U.s History Help!!!!?
What major change in the United States occurred between the Civil War and the 1920s?
People returned to their farms where crops grew thanks to new equipment and fertilizers.
Balanced urban and rural growth led to less crowded conditions in the cities.
City populations grew rapidly as both immigrants and native-born citizens looked for higher paying jobs.
The suburbs grew as a result of immigrants trying to make a better life for their families.
2. How did building Central Park in New York City influence the work of urban planners?
It emphasized the development of recreational areas as part of urban growth.
It made it difficult for urban planners to buy the land they needed for similar projects.
It forced planners to consider using skyscrapers.
It set an unreasonable standard for most urban planners.
3. Who was not a nineteenth-century urban planner who promoted the orderly growth of cities?
Louis Sullivan
Daniel Burnham
Frederick Law Olmstead
James Sherman
4. How did political machines contribute to urban political corruption?
by accepting bribes in exchange for favors
by using force to obtain city contracts
by encouraging only whites to vote
by preventing blacks from obtaining housing
5. What was Jane Addams’s Hull House in Chicago an example of?
an urban hotel for women only
a political machine that operated to benefit immigrants
a settlement house opened to assist the urban poor
a skyscraper that changed the look of the city
6. Why did the Populist Party fail?
They promoted an economy that did not regulate business.
They pushed for a change in the tax structure.
They neglected present needs in favor of future plans.
Their agenda looked to the past rather than to the future.
7. What was one goal held by some supporters of the Progressive movement?
promoting conservation
establishing a national bank
providing Social Security for the poor
creating a laissez-faire economy
8. What were the investigative journalists who uncovered corruption in business and government in the late 1800s and early 1900s called?
muckrakers
progressives
corruption correspondents
sensationalists
9. What was one reform the Progressive movement achieved?
direct election of U.S. senators
reduction of government regulation
religious involvement in government
elimination of prohibition
10. Which was not an achievement of Theodore Roosevelt’s administration?
introducing legislation for social security
building the Panama Canal
establishing several national parks
emphasizing conservation
11. All of the following promoted segregation and denied blacks their civil rights in the period following the Civil War except
sharecropping.
Jim Crow laws.
poll taxes.
literacy tests.
12. Which Supreme Court decision allowed for the segregation of blacks in “separate but equal” facilities?
Marbury v. Madison
Brown v. Board of Education
Plessy v. Ferguson
Dred Scott v. Stanford
13. What was one of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony’s goals?
Gain immediate women’s suffrage.
Allow men to advocate for women’s suffrage.
Achieve voting rights in selected states.
Gain voting rights in exchange for restricting some employment opportunities for women.
14. Which amendment gave women the right to vote?
16th
17th
18th
19th
15. Why did some people support imperialism despite traditional American opposition to colonization?
They thought it would offer relief from some domestic issues.
They wanted to compete with other nations for natural resources.
They thought it would provide Germany with reasons to avoid war.
They believed that because the British were successful at colonization, the United States should also do it.
16. The explosion on the USS Maine and yellow journalism contributed to the U.S. decision to go to war against Spain in 1898. What was another factor?
protecting U.S. investments in Cuba
stopping Cuba from nationalizing U.S. businesses
preventing Spain from attacking the United States
a treaty agreement with England
17. Why did Woodrow Wilson want to form a League of Nations?
He believed nations would be better equipped to avoid an economic crisis.
He envisioned a shared system of providing for world poverty relief.
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