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(Q038) President Roosevelt declined to assert U.S. authority over the Canal Zone until the citizens of Panama had a chance to vote on the matter.

False

(Q041) President Wilson won reelection in 1916 on the slogan, "We must fight to make the world safe for democracy."

False

(Q044) By 1900, measured by its acquisition of new territories, the United States was an imperialist power, the equal of Great Britain and France.

False

(Q045) Most Progressives opposed America's entry into World War I as jingoistic, imperialist venturing.

False

(Q037) What Supreme Court justice famously said, regarding a case involving eugenics, "Three generations of imbeciles are enough."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

(Q024) In November 1917, during World War I, a communist revolution broke out in what country?

Russia

(Q063) Between 1910 and 1920, half a million blacks moved away from the South; many migrated into northern cities like Chicago, New York, Akron, Buffalo, and Trenton.

True

(Q064) During 1919, more than 250 people died in riots in northern cities.

True

(Q065) In the 1919 steel strike, workers demanded union recognition, higher wages, and an eight-hour day.

True

(Q066) Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer sent federal agents to raid the offices of radical and labor organizations in November 1919 and January 1920 as part of the Red Scare.

True

(Q067) When President Woodrow Wilson traveled to Paris at the end of World War I, he was met by tens of thousands of cheering citizens.

True

(Q001) A leading characterization of U.S. foreign policy in the early twentieth century was

"Dollar Diplomacy."

(Q017) In 1916, President Wilson sent more than 10,000 troops into Mexico to arrest

"Pancho" Villa, who had killed seventeen Americans in an attack on Columbus, New Mexico.

(Q030) During World War I, popular words of German origin were changed; "hamburger" became

"liberty sandwich."

(Q020) How many soldiers perished during World War I worldwide?

10 million

(Q026) This federal organization established by President Wilson explained the war to the American people and compelled America to take arms in defense of its liberties and free institutions.

Committee on Public Information

(Q058) Settlement house workers, social scientists, and Progressives in general placed demands for black suffrage at the forefront of their efforts.

False

(Q062) Major strides toward the advancement of equality for American blacks was one significant consequence of the war's aftermath due to the heroism, courage, determination, and patriotism demonstrated by black soldiers during World War I.

False

(Q068) The Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I was a savvy and fair, if short, document that equitably distributed culpability for the war among all warring factions.

False

(Q072) As part of the 1907 Gentlemen's Agreement, Japan agreed to end migration to the United States except for agricultural workingmen to aid in the food for troops.

False

(Q074) W. E. B. Du Bois felt that President Wilson attempted to make strides in including black Americans in democracy, but the war effort shifted the country's attention to more global matters.

False

(Q036) What group of people outside of the United States in the 1920s and 1930s carefully studied the American eugenicist movement?

German members of the Nazi Party

(Q034) What breakfast cereal inventor was a white supremacist and eugenicist believer who founded the Race Betterment Foundation in 1906?

John Harvey Kellogg

(Q022) What was the name of the British liner sunk by a German submarine in May 1915 that resulted in the deaths of more than 1,000 passengers, including 124 Americans?

Lusitania

(Q032) Who was the leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, a movement for African independence and black self-reliance?

Marcus Garvey

(Q014) What was the West African proverb that President Theodore Roosevelt was fond of?

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

(Q039) Presidents Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson shared a common belief that the United States had a right, even a duty, to intervene from time to time in the affairs of other countries.

True

(Q040) Following the outbreak of World War I, the Allied and Central Powers each acted to block American trade with their adversaries.

True

(Q043) While many were troubled by the ongoing slaughter overseas, most Progressives regarded wartime mobilization as an extraordinary chance to remake American society.

True

(Q046) By 1918, the wealthiest Americans were paying 60 percent of their income in taxes.

True

(Q048) In 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt arranged an "executive agreement" that gave a group of American bankers control over the finances of the Dominican Republic.

True

(Q049) President Woodrow Wilson authorized more military interventions into Latin America than any other president in American history.

True

(Q053) Ten of the twelve states that by 1916 had adopted women's suffrage were carried by Wilson in the election that year; without women's votes, Wilson would not have been reelected.

True

(Q055) Eugene V. Debs, a Socialist Party leader, was imprisoned for delivering an antiwar speech.

True

(Q056) In 1911, the U.S. Immigration Commission listed no fewer than forty-five immigrant "races" in a dictionary published that year.

True

(Q057) Eugenics studied the mental characteristics of different ethnicities and races, and blamed many social problems on people with defective genes.

True

(Q059) W. E. B. Du Bois asserted the need for the "talented tenth" of the African-American community to step forward and take the lead in education and training to challenge inequality faced by black Americans.

True

(Q060) The 1905 Niagara movement derived its name from the fact that a group of black leaders met at Niagara Falls, Canada, since no hotel on the American side would accommodate them.

True

(Q061) The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) launched a long battle for the enforcement of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.

True

(Q069) Reparations payments at the end of World War I demanded Germany pay, in effect, to repair the damages it had inflicted on the Allies (reparations payments were estimated variously to be between $33 billion and $56 billion).

True

(Q070) President Wilson's Fourteen Points had asserted the principle of "self-determination." In this spirit, W. E. B. Du Bois organized a pan-African Congress in Paris that put forward the idea of a self-governing nation to be carved out of Germany's African colonies. Koreans, Indians, Irish, and others also pressed claims for self-determination.

True

(Q071) During World War I, attitudes toward the American flag were such a test of patriotism that persons suspected of disloyalty were forced to kiss the flag in public.

True

(Q073) Birth of a Nation, a movie filled with the ideologies of white supremacy and the Ku Klux Klan, had its premiere showing at the White House.

True

Birth of a Nation, a movie filled with the ideologies of white supremacy and the Ku Klux Klan, had its premiere showing at the White House.

True

(Q016) Dollar Diplomacy, the U.S. foreign policy that emphasized economic investment and loans from American banks, rather than direct military intervention, was the policy of

William Taft.

(Q009) The "Open Door" Policy refers to

a key principle of U.S. foreign relations that emphasizes the free flow of trade and investment.

(Q005) The Committee on Public Information (CPI) flooded the country with prowar propaganda, describing Germany as

a nation of barbaric Huns led by an autocratic Kaiser aligned against freedom.

(Q012) Between 1901 and 1920, the U.S. marines landed in Caribbean countries

more than twenty times.

(Q021) Of the great ideologies that had arisen in nineteenth-century America, which, by 1920, had proven most powerful?

nationalism

(Q033) What subject were eugenicists so obsessed about?

racial purity

(Q007) Under the American Protective League (APL), a primary action for Americans was to

spy on their neighbors and carry out "slacker raids" requiring men to show their draft cards.

(Q018) During World War I, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman empire were called

the Central Powers.

(Q025) President Wilson articulated the clearest statement of American war aims and his vision of a new postwar international order in

the Fourteen Points.

(Q008) In Buck v. Bell (1927), the Supreme Court

upheld the constitutionality of involuntarily sterilizing insane and "feeble-minded" people to prevent the gene from passing to the next generation.

(Q006) Prohibition was appealing from a government standpoint because

while brief, the Eighteenth Amendment unified the country behind a common Progressive cause.

(Q027) Who was the leader of the National Woman's Party, an organization that employed militant tactics in favor of women's suffrage?

Alice Paul

(Q050) When U.S. troops landed at Vera Cruz, Mexico, to stop weapons from being delivered to Victoriano Huerta's forces, the Marines were greeted as liberators by the Mexican people.

False

(Q052) At the outbreak of war in Europe in the summer of 1914, the United States quickly unified in its support for Great Britain and France.

False

(Q054) No one was ever convicted under the 1917 Espionage Act or the 1918 Sedition Act.

False

(Q003) Under this act, American men were required to register with the draft.

Selective Service Act

In 1903, when Panama declared its independence from Colombia, the United States stationed a gunboat off the Panamanian coast, preventing the Colombian army from taking back the area.

True

(Q031) The worst race riot in American history occurred in 1921, when more than 300 blacks were killed and over 10,000 were left homeless after white mobs burned an all-black section of which city to the ground?

Tulsa, Oklahoma

(Q004) This federal agency presided over all elements of war production from the distribution of raw materials to the prices of manufactured goods.

War Industries Board

(Q023) The United States entered World War I in April of 1917 only after Germany resumed submarine warfare against its ships in the Atlantic and

after discovery of the Zimmermann Telegram.

(Q019) Which of the following was a military technology used during World War I?

airplanes

(Q010) President Wilson's foreign policy that called for active intervention to remake the world in America's image was called

liberal internationalism.

(Q028) What did Prohibition (the Eighteenth Amendment, ratified in 1919) prohibit?

manufacture or sale of alcoholic beverages

(Q011) The right to dissent from government policy during World War I

met sweeping repression from the U.S. government and the public.

(Q015) The American foreign policy principle that held that the United States had a right to exercise "an international police power" in the Western Hemisphere was called

the Roosevelt Corollary.

(Q013) President Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to negotiate a settlement of

the Russo-Japanese War in Asia of 1905.

(Q002) The outbreak of World War I in 1914 was triggered by

the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand.

(Q002) The outbreak of World War I in 1914 was triggered by the leaking of the Zimmermann Telegram.

the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand.

(Q035) Which of the following U.S. government policies arose from the eugenics movement?

the increase of immigration restriction