Which of the following best describes the moral imperialism propounded by President Woodrow Wilson?
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It created an irony with regard to the concept of freedom.
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Assess the effectiveness of President Woodrow Wilson's response to Mexico's Civil War.
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Wilson's attempts to teach Mexican people how to select good men only led to the war
spilling over into the United States.
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Why did World War I transform Western civilization so profoundly?
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The mass slaughter of World War I was hard to reconcile with the optimist claim that Western civilization was the triumph of reason and human progress.
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How were women so influential in the outcome of the election of 1916?
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Women were able to vote in the presidential election in twelve Western states and heavily favored Wilson.
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Which of the following elements of President Wilson's Fourteen Points most resembled the commissions Progressives had instituted back home?
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The League of Nations.
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Why did the War Industries Board establish standardized specifications during World War I?
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To increase efficiency and speed up production.
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What did employers, urban reformers, as well as women reformers hope Prohibition would achieve during the war years?
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Peace and order on the home front.
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Which of the following statements would have been prosecuted under the Sedition Act of 1918?
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"I call on you to boycott the draft."
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In what ways was W.E.B. Du Bois a typical progressive?
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He believed that investigation, exposure, and education could solve the nation's problems.
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How did Garveyites define freedom at the time of World War I?
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As black self-reliance and national self-determination.
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What triggered the surge of conservative governments in central Europe at the end of World War I?
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A worldwide revolutionary upsurge.
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Why did many people in Eastern Europe consider Woodrow Wilson a "popular saint"?
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His criticism of imperialism helped Eastern European peoples carve out new independent nations.
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America's empire in the early twentieth century was all of the following EXCEPT:
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territorial
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Between 1901 and 1920, the United States intervened militarily numerous times in Caribbean countries:
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in order to protect the economic interests of American banks and investors.
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As president, Woodrow Wilson:
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believed that the export of U.S. manufactured goods went hand in hand with the spread of democracy.
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Woodrow Wilson's moral imperialism in Latin America produced:
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more military interventions than any other president before or since.
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From 1914 to 1916, U.S. intervention in Mexico:
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demonstrated the weaknesses of Wilson's foreign policy.
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The Espionage Act (1917) and the Sedition Act (1918):
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were the first federal restrictions on free speech since 1798.
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During World War I, Americans reacted to German-Americans and Germans in all of the following ways EXCEPT:
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the federal government barred German immigration to the United States.
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The anti-German crusade included all of the following measures EXCEPT:
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barring German-Americans from serving in the military.
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All of the following statements about immigration policy during World War I are true EXCEPT:
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Congress required that all immigrants pass IQ tests (intelligence tests).
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The Gentlemen's Agreement:
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restricted Japanese immigration.
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Which statement about race and the presidents is FALSE?
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Theodore Roosevelt believed that blacks were fit for soldiering and suffrage.
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Senators opposing America's participation in the League of Nations:
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argued that it would threaten to deprive the country of its freedom of action.
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According to Eugene V. Debs's speech to the jury before sentencing under the Espionage Act (1918), what did Socialists in the United States strive for?
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true democracy
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What struck Eugene V. Debs as odd—if not ironic—in his speech to the jury before sentencing under the Espionage Act (1918)?
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that American Socialists were the ones defending the U.S. Constitution
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What did W. E. B. Du Bois describe as a "vindictive fate" in his essay "Returning Soldiers" in The Crisis (1919)?
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that black soldiers also fought in the name of southern white lynch mobs
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How did Theodore Roosevelt assure the future success of American naval development?
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He supported the Panamanian uprising against Colombia.
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Which of the following is evidence for Woodrow Wilson's attempt at practicing a "moral imperialism"?
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his failed military intervention against Victoriano Huerta
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How did World War I plausibly change domestic life at home?
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Meals were produced more efficiently at home.
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Which of the following institutions serve as evidence for the popularity of repressive, antidemocratic measures during World War I
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the American Protective League
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How did World War I foster a push for more democracy on the American home front?
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The National Women's Party attracted a new cadre of activists.
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Who of the following could have spoken powerfully to the failed opportunities of the Versailles Treaty to foster the principle of "self-determination" across the world?
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Nguyen That Than
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