exam 2 us history
In the United States, the most controversial aspect of the Treaty of Versailles was the
League of Nations.
The first Jewish member of the United States Supreme Court, appointed by Woodrow Wilson, was
Louis D. Brandeis
Which term best characterizes Woodrow Wilson's fundamental approach to American foreign policy?
Moralistic
The Panic of 1907 exposed the need for substantial reform in
US banking and currency policies
The Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution permitted Congress to enact
a personal income tax.
In Muller v. Oregon, the Supreme Court upheld the principle promoted by progressives like Florence Kelley and Louis Brandeis that
female workers required special rules and protection on the job.
Women's participation in the war effort contributed greatly to the fact that they
finally received the right to vote.
After the Scopes "Monkey Trial"
fundamentalist religion remained a vibrant force in American spiritual life.
The World War I military draft
generally worked fairly and effectively to provide military manpower
progressive reform at the level of city government seemed to indicate that the progressives' highest priority was
governmental efficiency.
The political roots of the progressive movement lay in the
greenback labor party and the populists
Woodrow Wilson's attitude toward the masses can best be described as
having strong faith in them if they were properly educated and led.
Republican economic policies under Warren G. Harding
hoped to encourage the government actively to assist business along the path to profits.
Enforcement of the Volstead Act met the strongest resistance from
immigrants and big-city residents.
Top gangster Al Capone was finally convicted and sent to prison for the crime of
income tax evasion.
As a politician, Woodrow Wilson was
inflexible & stubborn
The settlement house and women's club movements were crucial centers of female progressive activity because they
introduced many middle-class women to a broader array of urban social problems and civic concerns
The Federal Reserve Act gave the Federal Reserve Board the authority to
issue paper money and increase or decrease the amount of money in circulation by altering interest rates.
Buying stock on margin meant purchasing
it on credit with only a small down payment
When the United States entered the war in 1917, most Americans did not believe that
it would be necessary to send a large American army to Europe
The American radio industry was distinctive from radio in European nations because it
it. was a commercial business dependent on advertising.
During the 1920s and after, many American immigrant ethnic groups
lived in neighborhoods with their own churches or synagogues, newspapers, and theaters
Most of the money raised to finance World War I came from
loans
The American airline industry in the 1920s made most of its early profits through
mail contracts with the federal government.
The Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution was a key progressive reform designed to
make the Senate millionaire's club directly elected by the people.
As secretary of the treasury, Andrew Mellon placed the heaviest tax burden on
middle-income groups
According to progressives, the cure for all of American democracy's ills was
more democracy.
In the Sussex pledge, Germany promised
not to sink passenger ships without warning
The post-World War I Ku Klux Klan advocated all of the following except
opposition to prohibition
In 1912, Woodrow Wilson became the first ____ elected to the presidency since the Civil War.
person born in the south
Henry Ford's most distinctive contribution to the automobile industry was
production of a standardized, relatively inexpensive automobile.
Besides controlling the illegal liquor industry, American gangsters in the 1920s earned rich profits from all of the following activities except
prostitution
The movement of tens of thousands of Southern blacks north during World War I resulted in
racial violence in the North
In an effort to make economic mobilization more efficient during World War I, the federal government took over and operated
railroads
The Newlands Act, passed under Theodore Roosevelt's administration, was designed to
reclaim and irrigate unproductive lands
President Roosevelt believed that the federal government should adopt a policy of ____ trusts
regulating
Senate opponents of the League of Nations, as proposed in the Treaty of Versailles, argued that it
robbed Congress of its war-declaring powers.
The Federal Trade Commission was established in 1914 to address all of these practices except . . .
sale of stocks without full disclosure of a business's organization and profits.
One exception to President Warren G. Harding's policy of isolationism involved the Middle East, where the United States sought to
secure oil-drilling concessions for American companies.
President Wilson viewed America's entry into World War I as an opportunity for the United States to
shape a new international order based on the ideals of democracy.
the Supreme Court's rule of reason in antitrust law was handed down in a case involving
standard oil
Teddy Roosevelt's New Nationalism
supported a broad program of social welfare and government regulation of business.
When Jane Addams placed Teddy Roosevelt's name in nomination for the presidency in 1912, it
symbolized the rising political status of women and the movement for social justice
During his presidency, Teddy Roosevelt did all of the following EXCEPT
tame capitalism /
From 1914 to 1916, America's growing trade with Britain and loss of trade with Germany essentially occurred because
the British navy controlled the Atlantic shipping lanes.
Despite reluctance by both the president and Congress, the United States resorted to forced conscription in 1917 because
the German kaiser be forced from power
Before Woodrow Wilson would agree to an armistice ending World War I fighting, he demanded that
the German kaiser be forced from power.
The religious movement that was closely linked to progressivism was
the Social Gospel.
The dangerous proviso that Germany attached to its Sussex pledge not to attack unarmed neutral shipping was the requirement that
the United States would have to persuade the Allies to end their blockade of Germany or submarine warfare would be resumed.
The leading progressive organization advocating prohibition of liquor was
the Women's Christian Temperance Union.
During Coolidge's presidency, government policy was set largely by the interests and values of
the business community.
The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was a reaction against
the forces of diversity and modernity that were transforming American culture
Immediately before he was elected president in 1912, Woodrow Wilson had been serving as
the governor of New Jersey
The automobile revolution resulted in all of the following except
the increased dependence of women on men.
Congress's passage of the Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act demonstrated that the federal government
was willing to benefit and support women primarily in their role as mothers
Who was finally most responsible for the Senate defeat of the Treaty of Versailles?
woodrow wilson
When Woodrow Wilson won reelection in 1916, he received strong support from the
working class
The enormous nationwide steel strike of 1919 resulted in
A grievous setback for labor that crippled the union movement for a decade
jazz music was developed by
American blacks
During the course of World War I
American prices approximately doubled.
The 1920 census revealed that, for the first time, most
Americans lived in cities
Among the major figures promoted by mass media image makers and the new sports industry in the 1920s were
Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey
Margaret Sanger was most noted for her advocacy of
Birth control
The zeal of federal agents in enforcing prohibition laws against liquor smugglers strained U.S. diplomatic relations with
Canada
The most spectacular example of lawlessness and gangsterism in the 1920s was
Chicago.
Because of the benefits that it conferred on labor, Samuel Gompers called the ____ "labor's Magna Charta
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Which of the following was NOT among the issues addressed by women in the progressive movement?
Ending special regulations governing women in the workplace
The two groups who suffered most from the violation of civil liberties during World War I were
German Americans and social radicals.
President Wilson broke diplomatic relations with Germany when
Germany announced that it would wage unrestricted submarine warfare in the Atlantic.
President Wilson insisted that he would hold ____ to "strict accountability" for ____.
Germany; the loss of American ships and lives to submarine warfare
All of the following helped to make the prosperity of the 1920s possible except
Government stimulation of the economy
The religion of almost all Polish immigrants to America was
Roman Catholicism
The Immigration Act of 1924 discriminated directly against
Southern and Eastern Europeans
The two major battles of World War I in which United States forces engaged were
St. Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.
Woodrow Wilson showed the limits of his progressivism by
accelerating the segregation of blacks in the federal bureaucracy.
At the Paris Peace Conference, Wilson sought all of the following goals except
an end to the European colonial empires in Africa and Asia
The United States' main contributions to the Allied victory in World War I included all of the following except
battlefield victories.
Businesspeople used the red scare to
break the backs of fledging unions.
As World War I began in Europe, the alliance system placed Germany and Austria-Hungary as leaders of the ____, while Russia and France were among the ____.
central powers, allies
One primary effect of World War I on the United States was that it
conducted an immense amount of trade with the Allies.
In response to the need to develop greater and greater mass markets for their products, American business in the 1920s relied especially on the new techniques of
consumer advertising
During the 1920s, large numbers of Americans were able to purchase relatively expensive automobiles, appliances, and radios through the relatively new innovation of
consumer credit
Automobiles, radios, and motion pictures
contributed to the standardization of American life.
As a part of his reform program, Teddy Roosevelt advocated all of the following except
control of labor/ guaranteed recognition of labor unions.
Before his first term ended, Woodrow Wilson had militarily intervened in or purchased all of the following countries except
cuba
President Woodrow Wilson persuaded the American people to enter World War I by
declaring it a crusade to "make the world safe for democracy."
The major weakness of the League of Nations was that it
did not include the US
President Taft's foreign policy was dubbed
dollar diplomacy.
With the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the great majority of Americans
earnestly hoped to stay out of the war.
According to John Dewey, a teacher's primary goal is to
educate students for life by active learning methods.
The United States used all of the following methods to support the war effort except
establishing government control of wages and prices.
One of the primary obstacles to working class solidarity and organization in America was
ethnic diversity.
The Ku Klux Klan virtually collapsed in the late 1920s when
the organization was publicly exposed as a corrupt and cynical racket
The red scare of 1919-1920 was provoked by
the public's association of labor violence with its fear of revolution
Russia's withdrawal from World War I in 1918 resulted in
the release of hundreds of thousands of German troops for deployment on the front in France.
Despite reluctance by both the president and Congress, the United States resorted to forced conscription in 1917 because
there was no other way to raise the vast American army that would have to be sent to Europe
Teddy Roosevelt helped to end the 1902 strike in the anthracite coal mines by
threatening to seize the mines and to operate them with federal troops.
All of the following were prime goals of earnest progressives except
treating women in the workplace exactly the same as men.
Most wartime mobilization agencies primarily relied on ____ to prepare the economy for war.
voluntary compliance
Progressivism
was closely tied to the feminist movement and women's causes
