Exam #3
During the coal strike of 1902:
President Theodore Roosevelt won support for his use of the "big stick" against corporations
Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom platform:
Proposed vigorous anti-trust action to break up corporate concentration
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 Treaty of Versailles did all of the following EXCEPT:
Require veteran's pensions to be paid by their home country
The originator of the "Wisconsin idea" of efficient government was:
Robert M. La Follette
The Waste Land, a poem that became the favorite of many modernist readers because of its sense of disillusionment and its suggestion of burned-out civilization, was written by:
T.S. Eliot
How many members of the KKK allegedly have at its peak?
As many as 4 million
Jazz:
Blended African and European musical traditions
All of these innovations changed warfare during World War I EXCEPT:
Blockades
The election of 1912 brought about all of the following EXCEPT:
Brought the same man to the White House in nonconsecutive terms
The Scopes trial:
Concerned a state law that prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools
Under the Espionage and Sedition Acts of 1917-1918:
Criticism of government leaders or war policies became a crime
The title of the novel that described the terrible conditions of the meat-packing industry was:
The Jungle
All of the following were prophets of modern art and literature EXCEPT:
Edward Bellamy
Which amendment to the constitution is known as the prohibition amendment?
Eighteenth
The Muckrackers saw their primary objective as:
Exposing social problems to the public
The Roaring Twenties was dubbed "the Jazz Age" by:
F Scott Fitzgerald
In his first term as president, Wilson did all the following EXCEPT:
Failed to reorganize the banking system
"Flappers" was the slang word for illegal drinking establishments in the 1920s
False
Due to their belief in "freedom of the seas", the British allowed Americans to trade with Germany
False
Former president Theodore Roosevelt was one of the biggest supporters of the League of Nations
False
General Pershing's incursion into Mexico resulted in the defeat and capture of "Pancho" Villa
False
In the presidential election of 1916, Republicans used the slogan "he kept us out of war" to discredit Wilson
False
One of Taft's major issues became his support for high tariffs
False
Paul Gauguin acknowledged that the upheavals of cultural modernism and the aftermath of the war produced "an epoch of progress"
False
Progressives generally believed the government should not interfere with big business
False
The KKK of the 1920s was mainly a southern rural organization
False
The NAACO was favored militant protests over legal challenges as a way to end racial discrimination
False
The Underwood-Simmons Tariff created the first regular federal income tax
False
The Zimmermann telegram, sent to the Mexican government from the White House, was intercepted by the Germans
False
The so-called Arabic Pledge involved Wilson's stand to stop North Africa's fall into chaos during the war
False
Theodore Roosevelt considered the Federal Trade Commission to be the corner stone of his program for big business
False
Wilson was a weak president who trusted Congress to adopt the proper policies
False
Women in "war work" were usually able to keep their jobs after the war
False
The immigration quota laws passed in the 1920s:
Favored immigrants from northern and western Europe
The 1920s "New Era" was created by advances in all he following EXCEPT:
Government-funded programs
Which of the following did W.E.B. Du Bois say is his opposition to Marcus Garvey?
He is "the most dangerous enemy of the Negro race...He is either a lunatic or a traitor."
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
Which of the following is true of the Lusitania?
It secretly carried weapons and ammunition in its cargo
One of the following pairs consists of two countries that were NOT members of the Triple Entente:
Italy and Austria-Hungary
The Spanish flu epidemic:
Killed nearly seven times the number of Americans as died of combat deaths in France
In physics, the development of quantum theory is most associated with:
Max Planck
Which of the following is NOT associated with the major battles in World War I?
Omaha Beach
As President, Taft:
Preserved more public lands in four years than Roosevelt had in nearly eight
All of these took place in 1917 EXCEPT:
The Paris Peace Conference
A major factor in Woodrow Wilson's victory in the 1912 presidential campaign was the fact that:
The Republican party had split in two
As a result of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia:
The country concluded a separate peace with Germany
The horrors of World War I accelerated:
The insurgency of modernism in the arts
The German delegation at Versailles objected most bitterly to:
The war guilt clause
Among the varied sources of progressivism were the Mugwumps.
True
During the 1920s, ideas of scientists about the nature of the universe inspired modernists artist to try new techniques
True
Henry Cabot Lodge led the Senate Republicans who demanded amendments to the Treaty of Versailles
True
In the 1920a, people of Latin America descent become the fastest-growing ethnic minority in the United States
True
Many immigrant groups in the United States supported the Central Powers in the European War
True
Over four hundred thousand southern blacks moved northward during the war years
True
Proponents of Prohibition displayed ethnic and social prejudices in the drive to make America "dry"
True
The major American prophets of modernist literature lived in Europe
True
The phrase " square deal" is associated with Theodore Roosevelt.
True
The roaring twenties pitted a cosmopolitan urban America against the values of an insular, rural America
True
Theodore Roosevelt gave muckrackers their name.
True
Theodore Roosevelt took a strong, activist approach to the presidency.
True
When Hemingway published his first novel, The Sun Also Rises (1926), he used the phrase "lost generation" as the book's epigraph
True
When Standard Oil refused to turn over its records, the government brought an anti-trust suit that resulted in the breakup of the huge company in 1911
True
Wilson's Fourteen Points endorsed all of the following EXCEPT:
U.S. colonies in Africa and Asia
All of the following influenced the U.S. decision to enter the war against Germany EXCEPT:
Unrestricted submarine warfare by the Germans
All of the following could be associated with flappers EXCEPT:
Victorian values
The most important of all the federal mobilization agencies was the:
War Industries Board
William Howard Taft:
Was Roosevelt's choice as his successor
The movement of southern blacks to the North:
Was called the Great Migration
President Taft's domestic policies generated a storm of controversy:
Within his own party
In 1917, a prohibition amendment to the Constitution:
passed Congress, then went to the states for ratification
The Federal Reserve Act did all the following EXECPT:
shifted the U.S. Treasury back to the gold standard
Progressives supported all of the following as measures to democratize government EXCEPT:
the poll tax
In physics, the theory of relativity was developed and explained by:
Albert Einstein
The event that triggered World War I in Europe was:
A Serb's assassination of the Austrian archduke