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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 offered practical and pragmatic proposals to solve the problems of late 19th century society that were quickly instituted into law.
C argued that any government interference in society would have negative consequences.
D were two early challengers of Social Darwinism
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 restatement of the Berlin Accords.
B Dollar Diplomacy
C Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.
D Good Neighbor Policy.
Question #4
A supported Columbia’s claim of ownership of Panama.
B purchased the right of way through Panama from England.
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.
Question #5
A William McKinley, who believed that American colonialism was the answer to pull the U.S. out of the Panic of the early 1890s.
B Woodrow Wilson, who believed that an American economic blockade against Mexico would force the Mexicans to select a president acceptable to the United States.
C Theodore Roosevelt, who urged greater American investment in China.
D William Howard Taft, who favored economic penetratiion of foreign markets by American banks and corporations.
Question #6
A William McKinley
B Woodrow Wilson
C Willaim Howard Taft
D Theodore Roosevelt
Question #7
A World War I
B The Supreme Court ruling in Baker v. Carr.
C The split in the Republican Party in 1912.
D The Philippine Insurrection
Question #8
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.
Question #9
A an equal rights Amendment for the U.S. Constitution.
B unionization of the unskilled.
C voting rights for women.
D political and economic equality for African Americans
Question #10
A the need for protection of natural resources.
B war, advocating peace rather than confrontation to achieve American interest in Latin America
C the need for free trade.
D the limits of American police power in the world.
Question #11
A The Dawes Act
B The Federal Reserve Act
C The Hepburn Act
D The Mann-Elkins Act
Question #12
A AF of L
B NAACP
C CORE
D The American Socialist Party
Question #13
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.
Question #14
A marked the first time that president intervened on the side of workers in a labor dispute.
B resulted in lower wages and longer working hours for coal workers.
C resulted in the Senate censoring President Teddy Roosevelt for forcing and end to the strike.
D led many middle-class citizens to support management in its battles with labor.
Question #15
A Ida B. Wells.
B Jane Addams.
C Carrie Chapman Catt
D Florence Kelly
Question #16
A the direct election of Senators.
B The poll tax
C the initiative, referendum and recall.
D Women’s suffrage
Question #17
A opposed extending public education to black Americans.
B believed that experts should manage public affairs.
C drew their support mainly from the lower classes.
D embraced laissez-faire
Question #18
A railroads.
B the oil industry.
C trusts.
D food and drugs.
Question #19
A muckrakers
B abolitionists
C Know Nothings
D Mugwumps
Question #20
A argued that the only way to solve the problem of poverty was to first convert Americans to Christianity.
B maintained that people should apply Christianity to address social problems.
C maintained the position that the federal government had no role to play in address the social problems of the day.
D argued that the Bible should be taught in public schools.