Mid Term IB History
As the depression deepened
President Herbert Hoover grew less willing to increase federal spending.
As an environmental conservationist,
President Theodore Roosevelt added extensive areas of land to the national forest system.
In the 1902 strike by the United Mine Workers,
President Theodore Roosevelt ordered federal arbitration.
The Selective Service Act in the United States was supported by
President Woodrow Wilson
In his dealings with Pancho Villa
President Woodrow Wilson ordered a military expedition into Mexico to capture Villa.
In 1890 at Wounded Knee,
South Dakota,the U.S. Seventh Cavalry massacred more than 300 Indians.
The "Cross of Gold" speech was given in 1896 by
William Jennings Bryan.
In his political program known as the "New Freedom,"
Woodrow Wilson believed trusts should be destroyed.
As Herbert Hoover began his presidency
he considered the country's economic future bright.
The so-called "Zimmermann telegram"
included a proposal for the return of the American Southwest to Mexico.
President Woodrow Wilson's "Fourteen Points"
included an end to secret treaties.
In the United States during World War I, the Committee on Public Information (CPI) became
increasingly sensationalist in its information campaign.
Tenement buildings in urban America were
initially praised as an improvement in housing for the poor.
The Sand Creek Massacre of 1864
involved the killing of Indian women and children.
In 1932, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
lent funds only to financial institutions with sufficient collateral.
In the late nineteenth century, Social Darwinists argued that
people who failed economically in the United States did so because they were not fit enough to survive in the market.
The Spanish-American War began
primarily because of events in Cuba.
In 1935, Senator Huey Long
proposed a national wealth-sharing plan that involved heavily taxing the wealthiest Americans.
In 1894, the Immigration Restriction League
proposed screening immigrants to allow only the "desirable" ones to enter.
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) included a $1.5 billion public works budget, and was created to
provide federal loans to troubled banks and businesses.
The Civilian Conservation Corps
put the unemployed to work on rural and wilderness areas.
Throughout the late nineteenth century, the federal government was
relatively inactive.
In the 1890s, Jacob Riis
reported on the living conditions of the urban poor to encourage improvements.
Much of Father Charles Coughlin's outspoken criticism of the Roosevelt administration
revolved around the issue of changing the banking and currency system.
In the late nineteenth century, the Tammany Hall political machine
saw its most famous boss, William M. Tweed, sent to prison.
By the 1890s, the largest number of immigrants to the United States came from
southern and eastern Europe. Chinese.
The 1904 "Roosevelt Corollary"
stated that the U.S. had a right to intervene in the affairs of neighboring countries.
In what industry did the Homestead strike of 1892 occur?
steel
The 1920 census of the United States revealed
that a majority of Americans lived in "urban" areas.
Beginning in 1933
the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation protected the assets of bank depositors.
In order to secure control of the Panama Canal zone,
the United States assisted a revolution in Panama.
During World War I
the United States government primarily financed the war through public bond sales and new taxes.
According to the terms of the 1901 Platt Amendment
the United States had the right to intervene in Cuba to protect life and property.
The author of The Influence of Sea Power upon History believed
the United States should take possession of the Hawaiian Islands.
During the progressive era
the acknowledged leader of American socialism was Eugene V. Debs.
The Haymarket Square riot of 1886 resulted in
the conviction and execution of several anarchists.
In the early twentieth century, a principle goal of "Taylorism" was
to reorganize industrial production by subdividing it into many simple tasks.
The primary goal of the American Protective Association was
to stop immigrants from entering the United States.
Orville and Wilbur Wright's first successful airplane flight in 1903
took place near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
The Treaty of Paris concluding the Spanish-American War
transferred the Philippines and Puerto Rico to the United States.
President Herbert Hoover responded to the onset of the Great Depression by
urging a program of voluntary cooperation from business leaders.
In the late nineteenth century, fences for Plains farms were
usually made from barbed wire.
The business structure of Carnegie Steel
was a good example of vertical integration.
The 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn
was a short-lived Indian victory.
In 1890, the "Ghost Dance"
was a spiritual revival among Plains Indians.
In World War I, the American Expeditionary Force
was commanded by John Pershing.
The Agricultural Adjustment Act
was declared unconstitutional in large part by the Supreme Court.
The Dawes Act of 1887
was designed to force Indians to become landowners and farmers
In 1932, the Farmers' Holiday Association
was essentially a farmers' strike.
The Homestead Act of 1862-
was expanded by the Timber Culture Act.
The great railroad strike of 1877
was launched in response to a wage cut.
The immediate spark for hostilities in Europe in 1914
was the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
The town that reigned as the railhead of the cattle kingdom for many years was
Abilene, Kansas.
The author who called on the United States to increase its naval forces in his book, The Influence of Sea Power upon History, was
Alfred T. Mahan
The Indian leader who said, "I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever," was
Chief Joseph.
In 1882, the first group of immigrants to be excluded from the United States on the basis of nationality were
Chinese
In 1913, to offset the loss of revenues from other legislation,
Congress passed a graduated income tax.
Franklin Roosevelt's victory over
Herbert Hoover in 1932 was a convincing mandate.
Who among the following began to develop an oil empire by taking control of competing oil companies in Ohio?
John D. Rockefeller
The Sierra Club was founded by
John Muir.
In the late 1920s, the European demand for
agricultural and manufacturing goods from the United States was declining.
The Tennessee Valley Authority of 1933 was
an experiment in regional planning by the federal government. The term "muckrakers" referred to journalists.
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 -
banned Chinese in the United States from becoming naturalized citizens.
In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt's call to expand the Supreme Court
came from his desire to change the ideological balance of the Court.
In 1933, two days after he took office, President Franklin Roosevelt
closed all banks for a short period.
The political battles between Stalwarts and Half-Breeds
constituted a fight between Republican traditionalists and reformers.
The letter stolen in 1898 from Dupuy de Lôme, Spain's minister to Washington, was
controversial because it described William McKinley as a weak president.
The Pullman strike of 1894 began when George Pullman, owner of the company,
cut wages by twenty-five percent due to a slumping economy.
The Federal Trade Commission Act created an agency to
determine whether business practices were acceptable to the government.
The Chinese Boxer Rebellion of 1900 was
directed at all foreigners in China.
Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel, The Jungle,
encouraged the federal government to regulate the meatpacking industry.
The Foraker Act of 1900
established an American colonial government over Puerto Rico.
By 1890, populations in the biggest urban areas consisted mostly of
foreign-born immigrants and their children.
The National Labor Relations Act of 1935
gave government the authority to force employers to accept labor unions.