Ch 19 T/f

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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).

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True

Front 2

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

Back 2

True

Front 3

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

Back 3

True

Front 4

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 4

True

Front 5

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.

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True

Front 6

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 6

True

Front 7

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.

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True

Front 8

After America entered the conflict, antiwar opposition disappeared.

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False

Front 9

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

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True

Front 10

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

Back 10

False

Front 11

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.

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True

Front 12

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

Back 12

False

Front 13

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).

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True

Front 14

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

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False

Front 15

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.

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True

Front 16

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.

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True

Front 17

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."

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False

Front 18

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

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True

Front 19

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.

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True

Front 20

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.

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False

Front 21

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

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True

Front 22

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

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True

Front 23

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.

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False

Front 24

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 24

False

Front 25

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

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True

Front 26

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

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True

Front 27

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

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False

Front 28

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 28

False

Front 29

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

Back 29

True

Front 30

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

Back 30

False

Front 31

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

Back 31

True

Front 32

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 32

False

Front 33

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

Back 33

False

Front 34

The outbreak of World War I in 1914 was triggered by

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the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand.

Front 35

The United States entered World War I in April of 1917 only after Germany resumed submarine warfare against its ships in the Atlantic and

Back 35

after discovery of the Zimmermann telegram.

Front 36

Which of the following was not a significant development in American race relations during the first two decades of the twentieth century?

Back 36

the ascent of racial equality to the top of the Progressive agenda

Front 37

The "open door" policy refers to

Back 37

a key principle of American foreign relations that emphasizes the free flow of trade, investment, and information.

Front 38

During World War I, popular words of German origin were changed; "hamburger" became

Back 38

"liberty sandwich."

Front 39

Which of the following was not a significant effect of World War I on American society?

Back 39

the withdrawal of the federal government from domestic affairs, so that it could concentrate on the war overseas

Front 40

How many soldiers perished during World War I worldwide?

Back 40

10 million

Front 41

Which of the following was not a feature of public debate over whether the United States should enter the war in Europe?

Back 41

Labor generally opposed American entry; business generally endorsed it.

Front 42

Of the great ideologies that had arisen in the nineteenth century, which, by 1920, had proven most powerful?

Back 42

nationalism

Front 43

The federal organization established to explain the war to the American people, and which trained some 75,000 Four-Minute Men to deliver short talks in support of America's war effort was called

Back 43

Committee on Public Information.

Front 44

Who was the leader of the National Woman's Party, an organization that employed militant tactics in favor of woman suffrage?

Back 44

Alice Paul

Front 45

President Woodrow Wilson's foreign policy that called for active intervention to remake the world in America's image, and which asserted the view that greater freedom worldwide would follow from increased American investment and trade abroad was called

Back 45

liberal internationalism.

Front 46

The right to dissent from government policy during World War I

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met sweeping repression.

Front 47

Dollar Diplomacy, the U.S. foreign policy that emphasized economic investment and loans from American banks, rather than direct military intervention, was the policy of

Back 47

William Howard Taft.

Front 48

Which of the following was not a military technology used during World War I?

Back 48

atomic bombs

Front 49

Randolph Bourne's vision of America was one in which

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a cosmopolitan, democratic society in which immigrants and natives would together create a new "trans-national" culture.

Front 50

A leading characterization of U.S. foreign policy in the early twentieth century was

Back 50

"Dollar Diplomacy."

Front 51

The worst race riot in American history occurred in 1921 when more than 300 blacks were killed and over 10,000 were left homeless after white mobs burned an all-black section of which city to the ground?

Back 51

Phillips County, Arkansas

Front 52

What was the West African proverb that President Theodore Roosevelt was fond of?

Back 52

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

Front 53

Which of the following was not a significant development in postwar America?

Back 53

the constitutional enfranchisement of African-Americans

Front 54

The American foreign policy principle that held that the United States had a right to exercise "an international police power" in the Western Hemisphere was called

Back 54

the Roosevelt Corollary.

Front 55

In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson sent more than 10,000 troops into Mexico in an effort (that proved unsuccessful) to arrest

Back 55

"Pancho" Villa, who had killed seventeen Americans in an attack on Columbus, New Mexico.

Front 56

What was the name of the British liner sunk by a German submarine in May 1915, which resulted in the deaths of more than a thousand passengers, including 124 Americans?

Back 56

Lusitania

Front 57

Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

Back 57

publication of Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk; founding of NAACP; Silent Protest Parade in New York City; Chicago race riot

Front 58

Between 1901 and 1920, the U.S. Marines landed in Caribbean countries

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more than twenty times.

Front 59

During World War I, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire were called

Back 59

the Central Powers.

Front 60

In November 1917, in the midst of World War I, a communist revolution broke out in what country?

Back 60

Russia

Front 61

President Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to negotiate a settlement of

Back 61

the Russo-Japanese War of 1905.

Front 62

President Woodrow Wilson articulated the clearest statement of American war aims and his vision of a new postwar international order in

Back 62

the Fourteen Points.

Front 63

Who was the leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, a movement for African independence and black self-reliance?

Back 63

Marcus Garvey

Front 64

Which of the following was not a principle espoused in Wilson's Fourteen Points?

Back 64

the abolition of colonial rule around the globe

Front 65

What did prohibition (the Eighteenth Amendment, ratified in 1919) prohibit?

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manufacturer, sale, or distribution of alcoholic beverages