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 18th Amendment.

B  ratification of the 17th Amendment.

C  ratification of the Voting Rights Amendment.

D  ratification of the 19th Amendment.

A  restatement of the Berlin Accords.

B  Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.

C  Good Neighbor Policy.

D  Dollar Diplomacy

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

B  supported Columbia’s claim of ownership of Panama.

C  purchased the right of way through Panama from England.

D  aided a revolution in Panama against Columbia.

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  Theodore Roosevelt, who urged greater American investment in China.

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

A  William McKinley

B  Woodrow Wilson

C  Willaim Howard Taft

D  Theodore Roosevelt

A  The Philippine Insurrection

B  The Supreme Court ruling in Baker v. Carr.

C  World War I

D  The split in the Republican Party in 1912.

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

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

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  voting rights for women.

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

C  political and economic equality for African Americans

D  unionization of the unskilled.

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

B  the limits of American police power in the world.

C  the need for protection of natural resources.

D  the need for free trade.

A  The Dawes Act

B  The Federal Reserve Act

C  The Mann-Elkins Act

D  The Hepburn Act

A  The American Socialist Party

B  NAACP

C  AF of L

D  CORE

A  the working conditions of exploited meatpackers were improved.

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

C  the meatpacking trust was broken up.

D  federal standards for meat were established.

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

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

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

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

A  Ida B. Wells.

B  Carrie Chapman Catt

C  Florence Kelly

D  Jane Addams.

A  the initiative, referendum and recall.

B  the direct election of Senators.

C  The poll tax

D  Women’s suffrage

A  opposed extending public education to black Americans.

B  embraced laissez-faire

C  drew their support mainly from the lower classes.

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  abolitionists

D  Know Nothings

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

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