History Ch. 20-26 Quiz Questions

During the Progressive Era, reformers of city government frequently tried to...

hire professionally trained business managers or engineers as city managers.

As governor of Wisconsin, the progressive reformer Robert La Follette helped to win approval for...

the direct primary, initiative, and referendum.

As an environmental conservationist, President Theodore Roosevelt...

added extensive areas of land to the national forest system.

Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel, The Jungle, encouraged the federal government to regulate the...

meatpacking industry.

When he assumed the presidency in 1901, Theodore Roosevelt...

was the youngest American ever to hold the office.

In the 1912 presidential election results,

Woodrow Wilson won only a plurality of the popular vote.

In 1913, to offset the loss of revenues from the Underwood-Simmons Tariff, Congress...

passed a graduated income tax.

The Federal Trade Commission Act...

created an agency to determine whether business practices were acceptable to the government.

The temperance crusade...

was supported by employers.

During the Progressive Era, the most important leader of American socialism was...

Eugene V. Debs.

During the early twentieth century, the Industrial Workers of the World...

advocated a single union for all workers.

The settlement house movement of the early twentieth century helped spawn the profession of...

social work.

Regarding the organization of the professions during the Progressive Era,

by 1916, all forty-eight states had established professional bar associations.

Regarding women and the professions during the Progressive Era,

social work was generally thought to be an appropriate career for women.

In the aftermath of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York City,

strict regulations were imposed on New York State factory owners.

During the Progressive Era, W. E. B. Du Bois did NOT assert that...

seeking legal challenges to civil injustice through white-dominated courts was a pointless exercise.

In 1909, in a controversy involving Richard Ballinger and Gifford Pinchot,

President William H. Taft fired Pinchot for insubordination.

In the election of 1908, William Howard Taft...

was hand-picked by Theodore Roosevelt to succeed him.

During the Progressive Era, significant voting rights for women were first won in...

the Far West.

What did NOT precede the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment?

A number of Western states prohibited the sale and distribution of suffragist pamphlets.

The election of 1920 saw...

voters turned away from idealism and toward normalcy.

Which statement is true of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in 1920?

All of these answers are correct.

Immediately following World War I, the American economy...

boomed for many months.

Marcus Garvey

encouraged African Americans to reject assimilation into white society.

After the conflict between Russia and Japan in 1904-1905,

President Roosevelt sent a fleet of ships around the world as a show of force.

The diplomatic efforts of President Woodrow Wilson toward Latin America...

were similar in many respects to those of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.

As part of his Asian diplomacy, President Theodore Roosevelt...

signed a secret agreement with Japan to ensure continued American trade in Asia.

Which statement is true regarding President Wilson's dealings with Pancho Villa?

President Wilson ordered a military expedition into Mexico to capture Villa.

As the United States entered World War I, its most immediate military effect was in...

the Atlantic Ocean.

In the United States during World War I, the Committee on Public Information (CPI)...

controlled much of the information about the war that was made available to journalists.

Extensive systems of trenches were used by both sides in World War I because...

newly improved weaponry made conventional field battles too destructive.

Passed in 1918, the Sabotage Act and the Sedition Act...

made illegal any public expression in opposition to the war.

During the last eighteen months of Woodrow Wilson's presidency,

Wilson was essentially an invalid.

President Wilson's Fourteen Points included...

an end to secret treaties.

What was NOT among the ways in which President Wilson antagonized Republicans in 1918?

by refusing to authorize a nationwide draft.

President Wilson believed the Paris Peace Conference treaty in 1919...

was a success in large part because of the acceptance of the League of Nations.

President Wilson's request to Congress for a declaration of war...

called on the United States's responsibility to help secure a future of peace, justice, and self-governance.

When war erupted in Europe in 1914, President Wilson...

called on the American public to be completely impartial.

In 1914-1915, the United States responded to a British naval blockade of Germany by..

ending trade with Germany but continuing trade with Great Britain.

The United States moved closer to entering the Great War in March 1917, after...

German U-boats torpedoed three American ships.

The Teapot Dome scandal during the Harding administration involved...

transfers of national oil reserves.

Calvin Coolidge...

was perhaps even less active a president than Warren Harding.

Throughout the 1920s, the federal government...

maintained a very close working relationship with private-sector leaders.

The Washington Conference of 1921...

attempted to prevent a global naval arms race.

In the 1920s, Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon failed in...

reducing the gap between the rich and the poor.

Which statement is NOT true about Al Smith?

He lost the 1924 nomination for president to William McAdoo.

The Scopes trial of 1925 was a legal battle concerning the conflict between...

creationism and evolution.

After World War I, the new Ku Klux Klan...

became primarily concerned about Catholics, Jews, and foreigners.

The National Origins Act of 1924...

entirely banned immigration from East Asia to the United States.

Al Smith lost the 1928 presidential election, in part because...

he failed to carry the South.

In the workplace, the open shop meant...

no worker was required to join a union.

By the end of the 1920s, when $1,800 was considered necessary to maintain a minimally decent standard of living, the average annual income of a worker was much closer to...

$1,500.

The trend toward industrial consolidation in the 1920s...

was most pronounced in industries that were dependent on large-scale mass production.

Which statement about the agricultural economy of the United States during the 1920s is correct?

Farmers' incomes sharply declined.

What was NOT experienced by most American industrial workers in the 1920s?

support from powerful unions

A great worry for industrialists in the 1920s was...

the overproduction of goods.

In the 1920s, behavioral psychologists argued that...

mothers should rely on trained experts for advice in raising children.

During the 1920s, the National Woman's Party campaigned primarily for the...

Equal Rights Amendment.

The infamous Baltimore journalist of the 1920s who delighted in ridiculing religion, politics, the arts, and even democracy itself was...

H. L. Mencken.

The Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921...

provided federal funds for prenatal and child health-care programs.

The flapper lifestyle of the 1920s...

had a particular impact on urban lower-middle-class and working-class single women.

In 1932, the Farmers' Holiday Association...

was essentially a farmers' strike.

The Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)...

was created to provide federal loans to troubled banks and businesses.

The Reconstruction Finance Corporation...

lent funds only to financial institutions with sufficient collateral.

As part of his foreign policy, President Hoover moved to withdraw American troops from...

Haiti.

President Herbert Hoover responded to the onset of the Great Depression by...

urging a program of voluntary cooperation from business leaders.

In his foreign policy with respect to Latin America, President Hoover...

repudiated the Theodore Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.

The federal government's response to the Bonus Army included...

the use of six tanks to rout the veterans from Washington, D.C.

Beginning in February 1928 and lasting through most of 1929, the American stock market...

saw the number of shares traded grow dramatically.

After 1929, in the face of the worsening global economic crisis, the United States...

refused to alter the payment schedule of debts owed by European nations to America.

The economic pressures caused by the Great Depression...

led men to move into jobs traditionally held by professional women.

The Dust Bowl of the 1930s...

was a product of changing environmental conditions.

In the 1930s, the largest Japanese American and Chinese American populations were found in...

California.

In response to the Great Depression, many Mexican Americans...

left the United States entirely.

In the rural United States during the Great Depression,

one-third of all farmers lost their land.

During the 1930s, the left in the United States...

experienced intense government hostility.

The Southern Tenant Farmers Union of the 1930s...

sought to create a biracial organization of farmers and farm workers.

Which book of the 1930s did NOT represent a challenge to American popular culture?

Anthony Adverse by Hervey Allen.

The long-time censor of Hollywood films in the 1920s and 1930s was...

Will Hays.

The dominant group within the Popular Front of the 1930s in the United States was...

the Communist Party.

The Abraham Lincoln Brigade is associated with...

the Spanish Civil War.

Which statement regarding the New Deal and women is FALSE?

In general, women were major critics of the New Deal.

Frances Perkins, the first female cabinet member in American history, was secretary of...

labor.

In the American West, New Deal programs...

disproportionately benefited the region, with more funding than any other part of the country.

New Deal policy toward Native Americans, as led by John Collier,

was grounded in a commitment to cultural relativism.

The Liberty League was formed, in 1934,

by conservative business leaders who strongly opposed the New Deal.

Senator Huey Long...

proposed a national wealth-sharing plan that involved heavily taxing the wealthiest Americans.

During the 1930s, the sit-down strike...

was a new and controversial labor tactic.

What was NOT part of the Second New Deal?

the Federal Emergency Relief Administration

President Franklin Roosevelt's proposal to expand the Supreme Court...

was eventually defeated in Congress.

President Franklin Roosevelt's call to expand the Supreme Court, in 1937, emerged from...

Roosevelt's desire to change the ideological balance of the Court.

In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt decided...

that he should try to balance the federal budget.

President Franklin Roosevelt made a strong foreign policy break with the Hoover administration's economic policy regarding...

Europe.

President Franklin Roosevelt's "quarantine" speech in 1937...

received a hostile response from the American people.

In the 1930s, President Franklin Roosevelt carried out international policies that...

established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.

In response to the breakout of civil war in Spain, the U.S. government joined with Britain and France in an agreement to...

offer no help to either side.

In 1938, Anschluss...

was proclaimed by Hitler with respect to Austria.

The Tennessee Valley Authority of 1933...

was a federal government experiment in regional planning.

In 1933, two days after he took office, President Franklin Roosevelt...

closed all banks for a short period.

What was NOT among the results of the Tennessee Valley Authority?

a significant reduction in poverty in the region.