exam 2 quizzes

What was the Open Door Policy?

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

How did the United States respond to the Boxer Rebellion in China?

President McKinley sent the U.S. Army into China without consulting congress

This event finally led to President Wilson authorizing the invasion of Veracruz, Mexico?

Mexican forces mistakenly arrested American sailors

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

oil

All of the following statements regarding the Philippine-American War are true EXCEPT?

The war began with the assassination of Emilio Aguinaldo, president of the First Philippine Republic

How did the Roosevelt Corollary modify the Monroe Doctrine?

Declaring that the U.S. had the right to preemptive action through intervention in any Latin American nation to correct administrative and fiscal deficiencies

Women participated in the global influence of the United States in many ways, including as all of the following EXCEPT?

Diplomats

Which ethnic group faces the most rigid immigration restrictions?

Chinese

At the turn of the century, the percentage of immigrants from which region decreased in relation to other regions?

Western Europe

Catholic clergymen who took up the name "Americanists" believed in all of the following EXCEPT

The separation of church and state would benefit Catholicism

The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union primarily focused on alcohol prohibition because they believed it was the root of a variety of social issues like all of the below, except?

gambling

After the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, wew laws passed by states meant employers were now liable for job related injuries and deaths. Employees and families of deceased or injured employees could now sue the employers. true or false

true

Why was Women’s suffrage successful?

Because they were relentless about holding protests and marches

The coalition of progressive activists argued their primary motivation was to remedy poverty and inequality, but they argued these problems did not come from the consequences of American industrialization. t/f

false

What was the primary focus of the Hull House, which was one of the most notable settlement houses in the United States?

Providing social and educational opportunities for immigrants

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

Expanding transatlantic trade

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

Destroyers

What was the particular spark that ignited World War I?

Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and Grand Duchess Sophie

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

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

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

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

Commissioned officers

When did the Russian army disintegrate?

After a disastrous offensive against the Germans in 1917

Why did the League of Nations fail?

American refusals to join

How did the United States respond to the Bolshevik Revolution?

Opposed the Revolution and sent American troops, who remained in Russia until 1920

What was the Red Summer of 1919?

Racial violence in 25 American cities

Warren G. Harding won office by campaigning on which theme?

A return to normalcy

Which of the following describes the place of the labor movement during the 1920s?

Membership declined

What was the primary purpose of the failed Equal Rights Amendment?

Eliminate all legal distinctions based on sex

How did increased availability of consumer credit in the 1920s influence American expenditures?

Expenditures increased

How did attitudes toward sex change in the 1920s?

Many college-educated white women rebelled against “Victorian” notions of sexuality, leading to an increase in premarital sex

A vibrant homosexual culture developed during the 1920s in which American city?

new york

One of the intellectual leaders of the Harlem Rennaissance wrote that "we are achieving something like a spiritual emancipation." Who was this intellectual?

Alain Locke

Marcus Garvey created a movement encouraging black Americans to migrate to Africa. To do this he created which of the following:

A shipping company called the Black Star Line

Fundamentalist Christianity coalesced around a series of ideas best articulated in a pamphlet commissioned by oil barons Lyman and Milton Stewart. What is the name of this pamphlet?

The Fundamentals

Two events are widely credited with inspiring the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan. One is the release of the film The Birth of the Nation. What was the second?

Lynching of Leo Frank