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| 139231146 | The "real heart" of the progressive movement was the effort by reformers to | use the government as an agency of human welfare | |
| 139231147 | The political roots of the progressive movement lay in the | greenback labor party and the populists | |
| 139231148 | Match each late-nineteenth-century social critic below with the target of his criticism. A. Thorstein Veblen B. Jack London C. Jacob Riis D. Henry Demarest Lloyd 1. "bloated trusts" 2. slum conditions 3. "conspicuous consumption" 4. destruction of nature | A:3, B:4, C:2, D:1 | |
| 139231149 | Progressivism | was less a minority movement and more a majority mood. strong political overtones, and it rejected the church as the driving force for change | |
| 139231150 | Female progressives often justified their reformist political activities on the basis of | essentially an extension of women's traditional roles as wives and mothers | |
| 139231151 | Match each early-twentieth-century muckraker below with the target of his or her exposé. A. David G. Phillips B. Ida Tarbell C. Lincoln Steffens D. Ray Stannard Baker 1. the United States Senate 2. the Standard Oil Company 3. city governments 4. the condition of blacks | A:1, B:2, C:3, D:4 | |
| 139231152 | Lincoln Steffens, in his series of articles entitled "The Shame of the Cities," | unmasked the corrupt alliance between big business and municipal government. | |
| 139231153 | The muckrakers signified much about the nature of the progressive reform movement because they | sought not to overthrow capitalism but to cleanse it with democratic controls | |
| 139231154 | Most muckrakers believed that their primary function in the progressive attack on social ills was to | make the public aware of social problems | |
| 139231155 | The leading progressive organization advocating prohibition of liquor was | women's christian temperance union | |
| 139231156 | Progressive reformers were mainly men and women from the | middle class who felt pressure from new giant corporations, restless immigrant hordes, and the aggressive labor unions | |
| 139231157 | Political progressivism | emerged in both major parties, in all regions, at all levels of government | |
| 139231158 | According to progressives, the cure for all of American democracy's ills was | more democracy | |
| 139231159 | To regain the power that the people had lost to the "interests," progressives advocated all of the following | initiative, referendum,recall, direct election of U.S. senators | |
| 139231160 | All of the following were prime goals of earnest progressives | to use state power to curb the trusts and to stem the socialist threat by generally improving the common person's conditions of life and labor, rooting out graft | |
| 139231161 | The progressive movement was instrumental in getting the Seventeenth amendment added to the Constitution, which provided for _______________ | direct election of United States senators | |
| 139231162 | The settlement house and women's club movements were crucial centers of female progressive activity because they | exposed middle-class women to problems in cities: poverty, corruption, and conditions | |
| 139231163 | the following was among the issues addressed by women in the progressive movement? | preventing child labor in factories and sweatshops, creating pensions for mothers with dependent children, insuring that food products were healthy and safe, attacking tuberculosis and other diseases bred in slum tenements except: ending special regulations governing women in the workplace | |
| 139231164 | In Muller v. Oregon, the Supreme Court upheld the principle promoted by progressives like Florence Kelley and Louis Brandeis that | female workers required special protection on the job | |
| 139231165 | The public outcry after the horrible Triangle Shirtwaist fire led many states to pass | restrictions on female employment in the clothing industry | |
| 139231166 | The case of Lochner v. New York represented a setback for progressives and labor advocates because the Supreme Court in its ruling | declaring a law limiting work to 10 hours a day unconstitutional | |
| 139231167 | The progressive-inspired city-manager system of government | was designed to remove politics from municipal administration | |
| 139231168 | Progressive reform at the level of city government seemed to indicate that the progressives' highest priority was | government efficiency, city commission Giving people more direct power over government | |
| 139231169 | While president, Theodore Roosevelt chose to label his reform proposals as the | square deal | |
| 139231170 | As a part of his reform program, Teddy Roosevelt advocated all of the following | control of corporations, consumer protection and conservation of natural resources | |
| 139231171 | Teddy Roosevelt helped to end the 1902 strike in the anthracite coal mines by | threatening to seize mines and operate them with federal troops if mediation wasn't accepted | |
| 139231172 | One unusual and significant characteristic of the anthracite coal strike in 1902 was that | the national government did not automatically side with the owners in the dispute | |
| 139231173 | The Elkins and Hepburn acts dealt with the subject of | railroad regulation | |
| 139231174 | Teddy Roosevelt believed that trusts | were here to stay with their efficient means of production | |
| 139231175 | The real purpose of Teddy Roosevelt's assault on trusts was to | prove that government ruled the city | |
| 139231176 | President Roosevelt believed that the federal government should adopt a policy of _______________ trusts. | regulating | |
| 139231177 | Passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act was especially facilitated by the publication of | Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle". | |
| 139231178 | When Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle, he intended his book to focus attention on the | plight of workers in the canning factories, not the processing of food | |
| 139231179 | Of the following legislation aimed at resource conservation, the only one associated with Roosevelt's presidency was the | Newlands Act | |
| 139231180 | According to the text, Teddy Roosevelt's most enduring achievement may have been | his efforts supporting conservation/environment | |
| 139231181 | The idea of "multiple-use resource management" included all of the following practices | recreation, sustained-yield logging, watershed protection, summer stock grazing except:damming of rivers | |
| 139231182 | Teddy Roosevelt weakened himself politically after his election in 1904 when he | announced that he would not be a candidate for a third term as president. | |
| 139231183 | The panic of 1907 stimulated reform in _______________ policy. | banking | |
| 139231184 | Theodore Roosevelt is probably most accurately described as | middle of the road politician | |
| 139231185 | While president, Theodore Roosevelt | greatly increased the power and prestige of the presidency | |
| 139231186 | During his presidency, Teddy Roosevelt did all of the following | aid the cause of the environment, shape the progressive movement, expand presidential power,provide an international perspective except: tame capitalism | |
| 139231187 | As president, William Howard Taft | was wedded more to the status quo than to change. | |
| 139231188 | President Taft's foreign policy was dubbed | dollar diplomacy | |
| 139231189 | The Supreme Court's "rule of reason" in antitrust law was handed down in a case involving | Standard Oil | |
| 139231190 | Teddy Roosevelt decided to run for the presidency in 1912 because | William Howard Taft had seemed to discard Roosevelt's policies | |
| 139231191 | Before he was elected president in 1912, Woodrow Wilson had been | State governor | |
| 139231192 | As governor of New Jersey, Woodrow Wilson established a record as | a passionate reformer | |
| 139231193 | In 1912, Woodrow Wilson ran for the presidency on a Democratic platform that included all of the following | antitrust legislation, monetary reform, tariff reduction, support for small businesses | |
| 139231194 | When Jane Addams placed Teddy Roosevelt's name in nomination for the presidency in 1912, it | symbolized the rising political status of women, as well as Progressive support for the cause of social justice | |
| 139231195 | Teddy Roosevelt's New Nationalism | campaigned for stronger control of trusts, woman suffrage, and programs of social welfare. | |
| 139231196 | Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom | favored small enterprise, entrepreneurship, and the free functioning of unregulated and unmonopolized markets. Shunned the social-welfare programs and supported the fragmentation of trusts. | |
| 139231197 | The 1912 presidential election was notable because | it gave the voters a choice of political and economic philosophies | |
| 139231198 | Match each 1912 presidential candidate below with his political party. A. Woodrow Wilson B. Theodore Roosevelt C. William Howard Taft D. Eugene V. Debs 1. Socialist 2. Democratic 3. Republican 4. Progressive | A:2, B:4, C:3, D:1 | |
| 139231199 | According to the text, the runaway philosophical winner in the 1912 election was | progressivism | |
| 139231200 | In 1912 Woodrow Wilson became the first __________ elected to the presidency since the Civil War | southerner | |
| 139231201 | Woodrow Wilson was most comfortable surrounded by | Academic Scholars | |
| 139231202 | Woodrow Wilson's attitude toward the masses can best be described as | ... | |
| 139231203 | Woodrow Wilson's political philosophy included all of the following | faith in the masses, a belief that the president should provide leadership for Congress, and a belief that the president should appeal over the heads of legislators to the sovereign people | |
| 139231204 | As a politician, Woodrow Wilson was | inflexible and stubborn | |
| 139231205 | Congress passed the Underwood Tariff because | president Wilson aroused public opinion to support its passage | |
| 139231206 | In 1913, Woodrow Wilson broke with a custom dating back to Jefferson's day when he | personally delivered his presidential address to congress | |
| 141000785 | When Woodrow Wilson became president in 1912, the most serious shortcoming in the country's financial structure was that the | currency was inelastic | |
| 141000786 | When Congress passed the Underwood Tariff Bill in 1913, it intended the legislation to | lower tariff rates. | |
| 141000787 | The Sixteenth Amendment provided for | a personal income tax | |
| 141000788 | The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 guaranteed a substantial measure of public control over the American banking system through the final authority given to the | Federal Reserve Board | |
| 141000789 | The Federal Reserve Act gave the Federal Reserve Board the authority to | increase the amount of money in circulation | |
| 141000790 | The Clayton Anti—Trust Act | explicitly legalized strikes and peaceful picketing | |
| 141000791 | Because of the benefits that it conferred on labor, Samuel Gompers called the _______________ "labor's Magna Charta." | The Clayton Anti-Trust Act of 1914 | |
| 141000792 | The first Jew to sit on the United States Supreme Court, appointed by Woodrow Wilson, was | Louis Brandeis | |
| 141000793 | Woodrow Wilson showed the limits of his progressivism by | accelerating the segregation of African Americans in the federal bureaucracy | |
| 141000794 | Woodrow Wilson's early efforts to conduct an anti—imperialist U. S. foreign policy were first undermined when he | sent american marines to Haiti | |
| 141000795 | Which term best characterizes Woodrow Wilson's approach to American foreign policy diplomacy? | moralistic | |
| 141000796 | President Woodrow Wilson refused to intervene in the affairs of Mexico until | a small party of American sailors was accidentally captured by the Mexicans, Wilson ordered the navy to seize the Mexican port of Vera Cruz. | |
| 141000797 | Before his first term ended, Woodrow Wilson had militarily intervened in or purchased all of the following countries | Mexico.... | |
| 141000798 | Woodrow Wilson's administration refused to extend formal diplomatic recognition to the government in Mexico headed by | Huerta government,He dismissed Pancho Villa and helped the Carranza cause. | |
| 141000799 | 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, allied powers | |
| 141000800 | From 1914 to 1916, trade between the United States and Britain | pulled the American economy out of a recession. | |
| 141000801 | With the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the great majority of Americans | earnestly hoped to stay out of war | |
| 141000802 | One primary effect of World War I on the United States was that it | conducted an immense amount of trade with the Allies. | |
| 141000803 | President Wilson insisted that he would hold _______________ to "strict accountability" for _______________. | Germany; the loss of American ships and lives to submarine warfare | |
| 141000804 | German submarines began sinking unarmed and unresisting merchant and passenger ships without warning | in retaliation for the British naval blockade of Germany | |
| 141000805 | Which of the following American passenger liners was sunk by German submarines? | lusitiania | |
| 141000806 | The Progressive "Bull Moose" party died when | TR refused to run as the party's presidential candidate in 1916 | |
| 141000807 | In the Sussex pledge, Germany promised | not to sink passenger ships without warning | |
| 141000808 | When Woodrow Wilson won reelection in 1916, he received strong support from the | working class | |
| 141000809 | President Wilson broke diplomatic relations with Germany when | they announced that they would wage unrestricted sub warfare in the Atlantic | |
| 141000810 | The Zimmermann note involved a proposed secret agreement between | Germany and Mexico | |
| 141000811 | The United States declared war on Germany | after German U-Boats sank 4 unarmed American merchant vessels | |
| 141000812 | President Woodrow Wilson persuaded the American people to enter World War I by | pledging to make the war "a war to end all wars" and to make the world safe for democracy | |
| 141000813 | President Wilson viewed America's entry into World War I as an opportunity for the United States to | to shape a new international order based on the ideals of democracy | |
| 141000814 | the following was among Wilson's Fourteen Points upon which he based America's idealistic foreign policy in World War I? | reduction of armaments, abolition of secret treaties, a new international organization to guarantee collective security, and the principle of national self-determination for subject peoples. | |
| 141000815 | The major problem for George Creel and his Committee on Public Information was that | he oversold Wilson's ideals and led the world to expect too much | |
| 141000816 | Match each civilian administrator below with the World War I mobilization agency that he directed. A. George Creel B. Herbert Hoover C. Bernard Baruch D. William Howard Taft 1. War Industries Board 2. Committee on Public Information 3. Food Administration 4. National War Labor Board | A:2, B:3, C:1, D:4 | |
| 141000817 | When the United States entered World War I, it was | not ready for its leap into global war | |
| 141000818 | During World I, civil liberties in America were | denied to many, especially those suspected of disloyalty | |
| 141000819 | Two constitutional amendments adopted in part because of wartime influences were the Eighteenth, which dealt with _______________, and the Nineteenth, whose subject was _______________. | prohibition; woman suffrage | |
| 141000820 | As a result of their work supporting the war effort, women | finally received the right to vote | |
| 141000821 | During World War I, the government's treatment of labor could be best described as | fair.. | |
| 141000822 | The two groups who suffered most from the violaton of civil liberties during World War I were | German Americans and social radicals. | |
| 141000823 | Grievances of labor during and shortly after World War I include all of the following | the inability to gain the right to organize, war spawned inflation, and violence against workers by employers | |
| 141239729 | The 1919 steel strike resulted in | The movement of tens of thousands of Southern blacks north during WWI resulted in | |
| 141239730 | The movement of tens of thousands of Southern blacks north during WWI resulted in | racial violence in the North | |
| 141239731 | Most wartime mobilization agencies relied on _______________ to prepare the economy for war. | voluntary compliance | |
| 141239732 | Most of the money raised to finance World War I came from | loans | |
| 141239733 | In an effort to make economic mobilization more efficient during World War I, the federal government took over and operated | the railroads | |
| 141239734 | The United States used all of the following methods to support the war effort | forcing some people to buy war bonds, having "meatless and wheatless" days, and seizing enemy merchant vessels trapped in American harbors | |
| 141239735 | The World War I military draft | ... | |
| 141239736 | 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 | |
| 141239737 | Those who protested conscription during World War I did so because | hey disliked the idea of compelling a person to serve | |
| 141239738 | During World War I, American troops fought in all of the following countries | Russia, Belgium and Italy | |
| 141239739 | The two major battles of World War I in which United States forces engaged were | St. Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. | |
| 141239740 | Russia's withdrawal from World War I in 1918 resulted in | the release of thousands of German troops for deployment on the front in France | |
| 141239741 | The supreme military commander of American forces during World War I was | General John J. Pershing. | |
| 141239742 | The Second Battle of the Marne was significant because it | marked the beginning of a German withdrawal that was never reversed | |
| 141239743 | As a condition of ending World War I, Woodrow Wilson demanded that | the German Kaiser be forced from power | |
| 141239744 | The United States' main contributions to the Allied victory in World War I included all of the following | foodstuffs, oil, munitions, and morale | |
| 141239745 | The Germans were heavily demoralized by | the US troop reserves | |
| 141239746 | The chief difference between Woodrow Wilson and the parliamentary statesmen at the Paris peace table was that Wilson | did not command a legislative majority at home | |
| 141239747 | Woodrow Wilson's ultimate goal at the Paris Peace Conference was to | establish the League of Nations | |
| 141239748 | At the Paris Peace Conference, Wilson sought all of the following goals | preventing a seizure of territory by the victors, a world parliament of nations to provide collective security, national self-determination for smaller European nations, free trade and freedom of the seas. except:an end to the European colonial empires in Africa and Asia. | |
| 141239749 | Opposition to the League of Nations by many United States Senators during the Paris Peace Conference | gave the Allied leaders in Paris a stronger bargaining position | |
| 141239750 | After the Treaty of Versailles had been signed, Woodrow Wilson | wilson was condemned by disillusioned liberals and frustrated imperialists | |
| 141239751 | In the United States, the most controversial aspect of the Treaty of Versailles was | after the Treaty of Versailles had been signed | |
| 141239752 | The initial Republican strategy regarding the Treaty of Versailles was to | delay and amend the treaty. | |
| 141239753 | Senate opponents of the League of Nations as proposed in the Treaty of Versailles argued that it | robbed Congress of its war-declaring powers. | |
| 141239754 | In Congress, the most reliable support for Wilson's position on the League of Nations came from | democrats | |
| 141239755 | The Senate likely would have accepted American participation in the League of Nations if Wilson had | been willing to compromise with the League opponents in Congress | |
| 141239756 | Who was finally most responsible for the Senate defeat of the Treaty of Versailles? | isolationists | |
| 141239757 | Woodrow Wilson's call for a "solemn referendum" in 1920 referred to | his attempt to use the presidential election of 1920 to gain support for the Treaty of Versailles but it became a death sentence for the League of Nations | |
| 141239758 | Republican isolationists successfully turned Warren Harding's 1920 presidential victory into a | death sentence for the League. | |
| 141239759 | The major weakness of the League of Nations was that it | did not include the US | |
| 141239760 | The red scare of 1919-1920 was provoked by | the public's association of labor violence with its fear of a communist revolution | |
| 141239761 | Disillusioned by war and peace, Americans in the 1920s did all of the following | denounce "radical" foreign ideas, condemn "un-American" life-styles, shun diplomatic commitments to foreign countries, restrict immigration except: enter a decade of economic difficulties. | |
| 141239762 | Business people used the red scare to | break the backs of fledging unions. | |
| 141239763 | The most tenacious pursuer of "radical" elements during the red scare was | Mitchell Palmer | |
| 141239764 | The post-World War I Ku Klux Klan advocated all of the following | fundamentalist religion, opposition to birth control, repression of pacifists, anti-Catholicism except:opposition to prohibition | |
| 141239765 | The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was a reaction against | reaction against the forces of diversity and modernity that were transforming American culture. | |
| 141239766 | Immigration restrictions of the 1920s were introduced as a result of | the nativist belief that northern Europeans were superior to southern and eastern Europeans. | |
| 141239767 | "Cultural pluralists" like Horace Kallen and Randolph generally advocated that | immigrants should be able to retain their traditional cultures rather than blend into a single American "melting pot." | |
| 141239768 | The immigration quota system adopted in the 1920s discriminated directly against | Southern and Eastern Europeans | |
| 141239769 | One of the primary obstacles to working class solidarity and organization in America was | ethnic diversity | |
| 141239770 | Enforcement of the Volstead Act met the strongest resistance from | eastern city dwellers. | |
| 141239771 | The religion of almost all Polish immigrants to America was | Roman Catholicism | |
| 141239772 | Many Polish peasants learned about America from all of the following sources except | agents from U.S. railroads, letters from friends and relative, agents from steamship lines, Polish American business people except: Catholic missionaries | |
| 141239773 | Most Americans assumed that prohibition | would be permanent | |
| 141239774 | The most spectacular example of lawlessness and gangsterism in the 1920s was | Chicago | |
| 141239775 | John Dewey can rightly be called the "father of ____________________." | progressive educatio | |
| 141239776 | According to John Dewey, a teacher's primary goal is to | educate a student for life | |
| 141239777 | Of the following, the one least related to the other four is | Frederick W. Taylor | |
| 141239778 | The trial of John Scopes in 1925 centered on the issue of | teaching evolution in public schools | |
| 141239779 | After the Scopes "Monkey Trial," | fundamentalist religion remained a vibrant force in American spiritual life. | |
| 141239780 | All of the following helped to make the prosperity of the 1920s possible | rapid expansion of capital, increased productivity of workers, perfection of assembly-line production, advertising and credit buying. except: government stimulation of the economy | |
| 141239781 | The main problem faced by American manufacturers in the 1920s involved | developing expanded markets of people to buy their products | |
| 141239782 | Bruce Barton, author of The Man Nobody Knows, expressed great admiration for Jesus Christ because Barton | believed that Christ was the best advertising man of all time. | |
| 141239783 | The prosperity that developed in the 1920s | was accompanied by a cloud of consumer debt | |
| 141239784 | Among the major figures promoted by mass media image makers and the new "sports industry" in the 1920s were | Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey | |
| 141239785 | Henry Ford's contribution to the automobile industry was | relatively cheap automobiles | |
| 141239786 | Frederick W. Taylor, a prominent inventor and engineer, was best known for his | promotion of industrial efficiency and scientific management | |
| 141239787 | the following was among the industries that prospered mightily with widespread use of the automobile | rubber, highway construction, oil, glass except: aluminum | |
| 141239788 | The automobile revolution resulted in all of the following | the consolidation of schools, the spread of suburbs, a loss of population in less attractive states, altered youthful sexual behavior. except: the increased dependence of women on men | |
| 141239789 | Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic made him an American hero especially because | his wholesome youthfulness contrasted with the cynicism and debunking of the jazz age | |
| 141239790 | The first "talkie" motion picture was | The Jazz Singer | |
| 141239791 | With the advent of radio and motion pictures, | much of the rich diversity of immigrant culture was lost. | |
| 141239792 | Automobiles, radios, and motion pictures | contributed to the standardization of American life | |
| 141239793 | The 1920 census revealed that for the first time most | americans lived in cities | |
| 141239794 | Margaret Sanger was most noted for her advocacy of | birth control | |
| 141239795 | Job opportunities for women in the 1920s | tended to cluster in a few low-paying field | |
| 141239796 | To justify their new sexual frankness, many Americans pointed to | the theories of Sigmund Freud | |
| 141239797 | Jazz music was developed by | American blacks | |
| 141239798 | Marcus Garvey, founder of the United Negro Improvement Association, is known for all of the following except | promoting the resettlement of American blacks in Africa, cultivating feelings of self-confidence and self-reliance among blacks, being sent to prison after a conviction for fraud, promoting black-owned businesses. except: establishing the idea of the talented tenth to lead African Americans. | |
| 141239799 | Match each literary figure below with the correct work. A. Ernest Hemingway B. F. Scott Fitzgerald C. Sinclair Lewis D. William Faulkner 1. The Sun Also Rises 2. Main Street 3. The Sound and the Fury 4. The Great Gatsby | A:1, B:4, C:2, D:3 | |
| 141239800 | Buying stock "on margin" meant | purchasing it with a small down paymen | |
| 141239801 | Which of the following was not among prominent African American cultural figures of the 1920s? | Joseph "King" Oliver, "Jelly Roll" Morton, Langston Hughes, W.C. Handy. except: Ralph Ellison. | |
| 141239802 | As secretary of the treasury, Andrew Mellon placed the tax burden on the | middle-income groups | |
| 141239803 | Warren G. Harding's weaknesses as president included all of the following except a(n) | mediocre mind, inability to detect moral weaknesses in his associates, unwillingness to hurt people's feelings by saying no, administrative weakness. except: lack of political experience | |
| 141239804 | Match each member of President Harding's cabinet below with his major area of responsibility. A. Charles Evans Hughes B. Andrew Mellon C. Herbert Hoover D. Harry Daugherty E. Albert Fall 1. taxes and tariffs 2. naval oil reserves 3. naval arms limitation 4. foreign trade and trade associations 5. justice and law enforcement | A:3, B:1, C:4, D:2, E:5 | |
| 141239805 | Which one of the following members of President Harding's cabinet proved to be incompetent and corrupt? | Albert Fall | |
| 141239806 | Republican economic policies under Warren G. Harding | hoped to encourage the government actively to assist business along the path to profits. | |
| 141239807 | During the 1920s, the Supreme Court | often ruled against progressive legislation | |
| 141239808 | _______________ was (were) adversely affected by the demobilization policies adopted by the federal government at the end of World War I. | organized labor | |
| 141239809 | The Supreme Court cases of Muller and Adkins centered on | the question of whether women merited special legal and social treatment. | |
| 141239810 | The nonbusiness group that realized the most significant, lasting gains from World War I was | veterans | |
| 141239811 | One exception to President Warren G. Harding's policy of isolationism involved in the Middle East, where the United States sought to | secure oil-drilling concessions for American companies | |
| 141239812 | Warren G. Harding was willing to seize the initiative on the issue of international disarmament because | businesspeople were unwilling to help pay for a larger United States Navy. | |
| 141239813 | The 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact | outlawed war as a solution to international rivalry | |
| 141239814 | In the 1920s the Fordney-McCumber Tariff __________ tariff rates and the Hawley-Smoot Tariff __________ tariff rates, so that by 1930 the tariff rates had been substantially __________ from the opening of the decade. | raised; raised; raised | |
| 141239815 | Which of the following was not a consequence of the American policy of raising tariffs sky-high in the 1920s? | ... | |
| 141239816 | The Teapot Dome scandal involved the corrupt mishandling of | naval oil reserves | |
| 141239817 | The major political scandal of Harding's administration resulted in the conviction and imprisonment of his secretary of | the interior | |
| 141239819 | During Coolidge's presidency, government policy was set largely by the interests and values of | the business community | |
| 141239820 | After the initial shock of the Harding scandals, many Americans reacted by | excusing some of the wrongdoers on the grounds that "they had gotten away with it | |
| 141239821 | One of the major problems facing farmers in the 1920s was | was overproduction | |
| 141239822 | In the mid-1920s President Coolidge twice refused to sign legislation proposing to | lower taxes | |
| 141239823 | The intended beneficiaries of the McNary-Haugen Bill were __________; the intended beneficiaries of the Norris-LaGuardia Act were | farmers, labor unions | |
| 141239824 | the following splits did affect the Democratic party in 1924 | "wets' vs. "drys", urbanites vs. suburbanites, Fundamentalists vs. Modernists except: northern liberals vs. southern conservatives | |
| 141239825 | Senator Robert La Follette's Progressive party advocated all of the following except | government ownership of railroads, relief for farmers, opposition to monopolies, increased power for the Supreme Court except: opposition to antilabor injunctions | |
| 141239826 | In 1924 the Democratic party convention failed by a single vote to adopt a resolution condemning | the Ku Klux Klan | |
| 141239827 | The Progressive party did not do well in the 1924 election because | too many people shared in prosperity to care about reform. | |
| 141239828 | In the early 1920s, one glaring exception to America's general indifference to the outside world was its | the United States' armed intervention in the Caribbean and Central America | |
| 141239829 | America's European allies argued that they should not have to repay loans that the United States made to them during World War I because | they had paid a much heavier price in lost lives, so the US should write off the debt. | |
| 141239830 | As a result of America's insistence that its Allies' war debts be repaid in full, | the French and British demanded enormous reparations payments from Germany. | |
| 141239831 | America's major foreign-policy problem in the 1920s was addressed by the Dawes Plan, which | address these problems by providing a solution to the tangle of war-debt and war-reparations payments (Dawes a rich American businessman and his friends would loan Germany 200 million dollars to pay war reparations to Great Britain and France so they meaning GB and France could pay the US their war debts - smooth well sort of at least until the stock market crash). | |
| 141239832 | The most colorful presidential candidate of the 1920s was | Alfred E. Smith | |
| 141239833 | All of the following were political liabilities for Alfred E. Smith except his | Catholic religion, support for the repeal of prohibition, big-city background, radio speaking skill except: failure to win the support of American labor | |
| 141239834 | One of Herbert Hoover's chief strengths as a presidential candidate was his | talent for administration. | |
| 141239835 | When elected to the presidency in 1928, Herbert Hoover | combined small-town values with wide experience in modern corporate America. | |
| 141239836 | The Federal Farm Board, created by the Agricultural Marketing Act, lent money to farmers primarily to help them to | organize producers' cooperatives. | |
| 141239837 | As a result of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1930, | the worldwide depression deepened | |
| 141239838 | In America, the Great Depression caused | decade long decline in birthrate, no money so not too quick to have more kids. | |
| 141239839 | President Herbert Hoover believed that the Great Depression could be ended by doing all of the following | directly assisting businesses and banks, keeping faith in the efficiency of the industrial system, continuing to rely on the American tradition of rugged individualism, lending federal funds to feed farm livestock. except: providing direct aid to the people. | |
| 141239840 | President Hoover's approach to the Great Depression was to | offer federal assistance to businesses and banks but not individuals | |
| 141239841 | The "alphabetical agency" set up under Hoover's administration to provide aid to business and local governments was the | Reconstruction Finance Corporation | |
| 141239842 | The Reconstruction Finance Corporation was established to | make loans to businesses, banks, and state and local government | |
| 141239843 | The Bonus Expeditionary Force marched on Washington, D.C., in 1932 to demand | immediate full payment of bonus payments promised to WWI veterans | |
| 141239844 | President Hoover's public image was severely damaged by his | handling of the dispersal of the Bonus Army | |
| 141239845 | In response to the League of Nations' investigation into Japan's invasion and occupation of Manchuria, | Japan left the league | |
| 141239846 | The 1932 Stimson doctrine | declared that the United States would not recognize any territorial acquisition achieved by force of arms. |
