Unit 11Unit 11

The Progressives&

World War I

World War IWorld War I

The Republican strategy regarding the Treaty of Versailles was to

(A) amend the treaty

(B) defeat the treaty

(C) appeal to the American public to support it

(D) rush the treaty to a vote before Wilson could get enough support to pass it

A

ProgressivesProgressives

When President Taft called for dollar diplomacy, he advocated

(A) the American businessmen should invest in underdeveloped countries rather than lend those countries U.S. dollars.

(B) that American government money be loaned to underdeveloped countries.

(C) purchasing foreign-owned territories.(D) the rejection of the Open Door Policy.(E) encouraging foreign exports by reducing tariffs.

A

ProgressivesProgressivesOne unusual and significant characteristic of the anthracite

coal strike in 1902 was that

(A) the coal miners' union was officially recognized as the legal bargaining agent of the miners.

(B) for a time the mines were seized by the national government and operated by federal troops.

(C) the national government did not automatically side with the owners in the dispute.

(D) the owners quickly agreed to negotiate with labor representatives in order to settle their differences peacefully.

C

ProgressivesProgressivesDuring William Taft’s administration, the federal

government moved to strengthen its regulatory control over the railroad industry by

(A) passage of the Mann-Elkins Act

(B) creation of the Federal Trade Commission

(C) passage of the “Granger Laws.”

(D) taking over and operating the railroads.

(E) removal of former legal obstacles to consolidation of the railroads into giant corporations

A

ProgressivesProgressives

The Ballinger-Pinchot controversy involved

(A) a diplomatic incident between the United States and France

(B) the regulation of the trusts

(C) child-labor laws

(D) conservation policy

(E) legislation to restrict immigration D

ProgressivesProgressivesThe main idea of Theodore Roosevelt’s proposed “New

Nationalism” was to

(A) make the federal government an instrument of domestic reform

(B) undertake an aggressive new foreign policy(C) increase economic competition by breaking up all trusts

and large business combinations(D) seek to establish a large overseas empire(E) take an isolationist position in foreign policy while

maintaining the status quo domestically.

A

ProgressivesProgressives

Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives is a study of

(A) Jim Crow segregation and its effect on African Americans

(B) the plight of Great Plains farmers in the 1890’s

(C) immigrant urban poverty and despair in the 1890’s

(D) the corruption in city political machines in the 1890’s

(E) the rise of industrial capitalists in the late 19th century

C

World War IWorld War I

Wilson’s Fourteen Points incorporated all of the following EXCEPT

(A) open diplomacy

(B) freedom of the seas

(C) recognition of Allied economic and territorial agreements made during the war

(D) creation of an international organization to preserve peace and security of its members

(E) national self-determination C

ProgressivesProgressivesWhich of the following was passed into law during the

presidency of Woodrow Wilson?

(A)The Pure Food and Drug Act

(B) A progressive income tax

(C) A high protective tariff

(D) A national old-age pension

(E) The Sherman Antitrust Act B

ProgressivesProgressivesDuring the Woodrow Wilson administration, the federal

government attempted to counteract the economic influence of big business by

(A) eliminating the gold standard

(B) increasing tariffs rates

(C) centralizing economic planning

(D) applying the provisions of the 14th Amendment to corporations

(E) establishing the Federal Trade Commission E

World War IWorld War I

Wilson’s Fourteen Points did NOT include the

(A) creation of an independent Czechoslovakia

(B) creation of an independent Poland

(C) return of Alsace-Lorraine to France

(D) creation of an international organization of nations

(E) creation of an international peacekeeping force

E

World War IWorld War I During the First World War, the Committee on Public

Information issued propaganda to persuade the American people of all of the following EXCEPT:

(A) The United States was fighting for freedom and democracy.

(B) The United States was fighting a barbarous nation.

(C) Buying bonds was important to support the war effort.

(D) A German invasion of the United States was a possibility.

(E) Congress should reject the League of Nations.E

World War IWorld War I

The primary function of the war boards during the First World War was to

(A) increase cooperation between business, labor, and government

(B) encourage the breakup of monopolies

(C) nationalize the banking industry

(D) limit the influence of social scientists on government policy

(E) minimize the tax burden on the lower classes A

ProgressivesProgressives

The Clayton Anti-Trust Act

(A) held that trade unions fell under the antimonopoly restraints of the Sherman Act.

(B) regarded labor as an article of commerce.

(C) helped Congress to control interstate commerce.

(D) explicitly legalized strikes and peaceful picketing.

D

World War IWorld War I

Most of the money raised to finance World War I came from

(A) Liberty and Victory Loans.

(B) income taxes.

(C) tariffs.

(D) sales of armaments to Britain and France.

A

ProgressivesProgressives

The creation of the Federal Reserve System in 1913 did which of the following?

(A) Made currency and credit more elastic.

(B) Established a floating exchange rate for the dollar.

(C) Insured bank deposits.

(D) Gave Congress the authority to set interest rates.

(E) Instituted controls on stock market transactions.

A

AmendmentsAmendments

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A personal income tax

Direct election of Senators

National prohibition

Women’s suffrage

World War IWorld War IOpposition to the League of Nations by the United States

Senate during the Paris Peace Conference

(A) gave Allied leaders in Paris a stronger bargaining position.

(B) resulted in the League's being left out of the final draft of the treaty.

(C) led to an abandonment of the Monroe Doctrine.

(D) reinforced Germany's unwillingness to sign the treaty.

A

World War IWorld War I

Senate opponents of the League of Nations as proposed in the Treaty of Versailles argued that it

(A) failed to provide any German financial reparations for the United States.

(B) violated Wilson's own Fourteen Points.

(C) robbed Congress of its war-declaring powers.

(D) isolated the United States from postwar world affairs.

C

ProgressivesProgressives

Lincoln Steffens, in his series of articles entitled “The Shame of the Cities,”

(A) attacked the United States Senate

(B) exposed the deplorable condition of blacks in urban areas

(C) laid bare the practices of the stock market

(D) unmasked the corrupt alliance between big business and municipal government

D