

Why were industrialists during the age of big business called “captains of industry”?

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They increased the supply of goods and created jobs

Question 10

Which event led to the Spanish-American war?

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The sinking of the Maine

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Why did many of Roosevelt’s opponents disapprove of his actions in Panama?

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He bargained and caused a revolution

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What was the central message of Roosevelt’s Corollary?

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The U.S. Would use force to prevent intervention in the affairs of neighboring countries

Question 13

The banana republics of Central America were

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Controlled by American business interests

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As a result of the peace treaty with Spain, the United Spain, the United States gained

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The Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico

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The United States annexed Hawaii because

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Desired to become more internationalistic and imperialistic

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The United States wanted to build a canal across panama to

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Give a 2 way ocean, quicker for the navy

Question 17

Which of the following made possible the American industrial growth of the late 1800s?

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Technological advances

Question 18

Most progressives agreed that the government should

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Protect workers and help the poor

Question 19

President Roosevelt’s progressive record included all the following except

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Establishment of federal reserve system

Question 20

In 1906 uptown Sinclair’s novel entitled the jungle exposed dangerous workplace conditions

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In the meat packing industry

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Journalists known as muckrakers worked at

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Exposing political and business corruption

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Some Americans resisted progressive reforms because they disliked

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Gov. Control of their lives

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Roosevelt’s vigorously enforced

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Policies dealing with the Sherman antitrust act

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The battle for women’s suffrage ended with the ratification of the

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19th amendment

Question 25

Which event sparked World War I

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Assassination of archduke Fran Ferdinand

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Which of the following best describes the first few years of World War I

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Bloody stalemate

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What role did the federal government play in the economy during World War I

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Gov regulated production of war goods

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Which best describes the great migration?

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African Americans migrated to northern cities for better opportunities

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An underlying cause of World War I in response to

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The sinking of the Luisitania and Zimmerman note

Question 30

The selective service act was a means of

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A war to end all wars

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Fears of spies and sabotage in the United States during the war led to

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Restrictions on immigration discrimination and violence towards German repression of free speech

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During WWI the sedition act made it illegal to

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Say do or act in any way negative about the U.S.

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The rapid development of mass media during the 1920s

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Simplified life for most Americans

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One result of prohibition during the 1920s

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Women and men drank together more

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How did life change for American women in the 1920s

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They wore short hair, drank and smoked in public

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What legal right was at issue in the scopes trial

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The teaching of evolution in schools

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Who were the main targets of the kkk terrors in the 1920s

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African Americans

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The economy grew in the 1920s as consumers

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Spent and bought more

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Harding and Coolidge both based their foreign policy on a return to

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Normalcy or conservative values

Question 40

Ford did not invent the assembly line, but he

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Improved it

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All of the following new deal agencies still endure today except the

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Civilian conservation corps

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What did Italy, Germany, and Japan have in common in the 1930s?

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Sought to prove their superiority by expansion

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The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

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Promoted the U.S. To enter the war

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Nazism was a extreme form of

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Fascism

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What historical event contributed to the rise of fascism in both Italy and Germany, and to the rise of totalitarianism in the Soviet Union

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WWI

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Hitler used which of the following military strategies when invading Poland?

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Blitzkrieg (lightning war)

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Who inspired the British people to resist the German invasion?

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Winston Churchill

Question 48

In September 1940 Japan allied itself with

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The axis powers

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What led the government to evacuate Japanese Americans from the west coast?

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U.S. Declared war on Japan

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On the home front popular culture was characterized by

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Patriotism and high morale

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To meet demand for war material, the American government

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Directed the war production of businesses

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What was the main war strategy that Roosevelt and Churchill first agreed on?

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To concentrate on winning the war in Europe

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After the allies gained control of Africa what was their next target?

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Italy

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He Germans were finally halted in their advance into the Soviet Union at

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Stalingrad

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The massive allied invasion to take Europe back from the axis powers began

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June 6 1944 D-day

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At Yalta the big three allies made what key decision regarding Germany after V-E day

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End of WWII

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After WWII what organization was formed on the basis of the Atlantic charter

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The United Nations

Question 58

What action did the nazis take to strip Jews of their German citizenship?

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Nuremberg laws

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What was the final solution to the Jewish question announced by the nazis at the Wannsee conference

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Kill all Jews

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What important idea came out of the Nuremberg trials

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Individuals must be responsible for their own actions

Question 61

The allies sunk all four Japanese carriers and 250 planes at

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The battle of Midway

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Which of the following was a major economic argument for expansion?

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You get more resources, more naval bases

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President Theodore Roosevelt is often remembered for the

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Rough riders

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Both Mussolini and Hitler saw expansion of their territory as a way to increase

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Power

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During the early years of World War II the U.S.

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Stayed neutral