American History Quiz 5
Brooker T. Washington and Alfred T. Mahan
Brooker- advocated vocational training for blacks Alfred- promoted American expansion via navy
Eugenics, which studied the alleged mental characteristics of different races, gave anti-immigrant sentiment an air of professional expertise.
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In 1896, in the landmark decision of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court gave its approval of state laws requiring separate facilities for blacks and whites.
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Patriotism during World War I meant support for the government, the war, and the American economic system.
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The Espionage Act of 1917 prohibited not only spying and interfering with the draft but also "false statements" that might impede military success.
T
The Great Depression was global, affecting almost every country in the world.
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The Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I was a fair document that all but guaranteed future peace in Europe.
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The United States had never faced an economic crisis as severe as the Great Depression.
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The patriotic efforts of American women during World War I helped achieve passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.
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Twenty thousand unemployed World War I veterans descended on Washington in the spring of 1932 to demand early payment of a bonus due in 1945.
T
Woodrow Wilson issued the Fourteen Points in January 1918, which established the agenda for the peace conference that followed World War I.
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Why were many Americans drawn to the Socialist Party in the election of 1912?
The party's proposal to nationalize railroads, banks, and to provide unemployment relief expressed popular progressive thought.
The writer whose work encouraged the passage of the Meat Inspection Act was:
Upton Sinclair
The word "Progressivism" came into common use around 1910:
as a way of describing a loosely defined political movement.
Booker T. Washington urged blacks to try to combat segregation and become active in political affairs.
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The stock market crash caused the Great Depression.
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Which of the following statements about World War I is NOT accurate?
It actually had little to do with European colonial possessions overseas.
All of the statements about Prohibition during the1920s are true EXCEPT:
Religious fundamentalists opposed Prohibition on the grounds that it violated freedom.
In his Atlanta speech of 1895, Booker T. Washington:
encouraged blacks to adjust to segregation
During the 1920s, Americans multinational corporations
extended their reach throughout the world
In the 1920's, 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 establish order in an unruly world.
The Great Depression was caused by all of the following factors EXCEPT:
increased government regulation of banking and the stock market.
the commitee on public information
was a government agency that sought to shape public opinion
American expansionism after the 1890s
was largely driven by the desire for expanded overseas trade.
Journalists who worked for newspapers like William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal, which sensationalized events to sell papers, were called:
yellow journalists.
Sacco-Vanzetti
played out in an atmosphere of fierce anti radicalism in the US
The Farmer's Alliance hoped to improve American farmers' economic stress by: Group of answer choices
proposing the creation of government-sponsored crop warehouses.
Plessy v. Ferguson
sanctioned racial segregation.
The Great Depression shaped the lives of Americans in all of the following ways EXCEPT:
the American suicide rate declined
Eugenics
the genetic modification of human behavior
The Teapot Dome scandal involved
the secretary of the interior, who received money in exchange for leasing government oil reserves to private companies.
Most new immigrants who arrived during the early years of the twentieth century:
lived in close knit communities
Newspaper and magazine writers who exposed the ills of industrial and urban life, fueling the Progressive movement, were known as:
muckrakers
The zimmerman telegram
outlined the German plan for an attack on the United States by Mexico.
During the Progressive era:
overall immigration declined dramatically
Warren G. Harding
oversaw a presidential administration plagued by scandal
