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Clep 1913 Wilson 1
Clep Wilson 1 Dom Issues
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| When did consumerism become the new American 'ethic'? | The 1920's |
| What three factors led to the 1920's American ethic of consumerism? | New forms of credit; advertising and increases in wages and productivity. |
| What happened to Progressivism in the 1920's? | It essentially disappeared - and even rolled back - as pro-business and economic growth philosophies took hold in Republican administrations. |
| What Republican administrations effectively ended Progressivism in the 1920's? | Harding; Coolidge and Hoover. |
| What political party was most powerful in the 1920's? | Republican |
| Laissez-faire capitalism was the earmark of what decade? | 1920's |
| What movement is diametrically opposed to laissez-faire capitalism? | Progressivism |
| What philosophy is directly opposed to Progressivism? | Laissez-faire capitalism |
| Which of the following could the artist have substituted for Uncle Sam? a. Woodrow Wilson b. Warren G. Harding c. a Klu Klux Klan figure d. A Mitchell Palmer e. Andrew Carnegie | d. A Mitchell Palmer |
| Germany's purpose in sending the Zimmerman Telegram was: | to inform its minister in Mexico to seek an alliance with Mexico. |
| Schenck v. United States tested which of the following? a. Selective Service Act of 1917 b. Sedition Act of 1917 c. Espionage Act of 1917 d. Palmer Raids e. Emergency Quota Act of 1921 | c. Espionage Act of 1917 |
| President Woodrow Wilson's major mistake in the handling of the Treaty of Versailles was his unwillingness to include any high-ranking___ on the negotiating team. | Republicans |
| Although Wilson lost most of his Fourteen Points, which of the following did Wilson see included in the Treaty of Versailles? | The League of Nations |
| The Nye Commission determined that the ___ industry and banking interests had propelled the United States into World War I. | munitions |
| All of the following nations were created as a result of the Treaty of Versailles EXCEPT a. Austria. b. Poland. c. Czechoslovakia. d. Greece. e. Yugoslavia. | d. Greece. |
| Inclusion of the League of Nations doomed the Treaty of Versailles to rejection by the ___ . | Senate |
| The first large-scale black nationalist movement was ___ | Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association. |
| In 1920, women finally gained the right to vote primarily because it was difficult to deny women the vote after their service in ___. | World War I |
| All of the following fueled the Red Scare EXCEPT a. the violence of the strikes that swept the nation in 1919 and 1920. a series of bombs delivered to leaders and public officials. c. the evidence of a Bolshevist conspiracy to take over the United States. | c. the evidence of a Bolshevist conspiracy to take over the United States. |
| Jessie Fauset, Langston Hughes, and James Weldon Johnson were all members of the a. Niagara Movement b. American Renaissance c. Hudson River School d. Harlem Renaissance e. Lost Generation | d. Harlem Renaissance |
| The major foreign policy issue in the 1920s was___. | e. achieving peace. |
| The major theme of serious literature in the 1920s was a. existentialism. b. World War I. c. disillusionment with U.S. society. d. the prejudice of small towns. e. the Jazz Age. | c. disillusionment with U.S. society. |
| Which of the following is NOT a true statement about the popular culture of the 1920s? a. One of the less important mediums for reaching Americans was the radio. b. Popular culture created an image of what the good life had to offer Americans. c. Popular | a. One of the less important mediums for reaching Americans was the radio. |
| By insisting on immediate___ of war debts, the United States held down growth in world trade in the 1920s. | repayment |
| All of the following were popular entertainers of the 1920s EXCEPT a. Al Jolson. b. Amelia Earhart. c. Duke Ellington. d. Charlie Chaplin. e. Bessie Smith. | b. Amelia Earhart. |
| Which of the following is NOT a true statement about how people viewed consumption in the 1920s? a. Advertising blurred the difference between what people needed and what they wanted. b. Buying on credit became respectable. c. Whereas young people were th | c. Whereas young people were the major users of credit, the average middle-class family did not buy on credit. |
| Which of the following was NOT a direct consequence of the advent of the automobile age in the 1920s? a. Development of the assembly line b. The family vacation c. Establishment of ancillary businesses such as gas stations and motels d. The development bo | a. Development of the assembly line |
| The flapper has become a stereotype of which of the following? a. The suffragist movement b. 1920s c. 1940s d. 1960s e. The women's liberation movement | b. 1920s |
| All of the following are arguments used to support the imposition of restrictions on immigration in the 1920s EXCEPT? a. With the frontier closed, the nation will fill up too quickly if unrestricted immigration continues. b. Immigrants were willing to wor | a. With the frontier closed, the nation will fill up too quickly if unrestricted immigration continues. |
| In the 1920s all of the following contributed to the development of a national culture EXCEPT a. paperback books. b. advertising. c. radio. d. mass-circulation magazines. e. movies. | a. paperback books. |
| Which of the following groups did NOT benefit from the boom times of the 1920s? a. Business owners and farmers b. Labor unions and business owners c. Corporate shareholders and banks d. Union members and small farmers e. Banks and manufacturing industries | d. Union members and small farmers |
| Expatriate American writers in Paris in the 1920s were known as the "lost generation" because they felt ____ from U.S. culture and society. | alienated |
| Which of the following in the 1920s was supposed to outlaw war? a. League of Nations b. Kellogg-Briand Pact c. Stimson Doctrine d. Washington Conference e. United Nations | b. Kellogg-Briand Pact |
| The isolationism that prevailed for a time at the beginnings of World I and World War II could trace its arguments back to a. Benjamin Franklin. b. George Washington. c. Thomas Jefferson. d. James Monroe. e. the Know-Nothing Party. | b. George Washington. |
| The fear of communism caused Am. to support all of the following EXCEPT b. Joseph McCarthy's investigations into communism in government. c. blacklisting of movie and television actors, writers, and directors with Communist sympathies. c. the Sacco and Va | c. the Sacco and Vanzetti trial. |
| All of the following were celebrated sports figures of the 1920s EXCEPT a. Jack Dempsey. b. Charlie Chaplin. c. Gertrude Ederle. d. Babe Ruth. e. Jim Thorpe. | b. Charlie Chaplin. |
| Which of the following did NOT contribute to the creation of a homogeneous mass culture in the 1920s? a. Advertising b. The radio c. The phonograph d. Novels e. Movies | d. Novels |
| This statement describes the economy in the 1920s: The exuberance of the Roaring Twenties ___ the underlying weaknesses of the economy. | masked |
| Which of the following was NOT associated with the Harlem Renaissance? a. James Baldwin b. Langston Hughes c. Countee Cullen d. Bessie Smith e. Duke Ellington | a. James Baldwin |
| All of the following are examples of the cultural conflicts of the 1920s EXCEPT a. the Ku Klux Klan. b. Prohibition. c. the Harlem Renaissance. d. the Scopes Trial. e. the National Origins Act. | c. the Harlem Renaissance. |
| A "return to normalcy" was the promise of which presidential candidate? a. Woodrow Wilson b. Warren C Harding c. Calvin Coolidge d. Herbert Hoover e. Franklin D Roosevelt | b. Warren C Harding |
| "The man who builds a factory builds a temple. The man who works there worships there." The president most likely to have said this was a. Woodrow Wilson. b. Calvin Coolidge. c. Franklin Roosevelt. d. Harry Truman. e. Dwight Eisenhower. | b. Calvin Coolidge. |
| Which of the following is NOT associated with the "lost generation"? a. Edith Wharton b. Gertrude Stein c. Ernest Hemingway d. F. Scott Fitzgerald e. T.S. Eliot | a. Edith Wharton |
| The Scopes trial was significant because it highlighted the tensions between older established value systems and new theories of ____. | science |
| The major flaw in the Kellogg-Briand Pact was a. that outlawing war was a practical impossibility. b. that popular opinion was against it. c. that no provision was made for punishing nations that violated the pact. | c. that no provision was made for punishing nations that violated the pact. |
| Which of the following statements best describes the significance of the election of 1928? a. Al Smith picked up the votes of women, immigrants, urban workers, and small farmers. b. A shift in the voter base of the two parties was apparent. | b. A shift in the voter base of the two parties was apparent. |
| Which of the following were first-time Democratic voters for Al Smith in 1928 and continued to vote Democratic in 1932? a. Women b. Southern farmers c. Northern urban workers d. Southerners in general e. African Americans | c. Northern urban workers |
| The primary cause of the stock market crash of 1929 was a. overproduction of goods. b. bank failures. c. underconsumption by consumers. d. speculation. e. inflation. | d. speculation. |
| President Herbert Hoover rejected any federal intervention to help individuals during the Depression because he felt ____ would sap people's initiative and self-respect | federal assistance |
| The major goal of Huey Long was the ___ of wealth among Americans. | redistribution |
| When were the Fourteen Points proposed? | 1/1/1918 |
| Which political party generally supported protective tariffs? | The Republicans |
| What was Woodrow Wilson's domestic agenda at the time of his election? | The 'New Freedom' policy |
| When was President Woodrow Wilson elected President? | 1912 |
| What president was elected in 1912? | Woodrow Wilson |
| What was the 'New Freedom'? | Woodrow Wilson's domestic agenda at the time of his election in 1912 |
| The election of President Wilson was significant because it brought the ___ to power for the first time since the Civil War. | Democrats |
| When President Woodrow Wilson was elected, the Democrats controlled the White House, as well as both houses of Congress. Also of significance was that President Wilson appointed many___ Democrats to the Cabinet. | Southern |
| Woodrow Wilson won the election of 1912 because the Republican Party vote was ___. | split |
| The Rep. Party vote was split when __ left the Republican Party to form the Progressive Party. The current president, W. Taft, was the candidate for the Rep. Party, and it was this split which allowed Wilson to win with a mere 42% of the popular vote. | Theodore Roosevelt |
| One of President Wilson's campaign promises was to lower tariffs. He kept this promise with ___ the of 1913. | Underwood-Simmons Tariff Act |
| The Underwood-Simmons Tariff Act of 1913 was the first law to substantially lower rates in ___.It made up for the reduced rates by implementing the federal income tax, which was authorized by the 16th Amendment. | 50 years |
| The federal income tax was authorized by the __ . | 16th Amendment |
| The 16th Amendment gave Congress the power to collect federal income taxes. When the first federal income tax was passed in ___, it only applied to 2% of the labor force and its highest rate was 7%. | 1913 |
| One of President Wilson's most important accomplishments in office was the reorganization of the nation's banking system through the creation of the ___. | Federal Reserve |
| Under Wilson's administration, the Fed. Reserve System was created under the Fed. Reserve Act of 1913. This system involves 12 Fed. Reserve banks set up across the United States which acted as ____. | banks for banks |
| The Fed. Reserve Board sets the __ rates charged on loans by these banks. | interest |
| A big part of President Wilson's antitrust policy was the creation of the in ___ 1914. | Federal Trade Commission |
| The Federal Trade Commission was created to control unfair competition in __ commerce, and it had the power to investigate corporations and issue cease-and-desist orders. | interstate |
| Under President Wilson's administration, existing antitrust laws were strengthened with the passage of the ___. | Clayton Antitrust Act |
| The Clayton Antitrust Act also stated that farm organizations and labor unions were not covered by these ___ . | antitrust laws |
| The Clayton Antitrust Act was passed in 1914. It outlawed specific business tactics such as __ discrimination, acquisition of stock in a competing company. | price |
| Japan agreed to voluntarily limit the number of its people emigrating to the United States in what was known as the ___ Agreement. | Gentlemen's |
| Pancho Villa retired in 1920 and was given a large estate which he turned into a "military colony" for his former __. | soldiers |
| Woodrow Wilson's response to Mexican bandid Panco Villa's raid across the border into the United States: | Ordered Pershing into Mexico. Pershing tried unsuccessfully to capture Villa in a nine-month pursuit that ended when Gen. Pershing was called back as the United States entry into World War I. |
| Why did many American intellectuals of the 1920's become expatriates? | They felt alienated by a country whose manners and direction they found distasteful. |
| Define: expatriate? | Someone who moves to a foreign country to live long-term. (May renounce citizenship) |
| From what group of Americans did many expatriates come in the 1920's | American intellectuals |
| The attitude of many American intellectuals of the 1920's | Cynical |
| Georgia O'Keefe; Thomas Hart Benton and Edward Hopper were: | American painters of the 1920's |
| What music and style of buildings characterized the 1920's? | Jazz and skyscrapers |
| What was the subject of many of Georgia O'Keefe's paintings? | Abstracts of flowers and animal skulls against the background of the New Mexico desert. |
| How did 1920's authors Sinclair; Hemingway; H.L. Mencken and Fitzgerald view the end of Progressivism? | They felt America had lost its ideals: its very sense of right v. wrong. These beliefs were portrayed in their works of the time. |
| What prompted the easy new credit available in the 1920's? | Wages were not high enough for consumers to purchase all the new goods being manufactures. |
| The 19th Amendment | Gave the vote to women |
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