Exam #3

During the coal strike of 1902:

President Theodore Roosevelt won support for his use of the "big stick" against corporations

Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom platform:

Proposed vigorous anti-trust action to break up corporate concentration

Which of the following best describes the method used by most progressives to solve the problem of economic power and its abuses?

Regulate big business

The Treaty of Versailles did all of the following EXCEPT:

Require veteran's pensions to be paid by their home country

The originator of the "Wisconsin idea" of efficient government was:

Robert M. La Follette

The Waste Land, a poem that became the favorite of many modernist readers because of its sense of disillusionment and its suggestion of burned-out civilization, was written by:

T.S. Eliot

How many members of the KKK allegedly have at its peak?

As many as 4 million

Jazz:

Blended African and European musical traditions

All of these innovations changed warfare during World War I EXCEPT:

Blockades

The election of 1912 brought about all of the following EXCEPT:

Brought the same man to the White House in nonconsecutive terms

The Scopes trial:

Concerned a state law that prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools

Under the Espionage and Sedition Acts of 1917-1918:

Criticism of government leaders or war policies became a crime

The title of the novel that described the terrible conditions of the meat-packing industry was:

The Jungle

All of the following were prophets of modern art and literature EXCEPT:

Edward Bellamy

Which amendment to the constitution is known as the prohibition amendment?

Eighteenth

The Muckrackers saw their primary objective as:

Exposing social problems to the public

The Roaring Twenties was dubbed "the Jazz Age" by:

F Scott Fitzgerald

In his first term as president, Wilson did all the following EXCEPT:

Failed to reorganize the banking system

"Flappers" was the slang word for illegal drinking establishments in the 1920s

False

Due to their belief in "freedom of the seas", the British allowed Americans to trade with Germany

False

Former president Theodore Roosevelt was one of the biggest supporters of the League of Nations

False

General Pershing's incursion into Mexico resulted in the defeat and capture of "Pancho" Villa

False

In the presidential election of 1916, Republicans used the slogan "he kept us out of war" to discredit Wilson

False

One of Taft's major issues became his support for high tariffs

False

Paul Gauguin acknowledged that the upheavals of cultural modernism and the aftermath of the war produced "an epoch of progress"

False

Progressives generally believed the government should not interfere with big business

False

The KKK of the 1920s was mainly a southern rural organization

False

The NAACO was favored militant protests over legal challenges as a way to end racial discrimination

False

The Underwood-Simmons Tariff created the first regular federal income tax

False

The Zimmermann telegram, sent to the Mexican government from the White House, was intercepted by the Germans

False

The so-called Arabic Pledge involved Wilson's stand to stop North Africa's fall into chaos during the war

False

Theodore Roosevelt considered the Federal Trade Commission to be the corner stone of his program for big business

False

Wilson was a weak president who trusted Congress to adopt the proper policies

False

Women in "war work" were usually able to keep their jobs after the war

False

The immigration quota laws passed in the 1920s:

Favored immigrants from northern and western Europe

The 1920s "New Era" was created by advances in all he following EXCEPT:

Government-funded programs

Which of the following did W.E.B. Du Bois say is his opposition to Marcus Garvey?

He is "the most dangerous enemy of the Negro race...He is either a lunatic or a traitor."

The Red Scare of 1919-1920 reflected the:

Impact of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia on the United States as a wave of labor strikes and race riots spread

Which of the following is true of the Lusitania?

It secretly carried weapons and ammunition in its cargo

One of the following pairs consists of two countries that were NOT members of the Triple Entente:

Italy and Austria-Hungary

The Spanish flu epidemic:

Killed nearly seven times the number of Americans as died of combat deaths in France

In physics, the development of quantum theory is most associated with:

Max Planck

Which of the following is NOT associated with the major battles in World War I?

Omaha Beach

As President, Taft:

Preserved more public lands in four years than Roosevelt had in nearly eight

All of these took place in 1917 EXCEPT:

The Paris Peace Conference

A major factor in Woodrow Wilson's victory in the 1912 presidential campaign was the fact that:

The Republican party had split in two

As a result of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia:

The country concluded a separate peace with Germany

The horrors of World War I accelerated:

The insurgency of modernism in the arts

The German delegation at Versailles objected most bitterly to:

The war guilt clause

Among the varied sources of progressivism were the Mugwumps.

True

During the 1920s, ideas of scientists about the nature of the universe inspired modernists artist to try new techniques

True

Henry Cabot Lodge led the Senate Republicans who demanded amendments to the Treaty of Versailles

True

In the 1920a, people of Latin America descent become the fastest-growing ethnic minority in the United States

True

Many immigrant groups in the United States supported the Central Powers in the European War

True

Over four hundred thousand southern blacks moved northward during the war years

True

Proponents of Prohibition displayed ethnic and social prejudices in the drive to make America "dry"

True

The major American prophets of modernist literature lived in Europe

True

The phrase " square deal" is associated with Theodore Roosevelt.

True

The roaring twenties pitted a cosmopolitan urban America against the values of an insular, rural America

True

Theodore Roosevelt gave muckrackers their name.

True

Theodore Roosevelt took a strong, activist approach to the presidency.

True

When Hemingway published his first novel, The Sun Also Rises (1926), he used the phrase "lost generation" as the book's epigraph

True

When Standard Oil refused to turn over its records, the government brought an anti-trust suit that resulted in the breakup of the huge company in 1911

True

Wilson's Fourteen Points endorsed all of the following EXCEPT:

U.S. colonies in Africa and Asia

All of the following influenced the U.S. decision to enter the war against Germany EXCEPT:

Unrestricted submarine warfare by the Germans

All of the following could be associated with flappers EXCEPT:

Victorian values

The most important of all the federal mobilization agencies was the:

War Industries Board

William Howard Taft:

Was Roosevelt's choice as his successor

The movement of southern blacks to the North:

Was called the Great Migration

President Taft's domestic policies generated a storm of controversy:

Within his own party

In 1917, a prohibition amendment to the Constitution:

passed Congress, then went to the states for ratification

The Federal Reserve Act did all the following EXECPT:

shifted the U.S. Treasury back to the gold standard

Progressives supported all of the following as measures to democratize government EXCEPT:

the poll tax

In physics, the theory of relativity was developed and explained by:

Albert Einstein

The event that triggered World War I in Europe was:

A Serb's assassination of the Austrian archduke