APUSH Chapters 19-22
In the years prior to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment,
39 states partial women suffrage, 15 full
While progressives, has many meanings, it tended in this period to be based on the central assumption that
American society was capable of improvement
During the 1920's, all of the following immigrant groups were increasing their presence in the labor force in the West and Southwest EXCPET the
Chinese
In the early twentieth century, the United States' actions toward Mexico included... A. encouraging an overthrow of the Madero government. B. a refusal to formally recognize the Huerta government. C. sending an American expeditionary force across the border into Mexico. D. both encouraging an overthrow of the Madero government and refusing to formally recognize the Huerta government. E. All these answers are correct
E. all these answers are correct
On the eve of the Great War, the chief rivalry in Europe was between
Germany and Great Britain
During the Red Scare of 1919, Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer
Raided radicle centers and arrested 6000 people
During the progressive era, the "new woman" was a product of
Social and Economic Change
Which of the following statements regarding the Spanish-American War is FALSE?
US Army soldiers were well equipped and supplied
Enrollment in colleges and universities increased threefold between 1900 and 1930, with much of that increase occurring after
World War 1
In 1918, President Woodrow Wilson antagonized many Republicans
Would not appoint Republicans to the negotiating team for the peace conference in Paris
In 1892, the People's Party called for
a government network of crop warehouses
The Chinese Boxer Rebellion of 1900 was directed at
all foreigners in China
The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887
all of these answers are correct
As secretary of commerce, Herbert Hoover considered himself
an active progressive for business a champion of business cooperation
In the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the "Social Gospel" was
an effort to make religious faith a tool of social reform
During the 1920's the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
believed workers should be organized on the basis of skills
During World War 1, the new technology of warfare
both a and b
During the 1920's, as a result of the Eighteenth Amendment
both a and b
Regarding organizing the professions during the Progressive Era,
by World War I, all states had established professional bar associations
The 1916 Keating-Owen Act was the first federal law regulating
child labor
During World War 1, the War Industries Board (WIB)
coordinated government purchases of military supplies
The Federal Reserve Act
created a new type of paper currency.
In the 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
criticized the American obsession with material wealth
The "Open Door Notes"
directed to imperial powers in Europe and Asia.
In the 1920's, artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance
drew heavily from their African heritage
The National Origins Act of 1924
entirely banned immigration from east Asia to the United States
The policy idea behind "Dollar Diplomacy" was to
extend investments by the United States in less developed regions
During the 1920's, most American industrial workers experienced all of the following EXCEPT
few opportunities to join a company union
American agriculture at the turn of the century benefited from
foreign crop failures
The so-called "Zimmermann telegram"
included a proposal for the return of the American Southwest to Mexico
The Sabotage Act and the Sedition Act of 1918
made illegal any public expression opposing the war
In the 1920's, "behavioral" psychologists argued
mental ailments could be improved by treating their symptoms
Thorstein Veblen argued that
modern cities should rely on a handful of experts to solve their social problems
In the workplace, the "open shop" meant
no worker was required to join a union
In 1918, President Wilson's "Fourteen Points" received significant political support from
none of these answers are correct
During the 1920's, the Klu Klux Klan
opposed the existing diversity of American society
In 1913, to offset the loss of revenues from other legislation, Congress
passed a graduated income tax
The recall and the direct primary progressive-era political reforms were designed to weaken
political parties
The Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921
provided federal funds for child health care programs
In the 1920's bestseller, The Man Know body Knows, Jesus Christ was portrayed as
salesman
Throughout the 1920's, the performance of the U.S economy
saw nearly uninteruppted prosperity coupled with severe inequalities
The author of The Influence of Sea Power upon History believed the United States
should take possession of the Hawaiian Islands.
The initiative and referendum were progressive-era political reforms designed to weaken the power of
state legislatures.
The 1904 "Roosevelt Corollary"
stated that the US had a right to intervene in the affairs of neighboring countries
In the aftermath of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York City,
strict regulations were imposed on factory owners.
In mid-1916, President Woodrow Wilson
strongly supported a rapid increase of the nation's armed forces
As the United States entered World War 1, its most immediate military effect was in
the Atlantic Ocean
In March 1917, the United States moved closer to entering the Great War when
the Bolsheviks came to power in Russia
In the 1920's, a growing interest in birth control among middle-class women resulted from
the attitude that sexual activity should not be for procreation only
To Herbert Hoover, "associationalism" meant
the creation of national organizations of businessmen in particular industries
Criticisms within the United States of American colonialism included all of the following EXCEPT that
the financial costs of administering colonies would require burdensome taxes
In 1896, the major economic issue for William McKinley's administration was
the need for higher tariff rates
In the 1920's, the development of practical radio communication was furthered by
the theory of modulation
During the Harding administration, the Teapot Dome scandal involved
transfers of national oil reserves
In the 1920's, "welfare capitalism"
was a paternalistic approach used by corporate leaders on their workers
The 1913 Underwood-Simmons Tariff
was intended to weaken the power of business trusts.
During the 1920's, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
was one of the few unions led by African Americans
Throughout the late nineteenth century, the federal government
was relatively inactive
The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890
was used by the federal government against labor unions.
At the turn of the twentieth century, progressive activists
were "antimonopoly" and feared concentrated power