A-Push Unit 7 Questions

One effect of the population changes that occurred nationwide from 1950 to 1990 was the

increased economic influence of the South and West

One major effect of the Second World War was increased opportunities for women in

industrial employment

In the 1960s, the policy referenced in the image was

overturned by the passage of new legislation

One stated objective of Woodrow Wilson's plan for peace after the First World War was to

promote the right of national self-determination

The Great Depression-era photograph above was taken with the goal of

publicizing the plight of migrant farmworkers and their families

Wilson's Fourteen Points incorporated all of the following EXCEPT

recognition of Allied economic and territorial agreements made during the war

During the Great Depression, "Hoovervilles" were

shantytowns of unemployed and homeless people

The developments referenced by the image most directly contributed to United States involvement in

the suppression of an independence movement in the Philippines

Woodrow Wilson hardened Senate opposition to the Treaty of Versailles by his refusal to compromise on the issue of

the unconditional adherence of the United States to the charter of the League of Nations

The economy described in the speech is most similar to the economy in which of the following decades?

1930s

Studies similar to Riis' were most effective in prompting action by the federal government during the

1960s

American participation in the Second World War had which of the following major effects on the home front?

A movement of women into factory work

The policy suggested in the image was most directly a response to

fears that immigrants were dangerous radicals or would increase competition for jobs

Which of the following arguments about Progressives could Muir's point of view best be used to support?

They were supportive of federal regulation of the economy in order to limit the impact of industrialization.

Which other "righteous cause" would participants in the Seneca Falls Convention have been most likely to support?

Abolitionism

Which of the following best explains an effect of the events described in the excerpt?

African American socioeconomic standing improved overall.

W. E. B. Du Bois differed in philosophy from Booker T. Washington in that Du Bois believed

African Americans should pursue immediate and full equality

Which of the following best describes the Harlem Renaissance?

An outpouring of Black artistic and literary creativity

Which of the following most likely contributed to the decline of the "political radicalism" referred to in the excerpt?

Anticommunist measures during the Cold War

The excerpt could best be used by historians to explain which of the following historical situations?

Attempts by the United States to use its power to influence postwar peace settlements

Members of which of the following groups would have been most likely to agree with the perspective expressed by Coolidge in the excerpt?

Business executives

Which of the following groups would have been most likely to oppose the policy suggested in the image?

Business executives and industrialists

Which of the following most directly contributed to "the sharp increase of immigration after 1845" referenced in the excerpt?

Crop failures and revolutions in Europe

Which of the following is true of American women during the Second World War?

Those who took industrial jobs learned new skills and earned better pay than in jobs previously open to them.

The point of view in the excerpt best supports which of the following historical arguments about United States involvement in the First World War before 1917 ?

United States policies favorable to Great Britain undercut American neutrality.

The excerpt's point of view best explains the issues in which of the following?

Debates about how to address the consequences of the war in the Pacific

The language and themes of the excerpt were most directly inspired by the

Declaration of Independence

The establishment of a stronger economic regulatory system during the Great Depression most closely reflected a continuity with which of the following?

Efforts to restrict the excesses of corporations during the Progressive Era

Which of the following groups of people would have been most likely to oppose Taylor's management ideas?

Factory workers

The policies passed in response to the Great Depression contributed to a change in which of the following earlier popular beliefs?

Government should be noninterventionist during economic downturns.

Which of the following could best be used as evidence to support the argument in the excerpt that "ethnic conflict among whites rivaled sectional conflict as a major political issue" of the period?

Growing concern about the political and cultural influence of Catholic immigrants

Which of the following groups was LEAST likely to have contributed to the trend in Chicago's population from 1890 to 1940 ?

Immigrants from eastern and southern Asia

Which of the following evidence best supports the claims made in the excerpt?

Immigration from Europe peaked in the early decades of the twentieth century.

The excerpt best serves as evidence in support of which of the following arguments about the home front during and after the First World War?

Increased anxieties about political radicalism led to restrictions on the freedom of speech.

The excerpt is best understood as a response to which of the following historical developments?

Industrialization

Which of the following ways best explains how the United States attempted to influence the outside world following the conclusion of the First World War?

It used trade and investment in order to maintain international connections.

In the period from 1900 to 1921, which of the following groups made up the largest share of immigration to the United States?

Italians and Poles

Which of the following best explains the factor that prompted United States involvement in military actions during the Second World War?

Japan conducted a surprise attack on a United States military base

Which of the following factors most likely contributed to the trend in Chicago's population from 1890 to 1940 ?

Job opportunities in industry

Which of the following can best be concluded about United States involvement in the First World War based on the point of view expressed in the excerpt?

Joining the war was a departure from the traditional foreign policy of nonintervention.

Which of the following best explains a context for the development depicted in the excerpt?

Urban centers provided African Americans with opportunities for artistic expression.

Which of the following groups would have been most likely to support the ideas expressed in the image?

Managers and owners of business enterprises

Which of the following best explains Lodge's point of view on markets in the excerpt?

Many Americans believed that acquiring island territories would encourage economic development.

Which of the following best explains the historical situation that caused opponents of Lodge to call arguments such as the ones in the excerpt "sordid"?

Many Filipinos joined a nationalist movement seeking independence from the United States.

Which of the following best explains how actions such as those described in the excerpt affected wartime mobilization?

Many women experienced new economic and social opportunities.

Which of the following groups is most credited with advancing Progressivism?

Middle-class women

Which of the following factors was most likely responsible for the change in Chicago's population from 1950 to 1990 ?

Migration to the suburbs and surrounding regions

Which of the following most directly refutes the argument presented in the third paragraph of the excerpt?

Nativist campaigns led to the passage of quotas that restricted immigration from Europe and Asia.

The purpose of the excerpt is best explained as promoting which of the following?

Negotiating a peaceful settlement in China to limit Soviet influence after the Second World War

The ideas expressed in the excerpt by Coolidge were most similar to the ideas of which of the following?

New conservatives in the 1980s

Which of the following best explains a result of the developments described in the excerpt?

New employment opportunities opened up for African Americans in industrial and defense industries.

Which of the following best explains a long-term result of the development depicted in the excerpt?

New forms of mass media contributed to the spread of national culture.

Which of the following contributed to Hubert's criticism in the excerpt of White Americans who visited Harlem in the 1920s?

Ongoing public debates over how to improve race relations

Which of the following movements expressed ideas most similar to the ideas expressed in the excerpt?

Populism in the 1890s and early 1900s

In the excerpt, Coolidge was reacting most directly against

Progressive efforts to regulate the economy

The ideas of the Populist Party, as expressed in the excerpt, had the most in common with the ideas of the

Progressive movement

Governmental policies enacted during the New Deal most strongly demonstrate a continuity with which of the following earlier developments?

Progressive reformers demanded stricter regulation of the economy.

The ideas expressed in the excerpt most clearly reflect the ideals of which of the following?

Progressivism

After the war, propaganda such as that employed by the image was used to help justify which of the following policies?

Red Scare prosecutions

Which of the following arguments could best be supported by the purpose of the excerpt?

Reformers encouraged the more active protection of natural resources.

Democratic Party support by a new coalition of workers and African Americans during the 1930s was most similar to that of

Republican Party support following the Civil War

Which of the following would have been most likely to support the sentiments expressed by Addams in the excerpt?

Settlement house workers

Before moving to Chicago, the people described in the excerpt most likely were engaged in which of the following?

Sharecropping or tenant farming

A limitation of the excerpt as evidence of the reasons for United States entry into the First World War was that it

expressed opposition to war with Germany

The concerns Addams raises in the excerpt were most directly a reaction to which of the following?

Social injustice and rising economic inequality

In the period 1890-1915, all of the following were generally true about African Americans EXCEPT:

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) endorsed the Back-to-Africa movement.

Which of the following explains the historical situation that led Lodge to deliver the speech in the excerpt?

The United States came to control new colonial possessions after the Spanish-American War.

Which of the following best explains United States foreign policy between the First World War and the Second World War?

The United States followed an isolationist policy in order to avoid becoming involved in another conflict abroad.

Which of the following occurred on the home front during the First World War?

The United States public expressed widespread anti-German sentiment.

(Courtesy of the Library of Congress) Which of the following most directly led to the circumstances illustrated by the image?

The United States victory in the Spanish-American War

Which of the following most immediately increased enthusiasm in the United States for upholding the freedoms outlined in the excerpt?

The attack on the United States at Pearl Harbor

Addams' ideas expressed in the excerpt have most in common with which of the following historical views about women?

The belief of some mid-nineteenth-century reformers that women could act as the moral voice in society

Which of the following contexts most directly contributed to the trend in immigration described in the first paragraph of the excerpt?

The continued transition of the United States from an agricultural economy to an industrial economy

Those who shared Powell's perspective most likely opposed which of the following developments in the United States?

The creation of social welfare and regulatory agencies under the New Deal and Great Society

The development depicted in the excerpt had most in common with which of the following earlier developments?

The expansion of the telegraph system during the Gilded Age

Which of the following most directly contributed to Roosevelt's view that "freedom from want" was necessary?

The experience of domestic and global economic upheavals during the 1930s

The impact of the Great Depression on agriculture in the United States continued which of the following trends?

The farm labor force diminished in size as the economy industrialized.

The excerpt best reflects which of the following changes to United States society compared to previous periods?

The growth of a consumer culture that emphasized leisure time

Which of the following best describes the relationship of ideas such as those in the excerpt to the broader Progressive reform movement of the era?

The ideas in the excerpt challenged the racial stereotypes held by many White Progressive reformers.

Patterns of migration in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s were most similar to which of the following earlier patterns of migration?

The immigration of Europeans to Northern cities in the United States during the Gilded Age

The ideas expressed in the excerpt are best situated within which of the following broader historical contexts?

The impact of the transition of the United States from an agricultural to an industrial economy

The excerpt best reflects which of the following developments by the 1920s?

The movement of African Americans during the Great Migration

The conflict described in the excerpt is most similar to conflict in what other period?

The period from after the First World War through the 1920s

Which of the following best describes the experience of Americans of Japanese descent during the Second World War?

They were forced from their homes and businesses on the West Coast into detention camps.

Taylor's ideas expressed in the excerpt emerged most directly in response to which of the following developments in the United States?

The rise of industrial capitalism

The excerpt could best be used to explain the significance of which of the following historical situations?

The role of journalism in reform movements

Which of the following is true of women in the 1920s?

Women's political activism declined despite their gain of the right to vote.

In the decades following the Civil War, the woman's rights movement that began at Seneca Falls focused its energies most strongly on

achieving the right to vote

When war broke out in Europe in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson established a policy that called for

acknowledgment of American neutral rights on the high seas

Roosevelt's speech was most likely intended to increase public support for

aiding the Allies in Europe during the Second World War

The excerpt suggests that Progressives in the early twentieth century most typically sought to

challenge political inequality

Progressive reformers rejected Social Darwinism because they believed that

conflict and competition did not necessarily improve society

Beveridge's speech was written in the context of

debates in the aftermath of war with Spain

The ideas expressed in the excerpt were most directly motivated by the

devastation left by the Second World War

The "political radicalism" referred to in the excerpt was most directly a response to the experience of

economic depression

The American home front in the Second World War is best described as

economically invigorated by military spending

By the 1910s, the conditions described in the excerpt were most addressed by

efforts of middle-class reformers

The ideas expressed in the excerpt most directly contributed to the

emergence of organizations pursuing equality for African Americans

The methods used to express the ideas in the public service announcements have the most in common with those of female activists who

engaged in Progressive Era reform movements

American writers of the 1920's have often been called the "lost generation" because they

were disillusioned with the course of American life