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Who among the following would NOT promote efforts to reshape the environment in order to improve people's lives?
Madison Grant, eugenicist.
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Which one of the following was NOT an important reason for American expansion in the 1890s?
a belief in the basic equality of all people and races.
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In the 1890s, the U.S. acquired all of the following EXCEPT?
the Virgin Islands.
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Among the elements making up the American ideology of imperialism, which does your text consider most compelling?
commercial opportunity.
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As a result of observing what the British had done with its naval fleet in the quarter century prior to 1900, the U.S. Navy:
was transformed into a modern, stream-driven institution.
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Under the "Roosevelt Corollary," the U.S:
justified intervention in the internal affairs of the Caribbean countries.
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Roosevelt's objectives in his Asian policy-which explain his actions in response to the Russo-Japanese include all EXCEPT:
holding the U.S. Navy in waters close to the U.S. for coastal defense.
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Taft's "dollar diplomacy" was intended to accomplish all of the following EXCEPT:
promote American corporate interests overseas through regular use of armed force.
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Wilson built upon the diplomacy of Roosevelt and Taft by adding his own distinctive:
conviction that justice, democracy, and the values of harmony and cooperation should guide foreign policy.
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During the Wilson administration, a revolutionary situation led to U.S. invasions of what country?
Mexico.
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Wilson's commitment to neutrality in WWI stemmed from his profound conviction that:
a neutral America could lead the warring nations to "a peace without victory."
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All of the following inclined the U.S. toward entering on the side of the Allies in WWI EXCEPT that:
although a pacifist at heart, Wilson campaigned for re-elections in 1916 on a hawkish platform-and won decisively.
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What circumstance led to an American posture in which true neutrality was dead?
the British, which cut off U.S. trade with Germany while supplies still flowed to the Allies.
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As the war lingered and the presidential election of 1916 loomed, Wilson endorsed ___, yet then ran a campaign stressing ___.
Enhanced military preparedness; that kept the U.S. out of war.
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The inflammatory Zimmerman telegram proposed that in the event of war between the U.S. and Germany:
Mexico would attack the U.S.
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Among the "home front" impacts of WWI were all of the following EXCEPT:
a spirit of unity that reduced racial and ethnic tensions.
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When the draft began as a means to ensure adequate troops for the war, American public opinion:
Ranged widely from opposition to support.
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How did the U.S. pay for the costs of its involvement in WWI?
the sale of bonds and savings certificates to the U.S. citizens.
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Among the key provisions of Wilson's "fourteen points" were all of the following EXCEPT:
Phased rearmament.
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Characterize the "fourteen points."
an idealistic vision for a world order freed of selfish nationalism, imperialism, and war.
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What new weapon finally broke the stalemate by negating the defensive advantage of entrenched troops?
the tank.
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The Treaty of Versailles never received U.S. Senate ratification because:
Wilson ordered Democratic senators to vote against the amended treaty.
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The end of the war, the success of Bolshevism in Russia, and the sense of cultural crisis led to all of the following EXCEPT:
Fear of foreign terrorist or military attack.
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The raids launched by Palmer were:
a series of illegal arrest of alleged radical subversives under the direction of the U.S. attorney general.
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One of the most important economic transformations in the years after WWI was:
the shift in production from heavy industry to consumer goods and services.
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Henry Ford's great contribution to modern industrial culture was:
his commitment to standardization and assembly-line mass production.
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What might be called a "second or post-Industrial Revolution," the "roaring economy" of the 1920's involved all of the following EXCEPT:
a revolution in labor relations, marked by new growth in the size and influence of labor.
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The automobile was to the 1920's what the railroad had been to the nineteenth century, in that:
it was both a powerful catalyst to economic growth and a symbol for the age.
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Which one of the following was NOT a feature of the modern corporation in the 1920's?
corporate power existed in the hands of stockholders rather than in company management.
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To encourage consumption, demand for goods was stimulated by all of the following EXCEPT:
increased business competition.
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All of the following are traits attributed to a "new woman" EXCEPT:
spiritual.
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What new style of music that fused soulfulness and syncopated rhythms was born in the roaring 20s?
Jazz.
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Which of the following influenced the sense of meaninglessness and alienation that was characteristic of writers and intellectuals in the 1920s?
the experience of WWI.
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The outpouring of literature and art by the "New Negro" of the 1920's became known as the:
Harlem Renaissance.
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In the early part of the twentieth century, immigration from Mexico jumped for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
recruiting by the AFL in a campaign to increase its membership.
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What piece of federal legislation in the 1920s was a significant shift from a historic American practice?
Immigration restriction.
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The National Origins Act, which fixed immigration patterns for four decades:
Put strict quotas on the number of immigrants to be allowed into the U.S. every year.
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The former presidential candidate who became a leading spokesman against the theory of evolution during the 1920s was:
William Jennings Bryan.
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Which of the following was NOT a Republican president during the 1920s?
Charles Evans Hughes.
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The Open Door Policy:
Proposed that foreign powers keep the China trade open to all nations on an equal basis.
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John Hay:
said in 1900 that foreign powers should "preserve Chinese territorial and administrative integrity."
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The Glass Act:
is correctly represented by all of the above statements.
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The following statements best describes the diplomatic stance of Woodrow Wilson:
America has been called to spread democracy and moral progress throughout the world.
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Faced with the situation of a military dictator ruling neighboring Mexico, President Wilson said that:
America should not recognize governments that do not rest on morality and the consent of the governed.
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Before the U.S. entered the war, American investors had loaned:
great amounts of money to the Allies and very little to the Central Powers.
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