Unit Test

Newspaper and magazine writers who exposed the ills of industrial and urban life, fueling the Progressive movement, were known as:

Muckrakers

All of the following statements about African-American participation during World War 1 are true EXCEPT:

President Wilson allowed African American soldiers to marching a Paris victory parade

All of the following statements about Urban Progressives are true EXCEPT:

They worked with political machines

All of the following people were "muckrakers" EXCEPT:

Samuel Gompers

Wilson's Fourteen Points included all of the following principles EXCEPT:

The Monroe Doctrine

The Teller Amendment stated that:

The United States could not annex Cuba

Who was NOT a candidate in the 1912 presidential election?

William Jennings Bryan

The writer whose work encouraged the passage of the Meat Inspection Act was:

Upton Sinclair

Senators opposing America's participation in the League of Nations:

argued that it would threaten to deprive the country of its freedom of action.

The word "Progressivism" came into common use around 1910:

as a way of describing a loosely defined political movement

The Sixteenth Amendment:

authorized Congress to implement a graduated income tax.

The Platt amendment:

authorized the United States to intervene militarily in Cuba.

Supporters of the Anti-Imperialist League:

believed that American energies should be directed at home, not abroad.

"The great migration" refers to:

blacks moving from the south to the north

The Spanish-American War:

brought the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico under U.S. control.

During World War 1, the federal government:

increased corporate and individual income taxes.

All of the following measures expanded democracy during the Progressive Era EXCEPT:

literacy tests and residency requirements

Most new immigrants who arrived during the early years of the twentieth century:

lived in close-knit communities.

The progressive movement drew its strength from:

middle-class reformers

Woodrow Wilson moral imperialism in Latin America produced:

more military interventions than any other president before or since.

In the early twentieth century, the socialist party advocated for all of the following EXCEPT:

national health insurance

The Zimmermann Telegram:

outlined the German plan for an attack on the United States by Mexico.

I'm response to the Russian Revolution that led to the creation of the communist Soviet Union, the United States:

pursued a policy of anti communism that would remain throughout the twentieth century

The New Nationalism and New Freedom differed on the issue of:

regulating versus trust-busting

The treaty of versailles:

required Germany to pay over $33 billion in resparations

The Gentlemen's Agreement:

restricted Japanese immigration

As a Progressive president, Woodrow Wilson:

signed into law the Keating-Owen Act

As a Progressive president, Theodore Roosevelt:

supported the conservation movement

The policy of U.S. neutrality was:

tested by both the British and Germans.

President William McKinley justified U.S. annexation of the Philippines on all of the following grounds EXCEPT:

the United States needed to ensure that the Philippines became an independent democracy.

During World War l, American reacted to German-Americans and Germans in all of the following ways EXCEPT:

the federal government barred German immigration to the United States

Charlotte Perkins Gilman claimed that the road to woman's freedom lay through:

the workplace

Most Progressives saw World War I as a golden opportunity because:

they hoped to disseminate Progressive values around the globe.

During the Progressive era:

urban development highlighted social inequalities

In the presidential election of 1916, Woodrow Wilson:

used the campaign slogan "He kept us out of war."

In 1912, New Freedom:

was Theodore Roosevelt's campaign pledge that government should have a greater regulatory role

The treaty of Versailles:

was never ratified by the United States Senate

After the 1890s, American expansionism:

was partly fueled by the need to stimulate American exports.

World War I:

was rooted in European contests over colonial possessions.

Maternalist reform:

was supported by both feminist and more traditional women

Dolar Diplomacy:

was used by William Howard Taft instead of military intervention

Journalists who worked for newspapers like William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal, which sensationalized events to sell papers, were called:

yellow journalists

In the Insular Cases, the Supreme Court:

held that the Constitution did not fully apply to the territories acquired by the United States during the Spanish-American War.

Theodore Roosevelts taking of the Panama Canal Zone is an example of:

his belief that civilized nations had an obligation to establish order in an unruly world.

Birds of passage were:

immigrants who planned on returning to their homeland

Between 1901 and 1920, the United States intervened militarily numerous times in Caribbean countries:

in order to protect the economic interests of American banks and investors

After 1900, the campaign for women's suffrage:

included both middle- and working-class women

A cause not widely championed by Progressives was:

civil rights for blacks

The Roosevelt Corollary

claimed the right of the United States to act as a police power in the Western Hemisphere

Which institution became a pillar of stability for the immigrants as they settled into the communities in American cities?

church