Deck 8: Wilsonian Progressivism in Peace and War, 1913-1920

Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Carrie Chapman Catt

Answer 1

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Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Henry Cabot Lodge

Answer 2

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Question 3

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

Answer 3

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Question 4

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

Question 5

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

Question 6

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

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Herbert Hoover

Question 8

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​George Creel

Question 9

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

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Bernard Baruch

Question 11

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

Question 12

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

Question 13

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

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Alice Paul

Question 15

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

Question 16

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

Question 17

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

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Francisco (Pancho) Villa

Question 19

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

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​William D. ("Big Bill") Haywood

Question 21

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

Question 22

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

Question 23

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

Question 24

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

Question 25

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

Question 26

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

Question 27

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Schenck v. United States (1919)

Question 28

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

Question 29

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

Question 30

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Allies

Question 31

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

Question 32

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Sarajevo

Question 33

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Zimmermann note

Question 34

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

Question 35

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

Question 36

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

Question 37

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Meuse-Argonne offensive

Question 38

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Committee on Public Information

Question 39

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Lusitania

Question 40

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Fourteen Points

Question 41

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​Europe and the Ottoman Empire during World War I, 1914-1917
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____ Three nations associated as the Allies at the outbreak of World War I.

Question 42

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act

Question 43

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Battle of Château-Thierry

Question 44

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​Europe and the Ottoman Empire during World War I, 1914-1917
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____ The nation where an assassination ignited World War I.

Question 45

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​Europe and the Ottoman Empire during World War I, 1914-1917
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____ Locate the North Sea.

Question 46

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Nineteenth Amendment

Question 47

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​Europe and the Ottoman Empire during World War I, 1914-1917
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____ Locate the Black Sea.

Question 48

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​Europe and the Ottoman Empire during World War I, 1914-1917
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____ Three of the nations who became associated as the Central Powers during World War I.

Question 49

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​irreconcilables

Question 50

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

Question 51

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​Europe and the Ottoman Empire during World War I, 1914-1917
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____ Identify the area of the Low Countries through which invading German armies passed on their way toward France.

Question 52

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​American Expeditionary Forces (AEF)

Question 53

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​Europe and the Ottoman Empire during World War I, 1914-1917
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____ Locate the nation that joined the Allies later, after the outbreak of World War I.

Question 54

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​War Industries Board

Question 55

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 56

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​League of Nations

Question 57

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 58

Woodrow Wilson was most comfortable when surrounded by

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

Question 59

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Treaty of Versailles

Question 60

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​Europe and the Ottoman Empire during World War I, 1914-1917
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____ Locate the neutral nation of Spain.

Question 61

Woodrow Wilson showed the limits of his progressivism by

A) opposing workingmen's compensation.
B) opposing the entry of women into politics.
C) endorsing immigration limitations on Japanese and Chinese immigrants.
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 62

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 General Pershing to capture Pancho Villa after Villa staged raids into New Mexico.
E) None of these choices are correct.

Question 63

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

A) Felix Frankfurter.
B) Benjamin Cardozo.
C) Abraham Cahan.
D) Louis D. Brandeis.
E) Bernard Baruch.

Question 64

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 65

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) weakened regulations against interlocking directorates and private discrimination against different purchasers.

Question 66

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 House and the Senate.
C) banking shareholders.
D) regional Federal Reserve banks.
E) the presidentially appointed Federal Reserve Board.

Question 67

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 68

To secure passage of the Underwood Tariff Bill, President Woodrow Wilson 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) All of these choices are correct.

Question 69

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) Santa Anna.

Question 70

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) failed to write a presidential State of the Union address to be read by a clerk to Congress.

Question 71

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.

Question 72

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) provoking a full-fledged shooting war between Mexico and the United States.
E) None of these choices are correct.

Question 73

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 wealthy farmers with significant landholdings.
D) many followed the harvest as fruit pickers.
E) they helped create a unique culture that blended Mexican and American folkways.

Question 74

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

A) Federal Reserve Act
B) Underwood Tariff Act
C) Clayton Anti-Trust Act
D) Wagner National Labor Relations Act
E) Workmen's Compensation Act

Question 75

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) heavy state and federal regulation of big business and trusts that handicapped the development of business in America.
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 76

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 77

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) permit the free coinage of silver.
E) guarantee individual banking deposits against bank failures.

Question 78

Wilson's progressive programs provided relief to

A) sailors.
B) farmers and agricultural colleges.
C) civil service workers.
D) train employees involved in interstate commerce.
E) All of these choices are correct.

Question 79

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 80

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.