APUSHDr. I. Ibokette

Unit 8 Practice Questions

True/False Questions

  1. The two-party system of the late nineteenth century was remarkably stable. Page: 531
  1. Voter turnout for presidential elections in the late nineteenth century was much higher in terms of percentages than is the case today. Page: 531
  1. Party identification in the late nineteenth century was usually a reflection more of cultural identity than of economic calculation. Page: 531
  1. The Republican Party of the late nineteenth century appealed primarily to Protestants, in both the North and the South. Page: 531
  1. President Cleveland generally questioned the wisdom of protective tariffs.Page: 533
  1. The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was used largely against labor unions. Page: 534
  1. Democratic President Grover Cleveland was fairly consistent in his belief in and commitment to minimal government. Page: 534
  1. Like the Granges, the Farmers’ Alliances formed cooperatives and other marketing mechanisms. Page: 536, 537
  1. The new People’s Party sought to bring together farmers and urban workers. Page: 537
  1. During its short life, Populism was able to attract significant industrial labor support. 539
  1. Bigotry was the dominant force behind the Populist movement. Page: 539
  1. The economic collapse of the 1890s was the worst to that point in American history. P 539
  1. President Cleveland damaged himself politically when he moved to repeal the Sherman Silver Purchase Act. Page: 542
  1. In 1896, the Democratic Party sought to appeal primarily to voters in the West and the South. Page: 543
  1. In 1896, the Populists refused to join with the Democrats. Page: 544
  1. During the late nineteenth century, the supply of money did not keep pace with economic progress. Page: 547
  1. The United States led Europe in establishing an empire in the late nineteenth century. 548
  2. Some American sugar growers in Hawaii deliberately sought to create a mixed-race workforce. Page: 551
  1. For the ten years before 1899, America jockeyed over dominance of Samoa with Spain and France.Page: 554
  1. American attention to the cause of Cuba Libre was spurred by the 1895 death of ValerianoWeyler, head of the Cuban Revolutionary Party. Page: 554
  1. A naval court of inquiry reported that the Maine had been blown up by an external explosion. Page: 555
  1. In the last few months leading up to war with Spain, President McKinley sought to involve the United States in the conflict in Cuba.Page: 555
  1. The United States was forced to rely on the regular army and a military draft in fighting the Spanish-American War. Page: 555
  1. The fact that black Cuban soldiers fought alongside whites as equals gave black American soldiers a stronger sense of the injustices they faced. Page: 555
  1. Early in the Spanish-American War, Commodore George Dewey managed to completely destroy the Spanish fleet in the Pacific at Manila Bay.Page: 558
  1. The American annexation of Puerto Rico produced a storm of protest in the United States. Page: 560
  1. The Treaty of Paris of 1898 required Spain to cede Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Guam to American control, without any compensation. Page: 560
  1. American imperialists were racists; American anti-imperialists were not. Page: 560
  1. The Platt Amendment left the Philippines only nominally independent, politically. Page: 561
  1. In the decade following the Spanish-American War, American troops could be found in both Cuba and the Philippines. Page: 562
  1. American troops were sent to China to help subdue the Boxer Rebellion. Page: 564
  1. The Spanish-American War revealed glaring deficiencies in the American military. Page: 565
  1. Progressives tended to believe that the doctrine of Social Darwinism was the correct starting point for creating a better world. Page: 570
  1. Progressives held that an enlightened public could change the world.Page: 569
  2. Ida Tarbell and Lincoln Steffens could both be called muckrakers.Page: 569
  1. The settlement house movement was built by middle-class reformers to help inner-city residents. Page: 570
  1. The new middle class of the turn of the century placed a high value on moral values, but not on formal education. Page: 571
  1. During the progressive era, doctors, lawyers, and other professionals worked to limit entry into their fields, to keep out “undesirables.” Page: 571-572
  1. The “new woman” was less likely to marry and more likely to divorce.Page: 574
  1. The middle-class women’s club movement confined itself to working on middle-class issues. Page: 574
  1. Anna Howard Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt were among the most prominent leaders of the anti-suffrage movement. Page: 574, 575
  1. Former “mugwumps” became important supporters of progressive political reform activity. Page: 577
  1. The secret ballot enhanced the power of the two-party system over the average voter. Page: 577
  1. The urban political machine was a good source of jobs for newer immigrants. Page: 577
  1. Progressive reformers tried to strengthen the power of the mayor over the city council. 577
  1. The direct primary and the recall were both reforms designed to enhance the power of political parties in the United States. Page: 579
  1. Progressive reforms tended to increase voter turnout in presidential elections. Page: 577
  1. The urban political machine Tammany Hall grew increasingly interested in progressive reform during the progressive era. Page: 580
  1. W. E. B. Du Bois was highly critical of Booker T. Washington’s philosophy. 581
  1. During the progressive era, employers were generally unconcerned about the problem of alcohol. Page: 583
  1. The temperance movement was strengthened by World War I. Page: 585
  1. Political reformers correctly regarded the saloon as in league with the urban political machine. Page: 583
  2. Many progressive reformers agreed that the growth of immigration had created social problems in American cities. Page: 585
  1. By the beginning of World War I, the nativist tide in America had peaked and was falling. Page: 585
  1. The political popularity of the Socialist Party peaked at the end of World War I. Page: 587
  1. Louis Brandeis and Herbert Croly agreed that bigness in business had to be eradicated. 587
  1. Theodore Roosevelt was both a progressive reformer and decidedly conservative. Page: 588
  1. As president, Theodore Roosevelt quickly rebelled against the leaders of his party. Page: 588
  1. Theodore Roosevelt received financial advice from J. P. Morgan.Page: 593
  1. During his first three years in office, President Theodore Roosevelt was less concerned with reform than he was with not upsetting the conservative wing of his party. Page: 588
  1. As president, William Howard Taft found himself pleasing the progressives and alienating the conservatives within his own party. Page: 594
  1. In the controversy between Gifford Pinchot and Richard Ballinger, President Taft supported Ballinger. Page: 594
  1. Theodore Roosevelt’s New Nationalism called for the elevation of “the public welfare” over the rights of property. Page: 595
  1. In 1913, the first modern income tax imposed a 10 percent tax on individuals earning over $4,000 a year. Page: 597
  1. Woodrow Wilson helped create the Federal Reserve system as part of his effort to end trusts. Page: 597
  1. In 1916, President Wilson appointed Louis Brandeis, a Jew, to the Supreme Court. Page: 598
  1. During his presidency, Woodrow Wilson moved ever farther away from his New Nationalism. Page: 597-598
  1. President Roosevelt did not believe that Japan could be considered among the ranks of the “civilized” countries. Page: 603
  1. President Taft’s “Dollar Diplomacy” brought stability to Latin America. Page: 605
  1. In his diplomacy, President Wilson approached Latin America in a way that was very similar to the approach of presidents Roosevelt and Taft. Page: 605
  2. In his dealings with Mexico, President Wilson often ignored Mexican sovereignty. Page: 605
  1. In early 1915, virtually the entire European continent was at war as a result of an assassination of an Austrian archduke. Page: 607
  1. The American response to the war in Europe was to accept the British blockade of Germany and continue trading with Great Britain. Page: 608
  1. The German submarine attack on the British liner the Lusitania resulted in the death of more than 100 Americans.Page: 608
  1. Between 1914 and 1916, the United States gradually transformed itself from a neutral country into an arsenal of the Allies. Page: 608
  1. President Wilson refused to endorse American military rearmament until he was reelected in 1916. Page: 608
  1. The Zimmermann telegram proposed an alliance between Mexico and Germany against the United States. Page: 609
  1. When the United States entered World War I, Germany was near defeat.Page: 610
  1. The entrance of the American military into World War I had its most immediate impact on the naval war in the Atlantic Ocean. Page: 610
  1. The majority of American soldiers who fought in World War I were volunteers. Page: 611
  1. The application of new technology during World War I was most evident in sea warfare. Page: 613
  1. Britain lost more men in World War I then either France or the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Page: 614
  1. The United States financed World War I solely through public bond sales.Page: 614
  1. The War Industries Board, which coordinated government purchases of military supplies, was headed by Herbert Hoover.Page: 614
  1. Most industrial laborers were required to work longer hours during World War I. Page: 615
  1. One of the most important social changes of the war years was the migration of hundreds of thousands of African Americans from the rural South to California to work in defense plants and shipyards. This became known as the “Great Migration.”Page: 616
  1. By 1917 the American decision to go to war was almost universally supported throughout the country. Page: 617
  1. The Espionage Act and the Sedition Act made criticism of the government a crime. 619
  1. In 1918, more than 1,500 people were arrested for criticizing the government. Page: 619
  1. Wilson’s “Fourteen Points” did not at first include a call for a League of Nations. Page: 620
  1. The wild acclaim given by the European public to President Wilson allowed him to dominate the terms of the Paris Peace Conference. Page: 621
  1. Republicans scored major victories in both houses of Congress in the elections of 1918. 621
  1. The new Bolshevik government of Russia was not a participant in the Paris Peace Conference. Page: 621
  1. President Wilson was unable to win British and French support for his ideas of free trade and freedom of the seas. Page: 621
  1. During the ratification debate on the Treaty of Versailles, it was clear the Republicans would not compromise with President Wilson. Page: 623
  1. President Wilson refused to consider any Republican amendments or reservations to the Treaty of Versailles. Page: 623
  1. The participation of blacks in the American army in World War I led to calls for integration of the military. Page: 624-625
  1. The race riots of 1919 did not just involve white people attacking black people; they also saw blacks retaliate against these attacks. Page: 625
  1. Marcus Garvey called for blacks to reject capitalism. Page: 626
  1. The Red Scare was primarily the result of anti-radical actions by various state governments. Page: 627
  1. The Sacco and Vanzetti case is in part a story of the lingering effects of the Red Scare on post-World War I American society. Page: 628
  1. Passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, granting women the right to vote, marked the beginning of a new era of progressive reform. Page: 629