How did African Americans seek to escape the South's cotton fields and kitchens between 1915 and 1920?
They left the South for northern industrial cities such as Detroit and Cleveland.
What motivated the rebellion of Mexican farmers led by Pancho Villa in 1916–17?
The rebels believed that the new American-backed government had betrayed the revolution's promise to help the common people.
Once Congress declared war against Germany in April 1917, President Wilson stated the Americans' goal in the war was to
vindicate the principles of peace and justice.
What was one result of the racial and demographic shifts that took place during World War I?
Race riots in two dozen northern cities
What was the outcome of the return to free enterprise in the United States after World War I
A rise in unemployment and new conflicts between business and labor
Which group of American senators opposed the Treaty of Versailles?
Republican isolationists
What event finally spurred the granting of suffrage to all American women in 1920?
Congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment, which was subsequently ratified by two-thirds of the states.
Why did Germany decide to resume unrestricted submarine warfare in January 1917?
It felt it could win the war before the United States could bring its army to Europe.
What did Mexican migrants to the American Southwest, immigrants from Europe, and black migrants from the South have in common?
All dreamed of a better life but found a mix of opportunity and disappointment.
How were Wilson's Fourteen Points honored in the Versailles treaty?
The treaty included the establishment of the League of Nations.
Which divisions did European countries establish before the outbreak of World War I?
The Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance
The U.S. government passed the Espionage Act, the Trading with the Enemy Act, and the Sedition Act during World War I to
punish anything it considered disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive.
What was the American Red scare of 1919 and 1920?
A fear of internal subversion and Communist revolution that resulted in suppression of dissent
What was the irony of the 369th Regiment of the 92nd Division winning more medals than any other American combat unit?
This black regiment had to serve with the French in order to be deployed in active combat versus a labor unit detail.
How did the U.S. Supreme Court rule in the case of Schenck v. United States (1919)?
It ruled that Charles Schenck's actions posed a clear and present danger to the nation in a time of war.
Which nation suffered the most casualties in World War I?
Germany
To ensure the loyalty of an immigrant nation to the cause of war, President Wilson
launched a government-sponsored propaganda campaign to foster patriotism among ethnic groups.
Which statement describes African Americans' participation in the war?
They accounted for 370,000 of American forces.
President Wilson created the Committee on Public Information to
stir up patriotism with posters, pamphlets, cartoons, and press releases.
Which precedent guided President Wilson's policies toward Latin America?
The Monroe Doctrine
What was the impact of the labor shortage that resulted from the mobilization of U.S. troops in 1917?
Expanded employment opportunities for women
Why did the United States fail to ratify the Treaty of Versailles and join the League of Nations?
President Wilson would not compromise on the terms of the treaty.
What reform or reforms did the National War Labor Policies Board enact successfully during World War I?
The eight-hour workday, a living minimum wage, and collective bargaining rights in some industries
Why were the Germans outraged by the terms of the Treaty of Versailles?
They had agreed to an armistice based on Wilson's Fourteen Points.
How did President Wilson respond to the initial outbreak of war in Europe in 1914?
He issued a proclamation of America's absolute neutrality.
Who wrote In His Steps, the popular 1898 book that called on men and women to Christianize capitalism?
Charles M. Sheldon
How did Wisconsin governor Robert La Follette unite his supporters during the first years of the twentieth century?
He emphasized reform over party loyalty.
How did the American progressive movement begin and evolve?
It began at the grassroots level and percolated up to the national level of government.
The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
set up the United States as the police power in the Western Hemisphere.
What was the uprising of twenty thousand in 1909?
A strike by women garment workers in New York City who were protesting low wages, dangerous working conditions, and management's refusal to recognize their union
President Roosevelt inherited the Open Door Policy, which was designed to
ensure American commercial entry into China.
What did Jane Addams quickly learn was necessary to alleviate social problems in Chicago?
Involvement in political action
What was the response to Margaret Sanger's first efforts to launch a movement for birth control in 1915?
She was faced with the prospect of arrest for distributing obscene information.
What did Eugene V. Debs advocate as an alternative to the progressive programs of the Republicans and Democrats?
That men and women liberate themselves from the barbarism of private ownership and wage slavery
Which of the following beliefs formed the basis for Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy?
The United States should use a combination of military strength and diplomacy to deal with European powers.
In his capacity as a reform governor of California from 1911 to 1917, Hiram Johnson
supported conservation, the initiative, referendum, and recall.
What assumption lay at the foundation of the American progressive agenda in the early twentieth century?
Experts have the skills and knowledge to use scientific methods to improve society.
During his first term as president, Woodrow Wilson refused to support child labor laws, woman suffrage, and labor's demand for an end to injunctions because he
opposed affording special privileges to any group.
Why did President Wilson champion the Keating-Owen child labor law, an eight-hour workday for railroad workers, and other social reforms in 1916?
He wanted to win support and votes in the West and Midwest.
Which of the following statements describes the primary difference between preservationists and conservationists in the early twentieth century?
Preservationists sought to protect the wilderness from all commercial exploitation, while conservationists advocated its efficient use.
Taken together, what did President Roosevelt's actions in the anthracite coal strike of 1902 and the dissolution of Northern Securities in 1904 demonstrate about the U.S. government?
Roosevelt's administration would act independently of big business.
The term muckrakers refers to Progressive Era journalists who were known for
writing stories about corporate and political wrongdoing.
What was the fundamental difference between the philosophies of Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois during the progressive period?
Washington focused on education and economic progress, while Du Bois emphasized civil rights and black leadership.
Which of the following statements describes Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom?
It incorporated his belief in limited government, states' rights, and open markets.
Why did progressives launch the social purity movement?
To attack prostitution and other vices
The Progressive Era's Jim Crow laws in the South were designed to
legalize and expand racial segregation in public facilities.
The Hepburn Act (1906) marked the first time that
a government commission was authorized to examine the records of a private business and to set prices.
What idea formed the core of reform Darwinist theory in progressive-era America?
The state should play a more active role in solving social problems.
The efforts of Alice Paul were instrumental in
woman suffrage.
How did President Roosevelt influence land conservation during his administration?
He more than quadrupled the acreage of government reserves.
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