1st 9 Weeks Study Guide (24-25)

What is yellow journalism?

• A writing reports on yellow paper

• false and exaggerated reporting

• true, but slightly exaggerated reporting

• true and accurate reporting

Which inventor is credited with producing the modern, efficient steam engine?

• James Watt

• Dr. Edward Jenner

• Alexander Graham Bell

• James Hargreaves

Which innovation used electricity to send news accross the country?

• the telegraph

• the stagecoach

• the Pony Express

• the transcontinental railroad

This was considered to be a frozen useless wasteland, until gold was discovered there in the late 1800s.

• Hawaii

• Guam

• Iceland

• Alaska

Why was the purchase of Alaska by the United States in 1867 called "Seward's Folly"?

• Americans thought the two-cents per acre price tag for Alaska was too expensive.

• Americans thought Alaska was nothing but a frozen wasteland and had no resources to offer.

• The United States had already annexed Samoa, and didn't need another Pacific territory.

• Americans didn't want to own a territory so far from the mainland and so close to Russia.

Telegraph operators sent messages using a system called _______________.

• Morse Code

• electrical impulses

• dots and dashes

• Numeric Code

What was Roosevelt's first step in gaining control of Panama for the construction of a canal?

• He attacked Panama with warships and seized the land.

• He had U.S. troops help Panama fight for its independence.

• He signed a treaty with Panama declaring the United States an official ally.

• He purchased Panama for 10 million dollars.

The peace treaty between the United States and Spain after the Spanish-American War placed which territory under U.S. control, along with the Guam, Puerto Rico, and Cuba?

• Ghana

• Haiti

• Burma

• Philippines

United States plantation owners in the Hawaiian sugar industry prospered in the l870s by taking advantage of...

• high taxation on Hawaiian imports.

• leaving the Hawaiian shipyards to the care of the locals.

• sending American business owners to manage their plantations.

• tax-free sugar shipments to the United States.

Who were called “buffalo soldiers” by the Plains Indians?

• Plains Indian rebels

• African American cavalry

• U.S. infantry

• General Custer’s troops