Transcript American History Semester Exam Study Guide

American History
Semester Exam
Study Guide
States and Capitals
ALABAMA
ALASKA
ARIZONA
ARKANSAS
CALIFORNIA
COLORADO
CONNECTICUT
DELAWARE
FLORIDA
GEORGIA
Montgomery
Juneau
Phoenix
Little rock
Sacramento
Denver
Hartford
Dover
Tallahassee
Atlanta
States and Capitals
HAWAII
IDAHO
ILLINOIS
INDIANA
IOWA
KANSAS
KENTUCKY
LOUISIANA
MAINE
MARYLAND
Honolulu
Boise
Springfield
Indianapolis
Des Moines
Topeka
Frankfort
Baton Rouge
Augusta
Annapolis
States and Capitals
MASSACHUSETTS
MICHIGAN
MINNESOTA
MISSISSIPPI
MISSOURI
MONTANA
NEBRASKA
NEVADA
NEW HAMPSHIRE
NEW JERSEY
Boston
Lansing
St. Paul
Jackson
Jefferson City
Helena
Lincoln
Carson City
Concord
Trenton
States and Capitals
NEW MEXICO
NEW YORK
NORTH CAROLINA
NORTH DAKOTA
OHIO
OKLAHOMA
OREGON
PENNSYLVANIA
RHODE ISLAND
SOUTH CAROLINA
Santa Fe
Albany
Raleigh
Bismarck
Columbus
Oklahoma City
Salem
Harrisburg
Providence
Columbia
States and Capitals
SOUTH DAKOTA
TENNESSEE
TEXAS
UTAH
VERMONT
VIRGINIA
WASHINGTON
WEST VIRGINIA
WISCONSIN
WYOMING
Pierre
Nashville
Austin
Salt Lake City
Montpelier
Richmond
Olympia
Charleston
Madison
Cheyenne
Which state joined the Union in 1876?
a. Colorado
b. Oklahoma
c. Montana
d. Kansas
The Central Pacific relied on workers who were
a. Chinese.
b. German.
c. Irish.
d. African American.
Who customarily wore wide-brimmed hats,
chaps, and lariats?
a. dry farmers
b. sodbusters
c. vaqueros
d. homesteaders
What is it called when thousands of cattle run
in panic?
a. dry farming
b. homesteading
c. a branding
d. a stampede
The Indian Peace Commission recommended
that native Americans be
a. eliminated.
b. honored.
c. moved to reservations.
d. captured or killed.
Who was the Civil War veteran defeated by
Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse?
a. Helen Hunt Jackson
b. William McKinley
c. J.M. Chivington
d. George Custer
The last Native American to surrender formally
to the United States was
a. Sitting Bull.
b. Geronimo.
c. Crazy Horse.
d. Chief Joseph.
Using machine guns, United States soldiers
killed more than 300 starving Lakota men,
women, and children at
a. Sand Creek.
b. San Carlos.
c. Wounded Knee.
d. Ghost Dance.
The network of farmers' self-help
organizations eventually came to be called the
a. Southern Alliance.
b. National Grange.
c. Long Drive.
d. Pikes Peak.
A symbol that marks ownership burned into
the hide of cattle is called
a. a homestead.
b. dry farming.
c. a brand.
d. a sodbuster.
What was one approach of the sodbusters?
a. dry farming
b. wet farming
c. lode farming
d. ore farming
Texas ranches that were not fenced in or divided
into lots were
a. sodbusters.
b. dry farms.
c. open range ranches.
d. branding farms.
What nomadic Plains nation followed the buffalo?
a. Crow
b. Apache
c. Cheyenne
d. Sioux
What did Wovoka, a prophet, claim would
restore the Sioux to their greatness?
a. rituals
b. Ghost Dance
c. Sitting Bull
d. Dawes Act
Based on the graph, it can be said that
between 1850 and 1890 the Native American
population _______________.
a. was stable
b. decreased
c. was constantly at war
d. developed written language
Based on the diagram, which of the following
was a goal of the Grange?
a. sharecropping
b. education
c. ecology
d. athletics
The fast-growing national rail system
encouraged the expansion of the
a. economy.
b. electorate.
c. patent system.
d. Oregon Trail.
The practice of combining separate
companies in an industry is called a
a. rebate.
b. monopoly.
c. consolidation.
d. philanthropy.
The inventor of the railroad sleeping car was
a. Eli H. Janney.
b. Gustavus Swift.
c. Henry Ford.
d. George M. Pullman.
Who linked the United States and Europe with
a transatlantic telegraph line?
a. George Eastman
b. Cyrus Field
c. Edwin L. Drake
d. Thomas Edison
Which inventor's most important invention
was the electric light bulb?
a. Thomas Edison
b. Granville Woods
c. Henry Ford
d. George Eastman
Whose shoe-making machine performed many
steps previously done by hand?
a. Lewis H. Latimer
b. John Thurman
c. Jan E. Matzeliger
d. Christopher Sholes
Who was the steel company owner who
was a great philanthropist?
a. Granville Woods
b. Gustavus Swift
c. Andrew Carnegie
d. Cyrus Field
The combining of companies is called
a. dividends.
b. shareholders.
c. corporations.
d. mergers.
In 1886, a group of national trade unions
formed the
a. National Miners' Union.
b. American Federation of Labor.
c. American Pullman's Union.
d. International Ladies' Garment Workers Union.
The United States Attorney General Richard
Olney ordered an injunction to stop the
a. Pullman Strike.
b. Railroad Strike of 1877.
c. Haymarket Riot.
d. Homestead Strike.
The steelworkers' union dwindled after the
failure of the
a. Pullman Strike.
b. Homestead Strike.
c. Railroad Strike of 1877.
d. Haymarket Strike.
Railroad barons were created because the
industry
a. concentrated.
b. condensed.
c. consolidated.
d. collated.
Who invented the telephone?
a. George Westinghouse
b. Thomas Edison
c. Cyrus Field
d. Alexander Graham Bell
Whose electric power plant lit up 85 buildings in
New York City?
a. Thomas Edison
b. Henry Ford
c. Cyrus Field
d. George Eastman
Who took Edison's work a step further by
developing transformers?
a. Granville Woods
b. Elijah McCoy
c. George Westinghouse
d. Lewis Howard Latimer
Who pioneered the assembly line?
a. Henry Ford
b. Jan Matzeliger
c. Thomas Edison
d. Cyrus Field
What led to the creation of a multimillion-dollar
petroleum industry?
a. electricity
b. air travel
c. railroads
d. Edwin L. Drake's well
Who was the philanthropist who built more
than 2,000 libraries worldwide?
a. George Westinghouse
b. Andrew Carnegie
c. Henry Ford
d. John D. Rockefeller
Child-labor laws did not apply to what industry,
which employed about 1 million children?
a. textile
b. steel
c. agriculture
d. mining
Antilabor feeling grew after the bloody clash
in Chicago called the
a. Haymarket Riot.
b. Homestead Strike.
c. Pullman Strike.
d. Railroad Strike of 1877.
“. . . a car which anyone could afford to buy, which anyone could
drive anywhere, and which almost anyone could keep in repair.”
–Charles Sorenson, 1908
This quotation describes the new _____.
a. New York–Chicago Pullman c. Model T Ford
car
b. bicycle
d. Wright Brothers’ airplane
“Mr. Watson, come here. I want you!”
–Alexander Graham Bell, 1876
When his assistant heard these words, Bell had
_____ transmitted the sound of the human voice
through electrical wires for the first time.
a. cleverly
b. easily
c. unsatisfactorily
d. accidentally
Based on the time line, how many terms did
Theodore Roosevelt serve as United States
president?
a. one
b. two
c. three
d. none of the above
Powerful nations creating large empires by exercising
economic and political control over weaker regions is
called___.
A. expansionism.
B. civilization.
C. isolationism.
D. imperialism.
Imperialism was driven by the search for ___.
A. land.
B. gold.
C. materials and markets.
D. new trade routes.
Who pictured a canal across Central America linking
the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean?
A. Matthew Perry
B. William H. Seward
C. James G. Blaine
D. Alfred Thayer Mahan
The United States purchased Alaska from Russia for
___.
A. $100 million.
C. $3.5 million.
B. $10.
D. $7.2 million.
Who was responsible for establishing the PanAmerican Union?
A. James G. Blaine
B. William H. Seward
C. Alfred Thayer Mahan
D. Matthew Perry
In return for the renewal of the trade agreement,
King Kalakaua had to agree to ___.
A. an open door policy.
B. a canal across the Pacific Ocean.
C. a naval base at Pearl Harbor.
D. annexation.
What American diplomat helped in the planters’
revolt to overthrow the Hawaiian leader?
A. Grover Cleveland
B. John Stevens
C. John Hay
D. Liliuokalani
Without consulting the Samoans, the islands were
divided up by the United States, ___.
A. Germany, and Spain.
B. Germany, and France.
C. Great Britain, and Spain.
D. Great Britain, and Germany.
What policy, proposed by John Hay, expanded
American trading interests in China?
A. Boxer policy
B. Open Door policy
C. Shandong policy
D. Gentlemen’s Agreement
How did President Theodore Roosevelt display the
nation’s naval power in 1907?
A. the “Great White Fleet”
B. Gentlemen’s Agreement
C. annexation of Hawaii
D. the president’s trip to Japan
In 1898 Congress declared war on Spain because of
events in ___.
A. Cuba.
B. Great Britain.
C. Germany.
D. Mexico.
What commander launched a surprise attack on the
Spanish fleet in Manila Bay?
A. Emilio Aguinaldo
B. José Martí
C. Joseph Pulitzer
D. George Dewey
Americans clamored for war with Spain after an
explosion on the ___.
A. Luzon.
B. Lusitania.
C. Maine.
D. Philadelphia.
After the United States and Spain signed the Treaty
of Paris, what country became an American
protectorate?
A. Guam
B. Hawaii
C. Cuba
D. Puerto Rico
Although President William Howard Taft began in
1901 to prepare the Philippines for self-rule, it did
not achieve independence until ___.
A. 1946.
B. 1928.
C. 1905.
D. 1902.
A narrow strip of land connecting two larger
bodies of land is called ___.
A. an island.
B. an isthmus.
C. a peninsula.
D. a jetty.
The United States could not have built the Panama
Canal without controlling ___.
A. expenses.
B. workers’ hours.
C. the Colombian government.
D. disease.
Under what policy did the United States claim the
right to intervene in the domestic affairs of Latin
American nations?
A. the Roosevelt Corollary
B. dollar diplomacy
C. the Monroe Doctrine
D. moral diplomacy
President William Howard Taft’s policy of joining
American business interests to diplomatic interests
abroad was known as___.
A. the Monroe Doctrine.
B. moral diplomacy.
C. dollar diplomacy.
D. the Roosevelt Corollary.
President Woodrow Wilson’s moral diplomacy
faced a serious challenge in ___.
A. Mexico.
B. Puerto Rico.
C. Hawaii.
D. Guam.
Name the countries that were involved in World War I and
what side they participated on by using the chart below.
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