APUSH Ch 18-20
The Nineteenth Amendment:
barred states from using sex as a qualification for voting
Which of the following social groups was NOT heavily involved in the Progressive movement?
big-city machine politicians
Margaret Sanger was a:
birth control advocate
The Triangle Shirtwaist fire:
brought in its wake increased union organizing among New York City garment workers and much-needed safety legislation
What did Calvin Coolidge believe was the chief business of the American people?
business
Founder of the Society of American Indians, Carlos Montezuma:
demanded that American Indians be left alone in order to be independent
The trial and execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti:
demonstrated how the Red Scare extended into the 1920s
The term "Fordism":
describes an economic system based on mass production and mass consumption
Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress:
did not support U.S. entry into World War I
The Treaty of Versailles:
was never ratified by the United States Senate
World War I:
was rooted in European contests over colonial possessions
Dollar Diplomacy:
was used by William Howard Taft instead of military intervention
As war broke out in Europe, Americans:
were deeply divided
During the 1920s, consumer goods:
were frequently purchased on credit
In 1928, Herbert Hoover:
won the presidency, primarily because of his sterling reputation and the general, apparent prosperity of the nation
All of the statements about Henry Ford's "Fordlandia" are true except:
Fordlandia was a success
In the early twentieth century, Angel Island in San Francisco Bay became known as the "Ellis Island of the West" and served as the main entry point for immigrants from:
Japan
Which person was a Supreme Court Justice and a Progressive reformer who advocated for the labor movement?
Louis Brandeis
Who led a black separatist movement?
Marcus Garvey
All of the statements about Prohibition during the 1920s are true EXCEPT:
Religious fundamentalists opposed Prohibition on the grounds that it violated freedom
The Progressive presidents were:
Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson
Which presidency was plagued with scandals?
Warren Harding
The Great Depression was caused by all of the following factors EXCEPT:
a land speculation bubble in Florida
All of the following statements about Jane Addams and Hull House are true EXCEPT:
Addams believed that reformers needed to aid the poor from afar
The Ludlow Massacre was a tragic confrontation between:
Colorado mine workers and militia
The backbone of economic growth during the 1920s was the increased consumption of:
automobiles
By 1912, the Socialist Party:
had elected scores of local officials
In the 1920s, movies, radios, and phonographs:
helped create and spread a new celebrity culture
President Theodore Roosevelt:
helped striking coal miners to negotiate a favorable settlement with their employers
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
Which phrase accurately describes the scene in Paris upon Woodrow Wilson's arrival?
huge, enthusiastic crowds
Birds of passage were:
immigrants who planned on returning to their homeland
Between 1898 and 1934, the United States intervened militarily numerous times in Caribbean countries:
in order to protect the economic interests of American banks and investors
The Harlem Renaissance:
included writers and powers such as Langston Hughes and Claude McKay
The 1912 strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts:
is also known as the Bread and Roses strike
The Progressive movement drew its strength from:
middle-class reformers
Woodrow Wilson's moral imperialism in Latin America produced:
more military interventions than any other president before or since
Newspaper and magazine writers, who exposed the ills of industrial and urban life, fueling the progressive movement, were known as:
muckrakers
The Industrial Workers of the World and most of the Socialist Party:
opposed the war
The Zimmerman Telegram:
outlined German plan for an attack on the United States by Mexico
Birth of a Nation was a film that:
portrayed the Civil War and Reconstruction, exalting the KKK
During his presidency, Woodrow Wilson
premiered the movie Birth of a Nation at the White House
The Eighteenth Amendment:
prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages
The Equal Rights Amendment:
proposed to eliminate all legal distinctions based on sex
The Fourteen Points attempted to:
provide a peace agenda to create a new democratic world order
In response to the Russian Revolution that led to the creation of the communist soviets, the United States:
pursued a policy of anticommunism that would remain at the center of American foreign policy during the twentieth centry
Americanization:
refers to the process of assimilation
The main difference between New Nationalism (Roosevelt) and New Freedom (Wilson) was over:
regulating versus trust-busting
To create national parks like Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Glacier, the federal government:
removed Indians who hunted and fished on these lands
The Treaty of Versailles:
required Germany to pay over $33 billion in reparations
The Gentlemen's Agreement:
restricted Japanese immigration
A worker who crossed a picket line during a strike was called a:
scab
All of the following statements about mass consumption in the early twentieth century are true EXCEPT:
southerners fully participated in the mass-consumption society
When Eugene Debs was sentenced under the Espionage Act, what did he tell the justice?
that Americans in the past who spoke out against colonialism, slavery, or the Mexican war were not indicted or charged with treason
All of the following statements about the 1924 Immigration Act are true EXCEPT:
the 1924 Immigration Act sought to ensure that more immigrants came from southern and eastern Europe than from northern and western Europe
Which act restricted the freedom of speech by authorizing the arrest of anyone whose statements might impede military success?
the Espionage Act
African-Americans migrated north during the Great Migration for all of the following reasons EXCEPTS:
the prospect of owning their own homes
Eugenics is:
the study of supposed mental characteristics of different races
Charlotte Perkins Gilman claimed that the road to women's freedom lay through:
the workplace
Most Progressives saw World War I as a golden opportunity because:
they hoped to disseminate Progressive values around the globe
In the presidential election of 1916, Woodrow Wilson:
used the campaign slogan "He kept us out of war"
Progressive governor of Wisconsin, Robert La Follette, instituted all of the following reforms EXCEPT:
using political bosses to staff his administration
The Industrial Workers of the World:
advocated a worker's revolution
On April 2, 1917, Woodrow Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war:
against Germany, "to make the world safe for democracy"
The new concepts of a "living wage" and the "American standard of living":
allowed for criticism of the inequalities of wealth and power
During the 1920s:
an estimated 40 percent of the population remained in poverty
In Schenck v United States, the Supreme Court:
argued that bans on dangerous speech were constitutional
Senators opposing America's participation in the League of Nations:
argued that it would threaten to deprive the country of its freedom of action
In Muller v. Oregon, the Supreme Court:
argued that women were too weak to work long hours
The Sixteenth Amendment:
authorized Congress to implement a graduated income tax
Which institution became a pillar of stability for the immigrants as they settled into the communities in American cities?
church
The painters who were part of the Ashcan school focused their art on:
city life
A cause not widely championed by Progressives was:
civil rights for blacks
The Roosevelt Corollary:
claimed the right of the United States to act as a police power in the Western Hemisphere
Asian and Mexican immigrants in the early twentieth century:
clustered in the West as agricultural workers
During World War I, federal powers:
expanded greatly
During the 1920s, American multinational corporations:
extended their reach throughout the world