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In 1912 Woodrow Wilson ran for the presidency on a Democratic platform that included support for all of the following EXCEPT
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dollar diplomacy
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Which statement best describes the contrasts between Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom progressivism and Theodore Roosevelt's New Nationalism progressivism?
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Wilson's New Freedom emphasized small enterprise, entrepreneurship, and the free functioning of unregulated and unmonopolized markets; while Roosevelt's New Nationalism favored continued consolidation of the trusts and labor unions, supplemented by the growth of federal regulatory agencies.
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President Woodrow Wilson's political philosophy included all of the following EXCEPT
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scorn for the ability of peoples in other countries to govern themselves.
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How did the Underwood Tariff Act reflect President Wilson's progressive goals?
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The law lowered tariff rates and established the first graduated federal income tax.
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What critical authority was given to the Federal Board by the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 to permit quasi-public management of the banking and currency system?
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The power to issue paper money and increase or decrease the amount of money in circulation by alternating interest rates.
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The Federal Trade Commission was established in 1914 to address all of the following practices EXCEPT
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Prohibiting the sale of stocks without full disclosure.
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The Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 accomplished all of the following EXCEPT
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providing long-term legal protection for unions to engage in organizing, collective bargaining, and strike activities.
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What presidential action illustrated the limits of Woodrow Wilson's progressivism?
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Accelerating the segregation of blacks in the federal bureaucracy
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Which term best characterizes Woodrow Wilson's fundamental overall approach to American foreign policy?
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Moralistic
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Which of the following represented President Wilson's first direct use of American military fores in revolutionary Mexico?
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Seizing the Mexican port of Veracruz to prevent German delivery of arms to President Huerta
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Which of the following had the most influence on America's growing trade with Britain and its reduction of trade with Germany during the period 1914-1916?
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The British Navy controlled the Atlantic shipping lanes.
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Which of the following best characterizes the attitude of the large majority of Americans toward the outbreak of World War I in 1914?
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Most Americans earnestly hoped to remain neutral and stay out of the war.
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what prompted German submarines to begin sinking unarmed and unresisting merchant and passenger ships in the Atlantic during the early years of World War I?
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The British naval blockade of Germany
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What dangerous contingency did Germany attach to its "Sussex" pledge not to attack unarmed neutral shipping during the years of the war?
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The United States would have to persuade the Allies to end their blockade of Germany, or unrestricted submarine warfare would resume.
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Which of the following actions was not a part of Wilson's moral diplomacy?
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convincing the california legislature to soften its anti-japanese stance
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Which of the following events is a result of the other four?
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New york bosses propel Woodrow Wilson to the governorship
