HIST 302 Final

Which of the following was NOT an assertion of W. E. B. Du Bois during the Progressive Era?

It was pointless for Blacks to seek legal challenges to civil injustice through white-dominated courts.

direct election of U.S. senators

17th

ban on the manufacture, sale, transportation, and importation of intoxicating beverages

18th

universal suffrage

19th

end of prohibition

21st

The Scopes trial of 1925 was a legal battle concerning the conflict between

Black people and white people.

In 1914, the Triple Entente consisted of

Britain, France, and Russia.

During the Progressive Era, employers were generally unconcerned about the effects of alcohol on the workplace.

False

As an environmental conservationist, President Theodore Roosevelt

added extensive areas of land to the national forest system.

During the early 20th century, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

advocated a single union for all workers.

In order to secure control of the Panama Canal Zone, the United States

assisted a revolution in Panama.

After World War I, the Ku Klux Klan

became increasingly concerned about Catholics, Jews, and foreigners.

Margaret Sanger's initial motivation for the promotion of birth control was her

belief that large families contributed to poverty.

In the United States during the Great War, the Committee on Public Information (CPI)

controlled much of the information about the war that was made available to journalists.

The term muckrakers refers to

crusading journalists.

The United States ________ join the League of Nations.

did not

At the beginning of the 20th century, the leaders of the settlement house movement

directed their attention to improving urban living conditions in immigrant communities.

The majority of U.S. soldiers who fought in World War I were

drafted

Artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance

drew heavily from their African heritage.

Marcus Garvey

encouraged African Americans to reject assimilation into white society.

The National Origins Act of 1924

entirely banned immigration from East Asia to the United States.

Progressives believed that the doctrine of Social Darwinism was the correct starting point for creating a better world.

false

The middle-class women's club movement of the Progressive Era worked only on issues to benefit middle-class citizens.

false

The policy idea behind "dollar diplomacy" was for the United States to

financially invest in less-developed regions, rather than occupy them militarily.

The immediate spark for hostilities in Europe in 1914 was

gave women the right to vote.

In the first decade of the 20th century, the Socialist Party of America, with Terre Haute's Eugene V. Debs as its frequent presidential candidate,

grew stronger.

During the Progressive Era, reformers of city government frequently tried to

hire professionally trained business managers or engineers as city managers.

The Zimmermann Telegram

included a German offer to help Mexico take back the some of the American Southwest.

Passed in 1918, the Sabotage Act and the Sedition Act

made any public expression in opposition to the Great War illegal.

Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel, The Jungle, provided encouragement for the federal government to regulate the ________ industry.

meatpacking

In 1913, to offset the loss of revenues from the Underwood-Simmons Tariff, the U.S. Congress

passed a graduated income tax.

During the 1920s, the United States ________ a very active role in world affairs.

played

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Social Gospel was

primarily concerned with aid to residents of cities.

The U.S. government primarily financed participation in the Great War through

public bond sales and income taxes.

Regarding the Treaty of Versailles, the U.S. Senate decided in 1919 to

ratify it with one change: the United States would not join the League of Nations.

After 1929, in the face of the worsening global economic crisis, the United States

refused to alter the payment schedule of debts owed to it by European nations.

Regarding women and the professions during the Progressive Era,

social work was generally thought to be an appropriate career for women.

Extensive systems of trenches were used by both sides in the Great War because

soldiers were safer from poisonous gas if they were lower to the ground.

The 1904 Roosevelt Corollary

stated that the United States had a right to intervene in the affairs of neighboring countries.

The film The Birth of a Nation glorified the Ku Klux Klan.

true

Under the Dawes Plan, the United States lent money to European countries to repay war debts owed to the United States.

true

During the 1920s, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

was one of the few important unions led by Black Americans.