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15 Reconstruction
1. During the Civil War and immediately after it,
Abraham Lincoln and his successor, Andrew Johnson, believed that restoration of
state governments loyal to the Union would rebuild the nation.
2. In advancing his plans for reconstruction of the
South during the Civil War, Lincoln was relying on his power as commander in
chief.
3. The restoration plan that Lincoln announced in
December 1863 stipulated that a state could return to the Union when 10 percent
of its voters in the 1860 election had taken an oath of loyalty to the Union.
4. John Wilkes Booth was an unstable actor.
5. Before becoming vice-president, Andrew Johnson had
been all of the following except a law partner of James K. Polk.
6. All of the following statements were elements
of Andrew Johnson's plan for restoring southern state governments except it
was based on the assumption that the former Confederate states had lost all
their constitutional rights by seceding from the Union.
7. Under President Johnson's restoration plan,
high-ranking Confederate leaders and wealthy southerners excluded from amnesty
could petition the president personally for amnesty.
8. By the end of 1865, Radical Republicans had
withdrawn their support from President Johnson because he had concluded that he
could build a coalition of northern Democrats, conservative Republicans, and
southern whites.
9. As President Johnson's reconstruction policies took
hold in late 1865 he moved closer to the Democrats as he granted pardons and
encouraged former Confederates to reestablish state governments on lenient
terms, he spoke of creating a new National Union Party, northern and southern
Democrats saw in the president's policies a way by which their discredited party
could regain national power.
10. Touring the post-Civil War South, Scottish
clergyman David Macrae was most struck by southerners' impoverishment.
11. What was the effect of President Johnson's veto of
the Freedmen's Bureau bill in February 1866? Congress attempted but failed-just
barely-to override his veto.
12. Expecting freedom from slavery near the end of the
Civil War, most African Americans were concerned primarily to secure land
for economic independence.
13. The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned
Lands had all of the following official responsibilities: drafting
and enforcing labor contracts between freedmen and planters, feeding and
clothing war refugees of both races, renting or selling confiscated land to
loyal white southerners and freedmen.
14. In 1865, President Johnson ordered the head of the
Freedmen's Bureau, General Oliver O. Howard, to tell the freedmen of Sea Island,
South Carolina, that they had no legal title to the former plantation land they
had occupied, and must vacate. In response, Howard reluctantly enforced the
order; the dispossessed black farmers protested, and when some of them refused
to deal with the restored white owners, Union soldiers forced them to leave or
to work for their former masters.
15. The most important claim advanced by the
former slaves of Edisto Island in their effort to resist orders that they
restore to former plantation owners the land they had been cultivating was that
hey knew better than the plantation owners how to farm the land.
16. President Johnson gave all of the following
as reasons for his veto of the Freedmen's Bureau bill: he believed that
the federal government should not provide a welfare system for the indigent, the
southern states were not yet represented in Congress, he thought it was
unconstitutional.
17. Congress enacted the Civil Rights Act in April 1866
after learning of a race riot in Memphis.
18. The Fourteenth Amendment required states to
guarantee all of the following rights: equal protection of the
laws, due process of law before depriving any person of life, liberty, or
property, citizenship for all persons born in the United States.
19. President Johnson's response to congressional
endorsement of the Fourteenth Amendment was to make a railroad tour called the
"swing around the circle" to urge its rejection.
20. During Reconstruction, Radical Republican rule
lasted for the shortest time-only a few months¾in
Virginia.
21. During Reconstruction, Radical Republican rule
lasted longest in Louisiana, Florida, and South Carolina.
22. The Tenure of Office Act of 1867 was designed
chiefly to protect Secretary of State William Seward, who sided with the Radical
Republicans.
23. In the election of 1868 the Republicans won the
presidency and retained their two-thirds majority in both houses.
24. The Fifteenth Amendment forbade states to deny any
citizen the right to vote on the grounds of race, color, or previous condition
as a slave.
25. The following statements most accurately
characterizes the movement for woman suffrage after the Civil War? Many
feminists who had been abolitionists were disappointed that the Fifteenth
Amendment made no reference to gender and permitted states to continue to deny
suffrage to women.
26. Elizabeth Cady Stanton made an overtly racist
attack on the denial of woman suffrage while black and immigrant men were being
enfranchised?
27. Blacks constituted a majority of the voters in five
southern states and nearly half in three others, and thus were crucial to
Republican success at the polls most accurately characterizes the
contributions of African Americans to Republican victories in the South during
Reconstruction?
28. Most white Republicans in the post-Civil War South
were yeomen farmers from backcountry districts who had fought against or refused
to support the Confederacy.
29. Many of the "carpetbaggers" who moved to
the South during Reconstruction were former Union army officers who decided that
the South was a pleasant or promising place to resettle.
30. Most of the new African American political leaders
in the South after 1867 had been slaves before 1865
31. Southern Republicans helped reconstruct the South
by repealing the Black Codes enforcing labor discipline, introducing new
taxation programs to force planters to pay their fair share of taxes and place
uncultivated land on the market, supervising the rebuilding of the region's
railroads.
32. The school systems that the Republicans helped
establish in the post-Civil War South, were racially segregated.
33. After the Civil War, most African Americans founded
new African American churches.
34. After the Civil War, the only major federal program
enabling freedmen to obtain land, the Southern Homestead Act, in practice
provided little benefit to African Americans because the land made available was
swampy and infertile, and freedmen lacked the resources to get started.
35. The sharecropping system in the post-Civil War
South joined laborers and owners of land and capital in a common sharing of
risks and returns.
36. Many African Americans became trapped in a vicious
circle of debt after the Civil War mainly because country stores extended
credit to blacks but kept prices and interest rates high.
37. In response to Congress's Reconstruction programs,
most former slaveowners did all of the following: sponsor terrorism
against people and property in the South, secure the return of former
Confederates to the rolls of registered voters, and appeal to poorer whites on
the basis of racial solidarity and southern patriotism.
38. In the Reconstruction South the Ku Klux Klan by
1870 was operating as a military force serving the Democratic Party.
39. The federal implementation of enforcement
legislation, including the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 resulted in the indictment
of about 3,000 Klan members by federal grand juries for violations of the acts.
40. All of the following factors help explain the
diminishing effectiveness of Reconstruction in the South: northerners
tired of the expense and violence that supporting Reconstruction engendered,
racism among moderate Republicans led them to ascribe Republican defeats in the
South to the incompetence of black politicians, a severe depression in 1873
distracted northerners from the social and racial issues of Reconstruction.
41. The Liberal Republicans were elitists who believed
in free trade, limited government, and political participation only by educated
citizens.
42. President Grant won reelection in 1872 because his
opponent, Horace Greeley, proved to be highly unpopular.
43. In 1876 the Republicans nominated Governor
Rutherford B. Hayes for president because he had won a reputation for honesty
and seemed safe from charges of corruption.
44. In the election of 1876 the Democratic candidate
won the popular vote, but Republican officials in three southern states
certified Republican victories, giving the Republican candidate a majority in
the electoral college.
45. In response to the contested results in the
election of 1876 Congress appointed a fifteen-member bipartisan electoral
commission to decide which set of electoral votes was valid.
46. In their national economic program in the years
immediately after the Civil War, the Republicans expanded subsidies to national
rail systems and chartered new railroads.
47. Most of the black state legislators had been slaves
before the Civil War, but most state executives had been free, most
accurately characterizes office holding by African Americans in the
Reconstruction South?
48. Radical Republicans failed to convict Johnson but
damaged him so badly in a political sense that for the rest of his presidency he
had to allow Reconstruction to proceed under the direction of Congress. most
accurately characterizes the impeachment of Andrew Johnson?
49. All of the following were provisions of the
Reconstruction Act of 1867: the readmission of states to the Union if
their constitutions met Congress's approval and they ratified the Fourteenth
Amendment, the division of most of the South into five military districts, each
under the command of a Union general, a plan for registering all adult black men
in the South to vote.
50. In the congressional campaigns and elections of
1866 Johnson suffered a humiliating defeat as Republicans gained a three-to-one
margin in Congress.
1. In the mid-nineteenth century the Indian population
of the Great Plains was probably about 100,000.
2. When they acquired horses from tribes to the south
and west in the eighteenth century, their way of life changed from that of
nomads to that of mounted hunters and warriors most accurately
characterizes the Teton Sioux?
3. The way of life of the Teton Sioux was based primarily
on hunting.
4. The traditional belief system of the Teton Sioux
stressed the mysterious power of nature.
5. The massive movement of white settlers across the
Great Plains began in 1842.
7. During the 1870s buffalo herds almost disappeared
from the American West owing primarily to eastern tanneries learning how
to cure buffalo hides, thereby creating a huge market for buffalo leather goods.
8. The town of Dodge City, Kansas formed a terminus of
the "Long Drive," in which cowboys drove longhorn cattle to railheads
for shipment east.
9. From the 1860s to the 1880s open-range ranching was
feasible on the Great Plains because of the availability of land.
10. Its high profits attracted shrewd investors most
accurately characterizes the post-Civil War western cattle boom?
11. The cattle boom on the Great Plains ended after
1886 because of reaction to a particularly severe winter in 1885-1886.
12. After the cattle boom collapsed in 1886, Sheep
raising spread in the high country.
13. Settlers were drawn to the Great Plains after the
Civil War by claims that anything could be grown on the Great Plains, with less
work than elsewhere.
14. Farmers began to populate the Great Plains in
significant numbers during the 1870s.
15. The Exodusters were African American migrants to
Kansas in the late 1870s, fleeing mostly from Louisiana and Mississippi after
the end of Reconstruction and the withdrawal of federal protection.
16. In subduing the Plains Indians, the U.S. Army had all
of the following advantages: the ability to exploit tribal rivalries,
superior technology, the growing impact of white settlement.
17. Faced with mounting pressure on their lands by
whites after the Civil War, the Great Plains Indians responded by fighting back
in the expectation that if they exacted a high enough price, whites would tire
of the struggle and leave them in peace.
18. Sitting Bull was the leader of the Sioux warriors
who annihilated the forces led by Colonel George A. Custer on June 25, 1876.
19. The Black Hills were sacred land to the Sioux.
20. The "Boomer" movement of white settlers
into Indian land occurred in the area of present-day Oklahoma.
21. White reformers who created the Indian Rights
Association advocated the assimilation of Indians into white culture.
22. Severalty meant the division of reservation
land into individually owned plots.
23. As a result of the Dawes Act, the Sioux received
160 acres of former tribal land per family head, with smaller parcels allocated
to other individuals.
24. In 1890 an Indian messiah, Wovoka taught that the
buffalo would return to the Great Plains and the whites would disappear.
25. All of the following statements accurately
characterize the Wounded Knee massacre: The incident had its roots in the
white settlers' fear of the Ghost Dance cult on the Great Plains, which led to
army troops' attempting to disarm an encampment of Sioux, A few days after
Sitting Bull was killed in an attempt to arrest him, the soldiers moved against
another Sioux encampment at Wounded Knee in which the medicine man Yellow Bird
had stirred up a fervent Ghost Dance following, In the massacre at Wounded Knee,
almost all the Indians in the encampment perished, including many women and
children who were shot while trying to escape.
26. The process of severalty proceeded without
hindrance most accurately characterizes the fate of the Plains Indians
after Wounded Knee.
27. Around the time of the Far West's annexation to the
United States but before the discovery of gold, most Americans regarded the
region as too dry for farming and unable to support a large population.
28. The first prospectors who populated the western
mining frontier skimmed gold from the earth's surface and from streams.
29. Chinese immigrants to the United States in the
nineteenth century were initially attracted by the 1849 gold rush, paid for
their passage through the credit-ticket system, were mostly men.|
30. Chinese immigrants in the nineteenth-century
American West originally came to work in the California goldfields and on the
transcontinental railroad, and later scattered to other industries.
31. The federal government resolved the problem of
discrimination against the Chinese in nineteenth-century California by barring
Chinese immigration to the United States.
32. In the late nineteenth century the prevailing crop
on the Great Plains was wheat.
33. In rural America of the late nineteenth century,
farmers included widows and single women.
34. Farmers formed cooperatives after the Civil War
because they understood the disadvantages of individual farmers dealing with the
big businesses that supplied them with machinery, arranged their credit, and
marketed their produce.
35. William Cody first won recognition as a hunter for
the Kansas Pacific Railroad.
36. William Cody's fame as an Indian fighter was
actually deserved.
37. The agricultural technique known as dry farming
involved deep planting to bring subsoil moisture to the roots and quick
harrowing after rainfalls.
38. Late nineteenth-century farms on the Great Plains
were much larger than eastern farms because the yield per acre was so low.
39. Rapid in California throughout the period; slow in
Oregon and Washington until the 1880s, but very rapid thereafter most
accurately describes economic development and population growth on the West
Coast in the second half of the nineteenth century?
40. In the mid-nineteenth century the social order in
the Hispanic Southwest was stratified.
41. The Navajo of the nineteenth century were
relatively recent arrivals in the Southwest, like their Apache ancestors, had a
warrior tradition, and were sheep raising pastoralists.
42. Much of the raiding north of the U.S.-Mexican
border before World War I was a civil war being fought by embittered Tejanos
dispossessed of their property and traditional rights by Anglo interlopers.
43. Though nineteenth-century employers in California
had high praise for the Chinese, white workers hated them because like African
Americans in other parts of the nation, the Chinese of California were the
targets of racism.
44. Southern California began to develop rapidly in the
1880s owing to extensive publicity about its sunny, healthful climate.
45. In late nineteenth-century California the most
important farm products were fruits and vegetables.
46. Between 1860 and 1900, farm output in the United
States more than tripled.
47. The original goal of the National Grange of
the Patrons of Husbandry was to provide a social outlet for farm families.
48. Most late nineteenth-century Grange cooperatives
eventually failed because opposition by private business was unrelenting,
cooperative managers were unskilled, and the pooled resources of the farmers
were too meager.
49. In the 1870s the Grange encouraged the formation of
independent political parties with antimonopoly platforms.
50. Enactment of the Interstate Commerce Act in 1887
made railroad regulation a permanent part of national public policy.
Chapter 17 Age of Enterprise, 1877-1900
1. The economic depression that began with the Panic of
1873 lasted four years.
2. The National Guard on orders from President
Rutherford B. Hayes crushed the railroad strike of 1877.
3. The most distinctive feature of American industry in
the last third of the nineteenth century was its emphasis on the manufacture of
capital goods.
4. Bessemer converters, invented in 1856, produced
steel.
5. As an iron manufacturer, Andrew Carnegie owed his
great wealth to his successful use of the Bessemer converter.
6. Until about 1885, three-fourths of all the steel
manufactured in the United States was used to make rails.
7. Federal, state, and local governments supported the
construction of railroads in nineteenth-century America by subscribing for
railroad bonds, offering land grants, and encouraging the formation of
limited-liability corporations.
8. The railroad system built in the United States was
the result of fierce private competition.
9. The railroad construction business in late
nineteenth-century America was riddled with corruption primarily because
railroad promoters were also owners of construction companies.
10. About one-fourth of the required capital was raised
in Europe, most accurately characterizes late nineteenth-century railroad
construction in the United States?
11. The most important step in the development
of an integrated railroad system in late nineteenth-century America was the
adoption of a standard track gauge.
12. J. P. Morgan took the lead in reorganizing the
American railroad system after 1893 by consolidating formerly competing lines.
13. All of the following factors contributed to
the phenomenal growth of the U.S. economy in the late nineteenth century: enormous
expansion of domestic markets, immigration, accesses to capital.
14. Vertically integrated corporations dominated the
meat industry.
15. In the late nineteenth century Henry W. Grady was
identified chiefly with the "New South."
16. By the end of the nineteenth century approximately
Two-thirds of all southerners lived on the land.
17. After the Civil War, southern agriculture was
handicapped by reliance on one cash crop-cotton.
18. In the southern textile mills in the late
nineteenth century half of the workers were women.
19. Cheap labor was its greatest asset but ironically
prevented it from becoming a more advanced economy most accurately
describes the economy of the late nineteenth-century South?
20. By the end of the nineteenth century the South's
economy was subordinate to, insulated from, a colonial supplier to the national
economy.
21. During the last thirty years of the nineteenth
century, American industry needed increasing numbers of workers.
22. Rural Americans were highly mobile in the late
nineteenth century, and half of those who moved ended up in cities. But few of
them took factory jobs because the most desirable factory jobs required skills
that few rural Americans possessed, and except in the South, native-born whites
no longer wanted factory work.
23. Factory owners found that they could satisfy most
of their labor needs with immigrant workers, so they rejected most black
applicants, is the most important reason that only about 7 percent of all
African American men held factory jobs in 1890?
24. In the early years of the twentieth century, an
increasing proportion of immigrants to the United States came from eastern and
southern Europe.
25. The number of immigrants to the United States from
southern and eastern Europe surpassed the number of immigrants from northern
Europe in about 1895.
26. Typically the European peasants who immigrated to
the United States at the end of the nineteenth century hoped to make enough
money to buy land in their native country.
27. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries, approximately about half of the European peasant immigrants are thought to have
returned to their homeland?
28. In 1890 the majority of women who held jobs were
young.
29. Women workers at the turn of the century found that
American-born women were preferred for white-collar jobs.
30. All the northern industrial states passed laws
prohibiting child labor and regulating work hours for teenagers, with the result
that women had to seek employment in order to help the family make ends meet
causing the proportion of married women holding wage-earning jobs begin to
increase slowly after 1890?
31. In nineteenth-century America, craft workers
enjoyed a great deal of autonomy.
32. In the nineteenth-century American workplace the
expression manly bearing referred to the ethical code of conduct that
bound working men together.
33. Young women workers laid great store on acquiring
pretty clothes and enjoying "cheap amusements" as marks of their
independence and self-respect most accurately characterizes the
experience of working women in late nineteenth-century America?
34. In late nineteenth-century America, the unskilled
laborers were at the mercy of independent contractors.
35. Frederick W. Taylor was an advocate of scientific
management.
36. In the late nineteenth century, most Americans
defined a republican society as one that emphasized social and political
equality.
37. In late nineteenth-century America, the Knights of
Labor took as its model the fraternalism of the Masons or Odd Fellows.
38. In their efforts to improve working conditions, the
Knights of Labor stressed cooperative factories owned and managed by workers.
39. The Knights of Labor enjoyed their largest increase
in membership after they won a strike against Jay Gould.
40. Samuel Gompers's goals for the labor movement
differ from those of the Knights of Labor? In that Gompers believed that workers
should focus on concrete, achievable goals and should have sufficient power to
back up their cause
41. The Knights of Labor fought for the eight-hour
workday primarily in order to allow workers to perform their
responsibilities as citizens.
42. Business and government responded to the Haymarket
Square riot by imposing yellow-dog contracts.
43. When it was formed after the Haymarket Square riot,
the American Federation of Labor adopted a philosophy that emphasized bargaining
for attainable short-term goals.
44. The strike at Homestead demonstrated that the state
government was an ally of the corporations.
45. When the workers at the Pullman Company protested a
cut in wages the American Railway Union directed their strategy.
46. Eugene Debs became a socialist after being
imprisoned for disobeying a court order issued in connection with the Pullman
strike.
47. The Socialist Labor Party was the first American
Marxist party.
48. In the early 1900s the Industrial Workers of the
World (IWW) were committed to a workers' society.
49. The first leader of American socialism who
attracted a devoted following outside the German-American community was Eugene
Debs.
50. The Pullman strike of 1894 failed because it was
crushed by the U.S. Army.
Chapter 18 Late Nineteenth-Century America
1. Between 1877 and 1893 American politics lacked a
compelling national issue.
2. Between 1877 and 1893 American presidents devoted
most of their energy to dispensing patronage.
3. In 1880, more than half of all federal employees
were working in the postal service.
4. One of the most troublesome political issues of the
1880s was how the federal government should reduce its surplus revenue.
5. In his first term in office, President Grover
Cleveland set a record for the number of bills vetoed by a president.
6. In declaring that "the office of President is
essentially executive in nature," Grover Cleveland meant that it was his
job primarily to see that the laws passed by Congress were executed rather than
to set a national policy agenda.
7. In the U.S. Congress between 1877 and 1893 neither
party ever stayed in power long enough to pass a coherent legislative program.
8. Between 1877 and 1893, Republicans and Democrats did
not represent clearly opposing positions, as party differences became unclear.
9. The partisan issue on which President Cleveland and
the congressional Democrats differed most sharply from the Republicans was
protectionism.
10. Republicans' post-Reconstruction promises to fund
education for southern blacks and to protect African American voters in southern
congressional elections failed to make it through Congress and finally died
during the Harrison administration.
11. When late nineteenth-century Republicans
"waved the bloody shirt," they were evoking the Civil War.
12. James G. Blaine lost the presidential election of
1884 because of charges of bribe-taking and an overly enthusiastic supporter's
attack on the Democrats as the party of "Rum, Romanism, and
Rebellion."
13. Late nineteenth-century American conservatives
believed that rewards went to those who deserved them.
14. Horatio Alger was the author of some 135
rags-to-riches novels extolling the virtues of hard work and thrift.
15. In the late nineteenth century, American
conservatives expected the federal judiciary to strike down welfare and
regulatory legislation.
16. In the late nineteenth century, the Supreme Court
voided state regulatory legislation as contrary to the Fourteenth Amendment to
the Constitution.
17. In the late nineteenth century, the Supreme Court
limited Congress's power to regulate manufacturing.
18. At the end of the nineteenth century, the branch or
agency of the federal government that enjoyed the greatest popular respect was
the Supreme Court.
19. Between 1876 and 1892 Americans were very active
politically.
20. The U.S. style of politics provided Americans with
professional party management, jobs, graft, and upward social mobility,
entertainment.
21. Political machines provided Americans with
institutions capable of bringing out the vote.
22. In the 1880s, the struggle between Stalwarts and
Half-breeds pitted Republican factions against each other in a struggle over
patronage.
23. The Republican presidential nominee opposed by the
Mugwumps was James G. Blaine.
24. Between 1878 and 1900 the efforts of woman
suffragists to win the right to vote were successful in a few western states.
25. Between the end of Reconstruction and 1900, women
won the right to vote in general elections in all states except New
Mexico.
26. In the late nineteenth century the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) gave divided support to demands for woman
suffrage; many of its members felt that only through women's votes could the
liquor traffic be controlled.
27. The Farmer's Alliance movement proved to be a
seedbed out of which the People's Party arose in the early 1890s most
accurately characterizes the history of the Farmer's Alliance movement in
the late nineteenth century?
28. The Populist leader who exhorted farmers "to
raise less corn and more hell" was Mary Elizabeth Lease.
30. The Populist Party blamed farmers' problems on the
"money power."
31. The Populist Party advocated the unlimited coinage
of silver in the belief that it would raise farm prices.
32. In the 1890s, Farmers advocated or supported
demands for the free coinage of silver.
33. In a rapidly developing economy such as that of the
United States in the late nineteenth century, the money supply must increase
rapidly enough to meet the economy's needs or economic growth will be stifled.
34. In the late nineteenth century those Americans most
eager to see the money supply increased were borrowers.
35. When the jobless marched on Washington in 1894,
President Cleveland dispersed them by force.
36. During his second administration, President
Cleveland broke with the majority of his own Democratic Party by refusing to
budge from his "sound money" stand against increasing the money supply
by allowing the coinage of silver as well as gold.
37. "You shall not press down upon the brow of
labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind on a cross of
gold." These famous words climaxed a speech in 1896 by William Jennings
Bryan.
38. In the election of 1896 the
Populists reluctantly supported the Democratic candidate for the presidency.
39. A significant outcome of the election of 1896 was
the Republicans' emergence as the majority party.
40. After the election of 1896, farm prices and the
supply of money increased after new gold deposits were discovered.
41. In the years 1900-1914, American farmers' sense of
isolation and deprivation gradually subsided.
42. Compulsory segregation, other than in education,
was first imposed on southern blacks in the late 1880s, in the form of southern
states' prohibitions against blacks' traveling in first-class railroad passenger
cars.
43. The political party that took credit for
"redeeming" the South was the Democratic Party.
44. Racial segregation became entrenched as a way of
life in the South during the 1890s.
45. The Supreme Court's 1896 decision in Plessy v.
Ferguson defined the "separate but equal" principle.
46. The greatest pressure for imposing a system
of rigid racial segregation in the South came from poor whites.
47. In 1900, about One-third of the American labor
force worked in agriculture.
48. The defining issue in the election of 1896 was the
money question.
49. During his second administration, faced with a
national economic crisis, President Cleveland turned to J. P. Morgan for help in
replenishing the Treasury's depleted reserves.
50. Aspects of the issue related to the bimetallic
standard in nineteenth-century America are: Since the early days of the
republic, U.S. government policy had been to base the value of the federal
currency on the amount of gold and silver held by the U.S. Treasury, Because
silver became scarce relative to gold after the middle of the nineteenth
century, its market value rose and silver coins disappeared from circulation,
leading to the official dropping of silver as a medium of exchange in 1873,
After the early 1870s, vast new deposits of silver were found in the West and
silver prices dropped; if the government had resumed coining silver at a ratio
of 16:1, silver would have flowed into the Treasury, expanding the money supply,
inflating the currency, and enriching silver-mining interests.
1. Most were mainly commercial centers where goods were
bought and sold for distribution elsewhere, most accurately characterizes
American cities before the Civil War?
2. Steam and coal replaced water power and charcoal as
the primary energy sources for mills and the iron industry in the United States
after the middle of the nineteenth century?
3. Each of the following correctly pairs
a city with the industry or industries in which it specialized in the late
nineteenth century: Richmond, Virginia-cigarette manufacturing.
Minneapolis, Minnesota-grain milling. Memphis, Tennessee-lumber and cottonseed
oil production.
4. In most industries the scale of production
increased, most accurately characterizes industry in post-Civil War
American cites?
5. In 1910, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Cleveland
all of the following ranked among the nation's ten most populous cities except:
6. Post-Civil War American cities had industrial
complexes on their outskirts.
7. From the 1850s to the 1890s, the main form of urban
mass transportation in the United States was the horse car.
8. By 1900, the primary means of urban mass transit in
the United States was the trolley car.
9. To relieve street congestion, late
nineteenth-century American cities did all of the following: construct
subways, build steam-powered elevated railways, build electric-powered elevated
railways.
10. The first American city to build subways was
Boston.
11. The first skyscraper in the United States was built
in 1885 in Chicago.
12. For ordinary Americans of the late nineteenth
century, the electric light probably offered the most dramatic evidence of
changing urban life.
13. The invention that most speeded up city
communications after 1876 in the United States was the telephone.
14. The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham
Bell.
16. Smoke and haze often damaged air quality most
accurately characterizes the urban environment in late nineteenth-century
America.
17. New York City failed to meet its water supply needs
in the second half of the nineteenth century because each new water-supply
facility that was built was outstripped by rising demand and by the new users
and new needs that it produced.
18. Subdivided former residences, row houses, and
multistoried tenements met the housing needs of the urban masses in many
post-Civil War American cities.
19. The results of housing reform efforts at the turn
of the century in the United States was to make housing profitable, many
landlords ignored building codes and capacity restrictions.
20. Most of the immigrants who arrived in American
cities between 1900 and 1914 were southern and eastern European Jews and
Catholics.
21. Immigrants from a particular region of a country
tended to settle on the same street most accurately characterizes
residential patterns in the typical American city around 1900.
22. By 1900, African Americans in the North experienced
increasing residential segregation.
23. Around 1900, if an ordinary American city dweller,
whether immigrant or native born, needed a favor done by a person with
authority, he or she was most likely to turn to an alderman or ward boss.
24. In late nineteenth-century America, urban political
machines did all of the following: reward party loyalty with jobs
or favors, mediate conflicting city interests, serve as a clearinghouse for city
business deals.
25. Most Jews in America before the 1880s came from
Germany.
26. In the United States around 1900, most Jews who had
immigrated from eastern Europe found it difficult to practice traditional
religious customs.
27. In the late nineteenth century, Irish Americans
dominated the American Catholic hierarchy.
28. At the end of the nineteenth century, urban
Protestant churches reacted to the influx of non-Protestants by evangelizing and
making the church an instrument of social uplift.
29. The urban revivalism preached by Dwight L. Moody
and others represented a fundamentalist attack on the doctrinal liberalism and
complacency of mainstream Protestantism.
30. At the turn of the century, vaudeville became
suitable for family attendance in larger theaters.
31. The popular tradition of "treating" in
turn-of-the-century American urban life can best be defined as pleasure-seeking
and a courtship ritual similar to modern dating among working-class youths.
32. Baseball, which became an organized sport in the
1840s developed out of an older British game, called rounders.
33. In 1876, baseball was a profit-oriented form of
entertainment.
34. After the Civil War, metropolitan newspapers
expanded to include human interest stories, a women's page, and society and
sports sections.
35. In 1883, Joseph Pulitzer was the St. Louis
newspaper publisher whose purchase of the New York World set off a
furious circulation war with papers owned by William Randolph Hearst.
36. The greatest benefactor of public libraries in
nineteenth-century America, who in 1881 announced that he would build a library
in any city that was prepared to maintain it, was Andrew Carnegie.
37. All of the following universities were
founded by philanthropists in the late nineteenth century: Johns Hopkins
University, University of Chicago, Tulane University.
38. The expression "Gilded Age" originated as
the title of a novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, published in 1873
and satirizing America as a land of vulgar money-grubbers.
39. In late nineteenth-century America,
"culture" became an elitist pursuit whose aim was to embellish life
rather than probe it deeply.
40. In late nineteenth-century America, a sign of high
status was, choice of residential neighborhood, membership in exclusive clubs,
conspicuous displays of wealth.
41. The establishment of the Metropolitan Opera in 1883
was most directly related to a feud between "old money" and "new
money" families in New York City.
42. Salaried employees were the occupational group that
grew most rapidly in the United States between 1870 and 1910?
43. Most members of the newly rising American middle
class around 1900 preferred to live in the suburbs, as far from the city as
their salaries could take them.
44. According to the 1910 census, nationwide about 25
percent of the urban population lived in suburbs outside the city limits.
45. In the new suburbs of late nineteenth-century
America most planners and residents made economic choices and thought
secondarily about the quality of community life.
46. The typical American middle-class family in 1900
consisted of husband, wife and three children.
47. Many middle-class Americans in the late nineteenth
century no longer firmly linked sex and procreation, and began to acknowledge
that healthy sexuality should give pleasure to both men and women.
48. The "Gibson girl" of the 1890s
personified the middle-class "new woman"-spirited, athletic, and
chastely sexual.
49. A high school education became more common most
accurately characterizes changes in the lives of middle-class American
children in the last decades of the century?
50. The marriage rate fell to its lowest point during
the last forty years of the nineteenth century but began to rise again after
1890 most accurately characterizes middle-class marriage patterns in the
United States during the second half of the nineteenth century?
1. As governor, Robert M. La Follette sponsored
research at the University of Wisconsin that was essential in framing reform
legislation.
2. The work of Frederick W. Taylor proved compatible
with progressivism because his scientific management theories promised a
solution to social ills through gains in efficiency.
3. Most Progressives relied on rational planning as a
basis for corrective action.
4. In the early twentieth century, academic theorists
who adhered to the school known as classical economics held that markets were
perfectly competitive.
5. The approach of the progressive educationist John
Dewey is most accurately characterized as stressing problem solving and
practical activities.
6. Progressives of the early twentieth century
idealized Abraham Lincoln as the heroic Great Emancipator.
7. Protestant churches that espoused the Social Gospel
urged the application of Christian laws to secular life.
8. During the Progressive Era, impetus for the reform
of municipal government often came from business leaders because they wanted to
see the cities run efficiently and cheaply by skilled administrators, not by
partisan politicians.
9. Progressive Era municipal reformers favored citywide
elections, nonpartisanship, and professional city administrators.
10. Jane Addams was one of the founders of Hull House.
11. Settlement houses made a notable contribution to
Progressive Era reform primarily by lobbying municipal authorities for
better city services in slum neighborhoods.
12. The University of Chicago was important in the
history of American progressivism because it pioneered in the rise of economics,
political science, and sociology as rigorous social science disciplines, whose
research was of great use to progressive reformers.
13. In the 1910s, woman suffragists advocated a
national constitutional amendment.
14. The most stubborn resistance to woman suffrage in
the early twentieth century came in the South.
15. Margaret Sanger was known primarily for her work in
behalf of birth control.
16. The Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire of 1911 caused
New York State to pass the most advanced labor code in the country.
17. The first socialist to be elected to the U.S.
Congress was Victor Berger, whose district was in the city of Milwaukee.
18. In response to Supreme Court decisions and
injunctions in the Progressive Era, the American Federation of Labor joined
urban liberals to battle for protective legislation.
19. Early twentieth-century civil rights advocates
called for encouragement of black pride, full political and civil equality for
African Americans, and reversal of stereotypes that demeaned African Americans.
20. Progressives moved onto the stage of national
politics primarily because of Theodore Roosevelt's assumption of the
presidency.
21. Before becoming president in 1901, Theodore
Roosevelt had been governor of New York.
22. Upon becoming president, Theodore Roosevelt set
about consolidating his position within the Republican Party.
23. When anthracite coal miners struck in 1902,
Theodore Roosevelt appointed an arbitration commission to settle the dispute.
24. By 1910, the consolidation of American industry by
trusts had reached the point that 1 percent of the nation's manufacturers
accounted for 44 percent of the total industrial output.
25. The federal law prohibiting conspiracy to restrain
or monopolize trade, the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, had proved ineffectual
in halting the rise of trusts before Theodore Roosevelt's presidency because
neither the Cleveland nor the McKinley administration had made much effort to
enforce it.
26. In the landmark Northern Securities decision
in 1904, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered a railroad trust dissolved.
27. Theodore Roosevelt prosecuted Standard Oil after
his election in 1904.
28. When Theodore Roosevelt attacked trusts for abuse
of power, he decided for himself which corporations were "good" and
which were "bad."
29. The two muckrakers who helped bring about passage
of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act were Samuel Hopkins
Adams and Upton Sinclair.
30. During his campaign in 1904, Theodore Roosevelt
took to referring to his presidential program as the Square Deal.
31. William Howard Taft is most accurately
characterized as a conservative.
32. William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic candidate
for the presidency in 1908, advocated pro-union labor legislation.
33. "Uncle Joe" Cannon was the dictatorial
Speaker of the House whose power was broken by a revolt of members of the House
in 1910.
34. As a result of the Supreme Court's decision in the
1911 Standard Oil case, the attorney general speeded up the pace of
antitrust actions.35. Theodore Roosevelt's "New Nationalism"
after 1910 was basically statist in its demand for an enormously expanded
federal role in regulating corporations.
36. Theodore Roosevelt did not become the Republican
presidential nominee in 1912 because Taft controlled the party machinery, which
in most states chose convention delegates; thus even though Roosevelt swept
states that held primaries, this brought him little gain.
37. Before winning the presidency in 1912, Woodrow
Wilson had been governor of New Jersey.
38. In advising Woodrow Wilson in the 1912 presidential
campaign, Louis D. Brandeis pointed out that trusts should be prevented from
unfairly using their power to curb free competition.
39. In the 1912 presidential election Wilson won
because the Republican vote was split between Taft and Roosevelt, not because a
majority of the public endorsed him.
40. He did not want collectivism to overwhelm
individual liberties most accurately characterizes Woodrow Wilson's
political ideas?
41. In his "New Nationalism" phase after
1910, Theodore Roosevelt argued that the federal government, through a trade
commission, should oversee large companies.
42. Roosevelt was eager to reenter politics and
sympathetic to the Republican progressives, but he was reluctant to split the
party except over an issue of deep principle most accurately
characterizes the clash between Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft after
Roosevelt returned from his year-long African safari?
43. By 1910 many Republicans who were disenchanted with
Taft were calling themselves Progressives or Insurgents.
44. By the end of his presidency, Theodore Roosevelt
was urging that the federal government be given administrative powers to oversee
and regulate big business.
45. In his successful campaign to be elected president
in his own right in 1904, Theodore Roosevelt defeated Alton B. Parker.46. He was a conservationist who tried to balance
commercial and public interests most accurately characterizes Theodore
Roosevelt's approach to the nation's natural resources.
47. The white settlement-house worker who helped found
the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was Mary Ovington.
48. All of the following statements accurately
characterize the revival of the civil rights movement in the Progressive Era:
Initially the national leadership of the NAACP was dominated by whites, W.
E. B. Du Bois played a crucial role in the revived movement as editor of the
NAACP's journal, The Crisis, The Urban League was founded in 1911 by
black and white progressives to assist African American migrants to northern
cities.
49. Southern states adopted the primary election at the
end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century in an effort to
drive blacks out of politics.
50. The workers' compensation laws were adopted in
significant numbers of states during the Progressive Era.
Chapter 21 Emerging World Power, 1877-1944
1. For fifteen years after the Civil War, the United
States decreased the size of the navy.
2. A modest upgrading and modernization of the U.S.
Navy began during the administration of Chester A. Arthur, 1881-1885.
3. American sugar planters in Hawaii sought annexation
of the islands to the United States in 1893 because changes in the McKinley
Tariff of 1890 and domestic sugar subsidies in the United States made them eager
to gain the same advantages as U.S. growers had.
4. President Grover Cleveland refused to accept a
proposed treaty for the annexation of Hawaii, on the grounds that the offer had
been fraudulently arranged and that to accept it would violate America's
"honor and morality."
5. In 1889 naval warfare might have broken out between
the United States and Germany over control of Samoa, but a fierce hurricane
wrecked both countries' fleets.
6. All of the following manufactured or
agricultural products were significant American exports in the late nineteenth
century: cotton, Singer sewing machines, and Standard Oil kerosene.
7. In late nineteenth-century America exports of both
agricultural and industrial products increased.
8. Over 80 percent of American foreign trade in the
late nineteenth century was with Europe and Canada.
9. In the late 1880s and early 1890s, American
businessmen and policy makers believed that the United States needed to adopt a
more aggressive policy of expansion abroad, based upon the brief surge of
imports over exports between 1888 and 1896, which aroused fears that the United
States was losing its foreign markets
10. Many American businessmen in the 1880s and 1890s
predicted that the key to America's future prosperity was to develop markets in
China.
11. The foreign policy that Alfred T. Mahan proposed
for the United States in the 1890s included all of the following elements:
expansion into foreign markets, development of the United States as a naval
power, an expansionist strategy dependent on a canal across Central America and
bases in the Caribbean and Pacific.
12. Grover Cleveland was not in agreement with Alfred
T. Mahan's strategic ideas in the 1890s and did not urge the United States to
adopt a "large policy" abroad?
13. Despite some hesitation about colonialism,
Cleveland pushed the program, most accurately characterizes the program
to rebuild the U.S. Navy in the late 1880s and 1890s.
14. The Indiana, Massachusetts, and Oregon,
all authorized in 1890, were world-class battleships of the type pioneered by
Britain's Royal Navy, most accurately characterizes the modernization of
capital ships by the U.S. Navy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries.
15. The expansionist foreign policy of the 1890s
derived significant inspiration from Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis.
16. The historical term or phrase that the historian
John Fiske reactivated to describe American foreign ventures in the 1890s was
"manifest destiny."
17. Historian Frederick Jackson Turner's thesis of
"The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1893) fits
into the pattern of an emerging ideology of American expansionism because Turner
predicted that having closed the western frontier, Americans would now turn to
overseas expansion.
18. In response to Spain's efforts to suppress the
Cuban uprising in 1895-1896 Congress passed a resolution calling for Cuban
independence.
19. Grover Cleveland worried about the Cuban rebellion
because he feared that American investments in Cuba would be harmed and that
other European nations might intervene to the detriment of U.S. interests
throughout the Caribbean.
20. When William McKinley became president in 1897 and
had to deal with the uprising in Cuba, he took a tougher stance against the
Spanish than Cleveland had taken.
21. In the face of deteriorating relations with Spain
in 1897 and early 1898, President McKinley remained cautious, waiting for a firm
national consensus before asking for war powers.
22. William Randolph Hearst owed his early success as a
newspaper publisher to his wealthy father's ownership of the newspaper on which
he first worked and where he experimented with giving the public the sensational
stories it craved.
23. In demanding war with Spain in 1897-1898, William
Randolph Hearst claimed that bloody battles between Cuban insurgents and brutal
Spanish troops were raging all over the island, the Spanish deliberately blew up
the Maine, and an American woman had committed suicide to protest the
dishonor of the United States' sitting on the sidelines while Cubans suffered.
24. After the explosion of the battleship Maine,
a U.S. naval board of inquiry blamed the sinking on a mine.
25. In calling for war with Spain in 1898, President
McKinley announced that America's war aims included all of the following:
protection of endangered American interests, restoration of a state of
civilization in Cuba, and an end to the war in Cuba.
26. Confronted with the possibility of acquiring
additional territory in a war with Spain, President McKinley was not averse to
exploiting any opportunities that arose, although he was not motivated by a wish
to seize colonies from Spain.
27. The navy was better prepared than the ground
forces, most accurately describes the state of American military
preparedness in 1898?
28. The U.S. Navy won its most decisive victory of the
Spanish-American War at Manila.
29. President McKinley and the Republicans jumped at
the chance to hold the Philippine Islands because they saw them as the key to
American influence in the Asian market.
30. The United States annexed Hawaii in 1898, once war
with Spain made it apparent that the United States would broaden its strategic
role in the Pacific Ocean.
31. The American victory at San Juan Hill in Cuba can
be credited largely to four black U.S. regiments.
32. To control Manila, the military would have to take
the entire archipelago, most accurately characterizes the military position of
the United States in the Philippines at the end of the fighting with Spain in
1898?
33. The Treaty of Paris, which ended the war with
Spain, received only one vote above the required two-thirds majority in the
Senate.
34. In the guerrilla war that followed the conquest of
the Philippines 4,200 Americans and many thousands of Filipinos died.
35. After the American victory over Spain in 1898, the
major European nations, did not welcomed the United States as an equal power in
world affairs, did not worry that the United States would attack some of their
own colonies, and did not realize that the United States had become more
powerful than any European country.
36. Theodore Roosevelt's strategic thinking about U.S.
foreign policy was shaped, in part, by his belief in the duty of the
"civilized" countries of the world to police and subdue
"backward" peoples.
37. Around the turn of the century Great Britain sought
friendlier relations with the United States.
38. The Americans saw their function as providing cover
for the expected uprising, most accurately characterizes the American
role in the Panamanian uprising?
39. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed the
building of the Panama Canal in Eight years.
40. After he assumed the presidency in 1901, Theodore
Roosevelt sought to consolidate strategic gains in the Caribbean.
41. Under the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe
Doctrine, the United States would act unilaterally to regulate the affairs of
any Caribbean nation.
42. In its open-door policy toward China in 1899 and
1900, the United States sought guarantees from other world powers that free
access to trade and Chinese territorial integrity would prevail.
43. Theodore Roosevelt's attitude toward Japan can most
accurately be characterized as admiring.
44. To curb the rising power of Japan in the Pacific,
Theodore Roosevelt's administration mediated a settlement of the Russo-Japanese
War.
45. To counter Japan's increasing power in the Pacific,
the Taft administration pressed for greater American investment in China.
46. Dollar diplomacy was William Howard Taft's
preference for seeking a large role for American bankers and investors in East
Asia.
47. When Woodrow Wilson became president in 1913, vowed
that the United States would not seek further territorial gains by conquest.
48. Victoriano Huerta was a general who seized power
after murdering Mexico's liberal-minded leader, Francisco Madero.
50. In 1906 Theodore Roosevelt helped mediate a
European dispute over Morocco.
Chapter 22 War and the American State, 1914-1920
1. The outbreak of World War I was the culmination of a
European crisis that began when a Bosnian recruited by Serbian terrorists
assassinated the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary.
2. The war involved extensive harm to civilian
populations most accurately characterizes World War I.
3. Woodrow Wilson wished to keep the United States
neutral at the outbreak of World War I primarily because he wanted to
arbitrate among the combatants and influence the settlement of the war.
4. The political left, especially the Socialists under
Eugene Debs, supported neutrality, condemning the war as imperialism, most
accurately characterizes the American response to neutrality during the
period 1914-1917.
5. After the German attack on the British liner Lusitania
in 1915, President Wilson protested vigorously to Germany against assaults on
nonbelligerents.
6. Germany's response to President Wilson's protests
over the Lusitania incident was to announce in September 1915 that
submarine commanders would not attack passenger vessels without warning.
7. In 1915 and 1916 Woodrow Wilson tried several times
to mediate the European conflict by using Colonel Edward House as a go-between,
only to find that neither side was ready for serious peace talks.
8. The presidential election of 1916 failed as a
referendum on the American position on the war.
9. The "Zimmermann telegram" of early 1917
was an intercepted message from the German government to the Mexican government,
inviting the latter to join Germany in war against the United States with the
promise of regaining Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.
10. In his appearance before Congress to ask for a
declaration of war in 1917, Woodrow Wilson emphasized that America wished only
to champion human rights.
11. In response to President Wilson's request for a
declaration of war on Germany six senators and fifty members of the House voted
against war.
12. When the United States declared war on Germany in
the spring of 1917, the U.S. Army had approximately 200,000 soldiers on active
duty.
13. Nearly 4 million men were in uniform by the end of
the war, many of them responding to the progressive idea of service to the
state, most accurately characterizes Americans' cumulative response to
the call to arms in World War I?
14. In the course of the turmoil that shook Russia in
the midst of World War I the newly established Soviet government gave up
extensive territories in Russia's western borderlands in return for peace with
Germany in March 1918.
15. During World War I, American ground forces made
their most important contribution to the Allied victory in the Meuse-Argonne
campaign.
16. About 48,000 military personnel were killed in
action and another 27,000 died of other causes (especially influenza), a minimal
number compared to European losses, most accurately characterizes
American casualties in World War I?
17. Navy ships were declared "dry," most
accurately characterizes the impact of progressive thinking on the
conditions of military service during World War I?
18. The test scores reinforced stereotypes about the
supposed intellectual inferiority of immigrants and nonwhites, most
accurately characterizes the results of the tests administered to American
conscripts during World War I?
19. African American soldiers in World War I were
assigned principally to duty as menial workers rather than as front-line troops.
20. The German propaganda message aimed at African
American troops in September 1918 presented an accurate picture of conditions
that African Americans faced at that time in the United States.
21. By the time American troops were demobilized after
World War I ended, many of them had experienced the war more as tourists on a
once-in-a-lifetime adventure than as soldiers.
22. At the height of American mobilization for World
War I, war production accounted for 25 percent of the gross national product.
23. During World War I, the United States became a
creditor rather than a debtor nation.
24. The federal debt increased from $1 billion in 1915
to $20 billion in 1920 most accurately characterizes the American
financing of World War I?
25. Herbert Hoover emerged from World War I as one of
the nation's most admired men on account of his leadership of the Food
Administration, which oversaw the vast expansion of American agriculture not
only to satisfy domestic demand but also to feed millions of starving Europeans.
26. After the armistice was signed in November 1918,
ending the fighting in World War I, the Wilson administration dismantled the
wartime agencies as quickly as possible.
27. During World War I, Samuel Gompers, head of the
American Federation of Labor traded organized labor's support of the war for a
voice in government policy.
28. When World War I ended, American labor unions saw
their wartime gains in membership and wages disappear amid a rising tide of
antiunion sentiment.
29. The more than 400,000 African Americans who moved
north during the war began a migration that continued for decades most
accurately describes the effects of World War I on African Americans.
30. During World War I, professional women and
middle-class women outside the work force cooperated with government agencies
and were crucial to the success of wartime volunteer organizations.
31. The war highlighted the contradiction in fighting a
war for democracy while denying women the vote in the United States, most
accurately characterizes the impact of World War I on the struggle for woman
suffrage.
32. The Senate took eighteen months to approve the
amendment s most accurately characterizes the political process that took
place during World War I that culminated in the adoption of the woman suffrage
amendment during.
33. Dissenting from most progressives' support for the
war effort during World War I, Randolph Bourne asked: "If the war is too
strong for you to prevent, how is it going to be weak enough for you to control
and mould it to your liberal purposes?"
34. The Wilson administration's Committee on Public
Information had all of the following goals: to Americanize immigrant
groups, to break down the isolation of rural life, to encourage anti-German
sentiment.
35. The group most adversely affected by the
spirit of conformity spawned during America's participation in World War I was
German Americans.
36. Beer drinking began to seem unpatriotic because of
the high visibility of Germans in the brewery trade, most accurately
characterizes the campaign for Prohibition during and after World War I?
37. The federal government was empowered to impose
national prohibition by the Eighteenth Amendment.
38. The passage of the Prohibition amendment in 1919
was another instance of the expanding influence of the state on personal
behavior.
39. In his "Fourteen Points" speech to
Congress in early 1918, Woodrow Wilson articulated freedom of navigation on the
seas, establishment of a multinational organization to guarantee mutual
protection of political and territorial rights, the right to national
self-determination.
40. Woodrow Wilson's policy toward Soviet Russia
between 1918 and the spring of 1920 was to join Britain and Japan, the United
States deployed about 5,000 American troops to Russia in support of
anti-Bolshevik forces within that country.
41. At the post-World War I peace negotiations
President Wilson succeeded in getting the European nations' commitment to a
League of Nations.
42. In the course of the Senate debate on the
Versailles treaty Henry Cabot Lodge argued that the provision for a League of
Nations undercut Congress's right to declare war and restricted the ability of
the U.S. government to pursue a unilateral foreign policy.
43. The Treaty of Versailles was defeated in the U.S.
Senate when President Wilson ordered Democratic senators to vote against all
Republican amendments.
44. Northern black Americans faced outbreaks of racial
violence in more than 25 cities most accurately characterizes racial
relations in the aftermath of World War I?
45. A major reason for the turmoil was the arrival of
large numbers of southern blacks in the unfamiliar environment of northern
cities most accurately characterizes the race riots of World War I and
its immediate aftermath.
46. Scholars still debate their guilt, but most agree
that they did not receive a fair trial, most accurately describes the
proceedings against Sacco and Vanzetti?
47. The prominent politician who fanned fears of
domestic radicalism after a bomb exploded outside his home in 1919 was Mitchell
Palmer.
48. A series of bombings in 1919 led Americans to
associate all radical or dissident political groups with violence most
accurately characterizes the Red Scare of 1919-1921.
49. The most extensive labor disruption during 1919
occurred in the steel industry nationwide, in which more than 350,000 workers
struck.
50. Besides the League of Nations, self-determination
for the peoples of Austria-Hungary was a goal that Woodrow Wilson actually
achieved during his negotiations of the post-World War I peace settlement.