US History II Final Review
29 Questions
| Total Attempts: 20
US History II Final Review
Questions and Answers
- 1.What reform focused on urban problems such as the plight of workers, poor sanitation, and corrupt political machines?
- 2.Investigative journalists who wrote about corruption in business and politics hoping to bring about reform
- 3.A national magazine that had been founded in 1893 publishing stories that explored corruption in politics and business as well as social problems such as slums and child labor
- 4.In 1911 some 140 workers perished in this event, which led to the increase of safety regulations within businesses
- 5.The system under which the government or worker cooperatives own most factories, utilities, and transportation and communication systems
- 6.Leader of the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
- 7.Brilliant African-American thinker whose view contrasted sharply with that of Booker T Washington
- 8.This amendment gave voters the power to elect their senators directly
- 9.A nominating election in which voters choose the candidates who later run in a general election
- 10.Roosevelt's 1904 campaign slogan which called for limiting the power of trusts, promoting public health and safety, and improving working conditions
- 11.The writer of The Jungle, a novel that depicted the wretched and unsanitary conditions at a meatpacking plant
- 12.Wilson's program of the 1912 campaign made proposals to help small businesses and also called for a return to an America where people where free from the heavy hand of big business and government
- 13.Wilson helped draft this act of 1913 which created a three-tiered banking system (Federal Reserve Board > 12 Federal Reserve Banks > Private Banks)
- 14.This gives voters the power to initiate, or introduce, legislation
- 15.This secures a specified number of signatures on a petition and the citizens can force the legislature to place a recently passed law on the ballot, allowing voters to approve or veto the measure
- 16.This enables voters to remove an elected official from office by calling for a special election
- 17.This group was a leading force in the suffrage movement and was led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
- 18.This amendment granted women full voting rights and was ratified in 1920
- 19.This party adopted a platform based on the New Nationalism and nominated Roosevelt as their presidential candidate which was also called this, after Roosevelt
- 20.President: 1901 - 1909Charles W. Fairbanks
- 21.President: 1913 - 1921Thomas R. Marshall
- 22.President: 1909 - 1913James S Sherman
- 23.This queen, sister to Kalakaua, petitioned for the United States to annex Hawaii
- 24.Britain, France, Germany, and Russia carved out these -- regions where a particular country has exclusive rights over mines, railroads, and trade
- 25.In 1899 Secy. of State John Hay called for this policy which could give all nations equal access to trade and investment in China
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