DE US Midterm Study

The expansionist foreign policy of the 1890s derived significant inspiration from

social darwinism

Which of the following policies did US naval officer Alfred Mahan support in his 1890 book 'The Influence of Sea Power upon History?'

an expansion of the American empire in Asia and Africa

After the explosion of the battleship USS Maine, US naval board of inquiry blamed the sinking on

an underwater mine

Which of the following statements accurately describes the state of American military preparedness in 1898?

the navy was better prepared than the ground forces

Which of the following statements describes Hawaii in the 1890s?

American sugar planters overthrew Hawaii's Queen Liliuokalani and applied for US annexation

The American victory at San Juan Hill in Cuba can be credited mostly to

4 African American US regiments that bore the brunt of the fighting

As a result of the war with Spain in 1898, the US gained

the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam

Which of the following describes the guerilla war that followed the conquest of the Philippines?

The conflict far exceeded in ferocity the war just concluded with Spain

In the 'Insular Cases' 1901, the Supreme Court ruled that

the Constitution did not automatically extend citizenship to people in newly acquired territories

Which of the following assumptions shaped Theodore Roosevelt's strategic thinking about US foreign policy during his presidency?

It was the duty of the "civilized" countries of the world to police "backward" peoples

The open door note, composed by US secretary of state John Hay, called for

equal access for all countries seeking to trade with China

Which of the following statements characterizes President Taft's foreign policy in Asia?

Taft reversed Roosevelt's approaches to both China and Japan

Theodore Roosevelt's big-stick policy was demonstrated

with the strength and effectiveness of the US navy

When Woodrow Wilson became president in 1913 he

vowed that the US would not seek further territorial gains by conquest

Which of the following is correctly matched?

Pancho Villa- Mexican general whose forces killed dozens of Americans along the border in 1916

What was Woodrow Wilson's primary reason for wanting to keep the US neutral at the outbreak of WW1?

he wanted to arbitrate among the combatants and to influence the settlement of the war

Which of the following statements describes American's views about entering into WW1 in 1915 and 1916

Many Irish Americans viewed England as the enemy because of its occupation of Ireland

Which of the following was the immediate cause for American entry into WW1?

Germany's resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare

In his appearance before Congress to ask for a declaration of war in 1912, Woodrow Wilson

emphasized that American involvement would make the world 'safe for democracy'

Which of these actions constituted the US' first major contribution to the war effort in WW1?

Using armed convoys to secure Allied shipping against submarine attacks

Which of the following helped the US turn the tide and win WW1?

huge numbers of troops and supplies

Which of the following was true of race relations during WW1?

almost 25% of the adult male Native American population served in WW1

In Abrams v. US, the Supreme Court ruled that

authorities may prosecute speech when it represents a clear and present danger

The term great migration refers to

African Americans moving from the South to the North during the war

The battle in the Senate over the Treaty of Versailles centered around Article X which was

the League of Nations' right to use collective military action

Which of the following statements characterizes race relations in the aftermath of WW1?

At least 120 blacks were killed in racial violence in the US by 1919

Which of the following factors contributed to the incredible number of militant strikes that occurred during 1919?

employers tried to root out labor unions after the war

Welfare capitalism emerged in the 1920s in part to

stop unionization

Which of the following statements characterizes the Red Scare of 1919-1921?

a series of 1919 bombings led Americans to associate radical political groups with violence

Which of the following statements describes the proceedings against Sacco and Vanzetti?

scholars still debate their guilt, but most agree that they did not receive a fair trial

Which of the following most accurately characterized women's political participation during the 1920s?

women did not vote as a bloc, even though politicians had expected them to do so

Harding campaigned on the platform of returning to normalcy which meant

a strong pro-business stance and conservative cultural values

Which major scandal in Harding's administration was named after the national oil reserves it involved?

teapot dome

Which of the following was one of Calvin Coolidge's political virtues at the time he became president after Harding's death in 1923?

austere morality which contrasted with Harding's cronyism

Which of the following statements characterized US foreign policy during the 1920s?

the US actively sought to facilitate American economic expansion abroad

The culture wars of the 1920s were due in part of

the tremendous growth of cities from immigration and rural migration

Which of the following statements characterizes the Scopes monkey trial of 1925?

the trial quickly became a media circus

How did the rejuvenated KKK of the 1920s differ from its reconstruction era form?

the group targeted catholics and jews as well as blacks

Which of the following describes Governor Alfred E Smith the democratic presidential candidate in 1928?

he was the first major-party presidential candidate to reflect the aspirations of the urban working class

Which of the following statements was true of the Harlem Renaissance?

the most visible part of the Harlem Renaissance to most whites was jazz music

Which of the following describes 1920s jazz?

jazz represented a synthesis of African American music forms such as ragtime and the blues

What was the significance of the universal negro improvement association in the 1920s?

it left a legacy of activism among working class blacks

Which of the following terms did American writer Gertrude Stein use to describe Americans who had experienced WW1 firsthand?

The lost generation

Which of the following statements describes the American literary figures of the 1920s such as ernest hemingway and f scott fitzgerald?

they rejected American materialism, complacency, and anti intellectualism

Throughout the 1920s the sector of the american economy in the worst shape was

agriculture

Which of the following sectors of American society saw the greatest amount of improvement in the 1920s?

industrial output

A major weakness of the 1920s economy was the

unequal distribution of wealth

The flapper, an icon of American culture, represented

the emancipated woman of the 1920s

What was the outcome of the stock market crash of October 1929?

many middle class americans without stock investments lost their life savings when banks failed

Army General John "Black Jack" Pershing used all of the following technologies in his attempt to capture Pancho Villa EXCEPT

Destroyers

By 1914, the United States produced slightly more than ______ of the world's manufactured goods.

33%

By the time the United States entered the war, German submarines sank approximately how many ships?

1,000

How did many black leaders, including W. E. B. DuBois respond to the war?

Supporter the war effort and lobbied to include black soldiers in front-line combat positions

In 1914, American Marines participated in a minor foreign battle in which of the following places?

Veracruz, Mexico

The Davis Act of 1908 and the National Defense Act of 1916 did which of the following?

Create the National Guard and a system of military reserves

The Selective Service Act required military service for all men between the ages of __________

21-30

The Triple Entente united all of the following nations EXCEPT.

United States

What disease proved most deadly during and in the immediate aftermath of World War I?

Influenza

What political party opposed the League of Nations most vehemently?

Republican Party

What was the particular spark that ignited World War I?

Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and Grand Duchess Sophie

What was the purpose of the Creel Committee?

Generate popular support for the military

What was the Red Summer of 1919?

Racial violence in twenty-five American cities

What was the Zimmerman Telegram?

A German offer to help Mexico recover land lost in the Mexican-American War if Mexico would side with Germany in WWI

Where did Germany first invade?

Belgium

Which of the following issues most concerned American diplomats prior to World War I?

Expanding transatlantic trade

Who proposed the League of Nations?

Woodrow Wilson

Why did the League of Nations fail?

American refusals to join

Why did the Russian army disintegrate?

The Russian Revolution distracted military leaders from the war with Germany

Women served in the armed forces during World War I. They served in all of the following positions EXCEPT

Commissioned officers

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Question 1 options:

1784

1831

1854

1911

A call for all western powers to have equal access to Chinese markets

What was the Open Door Policy?

A call for all western powers to have equal access to Chinese markets

A demand for the abolition of all tariffs

A commitment to free trade throughout the Pacific Rim

The use of gunboat diplomacy in establishing trade with Japan

a desire for overseas markets.

An important element drawing the United States into the new imperialism was

declining political profits resulting from low tariffs.

an interest in relocating factories to foreign countries.

a desire for overseas markets.

a desire to eliminate international trade barriers.

Access to trading routes

During the nineteenth century, American interests in the Middle East revolved around all of the following EXCEPT

Access to trading routes

Religion

Education

Humanitarian aid

All of the above

Why did President Wilson authorize the invasion of Veracruz, Mexico?

Victoriano Huerta executed democratically elected president, Francisco Madero

Americans with financial investments in Mexico asked for intervention

Mexican forces mistakenly arrested American sailors

All of the above