Us History

45. In reaction to the Great Depression, Americans:

A and B

40. How did fundamentalist Christians define freedom in the 1920's?

As a voluntary adherence to moral liberty.

41. What broad popular sentiments did the Ku Klux Klan express in the 1920's?

Control of the nation should be returned to native-born Protestants.

21. 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.

1. Which Statement about the People's Party is False?

It emerged as an urban, middle-class vehicle for social, economic, and political reform.

28. What did employers, urban reformers, and women reformers hope Prohibition would achieve during the war years?

Peace and order on the home front.

20. Why were many Americans drawn to the Socialists Party in the election of 1912

The party's proposal to nationalize railroads and banks, and to provide unemployment relief, expressed popular Progressive thought.

2.How were federal troops used in the Pullman Strike of 1894?

To help suppress the strikers on behalf of the owners.

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

Upton Sinclair.

3. Which statement about the 1896 election is FALSE

William Jennings Bryan lost because he supported the gold standard.

25. How were women so influential in the outcome of the election of 1916?

Women were able to vote in the presidential election in twelve western states and heavily favored Wilson.

18. Electoral reform during the Progressive era:

actually limited many Americans' right to vote.

17. The Industrial Workers of the World:

advocated a workers' revolution.

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

an end to colonization

7. "New Immigrations"

arrived in large numbers from the Russian and the Austro-Hungarian Empires

12. The word "Progressivism" came into common use around 1910.

as a way of describing a loosely defined political movement.

19. The 16th Amendment:

authorized Congress to implement a graduated income tax.

10. Supporters of the Anti-Imperialists League:

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

11. The Triangle Shirtwaist fire:

brought in its wake much-needed safety legislation.

42. The Harlem Renaissance:

describes the quest by writers like Claude Mckay to locate the roots of the black experience.

30. African-Americans who migrated to the North during the Great Migration encountered all of the following conditions EXCEPT:

exclusion from the public school system.

33. During the 1920's, American multinational corporations;

extended their reach throughout the world.

37. During the 1920's

government policies reflected the pro-business ethos of the decade.

16. By 1912, the Socialists Party:

had elected scores of local officials.

34. In the 1920's, movies, radios, and phonographs:

helped create and spread a new celebrity culture.

43. The Great Depression was caused by all of the following factors EXCEPTL

increased government regulation of banking and the stock market.

32. Which of the following statements about the Treaty of Versailles is FALSE?

it demonstrated Woodrow Wilson's considerable negotiation skills.

23. Which of the following assessments of the Roosevelt Corollary is accurate?

it held that the United States had the right to exercise an international police power.

6. What explains the appeal of the Lost Cause mythology for Southern whites in the late nineteenth centuries?

it helped southern white cope with defeat but preserve white supremacy.

31. Which statement about the Red Scare is FALSE?

it resulted in a wave of sympathy for persecuted workers.

13. The Progressive movement drew its strength from:

middle-class reformers.

24. Woodrow Wilson's moral imperialism in Latin America produced:

more military interventions than any other president before or since.

15. During the Progressive era:

new immigration from southern and eastern Europe reached its peak.

38. Warren G. Harding:

oversaw a presidential administration plagued by scandal

35. The Equal Rights Amendment:

proposed to eliminate all legal distinctions based on sex

39. American foreign policy during the 1920s:

reflected the close relationship between government and business.

44. The Great Depression shaped the lives of Americans in all of the following ways EXCEPT:

the American suicide rate declined.

4. The "Kansas Exodus" meant all of the following EXCEPT

the eventual return of most black migrants to the South.

36. For the feminist woman in the 1920's, freedom meant:

the right to choose her lifestyle.

27. Most Progressives saw WW1 as as golden opportunity because:

they hoped to disseminate Progressive values around the globe.

9. American expansionism after the 1890s:

was largely driven by the desire for expanded overseas trade.

22. Dollar Diplomacy:

was used by William Howard Taft instead of military intervention.

29. The Espionage Act (1917) and the Sedition Act (1918):

were the first federal restrictions on free speech since 1798

8. Americans have referred to the 1890s as the women's era because:

women's economic opportunities and roles in public life expanded.