Quiz 19-21 Flashcards
President Theodore Roosevelt transformed the American navy by emphasizing which of the following strategies?
a. Targeted commerical raiding
b. Revamped coastal defense
c. The construction of small, fast ships to defend the coastline
d. Creating battleships and other large ships that could project power across oceans
Creating battleships and other large ships that could project power across oceans
How did the Roosevelt Corollary modify the Monroe Doctrine?
a. By creating the Great White Fleet to project American Power in the Pacific Ocaen and around the world
b. By declaring that the U.S. had the right to preemptive action through intervention in any Latin American nation
c. By encouraging the independence movement in the Philippines
d. Through an avoidance of dollar diplomacy and gunboat diplomacy
By declaring that the U.S. had the right to preemptive action through intervention in any Latin American nation
Which of the following definitions best describes the work of muckrakers?
a. Investigative journalists
b. Organized crime hitmen
c. Social workers
d. Legislators who defended lynching
Investigative journalists
What legal principle was enshrined by the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson?
a. Habeas corpus
b. Separate but equal
c. No taxation without representation
d. Judical review
Separate but equal
Who advocated racial accomodationism?
a. W.E.B. DuBois
b. Ida B. Wells
c. Booker T. Washington
d. Eugene Debs
Bookter T. Washington
Which of the following best describes the Social Gospel?
a. The belief that Christ would return to Earth in the next decade
b. A theological defense of segregation
c. A religious movement of temperance activists
d. A belief that Christian principles required the pursuit of social reform
A belief that Christian principles required the pursuit of social reform.
What was the first Congressional Act that restricted immigration on the basis of race?
a. The Immigration Act of 1992
b. The Chinese Exclusion Act
c. The Page Act
d. The Ammigration Act of 1924
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Which of these was a turning point for US entry into World War I?
a. The Zimmermann Telegram
b. The Selective Service Act
c. The Espionage Act
d. THe Treaty of Versailles
The Zimmermann Telegram
What was the Red Summer of 1919?
a. A series of communist revolts in Eastern Europe
b. A failed communist revolution in mExico
c. Racial violence in twenty-five American cities
d. All of the above
Racial violence in twenty-five American cities
What was the Great Migration?
a. The wave of immigration from Italy and Eastern Europe that transformed America in the late 19th to early 20th centuries
b. The process of white settlement of the American West
c. The movement of the center of the US population from the Eastern Seaboard to the MIdwest
d. A decades-long migration of African Americans from the American South to the North
A decades-long migration of African Ameriacns from the American South to the North
