Week 6 Quiz

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

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

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

D  were two early challengers of Social Darwinism

A  ratification of the Voting Rights Amendment.

B  ratification of the 19th Amendment.

C  ratification of the 18th Amendment.

D  ratification of the 17th Amendment.

A  restatement of the Berlin Accords.

B  Good Neighbor Policy.

C  Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.

D  Dollar Diplomacy

A  purchased the right of way through Panama from England.

B  supported Columbia’s claim of ownership of Panama.

C  aided a revolution in Panama against Columbia.

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

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

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  Woodrow Wilson, who believed that an American economic blockade against Mexico would force the Mexicans to select a president acceptable to the United States.

D  Theodore Roosevelt, who urged greater American investment in China.

A  Woodrow Wilson

B  William McKinley

C  Willaim Howard Taft

D  Theodore Roosevelt

A  World War I

B  The Philippine Insurrection

C  The split in the Republican Party in 1912.

D  The Supreme Court ruling in Baker v. Carr.

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

B  bigness is the equivalent of badness.

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

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

B  voting rights for women.

C  unionization of the unskilled.

D  political and economic equality for African Americans

A  the limits of American police power in the world.

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

C  the need for protection of natural resources.

D  the need for free trade.

A  The Mann-Elkins Act

B  The Federal Reserve Act

C  The Hepburn Act

D  The Dawes Act

A  NAACP

B  AF of L

C  CORE

D  The American Socialist Party

A  the meatpacking trust was broken up.

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

C  federal standards for meat were established.

D  the working conditions of exploited meatpackers were improved.

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

B  resulted in the Senate censoring President Teddy Roosevelt for forcing and end to the strike.

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

D  resulted in lower wages and longer working hours for coal workers.

A  Ida B. Wells.

B  Jane Addams.

C  Carrie Chapman Catt

D  Florence Kelly

A  Women’s suffrage

B  the direct election of Senators.

C  The poll tax

D  the initiative, referendum and recall.

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  food and drugs.

B  railroads.

C  the oil industry.

D  trusts.

A  muckrakers

B  Know Nothings

C  abolitionists

D  Mugwumps

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 Bible should be taught in public schools.

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

D  argued that the only way to solve the problem of poverty was to first convert Americans to Christianity.