Unit 2 Study Guide History

The real heart of the progressive movement was the effort by reformers to

use the government as an agency of human welfare

The red scare of 1919-1920 was provoked by

the public’s fear that labor troubles were sparked by communist and anarchist revolutionaries

During the 1920s, the supreme court

often ruled against progressive legislation such as state child labor and minimum wage laws for women

Franklin Roosevelt’s ____ contributed the most to his development of compassion and strength of will

affliction with infantile paralysis

Once at war, America’s first great challenge was to

retool its industry for all-out war production

Female progressives often justified their reformist political activities on the basis of

their being essentially an extension of women’s traditional roles as wives and mothers

Businesspeople used the red scare to

break the backs of fledgling unions

In sharp contrast to World war 1, during World War 2 Americans were

nearly unanimous in support of the war

The religious movement that was closely linked to progressivism was

the social gospel

The most tenacious pursuer of radical elements during the red scare of the early 1920s was

A. Mitchell Palmer

In 1932, Franklin Roosevelt campaigned on the promise that as president he would attack the Great Depression by

experimenting with bold new programs for economic and social reform

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

unmasked the corrupt alliance between big business and municipal government

The post-World War 1 Ku Klux Klan advocated all of the following EXCEPT

repression of pacifists

The phrase “One Hundred Days” refers to the

flood of legislation passed by Congress in the first months of Franklin Roosevelt’s presidency

Japanese Americans were placed in internment camps during World War 2

as a result of anti-Japanese prejudice and fear

Most muckrakers believed that their primary function in the progressive attack on social ills was to

make the public aware of social problems

The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was a reaction against

the forces of diversity and modernity that were transforming American culture

The 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact

ostensibly and naively attempted to outlaw war as a legitimate means to resolve armed conflict arising from geopolitical rivalries between and among nation

Roosevelt’s recognition of the Soviet Union was undertaken partly

in hope of developing a diplomatic counterweight to the rising power of Japan and Germany

The leading progressive organization advocating prohibition of liquor was

the Women’s Christian Temperance Union

All of the following statements are true statements about the effect of Executive Order No. 9066 on Japanese living in the U.S. EXCEPT

The U.S. Supreme Court declared the Japanese relocation unconstitutional

The Teapot Dome scandal was centered around corrupt deals and bribes involving

naval oil reserves

The impact of World War 2 on many of the New Deal programs launched during the Great Depression was that they

were discontinued due to wartime production needs

The Teapot Dome political scandal of President Harding’s administration resulted in the conviction and imprisonment of Albert Fall the secretary of

the interior

Despite the demands of the wartime economy, inflation was kept well in check during the war by

federally imposed mandatory wage and price controls

All of the following were prime goals of earnest progressives EXCEPT

passing an equal pay and sex discrimination law for women in Congress

The Glass-Steagall Act

created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to insure individual bank deposits

The net effect of most of Franklin Roosevelt’s foreign policy moves in his first term in office suggested that

the United States was giving up ambitions to be a world power and concentrating on the Western hemisphere

By 1910, all of the following were true about women’s efforts to gain the vote EXCEPT

a federal constitutional amendment granting the right to vote was about to be enacted by Congress and ratified by the states

In 1913, Woodrow Wilson broke with a custom dating back to Jefferson’s day when he

personally delivered his presidential State of the Union address to Congress

The most immediate emergency facing Franklin Roosevelt when he became president in March 1933 was

the collapse of nearly the entire banking system

Throughout most of the 1930s, majorities of the American people responded to the aggressive actions of Germany, Italy, and Japan by

retreating further into isolationism

The settlement house and women’s club movement were crucial centers of female progressive activity because they

introduced many middle-class women to a broader array of urban social problems and civic concerns

The Underwood Tariff Act and the Sixteenth Amendment reflected Wilson’s progressive goals by

establishing the first graduated federal income tax

One of the primary obstacles to working class solidarity and organization in America was

ethnic diversity

One of the major problems facing farmers in the 1920s was

overproduction

The employment of more than six million women in American industry during World War 2 led to

the establishment of day-care centers by the government

Which of the following was NOT among the issues addressed by women in the progressive movement

Ending special regulations for safety and sanitary conditions governing women in the workplace

The advent of the gasoline-powered tractor in the 1920s meant that

productivity went way up but so did debt

About half of the women war workers said that the main reason they left the labor force at the end of World War 2 was

family obligations

Enforcement of the Volstead Act met the strongest resistance from

foreign-born people who brought European styles of sociability with them when they emigrated to America

By putting thousands of people immediately to work at good-paying jobs and providing access to low-cost electricity to a region lacking cheap electrical power, the _____ proved to be immensely popular among those Americans it served

Tennessee Valley Authority

The public outcry after the horrible Triangle Shirtwaist fire led many states to pass

antisweatshop and workers’ compensation laws for job injuries

The Federal Trade Commission was established in 1914 to address all of these practices EXCEPT

sale of stocks without full disclosure of a business’s organization and profits

All of the following are true statements about the men who joined the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) EXCEPT

many of the men had criminal records

In September 1938, at the Munich Conference,

Besides prohibiting anticompetitive business practices, the Clayton Anti-Trust Act broke new ground by

The greatest consequence of World War II for American race relations was

One of the significant contributions of Native Americans to the war effort was

While president, Theodore Roosevelt chose to label his reform proposals as the

Which term BEST characterizes Woodrow Wilson's fundamental approach to American foreign policy?

Although speakeasies and hard liquor flourished, historians argue that prohibition wasn't entirely a failure for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

President Roosevelt's chief "administrator of relief" and one of his closest advisors was

The event that shook Americans to the core and moved them to shift politically in support of a making a substantial political and military effort against Hitler's aggression in Europe was

As a part of his reform program, Teddy Roosevelt advocated all of the following EXCEPT

Teddy Roosevelt helped to end the 1902 strike in the anthracite coal mines by

The Elkins and Hepburn Acts were designed to

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 ____.

When elected to the presidency in 1928, Herbert Hoover

Teddy Roosevelt believed that large corporate trusts

With the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the great majority of Americans

The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) proposed to solve the farm problem by

Congress's first response to the unexpected fall of France in 1940 was to

From 1914 to 1916, America's growing trade with Britain and loss of trade with Germany essentially occurred because

The economic mood in the United States just before the stock market crashed in 1929 could best be described as

America's attempt to remain neutral in the war between the Axis powers and the Allies came to an end when

Most of the money raised to finance World War II came through

President Roosevelt believed that the federal government should adopt a policy of ____ trusts.

The short-term legal outcome of the 1925 Scopes Trial was that

The impact of the Great Depression on Americans resulted in all of the following EXCEPT

All of the following contributed to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s EXCEPT

In waging war against Japan, the United States relied mainly on a strategy of

President Wilson insisted that he would hold ____ to "strict accountability" for ____.

In 1935, President Roosevelt set up the Resettlement Administration to

When Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle, he intended his book to focus attention on the

All of the following helped to make the prosperity of the 1920s possible EXCEPT

America, the onset of the Great Depression in 1930 caused

The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 attempted to

The Newlands Act, passed under Theodore Roosevelt's administration, was designed to

President Herbert Hoover believed that the Great Depression could be ended by doing all of the following EXCEPT

Most Dust Bowl migrants headed to

Franklin Roosevelt was motivated to run for a third term as president in 1940 mainly by his

Which of these is NOT a true statement about the sinking of the *Lusitania*?

President Hoover's approach to the Great Depression was to

The fate of most of the Okies and other Dust Bowl migrants who headed west to California was that they

The 1941 Lend-Lease program was all of the following EXCEPT

The Allies postponed opening a second front in Europe until 1944 because

In the Sussex pledge, Germany promised

During the 1920s, the new system of buying on credit resulted in all of the following EXCEPT

The term "Hoovervilles" refers to

The Federal Securities Act and the Securities Exchange Commission aimed to

When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the United States

The Panic of 1907 exposed the need for substantial reform in

The prosperity that developed in the 1920s

Those opposed to the Lend-Lease program, such as members of America First Committee, were PRIMARILY motivated by a fear that

The federally-owned Tennessee Valley Authority was seen as a particular threat to

Henry Ford's most distinctive contribution to the automobile industry was

The Bonus Expeditionary Force marched on Washington, D.C., in 1932 to demand

By mid-1941, Japan believed that it had no alternative to war with the United States because President Franklin Roosevelt

During his presidency, Teddy Roosevelt did all of the following EXCEPT