Cleek's 2nd Half review (2023)

Which technology MOST aided in the settlement of the West during the period immediately following the Civil War?

• the automobile

• the light bulb

• the railroad

• the telegraph

“Hawaii is ours; Puerto Rico is to be ours; at the prayer of her people Cuba will finally be ours; in the islands of the East…

the flag of a liberal government is to float over the Philippines… The Opposition tells us that we ought not to govern a

people without their consent. I answer the rule… that all government derives its authority from the consent of the

governed, applies only to those who are capable of self-government.”

-Senator Albert Beveridge, “The March of the Flag” speech (1898)

Which policy was Senator Beveridge advocating in this statement?

• containment

• imperialism

• disarmament

• isolationism

What does the political cartoon represent?

• President Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy

• the construction of the Panama Canal

• Theodore Roosevelt’s appointment as Police Commissioner of New York City

• the 17^th Amendment

Which statement provides an accurate analysis of the
trend shown in the graph?

• Immigrants settled in rural areas to establish farms.

  
  
  

• Immigrants were attracted to areas with factory jobs.

• Immigrants were attracted to areas with little ethnic
  diversity.

•   Immigrants settled in areas with warmer climates.

What do the elements in the list have in common?

• constitutional amendments

• sectional differences

• Progressive reforms

• strike demands

Television coverage of the Vietnam War

• encouraged support for the war

• built support for communism

• brought the brutality of the war into American homes

• showed how effective American weapons were at defeating the enemy on the battlefield

“He is no doubt the greatest inventor of all time. Why, without his creative genius, we would have no recording of sounds, no televisions, no movies… Even more than that, we’d still be reading books by candle light and saying our goodnights by 8 p.m.”

Who is the quote MOST LIKELY referring to?

• Thomas Edison

• Andrew Carnegie

• Henry Ford

• Eli Whitney

Which group of people is the MOST LIKELY subject of discussion in the excerpt?

• cowboys

• American Indians

• Chinese

  immigrants

• African Americans

What task was this group of people working on?

• moving cattle to market

• setting up telegraph lines

• building a new highway system

• completing the transcontinental railroad

What does the fruit in the cartoon represent?

• US allies in WWI

• potential territories to be controlled under US
  imperialism

• American enemies in the Spanish-American war

• Leading fruit exporters the U.S. wanted to add as trade partners