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President Wilson broke diplomatic relations with Germany when...

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Germany announced that it woud wage unrestricted submarine ward far in the Atlantic

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President Wilson viewed America's entry into WWI as an opportunity for the U.S. to...

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Shape a new international order based on the ideals of democracy

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U.S. Declared war on Germany...

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After German U-Boats sank four anarmed American merchant ships

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The major problem for George Crell and his Committtee on Public Information was that...

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He oversold wilson's ideals and led the workd to expect too much

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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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