Gml 19 Tf

Front 1

In 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt arranged an "executive agreement" that gave a group of American bankers control over the finances of the Dominican Republic.

Back 1

T

Front 2

President Wilson won reelection in 1916 on the slogan, "We Must Fight to Make the World Safe for Democracy."

Back 2

F

Front 3

During 1919, more than 250 people died in riots in northern cities.

Back 3

T

Front 4

Most Progressives opposed America’s entry into World War I as jingoistic, imperialist venturing.

Back 4

F

Front 5

While many were troubled by the ongoing slaughter overseas, most Progressives regarded wartime mobilization as an extraordinary chance to remake American society.

Back 5

T

Front 6

Settlement house workers, social scientists, and progressives in general, placed demands for black suffrage at the forefront of their efforts.

Back 6

F

Front 7

When President Woodrow Wilson traveled to Paris at the end of World War I, he was met by tens of thousands of cheering citizens.

Back 7

T

Front 8

By 1900, measured by its acquisition of new territories, the United States was an imperialist power, the equal of Great Britain and France.

Back 8

F

Front 9

In 1903, when Panama declared its independence from Colombia, the United States stationed a gunboat off the Panamanian coast, preventing the Colombian army from taking back the area.

Back 9

T

Front 10

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) launched a long battle for the enforcement of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.

Back 10

T

Front 11

President Woodrow Wilson authorized more military interventions into Latin America than any other president in American history.

Back 11

T

Front 12

The Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I was a savvy and fair, if short, document that equitably distributed culpability for the war among all warring factions.

Back 12

F

Front 13

Reparations payments at the end of World War I demanded Germany pay, in effect, to repair the damages it had inflicted on the Allies (reparations payments were estimated variously to be between $33 billion and $56 billion).

Back 13

T

Front 14

Eugenics studied the mental characteristics of different ethnicities and races, only to discover that, for the most part and overwhelmingly, all human beings possess "good genes."

Back 14

F

Front 15

President Roosevelt declined to assert U.S. authority over the Canal Zone until the citizens of Panama had a chance to vote on the matter.

Back 15

F

Front 16

Following the outbreak of World War I, the Allied and Central Powers each acted to block American trade with their adversaries.

Back 16

T

Front 17

Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer sent federal agents to raid the offices of radical and labor organizations in November 1919 and January 1920 as part of the Red Scare.

Back 17

T

Front 18

At the outbreak of war in Europe in the summer of 1914, the U.S. population quickly unified in its support for Great Britain and France.

Back 18

F

Front 19

Ten of the twelve states that by 1916 had adopted woman suffrage were carried by Wilson in the election that year; without women’s votes Wilson would not have been reelected.

Back 19

T

Front 20

In intervening in Caribbean countries in the early twentieth century, the United States generally sought to promote peace, democracy, and freedom.

Back 20

F

Front 21

In the 1919 steel strike, workers demanded union recognition, higher wages, and an eight-hour day.

Back 21

T

Front 22

Major strides toward the advancement of equality for American blacks was one significant consequence of the war’s aftermath due to the heroism, courage, determination, and patriotism demonstrated by black soldiers during World War I.

Back 22

F

Front 23

W. E. B. Du Bois asserted the need for the "talented tenth" of the African-American community to step forward and take the lead in education and training to challenge inequality faced by black Americans.

Back 23

T

Front 24

More people were killed by the flu (epidemic of influenza) at the end of World War I, than died during all the years of fighting in that war.

Back 24

T

Front 25

After America entered the conflict, antiwar opposition disappeared.

Back 25

F

Front 26

When U.S. troops landed at Vera Cruz, Mexico in an effort to stop weapons from being delivered to Victoriano Huerta’s forces, the Marines were greeted as liberators by the Mexican people.

Back 26

F

Front 27

Eugene Victor Debs, a Socialist Party leader, was imprisoned for delivering an antiwar speech.

Back 27

T

Front 28

Between 1910 and 1920, half a million blacks moved away from the South; many migrated into northern cities like Chicago, New York, Akron, Buffalo, and Trenton.

Back 28

T

Front 29

In 1911, the United States immigration commission listed forty-five immigrant "races" in a dictionary published that year.

Back 29

T

Front 30

No one was ever convicted under the 1917 Espionage Act or the 1918 Sedition Act.

Back 30

F

Front 31

President Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points had asserted the principle of "self-determination;" in this spirit, W. E. B. Du Bois organized a Pan-African Congress in Paris that put forward the idea of a self-governing nation to be carved out of Germany’s African colonies. Koreans, Indians, Irish, and others also pressed claims for self-determination.

Back 31

T

Front 32

Presidents Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson shared a common belief that United States had a right, even a duty, to intervene from time to time in the affairs of other countries.

Back 32

T

Front 33

The 1905 Niagara movement derived its name from the fact that a group of black leaders met at Niagara Falls, Canada (since no hotel on the American side would accommodate them).

Back 33

T