US History

Fundamentalists believed that:

The Bible should be taken literally

Which industry was most closely associated with the rise of consumerism in American in the 1920s?

Advertising

The Treaty of Paris of 1898, did not give the United States what?

Alaska

What characterized American foreign policy during the 1920s?

Cooperative internationalism

The Platt Amendment to the Cuban constitution did not give Cuba what?

Give Cuban nationals voting rights in US elections.

The attempt by a nation to build an empire either through direct conquest or economic and political control of other countries or territories.

Imperialism

Which of the following descriptions most adequately captures the nature of politics in the Gilded Age?

Politics were badly in need of reform.

Both the Palmer Raids and the Sacco and Vanzetti case may be cited as evidence in the aftermath of World War I of the depth of feeling in American against what?

Radicals

What was not included in Wilson's 14 Points?

Reparations from those guilty of starting the war

The People's ("Populist") Party appealed primarily to which of the following constituencies (groups of voters)?

Small farmers in geographically isolated regions.

The Populists in 1892 did not favor what?

The abolition of the graduated income tax.

What did the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the Gentlemen's Agreement with Japan in 1907 both illustrate?

The role of nativism in the development of United States policies.

In the early years of World War I, from 1914 to 1916, the United States did what?

became an arsenal for the Allies.

What reason explains the decline of the labor movement in the 1920s?

the propaganda promoted by corporate leaders that unionism was un-American.