Finalll
To conserve energy, the Fuel Administration shortened workweeks for factories that did not make war materials and introduced
daylight savings time.
Theodore Roosevelt warned William Howard Taft that tariff reform would
divide the Republican Party
In World War I, __________ were battles in the air between aircraft with attached machine guns.
dogfights
Theodore Roosevelt
established five new national parks and 51 wildlife reservations
Taft set up the Bureau of Mines to monitor the activities of mining companies, protect waterpower sites from private development, and
expand the national forests.
A new government agency, the Committee on Public Information, had the task of establishing penalties and prison terms for anyone who gave aid to the enemy.
false
After the war, people raced to buy goods that had been rationed, while businesses rapidly raised prices they had been forced to keep low during the war. This resulted in rapid deflation.
false
Calvin Coolidge's sentiments of returning to normalcy struck a chord with voters, and he won the election of 1920 with a landslide margin.
false
The War Industries Board worked closely with women and African Americans to help them gain civil rights.
false
The most conspicuous limit to progressivism came in its failure to address economic reform issues
false
To help prevent strikes from disrupting the war effort, the government established the Committee on Public Information in April 1918.
false
Woodrow Wilson entered politics as a firm conservative
false
Woodrow Wilson wanted the Federal Trade Commission to break up big business
false
To restore public confidence in the banking system, Wilson supported the establishment of a
federal reserve system.
What was used to defend soldiers against the use of mustard gas and chlorine bombs during World War I?
gas masks
Four-Minute Men
gave patriotic speeches urging support of war effort
contraband
goods prohibited from shipment to Germany or its allies
Nineteenth Amendment
guaranteed women the right to vote
Americans often linked radicalism with
immigrants
propoganda
information designed to influence opinion
Children's Bureau
investigated and publicized problems with child labor
According to the Selective Service Act, the order in which men were called to service was determined by
lottery.
Sixteenth Amendment
made it legal for the federal government to tax the income of individuals directly
Liberty Bonds
method of loaning money to the government to pay for war
What were crusading journalists who investigated social conditions and political corruption called?
muckrakers
Jacob Riis's book How the Other Half Lives was an example of what Theodore Roosevelt called
muckraking.
Meat Inspection Act
passed in response to The Jungle
One provision of the Clayton Antitrust Act banned
price discrimination
Seventeenth Amendment
provided for the direct election of U.S. senators
In addition to the soldiers returning from Europe who needed to find employment, many African Americans who had moved north were competing for jobs and housing, which resulted in
race riots.
The Adamson Act established an eight-hour workday for
railroad workers
Which progressive government reform allowed voters to vote directly on proposed laws
referendum
Realizing a draft was necessary, Congress created a new system of conscription called
selective service
The laissez-faire argument for the best way to preserve public land was to
sell it to lumber companies, who would conserve it as a source of profits.
One of the largest strikes in American history began when steel workers went on strike for recognition of their union, higher pay, and
shorter hours.
espionage
spying to acquire government secrets
Ferdinand Foch
supreme commander of the Allied forces
"Selling" the war to the American people was the task of
the Committee on Public Information
Criticism of the war at home was effectively silenced by
the Espionage and Sedition Acts.
What did progressives think needed to play a more active role in solving society's problems?
the government
The Constitution originally specified that, in each state, U.S. senators would be elected by
the legislature of each state
The Great Migration during World War I was the flow of
African Americans moving from the South to Northern cities.
In 1908 the Serbs became furious when
Austria-Hungary annexed Bosnia
Vladimir Lenin
Bolshevik leader
During World War I, a group called the _____________ took power in Russia and established a Communist government.
Bolsheviks
Gavrilo Princip
Bosnian revolutionary behind assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Lusitania
British ship sunk by Germany, killing over 1,000 passengers
In November 1917, Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik Party seized power in Russia and established a
Communist government.
The British entered World War I when
German troops crossed into Belgium.
Perhaps the most successful government agency during this time was the Food Administration, which was run by
Herbert Hoover.
President Wilson called for the creation of a "general association of nations" known as the
League of Nations.
To prevent strikes from disrupting the war effort, the government established the
National War Labor Board
A meeting in 1905 that included W.E.B. Du Bois and other African American leaders to demand full political rights and responsibilities for African Americans resulted in the launching of the
Niagara Movement
In early 1902, Roosevelt ordered his attorney general to file a lawsuit under the Sherman Antitrust Act against
Northern Securities
Wisconsin became a model of political reform under the leadership of
Robert M. La Follette
What law reduced the average tariff on imported goods to about 30 percent of the value of the goods?
Underwood Tariff Act
What two new forms of warfare were introduced during World War I?
aerial combat and gas attacks
In the coal strike of 1902, the United Mine Workers agreed to accept ______________________, a settlement negotiated by an outside party, but the mine owners refused.
arbitration
What was the only group of women in the military sent overseas in World War I?
army nurses
Woodrow Wilson
as governor of New Jersey, he introduced many progressive reforms
prohibition
banned the manufacture, sale, and consumption of alcohol
The tragedy at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company led to
building codes requiring fire escapes.
The Keating-Owen Act was passed in order to regulate
child labor
During World War I, women officially served in the armed forces for the first time in
clerical and nursing positions
In what area did Taft's contributions equal or surpass Roosevelt's?
conservation
War Industries Board
coordinated the production of war materials
Who walked off the job in Boston in what was perhaps the most famous strike of 1919?
the police force.
Richard A. Ballinger
tried to open nearly a million acres of public land to private development
By intervening in the labor dispute surrounding the coal strike of 1902, Roosevelt had taken the first step toward establishing the federal government as an honest broker between powerful groups in society.
true
By the end of the Progressive Era, Americans expected the government, particularly the federal government, to play a more active role in regulating the economy and solving social problems.
true
In international affairs, Theodore Roosevelt was a Social Darwinist
true
In the aftermath of World War I, unions in Seattle organized a general strike.
true
In the election of 1912, Woodrow Wilson called his program the New Freedom
true
The Palmer Raids were in response to a series of bombs and rising tension due to The Red Scare.
true
The Red Scare was a nationwide panic that arose from the fear that Communists might seize power in the United States.
true
To help fund the war effort, Congress raised income tax rates.
true
Alice Paul was arrested after picketing the White House, an example of her attempts to
use protests to force suffrage
World War I was the first war in which
women officially served in the armed forces.
Ida Tarbell
wrote articles criticizing Standard Oi
