AHM 2020 module 2
The mortality rate of the influenza pandemic in 1918-1919 was approximately
10 percent.
The chapter introduction relates the story of the "World's Columbian Exposition" to make the point that
American society and the world had been transformed by the industrial revolution.
Which statement does NOT accurately describe Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson?
Both took significant symbolic steps to break down barriers of racial segregation.
Which of the following best describes why progressives had difficulty enacting reform at the city level?
City charters had limited powers.
Which one of the following was NOT a feature of the modern corporation in the 1920s?
Corporate power existed in the hands of stockholders rather than in company management.
The election of 1892 was especially significant because the
Democrats won both houses of Congress.
The outpouring of literature and art by the "New Negro" of the 1920s became known as the
Harlem Renaissance.
Why did William H. Seward push for the purchase of Alaska?
He saw the future of American expansion in the Pacific and Asia.
The ________ was created in response to the Supreme Court's ruling in Munn v. Illinois and set an important precedent in establishing a right for government to regulate private corporations.
Interstate Commerce Commission
Which statement about the National Origins Act of 1924 is NOT true?
It completely cut off foreign immigration.
What was the fate of Wilson's fundamental premise of national self-determination, as implemented in the Treaty of Versailles?
It was applied in part, especially in eastern Europe and the former German colonies.
Which of the following was NOT a member of the Central Powers in WWI?
Italy
What social welfare activist served as the first head of the new federal Children's Bureau in 1912?
Julia Lathrop
The inflammatory Zimmermann telegram proposed that in the event of war between the U.S. and Germany,
Mexico would attack the U.S.
Aviator Charles "Lucky Lindy" Lindbergh thrilled the world with his solo, non-stop flight from Long Island, NY, to
Paris.
The text throughout the chapter links progressivism and American diplomacy. Which statement would best summarize this analysis?
Progressive moralism and desire for order were applied both to the international situation and to the wartime home front.
Which party tended to support a program of active federal support for economic growth, including high tariffs?
Republicans
On the tariff issue, ________ supported high protective tariffs; on the money question, ________ sought the inflationary consequences of printing greenbacks.
Republicans; farmers and other debtors
Why did a naval power require naval stations around the world, as argued by Alfred Thayer Mahan?
Ships were coal powered.
Many historians consider the ________ the most important reform of the early twentieth century because it established the means for expanded federal action.
Sixteenth Amendment permitting income taxes on individuals and corporations
What is an accurate description of the two competing brands of political progressivism in the 1912 presidential campaign (Theodore Roosevelt's "New Nationalism" and Woodrow Wilson's "New Freedom")?
The New Nationalism accepted concentrations of capital, labor, and government, but the New Freedom stressed competitiveness among small business and reduced government power.
What is the best explanation of "free silver"?
The U.S. government would promote prosperity by inflating the money supply through minting all the silver offered to it.
Which of the following is accurate about attitudes in the Senate toward the Treaty of Versailles?
The majority supported it in some form.
Which of the following distinguished the new Klan of the early 1920s from the original organization of Reconstruction days?
The new Klan sold merchandise to generate revenue.
The world created at the Columbian Exposition was indeed illusory; in fact, events in America at that time revealed which of the following to be true?
The political system in America was ill-equipped to cope with the economic and social revolutions that were reshaping the country.
Which of the following best describes how progressives viewed the draft?
They saw it as an opportunity to promote democracy.
Who said the following in 1904? "What does civilization owe the negro? "Nothing! Nothing!! NOTHING!!!"
Tom Watson
The former presidential candidate who became a leading spokesman against the theory of evolution during the 1920s was
William Jennings Bryan.
Who were the "Hello Girls"?
Women serving in the U.S. Army Signal Corp.
Who did nativists describe as "a hybrid race of people as worthless and futile as the good-for-nothing mongrels of Central America and Southeastern Europe"?
a future United States without immigration laws
Progressive diplomacy embodied all of the following EXCEPT
a nationalistic commitment to avoid intervention in any foreign country.
Wilson's commitment to neutrality in World War I stemmed from his profound conviction that
a neutral America could lead the warring nations to "a peace without victory."
Which of the following was NOT a concern of President Cleveland regarding the Cuban revolt?
a refugee crisis
What might be called a "second or post-Industrial Revolution," the "roaring economy" of the 1920s involved all of the following EXCEPT
a revolution in labor relations, marked by new growth in the size and influence of labor unions.
The Palmer raids were
a series of illegal arrests of alleged radical subversives under the direction of the U.S. attorney general.
Which one of the following ideas should NOT be associated with progressivism?
a skeptical view of human nature and American potential
Among the home front impacts of World War I were all of the following EXCEPT
a spirit of unity that reduced racial and ethnic tensions.
The weakest area of the American economy through the 1920s was
agriculture
Disenfranchisement of African Americans
also targeted poor whites who might break party ranks.
All of the following inclined the U.S. toward entering on the side of the Allies in the First World War EXCEPT that
although a pacifist at heart, Wilson campaigned for re-election in 1916 on a hawkish platform—and won decisively.
William McKinley is notable as
an active chief executive who re-energized the executive branch of government.
The Fourteen Points can best be characterized as
an idealistic vision for a world order freed of selfish nationalism, imperialism, and war.
Which statement would be an apt rule-of-thumb summarizing the progressive approach?
behavior is a function of environment
The expansion and consolidation of industry between 1920 and 1930 meant that
bureaucratic management became divorced from stockholder ownership.
Theodore Roosevelt acquired territorial rights in Panama
by encouraging revolution in Panama.
On consumer protection matters such as regulating the food processing industry, Roosevelt ________, while in conservation he ________.
came slowly to support moderate regulatory reform; showed aggressive leadership
The first modern governmental reform law, the Pendleton Act of 1883 enacted in response to the assassination of President Garfield, provided for
civil service merit standards and procedures for government jobs.
Among the elements making up the American ideology of imperialism, which does your text consider most compelling?
commercial opportunity
In the years surrounding 1890, an innovative program of self-help spearheaded by the Southern Alliance movement flourished, though on the whole the effort, known as "_______," failed.
cooperatives
Wartime migrations of African Americans
decimated southern towns.
The "little green ballot" referred to by Booker T. Washington, founder of the Tuskegee Institute, was
earnings.
As the war lingered and the presidential election of 1916 loomed, Wilson endorsed _______, but then ran a campaign stressing _______.
enhanced military preparedness; that he kept the U.S. out of war
Which of these constitutional amendments was NOT from the Progressive Era?
establishing a two-term limit on the U.S. president
All of the following undergirded progressive reform activities EXCEPT
faith in the grass-roots wisdom and skill of the poor and victimized.
The end of the war, the success of Bolshevism in Russia, and the sense of cultural crisis led to all of the following EXCEPT
fear of foreign terrorist or military attack.
Henry Ford's great contribution to modern industrial culture was
his commitment to standardization and assembly-line mass production.
Roosevelt's objectives in his Asian policy—which explain his actions in response to the Russo-Japanese War—included all EXCEPT
holding the U.S. Navy in waters close to the U.S. for coastal defense.
Examples of the "defenders of the faith" of traditional America against modern urban culture in the 1920s include all EXCEPT
hostility to radicalism, which gave the label "Red Scare Decade" to the 1920s.
What piece of federal legislation in the 1920s was a significant shift from a historic American practice?
immigration restriction
The navel battle for the Philippines took place
in and around Manila Bay.
Above all, the depression of the 1890s demonstrated the
inability of the nation's political system to smooth out the economic cycle of boom and bust.
To encourage consumption, demand for goods was stimulated by all of the following EXCEPT
increased business competition.
The 1896 election was important because it
initiated a realignment in the power of the two parties, and an era of strong presidents.
The depression of 1893 had an impact on America's international posture in that
it encouraged American manufacturing and agricultural interest in markets abroad.
What new style of music that fused soulfulness and syncopated rhythms was born in the "Roaring Twenties"?
jazz
The beginnings of political realignment were already in evidence in the returns of the election of 1928, after which the Republicans
lost power in the cities.
The New England Kitchen was typical of the pattern of progressive reform in all of the following ways EXCEPT that
lower- or working-class community standards became the norm.
Rutherford B. Hayes
moved quickly to end Reconstruction.
As a result of the depression of 1893,
new attitudes toward poverty and government responsibility emerged.
The Nineteenth Amendment granting women the right to vote was finally passed in 1920 because
of women's contribution to the war effort in World War I at home and abroad.
Which of the following did NOT occur during the Wilson administration?
passage of the Pure Food and Drug and Meat-Inspection Acts
Progressives condemned prostitution but saw the problem as a byproduct of
poverty and inequality.
All of the following statements about the election of 1896 are true EXCEPT that
progressives used the free silver issue to achieve their first success in national politics.
The chapter introduction tells the story of the Panama Canal to make the point that
progressives were increasingly willing to flex American muscle to shape the world order.
The National Origins Act, which fixed immigration patterns for four decades,
put strict quotas on the number of immigrants to be allowed into the U.S. every year.
Farmer frustrations that fueled the rise of the People's Party included all of the following EXCEPT
racists against integrationists.
The presidential election of 1896 was a symbolic confrontation that fits all of the following descriptions, EXCEPT
racists against integrationists.
Starting in 1869, Massachusetts established commissions to investigate and regulate industry. The focus of many of these commissions was which industry?
railroads
In the early part of the twentieth century, immigration from Mexico jumped for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
recruiting by the AFL in a campaign to increase its membership.
What was an element of U.S. economic diplomacy in the 1920s?
reducing German reparation payments to the victorious Allies in return for helping stabilize the German economy
The chapter introduction tells the story of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire to make the point that
reformers of the day sought to use government to curb abusive corporations and establish a good society.
The most innovative proposal of the Ocala Demands came from Charles Macune. His "subtreasury system" would have
required a system of government warehouses for crop storage until prices rose.
For labor unions, the 1920s was a decade of
serious decline in membership.
The text makes the important point that the goals of progressives were _______, though they were pursued through _______.
social; politics
All of the following are traits attributed to a "New Woman" EXCEPT
spiritual.
The Five-Power Agreement of 1921 involved
steps toward naval disarmament.
The offenses for which Americans got arrested under the Espionage and Sedition Acts of 1917 included all of the following, EXCEPT
storming state capitols.
Which of the following industries turned out to be harbingers of the nation's economic fate after 1929?
textiles
The attitudes and public behavior in America immediately after the end of the war have been given the label
the "Red Scare."
What circumstance led to an American posture in which true neutrality was dead?
the British blockade, which cut off U.S. trade with Germany while supplies still flowed to the Allies
What event signaled the start of the Great Depression, the greatest depression in the history of the modern world?
the Great Crash
Which of the following third-party movements was the first to have a presidential candidate to receive over one million votes?
the People's Party
The most celebrated public event of the fundamentalist-modernist conflict was _______, which resulted in _______.
the Scopes trial; a guilty verdict and a $100 fine
All of the following are true of the war's impact on the federal government EXCEPT that
the Supreme Court struck down acts of Congress that curtailed American civil liberties.
In the 1890s, the U.S. acquired all of the following EXCEPT
the Virgin Islands.
The progressive method focused on government, and specifically on
the executive branch.
Which of the following influenced the sense of meaninglessness and alienation that was characteristic of writers and intellectuals in the 1920s?
the experience of World War I
The Nineteenth Amendment granting women the right to vote was embraced by many progressives because
the higher moral character of women would help clean up politics.
Americans in the 1920s began to drink more hard liquor in the 1920s because
the influence of Eastern European immigrants.
Roosevelt justified his corollary to the Monroe Doctrine with the reasoning that
the instability of Latin American nations made them vulnerable to intervention by European powers.
The most important issue in the 1896 presidential campaign was
the money question.
Evidence justifying the use of the label "politics of paralysis" to describe the American political system during the late nineteenth century includes all of the following EXCEPT that
the period was marked by relatively low voter turnout.
One of the most important economic transformations in the years after World War I was
the shift in production from heavy industry to consumer goods and services.
What new weapon finally broke the stalemate by negating the defensive advantage of entrenched troops?
the tank
The chapter introduction tells the story of Sister Aimee and the imaginary Smiths to make the point that
transformations of the New Era mixed ambivalently with traditional beliefs and practices.
Pragmatism holds that
truth is a function of results, not fixed principles.
In the 1920s, Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover believed in
viewing business and government as partners rather than as adversaries.
In the 1920s the Ku Klux Klan
was not entirely a small-town organization.
As a result of a theory championed by Alfred Thayer Mahan, the U.S. Navy
was transformed into a modern, steam-driven institution.
In the presidential election of 1912, progressive politicians
were given a resounding endorsement.
The Ballinger-Pinchot controversy concerned
whether government lands should be protected under federal regulation.