Deck 29: Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad,1912-1916

Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John J.Pershing

Answer 1

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Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Kaiser Wilhelm II

Answer 2

Student answers will vary.

Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Louis D.Brandeis

Answer 3

Student answers will vary.

Question 4

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Progressive party

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Woodrow Wilson

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
New Nationalism

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
The Promise of American Life

Question 8

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
William Jennings Bryan

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Victoriano Huerta

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Underwood Tariff Bill

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Herbert Croly

Question 12

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Arsene Pujo

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Eugene V.Debs

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Francisco Villa

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Sixteenth Amendment

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
New Freedom

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Charles Evans Hughes

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Federal Reserve Act

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Bull Moose

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Venustiano Carranza

Question 21

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Clayton Act

Question 22

COMPLETION
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ Locate the Black Sea.

Question 23

COMPLETION
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ Three of the nations who became associated as the Central Powers during World War I.

Question 24

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Sussex pledge

Question 25

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Virgin Islands

Question 26

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Central Powers

Question 27

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
U-boat

Question 28

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Tampico incident

Question 29

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Sarajevo

Question 30

COMPLETION
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ Locate the nation that joined the Allies later,after the outbreak of World War I.

Question 31

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
ABC Powers

Question 32

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Jones Act

Question 33

COMPLETION
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ Locate the neutral nation of Spain.

Question 34

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Allies

Question 35

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Lusitania

Question 36

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Workingmen's Compensation Act

Question 37

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Federal Trade Commission Act

Question 38

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Federal Farm Loan Act

Question 39

COMPLETION
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ Three nations associated as the Allies at the outbreak of World War I.

Question 40

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
La Follette Seaman's Act

Question 41

The 1912 presidential election was notable because

A) it gave the voters a clear choice of political and economic philosophies.
B) personalities were the only issue of the campaign.
C) it was the first time women had the right to vote.
D) the Democratic party had split.
E) the fourth-party Socialists had a serious chance to win.

Question 42

Teddy Roosevelt's New Nationalism

A) pinned its economic faith on competition and the breakup of large monopolies.
B) opposed the growth of labor unions.
C) sought to raise tariffs to protect American industry.
D) supported a broad program of social welfare and government regulation of business.
E) favored state rather than federal government activism.

Question 43

In 1912,Woodrow Wilson became the first ____ elected to the presidency since the Civil War.

A) person born in the South
B) Democrat
C) lawyer
D) non-Civil War veteran
E) Methodist

Question 44

To secure passage of the Underwood Tariff Bill,Woodrow broke new ground by

A) enlisting organized business groups to lobby for its passage.
B) personally presenting his case to Congress and arousing public opinion.
C) writing a book showing that high tariffs were harming the American economy.
D) stirring up western and southern regional hostility against the high-tariff East.
E) sending a team of economic experts to testify before Congress.

Question 45

Immediately before he was elected president in 1912,Woodrow Wilson had been serving as

A) a Presbyterian minister.
B) the governor of New Jersey.
C) a successful businessman.
D) the president of Yale University.
E) United States Senator from New Jersey.

Question 46

Match each 1912 presidential candidate below with his political party.

A) A-1, B-2, C-4, D-3
B) A-1, B-3, C-4, D-2
C) A-4, B-3, C-2, D-l
D) A-3, B-1, C-2, D-4
E) A-2, B-4, C-3, D-l

Question 47

The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 guaranteed a substantial measure of public control over the American banking and currency system through the great authority given to

A) the secretary of the treasury.
B) the president of the United States.
C) the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Banking Committee.
D) regional Federal Reserve banks.
E) the presidentially appointed Federal Reserve Board.

Question 48

COMPLETION
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ Locate the North Sea.

Question 49

In 1913,Woodrow Wilson broke with a custom dating back to Jefferson's day when he

A) stopped having formal cabinet meetings.
B) appointed a black man to the Supreme Court.
C) endorsed woman suffrage.
D) personally delivered his presidential State of the Union address to Congress.
E) rode with his defeated predecessor to the inauguration.

Question 50

Woodrow Wilson's political philosophy included all of the following except

A) faith in the masses.
B) a belief that compromise was necessary to be an effective leader.
C) a belief that the president should provide leadership for Congress.
D) a belief that the president should appeal over the heads of legislators to the sovereign people.
E) a belief in the central importance of morality of politics.

Question 51

As governor of New Jersey,Woodrow Wilson established a record as a

A) mild conservative.
B) reactionary.
C) man who could readily work with Democratic party bosses.
D) social radical.
E) passionate reformer.

Question 52

When Woodrow Wilson became president in 1912,the most serious shortcoming in the country's financial structure was that

A) federal paper money was not backed by sound gold or silver.
B) unsound banks regularly issued inflated bank notes that had to serve as currency.
C) the banking system was too heavily regulated by the federal government.
D) the U.S. dollar was rigidly tied to gold.
E) money for lending was inelastic and heavily concentrated in New York City.

Question 53

According to the text,the runaway philosophical winner in the 1912 election was

A) socialism.
B) progressivism.
C) conservatism.
D) capitalism.
E) feminism.

Question 54

When Jane Addams placed Teddy Roosevelt's name in nomination for the presidency in 1912,it

A) demonstrated that the Republican party supported woman suffrage.
B) ensured Roosevelt's defeat by William Howard Taft.
C) symbolized the rising political status of women and the movement for social justice.
D) showed that Roosevelt had lost touch with public opinion.
E) weakened Roosevelt by linking him to Addams's pacifism.

Question 55

COMPLETION
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ Identify the area of the Low Countries through which invading German armies passed on their way toward France.

Question 56

Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom

A) supported federal government ownership of railroads and utilities.
B) favored big business with accompanying federal regulation.
C) favored small enterprise, entrepreneurship, and the busting of monopolies.
D) was focused around working-class issues like unions and minimum-wage laws.
E) opposed banking and tariff reform.

Question 57

The Underwood Tariff Act and the Sixteenth Amendment reflected Wilson's progressive goals by

A) establishing the first graduated federal income tax.
B) creating an optional retirement system for workers.
C) guaranteeing equal treatment for men and women in employment.
D) using tariffs only for revenue and not to protect American industry from competition.
E) providing protection for American farmers against subsidized foreign crop imports.

Question 58

Woodrow Wilson was most comfortable when surrounded by

A) African Americans.
B) Catholics.
C) political professionals.
D) journalists.
E) academic scholars.

Question 59

COMPLETION
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ The nation where an assassination ignited World War I.

Question 60

In 1912,Woodrow Wilson ran for the presidency on a Democratic platform that included all of the following except a call for

A) antitrust legislation.
B) banking reform.
C) dollar diplomacy.
D) tariff reductions.
E) support for small business.

Question 61

Which term best characterizes Woodrow Wilson's fundamental approach to American foreign policy?

A) Imperialistic
B) Moralistic
C) Realistic
D) Balance-of-power
E) Isolationist

Question 62

Woodrow Wilson's early efforts to conduct a strongly anti-imperialist U.S.foreign policy were first undermined when he

A) dispatched U.S. military forces to protect American interests in China.
B) told the Filipinos that they could not obtain their independence for at least forty years.
C) sent American marines to Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
D) sent the U.S. Navy to seize the Virgin Islands from Denmark.
E) began constructing a massive U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

Question 63

From 1914 to 1916,America's growing trade with Britain and loss of trade with Germany essentially occurred because

A) the British needed American goods and weapons and the Germans did not.
B) more Americans sympathized with Britain than with Germany.
C) British agents sabotaged American businesses that traded with Germany.
D) American bankers like J.P. Morgan were willing to loan money to Britain but not to Germany.
E) the British navy controlled the Atlantic shipping lanes.

Question 64

As World War I began in Europe,the alliance system placed Germany and Austria-Hungary as leaders of the ____,while Russia and France were among the ____.

A) Central Powers; Holy Alliance
B) Central Powers; Triple Alliance
C) Allies; Central Powers
D) Triple Alliance; Central Powers
E) Central Powers; Allies

Question 65

The Federal Trade Commission was established in 1914 to address all of these practices except

A) eliminating unfair and discriminatory trade practices.
B) outlawing unfair business competition and bribery.
C) sale of stocks without full disclosure of a business's organization and profits.
D) prohibiting false and misleading advertising.
E) outlawing the mislabeling or adulterating of products.

Question 66

Difficulties in Mexico in the early 20ᵗʰ century affected the U.S.by

A) interfering with trade relations.
B) encouraging massive migration of Mexicans across the border.
C) providing an investment opportunity for U.S. corporations.
D) sparking tensions between the U.S. and Spain.
E) None of these

Question 67

The first Jewish member of the United States Supreme Court,appointed by Woodrow Wilson,was

A) Felix Frankfurter.
B) Arsene Pujo.
C) Abraham Cahan.
D) Louis D. Brandeis.
E) Bernard Baruch.

Question 68

Before his first term ended,Woodrow Wilson had militarily intervened in or purchased all of the following countries except

A) Haiti.
B) the Dominican Republic.
C) the Virgin Islands.
D) Cuba.
E) Mexico.

Question 69

Because of the benefits that it conferred on labor,Samuel Gompers called the ____ "labor's Magna Carta."

A) Federal Reserve Act
B) Underwood Tariff Act
C) Clayton Anti-Trust Act
D) Sixteenth Amendment
E) Workmen's Compensation Act

Question 70

Wilson's progressive programs provided relief to

A) sailors.
B) farmers and rural populations.
C) civil service workers.
D) All of these
E) None of these

Question 71

President Wilson's first direct use of American military forces in revolutionary Mexico occurred when he

A) sent armed forces to protect against Mexico's nationalization of American businesses.
B) sent the army to prevent Venustiano Carranza from becoming president of Mexico.
C) seized the Mexican port of Vera Cruz to prevent German delivery of arms to President Huerta.
D) sent the army to protect the vast ranch of newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst.
E) sent General Pershing to capture Pancho Villa after Villa staged raids into New Mexico.

Question 72

With the outbreak of World War I in 1914,the great majority of Americans

A) earnestly hoped to stay out of the war.
B) favored entering the war in support of the Allies.
C) supported the Central Powers.
D) wanted to form a military alliance of neutral nations.
E) favored U.S. mediation of the conflict.

Question 73

One primary effect of World War I on the United States was that it

A) opened new markets in Germany and Austria-Hungary.
B) suffered severe business losses.
C) conducted an immense amount of trade with the Allies.
D) turned more of its economic activity toward Latin America and Asia.
E) virtually ended American international trade.

Question 74

All of the following are true statements about Mexicans who settled in the area known as the borderlands except

A) they relocated mostly in Texas, New Mexico, California and Arizona.
B) they helped build highways and railroads.
C) most were single men without families.
D) many followed the harvest as fruit pickers.
E) they helped create a unique culture that blended Mexican and American folkways.

Question 75

The Federal Reserve Act gave the Federal Reserve Board the authority to

A) issue paper money and increase or decrease the amount of money in circulation by altering interest rates.
B) close weak banks.
C) take the U.S. dollar off the gold standard.
D) collect income taxes directly from employees' paychecks.
E) guarantee individual banking deposits against bank failures.

Question 76

Woodrow Wilson showed the limits of his progressivism by

A) opposing workingmen's compensation.
B) opposing the entry of women into politics.
C) vetoing the Federal Farm Loan Act.
D) refusing to appoint the Jewish Louis D. Brandeis to the Federal Trade Commission.
E) accelerating the segregation of blacks in the federal bureaucracy.

Question 77

The central provisions of the Clayton Anti-Trust Act

A) included trade unions under the antimonopoly provisions of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
B) declared that no single corporation could control more than 75 percent of a given industry.
C) established minimum wage rates for goods produced in interstate commerce.
D) outlawed corporate interlocking directorates and price discrimination against different purchasers.
E) exempted farm cooperatives from antitrust action.

Question 78

President Wilson insisted that he would hold ____ to "strict accountability" for ____.

A) Britain; repaying the loans made to it by American bankers
B) Britain; the disruption of American trade with the European continent
C) Germany; starting the war
D) Germany; fair treatment of civilians in Belgium
E) Germany; the loss of American ships and lives to submarine warfare

Question 79

Woodrow Wilson's administration refused to extend formal diplomatic recognition to the government in Mexico headed by

A) Porfirio Diaz.
B) Venustiano Carranza.
C) Pancho Villa.
D) Victoriano Huerta.
E) Emiliano Zapata.

Question 80

Besides prohibiting anticompetitive business practices,the Clayton Anti-Trust Act broke new ground by

A) exempting labor unions and agricultural cooperatives from antitrust prosecution.
B) exempting organized major-league baseball from antitrust prosecution.
C) prohibiting colleges and universities from cooperating to establish tuition and fees.
D) permitting American businesses to form monopolies when operating overseas.
E) creating a federal incorporation law for large businesses.