History Exam II

The 17th Amendment:

authorized the popular election of senators

Why did Theodore Roosevelt send the "Great White Fleet" on a world tour between 1907 & 1909?

to demonstrate that the United States was now a world power

Which was the first labor strike to end with the president intervening on behalf of the workers?

1894 Pullman Strike

Which two New Deal programs did the Supreme Court rule unconstitutional?

Agricultural Adjustment Act and National Recovery Administration

The government that best characterizes the Great Depression:

Brother can you spare a dime

What country does this political cartoon represent?

China

The Ludlow massacre was a tragic confrontation between:

Colorado mine workers and militia

Of the four presidential candidates in 1912, the one most likely to advocate government ownership of big business was:

Eugen Debbs

A frank acceptance of the benefits of bigness, coupled with the intervention of government to counteract its abuses, best describes the philosophy behind:

New Nationalism

Progressives supported all of the following as measures to democratize government EXCEPT the:

Poll tax

Which of the following is the message of this political cartoon?

That the naval officers aboard the USS Maine were murdered by the Spanish

Which act barred commercial banks from becoming involved in the buying and selling of stocks?

The Glass-Steagall Act

Which speakers statement is most directly related to the political concepts of initiative, referendum, and recall?

The best way to prevent corruption in government is to allow citizens a direct role in the legislative process

What answer below is the best definition of what the Progressive Era means?

The period 1890-1920 when many diverse groups in American society launched efforts to reform or eliminate the many social problems resulting from industrialization, immigration and urbanization

What position did the Populist Party take on laissez-faire economics?

They opposed laissez-faire economics because it rejected government regulation

What ended the Great Depression?

World War II spending

The Industrial Workers of the World:

advocated a workers revolution

On April 2, 1917, Woodrow Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war:

against Germany: to make the world safe for democracy

The War Industries Board:

all of these

The new concepts of a "living wage: and the "American standard of living":

allowed for criticism of the inequalities of wealth and power

The New South as promoted by Henry Grady:

attempted to appeal to northern business interests but failed to bring prosperity to the region

What did the "Gospel of Wealth" suggest as an answer to the inequality Carnegie observed?

benefactors should use their wealth to create greater economic opportunity

The Triandle Shirtwaist fire:

brought in its wake increased union organizing among New York City garment workers and much needed saftey legislation

The "Declaration of Principles" adopted by W.E Du Bois's Niagara Movement:

called for complete economic and education equality

The Populist platform:

called for government control of the economy

Railroads were to the late 19th century what _______ were to the 1920's

cars

Asian and Mexican immigrants in the early 20th century:

clustered in the West as agriculture workers

Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis:

crafted an intellectual defense of civil liberties in the 1920's

The Wagner Act:

created the National Labor Relations Board

Besides work and school the most active agents of Americanization during the 1920's were:

dance halls, department stores, and movie theaters

The term "Fordism":

described an economic system based on mass production and mass consumption

The Teller Amendment:

disavowed any American designs on Cuban territory

The impact of the second industrial revolution on the trans-Mississippi West was

dramatic as an agricultural empire grew

As a result of the Spanish-AMerican War, the United States:

emerged as an imperial power

Booker T. Washington

encouraged black to adjust to segregation and abandon the rush for civil rights

The Interstate Commerce Commission was established in 1887 to:

ensure that railroads charged farmers and merchants reasonable and fair rates

The change in the rate of unemployment between 1941 and 1942 is best explained by the:

entry of the U.S into World War II

The National Industrial Recovery Act:

established codes that set standards for production, prices, and wages in several industries

During World War I, federal powers:

expanded greatly

Agriculture in the 1920's:

experienced declining incomes and increased bank foreclosures

The Ku Klux Klan:

flourished in the early 1920's especially in the North and West

During the 1920's:

government policies reflected the pro-business ethos of the decade

In negotiating with the Big Four over many postwar territorial issues, President Wilson:

had to compromise his principle of self determination

Why did FDR try to change the balance on the Supreme Court?

he feared the Supreme Court might invalidate the Wagner and Social Security Acy

The Red Scare of 1919-1920 reflected the:

impact of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and the actions of militants in the U.S

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 interests

The New Deal:

included a reliance on economic planning

The Great Depression was caused by all of the following EXCEPT:

increased government regulation of banking and the stock market

What changes led to the inequality Carnegie described during the late 19th century?

increasing industrialization and economic consolidation

Thomas Edison:

invented among other things, a system for generating and distributing electricity

The election of 1896:

is sometimes called the first modern presidential campaign

One of the reasons that the Great Strike of 1977 was important is that:

it underscored the tensions proved by the rapid industrialization of the time

Many of the nations colonized were rich in natural resources. How did Social Darwinists view the mining of natural resources in these colonized lands?

it was their right to take what they wanted

The "clear and present danger" principle stated by the Supreme Court in Schenck v. United States (1919) had the effect of:

limiting freedom of speech during wartime

All of the following contributed to explosive economic growth during the Gilded Age EXCEPT:

low tariffs

The economic development of the American West was based on:

lumber, mining industries, farming and ranching

The Reconstruction Finance Corporation:

made loans to failing businesses

In the early 20th century, the Socialist Party advocated for all of the following EXCEPT:

national health insurance

During the Progressive Era:

new immigration from southern and eastern Europe reached its peak

During the Roosevelt administration, the Democratic Party emerged into a coalition that included all of the following EXCEPT:

northern business elite

In the 1890's, the main goal of those who supported United States imperialism was to:

obtain overseas markets and naval bases

The Industrial Workers of the World and most of the Socialist Party:

opposed the war

Senator Huey Long, Dr. Francis Townsend, and Father Charles Coughlin are best known as:

outspoken critics of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal

This pair of photographs suggests that the major purposes of the Carlisle Indian School was to:

promote cultural assimilation

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 Soviet Union, the United States:

pursued a policy of anticommunism that would remain at the center of American foreign policy during the 20th century

THe Civilian Conservation Corps:

put younger men to work in national parks

The silver issue:

refers to increasing the money supply by minting silver money

American foreign policy during the 1920's:

reflected the close working relationship between government and business

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 Federal Reserve System was created in 1913 to:

regulate the nation's money supply

Keynesian economics:

relied on large-scale government spending

The Espionage Act (1917) and the Sedition Act (1918):

restricted freedom of speech

The program that sought to streamline production and boost profits by systematically controlling costs and work practices was called:

scientific management

The Federal Reserve Act did all of the following EXCEPT:

shifted the U.S Treasury back to the gold standard

Which generalization about labor unions in the United States is most clearly supported by information on the map?

striked by labor unions were often suppressed by government actions

A major difference between the philosophies of President Herbert Hoover and President Franklin D. Roosevelt in responding to the Great Depression is that Roosevelt:

supported direct relief to people out of work

The Supreme Court decision United States v. Wong Kim Ark ruled that:

the 14th Amendment gave Asians born in the United States citizenship

What political policy or situation is satirized in this cartoon?

the Open Door Policy

Western Imperialism in the late 19th century was stimulated by all of the following EXCEPT:

the fear that Bolshevik ideas might advance around the world

Farmers believed that their plight derived from all of the following EXCEPT:

the free and unlimited coinage of silver

A major reason that the U.S annexed the Philippines despite anti-imperialist opposition in the U.S was because:

the islands were located very close to China and China's potential markets

An unintended consequence of the Boston Police riots in 1919 led to:

the launching of Calvin Coolidge's presidential career

The theory of Social Darwinism argued that:

the theory of evolution applied to humans, this explaining why some were rich and some were poor

What impact did the Indian boarding schools have on Native American culture?

they accelerated the cultural assimilation process although not in a uniform fashion

What was the aim of Carlisle, a boarding school for Indians?

to civilize the Indians, making them "American" as whites defined the term

How were federal troops used in the Pullman Strike of 1894?

to help suppress strikers on behalf of the owners

In the presidential election of 1916, Woodrow Wilson:

used the campaign slogan "he kept us out of war"

The Supreme Court in Lochner v. New York:

voided a state law establishing that bakers could work a maximum of sixty hours per week

THis cartoon shows is accurately described by all of the following statement EXCEPT:

was last a political issue when Woodrow Wilson tried to get liberal justices on the court to protect Progressive legislation

The sever depression of 1893:

was marked by high and long term unemployment, exemplified by Coxey's Army

In the 19th century pools, trusts, and mergers were:

ways that manufacturers sought to control the marketplace

By the end of the 19th century, African American men in the South:

were forced out of politics and leadership passed to African AMerican women activists such as those in the National Association of Colored Women