1. Question : At the end of the Spanish-American War, what defined the way that the United States attempted to exert its economic will over Cuba?
Student Answer: Treaty of Paris
Platt Amendment
Teller Amendment
Newlands Resolution
Instructor Explanation: The answer can be found in Chapter Two of A History of the United States Since 1865.
2. Question : Efficiency was a central theme of the reform movement. Who of the following was not an example of someone striving to examine every aspect of life itself and determine, often through new scientific principles, how to do more work with less energy?
Student Answer: Frederick W. Taylor
Robert Wiebe
Henry Ford
Theodore Roosevelt
Instructor Explanation: The answer can be found in Chapter Two of A History of the United States Since 1865.
3. Question : “Planned obsolescence” was a term first associated with which industry?
Student Answer: Electrical
Flight
Automotive
Computer
Instructor Explanation: The answer can be found in Chapter Two of A History of the United States Since 1865.
4. Question : One of the important ways Roosevelt changed the American presidency was with his dynamic leadership and public communication skills. On the campaign trail in 1904, what did he promised the American people?
Student Answer: Square Deal
New Deal
Fair Deal
Progressive Deal
Instructor Explanation: The answer can be found in Chapter Two of A History of the United States Since 1865.
5. Question : Which of the following was not a representation or an example of New Women expressing freedom and independence?
Student Answer: Higher education
Cult of domesticity
Gibson Girl
Isadora Duncan
Instructor Explanation: The answer can be found in Chapter Two of A History of the United States Since 1865.
6. Question : Of the following four men who ran in the 1912 election, which affiliated himself with the Bull Moose Party?
Student Answer: Wilson
Taft
Roosevelt
Debs
Instructor Explanation: The answer can be found in Chapter Two of A History of the United States Since 1865.
7. Question : President Woodrow Wilson played a key role in directing the nation into and through the war, but he also had a vision of how the post-war world should look. He first articulated his plan in January 1918 in a plan called:
Student Answer: Paris Peace
Fourteen Points
League of Nations
Collective Security
Instructor Explanation: The answer can be found in Chapter Two of A History of the United States Since 1865.
8. Question : In a way that paralleled the fight for women to achieve equality, African American leaders also thought that their participation in World War I would provide an opportunity to advance the status of the entire race. The most heroic were the Harlem Hellfighters, which had the distinction of:
Student Answer: being in continuous combat longer than any other American unit.
having the most decorations than any other American uni.t
killing more Germans than any other American unit.
digging more trenches than any other American unit.
Instructor Explanation: The answer can be found in Chapter Two of A History of the United States Since 1865.
9. Question : Which of the following was the name for Wilson’s domestic program?
Student Answer: New Freedom
New Nationalism
New Deal
New Order
Instructor Explanation: The answer can be found in Chapter Two of A History of the United States Since 1865.
10. Question : Who led the American forces in battle during World War I?
Student Answer: Pershing
George
MacArthur
Patton
Instructor Explanation: The answer can be found in Chapter Two of A History of the United States Since 1865.
