U.S. History FLVS

Which statement explains how the Russian Revolution affected American neutrality in World War I?

Which two terms describe the role of the United States favored by most Americans as World War I broke out?

Why did fighting on the Western Front of World War I become a stalemate with high casualties but little progress?

Which of the following took place during the 1920s?

Which of the following helped reduce the prices of higher-cost products, such as automobiles, for consumers in the 1920s?

What legislation did the federal government use to assimilate Native Americans into white culture?

What policy did most Americans embrace immediately following WWI?

The quote below was written in the 1920s:The disaster which was impending was destined to be as bewildering and frightening to the rich and the powerful and the customarily sagacious as to the foolish and unwary holder of fifty shares of margin stock.--Frederick Lewis AllenSource: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/allen/ch13.htmlTo what event does this quote refer?

This quotation is from Theodore Roosevelt's annual message to Congress in 1905:"Chronic wrongdoing . . . may in America, as elsewhere, ultimately require intervention by some civilized nation, and in the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly . . . to the exercise of an international police power."Source: http://ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=56Which statement summarizes Roosevelt's stance on foreign policy in this quotation?

The following excerpt was written in 1882:"[F]rom and after the expiration of ninety days next after the passage of this act, and until the expiration of ten years next after the passage of this act, the coming of Chinese laborers to the United States be, and the same is hereby, suspended; and during such suspension it shall not be lawful for any Chinese laborer to come, or having so come after the expiration of said ninety days to remain within the United States."Source: http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=47&page=transcriptWhat did the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act reflect about American society in the late 1800s?

This quote is from an article by the reformer Jacob Riis that appeared in a New York City newspaper in 1891:"I took my camera and went up in the watershed photographing my evidence wherever I found it. Populous towns sewered directly into our drinking water. I went to the doctors and asked how many days a vigorous cholera bacillus may live and multiply in running water. About seven, said they. My case was made."Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_RiisHow does this quotation illustrate the new approach used by some reformers to implement social change in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

The diagram below shows the effects of a phenomenon in the late 1800s: Which of the following completes the diagram?

This excerpt is from a campaign speech given by Albert J. Beveridge in September 1898. The speech was entitled "The March of the Flag.""The ocean does not separate us from lands of our duty and desire. . . . Cuba not contiguous! Porto Rico not contiguous! Hawaii and the Philippines not contiguous! The oceans make them contiguous. And our navy will make them contiguous."Source: http://www.historytools.org/sources/beveridge.htmlWhich statement best describes the controversy between imperialists such as Beveridge and anti-imperialists over the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1899?

Which statement best summarizes the effect diseases had on the Spanish-American War?

The text below was written in the early 1900s:"Be it known to all men that whereas all men are created equal and entitled to the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and because of this we, the duly elected representatives of the Negro peoples of the world, invoking the aid of the just and Almighty God, do declare all men, women and children of our blood throughout the world free denizens, and do claim them as free citizens of Africa."Source: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/World_History_SF_TeachingAboutTwentiethCentury.pdfWhich group is responsible for writing this text?

Which explains how Roosevelt modeled his New Deal programs after Progressive reforms?

How did passage of the 17th Amendment reflect the condition of the progressive movement?

Which conclusions about Japanese immigration can be drawn from the graph and your knowledge of U.S. immigration policy?

How did the Great Migration affect life for African Americans in many industrial cities?

This political cartoon below shows presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan:

The quotation is from an inaugural address for a U.S. president:"The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices."Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/inaug/mon/speech.htmHow does the quote relate to American society's reaction to the immigrants of the late 1800s and early 1900s?

Which of the following did the Harding administration raise to help the economy in the 1920s?

What justification did Southern states use in the 1800s to nullify tariff laws?

Who were the Molly Maguires?

Which argument for U.S. imperialism would Alfred Thayer Mahan agree with?

What does the cartoonist suggest about the construction of the Panama Canal?

What was the purpose of the Selective Service Act?

How did mass production change the roles in the workplace?

In 1917, the pacifist and socialist Norman Thomas described conscientious objectors in this way:"He may believe in dying for one's country, or for ideals; but not in killing for them."Source: http://debs.indstate.edu/t459w2_1917.pdf, pg. 4How does this quotation help explain the role that many conscientious objectors played overseas during the war?

The excerpt below is from 1866:"A system for the support of indigent persons in the United States was never contemplated by the authors of the Constitution."Source: http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=1940President Johnson used the quote above to support vetoing which of the following?

What does the image above symbolize?

The text below was written in the early 1900s:Be It Resolved, That the Negro people of the world, through their chosen representatives in convention assembled in Liberty Hall, in the City of New York and United States of America, from August 1 to August 31, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty, protest against the wrongs and injustices they are suffering at the hands of their white brethren, and state what they deem their fair and just rights, as well as the treatment they propose to demand of all men in the future.Source: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5122Which group is associated with this text?

The following excerpt was added to the Constitution in 1868:"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."Source: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-CONAN-1992/pdf/GPO-CONAN-1992-10-15.pdfWhich of these statements does the quote above overrule?

Which explains why the 14th Amendment did not protect against Jim Crow laws?

The resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s was the result of which of the following?

Which statement describes the way war bonds raised money?

Immediately upon his election, what short-term solution did Franklin Roosevelt use to end the run on bank withdrawals?

What did the Rosewood incident indicate about American society?

What agreement by the United States, Japan, Great Britain, and France in 1921 promised that each nation would respect each other's possessions in the Pacific and try to settle disputes about the region peacefully?

Public reaction to prohibition demonstrated which of the following?

Which of these quotes from Boss Tweed is ironic in light of the scene illustrated in Nast's cartoon?

Which of the following does this cartoon illustrate?

Why did many Americans consider the work of political bosses such as George Washington Plunkitt to be more about politics than philanthropy?

How did the views of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois differ?

How did farming change from the first Industrial Revolution to the second Industrial Revolution?

Which of the following explains the decision in the Sacco and Vanzetti Trial?

Which term describes a system in which the government determines the production and distribution of goods?

Which of the following movements was instrumental in creating the scene shown in this painting?

Which inventor created a delivery system for electricity?

What segment of the economy was boosted by oil being extracted here?