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The Teller Amendment:

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disavowed any American designs on Cuban territory

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The Platt Amendment:

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sharply restricted the independence of Cuba's new government

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The Platt Amendment did all of the following EXCEPT:

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provide for the American annexation of Cuba

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The Open Door policy:

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proposed that foreign powers keep the China trade open to all nations on an equal basis

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Mark Hanna opposed naming Theodore Roosevelt as McKinley's running mate in the 1900 election because Hanna:

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saw Roosevelt as a madman who just might become president

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Why was Theodore Roosevelt picked as William McKinley's running mate for the 1900 election?

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Roosevelt was a popular figure from his exploits in the Spanish-American War and had been a strong public supporter of McKinley.

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To reward Theodore Roosevelt for his vigorous campaigning on behalf of William McKinley in 1896, the new president appointed Roosevelt:

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assistant secretary of the navy

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The Hay-Herrán Treaty

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concerned America's right to build a canal in Panama

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Who was president when the United States acquired the right to build a canal across Panama?

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Theodore Roosevelt

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When the United States and Colombia could not agree on a price for the Canal Zone:

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the United States lent support to a separatist rebellion in the Colombian province of Panama

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In order to acquire the Canal Zone, the United States supported Panama's revolt against:

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Colombia

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The Roosevelt Corollary:

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stated that the United States could intervene in the affairs of Latin American countries to forestall the intervention of other powers

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As a result of Japan's show of strength in the Russo-Japanese War:

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Americans began to doubt the security of the Philippines

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Roosevelt's "Gentlemen's Agreement":

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stopped the flow of Japanese immigrants to America

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Through his intervention in the Moroccan crisis in 1906, President Roosevelt:

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may have prevented a war pitting France and Britain against Germany

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The "yellow peril" was:

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a racially charged description of a perceived threat from Japan

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Roosevelt's intervention in the Russo-Japanese War and the Moroccan dispute:

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won him the Nobel Peace Prize of 1906

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Why did Theodore Roosevelt send the "Great White Fleet" on a world tour between 1907 and 1909?

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to demonstrate that the U.S. had arrived as a world power

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Who once said that warfare was the best way to promote "the clear instinct for race selfishness"?

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Roosevelt

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In hindsight, Roosevelt's approach to foreign policy was problematic because:

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he was reluctant to use force in support of American goalshe was reluctant to use force in support of American goals

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WCTU:

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stood for Women's Christian Temperance Union

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The muckrakers saw their primary objective as:

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exposing social problems to the public

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The author of The Shame of the Cities was:

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Lincoln Steffens

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Ida M. Tarbell's revelations in her History of the Standard Oil Company (1904) helped convince the Supreme Court in 1911:

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to rule that the company must be dismantled

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Progressives supported all of the following as measures to democratize government EXCEPT:

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the poll tax

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The commission plan of city government was first adopted in:

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Galveston, Texas

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The originator of the "Wisconsin idea" of efficient government was:

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Robert M. La Follette

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Which of the following best describes the method used by most progressives to solve the problem of economic power and its abuses?

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regulate big business

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The National Child Labor Committee pushed:

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for laws prohibiting the employment of young children

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In the case of Lochner v. New York, the Supreme Court:

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voided a state-legislated ten-hour day because it violated workers' "liberty of contract"

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At the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in 1911:

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workers died as a result of a fire

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Jane Addams called the impulse to found settlement houses:

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Christian humanitarianism

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Frances Willard lobbied:

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for women to become ministers

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In 1917, a Prohibition amendment to the Constitution:

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passed Congress, then went to the states for ratification

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During the coal strike of 1902:

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thousands of striking miners marched on Washington, starting a riot that lasted three days

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Which of the following statements regarding the coal strike of 1902 is NOT true?

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to monitor the activities of interstate corporations

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This company refused to turn over its records to the government, leading to a suit and the breakup of the company in 1911:

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Standard Oil

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The title of the novel that described the terrible conditions of the meat-packing industry was:

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The Jungle

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The Hepburn Act of 1906

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authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to set maximum rates for railroads

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Theodore Roosevelt's close friend Gifford Pinchot was:

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a forestry expert and leading conservationist

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In the area of conservation, Theodore Roosevelt:

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used the Forest Reserve Act to withdraw over 170 million acres of timberland from logging

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William Howard Taft:

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was Roosevelt's choice as his successor

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President Taft's domestic policies generated a storm of controversy:

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within his own party

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Contrary to his party's tradition, President Taft called for:

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a lower tariff

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Eventually became chief justice of the Supreme Court.

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William Howard Taft

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The Seventeenth Amendment:

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authorized the popular election of U.S. senators

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In the presidential election of 1912, William Howard Taft:

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was the Republican candidate

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Which candidate was shot during the 1912 presidential campaign?

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Of the four presidential candidates in 1912, the one most likely to advocate government ownership of big business was:

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Eugene Debs

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A major factor in Woodrow Wilson's victory in the 1912 presidential campaign was the fact that:

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E. the Republican party had split in two

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The issue that provoked an open break between Taft and Roosevelt was:

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Taft's anti-trust suit against United States Steel

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Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom platform:

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proposed vigorous anti-trust action to break up corporate concentration

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The Underwood-Simmons Tariff:

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lowered the average tariff and hence was supported by Wilson

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In his first term as president, Wilson did all of the following EXCEPT:

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failed to reorganize the banking system

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Upon becoming president, Wilson appointed as secretary of state:

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William Jennings Bryan

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The Clayton Anti-Trust Act:

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made it possible for corporate officials to be held responsible for violations

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The Federal Reserve Act did all of the following EXCEPT:

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shifted the U.S. Treasury back to the gold standard

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Despite his racist views, President Wilson still nominated Josephus Daniels for:

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secretary of the navy

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Louis D. Brandeis:

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was the first Jewish member of the Supreme Court

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The Adamson Act of 1916:

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established the eight-hour day for railroad workers

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In an effort to topple Victoriano Huerta's dictatorial government in Mexico, President Wilson:

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sent the military to occupy the port of Veracruz

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Concerning United States action in the Caribbean, President Wilson

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kept marines in Nicaragua and sent marines to Haiti and the Dominican Republic

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"Pancho" Villa:

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killed a number of Americans in an attempt to provoke American intervention in Mexico

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The event that triggered World War I in Europe was:

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a Serb's assassination of the Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand

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Between 1914 and 1921, World War I was directly responsible for the deaths of:

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over 9 million combatants

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What gave World War I its lasting character?

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trench warfare

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President Wilson's response to the sinking of the Lusitania:

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was a series of notes demanding that Germany stop such actions and pay reparations

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Which of the following is true of the Lusitania?

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It secretly carried weapons and ammunition in its cargo.

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The Revenue Act of 1916:

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was primarily to raise money to pay for war preparations

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The Zimmermann telegram:

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asked for help from Mexico in the case of war between Germany and the United States

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The congressional resolution for war:

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passed overwhelmingly

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What was the major cause of the St. Louis riot in 1917?

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employment in a defense factory

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George Creel:

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was the first and most celebrated conviction under the Espionage Act of 1917

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Despite the fact that the Great War generated many changes in female employment, these changes were:

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limited and brief

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Under the Espionage and Sedition Acts of 1917-1918:

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criticism of government leaders or war policies became a crime

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In the case of Schenck v. United States, the Supreme Court:

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upheld the conviction of a man who had circulated pamphlets against the draft

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For violating the Espionage Act, Socialist leader Eugene Debs:

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received a ten-year prison term

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The U.S. military effort in France:

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Georges Clemenceau

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Wilson's Fourteen Points endorsed all of the following EXCEPT:

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U.S. colonies in Africa and Asia

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The French premier during WWI was:

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Georges Clemenceau

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In negotiating with the Big Four over many postwar territorial issues, President Wilson:

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had to abandon his lofty principle of national self-determination

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What was the virulent menace that Americans faced in the postwar period that caused more casualties than the war itself?

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the Spanish flu

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The Spanish flu epidemic:

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killed nearly seven times the number of Americans as died of combat deaths in France

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One dramatic example of labor unrest in 1919 was a general strike in:

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Seattle

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A race riot in which 38 people were killed and over 500 injured took place in July 1919 in:

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Chicago, Illinois

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The Red Scare of 1919-1920 reflected the

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impact of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia on the United States as a wave of labor strikes and race riots spread

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The Red Scare of 1919-1920 was directed against:

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all communists

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In the political arena, reactionaries and rebels battled for control of:

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a postwar society riven by conflict.

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Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were:

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two Italian-born anarchists sentenced to death and executed even though there was doubt as to their guilt

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The immigration quota laws passed in the 1920s:

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favored immigrants from northern and western Europe

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The 1924 immigration law:

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set strict yearly limits on the number of immigrants allowed into the country

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Who said, "When the hordes of aliens walk to the ballot box and their votes outnumber yours, then that alien horde has got you by the throat"?

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William J. Simmons

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How many members did the Ku Klux Klan allegedly have at its peak?

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as many as 4 million

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As a result of the Scopes trial:

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the fundamentalist movement disappeared

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The journalist H. L. Mencken described William Jennings Bryan as a:

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fundamentalist pope

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Which amendment to the constitution is known as the prohibition amendment?

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Twenty-first

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Not being able to convict Al Capone on bootlegging charges, the federal government convicted him for:

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tax evasion

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Who celebrated the jazz era's spontaneity and sensual vitality?

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The Roaring Twenties was dubbed "the Jazz Age" by:

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Petting parties were:

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opportunities for young men and women to experiment sexually with each other

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All of the following could be associated with flappers EXCEPT:

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Victorian values

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The movement of southern blacks to the North:

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was called the Great Migration

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In physics, the theory of relativity was developed and explained by:

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Albert Einstein

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The author of Cane, considered by many to be the single greatest work of the Harlem Renaissance, was:

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Jean Toomer

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The Universal Negro Improvement Association:v

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was led by Marcus Garvey

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Which of the following did W.E.B. Du Bois say in his opposition to Marcus Garvey?

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He is "the most dangerous enemy of the Negro race. . . . He is either a lunatic or a traitor."

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The 1920s "New Era" was created by advances in all the following EXCEPT:

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government-funded programs

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Gertrude Stein was a(n):

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experimentalist poet

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The Waste Land, a poem that became the favorite of many modernist readers because of its sense of disillusionment and its suggestion of a burned-out civilization, was written by

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T. S. Eliot

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The best-selling novelist of the 1920s was:

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Gertrude Stein

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Taft's "dollar diplomacy" was intended to accomplish all of the following EXCEPT

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Promote American corporate interests overseas through regular use of armed force.

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During the l920's the city which became known for gangland murders, corrupt politics, and organized crime was

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Chicago.

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The Supreme Court decision Guinn v. United States

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Declared the "grandfather clause" unconstitutional.

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Lothrop Stoddard is best known for his

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Racial theories.

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Harding's presidency and legacy was tarnished by all of the following EXCEPT

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Harding's impeachment and resignation in l923.

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President Wilson deeply admired

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British political values and institutions.

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The Man Nobody Knows was

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The portrayal of Jesus as the perfect corporate manager.

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The architect of William Howard Taft's foreign policy

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Philander Knox.

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In Nixon v. Herndon the Supreme Court declared

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Texas white primary unconstitutional.

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. All of the following were reactions against modernity except

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the Klu Klux Klan

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The immigration quota laws passed in the l920's

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Favored immigrants from northern and western Europe.

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In 1911, the government of Mexico headed by Porfirio Diaz was overthrown by

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Victoriano Huerta.

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The Glass Act

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Established the Federal Reserve System.

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The automobile was to the 1920's what the railroad had been to the nineteenth century, in that

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It was both a powerful catalyst to economic growth and a symbol for the age.

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Henry Ford's great contribution to modern industrial culture was

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His commitment to standardization and assembly-line mass production.

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The raids launched by A. Mitchell Palmer were

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A series of illegal arrest of alleged radical subversives under the direction of the U.S. attorney general.

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The Treaty of Versailles never received U.S. Senate ratification because

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The vast majority of Americans came to oppose it.

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Who among the following would NOT promote efforts to reshape the environment in order to improve people's lives?

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John Dewey, educational theorist.

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Jeannette Rankin achieved famed by

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Being the first female member of the United States Congress.

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Among the key provisions of Wilson's "Fourteen Points" were all the following EXCEPT

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Phased rearmament.

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A French company dug a canal part of the way through Panama in the 1880s.

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true

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The United States agreed to pay $10 million plus $250,000 a year for the Panama Canal Zone

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True

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John Hay called Spanish-American War "a splendid little war"

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true

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Philippe Bunau-Varilla was a Panamanian ambassador to the United States.

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true

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William Jennings Bryan was the Democratic presidential candidate in l900.

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true

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Among the varied sources of progressivism were populism and the Mugwumps.

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true

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Theodore Roosevelt gave muckrakers their name.

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true

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Theodore Roosevelt took a strong, activist approach to the presidency.

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true

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The phrase "Square Deal" is associated with Theodore Roosevelt.

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true

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When Standard Oil refused to turn over its records, the government brought an anti-trust suit that resulted in the breakup of the huge company in 1911.

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true

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One of Taft's major issues became his support for high tariffs.

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taft

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Theodore Roosevelt initiated more anti-trust suits than any president in history.

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false

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Woodrow Wilson was a minister's son who grew up in the South

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true

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Progressives generally believed government should not interfere with big business.

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false

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Woodrow Wilson was elected president in 1908.

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false

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Wilson was a weak president who trusted Congress to adopt the proper policies.

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false

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William H. Taft achieved the most significant tariff reduction of any progressive president.

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false

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Federal money for farm demonstration agents was approved in the Adamson Act.

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false

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Louis D. Brandeis was the first Jewish member of the United States Supreme Court.

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true

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Eugene V. Debs was the Socialist party presidential candidate in l912.

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true

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Lincoln Steffens wrote The Jungle.

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false

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General Pershing's incursion into Mexico resulted in the defeat and capture of "Pancho" Villa.

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false

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Due to their belief in "freedom of the seas," the British allowed Americans to trade with Germany.

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false

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In the presidential election of 1916, Republicans used the slogan "He kept us out of war" to discredit Wilson

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false

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The Germans intercepted the Zimmermann telegram, sent to the Mexican government from the White House.

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false

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Over four hundred thousand southern blacks moved northward during the war years.

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true

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Women in "war work" were usually able to keep their jobs after the war.

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false

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During World War I, some American symphonies refused to perform Bach and Beethoven

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true

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Henry Cabot Lodge led the Senate Republicans who demanded amendments to the Treaty of Versailles.

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true

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President Wilson suffered a temporarily incapacitating stroke in France while negotiating the peace treaty.

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false

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In the 1920s, people of Latin American descent became the fastest-growing ethnic minority in the United States.

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true

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The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was mainly a southern rural organization.

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false

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The Scopes "monkey trial" sought to keep the theory of evolution in science classrooms in Tennessee

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false

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Proponents of Prohibition displayed ethnic and social prejudices in the drive to make America "dry."

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true

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The Roaring Twenties pitted a cosmopolitan urban America against the values of an insular, rural America.

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true

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Flappers" was the slang word for illegal drinking establishments in the 1920s.

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false

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Conservative moralists saw the flappers as positive influence on society.

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false

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The NAACP favored militant protests over legal challenges as a way to end racial discrimination.

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false

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During the 1920s, ideas of scientists about the nature of the universe inspired modernist artists to try new techniques

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true

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