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Japan demonstrated its expansionist policies in 1931-1932 by invading

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Manchuria.

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Which of the following acts of aggression did not occur in the 1930s?

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The German invasion of Norway

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Which statement best represents the United States' response to reports of the German persecution of Jews?

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The United States refused to liberalize its restrictive immigration laws.

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How did the cash-and-carry policy work?

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It required nations at war in 1939 and 1940 to pay for U.S. goods in cash and to carry them in their own ships.

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In an effort to bolster American security and at the same time help England during the Battle of Britain, President Roosevelt concluded an agreement with Prime Minister Churchill that

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transferred fifty overage American destroyers to Britain in exchange for leases on British air and naval bases in the Western Hemisphere.

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Which of the following leaders is not matched with the right country?

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Winston Churchill, France

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Why was the United States called the arsenal of democracy?

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It produced 300,000 airplanes, 2.6 million machine guns, 6 million tons of bombs, and numerous other war material.

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In 1940 and 1941, President Roosevelt wished to prolong negotiations with the Japanese rather than go to war because

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he knew that he did not have a large enough navy to fight both Japan and Germany.

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Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?

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Because it believed a war with the United States was inevitable, it decided to deliver a knockout blow initially.

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Which of the following statements regarding the fall of the Philippines is false?

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The fall of the Philippines deeply divided U.S. public opinion, which now began to question openly whether the country should be at war.

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What impact did the wartime economy have on the distribution of American incomes?

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The size of the middle class doubled.

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A. Philip Randolph's call for a massive march on Washington led to

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an executive order prohibiting employment discrimination and creating a Fair Employment Practices Committee.

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During World War II, Japanese Americans were

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forced to live as prisoners in internment camps.

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The Smith-Connally Labor Disputes Act

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empowered the president to take over any facility where strikes interrupted war production.

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What role did the American scientific community have in World War II?

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Scientists participated actively in developing new weapons, chemicals, medicines, and medical techniques that would advance the fight against the Axis powers.

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The Manhattan Project was the

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secret $2 billion project to develop an atomic bomb.

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Which 1942 battle was a decisive victory for the United States in the Pacific theater of World War II?

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Battle of Midway

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Which of the following statements regarding the D-Day invasion of France on the beaches at Normandy is true?

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It was known as Operation Overlord.

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Approximately how many Jews were killed in the Holocaust?

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6 million

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Which of the following statements regarding Rosie the Riveter is true?

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A) She became the symbol of America's new working woman.D) One of her messages was that a woman could do a man's job without losing her femininity. E) Both A and D

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Zoot suits were the preferred attire of

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young Mexican Americans in California.

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Which of the following is not true regarding the government's management of public opinion during World War II?

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Publishers and broadcasters were allowed to say and report whatever they thought would be in the best interest of the public and the war effort.

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At the Yalta Conference, Stalin agreed to all of the following except

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the partitioning of Germany.

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Which of the following was not a reason why President Harry Truman decided to use the atomic bomb in 1945?

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He wanted to prove to the world that the United States hated the Japanese and wanted them to suffer because of their attack on Pearl Harbor.

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After what event did the Japanese government finally begin to discuss acceptance of surrender terms?

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The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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Which of the following statements best describes warfare between the Japanese soldiers and American Marines?

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They utterly hated each other and committed numerous atrocities.

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What was the role of the War Production Board in World War II?

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It was created to allocate materials, limit the production of civilian goods, and distribute contracts among workers.

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How many American men and women ultimately served in the armed forces?

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Approximately 15 million

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Which country suffered the greatest number of casualties in World War II?

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Soviet Union

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The Selective Service Act of 1940 was the first peacetime draft in U.S. history.

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True

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In 1988, Congress awarded each survivor of the Japanese internment camps $200,000 in reparations.

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False

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Operation TORCH was the code name for the invasion of Italy in 1943.

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Fasle

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U.S. forces first truly went on the offensive in the Pacific at Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.

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True

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What does the monetarist theory assert was the cause of the stock-market crash?

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The Federal Reserve System

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Which of the following steps did Herbert Hoover not take to revive the economy after the stock-market crash?

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He persuaded Congress to pass the National Industrial Recovery Act, which embodied ideas of industrial self-regulation and business-government cooperation.

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What environmental disaster struck the nation during the Depression?

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Dust bowl

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Who were the bonus marchers in 1932?

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World War I veterans who marched on Washington to lobby for immediate cash payments of their veterans' bonuses

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Which statement best describes Franklin Roosevelt's position concerning the depression in the 1932 presidential campaign?

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He promised a "new deal" to end the depression but offered only vague plans describing how he was going to do it.

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Which of the following did Franklin Roosevelt use during the early years of his administration to fight the depression?

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He encouraged industrial recovery through business-government cooperation and pump-priming federal spending; He supported agricultural recovery through subsidized crop reduction; He offered short-term emergency relief for the jobless, provided directly by the federal government if necessary; All of these.

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Which of the following was not one of Roosevelt's immediate responses to the banking crisis?

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He nationalized the banks.

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What did the Civilian Conservation Corps do?

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It employed jobless young men in rural projects such as reforestation, park maintenance, and erosion control.

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Which New Deal initiative paid farmers subsidies to take acreage out of production?

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Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933

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A growing antibusiness attitude during the first Hundred Days of the New Deal could be detected in which of the following programs?

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Federal Securities Act

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Which of the following agencies was created during Hoover's administration to help failing financial institutions and continued to be active through the New Deal years?

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Reconstruction Finance Corporation

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How did the National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act) influence the labor movement?

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It guaranteed collective-bargaining rights; It permitted closed shops; It outlawed the practice of blacklisting union leaders; All of these.

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Which piece of New Deal legislation established the principle of federal responsibility for social welfare and created the basic framework for the welfare system?

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Social Security Act

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Which of the following was not true concerning the election of 1936?

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Third-party candidates siphoned off an alarming number of Democratic votes.

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What group(s) was the Farm Security Administration designed to benefit?

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Tenant farmers and sharecroppers

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What happened to Roosevelt's court-packing plan?

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It proved unnecessary because Roosevelt was able to replace four members of the Supreme Court who died or retired.

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Which New Deal legislation banned child labor, established a minimum wage, and set maximum hours for the workweek?

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Fair Labor Standards Act

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What did John Steinbeck describe in The Grapes of Wrath?

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The desperate struggles of an uprooted dust-bowl family

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Which of the following statements is not true about the New Deal?

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The New Deal brought about full economic recovery, and by 1939 unemployment was no longer a serious problem.

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Molly Dewson, head of the Democratic Party's women's division, advocated

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appointing more women to federal policy-level positions.

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The Committee for Industrial Organization was established

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to organize all workers in a particular industry, regardless of race, gender, or degree of skill.

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Which of the following companies bitterly resisted unionization in the 1930s?

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Republic Steel

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What type of entertainment did the Frank Capra films Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington provide?

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They were patriotic and idealistic portrayals of the triumph of the people over entrenched interests.

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Which writer captured the political idealism of the Spanish civil war in a novel?

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Ernest Hemingway

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What was the radio adaptation of War of the Worlds about?

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Aliens landing from outer space

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What vision of the future did the Futurama exhibit at the New York World's Fair of 1939 feature?

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A complex multilane highway network of the future

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By the mid-1920s, which of the following was true concerning the use of electricity?

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It was becoming more common because 60 percent of new homes were wired for electricity.

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In the 1920s, what happened to American investments in foreign production?

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It increased because American corporations invested abroad to supply overseas markets efficiently and acquire raw materials.

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Who was the main subject in Bruce Barton's "The Man Nobody Knows?"

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Jesus Christ

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Which of the following statements concerning women in the work force in the 1920s is true?

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Women faced systematic wage discrimination.

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American foreign policy toward Europe during the 1920s was characterized by

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by general attitudes of independent internationalism with an occasional willingness to enter into arms-control treaties.

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Why did the union movement weaken in the 1920s?

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Overall wage rates rose steadily in the 1920s; The older craft-based pattern of union organization was ill suited to the new mass-production industries; Management was hostile to labor organizing; The open shop was dubbed the American plan; ALL OF THESE

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Welfare capitalism refers to

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corporations providing employee benefits in the hope of preventing the establishment of unions

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Which sector of the economy did NOT prosper in the 1920s?

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Agriculture

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The key issue in the Scopes trial was whether which of the following subjects should be taught in the public schools?

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Evolution

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What happened in the 1920s Teapot Dome scandal?

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Interior Secretary Albert Fall received bribes to lease naval oil reserves to two private companies.

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What did Rudolph Valentino, Charlie Chaplin, and Mary Pickford have in common?

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They all became celebrities in the 1920s because of their acting in movies.

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At the Washington Naval Arms Conference, the major naval powers agreed to halt the construction of which of the following for ten years?

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Battleships

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What happened to housework in the 1920s?

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It became simpler because air conditioning and electric heat made homes cleaner.

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How did the automobile affect American life?

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It gave young people freedom from parental oversight; It broke down the isolation of rural life; It let more prosperous Americans move out to the suburbs; It increased mobility and headaches; ALL OF THESE

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What was the country's first radio network?

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NBC

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What is the stereotype of the Jazz Age flapper?

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She was a rebellious, sexually active woman in the 1920s.

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Which musical style epitomized the 1920s?

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Jazz

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The purpose of the 1924 National Origins Act was to increase the number of immigrants coming from

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none of these

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Which of the following statements concerning the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s is NOT true?

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The Klan dropped the elaborate rituals, titles, and costumes of the Reconstruction era to attract a mass membership.

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Marcus Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, advocated that blacks should

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return to Africa

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In the early 1920s religious fundamentalists focused especially on which of the following issues?

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The theory of evolution

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Why is Aimee Semple McPherson significant?

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She anticipated the television evangelists of a later day in her theatrical sermons.

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What did the Sacco-Vanzetti case expose in American society?

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The strong ethnic bias in the US.

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Why did Prohibition fail?

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Organized crime provided a ready supply of liquor; It proved impossible to enforce rules of behavior with which a significant portion of the population disagreed; The Volstead Act was underfunded and weakly enforced; ALL OF THESE

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Many Americans feared the election of Al Smith in 1928 because they thought he would

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answer to the pope.

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Which of the following statements accurately reflects trends during the 1920s regarding women in the work force?

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Most college women entered traditionally female professions such as nursing, school teaching, and library science.

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How did the Ballinger-Pinchot debate influence Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft's relationship?

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It indicated the growing rift between Roosevelt and Taft.

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In the early twentieth century, how did many middle-class women begin to think of employment outside the home?

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They viewed it as a potential opportunity.

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What were Jim Crow laws?

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They were a method of imposing strict segregation in places like streetcars, trains, schools, parks, public buildings, and cemeteries.

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In 1910, approximately what percentage of the nation's children between the ages of ten and fifteen worked outside the home?

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15

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Who were the muckrakers?

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Investigative journalists who wrote exposes on large corporations.

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What did Frederick Taylor argue?

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Business could increase efficiency by standardizing job routines and rewarding the fastest workers.

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How did the tactics of Alice Paul's National Woman's Party differ from Carrie Chapman Catt's National American Woman's Suffrage Association?

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Paul's followers used radical tactics like chaining themselves to the White House fence.

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Which of the following statements accurately describes the Wobblies?

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They preached revolution, class struggle, and the abolition of the wage system.

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What happened to the 1916 Keating-Owen Act?

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The Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional.

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Which statement about the Progressive Movement is correct?

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Progressives wanted to restrain big business and protect the economically vulnerable.

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What did the writings of Thorstein Veblen, Charles and Mary Beard, William james, and Herbert Croly have in common?

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They implicitly supported the need for far-reaching reforms of American society.

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Which of the following amendments is NOT accurately defined?

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The Seventeenth Amendment allows the direct election of members of the House of Representatives.

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In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposed the corruption in

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the meatpacking industry.

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According to John Dewey, what did schools need to do?

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They should become the instruments of reform by embracing the new ethnic of social interdependence.

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What did the Triangle Shirtwaist fire reveal about the problems in American society?

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It revealed how abusive factory working conditions could be.

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Who was Robert La Follette?

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He was a progressive reformer who established policies that were labeled the Wisconsin Idea.

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Why were amusement parks so important to the urban poor?

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They provided an opportunity for a brief escape from life in the tenements.

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What was the goal of urban planners and architects like Daniel Burnham?

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They wanted to rebuild the urban landscape with grand boulevards, imposing squares, monumental buildings, and extensive recreational facilities, and thereby restore the public's pride in metropolitan America.

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What were some of the themes of DW Griffith's The Birth of a Nation?

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Blacks were inferior and the KKK should be glorified.

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To a middle-class reformer around 1910, which of the following statements would reveal the most about the morality of the movies?

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Movies were typically shown in immigrant-district nickelodeons.

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What did the Mann Act of 1910 do?

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It made it a federal crime to transport a woman across a state line "for immoral purposes."

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Which of the following pieces of legislation attempted to regulate food and/or drug safety?

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Meat Inspection Act; Pure Food and Drug Act; Narcotics Act

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Why did many progressives advocate restricting immigration to the US?

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They believed that the typical recent immigration was a hairy, low-browed, big-faced person of obviously low mentality.

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What did Booker T Washington believe was the best way for blacks to improve their status in the US?

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They should accommodate themselves to segregation and disenfranchisement while at the same time working hard and providing their economic value to society.

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What did the Clayton Anti-Trust Act do?

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It placed more restrictions on business activities that could lead to the formation of a monopoly.

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What did the Hepburn Act of 1906 do?

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It strengthened the Interstate Commerce Act by raising penalties and increasing the regulatory powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission.

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Which of the following women is NOT properly paired with her reform activity?

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Emma Goldman: work-related diseases and health hazards

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Which of the following women was not a leader of the woman-suffrage movement in the late nineteenth and/or early twentieth centuries?

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Josephine Dodge

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Which of the following is not representative of progressive attitudes toward blacks

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Mary White Ovington's study of blacks in NYC, Half a Man

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Which of the following books did WEB Du Bois write?

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The Souls of Black Folk

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Which of the following statements does NOT accurately describe black Americans in the early twentieth century?

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William Lloyd Garrison led a campaign against lynchings.

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The Federal Reserve Act, signed into law by Woodrow Wilson, provided for a banking system

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under mixed public and private control

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Which of the following writers would not be considered a muckraker?

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Samuel Jones

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Which of the candidates in the 1912 presidential election advocated the most far reaching changes for American society?

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Eugene Debs

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How did President Roosevelt acquire the right to build a canal across Panama for the US in 1903?

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He helped facilitate a Panamanian rebellion against Columbia and then negotiated a treaty to lease a strip of territory.

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The Roosevelt Corollary was significant for US relations with countries in the Western Hemisphere during the twentieth century because it established the precedent that the US

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had the right to intervene in Latin American countries.

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The Open Door Notes opened which country to free and open trade?

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China

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The Great White Fleet was the American navy that which American president sent around the world from 1907 to 1909?

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Teddy Roosevelt

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How did the Russo-Japanese War come to an end?

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Roosevelt mediated the conflict and negotiated the Treaty of Portsmouth between them.

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What was the gentlemen's agreement?

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An arrangement in which Japan agreed to end the emigration of Japanese laborers to the US.

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What was the object of William Howard Taft's dollar diplomacy?

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He wanted Wall Street bankers to invest money in countries of strategic interest to the US.

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Which of the following statements about Woodrow Wilson's Latin American policy is NOT correct?

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He sent marines to Chile to punish the Sandinistas for an attack on an American-owned plantation.

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What was the initial reaction of most Americans to the outbreak of WWI in Europe?

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They wanted to ensure that the US could stay out of conflict.

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What was the purpose of the Commission on Training Camp Activities?

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It waged a campaign against alcohol use and immoral behavior among American soldiers in WWI.

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What was President Wison's first official response when war broke out in Europe in 1914?

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He announced a declaration of neutrality and called on the nation to be neutral in thought as well as action.

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Which 1917 legislative act established the American draft in WWI?

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Selective Service Act

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In response to the sinking of the Lusitania, the US

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demanded that Germany cease unrestricted submarine warfare.

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Which of the following nations used propaganda the best to demonize its enemy prior to America's entrance into the war?

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Great Britain

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Why did the Germans resume unrestricted submarine warfare?

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They believed it would help them achieve victory before American troops reached the front.

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Which of the following statements best describes the American army when the US entered WWI?

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It was woefully unprepared, with little combat experience and an aging officer corps.

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Why did black Americans migrate to northern cities during WWI?

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They were seeking the economic opportunities afforded by northern industrial expansion.

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In the case of Schenck v. US, the Supreme Court

answer

upheld convictions under the Espionage Act on the ground that the government could curtail free speech when it presented a "clear and present danger" to the country.

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The War Industries Board

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allocated raw materials, ensured production efficiency, coordinated military purchasing.

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Which statement concerning the Creel Committee on Public Information is true?

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It used propaganda to spread the US government's official version of the war.

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Which of the following is true about the American economy during WWI?

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Factory production increased by 1/3; Agricultural prices more than doubled; Cigarette consumption increased dramatically

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Which Allied offensive in the fall of 1918 helped end the war?

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Somme offensive

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Which of the following statements concerning the 1918 influenza pandemic is true?

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It killed as many as 30 million people worldwide.

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The Fourteen Points were

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Woodow Wilson's statment of American war aims

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Which statement best describes the Treaty of Versailles?

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It was harsh because it stripped Germany of territory and saddled that country with immense reparations.

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