Deck 19: Safe for Democracy: the United States and World War I, 1916 -1920

Question 1

MATCHING
Woodrow Wilson

A)arrested under the Espionage Act
B)liberal internationalism
C)Birth of a Nation
D)first female member of Congress
E)Niagara movement
F)militant black leader
G)National Woman's Party
H)"Trans-National America"
I)Monroe Doctrine corollary
J)Dollar Diplomacy

Answer 1

liberal internationalism

Question 2

MATCHING
Theodore Roosevelt

A)arrested under the Espionage Act
B)liberal internationalism
C)Birth of a Nation
D)first female member of Congress
E)Niagara movement
F)militant black leader
G)National Woman's Party
H)"Trans-National America"
I)Monroe Doctrine corollary
J)Dollar Diplomacy

Answer 2

Monroe Doctrine corollary

Question 3

MATCHING
Roosevelt Corollary

A)improving the human species by controlling heredity Information
B)relocation of blacks to the North
C)international police power in Western Hemisphere
D)a world organization
E)assimilating immigrants
F)British ship sunk by Germans
G)proposed a German-Mexican alliance
H)proposed agenda for the peace
I)four-minute men
J)anti-labor crusade after the war
K)IWW
L)restricted Japanese immigration

Answer 3

international police power in Western Hemisphere

Question 4

MATCHING
Eugene Debs

A)arrested under the Espionage Act
B)liberal internationalism
C)Birth of a Nation
D)first female member of Congress
E)Niagara movement
F)militant black leader
G)National Woman's Party
H)"Trans-National America"
I)Monroe Doctrine corollary
J)Dollar Diplomacy

Question 5

MATCHING
Gentlemen's Agreement

A)improving the human species by controlling heredity Information
B)relocation of blacks to the North
C)international police power in Western Hemisphere
D)a world organization
E)assimilating immigrants
F)British ship sunk by Germans
G)proposed a German-Mexican alliance
H)proposed agenda for the peace
I)four-minute men
J)anti-labor crusade after the war
K)IWW
L)restricted Japanese immigration

Question 6

MATCHING
eugenics

A)improving the human species by controlling heredity Information
B)relocation of blacks to the North
C)international police power in Western Hemisphere
D)a world organization
E)assimilating immigrants
F)British ship sunk by Germans
G)proposed a German-Mexican alliance
H)proposed agenda for the peace
I)four-minute men
J)anti-labor crusade after the war
K)IWW
L)restricted Japanese immigration

Question 7

MATCHING
Committee on Public

A)improving the human species by controlling heredity Information
B)relocation of blacks to the North
C)international police power in Western Hemisphere
D)a world organization
E)assimilating immigrants
F)British ship sunk by Germans
G)proposed a German-Mexican alliance
H)proposed agenda for the peace
I)four-minute men
J)anti-labor crusade after the war
K)IWW
L)restricted Japanese immigration

Question 8

MATCHING
Fourteen Points

A)improving the human species by controlling heredity Information
B)relocation of blacks to the North
C)international police power in Western Hemisphere
D)a world organization
E)assimilating immigrants
F)British ship sunk by Germans
G)proposed a German-Mexican alliance
H)proposed agenda for the peace
I)four-minute men
J)anti-labor crusade after the war
K)IWW
L)restricted Japanese immigration

Question 9

MATCHING
Alice Paul

A)arrested under the Espionage Act
B)liberal internationalism
C)Birth of a Nation
D)first female member of Congress
E)Niagara movement
F)militant black leader
G)National Woman's Party
H)"Trans-National America"
I)Monroe Doctrine corollary
J)Dollar Diplomacy

Question 10

MATCHING
D. W. Griffith

A)arrested under the Espionage Act
B)liberal internationalism
C)Birth of a Nation
D)first female member of Congress
E)Niagara movement
F)militant black leader
G)National Woman's Party
H)"Trans-National America"
I)Monroe Doctrine corollary
J)Dollar Diplomacy

Question 11

MATCHING
Wobblies conference

A)improving the human species by controlling heredity Information
B)relocation of blacks to the North
C)international police power in Western Hemisphere
D)a world organization
E)assimilating immigrants
F)British ship sunk by Germans
G)proposed a German-Mexican alliance
H)proposed agenda for the peace
I)four-minute men
J)anti-labor crusade after the war
K)IWW
L)restricted Japanese immigration

Question 12

MATCHING
Red Scare

A)improving the human species by controlling heredity Information
B)relocation of blacks to the North
C)international police power in Western Hemisphere
D)a world organization
E)assimilating immigrants
F)British ship sunk by Germans
G)proposed a German-Mexican alliance
H)proposed agenda for the peace
I)four-minute men
J)anti-labor crusade after the war
K)IWW
L)restricted Japanese immigration

Question 13

MATCHING
Randolph Bourne

A)arrested under the Espionage Act
B)liberal internationalism
C)Birth of a Nation
D)first female member of Congress
E)Niagara movement
F)militant black leader
G)National Woman's Party
H)"Trans-National America"
I)Monroe Doctrine corollary
J)Dollar Diplomacy

Question 14

MATCHING
Jeannette Rankin

A)arrested under the Espionage Act
B)liberal internationalism
C)Birth of a Nation
D)first female member of Congress
E)Niagara movement
F)militant black leader
G)National Woman's Party
H)"Trans-National America"
I)Monroe Doctrine corollary
J)Dollar Diplomacy

Question 15

MATCHING
Marcus Garvey

A)arrested under the Espionage Act
B)liberal internationalism
C)Birth of a Nation
D)first female member of Congress
E)Niagara movement
F)militant black leader
G)National Woman's Party
H)"Trans-National America"
I)Monroe Doctrine corollary
J)Dollar Diplomacy

Question 16

MATCHING
William Howard Taft

A)arrested under the Espionage Act
B)liberal internationalism
C)Birth of a Nation
D)first female member of Congress
E)Niagara movement
F)militant black leader
G)National Woman's Party
H)"Trans-National America"
I)Monroe Doctrine corollary
J)Dollar Diplomacy

Question 17

MATCHING
League of Nations

A)improving the human species by controlling heredity Information
B)relocation of blacks to the North
C)international police power in Western Hemisphere
D)a world organization
E)assimilating immigrants
F)British ship sunk by Germans
G)proposed a German-Mexican alliance
H)proposed agenda for the peace
I)four-minute men
J)anti-labor crusade after the war
K)IWW
L)restricted Japanese immigration

Question 18

MATCHING
Great Migration

A)improving the human species by controlling heredity Information
B)relocation of blacks to the North
C)international police power in Western Hemisphere
D)a world organization
E)assimilating immigrants
F)British ship sunk by Germans
G)proposed a German-Mexican alliance
H)proposed agenda for the peace
I)four-minute men
J)anti-labor crusade after the war
K)IWW
L)restricted Japanese immigration

Question 19

MATCHING
W.B. Du BoisE.

A)arrested under the Espionage Act
B)liberal internationalism
C)Birth of a Nation
D)first female member of Congress
E)Niagara movement
F)militant black leader
G)National Woman's Party
H)"Trans-National America"
I)Monroe Doctrine corollary
J)Dollar Diplomacy

Question 20

MATCHING
Zimmerman Telegram

A)improving the human species by controlling heredity Information
B)relocation of blacks to the North
C)international police power in Western Hemisphere
D)a world organization
E)assimilating immigrants
F)British ship sunk by Germans
G)proposed a German-Mexican alliance
H)proposed agenda for the peace
I)four-minute men
J)anti-labor crusade after the war
K)IWW
L)restricted Japanese immigration

Question 21

The Fourteen Points:

A) were proposed by Germany.
B) were endorsed by all the Allies.
C) established the right of imperial governments to rule.
D) sought to establish the right of national self-determination.
E) supported the Bolshevik Revolution.

Question 22

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

A) an end to colonization.
B) self-determination for all nations.
C) freedom of the seas.
D) open diplomacy.
E) free trade.

Question 23

MATCHING
Lusitania

A)improving the human species by controlling heredity Information
B)relocation of blacks to the North
C)international police power in Western Hemisphere
D)a world organization
E)assimilating immigrants
F)British ship sunk by Germans
G)proposed a German-Mexican alliance
H)proposed agenda for the peace
I)four-minute men
J)anti-labor crusade after the war
K)IWW
L)restricted Japanese immigration

Question 24

Woodrow Wilson's moral imperialism in Latin America produced:

A) eight years of unprecedented stability in the region.
B) more military interventions than any other president before or since.
C) economic growth and diversity for the region.
D) very little to show for the policy, as his attention was mostly on Europe.
E) strong allies for the United States in World War I, especially Mexico.

Question 25

In the presidential election of 1916, Woodrow Wilson:

A) chose not to run for reelection.
B) lost to the Republican candidate, Charles Evans Hughes.
C) was reelected when he promised to support the war effort.
D) used the campaign slogan "He kept us out of war."
E) received fewer votes in states where women had the right to vote.

Question 26

On April 2, 1917, Woodrow Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war:

A) against Britain, "to make the world safe for democracy."
B) against Germany, "to make the world safe for democracy."
C) against Russia, "to make the world safe for democracy."
D) that was turned down.
E) that was passed unanimously.

Question 27

The Zimmermann Telegram:

A) helped assure Americans that Germany was not a threat.
B) clarified British war aims.
C) outlined the German plan for an attack on the United States by Mexico.
D) outlined the British plan for an attack on the United States by Mexico.
E) outlined the Fourteen Points.

Question 28

The Roosevelt Corollary:

A) claimed the right of the United States to act as a police power in the Western Hemisphere.
B) claimed the right of the United States to act as a police power in Asia.
C) claimed the right of the United States to act as a police power in Africa.
D) was also known as Dollar Diplomacy.
E) contradicted the Monroe Doctrine.

Question 29

As president, Woodrow Wilson:

A) pledged to continue Dollar Diplomacy.
B) emphasized the profit aspect of foreign trade.
C) never resorted to military intervention abroad.
D) pledged to stay out of Latin America and kept his word.
E) believed that the export of U.S. manufactured goods went hand in hand with the spread of democracy.

Question 30

MATCHING
Americanization

A)improving the human species by controlling heredity Information
B)relocation of blacks to the North
C)international police power in Western Hemisphere
D)a world organization
E)assimilating immigrants
F)British ship sunk by Germans
G)proposed a German-Mexican alliance
H)proposed agenda for the peace
I)four-minute men
J)anti-labor crusade after the war
K)IWW
L)restricted Japanese immigration

Question 31

The Fourteen Points attempted to:

A) consolidate political power at home.
B) provide a peace agenda to create a new democratic world order.
C) quiet growing criticism from the Republicans that Wilson was an inept leader.
D) outline the Progressive Party's campaign platform for the 1920 election.
E) organize alliances after the war among fourteen prominent nations.

Question 32

Between 1898 and 1934, the United States intervened militarily numerous times in Caribbean countries:

A) in order to gain territory for the United States.
B) in order to spread liberty and freedom in the region.
C) because the democratic leaders of the region asked the United States for aid in suppressing rebellions.
D) in order to fight European powers who sought to establish colonies in the area.
E) in order to protect the economic interests of American banks and investors.

Question 33

U.S. control of the Panama Canal Zone:

A) was welcomed by the Colombians.
B) lasted only until 1914.
C) was deemed inappropriate by most Americans.
D) was part of Theodore Roosevelt's policy of intervention in Central America.
E) was part of Woodrow Wilson's policy of intervention in Central America.

Question 34

From 1914 to 1916, U.S. intervention in Mexico:

A) was welcomed by the Mexican people.
B) led to the U.S. takeover of Mexico.
C) liberated Mexico from Spain.
D) demonstrated the weaknesses of Wilson's foreign policy.
E) demonstrated that the United States could successfully use force to reorder the affairs of nations.

Question 35

World War I:

A) was known as the Good War.
B) resulted in limited casualties.
C) pitted the British against France.
D) began with the assassination of an American diplomat.
E) was rooted in European contests over colonial possessions.

Question 36

As war broke out in Europe, Americans:

A) were deeply divided.
B) were rather ambivalent.
C) mostly supported the British.
D) mostly supported the Germans.
E) supported U.S. involvement.

Question 37

The policy of U.S. neutrality was:

A) honored by all the combatants.
B) tested only by the British.
C) tested only by the Germans.
D) tested by both the British and Germans.
E) vetoed by President Wilson.

Question 38

America's empire in the early twentieth century was all of the following EXCEPT:

A) economic.
B) territorial.
C) cultural.
D) intellectual.
E) commercial.

Question 39

Theodore Roosevelt's taking of the Panama Canal Zone is an example of:

A) his ability to speak softly in diplomatic situations when he knew he was outgunned.
B) international Progressivism-the United States was intervening with the sole purpose to uplift the peoples of Central America.
C) liberal internationalism, since he worked closely with the French to work out a deal favorable to Panama.
D) his belief that civilized nations had an obligation to establish order in an unruly world.
E) one of the many wars in which Roosevelt involved the United States.

Question 40

Dollar Diplomacy:

A) characterizes the foreign policy of Theodore Roosevelt.
B) was put in place by Woodrow Wilson regarding Mexico.
C) was used by William Howard Taft instead of military intervention.
D) was seldom used and never successfully.
E) was applied only in Asia.

Question 41

During World War I, most Progressives:

A) supported U.S. entry into the war.
B) did not support the war.
C) were ambivalent.
D) were pacifists.
E) supported the Germans.

Question 42

The Committee on Public Information:

A) was directed by William Jennings Bryan.
B) protected civil liberties.
C) was a government agency that sought to shape public opinion.
D) was affiliated with the Socialist Party.
E) was limited in its efforts.

Question 43

Eugenics is:

A) the study of the supposed mental characteristics of different races.
B) the movement toward colonization in Africa by blacks from the United States.
C) the practice of using poison gas by the Germans during World War I.
D) the socialist system of infiltration of the labor unions within the United States.
E) modification of human behavior as described by famed psychiatrist Sigmund Freud.

Question 44

The Nineteenth Amendment:

A) barred states from using race as a qualification for voting.
B) barred states from using sex as a qualification for voting.
C) was never ratified.
D) prohibited states from denying Chinese immigrants the right to vote.
E) prohibited states from denying any immigrants the right to vote.

Question 45

The National Women's Party:

A) was a branch of the Democratic Party.
B) was part of a new, more militant generation of college-educated activists.
C) was part of a new, more conservative generation of college-educated activists.
D) opposed women's suffrage.
E) was a branch of the Socialist Party.

Question 46

Americanization programs often targeted whom as the bearers and transmitters of culture?

A) the elderly
B) children
C) women
D) the second-generation
E) men

Question 47

Who was the first female member of Congress?

A) Alice Paul
B) Jeannette Rankin
C) Elizabeth Cady Stanton
D) Jane Addams
E) Emma Goldman

Question 48

Most Progressives saw World War I as a golden opportunity because:

A) they believed that the United States would profit from the war.
B) they supported the socialist ideas of Vladimir Lenin.
C) they hoped to disseminate Progressive values around the globe.
D) they saw an opportunity to completely restrict immigration.
E) it enabled blacks a chance for economic improvement through defense jobs.

Question 49

The Industrial Workers of the World and most of the Socialist Party:

A) supported U.S. entry into World War I.
B) remained neutral.
C) encouraged their members to join in the war effort.
D) opposed the war.
E) worked with the Committee on Public Information.

Question 50

During World War I, federal powers:

A) stayed the same.
B) were delegated to the states.
C) expanded greatly.
D) were limited.
E) changed little.

Question 51

During World War I, the federal government:

A) intervened minimally in the economy.
B) encouraged farmers only to produce for American consumption.
C) increased corporate and individual income taxes.
D) pursued a laissez-faire economic policy.
E) established the minimum wage and the eight-hour day.

Question 52

All of the following groups supported Prohibition EXCEPT:

A) urban reformers wishing to undermine the city machines.
B) women reformers who believed men squandered their earnings on alcohol.
C) employers who hoped Prohibition would create a more disciplined labor force.
D) anti-immigrant Protestants who saw temperance as an American value.
E) Catholics who wished to curb the abuse of alcohol by the parishioners.

Question 53

When Eugene Debs was sentenced under the Espionage Act, what did he tell the jury?

A) that he was happy to serve as a martyr for his cause, like John Brown had before him
B) that Woodrow Wilson was an inept president who ought to be sentenced for sending young men into battle
C) that as a Socialist he rejected the Constitution of the United States
D) that Americans in the past who spoke out against colonialism, slavery, or the Mexican War were not indicted or charged with treason
E) that he was not a Communist spy as he had been charged and that he had been wrongly accused by his political opponents

Question 54

The Eighteenth Amendment:

A) prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.
B) prohibited the manufacture and sale of any German products.
C) was never ratified.
D) barred states from passing laws prohibiting alcohol manufacture or sale.
E) protected the beer industry.

Question 55

"Americanization":

A) was another term for "Fordism."
B) was supported by all Progressives.
C) recognized diversity.
D) refers to the process of assimilation.
E) refers to an economic system.

Question 56

The Espionage Act (1917) and the Sedition Act (1918):

A) expanded civil liberties during World War I.
B) were aimed only at immigrants.
C) were rarely enforced.
D) restricted freedom of speech.
E) were opposed by Woodrow Wilson.

Question 57

Which act restricted the freedom of speech by authorizing the arrest of anyone who made "false statements" that might impede military success?

A) the Alien Act
B) the Espionage Act
C) the War Powers Act
D) the Committee on Public Information Act
E) the Anti-German Act

Question 58

The American Protective League:

A) supported radicals charged under the Espionage and Sedition Acts.
B) was concerned about protecting immigrants from persecution.
C) was concerned about the threat to civil liberties.
D) sought to protect women from abuse.
E) worked with the Justice Department to identify radicals and slackers.

Question 59

Which company fired its employees if they failed to comply with the standards set by the Sociological Department for Americanization?

A) Standard Oil Company
B) U.S. Steel
C) American Tobacco Company
D) Northern Securities
E) Ford Motor Company

Question 60

Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress:

A) was a Socialist.
B) supported limited women's suffrage.
C) was pro-German.
D) supported U.S. entry into World War I.
E) did not support U.S. entry into World War I.

Question 61

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

A) restricted employment opportunities.
B) exclusion from domestic and unskilled labor.
C) exclusion from the public school system.
D) housing segregation.
E) violence.

Question 62

What did freedom mean to Garveyites?

A) the right to vote
B) education
C) training
D) national self-determination
E) economic opportunity

Question 63

Wartime repression of dissent and free speech culminated in:

A) the Great Migration.
B) the repeal of the First Amendment.
C) the Sedition Act.
D) the Alien Act.
E) the Red Scare.

Question 64

During his presidency, Woodrow Wilson:

A) premiered the movie Birth of a Nation at the White House.
B) banned the showing of the movie Birth of a Nation at the White House.
C) outlawed discrimination in federal agencies.
D) appointed several black judges.
E) was neutral regarding race.

Question 65

In response to the Russian Revolution that led to the creation of the communist Soviet Union, the United States:

A) diplomatically recognized the Soviet Union.
B) aided supporters of communist rule in the Soviet Union during a civil war in 1918.
C) invited the Soviet Union to the Versailles peace conference.
D) pursued a policy of anticommunism that would remain at the center of American foreign policy during the twentieth century.
E) invited Vladimir Lenin, the head of the Soviet Union, to the United States.

Question 66

All of the following statements about African-American participation during World War I are true EXCEPT:

A) the navy barred African-Americans entirely.
B) the army was segregated.
C) President Wilson allowed African-American soldiers to march in a victory parade in Paris.
D) the army barred most African-Americans from combat.
E) the army tried to persuade the French to not treat African-American soldiers as equals.

Question 67

The Red Scare:

A) was caused by the fear of a Russian invasion.
B) advanced the cause of labor.
C) strengthened the Industrial Workers of the World.
D) was an influenza epidemic.
E) was an intense period of political intolerance inspired by labor strikes and fears of the Russian Revolution.

Question 68

In 1919:

A) political unrest was confined to Europe.
B) labor and business cooperated.
C) every industry but steel went on strike.
D) there was much unrest and many strikes.
E) workers continued to honor the no-strike pledge.

Question 69

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

A) World War I had a minimal impact on the labor movement.
B) There were very few labor strikes after the war.
C) Wartime propaganda did not shape the way workers viewed the postwar period.
D) The wartime language of democracy and freedom inspired hopes among American workers that social and economic justice was at hand.
E) Workers abandoned their push for the eight-hour day.

Question 70

"The Great Migration" refers to:

A) whites settling the West.
B) Indian removal.
C) blacks moving from the South to the North.
D) blacks moving from the North to the South.
E) the massive influx of southern and eastern European immigrants.

Question 71

The Gentlemen's Agreement:

A) made Puerto Ricans citizens.
B) restricted Japanese immigration.
C) allowed Mexicans to cross over to America to take war jobs.
D) promised that labor unions would not strike during the war.
E) forbade German-Americans from registering for the draft.

Question 72

All of the following statements about the Great Steel Strike of 1919 are true EXCEPT:

A) the strike involved mostly nonimmigrant workers.
B) the strike took place in Chicago.
C) the strike involved 365,000 workers, most of whom were immigrants.
D) workers demanded union recognition.
E) workers won an eight-hour day.

Question 73

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

A) the prospect of higher wages.
B) the prospect of owning their own homes.
C) escaping the threat of lynching.
D) the prospect of being able to vote.
E) being able to educate their children.

Question 74

During World War I, Americans reacted to German-Americans and Germans in all of the following ways EXCEPT:

A) in Iowa, the governor required that all oral communication be done in English.
B) "hamburger" was changed to "liberty sandwich."
C) the director of the Boston Symphony was interned for playing the works of German composers.
D) the teaching of foreign languages was restricted in many states.
E) the federal government barred German immigration to the United States.

Question 75

All of the following statements about the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) are true EXCEPT:

A) it was founded in 1909.
B) it launched a long struggle to enforce the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.
C) it opposed higher education for African-Americans.
D) it was an interracial organization.
E) it used the court system to push for equality.

Question 76

All of the following statements about immigration policy during World War I are true EXCEPT:

A) Congress conferred citizenship upon Puerto Ricans.
B) Congress required that all immigrants pass IQ tests (intelligence tests).
C) Congress required that immigrants be literate in English or another language.
D) the government temporarily exempted Mexicans from the literacy test.
E) the state of California barred Asians from owning and leasing land.

Question 77

The anti-German crusade included all of the following measures EXCEPT:

A) changing "hamburger" to "liberty sandwich."
B) changing "sauerkraut" to "liberty cabbage."
C) banning German music.
D) the decline in teaching German language.
E) barring German-Americans from serving in the military.

Question 78

Which statement about race and the presidents is FALSE?

A) Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to the White House.
B) Theodore Roosevelt believed that blacks were fit for soldiering and suffrage.
C) Woodrow Wilson premiered the film Birth of a Nation in the White House.
D) Theodore Roosevelt dishonorably discharged black soldiers after an incident in Texas.
E) Woodrow Wilson imposed racial segregation in the federal government.

Question 79

Which statement about the Red Scare is FALSE?

A) Officials believed that labor strikes were connected to the Russian Revolution.
B) The government deported hundreds of immigrant radicals.
C) It propelled J. Edgar Hoover's career as an anticommunist government agent.
D) It resulted in substantial gains for workers.
E) It all but destroyed the IWW and the Socialist Party.

Question 80

Birth of a Nation was a film that:

A) glorified the nation's Revolutionary War era.
B) documented the suffrage movement.
C) was about the Indian Wars.
D) vilified the British in the War of 1812.
E) portrayed the Civil War and Reconstruction, exalting the Ku Klux Klan.