exam 2 us history

In the United States, the most controversial aspect of the Treaty of Versailles was the

League of Nations.

The first Jewish member of the United States Supreme Court, appointed by Woodrow Wilson, was

Louis D. Brandeis

Which term best characterizes Woodrow Wilson's fundamental approach to American foreign policy?

Moralistic

The Panic of 1907 exposed the need for substantial reform in

US banking and currency policies

The Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution permitted Congress to enact

a personal income tax.

In Muller v. Oregon, the Supreme Court upheld the principle promoted by progressives like Florence Kelley and Louis Brandeis that

female workers required special rules and protection on the job.

Women's participation in the war effort contributed greatly to the fact that they

finally received the right to vote.

After the Scopes "Monkey Trial"

fundamentalist religion remained a vibrant force in American spiritual life.

The World War I military draft

generally worked fairly and effectively to provide military manpower

progressive reform at the level of city government seemed to indicate that the progressives' highest priority was

governmental efficiency.

The political roots of the progressive movement lay in the

greenback labor party and the populists

Woodrow Wilson's attitude toward the masses can best be described as

having strong faith in them if they were properly educated and led.

Republican economic policies under Warren G. Harding

hoped to encourage the government actively to assist business along the path to profits.

Enforcement of the Volstead Act met the strongest resistance from

immigrants and big-city residents.

Top gangster Al Capone was finally convicted and sent to prison for the crime of

income tax evasion.

As a politician, Woodrow Wilson was

inflexible & stubborn

The settlement house and women's club movements were crucial centers of female progressive activity because they

introduced many middle-class women to a broader array of urban social problems and civic concerns

The Federal Reserve Act gave the Federal Reserve Board the authority to

issue paper money and increase or decrease the amount of money in circulation by altering interest rates.

Buying stock on margin meant purchasing

it on credit with only a small down payment

When the United States entered the war in 1917, most Americans did not believe that

it would be necessary to send a large American army to Europe

The American radio industry was distinctive from radio in European nations because it

it. was a commercial business dependent on advertising.

During the 1920s and after, many American immigrant ethnic groups

lived in neighborhoods with their own churches or synagogues, newspapers, and theaters

Most of the money raised to finance World War I came from

loans

The American airline industry in the 1920s made most of its early profits through

mail contracts with the federal government.

The Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution was a key progressive reform designed to

make the Senate millionaire's club directly elected by the people.

As secretary of the treasury, Andrew Mellon placed the heaviest tax burden on

middle-income groups

According to progressives, the cure for all of American democracy's ills was

more democracy.

In the Sussex pledge, Germany promised

not to sink passenger ships without warning

The post-World War I Ku Klux Klan advocated all of the following except

opposition to prohibition

In 1912, Woodrow Wilson became the first ____ elected to the presidency since the Civil War.

person born in the south

Henry Ford's most distinctive contribution to the automobile industry was

production of a standardized, relatively inexpensive automobile.

Besides controlling the illegal liquor industry, American gangsters in the 1920s earned rich profits from all of the following activities except

prostitution

The movement of tens of thousands of Southern blacks north during World War I resulted in

racial violence in the North

In an effort to make economic mobilization more efficient during World War I, the federal government took over and operated

railroads

The Newlands Act, passed under Theodore Roosevelt's administration, was designed to

reclaim and irrigate unproductive lands

President Roosevelt believed that the federal government should adopt a policy of ____ trusts

regulating

Senate opponents of the League of Nations, as proposed in the Treaty of Versailles, argued that it

robbed Congress of its war-declaring powers.

The Federal Trade Commission was established in 1914 to address all of these practices except . . .

sale of stocks without full disclosure of a business's organization and profits.

One exception to President Warren G. Harding's policy of isolationism involved the Middle East, where the United States sought to

secure oil-drilling concessions for American companies.

President Wilson viewed America's entry into World War I as an opportunity for the United States to

shape a new international order based on the ideals of democracy.

the Supreme Court's rule of reason in antitrust law was handed down in a case involving

standard oil

Teddy Roosevelt's New Nationalism

supported a broad program of social welfare and government regulation of business.

When Jane Addams placed Teddy Roosevelt's name in nomination for the presidency in 1912, it

symbolized the rising political status of women and the movement for social justice

During his presidency, Teddy Roosevelt did all of the following EXCEPT

tame capitalism /

From 1914 to 1916, America's growing trade with Britain and loss of trade with Germany essentially occurred because

the British navy controlled the Atlantic shipping lanes.

Despite reluctance by both the president and Congress, the United States resorted to forced conscription in 1917 because

the German kaiser be forced from power

Before Woodrow Wilson would agree to an armistice ending World War I fighting, he demanded that

the German kaiser be forced from power.

The religious movement that was closely linked to progressivism was

the Social Gospel.

The dangerous proviso that Germany attached to its Sussex pledge not to attack unarmed neutral shipping was the requirement that

the United States would have to persuade the Allies to end their blockade of Germany or submarine warfare would be resumed.

The leading progressive organization advocating prohibition of liquor was

the Women's Christian Temperance Union.

During Coolidge's presidency, government policy was set largely by the interests and values of

the business community.

The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was a reaction against

the forces of diversity and modernity that were transforming American culture

Immediately before he was elected president in 1912, Woodrow Wilson had been serving as

the governor of New Jersey

The automobile revolution resulted in all of the following except

the increased dependence of women on men.

Congress's passage of the Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act demonstrated that the federal government

was willing to benefit and support women primarily in their role as mothers

Who was finally most responsible for the Senate defeat of the Treaty of Versailles?

woodrow wilson

When Woodrow Wilson won reelection in 1916, he received strong support from the

working class

The enormous nationwide steel strike of 1919 resulted in

A grievous setback for labor that crippled the union movement for a decade

jazz music was developed by

American blacks

During the course of World War I

American prices approximately doubled.

The 1920 census revealed that, for the first time, most

Americans lived in cities

Among the major figures promoted by mass media image makers and the new sports industry in the 1920s were

Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey

Margaret Sanger was most noted for her advocacy of

Birth control

The zeal of federal agents in enforcing prohibition laws against liquor smugglers strained U.S. diplomatic relations with

Canada

The most spectacular example of lawlessness and gangsterism in the 1920s was

Chicago.

Because of the benefits that it conferred on labor, Samuel Gompers called the ____ "labor's Magna Charta

Clayton Anti-Trust Act

Which of the following was NOT among the issues addressed by women in the progressive movement?

Ending special regulations governing women in the workplace

The two groups who suffered most from the violation of civil liberties during World War I were

German Americans and social radicals.

President Wilson broke diplomatic relations with Germany when

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

President Wilson insisted that he would hold ____ to "strict accountability" for ____.

Germany; the loss of American ships and lives to submarine warfare

All of the following helped to make the prosperity of the 1920s possible except

Government stimulation of the economy

The religion of almost all Polish immigrants to America was

Roman Catholicism

The Immigration Act of 1924 discriminated directly against

Southern and Eastern Europeans

The two major battles of World War I in which United States forces engaged were

St. Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.

Woodrow Wilson showed the limits of his progressivism by

accelerating the segregation of blacks in the federal bureaucracy.

At the Paris Peace Conference, Wilson sought all of the following goals except

an end to the European colonial empires in Africa and Asia

The United States' main contributions to the Allied victory in World War I included all of the following except

battlefield victories.

Businesspeople used the red scare to

break the backs of fledging unions.

As World War I began in Europe, the alliance system placed Germany and Austria-Hungary as leaders of the ____, while Russia and France were among the ____.

central powers, allies

One primary effect of World War I on the United States was that it

conducted an immense amount of trade with the Allies.

In response to the need to develop greater and greater mass markets for their products, American business in the 1920s relied especially on the new techniques of

consumer advertising

During the 1920s, large numbers of Americans were able to purchase relatively expensive automobiles, appliances, and radios through the relatively new innovation of

consumer credit

Automobiles, radios, and motion pictures

contributed to the standardization of American life.

As a part of his reform program, Teddy Roosevelt advocated all of the following except

control of labor/ guaranteed recognition of labor unions.

Before his first term ended, Woodrow Wilson had militarily intervened in or purchased all of the following countries except

cuba

President Woodrow Wilson persuaded the American people to enter World War I by

declaring it a crusade to "make the world safe for democracy."

The major weakness of the League of Nations was that it

did not include the US

President Taft's foreign policy was dubbed

dollar diplomacy.

With the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the great majority of Americans

earnestly hoped to stay out of the war.

According to John Dewey, a teacher's primary goal is to

educate students for life by active learning methods.

The United States used all of the following methods to support the war effort except

establishing government control of wages and prices.

One of the primary obstacles to working class solidarity and organization in America was

ethnic diversity.

The Ku Klux Klan virtually collapsed in the late 1920s when

the organization was publicly exposed as a corrupt and cynical racket

The red scare of 1919-1920 was provoked by

the public's association of labor violence with its fear of revolution

Russia's withdrawal from World War I in 1918 resulted in

the release of hundreds of thousands of German troops for deployment on the front in France.

Despite reluctance by both the president and Congress, the United States resorted to forced conscription in 1917 because

there was no other way to raise the vast American army that would have to be sent to Europe

Teddy Roosevelt helped to end the 1902 strike in the anthracite coal mines by

threatening to seize the mines and to operate them with federal troops.

All of the following were prime goals of earnest progressives except

treating women in the workplace exactly the same as men.

Most wartime mobilization agencies primarily relied on ____ to prepare the economy for war.

voluntary compliance

Progressivism

was closely tied to the feminist movement and women's causes