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During the coal strike of 1902:
President Theodore Roosevelt won support for his use of the "big stick" against corporations
During the Progressive Era:
Roosevelt proved that the president ultimately has his hands tied
Ethnic conflict in Central Europe led the Austro-Hungarian Empire's determination to stop the expansionism of:
Serbia
Ida M. Tarbell is best known for her investigation of:
Standard Oil
The issue that provoked an open break between Taft and Roosevelt was:
Taft's firing of Pinchot
All of these innovations changed warfare during World War I EXCEPT:
Blockades
During the midterm elections of 1918:
Democrats lost control of both houses of Congress
The title of the novel that described the terrible conditions of the meatpacking industry was:
The Jungle
During the early twentieth century, the nation's century-long isolation from European conflicts:
Ended
Of the four presidential candidates in 1912, the one most likely to advocate government ownership of big business was:
Eugene V. Debs
Former president Theodore Roosevelt was one of the biggest supporters of the League of Nations.
False
Progressives generally believed government should not interfere with big business.
False
The Great Migration, a mass movement that would continue through the 1920s, changed the political and social chemistry of southern cities.
False
The French premier during World War I was:
Georges Clemenceau
Which of the following is true of the Lusitania?
It secretly carried weapons and ammunition in its cargo
Which candidate was shot during the 1912 presidential campaign?
Theodore Roosevelt
Among the varied sources of progressivism were populism and the ideals of the Mugwumps.
True
Many immigrant groups in the United States supported the Central Powers in the European war.
True
The phrase "Square Deal" is associated with Theodore Roosevelt.
True
Theodore Roosevelt took a strong activist approach to the presidency.
True
Woodrow Wilson was a minister's son who grew up in the South
True
Wilson's Fourteen Points endorsed all of the following EXCEPT:
U.S. colonies in Africa and Asia
Of the following, who eventually became chief justice of the Supreme Court?
William Howard Taft
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
In negotiating with the Big Four over many postwar territorial issues, President Wilson:
had to abandon his lofty principle of national self-determination
The Red Scare of 1919-1920 reflected the:
impact of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia on the United States as a wave of labor strikes and race riots spread
The Spanish flu epidemic:
killed more than ten times the number of Americans that died of combat deaths in France
For all of his accomplishments and abilities, Woodrow Wilson had:
little experience in international relations before he was elected president
Between 1914 and 1918, World War I was directly responsible for the deaths of:
over 20 million people, both military and civilian
As president, Taft:
preserved more public lands in four years than Roosevelt had in nearly eight
Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom platform:
proposed vigorous anti-trust action to break up corporate concentration
The Treaty of Versailles did all of the following EXCEPT:
require veterans' pensions to be paid by their home countries
The Federal Reserve Act did all of the following EXCEPT:
shifted the U.S. Treasury back to the gold standard
WCTU:
stood for Women's Christian Temperance Union
What was the virulent menace that Americans faced in the postwar period that caused more casualties than the war itself?
the Spanish flu
The first place in the United States to extend equal voting rights to women was:
the Wyoming Territory
The Zimmermann telegram:
urged the Mexican government to invade the United States
Russian participation in World War I ended:
with the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
At the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in 1911:
workers died as a result of a fire
