AMH TEST 2

The Underwood Tariff

What is the name of the legislation that brought the first significant reduction of duties before the Civil War and provided for a graduated tax on income to compensate for the loss of revenue?

Federal Reserve Act

What act, enacted in Wilson’s administration, served to give the United States a central banking system for the first time since Andrew Jackson destroyed the bank of the United States?

Labor Unions and Agricultural organizations

What group did the Clayton Antitrust act exempt when it made certain specific business practices illegal, including price discrimination that tended to foster monopolies?

William E. B. Du Bois

What American Black rejected the policy of “accommodation” and instead called on blacks to “preserve their identity rather than seek to amalgamate themselves into a society that offered them only crumbs”? 

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. 

The organization formed in 1909 by a group of liberal white and blacks to eradicate racial discrimination was the 

He wanted to spread the gospel of American Democracy to enlighten the unfortunate and ignorant

President Wilsons basic approach to foreign relations was that he

Victoriano Huerta

Wilson became deeply involved in mexican politics in response to the reactionary general__________, who lead the 1913 coup and had his former chief murdered.

Mexico

in 1916, United States Troops, commanded by General John J. Pershing, invaded _______ to capture “Poncho”Villa

Franciso “Poncho” Villa

what rebellious mexican general tried to undermine the mexican government under venustiano Carranza by provoking the United States to intervine malicious attacks on American Soil?

Give two reasons why the United States wanted to remain neutral during World War One. 

The US held a progressive attitude and feared being entangled in European Affairs.

Give one reaon why it was difficult for the united states to remain neutral 

Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare sank American shipsand killed citizens, while the British blockade forced the U.S. into an unequal trade relationship that heavily favored the Allies. 

The lusitania

Which british liner was sank off the coast off the coast of Ireland on May 7, 1915 by a German submarine

the Zimmermann telegraph

What intercepted German dispatch revealed that Germany had proposed a secret alliance with Mexico if they oppossed the United States in World War One?

John J Pershing

The American Expeditionary Force was commanded by general

Spanish Flu

What was the name of the sickness that was the focus of the great pandemic of 1918-1919 that killed millions in a mere span of months (i want the two word name)

Henry Cabot Lodge

The leader of the republican opposition in the senate to wilson’s league of nations was

National Origins Act

Which piece of legislation designed to reduce foreign born immigradion estabilished a quota system based on the supposed origins of the entire white population of the United States in 1920?