US History Test Questions Final Exam
Which state granted women the full right to vote in 1890? - Answer Wyoming
What is another name for the right to vote? - Answer Suffrage
This law banned the production, sale, and transpiration of alcoholic beverages
throughout the US - Answer 18th Amendment
Theodore Roosevelt's idea for balancing the interests of consumers, laborers and
business people was called? - Answer Square Deal
Who encouraged African Americans to improve their economic and educational
opportunities rather than fight discrimination directly? - Answer Booker T Washington
What were journalists who wrote problems in society during the Progressive age called?
- Answer Muchrakers
What is the practice of printing sensational, often exaggerated stories called? - Answer
Yellow Journalism
What territory did the US acquire from Russia in 1867? - Answer Alaska
What did supporters of isolationism believe that the US should do? - Answer Avoid
interfering with other countries' affairs
Name the queen of Hawaii who lost her kingdom to the US - Answer Queen Liliuokalani
What was the battleship that exploded in Havana harbor starting the Spanish-American
War? - Answer The U.S.S Maine
What was the major crop grown on the Hawaiian Islands in the late 1900s? - Answer
Sugar Cane
He was the first President to consider conservation an important national priority? -
Answer Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt's nickname - Answer Teddy
The name given to the soldiers who joined with TR during the Spanish American War
who charged up San Juan Hill - Answer Rough Riders
He arranged the purchase of Alaska - Answer William Seward
The waterway between Atlantic and Pacific Oceans - Answer Panama Canal
, Who said "Speak softly and carry a big stick..." - Answer Theodore Roosevelt
He opened up Japan in 1853 - Answer Commodore Party
Allowing all nations to trade with China - Answer Open Door Policy
A Yellow Journalist - Answer William Randolph Hearst
Freed from Spain, it fought a long revolution to free itself from the US - Answer
Philippines
Its citizens are US citizens and pay no tax - Answer Puerto Rico
Panama declared independence from this country - Answer Colombia
Boxer Rebellion took place there - Answer China
To conquer or take over other countries - Answer Imperialism
A clothing factory where there was a fire and a lot of immigrant young girls died -
Answer The Triangle Shirtwaist Company
Walter Reed - Answer a doctor who found out that misquotes carry malaria
What was the international assembly created after World War I to settle disputes and
encourage democracy called - Answer League of Nations
Payments for war damages is called - Answer Reparation
The conference and final peace settlement of World War I as the. - Answer Treaty of
Versailles
This disease killed more people than battle deaths - Answer Influenza
The Treaty of Versailles was signed by representative of the Us, France, Great Britain
and? - Answer Italy
The British passenger liner sunk by the Germans - Answer Lusitania
The following nations (Austria-Hungary, Germany, Ottoman Empire, Italy) were
members of Central Powers during WWI except - Answer Italy
The Spark that ignited WWI was the assassination of the heir to the Austria-Hungary
throne name - Answer Archduke Francis Ferdinand
Which state granted women the full right to vote in 1890? - Answer Wyoming
What is another name for the right to vote? - Answer Suffrage
This law banned the production, sale, and transpiration of alcoholic beverages
throughout the US - Answer 18th Amendment
Theodore Roosevelt's idea for balancing the interests of consumers, laborers and
business people was called? - Answer Square Deal
Who encouraged African Americans to improve their economic and educational
opportunities rather than fight discrimination directly? - Answer Booker T Washington
What were journalists who wrote problems in society during the Progressive age called?
- Answer Muchrakers
What is the practice of printing sensational, often exaggerated stories called? - Answer
Yellow Journalism
What territory did the US acquire from Russia in 1867? - Answer Alaska
What did supporters of isolationism believe that the US should do? - Answer Avoid
interfering with other countries' affairs
Name the queen of Hawaii who lost her kingdom to the US - Answer Queen Liliuokalani
What was the battleship that exploded in Havana harbor starting the Spanish-American
War? - Answer The U.S.S Maine
What was the major crop grown on the Hawaiian Islands in the late 1900s? - Answer
Sugar Cane
He was the first President to consider conservation an important national priority? -
Answer Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt's nickname - Answer Teddy
The name given to the soldiers who joined with TR during the Spanish American War
who charged up San Juan Hill - Answer Rough Riders
He arranged the purchase of Alaska - Answer William Seward
The waterway between Atlantic and Pacific Oceans - Answer Panama Canal
, Who said "Speak softly and carry a big stick..." - Answer Theodore Roosevelt
He opened up Japan in 1853 - Answer Commodore Party
Allowing all nations to trade with China - Answer Open Door Policy
A Yellow Journalist - Answer William Randolph Hearst
Freed from Spain, it fought a long revolution to free itself from the US - Answer
Philippines
Its citizens are US citizens and pay no tax - Answer Puerto Rico
Panama declared independence from this country - Answer Colombia
Boxer Rebellion took place there - Answer China
To conquer or take over other countries - Answer Imperialism
A clothing factory where there was a fire and a lot of immigrant young girls died -
Answer The Triangle Shirtwaist Company
Walter Reed - Answer a doctor who found out that misquotes carry malaria
What was the international assembly created after World War I to settle disputes and
encourage democracy called - Answer League of Nations
Payments for war damages is called - Answer Reparation
The conference and final peace settlement of World War I as the. - Answer Treaty of
Versailles
This disease killed more people than battle deaths - Answer Influenza
The Treaty of Versailles was signed by representative of the Us, France, Great Britain
and? - Answer Italy
The British passenger liner sunk by the Germans - Answer Lusitania
The following nations (Austria-Hungary, Germany, Ottoman Empire, Italy) were
members of Central Powers during WWI except - Answer Italy
The Spark that ignited WWI was the assassination of the heir to the Austria-Hungary
throne name - Answer Archduke Francis Ferdinand
