APUSH Chapters 28-31 – Flashcards
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When Jane Addams placed Teddy Roosevelt's name in nomination for the presidency in 1912, it
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symbolized the rising political status of women.
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The first Jew to sit on the United States Supreme Court, appointed by Woodrow Wilson, was
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Louis D. Brandeis
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Teddy Roosevelt's New Nationalism
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supported a broad program of social welfare and government regulation of business.
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The movement of tens of thousands of Southern blacks north during WWI resulted in
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Racial violence in the North
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Woodrow Wilson showed the limits of his progressivism by
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accelerating the segregation of blacks in the federal bureaucracy.
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The U.S. did NOT use what method?
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Using goverment power extensively to regulate the economy
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Before his first term ended, Woodrow Wilson had militarily intervened in or purchased all of the following countries except
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Cuba
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Woodrow Wilson's early efforts to conduct an anti-imperialist U.S. foreign policy were first undermined when he
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sent American marines to Haiti
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The initial Republican strategy regarding the Treaty of Versailles was to
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Delay and amend the treaty
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As World War I began in Europe, the alliance system placed Germany and Austria-Hungary as leaders of the ___________ , while Russia and France were among the _____________.
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Central Powers; Allies
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During WWI the government's treatment of labor could be best described as
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Fair
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In 1912, Woodrow Wilson ran for the presidency on a Democratic platform that included all of the following except a call for
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dollar diplomacy
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With the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the great majority of Americans
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earnestly hoped to stay out of the war.
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Republican isolationists successfully turned Warren Harding's 1920 presidential victory into a
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death sentence for the League of Nations
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One primary effect of World War I on the United States was that it
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conducted an immense amount of trade with the Allies.
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17. German submarines began sinking unarmed and unresisting merchant and passenger ships without warning
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in retaliation for the British naval blockade of Germany.
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The 2nd battle of the Marne was significant because it
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marked the beginnign of a German withdrawal that was never reversed
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The Progressive "Bull Moose" party died when
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Teddy Roosevelt refused to run as the party's presidential candidate in 1916.
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When Woodrow Wilson won reelection in 1916, he received strong support from the
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working class
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Which of the following American passenger liners was sunk by German submarines?
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None of these was an American ship
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During WWI, American troops fought all of the following countries except,
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Czechoslovakia
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The red scare of 1919-1920 was provoked by
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the public's association of labor violence with its fear of revolution
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The 1912 presidential election was notable because
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it gave the voters a clear choice of political and economic philosophies.
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Disillusioned by war and peace, Americans in the 1920s did all of the following except
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enter a decade of economic difficulties
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In Congress, the most reliable support for Wilson's position on the League of Nations came from
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Democrats
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Woodrow Wilson's political philosophy included all of the following except
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scorn for the ideal of self-determination for minority peoples in other countries.
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Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom
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favored small enterprise and entrepreneurship
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Immigration restrictions of the 1920s were introduced as a result of
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the nativist belief that northern Europeans were superior to southern and eastern Europeans
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Two constitutional amendments adopted in part because of wartime influences were the Eighteenth wich dealt with ______, and the Nineteenth, whos subject was _____.
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Prohibition; woman sufferage
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"Cultural pluralist" like Horace Kallen and RAndolph generally advocated that
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immigrants should be able to retain their traditional cultures rather than blend into a single American "melting pot"
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One of the primary obstacles to working class solidarity and organization in America was
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ethnic diversity
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The immigration quota system adopted in the 1920s discriminated directly against
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southern and eastern Europeans
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Enforcement of the Volstead Act met the strongest resistance from
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eastern city dwellers
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Russia's withdrawal form WWI in 1918 resulted in
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The release of thousands of German troops on the front
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The most spectacular example of lawlessness and gangsterism in the 1920s was
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Chicago
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The trial of John Scopes in 1925 centered on the issue of
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teaching evolution in public school
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When the U.S. entered WWI they were
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Poorly prepare to leap into a gloval war
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Congress passed the Underwood Tariff because
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President Wilson aroused public opinion to support its passage.
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The Sixteenth Amendment provided for
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a personal income tax
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All of the following helped to make the prosperity of the 1920s possible except
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government stimulation of the economy
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Who was finally most responsible for the Senate defeat of the Treaty of Versailles?
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Woodrow Wilson
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The prosperity that developed in the 1920s
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was accompanied by a cloud of consumer debt
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Among the major figures promoted by mass media image makers and the new "sports industry" in the the 1920s were
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Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey
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The U.S. didn NOT contribute greatly in the Allied victory in
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Battlefield victories
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Frederick W. Taylor, a prominet inventor and engineer, was best known for his
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promotion of industrial efficiency and scientific management
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Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic made him an American hero especially because
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his wholesome youthfulness contrasted with the cynicism and debunking of the jazz age
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At the paris Conference, Wilson did NOT want
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An ent to the European colonial empires in africa and asia
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The first "talkie" motion picture was
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The Jazz Singer
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The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 guaranteed a substantial measure of public control over the American banking system through the final authority given to the
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presidentially appointed Federal Reserve Board
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After the Treaty of Versailles had been signed, Woodrow Wilson
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was condemned by both disillusioned liberals and frustrated nationalists and imperialists
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Female progressives often justified their reformist political activities on the basis of of
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their being essentially an extension of women's traditional roles as wives and mothers
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Lincoln Steffens, in his series of articles entitled "The Shame of the Cities,"
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unmasked the corrupt alliance between big business and municipal government
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Most muckrakers believed that their primary function in the progressive attack on social ills was to
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make the public aware of social problems
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The leading progressive organization advocating prohibition of liquor was
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the Women's Christian Temperance Union
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According to progressives, the cure for all of American democracy's ill was
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more democracy
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Marcus Garvey, founder of the United Negro Improvement Association, is known for all of the following except
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establishing the idea of the talented tenth to lead African Americans
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To regain the power that the people had lost to the "interests" progressives advocated all the following EXCEPT
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socialsim
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All of the following were prime goals of earnest progressives EXCEPT
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abolishing special work place protection of women
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The progressive movement was instrumental in getting the Seventeenth amendment added to the constitution, which provided for
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direct election of senators
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Which of the following was NOT among prominent African American cultural figures of the 1920s?
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Ralph Ellison
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The settlement house and women's club movements were crucial centers of female progressive activity because they
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introduced many middle class women to a broader array of urban social problems and civic concerns
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In Muller v. Oregon, the Supreme Court upheld the principle promoted by progressives like Florence Kelley and Louis Brandeis that
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female workers required special rules and protection on the job
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The case of Lochner v. New York represented a setback for progressives and labor advocates because the Supreme Court in its ruling
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declared a law limiting work to ten hours a day unconstitutional
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While president, Theodore Roosevelt chose to label his reform proposals as the
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Square Deal
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As a part of his reform program, Teddy Roosevelt advocated all of the following except
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control of labor
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The Elkins and Hepburn acts dealt with the subject of
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railroad regulation
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Teddy Roosevelt weakened himself politically after his election in 1904 when he
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announced that he would not be a candidate for a third term as president
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Passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act was especially facilitated by the publication of
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Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
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During his presidency, Teddy Roosevelt did all of the following except
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tame capitalism
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As president, William Taft
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was wedded more to the status quo than to progressive change
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Pesident Taft's foreign policy was dubbed
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dollar diplomacy
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Margaret Sanger was most noted for her advocacy of
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birth control
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Teddy Roosevelt decided to run for the presidency in 1912 because
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William Howard Taft had seemed to discard Roosevelt's policie
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The 1920 census revealed that for the first time most
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Americans lived in cities
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