chapter 16, HIST 12 - M4; RQ, Chapter 17 (quiz), HIST12 M5; RQ, chapter 21, chapter 20
Question 5 (Q011) During the Progressive era, economic production shifted from capital goods to (A) institutional economics. (B) a service economy. (C) market exchange. (D) consumer products.
(D) consumer products.
The "subtreasury plan" was ____________.
A plan to establish federal warehouses where farmers could store crops until they were sold.
Question 18 (Q051) By 1912, the Socialist Party had dwindled, losing many of their political office posts and lessening ties with radical newspapers and magazines.(T/F)
False
(Q011) In addressing the sense of crisis in the nation, Franklin Delano Roosevelt sought to reassure the public in his inaugural address, declaring
"the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
The Platt Amendment authorized the United States to intervene militarily in Cuba whenever it saw fit.
True
(Question 14;Q027)Who was the leader of the National Woman's Party, an organization that employed militant tactics in favor of women's suffrage?
Alice Paul
(Q040) While the status of Mexican-Americans improved markedly under the New Deal, that of American Indians grew substantially worse.
False
(Q040) With the mechanization of manufacture, skilled workers virtually disappeared from industrial America.
False
(Q042) The West was a remarkably homogeneous region--only in the twentieth century would it become ethnically diverse.
False
(Q009) Which of the following is true of Franklin D. Roosevelt?
He contracted polio and lost the use of his legs in 1921.
(Question 4; Q005) The Committee on Public Information (CPI) flooded the country with prowar propaganda, describing the Germany as
a nation of barbaric Huns led by an autocratic Kaiser aligned against freedom.
Which of the following was a reason for America's imperial expansion?
A quest on the part of business for new markets and natural resources.
(Q027) This law, considered a major achievement of the maternalist reformers, provided federal assistance to programs for infants and children's health. However, it was later repealed by Congress in 1929.
Sheppard-Towner Act
The Redeemers in the South ______________.
Slashed state budgets and reduced spending on hospitals and public schools.
What U.S. President, a century after the rise of exclusionary immigration laws passed by Congress in the late 1800s, generated a bitter public and international debate for launching an effort to build an actual wall along the U.S.-Mexico border?
President Donald Trump
(Q006) As part of the New Deal, which multifaceted agency was established in 1934 and hired some 3 million Americans, in virtually every walk of life, each year until it ended in 1943?
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
(Question 7;Q011) Between 1901 and 1920, the U.S. marines landed in Caribbean countries
more than twenty times.
(Q026) At the beginning of 1929, most American families had accumulated
no money in their savings accounts.
(Q014) Upon taking office in 1921, Warren G. Harding promised a return to
normalcy.
(Q024) President Herbert Hoover's 1932 Reconstruction Finance Corporation did which of the following?
offer aid to homeowners threatened with foreclosure
(Q011) By 1913, the United States produced how much of the world's industrial output?
one-third
(Q012) The initial flurry of legislation during Roosevelt's first three months in office is called
the "Hundred Days.
(Q013) The proposed constitutional amendment to eliminate all legal distinctions "on account of sex" promoted by Alice Paul was
the Equal Rights Amendment.
(Q003) Founded in 1867, this group claimed more than 700,000 members in the mid-1870s, who called on state governments to establish fair freight rates and warehouse charges.
the Grange
(Q021) The vibrant black culture in 1920s New York City that included poets and novelists Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, and Claude McKay was called
the Harlem Renaissance.
(Question 9;Q015)The American foreign policy principle that held that the United States had a right to exercise "an international police power" in the Western Hemisphere was called
the Roosevelt Corollary.
(Question 19; Q051) Twenty million people were killed by the flu (epidemic of influenza) at the end of World War I. More people were killed by the flu (epidemic of influenza) at the end of World War I than died during all the years of fighting in that war.
True
(Question 20; Q053) Ten of the twelve states that by 1916 had adopted women's suffrage were carried by Wilson in the election that year; without women's votes, Wilson would not have been reelected.
True
Like the American Federation of Labor, the National American Woman Suffrage Association was infused with the social elitism of the times.
True
Question 16 (Q046) Cities expanded so rapidly that by 1920 for the first time more Americans lived in towns and cities than in rural areas.(T/F)
True
Question 17 By 1910, more than 40 percent of New York City's population had been born abroad. Group of answer choices (T/F)
True
(Question 15;Q031)The worst race riot in American history occurred in 1921, when more than 300 blacks were killed and over 10,000 were left homeless after white mobs burned an all-black section of which city to the ground?
Tulsa, Oklahoma
(Q004) Elk v. Wilkins (1884) stated that
the rights guaranteed by the fourteenth and fifteenth Amendments, did not apply to American Indians
Q019) The 1887 Dawes Act
led to the loss of tribal lands and the erosion of Indian cultural traditions
(Q037) In what year did Congress grant citizenship to all Native Americans?
1924.
(Q039) The 1936 election saw the crystallizing of the "New Deal coalition."
True
(Q042) Russia and Germany suffered under the respective tyrants Stalin and Hitler during the 1930s.
True
(Q001) A leading characterization of U.S. foreign policy in the early twentieth century was
"Dollar Diplomacy."
Question 20 (Q055) One result of Muller v. Oregon was that women were still considered weak, dependent, and incapable of enjoying the same economic rights as men.(T/F)
True
Q030) William "Buffalo Bill" Cody was
an entertainer who had a traveling show showcasing reenactments of battles with Indians
(Q015) The Civil Works Administration (CWA) employed more than 4 million people in
construction of tunnels, highways, courthouses, and airports.
(Q005) This person broadcasted sermons and traveled the country as a revivalist preacher from the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, utilizing elaborate sets, costumes, and special effects borrowed from the movie industry.
d. Aimee Semple McPherson
(Q018) In 1890, the distribution of wealth in the United States was
disproportionate, as the top 1 percent of Americans owned more property than the remaining 99 percent
(Q005) In the spring of 1932, approximately 20,000 unemployed World War I veterans descended on Washington to demand early payment of a bonus due in 1945, and were
driven away by federal soldiers led by army chief of staff Douglas MacArthur.
(Q016) The Bureau of Indian Affairs established boarding schools for the purpose of
removing Indian children from their parents and tribes and assimilating them into "white ways"
Question 1 (Q004) Causes of the "new immigration" included (A) industrial decline in the United States. (B)tightened immigration laws in the United States. (C) the outbreak of revolutions and warfare outside of the United States. (D) the increase of traditional agriculture outside of the United States.
xA industrial expansion xB looser immigration *C xD decrese in traditional agriculature
(Q035) The Supreme Court rarely interfered with the policies of the New Deal.
False
(Q054) American presidents during the Gilded Age exerted strong, effective, executive leadership
False
(Question 17; Q045) Most Progressives opposed America's entry into World War I as jingoistic, imperialist venturing.
False
Ironically, the Farmers' Alliance found greater support among industrial workers than among small farmers.
False
Question 19 (Q052) The American Federation of Labor mainly represented unskilled industrial workers.(T/F)
False
(Q008) This New Deal program sought to improve the conditions of poor landowning farmers and sharecroppers.
Farm Security Administration
Which of the following was a strategy of the Populists?
Holding public events to give their followers a sense of power and community.
(Q001) The poem by Emma Lazarus including "huddled masses yearning to breathe free" is located on which American landmark?
Statue of Liberty
What product ultimately led the United States in part to annex the Hawaiian islands in the late 1890s?
Sugar
(Q016) The effort undertaken on the part of the federal government to supply cheap electrical power for homes and factories in a seven-state region, preventing flooding, and putting the federal government in the business of selling electricity by building a series of dams was called
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
(Q046) Business leaders like Henry Ford and engineers like Herbert Hoover were cultural heroes in the 1920s.
True
In the late nineteenth century, black women were largely excluded from jobs as secretaries, typists, and department store clerks.
True
Question 8 (Q017) The series of mass strikes called the "Uprising of the 20,000" in New York included (A) immigrant workers who wanted the right to bargain collectively with their employers. (B) mostly African-American women who wanted equal access to the same jobs as white women. (C) a force of "traditional" Americans who did not want immigrant takeover of their jobs. (D) workers' displeasure of being replaced by machines, which lessened their pay but required them to work longer hours.
(A) immigrant workers who wanted the right to bargain collectively with their employers.
Question 9 (Q019) Those who embraced the new "bohemia" included (A) people who rejected conventional rules and practices. (B) new immigrants who attempted to assimilate in traditional American culture. (C) women who chose not to work outside the home. (D) Indians who wanted equal opportunities in the industrial revolution.
(A) people who rejected conventional rules and practices.
Question 4 (Q009) Henry Ford's factory adopted a method of production known as (A) the moving assembly line. (B) cottage industry. (C) the commerce of interchangeable parts. (D) batch production.
(A) the moving assembly line.
Question 6 (Q013) Which of the following is attributed to Louis D. Brandeis? (A) He was an active critic of the labor movement. (B) He felt the foremost social problem in America was the contradiction between political liberty and industrial slavery. (C) He successfully argued in Muller v. Oregon that women were men's equal, thus their maximum working hours should be the same as those of men. (D) He felt the right to assistance derived from citizenship itself, not some special service to the nation or upstanding moral character.
(B) He felt the foremost social problem in America was the contradiction between political liberty and industrial slavery.
Question 12 The term "Progressive" that came into common use around 1910 describes (A) a type of life insurance and auto insurance when available. (B) a loosely defined political movement of people who hoped to bring about social and political change in American life. (C) a self-help movement in which one was to take proactive measures in seeking to overcome one's aggressive tendencies in society. (D) a movement that sought to recapture America's lost glory through an active policy of global imperialism.
(B) a loosely defined political movement of people who hoped to bring about social and political change in American life.
Question 15 (Q041) Why did the Society of American Indians form in 1911? (A) It was formed to enable Native Americans from California to build casinos. (B) It was formed to assist Native American combatants in World War I. (C) It was formed to provide Native Americans with remedies for social injustice. (D) It was formed by the federal government to halt assimilation of tribes into American society
(C) It was formed to provide Native Americans with remedies for social injustice.
Question 14 Q036) The 1914 Ludlow Massacre was (A) a precursor to the Sioux Indian attack against General George Custer. (B) a premeditated attack against Native Americans in South Dakota by the federal militia. (C) an attack by an armed militia against a tent city of striking workers in Colorado. (D) a massacre of frontier settlers by Sioux, Cheyenne, Algonquin, and Narragansett Indians.
(C) an attack by an armed militia against a tent city of striking workers in Colorado.
Question 13 (Q030) The Progressive era was a time of (A) economic recession. (B) declining economic performance in the economy and decreasing wages. (C) explosive economic growth, rapid population rise, increased industrial production, and a "Golden Age" for agriculture. (D) a sharp economic downturn for agriculture in the United States, and uneven growth in the industrial economy, particularly in the northeast.
(C) explosive economic growth, rapid population rise, increased industrial production, and a "Golden Age" for agriculture.
Question 11 (Q024) President Theodore Roosevelt's reform program was called the (A) "New Deal." (B) "Peace through Strength." (C) "New Freedom." (D) "Square Deal."
(D) "Square Deal."
Question 3 (Q008) In her influential book, Women and Economics, Charlotte Perkins Gilman reinforced this idea. (A)Women were better suited to duties in the home rather than the workplace. (B) Women should work outside the home until they are married, at which time they should focus their skills on that of the home and family. (C) Women should not feel as if their life was that of domestic drudgery as the noblest occupation was that of wife and mother. (D) Women's freedom lay through the workplace rather than only the domestic scene.
(D) Women's freedom lay through the workplace rather than only the domestic scene.
Question 10 (Q020) A leader in the new feminism, Margaret Sanger (A) established the newsletter, Wassaja. (B) graduated from New York University Law School. (C) danced expressively, liberating the body from the constraints of traditional technique and costume. (D) opened a clinic and began distributing contraceptive devices to poor women.
(D) opened a clinic and began distributing contraceptive devices to poor women.
Question 2 (Q007) Of all the mass consumption activities, this was the most popular form of mass entertainment. (A) magicians with trained animal acts (B) nickelodeons (C) horse racing (D) vaudeville
(D) vaudeville
(Question 12;Q020) How many soldiers perished during World War I worldwide?
10 million
(Q010) In early 1929, the income of the wealthiest 5 percent of American families was greater than that of the bottom
60 percent.
In 1903, for the first time in U.S. history, Congress passed a law declaring that a person holding a specific political viewpoint could be banned from entering the nation. These were the _____________.
Anarchists
Who was the African-American leader who delivered a speech in 1895 at the Atlanta Cotton Exposition urging black Americans to adjust to segregation and stop agitating for civil and political rights?
Booker T. Washington
(Q030) What two countries were not subject to immigration quota limitations under the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924?
Canada and Mexico
In 1875, as sentiment arose to restrict Chinese immigration, Congress passed a law excluding which of the following people from entering the country?
Chinese women
What were critics of immigration worried about during this time period?
Declining birth rate among white women.
(Q021) Which of the following was one of the "voices of protest" heard in the United States during the mid-1930s?
Dr. Francis Townsend's Townsend Clubs that sought monthly payments of $200 to elderly Americans
(Q030) What were the policy implications of the Filipino Repatriation Act of 1935?
It offered free transportation to those who were born in the Philippines and were willing to return there.
(Q003) What did the Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution state?
It repealed the prohibition against alcohol.
Between 1879 and 1880, an estimated 40,000-60,000 African-Americans migrated to _____________.
Kansas
(Q024) What was the name of the organization that sought to organize both skilled and unskilled workers, women as well as men, blacks along with whites, and achieved a membership of nearly 800,000 in 1886?
Knights of Labor
Which of the following was a principle of the American Federation of Labor?
Labor should avoid entanglement in politics to avoid patronage and corruption.
(Q011) The West's leading industrial center, a producer of oil, automobiles, aircraft, and Hollywood movies, was
Los Angeles, California.
(Q032) In Wabash v. Illinois, this prior ruling was essentially reversed.
Munn v. Illinois
(Q006) Who were the two immigrants arrested for their participation in a robbery in which a security guard was killed whose case became a cause célèbre?
Nicola Sacco and Bartholomeo Vanzetti
The idea of a romanticized version of slavery in the Old South, focusing on the Confederate experience, was called _____________.
The Lost Cause
What was the name of the 1899 policy established by Secretary of State John Hay regarding China?
The Open Door policy
The "splendid little war" of 1898 was ______________.
The Spanish-American War
(Q035) American agriculture slid into economic depression years before the stock market crash of 1929.
True
(Q036) In 1928, Democratic candidate Alfred E. Smith was the first Catholic to be nominated for president by a major party.
True
(Q036) The 1930s were a decade of dramatic social upheaval.
True
(Q037) The 1920s was a decade of social tensions between rural and urban Americans, as well as traditional and "modern" Christianity
True
(Q040) By 1929, 80 million Americans went to the movies each week, and almost 5 million owned radios.
True
(Q041) By 1890, the majority of the remaining Indian population had been removed to reservations scattered across the western states.
True
(Q053) By the early 1890s, a pension system for Union soldiers, their widows, and children consumed more than 40 percent of the federal budget.
True
(Question 16;Q040)Following the outbreak of World War I, the Allied and Central Powers each acted to block American trade with their adversaries.
True
(Question 18; Q046) By 1918, the wealthiest Americans were paying 60 percent of their income in taxes.
True
In 1900, the Foraker Act declared Puerto Rico an "insular territory," meaning it was different from previous territories in the West.
True
(Question 3; Q004) This federal agency presided over all elements of war production from the distribution of raw materials to the prices of manufactured goods.
War Industries Board
(Q034) Which of the following were sources of violence in America during the Gilded Age?
White supermacist southern attacks on African Americans
(Question 10;Q016)Dollar Diplomacy, the U.S. foreign policy that emphasized economic investment and loans from American banks, rather than direct military intervention, was the policy of
William (Howard) Taft.
(Q031) In the era from 1870 to 1890, the label "the Gilded Age" originally derived from
a derogatory name from literature meaning covered with gold, but what lies beneath is of little value
(Question 5;Q009) The "Open Door" Policy refers to
a key principle of American foreign relations that emphasizes the free flow of trade, and investment ( and information.)
(Q027) Which of the following best describes the "Ghost Dance"?
a pan-Indian movement which involved singing, dancing, and religious observances(believed to be reminiscent of earlier prophets- not in the answer in the quiz)
(Q023) Which of the following was created by the Social Security Act of 1935, launching the modern American welfare state?
a system of unemployment insurance
(Q010) Which of the following was a major factor in the creation of a rapid and profound economic revolution in the United States after the Civil War?
abundant natural resources
(Question 13;Q023) The United States entered World War I in April of 1917 only after Germany resumed submarine warfare against its ships in the Atlantic and
after discovery of the Zimmermann Telegram.
(Q018) During the 1920s, a group whose most well-known leader was Billy Sunday and who asserted their conviction in the literal truth of the Bible became known by which term that they coined?
fundamentalists
(Question 6;Q010) President Wilson's foreign policy that called for active intervention to remake the world in America's image (, and which asserted the view that greater freedom worldwide would follow from increased American investment and trade abroad) was called
liberal internationalism.
(Q020) In the mid-1930s, unions of industrial workers, led by John L. Lewis, founded a new labor organization, called
the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
(Q002) In the 1930s, unusually dry weather blew winds over much of the Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and Colorado soils, creating
the Dust Bowl
(Question 8;Q013)President Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to negotiate a settlement of
the Russo-Japanese War of 1905.
(Q019) In 1925, what was the Tennessee trial in which a public schoolteacher faced charges of violating the state's law prohibiting the teaching of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution?
the Scopes Trial
(Q022) The Immigration Act of 1924 created this organization, which was charged with policing the land boundaries of the United States and empowered to arrest and deport persons who entered the country in violation of the new national quotas or other restrictions.
the U.S. Border Patrol.
(Q024) What 1935 law outlawed "unfair labor practices," and was known at the time as "Labor's Magna Carta"?
the Wagner Act
(Q002) The outbreak of World War I in 1914 was triggered by
the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand.
(Q025) Which of the following were addressed in the Johnson-Reed, or Immigration, Act of 1924?
the establishing of no limits on immigration from the Western Hemisphere
Question 7 (Q016) Which of the following is attributed to William "Big Bill" Haywood? (A) He was dubbed by his critics as "the most harmless man in America. (B) "He was a prominent leader of the Socialist Party. (C) He was accused of instigating the murder of a former anti-union governor. (D) He ran an unsuccessful attempt for the position of President of the United States.
xA the most dangerous man x B IWW's most prominent leader C xD
(Question 11;Q019) Which of the following was a military technology used during World War I? helicopters airplanes radar atomic bombs
xatomic bombs xradar *airplanes xhelicopters