HIUS 222 Quiz 1,2,3

HIUS 222 Quiz 1,2,3 Liberty University

HIUS 222 Quiz 1

1. The land possessed by Native Americans shrank rapidly from 1850 to 1890.
2. Which statement best describes what happened to American farming in the late 19^thcentury?
3. What happened to agricultural prices in the Gilded Age?
4. Which of the following did Southern states nothave to do to gain re-admission to the union?
5. How many military occupation zones did the North use to govern the South as part of Reconstruction?
6. In the video welcome, how does the professor explain that studying history from a Christian perspective is different?
7. Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution supposedly guaranteed citizenship rights?
8. Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution ended slavery?
9. As president, Andrew Johnson
10. During the Johnson administration, the United States acquired which area?
11. Which of the following statements about the end of Reconstruction is accurate?
12. In late-nineteenth-century southern politics, economic issues played a secondary role to the issue of race.
13. Among other positions, Booker T. Washington
14. What was a reason for the waning Northern commitment to Reconstruction?
15. What was unique about the election of 1876?
16. According to your textbook, which statement best describes the purpose of the Freedmen’s Bureau?
17. What was President Abraham Lincoln’s “10 percent” plan for the South?
18. In the mid-nineteenth century, the Plains Indians were
19. What was the significance of the Rocky Mountain school of painting?
20. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
21. Which writer or artist did not make significant contributions to the romanticizing of the American West?
22. What two groups in the west fought in “range wars” in the late nineteenth century?
23. Which Indian chief surrendered his meager forces to the United States in 1886?
24. What was the greatest challenge facing cattle ranchers?
25. What was the response by white Americans to the Chinese in the 1840s and 1850s?

HIUS 222 Quiz 2

1. Who argued in the 1880s that if the doctrine of survival of the fittest operated in the natural world, it must also govern the relationships between groups?
2. Horses were mainstay of cities in the late 19^thcentury, and their waste created significant sanitation issues. How many horses were in New York City in 1900?
3. How did Sears and Roebuck become a major retailer?
4. Urban areas grew dramatically in the late 19^th
5. In what type of building did most urban poor people live in by the late 19^thand early 20^th centuries?
6. How did Moody engage the major socialissues of his time?
7. What was one of Moody’s most significant legacies?
8. How did Dwight Moody influence later evangelists?
9. What was one key to Henry Ford’s success in the mass production of automobiles?
10. Andrew Carnegie’s The Gospel of Wealth promoted philanthropy by the rich.
11. What type(s) of integration was the business structure of Carnegie Steel a good example of?
12. Which labor event did Eugene V. Debs play a leading role in?
13. Why did organized labor fail to make great gains in the late nineteenth century?
14. What was the result of the Haymarket Square riot of 1886?
15. Where did the steel industry first emerge in the United States?
16. Where did the first significant oil production in the United States occur?
17. The Knights of Labor accepted both the eight-hour day and the wage system.
18. What competition did Princeton and Rutgers play as the first intercollegiate game in America in 1869?
19. What did political “machines” in cities owe their existence to in the late nineteenth century?
20. According to your textbook, what did Jacob Riis accomplish?
21. What did Florence Kelley and the National Consumers League seek to do in the 1890s?
22. What group initially resisted Charles Darwin’s theories of evolution?
23. What was the primary goal of the American Protective Association?
24. What statement about education in the late nineteenth century is true?
25. At the end of the nineteenth century, the population density of Manhattan was higher than that of the most crowded cities of Europe.

HIUS 222 Quiz 3

1. What industry did Upton Sinclair describe in The Jungle?
2. What creature did cartoonists often use to describe Standard Oil?
3. Why was the Roosevelt Corollary significant to U.S. relations with countries in the Western Hemisphere during the 20th century?
4. Who was a leading Christian missionary to China in the late 19^thcentury?
5. While they disagreed with each other on principles, Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft remained close friends.
6. What was Teddy Roosevelt’s campaign program in 1912?
7. Voter turnout for presidential elections in the late nineteenth century was much higher in terms of percentages than is the case today.
8. What was unique about William McKinley’s campaign in 1896?
9. Which nation’s events primarily caused the Spanish-American War to begin?
10. Which group did the Democrats tend to attract in the late nineteenth century?
11. What is the most notable cause Clubwomen fought for?
12. What is the significance of Jane Addams’ Hull House?
13. What did the 1916 Keating-Owen Act regulate at the federal level for the first time?
14. What did many progressives believe the first target of reform should be?
15. According to your textbook, what is true about the temperance movement between 1914 and 1919?
16. What did the United States Senate decide regarding the Treaty of Versailles in 1919?
17. Which leader was not in attendance at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919?
18. What is significant about the Selective Service Act in the United States?
19. What best describes the Zimmermann telegram?
20. Did President Wilson adequately prepare the United States for World War I? Why or why not?