History 1302 Reading quiz 2 review

Due to their belief in "freedom of the seas," the british allowed americans to trade with Germany (T/F)

False

Women in "War work" were usually able to keep their jobs after the war (T/F)

False

Public response to Upton Sinclair's, The Jungle, led to the establishment of regulations that were eventually enforced by the

Food and Drug Administration

As a result of the Organic Act of 1916, this government agency was created to "conserve the natural scenery and preserve the wild life therein."

National Park service

During the coal strike of 1902

President Theodore Roosevelt won support for his use of the "big stick" against big business

The principle of government by nonpartisan experts known as the Wisconsin idea was promoted by progressive governor

Rover M. La Follette

"Speak softly, and carry a big stick" was said by

Theodore Roosevelt

Alice Paul & Carrie Chapman Catt were the two major leaders of the women's suffrage movement (T/F)

True

In World War 1, tanks were used on the Western Front primarily to lead infantry advances across no-mans land and into enemy territory (T/F)

True

In the presidential election of 1912, William Howard Taft was the republican (T/F)

True

Many immigrant groups in the united states supported the central powers in the European war (T/F)

True

Who eventually became chief justive of the supreme court in 1921

William Howard Taft

As a result of the Spanish-American War, the United States

became a world "imperial" power similar to European nations

The 14 points reflect President Woodrow Wilson's belief that

cooperation among international leaders was essential to maintaining world peace

The teller amendment

disclaimed an american designs on Cuban territory

President Wilson's secretary of state resigned in 1915 because

he thought Wilson's note to Germany denouncing the sinking of the Lusitania would draw American Closer to war

The Red Scared of 1919-1920 reflect the

impact of the Bolshevik Communist Revolution in Russia and the actions of a "lunatic fringe" in the United States

Concerning United States action in the Caribbean, President Wilson

kept marines in Nicaragua and sent marines to Haiti and the Dominican Republic

"Pancho" Villa

killed a number of Americans in an attempt to provoke american intervention in Mexico

In the United States, the Spanish flu epidemic

killed nearly seven times the number of American combat deaths in France

Despite the fact that the Great War generated many changes in female employment, these changers were

limited and brief

In the progressive period

man groups- blacks, the poor, the unorganized- had little influence

When news of the European war first reached the United States

most high government officials were pro-british

The "Big Stick" is associated with

obtaining control of the panama canal zone

As president, Taft

opposed both the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments

Queen Liliuokalani

opposed the Americanization of Hawaii

The congressional resolution for war

passed overwhelmingly

Many Progressives opposed social Darwinism because it promoted the idea that

people in lower classes were not capable of economic success

During World War 1, liberty bonds were intended to persuade

people to help finance the war

During the Progressive Era, one goal of state-level political reformers was to

promote the principles of direct democracy

The open door policy

proposed that foreign powers keep the China trade open to all nations on an equal basis

For violating the Espionage Act, socialist leader Eugene Debs

received a ten-year prison term

The German delegation at Versailles objected most bitterly to

reparations for the entire war

In an effort to topple Victoriano Huerta's dictatorial government in Mexico, President Wilson

sent the military to occupy the port of Veracruz

The Red scare of 1919-1920 was directed against

socialists and communists

The ultimate blame for going to war with Spain belongs to

the American people, for letting themselves be whipped into a frenzy

A major factor in Woodrow Wilson's victory in the 1912 presidential campaign was the fact that

the Republican party had split in two

During the Red Scare, what was the primary reason for the Palmer Raids

to halt the spread of communist ideas by radicals

Congress established the Bureau of Corporations

to monitor the activities of interstate corporations

In the case of Schenck v. United states, the supreme court

upheld the conviction of a man who had circulated pamphlets against the draft

In the area of conservation, Theodore Roosevelt

used the Forest Reserve Act to withdraw over 170 million acres of timberland from logging

Roosevelt's intervention in the Russo-Japanese war and the Moroccan dispute

won him the Nobel Peace Prize of 1906

At the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in 1911

workers died as a result of a fire