What was the major cause of the Chicago riot in 1919?
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Whites were angered by the influx of southern blacks into their communities.
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In negotiating with the Big Four over many postwar territorial issues, President Wilson:
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had to compromise his principle of self-determination.
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Both government and industry recruited women to work in:
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port cities' loading docks and on railway crews.
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Why did Wilson travel around the country giving speeches in 1919?
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He wanted to drum up support for his version of the war treaty.
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Wilson's Fourteen Points endorsed all of the following EXCEPT:
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U.S. colonies in Africa and Asia.
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For all of his accomplishments and abilities, Woodrow Wilson had:
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no experience or expertise in international relations before he was elected president.
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The German delegation at Versailles objected most bitterly to:
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reparations for the entire war.
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The French premier during World War I was:
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Georges Clemenceau.
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The event that triggered World War I in Europe was:
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a Serb's assassination of the Austrian archduke.
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As a result of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia
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Lenin concluded a separate peace with Germany
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The Treaty of Versailles:
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was not agreeable to the germans
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Who said, after the sinking of the Lusitania, "There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight"?
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Woodrow Wilson
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All these innovations changed warfare during World War I EXCEPT:
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blockades.
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On November 9, 1918, the German republic was proclaimed after:
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the German kaiser resigned.
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Which of the following is true of the Lusitania?
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It secretly carried weapons and ammunition in its cargo.
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Between 1914 and 1918, World War I was directly responsible for the deaths of:
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more than 20 million military personnel and civilians.
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Which of the following statements best describes the diplomatic stance of Woodrow Wilson and William Jennings Bryan?
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America has a religious duty to spread democracy and moral progress throughout the world.
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reflection the mood of America, which had suddenly decided against neutrality
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helped turn back several German offensives.
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The congressional resolution for war:
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passed overwhelmingly.
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The Food Administration:
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was intended to increase agricultural production while reducing civilian food consumption.
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The most celebrated postwar labor confrontation was:
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the Boston police strike of 1919.
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During the early twentieth century, the nation's century-long isolation from European conflicts:
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ended
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Harry T. Burn is best associated with:
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changing his vote to yes at the insistence of his mother, breaking a tie and making Tennessee's legislature the last of thirty-six state assemblies to approve the Nineteenth Amendment.
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To what did Wilson refer when he spoke of "the heart of the League"?
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Article X, which would pledge members to consult on military and economic sanctions against aggressors
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During the midterm elections of 1918:
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Democrats lost control of both houses of Congress.
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In his understanding of global issues, Wilson:
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did have strong beliefs and principles.
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The Zimmerman telegram:
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A telegram Germany Sent to Mexico to convince Mexico to attack the U.S.
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Vittorio Orlando, prime minister of Italy, focused his efforts on:
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Austria
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President Wilson's response to the sinking of the Lusitania:
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was a series of notes demanding that Germany stop such actions and pay reparations.
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Which one of the following is associated with Detroit, Michigan?
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automobile industry
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Margaret Sanger:
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was the first person to advocate for birth control for women.
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Marcus Garvey:
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said blacks should return to Africa.
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Which of the following did W.E.B. Du Bois say in his opposition to Marcus Garvey?
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"[He] is the most dangerous enemy of the Negro Race....He is either a lunatic or a traitor."
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Margaret Sanger's initial efforts to educate the public about birth control and responsibility were aimed at:
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lower class women.
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All of the following were prophets of modern art and literature EXCEPT:
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Edward Bellamy.
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The novel This Side of Paradise concerned:
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modernist student life at Princeton.
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Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., a St. Louis-based mail pilot, made the first solo transatlantic flight, traveling from New York to Paris in:
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1927.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about:
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"real" life punctuated by the doomed, war-tainted love affairs of young Americans.
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Which amendment to the Constitution is known as the Prohibition amendment?
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Eighteenth
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The Universal Negro Improvement Association:
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was led by Marcus Garvey.
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The movement of southern blacks to the North:
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was called the "Great Migration."
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Gertrude Stein was a(n):
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experimentalist poet.
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Who was the New York nurse and midwife in the working-class tenements of Manhattan who observed many young mothers struggling to provide for their growing families?
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Margaret Sanger
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The theories of relativity and quantum physics led people to:
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deny the relevance of absolute values in society at large.
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The desire to restore traditional values and social stability in 1920 led voters to elect as president:
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Warren G. Harding.
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In 1920, what percentage of homes in America had electricity?
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35
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Who celebrated the jazz era's spontaneity and sensual vitality?
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The amendment to the Constitution that barred the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors (Prohibition) went into effect in:
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1920
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The Harlem Renaissance:
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sought to rediscover black folk culture.
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Who in 1921 told Hemingway that he and his friends who had served in the war "are a lost generation?"
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Gertrude Stein
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The theories of relativity and quantum physics led people to:
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deny the relevance of absolute values in society at large.
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James Weldon Johnson coined the term:
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Aframerican.
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After encountering strong resistance, Mabel Puffer and Arthur Hazzard:
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were never allowed to marry.
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The Roaring Twenties was dubbed the "Jazz Age" by:
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F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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What event aided the further development of the airplane?
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increased industrial efforts for World War I
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The first radio station to begin broadcasting regularly scheduled programs was located in:
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Pittsburgh
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Political and social radicalism arose after World War I because:
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postwar culture was entering an era of bewildering change.
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Political and social radicalism arose after World War I because:
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postwar culture was entering an era of bewildering change.
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Hemingway used the phrase "lost generation" as the epigraph in:
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The Sun Also Rises (1926).
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William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey is best associated with:
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boxing.
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Modernists in art and literature recognized:
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new technologies and embraced scientific discovery.
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In the 1920s, labor unions:
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lost a substantial number of members.
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During the 1928 presidential election, the Democrats nominated:
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Alfred E. Smith.
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Harding's secretary of the Treasury:
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favored a reduction of the high wartime level of taxation, but mainly for the rich.
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The biggest scandal of the Harding administration:
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involved the leasing of government-owned oil deposits to private companies.
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Which one of the following is associated with Dayton, Tennessee?
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the Scopes trial
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In Texas, the Klan focused on:
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imposing its severe view of righteous Protestant morality on others.
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In 1928, Democratic presidential nominee Alfred E. Smith was hurt by the fact that he was a(n):
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New Yorker and a Roman Catholic.
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The tariff policy of the early 1920s:
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made it harder for other nations to sell to the United States.
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Of the following presidents, which one served as vice president?
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Calvin Coolidge
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The McNary-Haugen bill:
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called for crops to be sold on the world market to raise domestic prices.
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The result in the presidential election of 1920 might be attributed to:
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the fact that Americans in the 1920s were "tired of issues, sick at heart of ideals, and weary of being noble."
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The Klan attracted all of the following groups EXCEPT:
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immigrants.
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David C. Stephenson:
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was the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan.
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The amendment to the constitution that barred the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors was ratified in:
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1919
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The Budget and Accounting Act of 1921:
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formed a new Bureau of the Budget to streamline the process of preparing an annual federal budget.
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Unable to convict Al Capone on bootlegging charges, the federal government arrested him for:
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tax evasion.
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Robert M. La Follette's 1924 presidential campaign:
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is correctly represented by all of the above statements.
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The immigration quota laws passed in the 1920s:
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favored immigrants from northern and western Europe.
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William Jennings Bryan:
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prosecuted John Scopes for teaching evolution in the Dayton, Tennessee, evolution case.
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Which amendment to the constitution is known as the Prohibition amendment?
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Eighteenth
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The progressive coalition that elected Woodrow Wilson president dissolved by 1920 for all the following reasons EXCEPT:
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many of the progressive reforms still seemed unattainable.
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Of all the causes of the stock market crash of October 1929, the greatest culprit was:
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the weak foundation of the 1920s economy.
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The tariff policy of the early 1920s:
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made it harder for other nations to sell to the United States.
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Part of the reason for the stock market crash was the:
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buying of great amounts of stock on margin.
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Despite the many well-founded criticisms of Warren G. Harding as president, he was a visionary for his era in the field of:
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civil rights.
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Which of the following was NOT a cause of the Great Depression?
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Policy makers moved away from the gold standard.
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Andrew Mellon was Harding's:
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secretary of the Treasury.
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Which of the following is NOT true of the McNary-Haugen plan?
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It was supported by Coolidge as a way to empower farmers.
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During the 1924 presidential election:
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Calvin Coolidge swept both the popular and electoral votes with decisive majorities.
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In his 1920 campaign for president, Warren G. Harding said the country needed a return to:
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normalcy
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Whose campaign pledge stated he would "safeguard" America first?
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Warren G. Harding
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Harding's secretary of the Treasury, who pushed tax cuts for the wealthy, was:
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Andrew Mellon.
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In 1900, approximately how many Americans lived in desperate poverty?
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10 million
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Frances Willard lobbied for these issues important to woman EXCEPT:
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for women to become ministers.
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A major factor in Woodrow Wilson's victory in the 1912 presidential campaign was the fact that:
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the Republican party had split in two.
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During the 1908 presidential race:
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the Democrats once again nominated William Jennings Bryan.
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In the area of conservation, Theodore Roosevelt:
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used the Forest Reserve Act to protect over 170 million acres of forest.
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The Underwood-Simmons Tariff:
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lowered the average tariff and hence was supported by Wilson.
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Which of the following best describes the method used by most progressives to solve the problem of economic power and its abuses?
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regulate big business
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During the 1912 presidential campaign, who said, "There are so many people in the country who don't like me"?
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William H. Taft
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Congress established the Bureau of Corporations to:
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monitor the activities of interstate corporations.
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Who stated, "most of us in the North do not believe in any real Democracy between white and colored men."
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Ray Stannard Baker
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All of the following statements regarding the coal strike of 1902 are true EXCEPT:
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Roosevelt was too cozy with the coal industry.
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The Seventeenth Amendment:
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authorized the popular election of U.S. senators.
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The commission plan of city government was first adopted in:
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Galveston, Texas.
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Progressives supported all of the following as measures to democratize government EXCEPT the:
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poll tax
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President Taft's domestic policies generated a storm of controversy:
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within his own party.
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WCTU:
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stood for Women's Christian Temperance Union.
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Woodrow Wilson was:
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a college president.
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At the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in 1911:
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workers died as a result of a fire.
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Who wrote articles for the best-selling McClure's magazine?
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Lincoln Steffens
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The National Child Labor Committee pushed:
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for laws banning the widespread employment of young children.
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