Chapter 20 Self-Quiz 1

. Following World War I, Walter Lippmann, Progressive co-founder of the New Republic, encountered a world in which the following had been accomplished.

the sublimation of evil

the conquest of social problems through reason and technology

the perfectibility of man and society

none of the above

. All of the following refer to the Mexican Revolution of 1911 EXCEPT:

The revolution was spurred in part by resentment against foreign businessmen, particularly those in the petroleum industry.

The revolution was led by a group of intellectuals and planners called cientificos.

The Mexican army collapsed, and President Porfirio Diaz fled to Spain in exile.

Americans in 1911 owned a larger share of property in Mexico than the Mexicans themselves.

. President Wilson sent American troops to all of the following EXCEPT

Mexico.

Haiti.

Panama and Nicaragua.

Granada.

. In August of 1914, as war erupted in Europe, most Americans

felt that America should maintain a neutral role in the conflict.

believed that the U.S. government should fund England's war effort.

called for direct American military involvement on the Western Front.

protested against President Wilson's decision not to send troops.

. According to Walter Lippmann, writing after the fact, the sinking of the Lusitania

was an unprecedented act of war.

united Englishmen and Americans in a common grief.

was "the Pearl Harbor of our generation".

all of the above

. Woodrow Wilson's combination of idealism and self-interest, humanitarianism and force meant that he

Expressed support for Taft's policies of dollar diplomacy

Refused to intervene militarily in foreign countries

secretly hoped for an excuse for the United States to enter World War I.

had a contradictory foreign policy.

. Which of the following is NOT true of American pre-war involvement

By 1917 the United State economy was already deeply involved in the war

Wilson believed that a German victory would harm American interests

Many Irish Americans sided with Germany

American Marines were already on the ground in Europe, helping the British.

. All of the following refer to the presidential election of 1916 EXCEPT:

President Wilson was dependent on a narrow margin in California to assemble his electoral-vote majority.

Former President Theodore Roosevelt returned to the Republican Party because he believed that Wilson had failed to defend American honor in Mexico and Europe.

Wilson's ace-in-the-hole was the slogan "He kept us out of war."

Women suffragists campaigned against President Wilson.

. During the war President Wilson regimented the national economy by all of these means EXCEPT

the implementation of "cost-plus" contracts for businesses supplying war materials.

the nationalization of the railroads.

the imposition of wage and price controls.

imploring automobile manufacturers to cut output to allow for the production of army tanks.

. The war economy came about as the result of which two seemingly-contradictory forces

Wilson's pacifism and Americans' enthusiasm for victory.

German people fleeing to France, Great Britain, and the United States.

Wall Street's drive for corporate consolidation and progressives' push for federal regulation.

Mexican laborers entering the United States without documentation, and Americans' anti-illegal immigrant beliefs.

. Which of the following encouraged African Americans to relocate from the South to the North during the war?

lynchings, intimidation, and racist attitudes at home

a hurricane which wiped out many black share croppers' houses and farms

promises of equal pay to what they were making in the South

northern labor unionizers promised southern blacks free housing if they moved

. Which describes the move for ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920?

President Wilson did not support ratification.

Women suffragists linked women's suffrage with the nation's war aims.

Women suffragists used local, grass roots organizing to gain support.

All of the above describe the move for ratification.

. Wilson's "Fourteen Points" included all of the following EXCEPT

a League of Nations.

freedom of the seas in peace and war.

ethnic self-determination.

closed diplomacy.

. The U.S. Senate refused to ratify Wilson's Treaty of Versailles for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

The Senate had a Republican majority and did not wish to see the Democratic president triumph politically.

Senators feared that the League of Nations would determine American foreign policy.

Senators viewed Latin America as more important than Europe to U.S. security.

Senators wanted to focus diplomatic strategies on American economic policy.

. Sacco and Vanzetti were believed to be a threat to the United States because

they had been convicted of murder and robbery.

they were self-proclaimed anarchists.

they were in the country illegally.

they had served in the Italian army during World War I.

. President Wilson believed the US could use military power to enforce progressive change in Latin America.

TRUE

FALSE

. President Wilson wanted the US to be neutral in the war between Germany and England.

TRUE

FALSE

. In asking the Congress for a declaration of War, President Wilson embraced the Allies' war aims.

TRUE

FALSE

. Wartime propaganda targeted German-Americans and American pacifists.

TRUE

FALSE

. White property owners and real estate agents worked during the war to keep minorities in clearly defined boundaries so as not to affect the prices of housing.

TRUE

FALSE

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