American History Exam 2

 

its naval power

The 1890 book, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, influenced the United States to invest in __________.

 

used sensationalism to stir up war fever over Cuba

Leading up to the Spanish-American War in 1898, the yellow press controlled by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst __________.

 

Cuba became a protectorate of the United States.

How did the Platt Amendment specifically impact Cuba after the Spanish-American War?

 

civilize so-called racially inferior peoples

According to the British poet Rudyard Kipling, the “white man’s burden” was the responsibility to __________.

 

It promised to leave control of the island to its people.

How did the Teller Amendment of 1898 affect Cuba differently from other Spanish possessions in the Caribbean and Pacific?

 

Germany promised Mexico assistance in recovering territory lost to the United States in exchange for starting a border war.

What was the purpose of the Zimmermann Telegram?

 

a league of nations established at the end of the war

Under the war goals that President Wilson outlined in his Fourteen Points, international crises would be handled by __________.

 

serving as the government’s pro-war propaganda machine

The primary focus of the Committee on Public Information was __________.

 

selling war bonds

The government funded the war effort primarily by __________.

 

targeted anyone who spoke against the government

The Sedition Act differed from the Espionage Act in that it __________.

 

corporations could build a loyal workforce by providing certain benefits

Proponents of welfare capitalism believed that __________.

 

prohibition

Both the Eighteenth and Twenty-First Amendments to the U.S. Constitution were associated with __________.

 

evolution

In 1925, John T. Scopes, a science teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, was arrested by local officials for teaching __________.

 

the idea that birth control and the women who used it were indecent

What attitude toward birth control did Margaret Sanger encounter in her work?

 

renounce aggression and condemn war

During negotiations for the Kellogg-Briand Pact in 1928, the United States worked to __________.

 

speculation in the stock market

What was the chief cause of the stock market crash of 1929?

 

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

President Hoover provided direct financial support to banks, insurance companies, farm mortgage associations, and railroads through the establishment of the __________.

 

early payment on federal bonds set to mature in 1945

What were the Bonus Marchers demanding through their demonstrations in Washington, D.C., during the summer of 1932?

 

The ability to grow more crops drove prices down.

Why did overproduction of crops that largely resulted from mechanized agriculture hurt farmers economically during the 1920s?

 

he was eager to enlist Latin American allies to defend the Western Hemisphere against dictators

President Franklin Roosevelt embarked on the Good Neighbor Policy in part because

 

Germany invaded Poland and started World War II

Shortly after Adolf Hitler signed a nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union in August 1939

 

Britain and France agreed to Germany conquering the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia in exchange for Germany renouncing any further claims on Europe

As a result of the Munich Conference

 

a wave of protests by isolationists

Roosevelt's sensational Quarantine Speech in 1937 resulted in

 

All Asian American immigrants were forced into exile

Which of the following was not an American reaction towards Japanese immigrants after the attack on Pearl Harbor?