HIST 1302 Week 4 Exam

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Question 1

Wilson’s Fourteen Points included all of the following principles EXCEPT:                                   

           

·        an end to colonization.

·        open diplomacy.

·        free trade.

·        self-determination for all nations.

·        freedom of the seas.

 

 

Question 2

Which of the following assessments of the Roosevelt Corollary is accurate?                                  

           

·        It represented a vow to defend the Western Hemisphere against European intervention.

·        It held that the United States had the right to exercise an international police power.

·        The Roosevelt Corollary strongly limited the sovereignty of Canada.

·        It signaled to Japan that the United States was the predominant military power in the Pacific.

·        It was a warning to Central and South American nations to accept a colony-like status vis-à-vis the United States.

                                   

Question 3

Woodrow Wilson’s efforts at the Versailles peace conference in Paris:                               

                       

·        were thwarted by angry Parisian crowds upon his arrival.

·        did not include support for the independence of peoples still under British and French colonial rule.

·        refused a treaty clause holding Germany morally responsible for the war.

·        were well respected by the other diplomats, especially the Allies.

·        failed to achieve the inclusion of a League of Nations in the peace treaty.

                                   

Question 4

Wilson’s wartime propaganda effort:                              

                       

·        produced Edward Bernays, inventor of the “public relations” profession.

·        convinced the IWW and the Socialist Party to reverse positions and support America in the war.

·        relied on private agencies, as direct government involvement was opposed by a skeptical public.

·        A and C

·        was not very effective in convincing the American public to support the war.

                                   

Question 5

Theodore Roosevelt was more active in international diplomacy than most of his predecessors.                        

·        True

·        False

                                   

Question 6

Emiliano Zapata and “Pancho” Villa led rival peasant factions who united in support of Wilson’s Mexican ally, Venustiano Carranza, in the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution.                         

                       

·        True   

·        False

                                   

Question 7

Why were Americans divided over the outbreak of the Great War?                          

                       

·        Republicans hoped to gain new territory in Eastern Europe while Democrats wanted to focus energies at home.

·        Democrats hoped to shore up support for Wilson’s reelection as a “war president,” while

·        Irish-Americans and Russian Jews resented Allied powers Great Britain and Russia, and some American reformers lobbied against the war in the name of social justice and peace.

·        Some Americans welcomed the military buildup that would accompany American involvement; others worried about large tax increases.

·        The American public wanted to join the conflict, but Congress remained opposed to any intervention.

                                   

Question 8

How did the assumptions of “Americanization” not apply to people other than African-Americans, who were considered unfit for citizenship?                            

                       

·        Puerto Ricans gained American citizenship.

·        With the “Gentleman’s Agreement,” Japanese migration to the U.S. ended.

·        Mexicans in the Southwest faced legal discrimination in public institutions such as schools and hospitals.

·        A and B

·        B and C

                                   

Question 9

African-Americans who migrated to the North during the Great Migration encountered all of the following conditions EXCEPT:                             

                       

·        exclusion from the public school system.

·        housing segregation.

·        violence.

·        menial and unskilled jobs.

·        restricted employment opportunities.

                                   

Question 10

How did World War I and the rhetoric of freedom shape the labor movement and workers’ expectations?                                   

                       

·        Wartime propaganda turned the labor movement toward nationalism.

·        World War I had a minimal impact on the labor movement.

·        Workers abandoned their push for the eight-hour day.

·        There were very few labor strikes after the war.

·        Wartime rhetoric inspired hopes for social and economic justice.

 

 

 

Question 11

African-Americans migrated north during the Great Migration for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:                                   

                       

·        the prospect of higher wages.

·        escaping the threat of lynching.

·        being able to educate their children.

·        the prospect of being able to vote.

·        the prospect of owning their own homes.

 

Question 12

Why did World War I threaten to tear the women’s suffrage movement apart?                               

           

·        Many of the women in leadership positions were recruited into government service.

·        Many suffragists had been associated with opposition to American involvement in the war.

·        The leadership of the suffrage movement was predominantly socialist.

·        A large number of activists were German-American.

·        The demands of the home front pulled women away from political activism.

 

 

Question 13

During World War I, the federal government:                            

           

·        intervened minimally in the economy.

·        increased corporate and individual income taxes.

·        encouraged farmers only to produce for American consumption.

·        pursued a laissez-faire economic policy.

·        established the minimum wage and the eight-hour day.

 

 

 

 

Question 14

Which of the following statements is accurate about William Howard Taft?                                   

           

·        Taft believed the best way to promote American interests in the Caribbean and Central America was through economic investment.

·        Taft discouraged the United Fruit Company from establishing banana plantations in Honduras.

·        Like his predecessor, Theodore Roosevelt, Taft emphasized military intervention to achieve American strategic goals in the Western Hemisphere.

·        He allowed an American-friendly government in Nicaragua to fall to a coup d’état.

·        Taft coined the term “Dollar Diplomacy” in describing the foreign policy approach of Theodore Roosevelt.

 

 

Question 15

Which of the following is NOT an accurate statement about Eugene V. Debs?                               

           

·        He ran for president while in prison and received 900,000 votes.

·        His prison sentence was commuted by President Wilson before his stroke.

·        He was sentenced to ten years in prison.

·        His arrest for violation of the Espionage Act was the result of an anti-war speech.

·        He cited abolitionists in defense of Americans’ freedom to dissent

.

                                   

Question 16

World War I opened thousands of industrial jobs to black laborers for the first time, inspiring a large-scale migration from South to North called the Great Migration.                               

           

·        True

·        False

 

           

                                   

Question 17

How did eugenics shape public policy during World War I?                          

           

·        It led to a ban on military service for African-Americans.

·        It proved the superior traits of allied soldiers over German soldiers.

·        It successfully undermined nativism and exposed it for the bigotry it was.

·        It provided anti-immigrant sentiment with an air of professional expertise.

·        It opened Americans’ eyes to the commonalities both native-born citizens and immigrants had.

 

 

                                   

Question 18

For the feminist woman in the 1920s, freedom meant:                         

           

·        the right to choose her lifestyle.

·        becoming a wife and mother.

·        voting.

·        the ERA.

·        owning her own property.

 

                                   

Question 19

As a response to the Great Depression and in contrast to previous federal economic policy:                              

                       

·        Hoover argued against government-sponsored loans bailing out big businesses and banks.

·        Hoover did not support a tax increase.

·        Hoover approved public-works projects for the unemployed.

·        Hoover signed a direct relief bill designed to help the unemployed.

·        A and D                     

 

 

Question 20

All of the statements about Prohibition during the 1920s are true EXCEPT:                        

           

·        Prohibition was violated by many Americans.

·        Prohibition led to widespread corruption among law officials.

·        religious fundamentalists opposed Prohibition on the grounds that it violated freedom.

·        Prohibition reduced American consumption of alcohol.

·        Prohibition led to large profits for the owners of speakeasies and for the bootleggers who supplied them.

 

 

                                   

Question 21

Europeans rallied in mass protests against the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti.                           

           

·        True

·        False

 

 

Question 22

In reaction to the Great Depression, Americans:                                   

                       

·        prevented farm goods from getting to market in the Midwest.

·        who had fought in World War I marched on Washington, D.C., to demand early payment of a promised bonus.

·        enlisted in the army in record numbers to secure “three squares” a day.

·        rushed to the defense of big business and blamed communism for the disaster.

·        A and B

 

                                   

 

 

Question 23

What united the authors Ernest Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald in the 1920s?                             

           

·        They practiced very similar styles of narrative prose.

·        Both had fled the discriminatory censorship of the Hays Code.

·        Both found themselves forced into exile because of charges of homosexuality.

·        Both were deeply disillusioned with conservative American politics and materialism.

·        Both were obsessed with writing about the mediocrity of American consumerism.

                                   

Question 24

The flapper:                         

           

·        represented a new economic radicalism.

·        disapproved of smoking.

·        represented a new political movement.

·        demanded a return to earlier standards of behavior.

·        epitomized the change in standards of sexual behavior.

 

 

Question 25

Twenty thousand unemployed World War I veterans descended on Washington in the spring of 1932 to demand early payment of a bonus due in 1945.                        

                       

·        True

·        False

 

 

Question 26

Cultural pluralism:                          

           

           

·        described the mood in Congress when it passed the Immigration Act.

·        was the driving force behind the conviction of Sacco and Vanzetti.

·        described a society that gloried in ethnic diversity.

·        was the adopted philosophy of the Ku Klux Klan.

·        was denounced by Randolph Bourne.

 

 

Question 27

The automobile:                              

                       

·        limited the expansion of most other sectors of the American economy in the 1920s, due to U.S. manufacturers’ focus on outpacing the rest of the world in its production.

·        spurred growth in other industries such as tourism and steel production.

·        was actually not affordable to the vast majority of Americans until the 1930s.

·        decreased in popularity after its negative depiction in The Great Gatsby.

·        exacerbated the divide between rural and urban America in the 1920s.

 

                                   

Question 28

The term “New Negro” in art meant the rejection of established stereotypes and a search for black values to put in their place.                        

           

·        True

·        False

 

           

Question 29

In the 1920s, immigration restriction included all of the following EXCEPT:                                  

           

           

·        an easing of anti-Asian immigration policy with the Johnson Reed Act.

·        legislation that severely limited immigration from southern and eastern Europe.

·        B and D

·        the establishment of a “Border Patrol.”

·        C and D

 

 

Question 30

How did World War I’s Committee on Public Information (CPI) inspire business in the 1920s?                         

           

·        Public relations departments were established in many firms to counteract bad publicity.

·        The CPI discouraged consumers from buying commodities on credit.

·        Business leaders hired private data collectors to measure the effects of propaganda on consumers.

·        The CPI’s success suggested government intervention could have a positive impact on business growth.

·        The wartime experience proved that the best way to prevent overspeculation on the stock market was to inform the public of its dangers.

 

                                   

Question 31

The Supreme Court justices Oliver Wendell Holmes and Louis Brandeis began to speak up for freedom of speech in the 1920s.

                                   

·        True

·        False

 

Question 32

Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis:                          

           

·        crafted an intellectual defense of civil liberties during the 1920s.

·        voted in support of Anita Whitney’s attempt to overturn her conviction.

·        voted in favor of the Hays Code.

·        generally voted with Oliver Wendell Holmes to further limit free speech.

·        was a conservative force during the 1920s.

                                   

Question 33

During the 1920s:                           

           

 

·        the Federal Trade Commission aggressively regulated business.

·        the courts became increasingly pro-labor.

·        the Harding administration distanced itself from the business community.

·        government polices reflected the pro-business ethos of the decade.

 

 

 

Question 34

The Social Security Act of 1935:                         

                       

·        covered all workers in industry and agriculture.

·        provided federal funding for the poor and needy.

·        included pensions and unemployment relief.

·        was adopted from the British welfare system.

·        was originally vetoed by President Roosevelt.

 

 

Question 35

In the past, depressions had hurt the labor movement; however, labor made great strides during the New Deal.

                                               

·        True

·        False

 

Question 36

Civil liberties replaced liberty of contract as the judicial foundation of freedom by the end of the New Deal.

             

·        True

·        False

 

           

Question 37

Which of the following statements best assesses the fate of feminism during the New Deal?                               

           

·        Eleanor Roosevelt’s leadership helped bring about a revival of organized feminism.

·        The women-friendly policies of the WPA, CCC, and CWA gave women’s claim for equal pay a boost.

·        The sense of failure men experienced in the workplace prompted many of them to turn to women and feminists for leadership.

·        Given the broad consensus that the job claims of male providers superseded women’s, organized feminism essentially disappeared.

·        Since women in domestic service were less often fired than blue-collar male workers, feminists earned much public sympathy.

 

 

                                   

Question 38

Since Franklin Roosevelt came from a humble background, the public came to easily identify him as a symbol for the ordinary man.                                

·        True   

·        False

 

 

 

Question 39

Roosevelt launched the Second New Deal because of the success of his initial policies to pull the country out of the Depression and because of the rising conservative opposition against him.      

           

·        True   

·        False

 

 

Question 40

The one place it seemed where blacks were not discriminated against was within federal employment practices.                              

                       

·        True   

·        False

 

           

Question 41

Social Security allowed African-Americans pensions and compensations equivalent to whites.

                                               

·        True

·        False

 

           

Question 42

According to Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, how could corporations have prevented the Great Depression?                         

 

·        By paying their taxes.

·        By investing less overseas.

·        By being less discriminatory in their hiring practices.

·        By letting go of their patents.

·        By increasing their workers’ wages.

 

Question 43

After the Court-packing attempt, how did the change in the jurisprudence of the U.S. Supreme Court affect American life?                                  

 

·        The new political climate in the U.S. Supreme Court meant that a federal child labor ban could stand constitutional muster.

·        A chastised Supreme Court began to focus on securing constitutional protections for a burgeoning civil rights movement.

·        Changing sentiments in the U.S. Supreme Court led to the erosion of the Wagner Act.

·        The newfound resolve of the U.S. Supreme Court meant a restoration of the National Recovery Act.

·        The new lineup in the United States meant that Roosevelt had to abandon plans for universal health care.

 

 

Question 44

The National Industrial Recovery Act:                            

                       

·        established codes that set standards for production, prices, and wages in several industries.

·        was an economic policy later adopted successfully in Hitler’s Germany.

·        established codes that continued the open-shop policies of the 1920s.

·        was never passed.

·        encouraged “cutthroat” competition between businesses.

 

 

Question 45

In fireside chats and public addresses, President Roosevelt connected freedom with:                               

                       

·        Keynesian economic theory.

·        laissez-faire economics.

·        cuts in government spending.

·        economic inequality.

·        economic security.

 

 

 

Question 46

The Civilian Conservation Corps:                        

                       

·        was created during the “Second New Deal.”

·        put older workers back to work.

·        put young women to work in schools.

·        was headed by Hugh S. Johnson.

·        put young men to work in national parks.

 

 

Question 47

What ended the Great Depression?                                  

 

·        Laissez-faire government.

·        A bailout by J. P. Morgan.

·        New Deal programs.

·        The rebound of the stock market.

·        World War II spending.

 

 

Question 48

The Wagner Act:                             

                       

·        created the Works Progress Administration.

·        allowed the National Labor Relations Board to supervise union elections.

·        affected only government employees.

·        made all unions illegal.

·        sponsored ballet and modern dance programs.

 

 

Question 49

The Second New Deal:                               

                       

·        focused on economic relief.

·        focused on civil liberties.

·        included no new taxes.

·        focused on economic security.

·        focused on business recovery.

 

 

 

Question 50

Which of the following Second New Deal measures came closest to meeting the demands of the Congress of Industrial Organizations for workplace democracy?                                   

                       

·        The Security and Exchange Commission.

·        Social Security.

·        The Works Progress Administration.

·        Federal Housing Administration.

·        The Wagner Act.