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AP United States History Unit 7: Period 7: 1890–1945

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Unit 7: Period 7: 1890–1945

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Question 1

The debate between Theodore Roosevelt's 'New Nationalism' and Woodrow Wilson's 'New Freedom' in 1912 centered primarily on which question?

A.Whether the United States should enter World War I on the side of Britain and FranceB.Whether large corporations should be regulated by a strong federal government (TR) or broken up to restore competition (Wilson)C.Whether women should receive the right to vote at the federal or state levelD.Whether the federal income tax should be graduated or flat, and at what rates

Question 2

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 immediately resolved which American political debate?

A.Whether to enter the war in Europe by declaring war on GermanyB.The debate between interventionists who wanted to aid Britain and isolationists who opposed American involvement in WWIIC.The debate over whether to impose economic sanctions on Japan for its invasion of ChinaD.Whether the United States should adopt a military draft to build up its armed forces

Question 3

The Manhattan Project (1942–1945) and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki raised what enduring historical and ethical debate?

A.Whether the United States had the technological capability to produce the bomb without Soviet assistanceB.Whether targeting Japanese civilians was militarily necessary to end the war or whether alternatives existed that could have achieved surrender without nuclear attackC.Whether Germany should have been the first target rather than Japan, as Germany was the more dangerous adversaryD.Whether Truman acted unconstitutionally by not seeking congressional approval before ordering the bombing

Question 4

The Progressive Era's reform movement of the early twentieth century most directly responded to which conditions?

A.Foreign threats that required a larger military and more centralized wartime governmentB.The social and economic consequences of industrialization: corporate power, urban poverty, political corruption, and unsafe conditionsC.The need to reverse the constitutional changes made during ReconstructionD.Agricultural overproduction and the need for farm price supports in rural America

Question 5

The United States' decision to join World War I in 1917 was most directly influenced by which combination of factors?

A.A formal military alliance with France and Britain that required U.S. intervention when they were attackedB.German unrestricted submarine warfare threatening American lives at sea and the Zimmermann Telegram proposing a German-Mexican alliance against the U.S.C.The German invasion of American territory, which constituted a direct act of warD.A congressional declaration of war motivated purely by Wilsonian idealism about making the world safe for democracy

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Question 6

American imperialism in the 1890s, including the Spanish-American War, represented a departure from earlier American foreign policy because it:

A.Marked America's first involvement in any armed conflict outside its own continental territoryB.Involved the acquisition of overseas territories and populations who would not be admitted as states, creating an American colonial empireC.Was driven purely by humanitarian concerns for Cuban independence rather than economic or strategic interestsD.Represented continuity with all prior American territorial expansion, which had always involved non-contiguous overseas colonies

Question 7

Upton Sinclair's novel 'The Jungle' (1906) is often cited as a catalyst for Progressive legislation primarily because it:

A.Exposed the exploitation of immigrant workers in Chicago's meatpacking industry so vividly that readers demanded labor protectionsB.Described the unsanitary conditions in meatpacking plants so graphically that public outrage drove passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection ActC.Convinced Congress to grant citizenship to all immigrants who had worked in American industries for five yearsD.Led directly to the creation of the Department of Labor to protect immigrant workers from exploitation

Question 8

The New Deal's most lasting domestic legacy is best described as:

A.Ending the Great Depression by restoring full employment through government programsB.Establishing the principle of federal responsibility for economic security and creating durable regulatory institutions like the SEC, FDIC, and Social SecurityC.Nationalizing American industry and banking under direct federal ownership and controlD.Extending full economic and civil rights to African Americans through federal civil rights legislation

Question 9

The internment of Japanese Americans during WWII illustrates which broader pattern in American history?

A.That the federal government consistently protects civil liberties even during wartime national emergenciesB.The recurring tension between national security claims and civil liberties, with minority groups often bearing the brunt of wartime rights violationsC.That Japanese Americans were the only ethnic group whose civil liberties were violated during WWIID.That the Supreme Court consistently protects civil liberties from executive overreach during wartime

Question 10

Herbert Hoover's response to the Great Depression contrasted with FDR's New Deal primarily in that Hoover:

A.Did nothing to address the Depression, believing government had no role in economic affairs whatsoeverB.Believed voluntary private cooperation and limited federal assistance could address the Depression without direct relief or deficit spendingC.Advocated nationalizing the banks and major industries as Hoover believed capitalism had permanently failedD.Relied primarily on military public works to stimulate the economy through defense spending

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Question 11

The Great Migration of African Americans from the South to Northern cities between 1910 and 1970 was primarily motivated by:

A.Federal government programs that incentivized Northern settlement for African Americans through land grantsB.The combination of Jim Crow violence and oppression in the South and the pull of industrial employment opportunities in Northern citiesC.Mandatory federal relocation programs that moved African Americans to Northern cities as part of wartime industrial mobilizationD.The collapse of Southern agriculture made impossible by boll weevil infestation alone, with no connection to racial violence

Question 12

The 1920s is characterized by historians as a decade of cultural tension primarily because:

A.It was a decade of universal prosperity that left no Americans behind economically or sociallyB.Rapid modernization — urbanization, mass culture, immigration, changing gender roles — collided with traditionalist responses including the Klan, Prohibition, and fundamentalismC.The decade was dominated by progressive reform activity that extended the Wilson era's achievementsD.Economic collapse produced social unrest throughout the decade

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