Week 6 Quiz

A  were two early challengers of Social Darwinism

B  offered practical and pragmatic proposals to solve the problems of late 19th century society that were quickly instituted into law.

C  Led the Mugwumps to victory in the presidential election of 1904.

D  argued that any government interference in society would have negative consequences.

A  ratification of the 18th Amendment.

B  ratification of the Voting Rights Amendment.

C  ratification of the 17th Amendment.

D  ratification of the 19th Amendment.

A  Good Neighbor Policy.

B  restatement of the Berlin Accords.

C  Dollar Diplomacy

D  Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.

A  purchased the right of way through Panama from England.

B  aided a revolution in Panama against Columbia.

C  supported Columbia’s claim of ownership of Panama.

D  invoked the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty with England which allowed either nation to build a canal in Central America.

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  Theodore Roosevelt, who urged greater American investment in China.

C  William Howard Taft, who favored economic penetratiion of foreign markets by American banks and corporations.

D  William McKinley, who believed that American colonialism was the answer to pull the U.S. out of the Panic of the early 1890s.

A  Willaim Howard Taft

B  Woodrow Wilson

C  William McKinley

D  Theodore Roosevelt

A  The Supreme Court ruling in Baker v. Carr.

B  World War I

C  The Philippine Insurrection

D  The split in the Republican Party in 1912.

A  trusts were a good thing for the economy and government should leave business leaders alone to run their businesses as they saw fit.

B  regulation of large corporations should be left to state and local authorities.

C  the federal government should break up large corporations only in cases of monopoly or flagrant abuses.

D  bigness is the equivalent of badness.

A  an equal rights Amendment for the U.S. Constitution.

B  voting rights for women.

C  political and economic equality for African Americans

D  unionization of the unskilled.

A  the need for protection of natural resources.

B  the limits of American police power in the world.

C  war, advocating peace rather than confrontation to achieve American interest in Latin America

D  the need for free trade.

A  The Dawes Act

B  The Mann-Elkins Act

C  The Hepburn Act

D  The Federal Reserve Act

A  NAACP

B  The American Socialist Party

C  CORE

D  AF of L

A  the working conditions of exploited meatpackers were improved.

B  Americans began to switch from buy American beef to Argentinian beef.

C  federal standards for meat were established.

D  the meatpacking trust was broken up.

A  marked the first time that president intervened on the side of workers in a labor dispute.

B  led many middle-class citizens to support management in its battles with labor.

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.

A  Florence Kelly

B  Ida B. Wells.

C  Jane Addams.

D  Carrie Chapman Catt

A  The poll tax

B  the initiative, referendum and recall.

C  the direct election of Senators.

D  Women’s suffrage

A  drew their support mainly from the lower classes.

B  opposed extending public education to black Americans.

C  embraced laissez-faire

D  believed that experts should manage public affairs.

A  railroads.

B  the oil industry.

C  trusts.

D  food and drugs.

A  Mugwumps

B  muckrakers

C  Know Nothings

D  abolitionists

A  maintained that people should apply Christianity to address social problems.

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 the position that the federal government had no role to play in address the social problems of the day.