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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Led the Mugwumps to victory in the presidential election of 1904.
B argued that any government interference in society would have negative consequences.
C were two early challengers of Social Darwinism
D offered practical and pragmatic proposals to solve the problems of late 19th century society that were quickly instituted into law.
Question #2
A ratification of the 19th Amendment.
B ratification of the 17th Amendment.
C ratification of the Voting Rights Amendment.
D ratification of the 18th Amendment.
Question #3
A Dollar Diplomacy
B restatement of the Berlin Accords.
C Good Neighbor Policy.
D Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.
Question #4
A supported Columbia’s claim of ownership of Panama.
B aided a revolution in Panama against Columbia.
C invoked the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty with England which allowed either nation to build a canal in Central America.
D purchased the right of way through Panama from England.
Question #5
A Woodrow Wilson, who believed that an American economic blockade against Mexico would force the Mexicans to select a president acceptable to the United States.
B William McKinley, who believed that American colonialism was the answer to pull the U.S. out of the Panic of the early 1890s.
C William Howard Taft, who favored economic penetratiion of foreign markets by American banks and corporations.
D Theodore Roosevelt, who urged greater American investment in China.
Question #6
A Theodore Roosevelt
B William McKinley
C Woodrow Wilson
D Willaim Howard Taft
Question #7
A The split in the Republican Party in 1912.
B The Philippine Insurrection
C The Supreme Court ruling in Baker v. Carr.
D World War I
Question #8
A bigness is the equivalent of badness.
B regulation of large corporations should be left to state and local authorities.
C trusts were a good thing for the economy and government should leave business leaders alone to run their businesses as they saw fit.
D the federal government should break up large corporations only in cases of monopoly or flagrant abuses.
Question #9
A political and economic equality for African Americans
B an equal rights Amendment for the U.S. Constitution.
C unionization of the unskilled.
D voting rights for women.
Question #10
A the limits of American police power in the world.
B the need for free trade.
C the need for protection of natural resources.
D war, advocating peace rather than confrontation to achieve American interest in Latin America
Question #11
A The Dawes Act
B The Mann-Elkins Act
C The Hepburn Act
D The Federal Reserve Act
Question #12
A AF of L
B The American Socialist Party
C CORE
D NAACP
Question #13
A federal standards for meat were established.
B the working conditions of exploited meatpackers were improved.
C the meatpacking trust was broken up.
D Americans began to switch from buy American beef to Argentinian beef.
Question #14
A led many middle-class citizens to support management in its battles with labor.
B marked the first time that president intervened on the side of workers in a labor dispute.
C resulted in the Senate censoring President Teddy Roosevelt for forcing and end to the strike.
D resulted in lower wages and longer working hours for coal workers.
Question #15
A Jane Addams.
B Carrie Chapman Catt
C Florence Kelly
D Ida B. Wells.
Question #16
A the initiative, referendum and recall.
B Women’s suffrage
C The poll tax
D the direct election of Senators.
Question #17
A opposed extending public education to black Americans.
B drew their support mainly from the lower classes.
C embraced laissez-faire
D believed that experts should manage public affairs.
Question #18
A food and drugs.
B the oil industry.
C trusts.
D railroads.
Question #19
A abolitionists
B Know Nothings
C muckrakers
D Mugwumps
Question #20
A maintained the position that the federal government had no role to play in address the social problems of the day.
B argued that the only way to solve the problem of poverty was to first convert Americans to Christianity.
C argued that the Bible should be taught in public schools.
D maintained that people should apply Christianity to address social problems.