APUSH 23-27 Unit Test
The Klu Klux Klan of the 1920s was based mainly on
"100 percent Americanism"
Jane Addams called the impulse to found settlement houses
"Christian humanitarianism"
According to the discussion in Howard Zinn's chapter, 'War is the Health of the State," the leaflets distributed by Charles Schenck believed the Conscription Act violated which amendment?
13th Amendment
Which amendment gave women the right to vote?
19th
The "yellow peril" was:
A racially charged description of Japan
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Argued that sea power was essential to national greatness
The Zimmermann telegram
Asked for help from Mexico in the case of war between Germany and the United States
As a result of the Spanish-American War, the United States
Became a world power
The term "yellow journalism" arose from the:
Circulation war between two New York newspapers
In the midterm elections of 1918
Democrats lost control of both houses of Congress
Eugene V. Debs was arrested for violating the Espionage Act because which group was part of his audience in Ohio?
Draft-age youths
The Roaring Twenties was dubbed "the Jazz Age" by
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Which of the following is NOT associated with the Harlem Renaissance?
Gertrude Stein
Which of the following is NOT true of the "American plan" concept of employment?
It promised a more democratic work environment than most other shops
One of the following pairs consist of two countries that were NOT members of the Triple Entente.
Italy and Austria-Hungary
As a result of the Scope trial
John Scopes was found guilty of teaching evolution
The first major victory for American forces in the Spanish-American War was at
Manila Bay
When news of the European war first reached the United States
Most high government officials were pro-British
Queen Liliuokalani
Opposed the Americanization of Hawaii
The United States acquired all of the following as a result of the Spanish-American War EXCEPT
Panama
When Americans led an overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy in the early 1890s
President Cleveland refused to annex Hawaii to the United States
During the coal strike
President Theodore Roosevelt won support for his use of the "big stick" against big business
The Open Door policy
Proposed that foreign powers keep the China trade open to all nations on an equal basis
For violating the Espionage Act, Socialist leader Eugene Debs
Received a ten-year prison term
All of these innovations changed warfare during World War I EXCEPT
Required veterans' pensions to be paid by their home country
Which of the following statements regarding coal is NOT true?
Roosevelt once bellowed that "the Constitution is more important than coal!"
The Red Scare of 1919-1920 was directed against
Socialists and Communists
The subject of "Wealth against Commonwealth" was
Standard Oil
The Roosevelt Corollary
Stated that the United States could intervene in the affairs of Western Hemisphere countries to forestall the intervention of other powers
Which of the following was NOT part of Warren Harding's presidency?
Supporting progressive legislation
The issue that provoked an open break between Taft and Roosevelt was
Taft's anti-trust suit against United States Steel
The Open Door policy was rooted in the self-interest of American businessmen and their desire to exploit Chinese markets, but it also
Tapped the deep-seated sympathies of those who opposed imperialism
What liberated the Philippines from Japanese occupation?
The Jones Act
Which of the following is the best interpretation from this "Puck" cartoon?
The Spanish government's misrule has produced anarchy in Cuba.
President Roosevelt sent troops to support Panamanian rebels in the fight against Colombia so that
The United States could build a canal in Panama at a lower price
Which of the following was NOT a cause of the Depression?
The gold standard caused a tightening of the currency supplies worldwide
All of the following were put forward as reasons for the United States annexing the Philippines EXCEPT:
The large oil and coal deposits in the Philippines
Who said, "Speak softly, and carry a big stick?"
Theodore Roosevelt
Who was the president when the United States acquired the right to build a canal across Panama?
Theodore Roosevelt
Why were Sacco and Vanzetti tried, found guilty, and later executed according to Howard Zinn?
They were anarchists and foreigners
Wilson's Fourteen Points endorsed all the following EXCEPT
U.S. colonies in Africa and Asia
The treaty ending the Spanish-American War
Was opposed by most Democrats and Populists
The battleship Maine
Was the source of a battle cry in the Spanish-American war
The publisher of the New York Journal was
William Randolph Hearst
Contrary to his party's tradition, President Taft called for
a lower tariff
Hoover's early efforts to end the Depression included
asking businessmen to maintain wages and avoid layoffs, in order to keep purchasing power strong
The Seventeenth Amendment
authorized the popular election of U.S. senators
The federal Emergency Relief Act
avoided a direct dole to individuals
The election of 1912 brought about all of the following EXCEPT:
brought the same man to the White House in nonconsecutive terms
The Scopes trial
concerned state law that prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools
Under the Espionage and Sedition Acts of 1917-1918
criticism of government leaders or war policies became a crime
The theories of relativity and quantum physics led people to
deny the relevance of absolute values in society at large
The novels of Ernest Hemingway
depicted the cult of athletic masculinity and a desperate search for life
The culture of modernism was characterized by
developments in science that challenged perceptions of certainty
What was the major cause of the St. Louis riot in 1917?
employment in a defense factory
In his first term as president, Wilson did all of the following EXCEPT
failed to reorganize the banking system
The immigration quota laws passed in the 1920's
favored immigrants from northern and western Europe
In the 1920s, farm pirces
fell sharply
The National Child Labor Committee pushed:
for laws banning the widespread employment of young children
In negotiating with the Big Four over many postwar territorial issues, President Wilson
had to compromise his principle of national self-determination
President Wilson's secretary of state resigned in 1915 because: Ref: American neutrality strained
he thought Wilson's note to Germany denouncing the sinking of the Lusitania would draw America closer to war
Charles Lindbergh became immensely popular in the 1920s due to
his solo flight across the Atlantic
The 1919 police strike in Boston
inadvertently launched a presidential career
The biggest scandal of the Harding administration
involved leasing government-owned oil deposits to private companies
Despite the fact that the Great War generated many changes in female employment, these changes were
limited and brief
In the presidential election of 1916, the Republicans
lost by a small margin
The tariff policy of the early 1920s
made it hard for other nations to sell to the United States
In the progressive period
many groups—blacks, the poor, the unorganized—had little influence
In his 1920 campaign for president, Warren Harding said the country needed a return to
normalcy
The southern literary renaissance came about because
of the conflict between southern traditions and modern commercialism
The Federal Highways Act
passed in 1916
The congressional resolution for American entry into World War I
passed overwhelmingly
Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom platform
proposed vigorous anti-trust action to break up corporate concentration
Coolidge's administration was marked by
prosperity
Which of the following best describes the method used by most progressives to solve the problem of economic power and its abuses?
regulate big business
The German delegation at Versailles objected most bitterly to
reparations for the entire war
The 1924 immigration law
set strict yearly limits on the number of immigrants allowed into the country
The Federal Reserve Act did all of the following EXCEPT:
shifted the U.S. Treasury back to the gold standard
A major factor in Woodrow Wilson's victory in the 1912 presidential campaign was the fact that
the Republican party had split in two
After Congress' declaration of war, which group called it, "a crime against the people of the United States?"
the Socialist Party
Part of the reason for the stock market crash was
the buying of great amounts of stock on margin
As a result of the Bolshevik Revolition in Russia
the country concluded a separate peace with Germany
Progressives supported all of the following as measures to democratize government EXCEPT
the poll tax
Harding's administration is most remembered for
the scandals that plagued it
The Gastonia strike of 1929 resulted in
the violet crushing of the strike by the National Guard
Of all of the causes of the stock market crash of October 1929, the greatest culprit was
the weak foundation of the 1920s economy
Congress established the Bureau of Corporations
to monitor the activities of interstate corporations
What gave World War I its lasting character?
trench warfare
n the case of Schenck v. United States, the Supreme Court
upheld the conviction of a man who had circulated pamphlets against the draft
In the area of conservation, Theodore Roosevelt
used the Forest Reserve Act to withdraw over 170 million acres of timberland from logging
In the case of Lochner v. New York, the Supreme Court
voided a state-legislated ten-hour day because it violated workers' "liberty of contract"
William Howard Taft
was Roosevelt's choice as his successor
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 Universal Negro Improvement Association
was led by Marcus Garvey
Some 8,000 American troops landed in Russia in 1918
when Russia signed a separate peace treaty with Germany
As president, Taft
withdrew more public lands in four years than Roosevelt had in nearly eight
President Taft's domestic policies generated a storm of controversy
within his own party
Carrie Chapman Catt was best known for her achievements promoting
women's suffrage
At the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in 1911
workers died as a result of a fire
Frederick W. Taylor
wrote "The Principles of Scientific Management"