1. Which of the following factors did NOT contribute to a labor shortage during the war?
Economic expansion
Army mobilization
A decline in immigration
Higher wages for workers
2. The group within the senate who opposed the Versailles Treaty in any form was referred to as the __________.
fourteen opponents
irrepressibles
irreconcilables
determinable
3. Lester Frank Ward offered an important critique of social Darwinism in his pioneering work:
How the Other Half Lives.
The Gospel of Wealth.
Dynamic Sociology.
Hull House Maps and Papers.
4. Which event most clearly marks the beginnings of World War I?
The 1916 American presidential campaign
German U-boat attacks on British liners
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The Russo-Japanese War
5. Which of the following concerning the aftermath of World War I and the Treaty of Versailles is TRUE?
Woodrow Wilson was elected president in 1920.
The United States never signed the Treaty of Versailles.
The United States became a major player within the League of Nations.
Self-determination became an actuality when the Allies granted independence to all colonies of the defeated Axis Powers.
6. Due to Palmer's policies toward immigrants, what group was formed in 1920?
Knights of Labor
Communist Party
American Civil Liberties Union
National American Woman Suffrage Association
7. The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine stated that:
no new European investments in Latin America would be tolerated by the United States.
no European vessels would have access to the Panama Canal.
the U.S. had the authority to interfere in Latin American nations to preserve stability and order.
free trade was no longer a major facet of American economic policy.
8. Journalists and writers who explored the seamier side of America and exposed the economic, social, and political evils they found were known as __________.
muckrakers
yellow journalists
democrats
nativists
9. On May 7, 1915, German submarines sank __________, a British liner; over a thousand people died in the attack, 128 Americans among them.
Titanic
Lusitania
Hindenburg
Bismark
10. At the outbreak of World War I, the Allied Powers were composed of Great Britain, France, and __________.
the United States
Belgium
Russia
Serbia
11. Put each of the following organizations in chronological order according to their founding dates.
- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
U.S. Children's Bureau
- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
National Park Service
- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
American Legion
- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Federal Trade Commission