History Test #2 Multiple Choice
all of the following statements about Emilio Aguinaldo are true expect:
Aguinaldo believed that Filipinos could only govern themselves with U.S. assistance
How was American life different in the 1920s than in the years prior?
Although Americans worked hard in an increasingly industrial world, they also enjoyed more vacations
why did Americans celebrate the Spanish-american war?
Americans experience the war as an occasion for national reconciliation between north and south
How did fundamentalist Christians define freedom in the 1920s?
As voluntary adherence to moral liberty
What united the authors Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald in the 1920's
Both were deeply disillusioned with conversations American politics and materialism
Assess the state of individual American financial savings by then end of the 1920s
By the end of the 1920s, the majority of American families had no savings whatsoever
Which of the following best characterizes the relationship Progressives had with civil liberties up to and during much of World War 1?
Civil liberties had never been a major concern for Progressives
as a consequence of the sinking of the Maine
Congress authorized President McKinley's request for $50 million in defense funds
Which would NOT be considered a characteristic of a flapper?
advocated temperance
On April 2, 1917, Woodrow Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war:
against Germany
Wilson's Fourteen Points included all the following except
an end to colonization
During the 1920s:
an estimated 40 percent of the population remained in poverty.
In their 1929 study, Middletown, Robert and Helen Lynd:
argued that leisure and consumption had replaced political involvement
Which of the following elements of President Wilson's Fourteen Points most resembled the commissions Progressives had instituted back home?
The League of Nations
the teller amendment stated that
The United States could not annex Cuba
Why did new industries in electronics and chemicals increase their productivity and output so significantly in the 1920s?
They successfully applied Ford's moving assembly line technology
The administration of which president was plagued with scandals?
Warren Harding
the platt amendment
authorized the United States to intervene militarily in Cuba
Why did cigarettes become known as "torches of freedom" during the 1920s?
Women began to smoke cigarettes as an expression of personal freedom
Which statement about politics in the 1920s is FALSE?
Women took an active role in national politics, mostly with the Republican Party
"Banned in Boston" referred to:
a book ban in the city, including books by Ernest Hemingway.
President Harding's call for a return to normalcy meant:
a call for the regular order of things, without Progressive reform
which of the following stated that the constitution did not fully apply to the territories recently acquired by the United States?
Insular Cases
Which of the following became the world's leader in office supplies in 1920s?
International Business Machines
Who wrote The Melting Pot and gave a popular name to the immigrants' process of assimilation and adaption in the United States?
Israel Zangwill
How did eugenics shape public policy during World War I?
It provided anti-immigrant sentiment with an air of professional expertise
Which statement about the Red Scare is FALSE?
It resulted in a wave of sympathy for persecuted workers.
Who was sentenced to death in a controversial criminal trial?
Nicola Sacco
All of the statements about Prohibition during the 1920s are true EXCEPT:
Religious fundamentalists opposed Prohibition on the grounds that it violated freedom
What did Calvin Coolidge believe was the chief business of the American people?
buisness
Railroads were to the late nineteenth century what ____________ were to the 1920s.
cars
the "white man's burden":
comes from a poem by Rudyard Kipling
which of the following was the reason for U.S. control over Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines?
control of strategic gateways from which to project american naval and commercial power
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis:
crafted an intellectual defense of civil liberties during the 1920s
The Nineteenth Amendment:
barred states from using sex as a qualification for voting.
supporters of the anti-imperialist league
believed that American energies should be directed at home, not abroad
the leaders who guided american foreign relations between 1865 and 1914
believed that exertion of american influence aboard would help maintain prosperity at home
the spanish-american war
brought the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico under U.S. control
Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress:
did not support U.S. entry into the World War 1
most american deaths in the spanish-american-cuban-filipino war were caused by
disease
The flapper:
epitomized the change in standards of sexual behavior
During World War 1, federal powers:
expanded greatly
Agriculture in the 1920s:
experienced declining incomes and increased bank foreclosures
During the 1920s, American multinational corporations:
extended their reach throughout the world
During the 1920s:
government polices reflected the pro-business ethos of the decade.
during the age of empire, american radical attitudes:
had a global impact
In the Insular Cases, the Supreme Court:
held that the Constitution did not fully apply to the territories acquired by the United States during the Spanish-American War
In the 1920s, movies, radios, and phonographs:
helped create and spread a new celebrity culture.
Theodore Roosevelt's taking of the panama canal zone is an example of:
his belief that civilized nations had an obligation to established order in an unruly world
which of the folllowing is true of both venezuelan crisis and the cuban crisis?
in both instances, the United States insisted that it would set the rules of conduct in the western hemisphere
between 1901 and 1920, the United States intervened militarily numerous times in Caribbean countries:
in order to protect the economic interests of american banks and companies
During World War 1, the federal government:
increased corporate and individual income taxes.
In his piece in The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois states that the United States is a shameful land for all of the following reasons expect:
it under employs its workers
American territorial expansionism:
was a feature of American life since well before independence
The Committe on Public Information:
was a government agency that sought to shape public opinon
the philippine war
was far longer and bloodier than the Spanish-American War
in 1899, president William McKinley explained in an interview with Methodist church leaders that his decision to annex the Philippines:
was in part based on his desire to educate and uplift the filipinos
U.S. control of the Panama Canal Zone:
was part of Theodore Roosevelt's policy of intervention in Central America
After the 1890s, American expansionism:
was partly fueled by the need to stimulate American exports
World War 1:
was rooted in European contests over colonial possessions.
As war broke out in Europe, Americans:
were deeply divided
During the 1920s, consumer goods:
were frequently purchased on credit.
The Espionage Act (1917) and the Sedition Act (1918):
were the first federal restrictions on free speech since 1798
those who advocated the acquisition of an american empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century espoused which of the following ideas?
when the United States intervenes and remakes the societies of weaker nations, it is extending the benefits of liberty and prosperity to less fortunate people
Journalists who worked for newspapers like William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal, which sensationalized events to sell papers, were called:
yellow journalists
The Scopres trial of 1925:
pitted creationists against evolutionists
the primary intwnt of the open door notes of 1899 and 1900 was to
protect american commercial interests in china
The Fourteen Points attempted to:
provide a peace agenda to create a new world order
"Americanization":
refers to the process of assimilation
American foreign policy during the 1920s:
reflected the close relationship between government and business.
The Treaty of Versailles:
required Germany to pay more than $33 billion in reparations
The Fourteen Points:
sought to establish the right of national self-determination
which of the following was a consequence of race-based explanations for expansion by United States leaders?
such explanations justified domination and war, and thus downplayed the usefulness of diplomacy
During World War 1, most Progressives:
supported U.S. entry into the war
america's empire in the early twentieth century was all of the following expect:
territorial
in contrast to the expansion of the 1890s, U.S. interests in Alaska originated in a desire for:
territory
The policy of U.S. neutrality was:
tested by both the British and Germans.
When Eugene Debs was sentenced under the Espionage Act, what did he tell the jury?
that Americans in the past who spoke out against colonialism, slavery, or the Mexican war were not indicted or charged with treason
Which of the following statements would have been prosecuted under the Sedition Act of 1918?
" I call you on the boycott the draft."
Which act restricted the freedom of speech by authorizing the arrest of anyone who made "false statements" that might impede military success?
the Espionage Act
The trial and execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti demonstrated that:
the Red Scare extended into the 1920s
President William McKinley justified U.S. annexation of the Philippines on all the following grounds expect:
the United States needed to ensure that the Philippines became an independent democracy
had the teller amendment been applied to the philippines and cuba, how would it have changed the spanish-american war?
the United States would have been barred from annexing the Philippines
captain alfred t. mahan argued that the nation's economic well-being depended on
the building of an efficient navy to protect American shipping
why did world war 1 transform western civilzation so profoundly?
the mass slaughter of WW1 was hard to reconcile with the optmist claim that Western civilization was the triumph of reason and human progress
Which of the following trends of the 1920s did fundamentalists support?
the prohibition of liquor sales
For the feminist woman in the 1920s, freedom meant:
the right to choose her lifestyle
The Teapot Dome scandal involved:
the secretary of the interior, who received money in exchange for leasing government oil reserves to private companies
the annexation of the Hawaiian islands was preceded by
the seizure of hawaii's government, which was plotted by american sugar growers and carried out with the assistance of american troops
Eugenics is:
the study of the supposed mental characteristics of different races.
which statement about the spanish-american war is true?
the war lasted only four months and resulted in less than 400 U.S. battle casualties
Most Progressives saw World War 1 as a golden opportunity because:
they hoped to disseminate Progressive values around the globe
Labor unions lost members in the 1920s for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
through collective bargaining, labor unions had secured a national eight-hour day
In the presidental election of 1916, Woodrow Wilson:
used the campaign slogan "He Kept Us Out of War"
Calvin Coolidge had won national fame for:
using state troops against striking Boston policemen in 1919
the boxer rebellion against foreign presence in china
led the imperialist nations, including the United States, to send troops in China
During the 1890s, leaders who favored economic expansion but not the annexation of overseas territory
lost ground to those who advocated imperialism
Why did World War 1 threaten to tear the women's suffrage movement apart?
many suffragists had been associated with opposition to American involvement in the war
The Industrial Workers of the World and most of the Socialist Party:
opposed the war
The Zimmermann Telegram:
outlined the German plan for an attack on the United States by Mexico.
