Foreign Affairs and Progressive Movement(19/20)
As a result of victory during the Spanish American War, the United States acquired the territories of all except...
A Puerto Rico
B Cuba
C Guam
D The Philippines
B. Cuba.
Henry Ford revolutionized the automobile industry by....
A Implementing horizontal integration
B Implementing vertical integration
C utilizing the assembly line
D eliminating competition
c. using assembly lines
During the Great Depression, the voting pattern of African American voteers shifted to
A the Republican Party
B the Democratic Party
C the Populist Party
D the Communist Party
B Democratic Party
By late October of 1941, the United States was unofficially at war with
Japan
Italy
Germany
Russia.
Germany
The 1898 conflict that resulted in the United States gaining Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines was the
A. Russo‑Japanese War
B. Philippine‑American War
C. Spanish‑American War
D. Boxer Rebellion
Spanish-American War
The United States acquired Hawaii by
A purchasing it from Japan
B engaging in years of blooding conflict with the locals
C influence of yellow journalism
D the sinking of the U.S.S.R Maine
C. the influence of yellow journalism
The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s supported all of the following EXCEPT
A. restricting immigration through national‑origin quotas
B. enforcing traditional Protestant moral values
C. promoting white supremacy and nativism
D. supporting equal rights and political participation for minority groups
D. supporting equal rights and political participation for minority groups
Arguably the best-known description of the plight of Okies in California was:
A. John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
B. Carey McWilliams' Factories in the Fields
C. F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
D. John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men
A. John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
Defense industries finally ended their hiring discrimination policies against African Americans after
race riots in Detroit
A. Philip Randolph's threat of a march
a huge march of African Americans in Washington, D.C.
NAACP members meeting with FDR.
A. Philip Randolph's threat of a march
The Open Door Policy was created to
A. Divide China into exclusive European spheres of influence
B. Prevent Japan from trading with the United States
C. Force China to adopt Western political systems
D. Ensure equal trading rights for all nations in China
Ensure equal trading rights for all nations in China
The American Expeditionary Forces most impressive victory came at...
A Somme
B Verdun
C Chateau-Thierry
D Ypres
C. Chateau-Thierry
The Harlem Renaissance featured all of the following EXCEPT
A. poetry and literature
B. jazz music
C. themes of black hardships
D. segregation
D. segregation
Dr. Francis Townsend called for the federal government to:
1. Nationalize the banks
2. Guarantee each family an income
3. Provide $200 to every person at least 60 years old
4. Provide subsidies for landowners
Provide $200 to every person at least 60 years old.
In order to defeat Japan, the United States:
1. Immediately attacked Tokyo
2. Employed a system of island hopping
3. Immediately recaptured the Philippines
4. Immediately recaptured Hong Kong
Employed a system of island hopping
The Anti‑Imperialist League opposed U.S. expansion mainly because they believed it
A. Strengthened American democracy
B. Violated principles of self‑government and consent of the governed
C. Was necessary for national survival
D. Would increase trade opportunities
Violated principles of self‑government and consent of the governed
In order to rid of the progressive Theodore Roosevelt from the New York governorship, Republican party leaders
A campaigned against him in 1900
B moved for a recall in New York
C nominated him as vice presidential canidate for William Hickey
D held a mob to get him removed from office
C. combinated him as vice presidental candidate for William McKinley
Which of the following best explains why the 1920s became known as the “Jazz Age”?
A. The federal government funded nationwide music education programs that promoted jazz in public schools
B. The spread of radio and phonograph technology helped popularize African American musical styles across the nation
C. Jazz musicians received widespread political support from major national leaders
D. Jazz music replaced all other genres as the dominant form of entertainment in rural America
B. The spread of radio and phonograph technology helped popularize African American musical styles across the nation
When World War I began in Europe, the United States reluctantly:
A. Declared war on Germany
B. Declared war on Japan
C opted for neutrality
D. Signed the Munich Pact
C opted for neutrality
Which of the following best explains how the U.S. government mobilized the economy for World War II?
A. By relying solely on private industry to voluntarily increase production
B. By creating federal agencies that directed industrial output and controlled raw materials
C. By refusing to regulate wages or prices during wartime
D. By limiting women’s participation in industrial labor to preserve traditional roles
B. By creating federal agencies that directed industrial output and controlled raw materials
The U.S. annexed Hawaii in 1898 after
A. A peaceful vote by Hawaiian citizens
B. American sugar planters overthrew the Hawaiian monarchy
C. Britain transferred control of the islands
D. Japan surrendered its claim to the islands
American sugar planters overthrew the Hawaiian monarchy
This is no figure of speech. The honest citizens
of Philadelphia have no more rights at the polls
than the Negroes down South. Nor do they fight
very hard for this basic privilege. You can arouse
their Republican ire by talking about the black
Republican votes lost in the Southern States by
white Democratic intimidation, but if you remind
the average Philadelphian that he is in the same
position, he will look startled, then say, “That’s so,
that’s literally true, only I never thought of it in just
that way.” And it is literally true.
The machine controls the whole process of voting, and practices fraud at every stage. The assessor’s list is the voting list, and the assessor is the
machine’s man. . . .The assessor pads the list with
the names of dead dogs, children, and non-existent
persons. One newspaper printed the picture of a
dog, another that of a little four-year-old Negro
boy, down on such a list. A ring orator in a speech
resenting sneers at his ward as “low down” reminded his hearers that that was the ward of Independence Hall, and, naming the signers of the Declaration of Independence, he closed his highest flight
of eloquence with the statement that “these men,
the fathers of American liberty, voted down here
once. And,” he added, with a catching grin, “they
vote here yet.”
Rudolph Blankenburg, a persistent fighter for
the right and the use of the right to vote (and, by
the way, an immigrant), sent out just before one
election a registered letter to each voter on the
rolls of a certain selected division. Sixty-three per
cent were returned marked “not at,” “removed, “deceased,” etc. From one four-story house where
forty-four voters were addressed, eighteen letters
came back undelivered; from another of forty-eight
voters, came back forty-one letters; from another
sixty-one out of sixty-two; from another forty-four
out of forty-seven. Six houses in one division were
assessed at one hundred and seventy-two voters,
more than the votes cast in the previous election in
any one of two hundred entire divisions.
The repeating is done boldly, for the machine
controls the election officers, often choosing them
from among the fraudulent names; and when no
one appears to serve, assigning the heeler [local
political party worker] ready for the expected vacancy. The police are forbidden by law to stand within
thirty feet of the polls, but they are at the box and
they are there to see that the machine’s orders are
obeyed and that repeaters whom they help to furnish are permitted to vote without “intimidation” on
the names they, the police, have supplied
Steffens compares Philadelphia residents to disenfranchised black voters in the South because
A they have to pay toll taxes
B they have to take literacy tests
C the machines control their votes
D they're subject to Klan intimidation
C. the machines control their votes
The Scopes Trial dealt with the issue of
A lynching of blacks in the South
B teaching of evolution in Tennessee
C Scandal of the Harding Administration
D Italian anarchy
B teaching of evolution in Tennessee
The phrase "on the margin" referred to:
1. The people that were on the economic fringe of society
2. The practice of taking out loans to buy shares of stock
3. The state of the economy
4. The practice of loaning cash without collateral
The practice of taking out loans to buy shares of stock
Which development most directly contributed to the Allied victory in Europe?
A. The U.S. decision to focus all military resources on the Pacific first
B. The Soviet Union’s successful defense and counterattack on the Eastern Front
C. Britain’s refusal to participate in the D‑Day invasion
D. Germany’s ability to maintain supply lines despite Allied bombing
B. The Soviet Union’s successful defense and counterattack on the Eastern Front
The Platt Amendment is best described as a policy that
A. Guaranteed full Cuban independence with no U.S. involvement
B. Allowed the U.S. to intervene in Cuban affairs despite promising independence
C. Required Cuba to join the League of Nations
D. Forced Cuba to become a U.S. territory
Allowed the US to intervene in Cuban affairs despite promising independence