US History 18, 19, 20, 21
President Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to negotiate a settlement of
the Russo-Japanese War in Asia of 1905.
The 1930s were a decade of dramatic social upheaval.
True
Dollar Diplomacy, the U.S. foreign policy that emphasized economic investment and loans from American banks, rather than direct military intervention, was the policy of
William Taft.
This person broadcasted sermons and traveled the country as a revivalist preacher from the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel.
Aimee Semple McPherson
Who was the leader of the National Woman's Party, an organization that employed militant tactics in favor of women's suffrage?
Alice Paul
By 1912, the Socialist Party had dwindled, losing many of their political office posts and lessening ties with radical newspapers and magazines.
False
Most Progressives opposed America's entry into World War I as jingoistic, imperialist venturing.
False
The American Federation of Labor mainly represented unskilled industrial workers.
False
The Supreme Court rarely interfered with the policies of the New Deal.
False
While the status of Mexican-Americans improved markedly under the New Deal, that of American Indians grew substantially worse.
False
This New Deal program sought to improve the conditions of poor landowning farmers and sharecroppers.
Farm Security Administration
Which of the following is true of Franklin D. Roosevelt?
He contracted polio and lost the use of his legs in 1921.
Which of the following is attributed to Louis D. Brandeis?
He felt the foremost social problem in America was the contradiction between political liberty and industrial slavery.
Why did the Society of American Indians form in 1911?
It was formed to provide Native Americans with remedies for social injustice.
This law, considered a major achievement of the maternalist reformers, provided federal assistance to programs for infants and children's health. However, it was later repealed by Congress in 1929.
Sheppard-Towner Act
The worst race riot in American history occurred in 1921, when more than 300 blacks were killed and over 10,000 were left homeless after white mobs burned an all-black section of which city to the ground?
Tulsa, Oklahoma
This federal agency presided over all elements of war production from the distribution of raw materials to the prices of manufactured goods.
War Industries Board
In her influential book, Woman and Economics, Charlotte Perkins Gilman reinforced this idea.
Woman's freedom lay through the workplace rather than only the domestic scene.
As part of the New Deal, which multifaceted agency was established in 1934 and hired some 3 million Americans, in virtually every walk of life, each year until it ended in 1943?
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
The "Open Door" Policy refers to
a key principle of U.S. foreign relations that emphasizes the free flow of trade and investment.
The Progressive era was a time of
explosive economic growth, rapid population rise, increased industrial production, and a "Golden Age" for agriculture.
During the 1920s, a group whose most well-known leader was Billy Sunday and who asserted their conviction in the literal truth of the Bible became known by which term that they coined?
fundamentalists
President Wilson's foreign policy that called for active intervention to remake the world in America's image was called
liberal internationalism.
Between 1901 and 1920, the U.S. marines landed in Caribbean countries
more than twenty times.
At the beginning of 1929, most American families had accumulated
no money in their savings accounts.
Upon taking office in 1921, Warren G. Harding promised a return to
normalcy.
President Herbert Hoover's 1932 Reconstruction Finance Corporation did which of the following?
offer aid to homeowners threatened with foreclosure
A leader in the new feminism, Margaret Sanger
opened a clinic and began distributing contraceptive devices to poor women.
The initial flurry of legislation during Roosevelt's first three months in office is called
the "Hundred Days."
In the mid-1930s, unions of industrial workers, led by John L. Lewis, founded a new labor organization, called
the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
In the 1930s, unusually dry weather blew winds over much of the Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and Colorado soils, creating
the Dust Bowl
The proposed constitutional amendment to eliminate all legal distinctions "on account of sex" promoted by Alice Paul was
the Equal Rights Amendment.
The vibrant black culture in 1920s New York City that included poets and novelists Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, and Claude McKay was called
the Harlem Renaissance.
The American foreign policy principle that held that the United States had a right to exercise "an international police power" in the Western Hemisphere was called
the Roosevelt Corollary.
In 1925, what was the Tennessee trial in which a public schoolteacher faced charges of violating the state's law prohibiting the teaching of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution?
the Scopes Trial
American agriculture slid into economic depression years before the stock market crash of 1929.
True
One result of Muller v. Oregon was that women were still considered weak, dependent, and incapable of enjoying the same economic rights as men.
True
Ten of the twelve states that by 1916 had adopted women's suffrage were carried by Wilson in the election that year; without women's votes, Wilson would not have been reelected.
True
The 1920s was a decade of social tensions between rural and urban Americans, as well as traditional and "modern" Christianity.
True
The 1936 election saw the crystallizing of the "New Deal coalition."
True
Twenty million people were killed by the flu (epidemic of influenza) at the end of World War I.
True
A leading characterization of U.S. foreign policy in the early twentieth century was
"Dollar Diplomacy."
President Theodore Roosevelt's reform program was called the
"Square Deal."
How many soldiers perished during World War I worldwide?
10 million
What two countries were not subject to immigration quota limitations under the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924?
Canada and Mexico
Which of the following was one of the "voices of protest" heard in the United States during the mid-1930s?
Dr. Francis Townsend's Townsend Clubs that sought monthly payments of $200 to elderly Americans
What were the policy implications of the Filipino Repatriation Act of 1935?
It offered free transportation to those born in the Philippines and were willing to return there.
What did the Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution state?
It repealed the prohibition against alcohol.
The West's leading industrial center, a producer of oil, automobiles, aircraft, and Hollywood movies, was
Los Angeles, California.
Who were the two immigrants arrested for their participation in a robbery in which a security guard was killed whose case became a cause célèbre?
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Business leaders like Henry Ford and engineers like Herbert Hoover were cultural heroes in the 1920s.
True
By 1910, more than 40 percent of New York City's population had been born abroad.
True
By 1918, the wealthiest Americans were paying 60 percent of their income in taxes
True
By 1929, 80 million Americans went to the movies each week, and almost 5 million owned radios.
True
Cities expanded so rapidly that by 1920 for the first time more Americans lived in towns and cities than in rural areas.
True
Following the outbreak of World War I, the Allied and Central Powers each acted to block American trade with their adversaries.
True
In 1928, Democratic candidate Alfred E. Smith was the first Catholic to be nominated for president by a major party.
True
The term "Progressive" that came into common use around 1910 describes
a loosely defined political movement of people who hoped to bring about social and political change in American life.
The Committee on Public Information (CPI) flooded the country with prowar propaganda, describing Germany as
a nation of barbaric Huns.
Which of the following was created by the Social Security Act of 1935, launching the modern American welfare state?
a system of unemployment insurance
The United States entered World War I in April of 1917 only after Germany resumed submarine warfare against its ships in the Atlantic and
after discovery of the Zimmermann Telegram.
Which of the following was a military technology used during World War I?
airplanes
The Civil Works Administration (CWA) employed more than 4 million people in
construction of tunnels, highways, courthouses, and airports.
During the Progressive era, economic production shifted from capital goods to
consumer products.
Causes of the "new immigration" included
the outbreak of revolutions and warfare outside of the United States.
In the spring of 1932, approximately 20,000 unemployed World War I veterans descended on Washington to demand early payment of a bonus due in 1945, and were
driven away by federal soldiers led by army chief of staff Douglas MacArthur.
The effort undertaken on the part of the federal government to supply cheap electrical power for homes and factories in a seven-state region, preventing flooding, and putting the federal government in the business of selling electricity by building a series of dams was called
the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).
Charged with policing the land boundaries of the United States and empowered to arrest and deport persons who entered the country in violation of the new national quotas or other restrictions, the Immigration Act of 1924 created
the U.S. Border Patrol.
What 1935 law outlawed "unfair labor practices," and was known at the time as "Labor's Magna Carta"?
the Wagner Act
The outbreak of World War I in 1914 was triggered by
the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand.
Which of the following were addressed in the Johnson-Reed, or Immigration, Act of 1924?
the establishing of no limits on immigration from the Western Hemisphere
Henry Ford's factory adopted a method of production known as
the moving assembly line.
