Unit 6 Test

Question 1

Muckraking

Answer 1

Journalism exposing economic, social, and political evils, so named by Theodore Roosevelt for its “raking the muck” of American society

Question 2

Prohibition

Answer 2

A ban on the production, transportation, and sale of liquor, achieved temporarily through state laws and the Eighteenth Amendment

Question 3

Initiative

Answer 3

Procedure by which citizens can introduce a subject for legislation, usually through a petition signed by a specific number of voters

Question 4

Recall

Answer 4

The process of removing an official from office by popular vote, usually after using petitions to call for such a vote.

Question 5

Referendum

Answer 5

Submission of a law, proposed or already in effect, to a direct popular vote for approval or rejection

Question 6

16th amendment

Answer 6

Constitutional revision in 1913 that authorized a federal income tax.

Question 7

17th amendment

Answer 7

Constitutional change in 1913 that established the direct popular election of U.S. senators

Question 8

18th amendment

Answer 8

Constitutional revision, adopted in 1919, that prohibited the production and sale of alcohol in the United States

Question 9

19th amendment

Answer 9

Constitutional revision, that in 1920 established women citizen’s right to vote

Question 10

Yellow Press

Answer 10

A deliberately sensational journalism of scandal and exposure designed to attract an urban mass audience and increase advertising revenues.

Question 11

Spheres of influence

Answer 11

Regions dominated and controlled by an outside power

Question 12

Platt Amendment

Answer 12

A stipulation to the United States has inserted into the Cuban constitution in 1901 restricting Cuban autonomy and authorizing U.S. intervention and naval bases.

Question 13

Espionage Act

Answer 13

Law whose vague prohibition against obstructing the nation’s war effort was used to crush dissent and criticism during World War I.

Question 14

Sedition Act of 1918

Answer 14

Broad law restricting criticism of America’s involvement in World War I or the American government, flag, military, taxes, or officials

Question 15

Selective Service Act of 1917

Answer 15

The law establishing the military draft for World War I.

Question 16

Bolshevik

Answer 16

Member of the Communist movement in Russia that established the Soviet government after the 1917 Russian Revolution

Question 17

Red Scare

Answer 17

Post- World War I anti-Bolshevik hysteria in the United States directed against labor activists, radical dissenters, and some ethnic groups.

Question 18

Oligopoly

Answer 18

An industry, such as steel making or automobile manufacturing, that is controlled by a few large companies

Question 19

Open Shop

Answer 19

Factory or business employing workers whether or not they are union members; in practice, such a business usually refuses to hire union members and follows anti union policies.

Question 20

Yellow-dog contracts

Answer 20

Employment agreements binding workers not to join a union

Question 21

Welfare capitalism

Answer 21

A paternalistic system of labor relations emphasizing management responsibility for employee well-being

Question 22

Great Migration

Answer 22

The mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North, spurred especially by new job opportunities during World War I and the 1920’s

Question 23

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 23

A new African American cultural awareness that flourished in literature, art, and music in the 1920s.

Question 24

National Origins Act of 1924

Answer 24

Law sharply restricting immigration on the basis of immigrants; national origins and discriminating against southern and eastern Europeans and Asians

Question 25

Volstead Act

Answer 25

The 1920 law defining the liquor forbidden under the 18th Amendment and giving enforcement responsibilities to the Prohibition Bureau of the Department of the Treasury

Question 26

Multinational Corporations

Answer 26

Firms with direct investments, branches, factories, and offices in a number of countries

Question 27

In the early twentieth century, about how many workers were injured at work each year?

Answer 27

Half a million

Question 28

What type of people established and staffed settlement houses?

Answer 28

Middle class young women because most careers were closed for them.

Question 29

What ideas/beliefs drove the “progressive movement”?

Answer 29

Promote greater democracy and responsibility, improve the efficiency of government, eliminate corruption, or increase their own influence.

Question 30

What were some of the rationales for imperialism in the era 1890-1910?

Answer 30

Racism and Social Darwinism, Righteousness, Mahanism, and Economics

Question 31

Which many social issues were generally ignored by progressive reformers?

Answer 31

Social Control, Racism, Prohibition, immigration

Question 32

What social changes during the progressive ear enabled women to demand equal rights?

Answer 32

The growing importance of women in the work force; the growth of women’s clubs/ the creation of other organizations

Question 33

What was the primary goal of the American government;s imperialistic policies?

Answer 33

To expand American ideals and institutions into East Asia and Latin America

Question 34

What was the effect of the Platt Amendment?

Answer 34

Restricted Cuban autonomy and granted U.S. the authority to intervene and house naval bases

Question 35

Self-determination

Answer 35

The right of a people or nation to decide its own political allegiance or form of government without external influence

Question 36

What caused the East St. Louis Riot/Massacre?

Answer 36

Fearful and resentful whites causing race riots

Question 37

The Treaty of Versailles placed sole responsibility for the start of World War I on who?

Answer 37

Germany

Question 38

What happened when “real wages” failed to keep pace in the period from 1923-1927?

Answer 38

Consumers began to rely more heavily on installment plans

Question 39

What improper government conduct was revealed in the Teapot Dome scandal?

Answer 39

Albert Fall was convicted of accepting bribes from the oil companies, Fall became the first presidential cabinet member to go to prison

Question 40

Why did blacks migrate to the urban North from the South?

Answer 40

To escape racial violence, pursue economic and educational opportunities, and obtain freedom from the oppression of Jim Crow

Question 41

How did the experience of World War I affect life in the 1920s?

Answer 41

The US went from a debtor to a creditor nation, jazz, movies, radio and professional sports became popular, society was divided over issues such as alcohol use

Question 42

Where did the United States exert the most international influence in the 1920s?

Answer 42

Latin America

Question 43

How were the Republicans perceived, in light of the war in Europe, and how did it help Wilson in the Election of 1916?

Answer 43

The republicans were perceived as the war party. It helped Wilson because the people were against the war.

Question 44

What was one important effect of the collective importance of wartime agencies?

Answer 44

It set a valuable precedent for government activism in the economy

Question 45

What were Wilson’s Fourteen Points and what issue did they focus on?

Answer 45

The League of Nations and America’s War objectives- creating new nations, shifting old borders, or ensuring self determination for people previously subjected to a European empire.

Question 46

How did the war improve labor relations?

Answer 46

War contracts ensured fair working conditions and wages.

Question 47

William McKinley

Answer 47

Republican 1897-1901

Question 48

Theodore Roosevelt

Answer 48

Republican 1901-1909

Question 49

William Taft

Answer 49

Republican 1909-1913

Question 50

Woodrow Wilson

Answer 50

Democrat 1913-1921

Question 51

Warren Harding

Answer 51

Republican 1921-1923

Question 52

Calvin Coolidge

Answer 52

Republican 1923-1929

Question 53

Herbert Hoover

Answer 53

Republican 1929-1933