MP3 Quarterly study guide
At the Paris Peace Conference, Wilson sought all of the following goals EXCEPT...
AN IMMEDIATE END to the European colonial holdings in AFRICA AND ASIA
(Populist party balloon) The cartoon suggests that the groups that favored the People's or Populist Party typically shared which of the following?
Belief in a stronger federal government role in the U.S. economic system
President Wilson's progressive reform stopped short of what group of people?
Blacks
(Political cartoon-people holding up industrialists) The image was created most directly in response to what?
Consolidation of corporations into trusts and holding companies
Which one of the following factors played the largest role in increasing the settlement of the Great Plains?
Construction of railroads
What did vertical integration like the carnegie steel corporation accomplish?
Controlled every step of industrial production to increase efficiency and lower competition
What was the precipitating factor in the 1894 Pullman Strike
Cutting of wages without proportionate cuts in company housing rents
Why were the deepest economic problems faced by the most western farmers in the last 19th century?
Deflation and lower prices for their products
All of the following are true of the election of 1896 EXCEPT...
Democrats were led by the sitting president
What were African Americans who fled the violence of the reconstruction south in 1879 and 1880 to start anew in Kansas known as?
Exodusters
What was the U.S. doing when it adopted the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote?
Following the other already taken by wartime governments like Britain and Germany and stats like New York, Michigan, Oklahoma, and South Dakota
What term do scholars use to describe national politics from 1896-1932
Fourth Party System
The Compromise of 1877 resulted in all of the following EXCEPT...
Giving Republicans control of federal patronage in the south
What did Booker T. Washington believe was the key for African Americans to achieve social and political equality?
Improve themselves through education, industrial training, and business ownership
Which of the following statements about the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine is true?
It stipulated that the U.S. could INTERVENE in the domestic affairs of Latin American nations
(Graph) The chart above supports which of the following conclusions regarding economic conditions in the U.S. during the last third of the 19th century?
Many American farmers struggled financially
All of the following were included in Woodrow Wilson's new freedom platform EXCEPT...
More government regulations of LARGE TRUSTS
(Cartoon-Guy against box) The cartoon above is a commentary on what in the late 19th century?
Municipal corruption
(Graph) Which is the following was a response to both immigration in the 1850's and the immigration depicted in the graph?
Nativitists advocated against the continued arrival of immigrants
Which of the following is NOT an example of a political reform made during the Progressive Era?
Party nominations conventions
Following the Spanish-American war, Cuban independence was protected with what?
Passage of the Teller Amendment
What did the supreme court declare with the Insular Cases?
Puerto Ricans and Filipinos were not afforded all American rights
What was the direct regular of the 1911 fire act at the Triangle Shirt Waste Factory?
Push for comprehensive SAFETY LAWS
What was the focus of the 1907 Gentlemens Agreement?
Reduce the number of immigrants coming to Japan
What did the 17th amendment do?
Senators elected to 6 year terms by popular vote
What was the significance of the supreme court's ruling in Plessi vs. Ferguson?
Separate but equal public facilities
President Wilson viewed America's entry into WWI as an opportunity for the U.S. to do what?
Shape a new INTERNATIONAL order based on the ideals of democracy
What ended the Reservation System?
The Dawes Severity Act
In the U.S., what was the most controversial aspect of the Treaty of Versailles?
The League of Nations
What essential theory was Teddy Roosevelt's Square Deal based on?
The federal government should've represent the public interest in the growing conflict between big businesses and labor
What spurred the Meat Inspection Act of 1906?
The publication of Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"
What best describes the relationship between the Democrats and the Republicans during the Guilded Age
They had few policy differences
Why did the secretary of state, John Hah, wrote the open door notes?
To convince the great world powers to respect Chinese rights
What was the desire of American business to control supplies of raw material at the end of the 19 century?
Vertical integration
When did president Wilson break diplomatic relations with Germany?
When Germany announced that it would wage unrestricted submarine warfare in the Atlantic
