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The Roaring Twenties was dubbed "the Jazz Age" by
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The commission form of city government was first adopted in
Galveston, Texas
Which of the following did W. E. B. DuBois say in his opposition to Marcus Garvey?
He is "the most dangerous enemy of the Negro race . ... He is either a lunatic or a traitor."
Which of the following is true of the Lusitania?
It secretly carried weapons and ammunition in its cargo.
Which amendment to the U. S. Constitution gave women the right to vote?
Nineteenth
In response to the Bonus Army marchers, Herbert Hoover
Sent the U.S. Army to evict them from their Hooverville.
The title of the novel that described the terrible conditions of the meat-packing industry was:
The Jungle
Wilson's Fourteen Points endorsed all of the following EXCEPT:
U.S. colonies in Africa and Asia
Democratic presidential nominee Al Smith was hurt in 1928 by the fact that he was:
a New Yorker and a Catholic
The event that triggered World War I in Europe was:
a Serb's assassination of the Austrian archduke
Alfred Thayer Mahan:
argued that sea power was essential to national greatness
The Zimmermann telegram:
asked for help from Mexico in the case of war between Germany and the United States
As a result of the Spanish-American War the United States:
became a world power
The term yellow journalism arose from the:
circulation war between two New York newspapers
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 Teller Amendment:
disclaimed any American designs on Cuban territory
The muckrakers saw their primary objective as:
exposing social problems to the public
The immigration quota laws passed in the 1920s:
favored immigrants from northern and western Europe
Charles Lindbergh became immensely popular in the 1920s due to:
his solo flight across the Atlantic
The Red Scare of 1919-1920 reflected the:
impact of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and the actions of a "lunatic fringe" in the United States
"Pancho" Villa:
killed a number of Americans in an attempt to provoke American intervention in Mexico
In the progressive period:
many groups- blacks, the poor the unorganized - had little influence
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation:
offered emergency loans to banks, farm mortgage associations, building-and loan societies, and other such businesses
Queen Liliuokalani:
opposed the Americanization of Hawaii
The Clayton Anti-Trust Act;
outlawed price discrimination and interlocking directorates
Political and social radicalism arose after World War I because:
postwar culture was fraught with contradictions and tension
The Open Door Policy:
proposed that foreign powers keep the China trade open to all nations on an equal basis
Coolidge's administration was inarked by:
prosperity
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 German delegation at Versailles objected most bitterly to:
reparations for the entire war
The Platt Amendment:
sharply restricted the independence of Cuba's new governments
The Federal Reserve Act did all of the following EXCEPT:
shifted the U. S. Treasury back to the gold standard
Th Roosevelt Corollary:
stated the United States could intervene in the affairs of Western Hemisphere countries to forestall the intervention of other powers
A major factor in Woodrow Wilson's victory in the 1912 presidential campaign was the fact that:
the Republican party had split in two
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were:
two Italian-born anarchists sentenced to death and executed even though there was daubt as to their guilt
In the case of Schenck v. United States, the Supreme Court
upheld the conviction of a man who had circulated pamphlets against the draft
The Ohio gang:
was a group of President Harding's friends who were named to political office
President Wilson's response to the sinking of the Lusitania
was a series of notes demandieg that Germany stop such actions and pay reparations
The movement of southern blacks to the North
was called the Great Migration