Wwi Test

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The precipitating factor in 1894 Pullman strike was Pullman's

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cutting of wages without proportionate cuts in company housing rents

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Because of Grover Cleveland's stand on tariffs and silver, which of the following

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eastern big business

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In 1890 the most important source of revenue for the federal government was

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custom duties (tariffs)

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in the supreme court decision Munn v. Ilinois 1877 the court ruled that

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only the federal government could regulate interstate commerce

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During the Gilded Age, the lifeblood for both Democrats and Republicans was

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political patronage

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The legal codes that established the system of segregation were

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called Jim Crow laws

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President Grover Cleveland departed from the broad consensus of most Gilded Age presidents by advocating

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a lower tariff rate

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Booker T. Washington believed that the key to political and cil rights for African Americans was

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economic independence

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Hawaii's Queen Liliuokalani was forced from power in 1893 becuase

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she opposed annexation to the US and insisted that native Hawaiins should continue to control Hawaii

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In the late nineteenth century, all of the following encouraged American jingoism EXCEPT

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the flooding of American markets by foreign producers

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William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" oration was primarily in expression of his

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advocacy of free and unlimited coinage of silver

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Jacob Coxey's 1894 march on Washington D.C. called for

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public works projects for unemployed workers

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The Open Door Policy in China called for which of the following

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Equal commercial access by all nations to the existing spheres of influence in China

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The "yellow journalism" of the late 29th century might best be described as

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reporting the new in an exaggerated, distorted, and sensationalized manner

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This statement was most probably made in reference to US policy in the

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Philippines

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mandate

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one country will control another until they are ready for their own government

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In what way did the muckrackers contribute to the rise of Progressivism in the early years of the twentieth century

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their exposes of goverment and business corruption, abuse, and mismanagement led to widely supported public demands for effective reform

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In the period 1890-1915 all of the following were generally true about AAs except

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the NAACP enthusiastically endorsed the back-to-africa movement

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The leaders of the Progressive movement were primarily

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middle-class reformers concerned with urban and consumer issues

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Jacob Rii's "How the other half lived" is a study of

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immigrant urban poverty and despair in the 1890's

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Where would a person in pre WWI America go to see early movies

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nickelodeon

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Besides serving immigrants and the poor in urban neighborhoods, settlement workers like Jane Addams and Florence Kelley

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actively lobbied for social regorms like anti-sweatshops and child labor laws

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Which of the following led immediately and directly to Theodore Roosevelt's issuance of the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe-Doctrine?

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American concern that a Japanese syndicate would attempt to purchase land near the Panama Canal

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In his Atlantic Compromise speech, Booker T. Washington called for which of the following?

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support for African American self-help

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The Zimmerman Telegram

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promised Mexico that in exchange for an alliance, it would return NM, TX, and AZ at the end of the war

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President Woodrow Wilson viewed America's entry into WWI as an opportunity for the U.S. to

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shape a new international order based on the ideals of democracy

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During the WWI, civil liberties in America were

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severely damaged by the pressures for loyalty and conformity

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most of the money raised to finance WWI came from

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loans from the American public

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The principal foreign policy issue confronting the Wilson administration between the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 and US involvement in the conflict in 1917 was the

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freedom of the seas

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WEB Du Bois is best known for his book

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The souls of Black Folk

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President Roosevelt's actions during the Coal Strike of 1902 demonstrated that

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as "public steward" he felt responsible to protect the interests of management, labor, and the public

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In his political philosophy known as the new freedon, Woodrow Wilson

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was willing to accept the status quo relationship between government and industry

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All of the following statements accurately describe the Federal Reserve's System EXCEPT

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it provided for a central board selected by and under the control of permanent bankers

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Which of the following statements about woman suffrage is true?

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the only states with complete woman suffrage before 1900 were west of MS

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During WWI the committee on public information issued propaganda to persuade the American people of all the following EXCEPT

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congress should reject the League of Nations

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The Palmer Raids of 1919 were conducted against

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suspected communists and anarchists

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All of the following are important consequences of WWI EXCEPT

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domination by the Democratic party at the national level

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Women's participation in the war effort contributed greatly to the fact that they

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finally received the right to vote

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the movement of tens of thousans of southern blacks north during WWI resulted in

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racial violence in the north

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the senate likely would have accepted american participation in the league of nations if wilson had

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been willin to compromise with League opponents in congress

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all of the following were factors in the failure of the US to join the league of nations after the first worls war except

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the influence of the soviet union in the league of nations

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Which of the following best characterizes the writings of American authors F.Scott Fitzgerald, e.e. cummings, and Sinclair lewis

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Disillusionment with modern american society

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the fist talkie motion picture was

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the jazz singer

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Which of the following accurately describes the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920's

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It favored immigration restriction as well as white supremacy

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In the 1930s the movement led by Dr. Francis Townsend contributed to congressional approval of a law

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implementing a federal program of old age benefits

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In the 1932 Franklin Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover disagreed most strongly about the desirability of

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federal relief to individuals

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"We have nothing to fear but fear itself" is a statement from

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FDR's first inaugural speech

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Which of the following was one of Hoover's responses to the Great Depression?

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he at first stressed the desirability of local and private initiative rather than a government intervention

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In order to deal with the crisis in banking at the time of his inauguration, FDR

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declared a four-day benking holiday and prohibited the export of money

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The economic program that emphasizes increasing government expenditures to spur growth and employment is known as

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deficit spending

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Huey P. Long of LA gained a large national following by promising to

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"share our wealth" by raising taxes on the rich and giving every family $5,000

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From the 1880s to the beginning of the New Deal, the dominant American Indian policy of the United States government sought to

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break up tribal landholdings

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Which of the following alphabet agencies is incorrectly paired to its purpose

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WPA-provided funding for home mortgages

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Conservatives criticized the New Deal becuase

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it crippled business by protecting labor unions and dictating wage and hour regulations to industry

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Which of the following is true of the Social Security Act

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the government felt is was at least partially responsible for the aged, the dependent and the disabled

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Which new deal is not reform

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AAA

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FDRs court packing scheme in 1937 brought about all of the following EXCEPT

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passage of the Judiciary Act of 1937

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The Wagner (National Labor Relations) Act

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gave labor the right to bargain collectively