US History Quiz

This document provides answers to a US History quiz covering a range of topics from the Progressive Era and World War I to the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and the New Deal. The questions cover significant events, figures, legislation, and social changes of the early 20th century in the United States. The comprehensive answer key offers students a valuable resource for reviewing key concepts and improving their understanding of this period in American history. The website offering this resource likely provides additional past papers and solved assignments to aid student learning.

Answer 1 Mann Act
Answer 2 J. P. Morgan
Answer 3 William Jennings Bryan
Answer 4 Elkins Act (1903)
Answer 5 Hepburn Act
Answer 6 Frederick W. Taylor
Answer 7 Adamson Act
Answer 8 False
Answer 9 John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Answer 10 Sherman Antitrust Act
Answer11 Eugene V. Debs
Answer 12 voting on election’s day in Rochester, New York
Answer 13 the destruction of the USS Maine
Answer 14 the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean
Answer15 Enrique Dupuy de Lome
Answer16 Dollar Diplomacy
Answer 17 Theodore Roosevelt
Answer 18 Cuba

Answer 19 allow the United States to do business in China
Answer 20 American isolationism
Answer 21 Arthur Zimmerman
Answer 22 the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation
Answer 23 use of poison gas
Answer 24 Great Britain, France, and Russia
Answer 25 the existence of treaties between the United States, Great Britain, and Germany
Answer 26 The United States supported the Allied Powers
Answer 27 First Amendment.
Answer 28 The government regulated industry through the work of the War Industries Board.
Answer 29 women winning the right to vote
Answer 30 Woodrow Wilson
Answer 31 militarism
Answer 32 buy "Liberty" bonds to help finance the war
Answer 33 It stated that the U.S. would intervene in Latin America to protect its interests
Answer 34 reduce immigration from United States to European countries
Answer 35 resulted in the Palmer raids
Answer 36 installment buying

Answer 37 evolution
Answer38 "the Lost Generation"
Answer 39 a rise in organized crime
Answer 40 Nineteenth Amendment
Answer 41 the repeal of Prohibition
Answer 42 October 1929
Answer 43 homeless people
Answer 44 People purchased stocks with loands and credit but could not repay the loans when
stock prices fell.
Answer 45 Agricultural Adjustment Act
Answer 46 welfare of the elderly, poor, and handicapped
Answer 47 National Industrial Recovery Act
Answer49 fireside chats
Answer 50 government officials should inform the public of major political decisions
Answer 51 The government paid farmers to limit production
Answer 52 It was a highly organized effort to help urban African Americans leave crowded
cities for jobs in rural areas.
Answer 53 They illustrated the public's fear of radical activity in the United States.
Answer 54 new social freedom for women
Answer 55 many law enforcement officials took bribes from smugglers and bootleggers
Answer 56 They found it much more difficult to immigrate.
Answer 57 William Jennings Bryan
Answer 58 required little sophistication to play or enjoy

Answer 59 Marcus Garvey
Answer 60 teaching evolution in public schools