Unit 5 Quiz
The phrase that best captures the vision of the Knights of Labor is
"Cooperative commonwealth."
During World War I, popular words of German origin were changed; "hamburger" became
"liberty sandwich"
What was the name of the naval officer and his 1890 book that argued that no nation could prosper without a large fleet of ships engaged in international trade, protected by a powerful navy operating overseas bases?
Alfred T. Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History
The immigrants facing the harshest reception in late nineteenth-century America were those arriving from
China
What 1893 United States Supreme Court decision authorized the federal government to expel Chinese aliens without due process of law?
Fong Yue Ting
The Progressive-era economic system based on mass production and mass consumption came to be called
Fordism.
Which of the following was intended to regulate economic activity, and ensure that railroad rates were reasonable and favoritism avoided?
Interstate Commerce Commission.
What was the name of the organization that sought to organize both skilled and unskilled workers, women as well as men, blacks along with whites, and achieved a membership of nearly 800,000 in 1886?
Knights of Labor
Who was the early-twentieth-century governor of Wisconsin who believed that the state was a "laboratory for democracy," developed what came to be known as the Wisconsin Idea, taxed corporate wealth, and initiated state regulation of public utilities?
Robert M. La Follette
In November 1917, in the midst of World War I, a communist revolution broke out in what country?
Russia
Which of the following did the Scottish-born naturalist John Muir organize to help preserve forests from uncontrolled logging by timber companies?
The Sierra Club
The amendment to the United States Constitution that authorizes Congress to enact a graduated income tax (one whose rate of taxation is higher for wealthier citizens) is
The Sixteenth Amendment
Which of the following was NOT a theme of Social Darwinism?
The growing gulf between the haves and the have-nots poses a dire threat to American freedom.
Who was the future American president who made a national name for himself by charging up San Juan Hill with the Rough Riders?
Theodore Roosevelt
The term "Progressive" that came into common use around 1910 describes:
a loosely defined political movement of individuals and groups who hoped to bring about social and political change in American life.
The "subtreasury plan" was:
a plan to establish federal warehouses where farmers could store crops until they were sold.
According to the author, Eric Foner, the federal government contributed to the dynamic and expansive growth of the American economy in the late nineteenth century by
granting land to railroads, removing Indians from desirable lands in the West, and enacting high tariffs.
Which was NOT a central factor in the explosive economic growth in the second Industrial Revolution?
low tariffs
The right to dissent from government policy during World War I
met with sweeping repression.
Between 1901 and 1920, the U.S. Marines landed in Caribbean countries
more than twenty times
The 1897 Dingley Tariff
raised tariff rates to their highest level in American history up to that time.
During World War I, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire were called
the Central Powers.
The outbreak of World War I in 1914 was triggered by
the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand.
Pope Leo XIII's 1894 Rerum Novarum and the Catholic priest Father John A. Ryan's A Living Wage (1906) called for all of the following except:
the view that the Catholic Church should in no way become involved in discussions of wages, working conditions, and the ethical basis of the free market economy.
Which of the following was NOT a significant effect of World War I on American society?
withdrawal of the federal government from domestic affairs so that it could concentrate on the war overseas
