Week 6 Quiz

A  were two early challengers of Social Darwinism

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

A  ratification of the Voting Rights Amendment.

B  ratification of the 18th Amendment.

C  ratification of the 19th Amendment.

D  ratification of the 17th Amendment.

A  Dollar Diplomacy

B  Good Neighbor Policy.

C  Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.

D  restatement of the Berlin Accords.

A  aided a revolution in Panama against Columbia.

B  purchased the right of way through Panama from England.

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  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  Willaim Howard Taft

B  William McKinley

C  Woodrow Wilson

D  Theodore Roosevelt

A  The Philippine Insurrection

B  World War I

C  The Supreme Court ruling in Baker v. Carr.

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  bigness is the equivalent of badness.

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

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

A  unionization of the unskilled.

B  voting rights for women.

C  political and economic equality for African Americans

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

A  the need for protection of natural resources.

B  the limits of American police power in the world.

C  the need for free trade.

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

A  The Mann-Elkins Act

B  The Federal Reserve Act

C  The Hepburn Act

D  The Dawes Act

A  CORE

B  NAACP

C  The American Socialist Party

D  AF of L

A  the working conditions of exploited meatpackers were improved.

B  the meatpacking trust was broken up.

C  federal standards for meat were established.

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

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

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

A  Florence Kelly

B  Ida B. Wells.

C  Jane Addams.

D  Carrie Chapman Catt

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  trusts.

D  the oil industry.

A  muckrakers

B  abolitionists

C  Mugwumps

D  Know Nothings

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

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

C  argued that the Bible should be taught in public schools.

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