unit six test

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Muckraking

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Initiative

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Prohibition

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Recall

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Referendum

Question 6

Constitutional revision in 1913 that authorized a federal income tax.

Answer 6

16th amendment

Question 7

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

Answer 7

18th Amendment

Question 7

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

Answer 7

17th amendment

Question 8

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

Answer 8

19th amendment

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Yellow Press

Question 10

Regions dominated and controlled by an outside power

Answer 10

Spheres of influence

Question 11

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.

Answer 11

Platt Amendment

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Espionage Act

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Sedition Act of 1918

Question 14

The law establishing the military draft for World War I.

Answer 14

Selective Act of 1917

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Red Scare

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Bolshevik

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Oligopoly

Question 17

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.

Answer 17

Open Shop

Question 18

Employment agreements binding workers not to join a union

Answer 18

Yellow-dog contracts

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Welfare capitalism

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Great Migration

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Harlem Renaissance

Question 22

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

Answer 22

National Origins Act of 1924

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Volstead Act

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Multinational Corporations

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Half a million

Question 25

What type of people established and staffed settlement houses?

Answer 25

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

Question 26

What ideas/beliefs drove the “progressive movement”?

Answer 26

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

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Racism and Social Darwinism, Righteousness, Mahanism, and Economics

Question 28

Which many social issues were generally ignored by progressive reformers?

Answer 28

Social Control, Racism, Prohibition, immigration

Question 28

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

Answer 28

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

Question 29

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

Answer 29

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

Question 29

What was the effect of the Platt Amendment?

Answer 29

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

Question 29

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

Answer 29

Self-determination

Question 29

What caused the East St. Louis Riot/Massacre?

Answer 29

Fearful and resentful whites causing race riots

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Germany

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Consumers began to rely more heavily on installment plans

Question 30

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

Answer 30

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

Question 31

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

Answer 31

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

Question 31

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

Answer 31

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 32

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

Answer 32

Latin America

Question 33

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

Answer 33

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

Question 33

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

Answer 33

It set a valuable precedent for government activism in the economy

Question 33

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

Answer 33

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 34

How did the war improve labor relations?

Answer 34

War contracts ensured fair working conditions and wages.