U.S. History Test 9 (Quarter Exam)

U.S. History Test 9 (Quarter Exam) The first commercial radio station to go on the air in the United States was KDKA - ✔✔True Henry Ford's Model T was introduced in 1908. - ✔✔True The 19th Amendment guaranteed women t ...

U.S. History Test 9 (Quarter Exam) The first commercial radio station to go on the air in the United States was KDKA - ✔✔True Henry Ford's Model T was introduced in 1908. - ✔✔True The 19th Amendment guaranteed women the right to vote. - ✔✔True The Elkins Act provided for a direct tax on personal incomes. - ✔✔F; Underwood-Simmons Act The 18th Amendment provided for the direct election of senators by voters. - ✔✔F; 17th Amendment The Federal Reserve Act created a central banking system under the authority of the state government. - ✔✔F; federal The Washington Conference for Limitation of Arms renounced war as a means of settling international disputes. - ✔✔F; Kellogg-Briand Pact The Selective Service Act required all men from age 21 thru 30 to register with their local draft boards. - ✔✔true The presidential administrations of Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson were conservative in nature. - ✔✔F; progressive New Mexico and Arizona were admitted to the Union during the Taft administration - ✔✔True Who introduced the air brake in 1869? - ✔✔George Westinghouse Which act made funds available to establish agricultural experiment stations? - ✔✔Hatch Act Who was Thomas Edison's main competitor? - ✔✔Nikola Tesla Who founded the Grange? - ✔✔Oliver Hudson Kelly Who wrote Wealth of Nations? - ✔✔Adam Smith Who was the founder of the Hull House? - ✔✔Jane Addams Who was a home missionary to Alaska in the late 1800s? - ✔✔Sheldon Jackson Who wrote the Pledge of Allegiance? - ✔✔Francis Bellamy Who was the doctor that eliminated yellow fever from Cuba? - ✔✔Walter Reed In what year was the Panama Canal opened for use? - ✔✔1914 In what state was the Klondike gold rush of the 1890s? - ✔✔Alaska Who was the first Democrat to be elected after the Civil War? - ✔✔Grover Cleveland By the terms of which act did Puerto Rico become an unorganized territory? - ✔✔Foraker Act Which resolution declared that the United States had no intention of ruling Cuba after she had gained independence from Spain? - ✔✔Teller Amendment Who was the commander of the U.S. Pacific fleet? - ✔✔George Dewey Which act passed by Congress in 1883 classified certain federal jobs? - ✔✔Pendleton Act Which publisher was most notably known for yellow journalism? - ✔✔William Randolph Hearst What president sent the Great White Fleet on its world tour in 1907? - ✔✔Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt negotiated the Gentleman's Agreement with which country? - ✔✔Japan Who is known as the Father of Atheistic Existentialism? - ✔✔Friedrich Nietzsche Who was the prosecutor at the Scopes Monkey Trial? - ✔✔William Jennings Bryan Who led the Chicago Evangelization Society to become the Moody Bible Institute? - ✔✔R. A. Torrey What evangelist was a former baseball player? - ✔✔Billy Sunday In what year did World War I begin? - ✔✔1914 In what year did the Wright brothers make the first successful powered flight? - ✔✔1903 Who won the election of 1920, saying, "America's present need is . . . normalcy"? - ✔✔Warren G. Harding Who was nicknamed "God's Oilman"? - ✔✔Lyman Stewart Which act established the General Accounting Office? - ✔✔Budget and Accounting Act What treaty granted the United States a ten-mile-wide zone through the Isthmus of Panama for the building of a canal? - ✔✔Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty What act greatly strengthened the Interstate Commerce Commission? - ✔✔Mann-Elkins Act What doctrine did the Roosevelt Corollary expand? - ✔✔Monroe Doctrine Which army engineer was appointed to take charge of building the Panama Canal? - ✔✔George Washington Goethals Who was president at the time of the Spanish-American War? - ✔✔William McKinley Who was the bold leader of Germany during World War I? - ✔✔Wilhelm II Name the British luxury liner that was torpedoed by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland in 1915? - ✔✔Lusitania What board was created to settle labor disputed during World War I? - ✔✔National War Labor Board Who directed the Food Administration? - ✔✔Herbert Hoover Name the best-known American ace of World War I? - ✔✔Eddie Rickenbacker What Communist revolutionary came to power in Russian in 1917? - ✔✔Vladimir Lenin Give the full date of when the Germans signed an armistice with the Allies. - ✔✔November 11, 1918 Name the international organization established after World War I to maintain peace. - ✔✔League of Nations Name the organization formed in 1919 to promote worldwide Communist revolution. - ✔✔Third Communist International (Comintern) What court case came to national prominence as a result of the Red Scare? - ✔✔Sacco-Vanzetto Case What nation did the Dawes Plan attempt to help through difficult economic times? - ✔✔Germany In what year did the first radio station, KDKA, go on the air? - ✔✔1920 What act put the 18th Amendment into effect? - ✔✔Volstead Act Provided for an increase in the size of the regular army and the organizing of a national guard - ✔✔National Defense Act Considers a person's environment responsible for his behavior - ✔✔behaviorism The idea that everything can be explained in terms of matter - ✔✔Materialism The belief that all economic, political, and social life must be controlled by the state - ✔✔Socialism The philosophy that an idea or an action should be judged solely by its results - ✔✔Pragmatism Advocated progressive education - ✔✔John Dewey Assassinated in 1881 by Charles J. Guiteau - ✔✔James A. Garfield Flew over the North Pole - ✔✔Richard E. Byrd Formulated psychoanalysis - ✔✔Sigmund Freud Invented the sleeping car - ✔✔George Pullman Patented the wireless telegraph - ✔✔Guglielmo Marconi Wrote the novel The Great Gatsby - ✔✔F. Scott Fitzgerald A professor at Princeton who fought modernism - ✔✔J. Gresham Machen A wealthy American financier - ✔✔J. P. Morgan Republican presidential candidate in 1896 who favored maintaining the gold standard - ✔✔William McKinley An attorney general who fought Communist subversion - ✔✔A. Mitchell Palmer Best remembered for his attempts to reform civil service - ✔✔Rutherford B. Hayes President during most of the Roaring Twenties - ✔✔Calvin Coolidge The boomers settled the state of _____ in 1889. - ✔✔Oklahoma One of the greatest contributors to American agriculture was ______. - ✔✔George Washington Carver The German immigrant and secretary of the interior who was a strong advocate of civil service reform was _____. - ✔✔Carl Shurz The only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms was ____. - ✔✔Grover Cleveland The assassination fo Archduke Franz Ferdinand of ____ initiated the start of World War I. - ✔✔Austria Great Britain belonged to the Triple _____ before World War I. - ✔✔Entente Austria-Hungary belonged to the _____ Powers during World War. - ✔✔Central President Wilson appointed General ______ to be commander of the American troops in France during World War I. - ✔✔Pershing The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk made peace between Germany and _____. - ✔✔Russia The Treaty of _____ officially ended the Great War. - ✔✔Versailles The influential black-American Harvard graduate who helped found the NAACP - ✔✔W. E. B. Du Bois The American Communist who planned and led the violent steelworkers' strike of 1919 - ✔✔William Z. Foster The Republican candidate who won the presidential election of 1920 - ✔✔Warren G. Harding Moody of the South - ✔✔Sam Jones The first vice president to attend Cabinet meetings on a regular basis - ✔✔Calvin Coolidge The lawyer who won the Scopes Monkey Trial - ✔✔William Jennings Bryan