U.S. History Exam MC 2.0
The treaty that ended the Spanish-American War and gave the United States the Philippines narrowly passed the U.S. Senate.T/F
True
The event that triggered World War I in Europe was:
a Serb's assassination of the Austrian archduke
The Seventeenth Amendment:
authorized the popular election of U.S. senators
The NAACP emphasized:
legal action against discrimination
Not being able to convict Al Capone on bootlegging charges, the federal government convicted him for:
tax evasion
As a result of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia:
the country concluded a separate peace with Germany
The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was based mainly on:
"100 percent Americanism"
The amendment to the constitution that barred the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors was ratified in:
1919
In physics, the theory of relativity was developed and explained by
Albert Einstein
To what did Wilson refer when he spoke of "the heart of the League"?
Article X, which would pledge members to consult on military and economic sanctions against aggressors
7. William H. Taft achieved the most significant tariff reduction of any progressive president.T/F
False
Progressives generally believed government should not interfere with big business.T/F
False
The NAACP favored militant protests over legal challenges as a way to end racial discrimination.T/F
False
The Scopes "monkey trial" sought to keep the theory of evolution in science classrooms in Tennessee.T/F
False
The United States purchased Alaska from Great Britain.T/F
False
The Zimmermann telegram, sent to the Mexican government from the White House, was intercepted by the Germans.T/F
False
One of the following pairs consists of two countries that were not members of the Triple Entente. Answer Selected Answer: Italy and Austria-Hungary
Italy and Austria-Hungary
The first major victory for American forces in the Spanish-American War was at:
Manila Bay
Which amendment to the constitution gave women the right to vote?
Nineteenth
With the Boxer Rebellion, all of the following occurred EXCEPT:
Secretary of State Hay abandoned the Open Doo
Who was president when the United States acquired the right to build a canal across Panama?
Theodore Roosevel
Who said, "Speak softly, and carry a big stick"?
Theodore Roosevelt
The United States agreed to pay $10 million plus $250,000 a year for the Panama Canal Zone.T/F
True
_______________ eventually became chief justice of the Supreme Court in 1921.
William Howard Taf
Contrary to his party's tradition, President Taft called for:
a lower tariff
President Wilson's response to the sinking of the Lusitania:
as a series of notes demanding that Germany stop such actions and pay reparations
The Zimmermann telegram:
asked for help from Mexico in the case of war between Germany and the United States
All of these innovations changed warfare during World War I EXCEPT:
blockades
The term yellow journalism arose from the:
circulation war between two New York newspapers
Under the Espionage and Sedition Acts of 1917-1918:
criticism of government leaders or war policies became a crime
The muckrakers saw their primary objective as:
exposing social problems to the public
Despite the fact that the Great War generated many changes in female employment, these changes were:
limited and brief
In the progressive period:
many groups—blacks, the poor, the unorganized—had little influence
In 1917, a prohibition amendment to the Constitution:
passed Congress, then went to the states for ratification
In his first term as president, Wilson did all of the following EXCEPT:
refused to support a federal amendment for women's suffrage
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 Red Scare of 1919-1920 was directed against:
socialists and communists
The Roosevelt Corollary:
stated that the United States could intervene in the affairs of Western Hemisphere countries to forestall the intervention of other powers
Modernism waned by the end of the 1920s because:
the Great Depression overwhelmed the cultural alienation of the 1920s
A major factor in Woodrow Wilson's victory in the 1912 presidential campaign was the fact that:
the Republican party had split in two
What was the virulent menace that Americans faced in the postwar period and that caused more casualties than the war itself?
the Spanish flu
Western imperialism in the late nineteenth century was stimulated by all of the following EXCEPT:
the fear that Bolshevik ideas might advance around the globe
The Act of Algeciras did all of the following EXCEPT:
took place in Tunisia
What gave World War I its lasting character?
trench warfare
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"
