History Exam II
The 17th Amendment:
authorized the popular election of senators
Why did Theodore Roosevelt send the "Great White Fleet" on a world tour between 1907 & 1909?
to demonstrate that the United States was now a world power
Which was the first labor strike to end with the president intervening on behalf of the workers?
1894 Pullman Strike
Which two New Deal programs did the Supreme Court rule unconstitutional?
Agricultural Adjustment Act and National Recovery Administration
The government that best characterizes the Great Depression:
Brother can you spare a dime
What country does this political cartoon represent?
China
The Ludlow massacre was a tragic confrontation between:
Colorado mine workers and militia
Of the four presidential candidates in 1912, the one most likely to advocate government ownership of big business was:
Eugen Debbs
A frank acceptance of the benefits of bigness, coupled with the intervention of government to counteract its abuses, best describes the philosophy behind:
New Nationalism
Progressives supported all of the following as measures to democratize government EXCEPT the:
Poll tax
Which of the following is the message of this political cartoon?
That the naval officers aboard the USS Maine were murdered by the Spanish
Which act barred commercial banks from becoming involved in the buying and selling of stocks?
The Glass-Steagall Act
Which speakers statement is most directly related to the political concepts of initiative, referendum, and recall?
The best way to prevent corruption in government is to allow citizens a direct role in the legislative process
What answer below is the best definition of what the Progressive Era means?
The period 1890-1920 when many diverse groups in American society launched efforts to reform or eliminate the many social problems resulting from industrialization, immigration and urbanization
What position did the Populist Party take on laissez-faire economics?
They opposed laissez-faire economics because it rejected government regulation
What ended the Great Depression?
World War II spending
The Industrial Workers of the World:
advocated a workers revolution
On April 2, 1917, Woodrow Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war:
against Germany: to make the world safe for democracy
The War Industries Board:
all of these
The new concepts of a "living wage: and the "American standard of living":
allowed for criticism of the inequalities of wealth and power
The New South as promoted by Henry Grady:
attempted to appeal to northern business interests but failed to bring prosperity to the region
What did the "Gospel of Wealth" suggest as an answer to the inequality Carnegie observed?
benefactors should use their wealth to create greater economic opportunity
The Triandle Shirtwaist fire:
brought in its wake increased union organizing among New York City garment workers and much needed saftey legislation
The "Declaration of Principles" adopted by W.E Du Bois's Niagara Movement:
called for complete economic and education equality
The Populist platform:
called for government control of the economy
Railroads were to the late 19th century what _______ were to the 1920's
cars
Asian and Mexican immigrants in the early 20th century:
clustered in the West as agriculture workers
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis:
crafted an intellectual defense of civil liberties in the 1920's
The Wagner Act:
created the National Labor Relations Board
Besides work and school the most active agents of Americanization during the 1920's were:
dance halls, department stores, and movie theaters
The term "Fordism":
described an economic system based on mass production and mass consumption
The Teller Amendment:
disavowed any American designs on Cuban territory
The impact of the second industrial revolution on the trans-Mississippi West was
dramatic as an agricultural empire grew
As a result of the Spanish-AMerican War, the United States:
emerged as an imperial power
Booker T. Washington
encouraged black to adjust to segregation and abandon the rush for civil rights
The Interstate Commerce Commission was established in 1887 to:
ensure that railroads charged farmers and merchants reasonable and fair rates
The change in the rate of unemployment between 1941 and 1942 is best explained by the:
entry of the U.S into World War II
The National Industrial Recovery Act:
established codes that set standards for production, prices, and wages in several industries
During World War I, federal powers:
expanded greatly
Agriculture in the 1920's:
experienced declining incomes and increased bank foreclosures
The Ku Klux Klan:
flourished in the early 1920's especially in the North and West
During the 1920's:
government policies reflected the pro-business ethos of the decade
In negotiating with the Big Four over many postwar territorial issues, President Wilson:
had to compromise his principle of self determination
Why did FDR try to change the balance on the Supreme Court?
he feared the Supreme Court might invalidate the Wagner and Social Security Acy
The Red Scare of 1919-1920 reflected the:
impact of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and the actions of militants in the U.S
Between 1898 and 1934, the United States intervened militarily numerous times in Caribbean countries:
in order to protect the economic interests of American banks and interests
The New Deal:
included a reliance on economic planning
The Great Depression was caused by all of the following EXCEPT:
increased government regulation of banking and the stock market
What changes led to the inequality Carnegie described during the late 19th century?
increasing industrialization and economic consolidation
Thomas Edison:
invented among other things, a system for generating and distributing electricity
The election of 1896:
is sometimes called the first modern presidential campaign
One of the reasons that the Great Strike of 1977 was important is that:
it underscored the tensions proved by the rapid industrialization of the time
Many of the nations colonized were rich in natural resources. How did Social Darwinists view the mining of natural resources in these colonized lands?
it was their right to take what they wanted
The "clear and present danger" principle stated by the Supreme Court in Schenck v. United States (1919) had the effect of:
limiting freedom of speech during wartime
All of the following contributed to explosive economic growth during the Gilded Age EXCEPT:
low tariffs
The economic development of the American West was based on:
lumber, mining industries, farming and ranching
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation:
made loans to failing businesses
In the early 20th century, the Socialist Party advocated for all of the following EXCEPT:
national health insurance
During the Progressive Era:
new immigration from southern and eastern Europe reached its peak
During the Roosevelt administration, the Democratic Party emerged into a coalition that included all of the following EXCEPT:
northern business elite
In the 1890's, the main goal of those who supported United States imperialism was to:
obtain overseas markets and naval bases
The Industrial Workers of the World and most of the Socialist Party:
opposed the war
Senator Huey Long, Dr. Francis Townsend, and Father Charles Coughlin are best known as:
outspoken critics of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal
This pair of photographs suggests that the major purposes of the Carlisle Indian School was to:
promote cultural assimilation
The Equal Rights Amendment:
proposed to eliminate all legal distinctions based on sex
The Fourteen points attempted to:
provide a peace agenda to create a new democratic 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 at the center of American foreign policy during the 20th century
THe Civilian Conservation Corps:
put younger men to work in national parks
The silver issue:
refers to increasing the money supply by minting silver money
American foreign policy during the 1920's:
reflected the close working relationship between government and business
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 Federal Reserve System was created in 1913 to:
regulate the nation's money supply
Keynesian economics:
relied on large-scale government spending
The Espionage Act (1917) and the Sedition Act (1918):
restricted freedom of speech
The program that sought to streamline production and boost profits by systematically controlling costs and work practices was called:
scientific management
The Federal Reserve Act did all of the following EXCEPT:
shifted the U.S Treasury back to the gold standard
Which generalization about labor unions in the United States is most clearly supported by information on the map?
striked by labor unions were often suppressed by government actions
A major difference between the philosophies of President Herbert Hoover and President Franklin D. Roosevelt in responding to the Great Depression is that Roosevelt:
supported direct relief to people out of work
The Supreme Court decision United States v. Wong Kim Ark ruled that:
the 14th Amendment gave Asians born in the United States citizenship
What political policy or situation is satirized in this cartoon?
the Open Door Policy
Western Imperialism in the late 19th century was stimulated by all of the following EXCEPT:
the fear that Bolshevik ideas might advance around the world
Farmers believed that their plight derived from all of the following EXCEPT:
the free and unlimited coinage of silver
A major reason that the U.S annexed the Philippines despite anti-imperialist opposition in the U.S was because:
the islands were located very close to China and China's potential markets
An unintended consequence of the Boston Police riots in 1919 led to:
the launching of Calvin Coolidge's presidential career
The theory of Social Darwinism argued that:
the theory of evolution applied to humans, this explaining why some were rich and some were poor
What impact did the Indian boarding schools have on Native American culture?
they accelerated the cultural assimilation process although not in a uniform fashion
What was the aim of Carlisle, a boarding school for Indians?
to civilize the Indians, making them "American" as whites defined the term
How were federal troops used in the Pullman Strike of 1894?
to help suppress strikers on behalf of the owners
In the presidential election of 1916, Woodrow Wilson:
used the campaign slogan "he kept us out of war"
The Supreme Court in Lochner v. New York:
voided a state law establishing that bakers could work a maximum of sixty hours per week
THis cartoon shows is accurately described by all of the following statement EXCEPT:
was last a political issue when Woodrow Wilson tried to get liberal justices on the court to protect Progressive legislation
The sever depression of 1893:
was marked by high and long term unemployment, exemplified by Coxey's Army
In the 19th century pools, trusts, and mergers were:
ways that manufacturers sought to control the marketplace
By the end of the 19th century, African American men in the South:
were forced out of politics and leadership passed to African AMerican women activists such as those in the National Association of Colored Women