5 Written Questions

1. cause: Immigrants sought a better life in the US, escaping poverty, religious discrimination, etc.
   Effect: Increased population, cities became overcrowded, labor force for factories
2. Part of the final Allied offensive of WWI that stretched along the entire western front. The objective was to capture an important railroad/train station which would break the rail net supporting the German Army in France. The Allied victory in the battle is credited for leading to the Armistice.
3. Senator, supported American expansion as a way to increase national pride. Wanted to expand the Navy
4. citizens can propose laws that are to be voted on
5. Owned steel and RR companies, extremely wealthy. Authored "The Gospel of Wealth" which promoted philanthropic actions such as building libraries and schools

5 Matching Questions

1. Alfred Thayer Mahan
2. What was the Fourteen Points Plan?
3. How did the Gilded Age affect women and minorities?
4. What terms and/or phases can be used to describe the Rise to World Power Era in U.S. history?
5. Dollar Diplomacy

1. a A plan, issued by Pres. Wilson, to try and get the world back together after the War. Led to the formation of the League of Nations, in which the U.S. did not join.
2. b • Expansionism
   o Guam, Hawaii, Philippines, Puerto Rico
   • Latin America
   o Panama Canal
   • World War I
   o Woodrow Wilson
   o League of Nations
   o Total war
   o Technological advances
3. c Wrote a book on the importance of building a strong navy
4. d Many women work in factories that made textiles, tended to be young and single, lower wages than men Nativists opposed immigrants, exclusion from housing employment, public education played large role in assimilation of immigrants.
5. e Taft encouraged investment by US banks and businesses in Latin America and Far East. Promised military protection to those who invested abroad.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. South and east Europe (Italy, Russia, Poland, Czech)-east coast in the cities China-west coast
   1. What were the effects of the Spanish-American War on the United States?
   2. During the Gilded Age, where were most of the immigrants coming from and where were they settling?
   3. How did the Gilded Age affect women and minorities?
   4. Who were the American Expeditionary Forces?
2. US became a world power
   US gained Guam, Puerto Rico, Philippines
   1. What were the effects of the Spanish-American War on the United States?
   2. What was the Battle of Argonne Forest?
   3. Who were the American Expeditionary Forces?
   4. What was the human and physical impact on the Great Plains?
3. Early leader in the women's right movement. Was influential in getting women the right to vote (19th)
   1. Race relations
   2. Ida B. Wells
   3. Susan B. Anthony
   4. Dawes Act
4. • Agriculture
   o McCormick Reaper, steel plow, need to increase agricultural output to feed population, canned food
   • Military
   o Machine guns, airplanes, submarines, mines (sea and land), gas, tanks, radar, poison gas
   • Medical
   o Vaccines-polio, pasteurization, plasma, antibiotics
   1. Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
   2. Alfred Thayer Mahan
   3. Define Transcontinental Railroad
   4. Scientific Discoveries during the early 1900s
5. The government did not get involved in business. Little regulation, allows market to set itself (supply and demand)
   1. What was the Battle of Argonne Forest?
   2. What was the Treaty of Versailles?
   3. What was the laissez-faire approach to government?
   4. What was the Fourteen Points Plan?

5 True/False Questions

1. Open Door Policy → Sec. of State John Hay's economic policy in China giving the imperial powers equal trading rights in the country

   True        False

2. What does it mean when it is said that the U.S. tried to "Americanize" Native Americans and Immigrant children? → NA children were taken away from their homes and raised in boarding schools to make them more white
   Immigrants were sent to school to learn English and patriotism

   True        False

3. Nativism → Cause: Increase of immigration, "natives" worried the immigrants would take their jobs
   Effect: Discrimination, KKK flourished

   True        False

4. Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 → Restricted immigration of Chinese into the US. It was enacted in response to economic fears where Native born Americans believed that unemployment and low wages were the result of Chinese workers

   True        False

5. Jane Addams → Co-founder of the Hull House which helped new immigrant women with job skills, education and artistic programs to become more successful and productive citizens

   True        False