AMSCO Period 7 Multiple Choice Questions

Which of the following most directly supports the argument found in the above excerpt?

Appointment of Harry M. Daugherty as Attorney General

Which of the following public figures was a leading spokesperson for the perspective of this cartoon>

Charles Lindbergh

What does the author imply by the phrase, "not one of the rights that the citizens of this country are called upon to surrender in time of war"?

Citizens do not lose their freedom of speech during war

Who of the following would most strongly support the sentiments in these headlines?

Expansionists such as Henry Cabot Lodge

Which of the following most directly supports the author's analysis?

Farm income fell from $11.4 billion in 1929 to $6.3 billion in 1932

Which of the following groups faced the most difficult economic conditions during the 1920s?

Farmers and many rural areas

Which of the following does this excerpt support as the primary cause of the US declaration of war in April 1917?

Germany's violation of the US neutral rights

During World War I, the government propaganda, such as poster shown above, most likely contributed to which of the following?

Increased fear of foreigners and immigrants

Which of the following developments in the 1920s would most directly support the author's sentiments in the excerpt?

Liberalized divorce laws

"The Jungle" directly contributed to the passage of the

Meat Inspection Act

Which of the following most directly contributed to the perspective of this cartoon?

Nye Committee

Which of the following would the authors of this excerpt most likely support?

Passing the Lend-Lease Act

Which of the following would most directly support the argument that Progressives were "exclusionary"?

Progressives did little to end the segregation of African Americans

Which of the following interpretation of progressivism would most likely support this excerpt?

Progressives were a diverse group who supported various reforms

The excerpt suggests that Eleanor Roosevelt knew that her positions could most harm her husband's standing with which of the following groups?

Southern Democrats

Which of the following conflicts raised the most similar concerns about the violation of civil rights as did World War I?

The American Civil War

Which of the following during World War I proved the most direct threat to the perspective on civil rights in this excerpt?

The Espionage and Sedition Acts

Which of the following cites an event that mostly clearly challenges the interpretation expressed in the above excerpt?

The Washington Conference of 1921

Which of the following Progressive reforms most directly promoted "active citizenship"?

The direct election of senators

This excerpt most directly reflects the continuation of the policy that

The independent nations of the Americas should remain free from European intervention

Which of the following most directly contributed to the anti-imperialist sentiments expressed in the excerpt?

The provisions of the peace treaty ending the Spanish-American War

Which of the following trends of the 1920s is most clearly portrayed in this advertisement?

The use of extended payment plans to purchase consumer goods

Which of the following was most directly related to the phrase in the testimony "the necessity for relief for our suffering fellow citizens"?

Twenty-five percent of the workforce was unemployed

The administration of which of the following presidents who served between 1865 and 1900 most clearly resembles the corruption of the Harding administration?

Ulysses S. Grant

The issue of freedom of the seas in World War I most closely resembles the cause of which of the following conflicts?

War of 1812

The leader most closely associated with the viewpoint in this excerpt was

William Jennings Bryan

Which of the following most influenced thinking about sexual behavior during the 1920s?

Writing of the Lost Generation

The above excerpt most directly reflects that the temperance movement

appealed to a varied constituency of reformers

The Prohibition movement was similar to other Progressive reforms because it

began on the local and state levels before becoming national

When the Zimmermann message was made public, many people in the United States

expressed nationalist anger against Germany

Eleanor Roosevelt expressed the most independence from President Franklin Roosevelt and his advisers in her

opposition to racial discrimination

The point of view of this newspaper most clearly reflects

the concept jingoism

During the war, a government agency named the Committee of Public Information, headed by George Creel, was

the producer of a vast number of posters, pamphlets, and films

Which of the following groups would most likely support the perspective of this cartoon?

American First Committee

Who among the following individuals or groups would most directly oppose the philosophy of the New Deal as explained in this excerpt?

American Liberty League

Upton Sinclair's "Jungle" was primarily concerned about working conditions. Which of the following most directly helped organized labor?

Clayton Anti-Trust Act

Which of the following was the primary economic purpose for the rationing program found in the above document?

Control inflation caused by shortages of consumer goods

Which of the following would most likely support a belief that the government was "against the common people"?

Creation of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation

Which of the following best explains the campaign behind the above government documents?

Industrial production was essential to successful modern warfare and it required an effort by the entire nation

The above excerpt is most closely associated with which sector of the Progressive movement?

Muckrakers

Which of the following was designed to provide long term "job security " for workers?

National Labor Relations Act

Which of the following most directly addressed "security for capitalist"?

National Recovery Administration

At the time this excerpt was published, which of the following was the most pressing problem faced by the British?

The attacks on supply lines by German submarines in the Atlantic

Many historians criticize the economy that developed during the 1920s. Which of the following statements best supports that point of view?

The boom was based on speculation and borrowed money

Newspaper headlines such as those above most directly contributed to which of the following?

The declaration of war against Spain by the US Congress

Who of the following would most likely support the sentiments found in this excerpt?

President Franklin Roosevelt

Which of the following represents a policy that the authors of the excerpt would most likely support?

President Wilson's signing of the Jones Act in 1916

Which of the following was the most direct result of the policy stated in this excerpt?

The United States intervened in many American countries in the early 20th century