History Unit 5 Final Review
What event prompted President Wilson to send troops into Mexico in 1916?
Pancho Villa led a raid on a town in New Mexico.
How did President Roosevelt deal with what he saw as the creation of a monopoly by J. P. Morgan's Northern Securities?
He ordered the attorney general to file a lawsuit, which eventually reached the Supreme Court.
What was the primary reason that the Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles?
It rejected the notion of a League of Nations.
What were the European alliances that were triggered when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia?
Russia and France allied with Serbia against Austria-Hungary and Germany.
Why were some American leaders opposed to the annexation of the Philippines?
They felt it threatened the U.S. economically and violated U.S. principles.
What result of inflation caused national unrest across the country in 1919?
Workers began to strike in massive numbers.
In the 1920 election, Warren G. Harding ran on the platform of _______.
a return to normalcy
How did American Admiral William Sims change the war at sea?
by creating convoys in which merchant ships and small, maneuverable warships called destroyers traveled together.
Wilson believed that the result of Roosevelt's policies toward trusts _______.
gave the government too much power over the economy
Theodore Roosevelt gained territorial rights in Panama by means of
supporting a revolution in Panama.
After _______, Secretary of State John Hay convinced European powers not to divide China into colonies.
the Boxer Rebellion
What three political reforms did progressives push for in state legislatures to make elected officials more responsive to voters?
the initiative, the referendum, and the recall
What was the purpose of the Newlands Reclamation Act of 1902?
to irrigate and develop Western lands for business and habitation
Wilson supported the creation of the Federal Trade Commission, or FTC, in order to prevent companies from engaging in ________.
unfair trade practices that limited competition