US History Civil War to Present, Test 2

The title of the novel that described the terrible conditions of the meatpacking industry was

"The Jungle"

Jane Addams, founder of the settlement house movement, stated that

"action is indeed the sole medium of expression for ethics."

Queen Liliuokalani opposed the

Americanization of Hawaii.

The lynching of blacks in the South increased at about the same time that

Jim Crow laws spread throughout the South.

In order to acquire the Canal Zone the United States supported

Panama's revolt against Columbia.

Segregated facilities had to be

Separate but Equal.

All of the following were included in the 1892 Omaha platform of the People's party:

The progressive income tax, the unlimited coinage of silver, federal control of the railroads, implementation of the subtreasury plan.

As a result of Bolshevik Revolution in Russia

Vladimir Lenin concluded a separate peace with Germany.

The event that triggered World War I in Europe was

a Serb's assassination of the Austrian archduke.

Woodrow Wilson was

a college president.

The 1919 police strike in Boston inadvertently launched

a presidential career.

The Mississippi plan of disenfranchisement included:

a residency requirement, provision disqualifying those who had not paid their poll taxes, a literacy requirement, and an "understanding" clause.

At the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in 1911 workers died as

a result of fire.

President Wilson's response to the sinking of the Lusitania was

a series of notes demanding that Germany stop such actions and pay reparations.

The de Lome letter referred to President McKinley as

a weak and cowardly leader.

Frederick W. Taylor was

an efficiency expert.

The United States emerged from the Spanish-American War as

an imperial power.

Booker T. Washington offered

an indirect endorsement of segregation.

Western imperialism in the late nineteenth century was stimulated by

an ongoing quest for markets, notions of racial superiority, the desire to Christianize Africa and Asia, an ongoing quest for raw materials.

The major cause of the Chicago riot in 1919 was that whites were

angered by the influx of southern black s into their communities.

Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner labeled the post-Civil War era the "Gilded Age," since it was

characterized by widespread greed and corruption.

The Pendleton Civil Service Act provided for appointment to a number of government jobs on the basis of

competitive exams.

In negotiating with the Big Four over many postwar territorial issues, President Wilson had to

compromise his principle self-determination.

The Interstate Commerce Commission was

created to regulate railroads.

The Federal Reserve Act made

currency and bank credit more elastic, created twelve federal reserve banks, lessened the power of the huge New York banks, was the first major banking and currency reform in half a century.

Roosevelt sent the "Great White Fleet" on a global tour from 1907 to 1909 to

demonstrate that the United States had arrived as a world power.

The Red Scare of 1919-1920 was

directed against socialists and communists.

Wilson travelled around the country giving speeches in 1919 to

drum up support for his version of the war treaty.

The muckrakers saw their primary objective as

exposing social problems to the public.

Wilson's Fourteen Points endorsed

freedom of the seas, the creation of a "league" of nations, an end to secret treaties, and removal of trade barriers.

The battleship Maine exploded in Havana Harbor and

fueled calls for war with Spain.

In the progressive period many groups (blacks, the poor, the unorganized)

had little influence.

Democrats nominated pro-silver William Jennings Bryan after

his "cross of gold" speech.

During the coal strike President Theodore Roosevelt won support for

his use of the "big stick" against big business.

The Platt Amendment sharply restricted the

independence of Cuba's new government.

Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine claimed that the United States had the right to

intervene in Latin American countries to forestall involvement by others.

The Philippine-American War became known for

its brutality and the atrocities committed by both sides.

All these innovations changed warfare during World War I:

machine guns, land mines, long-range artillery, and high-velocity rifles.

The Spanish flu epidemic killed

nearly seven times the number of Americans as died of combat deaths in France.

Commodity prices during the Gilded Age declined in large part because of

overproduction and international competition in world markets.

The Seventeenth Amendment authorized the

popular election of U.S. Senators.

In the area of conservations, Theodore Roosevelt used the Forest Reserve Act to

protect over 170 million acres of forest.

The United States fought a war in the Philippines after the Spanish-American War to

quell an insurrection of Filipinos that opposed annexation by the United States.

In his first term as president, Woodrow Wilson

refused to support a federal amendment for women's suffrage, allowed the spread of racist practices in the federal government, withheld support from federal child-labor legislation, opposed a bill for low-interest loans to farmers.

The German delegation at Versailles object most bitterly to

reparation for the entire war.

Alfred Thayer mahan argued that

sea power was essential to national greatness.

"Yellow Journalism" refer to

sensationalist news coverage that was designed to sell papers and manipulate public opinion.

In the 1896 campaign, William Jennings Bryan

spoke and campaigned all over the country.

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) ruled that

states did have a right to pass laws segregating public facilities.

One of the most important reasons that voter turnout was so high during the Gilded Age was

that due to patronage and corruption by political machines, almost every government job was subject to the results of the latest election.

Emilio Aguinaldo was

the Filipino rebel leader.

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 Spanish-American War, Theodore Roosevelt took part in

the land fighting in Cuba.

Despite the fact that the Great War generated many changes in female employment

these changes were limited and brief.

The Populists endorse an eight-hour workday and immigration restrictions as part of their 1892 platform because

they were hoping to win support from urban factory workers to complement their agrarian base.

The Open Door policy (1899) proposed to keep China open to

trade with all countries on an equal basis.

The U.S. military effort in France helped

turn back several German offensives.

W.E.B. Du Bois objected to Booker T. Washington's emphasis on

vocational education for blacks and advocated ceaseless political agitation against discrimination and segregation.

The Zimmermann telegram asked for help from Mexico in the case of

war between Germany and the United States.

The National Child labor Committee pushed for laws banning the widespread employment of

young children.