History 1302 Exam 2

The Nineteenth Amendment:

barred states from using sex as a qualification for voting.

Margaret Sanger was a:

birth-control advocate.

"The Great Migration" refers to:

blacks moving from the South to the North.

The Triangle Shirtwaist fire:

brought in its wake much-needed safety legislation.

A main cause of the Great Depression was:

declining American purchasing power.

The Treaty of Versailles:

was never ratified by the United States Senate.

U.S. control of the Panama Canal Zone

was part of Theodore Roosevelt's policy of intervention in Central America.

World War I:

was rooted in European contests over colonial possessions.

Dollar Diplomacy:

was used by William Howard Taft instead of military intervention.

During the 1920s, consumer goods:

were frequently purchased on credit.

The Espionage Act (1917) and the Sedition Act (1918)

were the first federal restrictions on free speech since 1798.

Which city was considered the "capital" of black America?

Harlem.

In his piece in The Crisis, W. E. B. Du Bois states that the United States is a shameful land for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

It under employs its workers.

Why did World War I threaten to tear the women's suffrage movement apart?

Many suffragists had been associated with opposition to American involvement in the war.

Who led a black separatist movement?

Marcus Garvey.

When Eugene Debs was sentenced under the Espionage Act, what did he tell the jury?

That Americans in the past who spoke out against colonialism, slavery, or the Mexican War were not indicted or charged with treason.

The Progressive presidents were:

Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson

Who used the Sherman Antitrust Act to dissolve J. P. Morgan's Northern Securities Company?

Theodore Roosevelt.

Which of the following social groups was NOT heavily involved in the Progressive movement?

Unskilled immigrant workers.

The writer whose work encouraged the passage of the Meat Inspection Act was:

Upton Sinclair.

Eugene V. Debs was:

a Socialist candidate for president.

The Cable Act of 1922 stated that:

American women who married Asian men forfeited their nationality

By 1912, the Socialist Party:

had elected scores of local officials.

In the 1920s, movies, radios, and phonographs:

helped create and spread a new celebrity culture.

Theodore Roosevelt's taking of the Panama Canal Zone is an example of:

his belief that civilized nations had an obligation to establish order in an unruly world.

Between 1901 and 1920, the United States intervened militarily numerous times in Caribbean countries:

in order to protect the economic interests of American banks and investors.

The Harlem Renaissance:

included writers and poets such as Langston Hughes and Claude McKay.

Most new immigrants who arrived during the early years of the twentieth century:

lived in close-knit communities.

The Progressive movement drew its strength from:

middle-class reformers..

Newspaper and magazine writers who exposed the ills of industrial and urban life, fueling the Progressive

muckrakers

During the Progressive era:

new immigration from southern and eastern Europe reached its peak.

The Industrial Workers of the World and most of the Socialist Party:

opposed the war.

The Zimmermann Telegram:

outlined the German plan for an attack on the United States by Mexico.

The Scopes trial of 1925:

pitted creationists against evolutionists.

The Eighteenth Amendment:

prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.

The Fourteen Points attempted to:

provide a peace agenda to create a new world order.

In response to the Russian Revolution that led to the creation of the communist Soviet Union, the United States:

pursued a policy of anticommunism that would remain throughout the twentieth century.

To create national parks like Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Glacier, the federal government:

removed Indians who hunted and fished on these lands.

A worker who crossed a picket line during a strike was called a:

scab.

As a Progressive president, Theodore Roosevelt:

supported the conservation movement.

The trial and execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti demonstrated that:

the Red Scare extended into the 1920s.

African-Americans migrated north during the Great Migration for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

the prospect of owning their own homes.

For the feminist woman in the 1920s, freedom meant:

the right to choose her lifestyle

The Teapot Dome scandal involved:

the secretary of the interior, who received money in exchange for leasing government oil reserves to private companies.

Eugenics is:

the study of the supposed mental characteristics of different races.

In 1919:

there was much unrest and many strikes.

During the Progressive era:

urban development highlighted social inequalities.

The Red Scare:

was an intense period of political intolerance.

The Industrial Workers of the World:

advocated a workers' revolution.

Jane Addams:

advocated for the working poor.

The new concepts of a "living wage" and the "American standard of living":

allowed for criticism of the inequalities of wealth and power.

During the 1920s:

an estimated 40 percent of the population remained in poverty

Senators opposing America's participation in the League of Nations:

argued that it would threaten to deprive the country of its freedom of action.

The word "Progressivism" came into common use around 1910:

as a way of describing a loosely defined political movement.

The Sixteenth Amendment:

authorized Congress to implement a graduated income tax.

Railroads were to the late nineteenth century what ____________ were to the 1920s.

cars

A cause not widely championed by Progressives was:

civil rights for blacks.

The Roosevelt Corollary:

claimed the right of the United States to act as a police power in the Western Hemisphere.

Asian and Mexican immigrants in the early twentieth century:

clustered in the West as agricultural workers.

The flapper:

epitomized the change in standards of sexual behavior.

During World War I, federal powers:

expanded greatly.

Agriculture in the 1920s:

experienced declining incomes and increased bank foreclosures.

The Ku Klux Klan:

flourished in the early 1920s, especially in the North and West.

W. E. B. Du Bois:

founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

During the 1920s:

government polices reflected the pro-business ethos of the decade.