U.S. History Since 1877 -Quiz Questions

Why did Woodrow Wilson authorize military intervention in small nations like Nicaragua, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic?

To promote order and democracy in those countries

To ensure the loyalty of an immigrant nation to the cause of war, President Wilson

launched a government-sponsored propaganda campaign to foster patriotism among different ethnic groups.

The purpose of immigration laws like the Johnson-Reed Act passed in the 1920s was to

place strict limits on immigration.

When Herbert Hoover took office in 1929, he brought to the presidency

principles of self-reliance and limited government.

One result of the racial and demographic shifts that took place during World War I was

race riots in two dozen northern cities.

The presidential election of 1924 revealed American voters'

rejection of labor unions, government regulation of business, and the protection of civil liberties.

In his capacity as a reform governor of California from 1911 to 1917, Hiram Johnson

supported conservation, initiative, referendum, and recall.

Compared to the Homestead lockout, the success of the strikers at Cripple Creek demonstrated

the importance of state support in the outcome of labor disputes.

In return for his actions in the Panic of 1907, J. P. Morgan received

the tacit approval of President Roosevelt for U.S. Steel's acquisition of Tennessee Coal and Iron.

How did the populous propose to help American farmers in the 1890's?

they recommended creating a government-sponsored subtreasury

Secretary of State John Hay initiated the Open Door policy in 1900

to guarantee access to trade in China for all colonial powers.

The 1909 strike at New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Company demonstrated that

women workers could create solidarity across social and ethnic lines.

Dr. Francis Townsend proposed which program as a way to assist the elderly?

A monthly pension paid to the elderly

Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, and Sinclair Lewis spoke for which group of Americans?

Critics of American materialism and mass-culture society

Which goal did the United States hope to secure with the Spanish-American War?

Cuban independence from Spain

Why did Margaret Sanger promote birth control in the 1910s?

She believed it would usefully alter social and political power relationships.

Where did most progressive reforms begin?

At the grassroots level

Which issues formed the basis of farmers' dissatisfaction in the late nineteenth century?

Banking, railroading, and speculation

Which criteria were used to determine who would receive Social Security benefits?

Benefits were based on workers' contributions and years of work.

Which guiding idea formed the basis for New Deal policies?

Capitalism held the solution to the nation's economic crisis.

Why did the American temperance movement attract women in the late nineteenth century?

Drunkenness adversely affected women in many ways.

Why was it difficult for the United States to win control of the Philippines after 1898?

Filipino revolutionaries fought against the United States for seven years

With which statement would economist John Maynard Keynes most agree?

Government intervention is needed to pump enough money into the economy to revive production and increase consumption.

Why did Upton Sinclair challenge Roosevelt and the new deal?

He believed that the New Deal was the handmaiden of business elites.

How did president Roosevelt attempt to restore America's confidence in government and the private banking system?

He broadcast his reassuring fireside chats on the radio.

How did president Roosevelt attempt to change the economy in 1937?

He decreased federal spending

Why did Senator Henry Cabot Lodge oppose the Treaty of Versailles?

He feared the League of Nations would threaten America's independence in foreign policy matters.

Which statement describes the actions taken by President Hoover to solve the problems of the depression in 1929?

He instituted a voluntary recovery plan, protective tariffs, and some government intervention, including public works projects and small federal loans to states.

How was William Jennings Bryan's 1896 presidential campaign unique?

He set a new style for presidential campaigning by traveling and speaking widely.

How did the Great Depression affect the American family in the 1930s?

It created resentment among men, who lost their jobs more often than women did.

Which statement describes the National Woman Suffrage Association, formed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in 1869?

It demanded the vote for women.

Why did Germany resume unrestricted submarine warfare in January 1917?

It felt it could win the war before the United States could bring its army to Europe.

Which statement best describes the settlement house movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

It gave women opportunities to use their talents to help society.

Which statement describes the purpose of Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps?

It gave young men government jobs conserving natural resources. releasing federal funds to bolster their assets.

Which statement describes the Ku Klux Klan of the mid-1920s?

It had a strong influence on politics in California, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Texas.

Which statement describes Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom?

It incorporated his belief in limited government, states' rights, and open markets.

Which statement describes the Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921?

It was women's only significant national legislative success in the 1920s.

Which goal did President Wilson hope to accomplish by supporting the Clayton Act of 1914?

Legislation outlawing "unfair competition" practices such as price discrimination

Which statement describes the primary difference between preservationists and conservationists in the early twentieth century?

Preservationists sought to protect the wilderness from all commercial exploitation, while conservationists advocated its efficient use.

How did the federal government respond when American sugar interests requested that the United States annex Hawai'i in 1893?

President Grover Cleveland withdrew the annexation request from Congress when he learned that Hawaiians opposed it.

Which event in 1938 proved that opposition to the New Deal had increased?

Republicans made gains in Congress.

Which statement describes the impact of World War I on partisan politics in the 1918 elections in the United States?

Republicans used the war to achieve narrow majorities in the House and Senate.

Which Statement describes why the election of 1932 was particularly historic?

Roosevelt won 57 percent of the popular vote, and Democrats swept both houses of Congress.

Taken together, what did President Roosevelt's actions in the anthracite coal strike of 1902 and the dissolution of Northern Securities in 1904 suggest?

Roosevelt's administration would act independently of big business.

Which statement describes a significant difference between William Howard Taft's presidency and Theodore Roosevelt's?

Taft believed it was up to the courts, not the president, to arbitrate social issues.

Which event sparked the Homestead lockout and the ensuing strike in 1892?

The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers tried to renew its contract.

Why didn't southern tenant farmers benefit from the programs developed by the agricultural adjustment act, the Commodity Credit Corporation and the Farm Credit Act?

The programs benefited large farmers rather than tenant farmers who rented land.

Which issue sparked conflict in the Democratic and Republican parties as the election of 1896 approached and the depression worsened?

The unlimited coinage of silver

Which statement best describes African American participation in World War I?

They accounted for 370,000 of American forces.

By 1936, how did many American radicals, including communists and socialists, respond to the New Deal?

They began to support the New Deal's relief programs and its encouragement of labor unions.

Why did Mexican farmers, led by Francisco "Pancho" Villa, stage a rebellion from 1916 through 1917?

They believed that the new American-backed government had betrayed the revolution's promise to help the common people.

Why were the Germans outraged by the terms of the Treaty of Versailles?

They were singled out as the instigator of the war.

America's return to a peacetime economy in 1920 and 1921 was marked by

a 20 percent unemployment rate, the highest to date.

In the United States, the flapper of the 1920s represented

a challenge to women's traditional gender roles.

The increase in advertising during the 1920s resulted in

a decrease in the traditional values of saving and thrift

The return to free enterprise in the United States after World War I resulted in

a rise in unemployment and new conflicts between business and labor.

Among the first signs of economic distress in the United States in the mid-1920s was

a slowdown in new construction and automobile sales.

The labor shortage following the mobilization of U.S. troops in 1917 resulted in

expanded employment opportunities for women.

According to President Wilson, American neutrality entailed

free trade with all nations at war and a guarantee of safety on the open seas.

Which idea formed the core of reform Darwinist theory in progressive-era America?

he state should play a more active role in solving social problems.