Unit 8 Test 1.24.16 Flashcards
The 1912 presidential election was notable because
it gave the voters a clear choice of political and economic philosophies
Before he was elected president in 1912, Woodrow Wilson had been
a state governor
In 1912, Woodrow Wilson ran for the presidency on a Democratic platform that included all of the following EXCEPT a call for
a. tariff reductions.
b. dollar diplomacy.
c. antitrust legislation.
d. monetary reform.
b. dollar diplomacy.
Woodrow Wilson’s New Freedom
favored small enterprise and entrepreneurship
Match each presidential candidate below with his political party.
A. Woodrow Wilson 1. Socialist
B. Theodore Roosevelt 2. Democratic
C. William Howard Taft 3. Republican
D. Eugene V. Debs 4. Progressive
a. A-2, B-4, C-3, D-1
b. A-1, B-3, C-4, D-2
c. A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1
d. A-3, B-1, C-2, D-4
a. A-2, B-4, C-3, D-1
Teddy Roosevelt’s New Nationalism
supported a broad program of social welfare and government regulation of business
As governor of New Jersey, Woodrow Wilson established a record as a
passionate reformer
When Jane Addams placed Teddy Roosevelt’s name in nomination for the presidency in 1912, it
symbolized the rising political status of women
When Congress passed the Underwood Tariff Bill in 1913, it intended the legislation to
lower tariff rates
In 1913, Woodrow Wilson broke with a custom dating back to Jefferson’s day when he
personally delivered his presidential address to Congress
Woodrow Wilson’s political philosophy included all of the following EXCEPT
a. scorn for the ideal of self-determination for minority peoples in other countries.
b. a belief that the president should provide leadership for congress.
c. faith in the masses.
d. a belief in the moral essence of politics.
a. scorn for the ideal of self-determination for minority peoples in other countries
In 1912, Woodrow Wilson became the first ____________________ elected to the presidency since the Civil War.
person born in the South
The Sixteenth Amendment provided for
a personal income tax
According to the text, the runaway philisophical winner in the 1912 election was
progressivism
Woodrow Wilson was most comfortable surrounded by
academic scholars
The Clayton-Antitrust Act
explicitly legalized strikes and peaceful picketing
Because of the benefits that it conferred on labor, Samuel Gompers called the _____________________ “labor’s Magna Charta.”
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
The first Jew to sit on the United States Supreme Court, appointed by Woodrow Wilson, was
Louis D. Brandeis
The Federal Reserve Act gave the Federal Reserve Board the authority to
issue paper money and increase the amount of money in circulation
When Woodrow Wilson became president in 1912, the most serious shortcoming in the country’s financial structure was the
currency was inelastic
The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 guaranteed a substantial measure of public control over the American banking system through the final authority given to the
presidentially appointed Federal Reserve Board
Woodrow Wilson’s attitude towards the masses can best be described as
having faith in them if they were properly educated
Congress passed the Underwood Tariff because
President Wilson aroused public opinion to support its passage
As a politician, Woodrow Wilson was
inflexible and stubborn
When Woodrow Wilson won reelection in 1916, he received strong support from the
working class
Which of the following American passenger liners was sunk by German submarines?
a. Sussex
b. Lusitania
c. Arabic
d. None of these was an American ship.
d. None of these was an American ship
The Progressive “Bull Moose” party died when
Teddy Roosevelt refused to run as the party’s presidential candidate in 1916
With the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the great majority of Americans
earnestly hoped to stay out of the war
President Wilson insisted that he would hold __________________ to “strict accountability” for __________________.
Germany; the loss of American ships and lives to submarine warfare
Central Powers
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Bulgaria
ABC Powers
Argentina, Brazil, and Chile
Woodrow Wilson’s early efforts to conduct an anti-imperialist U.S. foreign policy were first undermined when he
sent American marines to Haiti
Allies
France, Britain, Russia, Japan, and Italy
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.
d. Cuba.
Which term best characterizes Woodrow Wilson’s approach to American foreign policy diplomacy?
moralistic
From 1914 to 1916, trade between the United States and Britain
pulled the American economy out of a recession
President Woodrow Wilson refused to intervene in the affairs of Mexico until
American sailors were arrested in the Port of Tampico
One primary effect of World War I on the United States was that it
conducted an immense amount of trade with the Allies
German submarines began sinking unarmed and unresisting merchant and passenger ships without warning
in retaliation for the British naval blockade of Germany
In the Sussex pledge, Germany promised
not to sink passenger ships without warning
Woodrow Wilson showed the limits of his progressivism by
accelerating the segregation of blacks in the federal bureaucracy
As World War I began in Europe, the alliance system placed Germany and Austria-Hungary as leaders of the______________________, while Russia and France were among the _____________________.
Central Powers; Allies
Woodrow Wilson’s administration refused to extend formal diplomatic recognition to the government in Mexico headed by
Victoriano Huerta
President Woodrow Wilson persuaded the American people to enter World War I by
pledging to make the war “a war to end all wars” and to make the world safe for democracy
During World War I, the government’s treatment of labor could be best described as
fair
The major problem with George Creel and his Committee on Public Information was that
he oversold Wilson’s ideals and led the world to expect too much
The United States declared war on Germany
after German U-boats sank four unarmed American merchant vessels
The Zimmerman note involved a proposed secret agreement between
Germany and Mexico
When the United States entered World War I, it was
poorly prepared to leap into global war
Which of the following was NOT among Wilson’s Fourteen Points upon which he based America’s idealistic foreign policy in World War I?
a. reduction of armaments.
b. abolition of secret treaties.
c. a new international organization to guarantee collective security.
d. international religious freedom and toleration.
d. international religious freedom and toleration.
Match each civilian adminitrator below with the World War I mobilization agency that he directed
A. George Creel 1. War Industries Board
B. Herbert Hoover 2. Committee on Public Information
C. Bernard Baruch 3. Food Administration
D. William Howard Taft 4. National War Labor Board
A-2, B-3, C-1, D-4
As a result of their work supporting the war effort, women
finally received the right to vote
President Wilson broke diplomatic relations with Germany when
Germany announced that it would wage unrestricted submarine warfare in the Atlantic
President Wilson viewed America’s entry into World war I as an opportunity for the United States to
shape a new international order based on the ideals of democracy
During World War I, civil liberties in America were
denied to many, especially those suspected of disloyalty
The two groups who suffered most from the violation of civil liberties during World War I were
German Americans and social radicals
Two constitutional amendments adopted in part becuse of wartime influences were the Eighteenth, which dealt with ____________________________, and the Nineteenth, whose subject was ____________________________.
prohibition; woman suffrage
Grievances of labor during and shortly after World war I include all of the following EXCEPT
a. suppression of the American Federation of Labor.
b. the inability to gain the right to organize.
c. violence against workers by employers.
d. war-spawned inflation.
a. suppression of the American Federation of Labor.
Most wartime mobilization agencies relied on _________________ to prepare the economy for war.
voluntary compliance
Those who protested conscription during World War I did so because
they disliked the idea of compelling a person to serve
When the United States entered the war in 1917, most Americans did not believe that
it would be necessary to send a large American army to Europe
Russia’s withdrawl from World War I in 1918 resulted in
the release of thousands of German troops for deployment on the front in France
As a condition of ending World War I, Woodrow Wilson demanded that
the German kaiser be forced from power
The second battle of the Marne was significant because it
marked the beginning of a German withdrawl that was never reversed
The supreme military commander of American forces during World War I was
John J. Pershing
The 1919 steel strike resulted in
a grievous setback crippling the union movement for a decade
The United States used all of the following methods to support the war effort EXCEPT
a. forcing some people to buy war bonds.
b. having “heatless Mondays” to conserve fuel.
c. seizing enemy merchant vessels trapped in American harbors.
d. using government power extensively to regulate the economy.
d. using government power extensively to regulate the economy.
The movement of tens of thousands of Southern blacks north during WWI resulted in
racial violence in the North
In order to make eonomic mobilization more efficient during World War I, the federal government took over and operated
the railroads
Most of the money raised to finance World War I came from
loans from the American public
The two major battles of World War I in which United States forces were engaged were
St. Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne Offensive
The World War I military draft
generally worked fairly and effectively to provide military manpower
During World War I, American troops fought in all of the following countries EXCEPT
a. Russia.
b. Czechoslovakia.
c. Belgium.
d. Italy.
b. Czechoslovakia
In Congress, the most reliable support for Wilson’s position on the League of Nations came from
Democrats
The Senate likely would have accepted American participation in the League of Nations if Wilson had
been willing to compromise with League opponents in Congress
The chief difference between Woodrow Wilson and the parliamentary statesman at the Paris peace table was that Wilson
did not command a legislative majority at home
The initial Republican strategy regarding the Treaty of Versailles was to
delay and amend the treaty
The United States’ main contribution to the Allied victory in World War I included all of the following EXCEPT
a. munitions.
b. battlefield victories.
c. oil.
d. foodstuffs.
b. battlefield victories
Republican isolationists successfully turned Warren Harding’s preidential victory into a
death sentence for the League of Nations
Senate opponents of the League of Nations as proposed in the Treaty of Versailles argued that it
robbed Congress of its war-declaring powers
Woodrow Wilson’s call for a “solemn referendum” in 1920 referred to
his belief that the presidential election should determine the fate of the Treaty of Versailles
Opposition to the League of Nations by many United States Senators during the Paris Peace Conference
gave Allied leaders in Paris a stronger bargaining position
The major weakness of the League of Nations was that it
did not include the United States
After the Treaty of Versailles had been signed, Woodrow Wilson
was condemned by both disillusioned liberals and frustrated nationalists and imperialists
The Germans were heavily demoralized by
the United States’ unlimited troop reserves
Woodrow Wilson’s ultimate goal at the Paris Peace Conference was to
establish the League of Nations
At the Paris Peace Conference, Wilson sought all of the following goals EXCEPT
a. preventing a seizure of territory by the victors.
b. an end to the European colonial empires in Africa and Asia.
c. a world parliament of nations to provide collective security.
d. free trade and freedom of the seas.
b. an end to the European colonial empires in Africa and Asia
In the United States, the most controversial aspect of the Treaty of Versailles was
Article X
Who was finally most responsible for the Senate defeat of the Treaty of Versailles?
Woodrow Wilson
