Exam 2: True/False

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"Flappers" was the slang word for illegal drinking establishments in the 1920s

False

Conservative moralists saw the flappers as positive influence on society

False

Due to their belief in "freedom of the seas," the British allowed Americans to trade with Germany

False

Federal money for farm demonstration agents was approved in the Adamson Act

False

General Pershing's incursion into Mexico resulted in the defeat and capture of "Pancho" Villa

False

In the presidential election of 1916, Republicans used the slogan "He kept us out of war" to discredit Wilson.

False

Lincoln Steffens wrote The Jungle

False

President Wilson suffered a temporarily incapacitating stroke in France while negotiating the peace treaty

False

Progressives generally believed government should not interfere with big business

False

The Germans intercepted the Zimmermann telegram, sent to the Mexican government from the White House

False

The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was mainly a southern rural organization

False

The NAACP favored militant protests over legal challenges as a way to end racial discrimination

False

The Scopes "monkey trial" sought to keep the theory of evolution in science classrooms in Tennessee

False

Theodore Roosevelt initiated more anti-trust suits than any president in history

False

William H. Taft achieved the most significant tariff reduction of any progressive president

False

Wilson was a weak president who trusted Congress to adopt the proper policies

False

Women in "war work" were usually able to keep their jobs after the war

False

Woodrow Wilson was elected president in 1908

False

A French company dug a canal part of the way through Panama in the 1880s

True

Among the varied sources of progressivism were populism and the Mugwumps

True

During World War I, some American symphonies refused to perform Bach and Beethoven

True

During the 1920s, ideas of scientists about the nature of the universe inspired modernist artists to try new techniques

True

Eugene V. Debs was the Socialist party presidential candidate in 1912

True

Henry Cabot Lodge led the Senate Republicans who demanded amendments to the Treaty of Versailles

True

In the 1920s, people of Latin American descent became the fastest-growing ethnic minority in the United States

True

John Hay called Spanish-American War "a splendid little war"

True

Louis D. Brandeis was the first Jewish member of the United States Supreme Court

True

One of Taft's major issues became his support for high tariffs

True

Over four hundred thousand southern blacks moved northward during the war years

True

Philippe Bunau-Varilla was a Panamanian ambassador to the United States

True

Proponents of Prohibition displayed ethnic and social prejudices in the drive to make America "dry."

True

The Roaring Twenties pitted a cosmopolitan urban America against the values of an insular, rural America

True

The United States agreed to pay $10 million plus $250,000 a year for the Panama Canal Zone

True

The phrase "Square Deal" is associated with Theodore Roosevelt

True

Theodore Roosevelt gave muckrakers their name

True

Theodore Roosevelt took a strong, activist approach to the presidency

True

When Standard Oil refused to turn over its records, the government brought an anti-trust suit that resulted in the breakup of the huge company in 1911

True

William Jennings Bryan was the Democratic presidential candidate in l900

True

Woodrow Wilson was a minister's son who grew up in the South

True


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