Exam 2: True/False
"Flappers" was the slang word for illegal drinking establishments in the 1920s
False
Conservative moralists saw the flappers as positive influence on society
False
Due to their belief in "freedom of the seas," the British allowed Americans to trade with Germany
False
Federal money for farm demonstration agents was approved in the Adamson Act
False
General Pershing's incursion into Mexico resulted in the defeat and capture of "Pancho" Villa
False
In the presidential election of 1916, Republicans used the slogan "He kept us out of war" to discredit Wilson.
False
Lincoln Steffens wrote The Jungle
False
President Wilson suffered a temporarily incapacitating stroke in France while negotiating the peace treaty
False
Progressives generally believed government should not interfere with big business
False
The Germans intercepted the Zimmermann telegram, sent to the Mexican government from the White House
False
The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was mainly a southern rural organization
False
The NAACP favored militant protests over legal challenges as a way to end racial discrimination
False
The Scopes "monkey trial" sought to keep the theory of evolution in science classrooms in Tennessee
False
Theodore Roosevelt initiated more anti-trust suits than any president in history
False
William H. Taft achieved the most significant tariff reduction of any progressive president
False
Wilson was a weak president who trusted Congress to adopt the proper policies
False
Women in "war work" were usually able to keep their jobs after the war
False
Woodrow Wilson was elected president in 1908
False
A French company dug a canal part of the way through Panama in the 1880s
True
Among the varied sources of progressivism were populism and the Mugwumps
True
During World War I, some American symphonies refused to perform Bach and Beethoven
True
During the 1920s, ideas of scientists about the nature of the universe inspired modernist artists to try new techniques
True
Eugene V. Debs was the Socialist party presidential candidate in 1912
True
Henry Cabot Lodge led the Senate Republicans who demanded amendments to the Treaty of Versailles
True
In the 1920s, people of Latin American descent became the fastest-growing ethnic minority in the United States
True
John Hay called Spanish-American War "a splendid little war"
True
Louis D. Brandeis was the first Jewish member of the United States Supreme Court
True
One of Taft's major issues became his support for high tariffs
True
Over four hundred thousand southern blacks moved northward during the war years
True
Philippe Bunau-Varilla was a Panamanian ambassador to the United States
True
Proponents of Prohibition displayed ethnic and social prejudices in the drive to make America "dry."
True
The Roaring Twenties pitted a cosmopolitan urban America against the values of an insular, rural America
True
The United States agreed to pay $10 million plus $250,000 a year for the Panama Canal Zone
True
The phrase "Square Deal" is associated with Theodore Roosevelt
True
Theodore Roosevelt gave muckrakers their name
True
Theodore Roosevelt took a strong, activist approach to the presidency
True
When Standard Oil refused to turn over its records, the government brought an anti-trust suit that resulted in the breakup of the huge company in 1911
True
William Jennings Bryan was the Democratic presidential candidate in l900
True
Woodrow Wilson was a minister's son who grew up in the South
True