Chapter 28 and 29 APUSH test

What did Republican isolationists successfully turn Warren Harding's 1920 presidential victory into?

A death sentence for the League of Nations

Which of President Taft's initiatives infuriated former President Roosevelt?

An antitrust act against the U.S. Steel Corporation.

President Wilson's progressive reform stopped short of which group?

Blacks

How did President Taft anger progressive Republicans?

By signing the Payne-Aldrich Bill.

Muckraking journalist Lincoln Steffens set the pattern for many other progressive reporters with his report on what?

Corruption in American big cities.

What was the United States doing when it adopted the Nineteenth Amendment, giving women the right to vote?

Following the path already taken by wartime governments like Britain and Germany and states like New York, Michigan, Oklahoma, and South Dakota.

What divided Americans in respect to the United States's involvement in World War I?

Germany's use of the submarine

Why didn't President Roosevelt run for reelection in 1908?

He felt bound by his 1904 campaign pledge that he would serve only one more term.

All of the following were true of President William Taft except:

His political skill was displayed during his successful battle to lower the tariff in 1909.

Which of the following muckraker journalists is NOT correctly matched with the focus of his or her reporting?

Ida Tarbell - the unscrupulous practices of the road industry

Which best describes the United States when it entered World War I?

It was poorly prepared militarily and industrially to leap into a global war.

Which of the following was NOT a provision of the Clayton Antitrust Act?

Labor unions are subject to antitrust laws.

What reform program did Theodore Roosevelt advocate for during his Bull Moose campaign?

New Nationalism

World War I began when Austria-Hungary delivered a harsh ultimatum against which of its neighbors?

Serbia

President Wilson viewed America's entry into World War I as an opportunity for the United States to do which of the following?

Shape a new international order based on the ideals of democracy

Which of the following benefited labor?

The Clayton Anti-Trust Act and the Adamson Act

What was the United States' first serious step toward conservation?

The Forest Reserve Act.

What divided conservationists in the early twentieth century?

The Hetch Hetchy incident.

Progressives achieved a major political victory in 1913 with the successful passage of the Seventeenth Amendment, which provided for which of the following?

The direct election of senators.

What essential theory was Theodore Roosevelt's Square deal based on?

The federal government should represent the public interest in the growing conflict between big business and labor.

Which industry did the 1903 Elkins Act target?

The railroad industry.

Which of President Wilson's walls of privilege was the Federal Trade Commission Act aimed at?

The trusts

Why did many female progressives focus on issues like child labor, education, and urban housing?

They saw these issues as extensions of women's traditional roles as wives and mothers.

When did President Wilson break diplomatic relations with Germany?

When Germany announced that it would wage unrestricted submarine warfare in the Atlantic

Grievances of labor during World War I and at war's end resulted in all of the following except:

a. A crippling setback to the union movement Selected: b. Suppression of the American Federation of Labor This answer is correct. c. Violent confrontations between employers and striking workers d. The use of African Americans as strikebreakers e. The greatest strike in American history

All of the following were true of dollar diplomacy except:

a. Bankers pumped funds into Honduras and Haiti to keep out foreign investment. b. By preempting investors from rival powers, New York bankers would strengthen American defenses and foreign policies while bringing further prosperity to their homeland—and to themselves. c. Washington encouraged Wall Street bankers to send surplus dollars into foreign areas of strategic concern to the United States, especially in the Far East and in the regions critical to the security of the Panama Canal. d. The almighty dollar supplanted the big stick. Selected: e. Taft proved reluctant to use the lever of American investments to boost American political interests abroad.

All of the following were true of the Lusitania's sinking except:

a. It caused the deaths of more than 100 Americans on board. b. Americans were swept by a wave of shock and anger at this act of mass murder and piracy. c. Instead of urging war, Wilson attempted to bring the German warlords sharply to task by a series of increasingly strong notes. d. It was carrying forty-two hundred cases of small-arms ammunition, a fact the Germans used to justify the sinking. Selected: e. It resulted in an immediate declaration of war by Congress.

All of the following were included in Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom platform except:

a. Protection for small business enterprises from monopolies. Selected: b. More government regulation of large trusts. This answer is correct. c. Stronger antitrust legislation. d. Tariff reductions. e. Banking reform.

Wilson defeated Charles Evans Hughes in the Election of 1916 for all of the following reasons except:

a. Wilson had worked through his first term to identify himself as the candidate of progressivism. b. The pro-labor Wilson received strong support from the working class. c. Midwesterners and westerners, attracted by Wilson's progressive reforms and antiwar policies, flocked to the polls for the president. d. Wilson received strong support from renegade Bull Moose voters, whom Republicans failed to lure back into their camp. Selected: e. Wilson's sweep of the Eastern part of the country overcame his narrow loss in California.

Woodrow Wilson's main objective in calling for the establishment of the Federal Reserve was to

better organize the federal banking system.

Florence Kelley's efforts helped lead many states to end the practice

child labor.

Which of the following objectives was NOT considered part of Theodore Roosevelt's Square Deal?

expanding America's international influence

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was created primarily to

fight discrimination in American legal courts.

Which of the following is NOT an example of a political reform made during the Progressive Era?

party nominating conventions

The 1911 fire in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory directly resulted in the

push for comprehensive safety laws.

Both the Elkin's Act and Hepburn Act increased the government's ability to

regulate unfair business practices by railroads.