APUSH - Period 7

shantytowns of unemployed and homeless people

During the Great Depression, "Hoovervilles" were

Middle-class women

Which of the following groups is most credited with advancing Progressivism?

the high death toll from alcohol-related automobile accidents

All of the following contributed to the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment legislating Prohibition in 1919 EXCEPT

the capacity of trained professionals to find rational, scientific solutions to society's problems

Although Progressive Era reformers held different opinions about many issues of the day, they shared a belief in

the flooding of American markets by foreign producers

In the late nineteenth century, all of the following encouraged American jingoism EXCEPT

immigrant urban poverty and despair in 1890's

Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives is a study of-

the establishment of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation

One means by which President Hoover attempted to fight the Great Depression was

The right to intervene in the domestic affairs of Latin American countries

The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine justified which of the following?

Government should be noninterventionist during economic downturns.

The policies passed in response to the Great Depression contributed to a change in which of the following earlier popular beliefs?

They began to vote in national elections.

Which of the following is a major change in the status of women that occurred in the 1920s?

Large numbers left their industrial jobs to make room for returning soldiers.

Which of the following was true of women in the five years following the Second World War?

overproduction in the manufacturing and farm sectors

An underlying cause of the Great Depression, which began in 1929, was

imposition of poll taxes

Constitutional amendments enacted during the Progressive Era concerned all of the following EXCEPT

federal relief to individuals

In 1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover disagreed most strongly about the desirability of

sought to spread Protestantism and Anglo-Saxon values

In the late 1800s, many Americans came to support a United States empire overseas because they-

The New Deal actively used government power to stimulate economic recovery. (The New Deal created many new government programs such as the Works Progress Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps, which were directly intended to stimulate economic recovery, marking a significant departure from previous government practices.)

In which of the following ways did the New Deal mark a departure from previous government practices?

advocacy for birth control

Margaret Sanger is best known for her

law enforcement challenges

One of the principal reasons the "noble experiment" of Prohibition failed was that it led to an enormous increase in

sales and circulation of newspapers and magazines increased

One reason early twentieth century muckrakers were able to have a significant impact on society was because

conflict and competition did not necessarily improve society

Progressive reformers rejected Social Darwinism because they believed that

Efforts to restrict the excesses of corporations during the Progressive Era

The establishment of a stronger economic regulatory system during the Great Depression most closely reflected a continuity with which of the following?

The farm labor force diminished in size as the economy industrialized.

The impact of the Great Depression on agriculture in the United States continued which of the following trends?

middle-class reformers concerned with urban and consumer issues

The leaders of the Progressive movement were primarily

journalists who wrote articles exposing political corruption and urban poverty

The term "muckrakers" was used in the early twentieth century to refer to

a balance of power between Russia and Japan

Theodore Roosevelt's mediation in the Russo-Japanese War reflected his belief that United States interests were best served by

The United States and its allies won the war in part because they had sufficient military supplies. Although many male industrial workers were drafted into military service during the Second World War, the number of women in manufacturing increased to replace those losses. These workers were able to produce a sufficient amount of supplies and equipment to give the Allied forces an advantage in the war.

What was one of the main reasons the US and its allies won the war?

They were leading critics of urban boss politics.

Which of the following best characterizes the muckrakers of the early twentieth century?

Both sought to create a stronger financial regulatory system. (Great Depression-era efforts to create stronger financial regulations through reforms such as the Glass-Steagall Act (1933) had a great deal in common with Progressive Era financial reforms such as the Federal Reserve Act (1913) and the Sixteenth Amendment (1913), which allowed Congress to establish an income tax.)

Which of the following best explains a connection between policies intended to address the Great Depression and earlier Progressive Era reform policies?

Political alignments shifted as African Americans came to support the Democratic Party. (African Americans who were permitted to vote had tended to support the Republican Party since Reconstruction, but that alignment shifted in the 1920s and 1930s as the Democratic Party increasingly offered some modest support for African American civil rights. Following the New Deal, African Americans predominantly voted for Democrats.)

Which of the following best explains a long-term political change resulting from the New Deal?

The Great Depression of the 1930s and the increased demand for war production in the 1940s led many Americans to migrate to cities in search of economic opportunities.

Which of the following best explains changes in migration patterns in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s?

Policymakers developed a limited welfare state to reduce the effects of mass unemployment and social upheavals. (In response to the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration in particular created extensive new programs such as the Works Progress Administration to help provide jobs and social stability.)

Which of the following best explains changes in the federal government resulting from the Great Depression?

The United States used peace treaties and select military intervention to promote international order.

Which of the following best explains how the United States sought to engage in world affairs in the 1920s and 1930s, the decades immediately following the First World War?

Japan attacked the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor.

Which of the following best explains the factor that most directly prompted United States entry into the Second World War in 1941 ?

Episodes of credit and market instability undermined the financial system. (The Great Depression was triggered by the stock market crash of 1929 and the failure of hundreds of banks across the country. This was the most extreme in a series of economic fluctuations that characterized the early twentieth century.)

Which of the following best explains the main cause of the Great Depression of the 1930s?

Strong isolationist sentiments after the First World War left many Americans wary of involvement in another European conflict.

Which of the following best explains the policy of the United States toward Nazi Germany in the 1930s?

W. E. B. Du Bois

Which of the following emerged during the Progressive Era as the most influential advocate of full political, economic, and social equality for Black Americans?

use government power to regulate industrial production and labor conditions

A key goal of the Progressive movement was to-

the frontier

According to historian Frederick Jackson Turner, a key factor in the development of American individualism and democracy was-

States began to require children to attend school until a certain age and to limit the ages at which they could be employed.

Around 1920, the number of children aged 10 to 15 in the industrial workforce began to decline for which of the following reasons?

commercial involvement in both Latin America and eastern Asia

Between 1890 and 1910, the United States most strongly pursued a foreign policy promoting-

serious dislocation in international trade

Of the following, the most important cause of the Great Depression was

insider trading on the stock market

President Theodore Roosevelt addressed all of the following issues during his presidency EXCEPT

the American frontier could no longer be distinguished from settled areas

In its report for 1890, the United States Census Bureau indicated that-

an increase in the number of transient people searching for work

In the 1930s the Great Depression resulted in

Designation of national parks and forests for recreation and managed use

Which of the following best characterizes the conservationist approach to the environment that emerged in the Progressive Era?