HISTORY A LEVEL MAKING OF A
SUPERPOWER AQA QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
Roosevelt Corollary - ANSWER-1904
US takes over Panama Canal construction - ANSWER-1904
Pure Food and Drug Act - ANSWER-1906
Third Panic - ANSWER-1907
Presidency of Taft - ANSWER-1909-1913
W.E.B Du Bois sets up the NAACP - ANSWER-1909
Number of anti-trust suits under Taft - ANSWER-80 - Taft used it more in his 4 years,
than Roosevelt's 7 years
Roosevelt launches a tour promoting his 'new nationalism' - ANSWER-1910
In the progressive era, 50% of wealth was held by... - ANSWER-1% of the
population
Underwood Tariff - ANSWER-1913
Federal Income Tax - ANSWER-1913
Federal Trade Commission - ANSWER-1914
Possible loss of trade with belligerents (a nation or person engaged in war or
conflict) in WWI - ANSWER-possible $100 million deficit
'Luisitania' sunk - ANSWER-1915
1914-1916 exports... - ANSWER-doubled as a percentage of GDP
First Federal Child Labour Act - ANSWER-1916
African American migrants to North 1914-1918 - ANSWER-500,000
By 1918 the allies had borrowed... - ANSWER-$7 billion from the USA
Senate refuses to join the League of Nations - ANSWER-1920
By 1920, the USA consumed... - ANSWER-70% of the world's oil
, 18th Amendment begins Prohibition - ANSWER-1920
19th Amendment grants women's suffrage - ANSWER-1920
In 1920, the Ford Factory in Detroit produced one car every... - ANSWER-10
seconds
Proportion of goods bought on hire purchase in the 1920s - ANSWER-50%
Number of banks folding every year during Coolidge's presidency - ANSWER-600
US troops withdraw from Nicaragua - ANSWER-1925
KKK membership 1925 - ANSWER-5 million
Reservation land held by Native Americans in 1870 - ANSWER-138 million hectares
Expanded treaty of friendship with Hawaii (Pearl Harbour) - ANSWER-1887
Dawes General Allotment Act - ANSWER-1887
Presidency of Benjamin Harrison - ANSWER-1889-1893
McKinley Tariff - ANSWER-1890
Battle of Wounded Knee - ANSWER-1890
US Census Bureau declares end of the frontier - ANSWER-1890
Sherman Silver Purchase Act - ANSWER-1890
African Americans living in the South in 1890 - ANSWER-90%
Formation of Populist Party - ANSWER-1892
Second Panic (unemployment hits 20%) - ANSWER-1893
Presidency of Cleveland (2) - ANSWER-1893-1897
Immigration Restriction League - ANSWER-1894
Cleveland intervenes in Venezuela - ANSWER-1895
Booker T. Washington's 'Atlanta Compromise' - ANSWER-1895
Amount spent by Mark Hanna on McKinley's campaign - ANSWER-$3 million
In the 1896 election Bryan... - ANSWER-carried 22 states in the West and South, but
lost by 100 electoral college votes
SUPERPOWER AQA QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
Roosevelt Corollary - ANSWER-1904
US takes over Panama Canal construction - ANSWER-1904
Pure Food and Drug Act - ANSWER-1906
Third Panic - ANSWER-1907
Presidency of Taft - ANSWER-1909-1913
W.E.B Du Bois sets up the NAACP - ANSWER-1909
Number of anti-trust suits under Taft - ANSWER-80 - Taft used it more in his 4 years,
than Roosevelt's 7 years
Roosevelt launches a tour promoting his 'new nationalism' - ANSWER-1910
In the progressive era, 50% of wealth was held by... - ANSWER-1% of the
population
Underwood Tariff - ANSWER-1913
Federal Income Tax - ANSWER-1913
Federal Trade Commission - ANSWER-1914
Possible loss of trade with belligerents (a nation or person engaged in war or
conflict) in WWI - ANSWER-possible $100 million deficit
'Luisitania' sunk - ANSWER-1915
1914-1916 exports... - ANSWER-doubled as a percentage of GDP
First Federal Child Labour Act - ANSWER-1916
African American migrants to North 1914-1918 - ANSWER-500,000
By 1918 the allies had borrowed... - ANSWER-$7 billion from the USA
Senate refuses to join the League of Nations - ANSWER-1920
By 1920, the USA consumed... - ANSWER-70% of the world's oil
, 18th Amendment begins Prohibition - ANSWER-1920
19th Amendment grants women's suffrage - ANSWER-1920
In 1920, the Ford Factory in Detroit produced one car every... - ANSWER-10
seconds
Proportion of goods bought on hire purchase in the 1920s - ANSWER-50%
Number of banks folding every year during Coolidge's presidency - ANSWER-600
US troops withdraw from Nicaragua - ANSWER-1925
KKK membership 1925 - ANSWER-5 million
Reservation land held by Native Americans in 1870 - ANSWER-138 million hectares
Expanded treaty of friendship with Hawaii (Pearl Harbour) - ANSWER-1887
Dawes General Allotment Act - ANSWER-1887
Presidency of Benjamin Harrison - ANSWER-1889-1893
McKinley Tariff - ANSWER-1890
Battle of Wounded Knee - ANSWER-1890
US Census Bureau declares end of the frontier - ANSWER-1890
Sherman Silver Purchase Act - ANSWER-1890
African Americans living in the South in 1890 - ANSWER-90%
Formation of Populist Party - ANSWER-1892
Second Panic (unemployment hits 20%) - ANSWER-1893
Presidency of Cleveland (2) - ANSWER-1893-1897
Immigration Restriction League - ANSWER-1894
Cleveland intervenes in Venezuela - ANSWER-1895
Booker T. Washington's 'Atlanta Compromise' - ANSWER-1895
Amount spent by Mark Hanna on McKinley's campaign - ANSWER-$3 million
In the 1896 election Bryan... - ANSWER-carried 22 states in the West and South, but
lost by 100 electoral college votes
