MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best
completes the statement or answers the question.
1) When
A) demanded
to be included in the treaty negotiations.
B) sent
a special delegation to tour
C) appealed
to the Spanish for military aid.
D) launched
a guerilla war against the American forces.
2) In the first battle of the Spanish-American
War, Commodore George Dewey 2) _______
A) sank
the bulk of the Spanish navy in its home
B) raided
C) routed
the Spanish fleet in
D) devastated
the Spanish fleet in
3) "The lawful government.
. .was overthrown without the drawing of a sword or the firing of a shot by a
process every step of which. . .is directly traceable to. . .the United States
acting through its diplomatic and naval representatives. . .I instructed
Minister Willis to advise the Queen and her supporters of my desire to aid in
the restoration of the status existing before the lawless landing of the United
States forces. . ." The topic of the
above was 3) _______
A)
C) the
4) In the "insular cases" the Supreme
Court ruled that 4) _______
A) Congress must follow the
Constitution when legislating for colonies.
B) colonies
could never become states.
C) Congress was not bound to
follow the Constitution in legislating for colonies.
D) annexation
of the
5) A canal across the
A) Germans. B) English. C)
French. D) Danes.
6) In 1867, the
A)
7) During the Civil War, __________ established
a protectorate over
A)
8) Expansionists who wished to annex the
A) keeping
the islands out of the hands of European imperialists.
B) preserving
the integrity of the Open Door policy.
C) spreading
democracy and Christianity to "uncivilized" peoples.
D) establishing
the
9) At the turn of the twentieth century, the
so-called Boxer Rebellion broke out in 9)
______
A)
10) According to the "Gentlemen's
Agreement" negotiated by
A) the
main issues of the Russo-Japanese War were peacefully settled.
B) American control of the
C) Japan promised not to
issue passports for laborers seeking work in
D) Chinese immigration was
severely restricted.
11) President __________ called his policy of
influencing other countries without actually controlling them "dollar
diplomacy." 11) ______
A) William McKinley B) Woodrow Wilson
C) William Howard Taft D) Theodore Roosevelt
12) By the beginning of World War I, how did most
Americans view their role in the world? 12)
______
A) They were keenly aware of
the implications of extending American influence into underdeveloped nations.
B) They had rejected the
isolationism of earlier generations.
C) They perceived themselves
as weak when compared to European powers and vulnerable to attack.
D) They did as they wanted in
foreign affairs, unlimited by any rational analysis of the probable
consequences.
13) Americans had stronger reasons for
extending their influence in
A) saw
greater needs to bring Christianity to the inhabitants.
B) had
no footholds in the Pacific until after World War I.
C) were
accustomed to protecting American interests in
D) feared
they would be shut off from Latin American markets by European imperialism.
14) "The present condition of affairs in
Cuba is a constant menace to our peace. . .In the name of humanity, in the name
of civilization, in behalf of endangered American interests which give us the
right and the duty to speak and act, the war in Cuba must stop. In view of these facts, . . . ,I ask the Congress to authorize the. . . President.
. .to secure a full and final termination of hostilities between the Government
of Spain and the people of
A) Grover
C) William McKinley. D) William Howard Taft.
15) In 1900, the United States insisted that the
constitution of __________ grant America naval bases and authorize American
intervention whenever necessary to protect life, property, and individual
liberty.15) ______
A) Puerto Rico B) Panama C)
16) In February 1898, the American battleship the
__________ mysteriously exploded in
A)
C) Vermont D)
17) In order to build the Panama Canal on the
terms he wanted, President Roosevelt intervened militarily to aid the
Panamanian revolt against 17) ______
A)
18) After the Spanish-American War, heated
debates raged over the imperialism of annexing 18) ______
A)
C) the
Philippine
19) The American politician who formed a
volunteer unit, the "Rough Riders," and participated in storming San
Juan Hill was 19) ______
A) Theodore Roosevelt.
B) Benjamin Harrison.
C) Woodrow Wilson. D) Henry Cabot Lodge.
20) The "Open Door" policy
attempted to preserve the chances for American business to enter the markets of
20) ______
A)
C) China. D)
21) On the eve of World War I the
A) minor
but growing regional power.
B) marginal
regional power.
C) world
power.
D) major
but rapidly declining world power.
23) The major issue in the
Spanish-American War was the independence of23) ______
A)
24) Early in the twentieth century, the
A) Teller Amendment.
B) "Open Door"
Policy.
C) Platt Amendment.
D) Roosevelt Corollary to the
25) The
A) during
the Spanish-American War.
B) after
World War II.
C) on
the eve of World War I.
D) in
the 1920s.
26) Under the Platt Amendment, 26) ______
A)
B)
C) America promised it would
not acquire the
D)
27) Many Americans were shocked and
outraged when the British liner the __________ was torpedoed and almost 1200
people died.27) ______
A)
C) Prince of Wales. D)
28) The Great War triggered a major
movement of 28) ______
A) urbanites
to rural communities.
B) southern
blacks to northern cities.
C) farmers
to urban centers.
D) European immigrants to the
29) In wooing the progressives in the election
of 1916,
A) appointed
well-known progressive Felix Frankfurter to the Supreme Court.
B) reversed
himself and put into effect almost every important plank of the 1912
Progressive platform.
C) proposed
"class legislation" which favored "special interests."
D) chose
Theodore Roosevelt as his running mate.
30) If the
A) the
Allies would have won anyway.
B) there
would have been a negotiated settlement because of the mutual exhaustion of
both sides.
C) the
Central Powers would have won in 1918.
D) the
Bolshevik revolution would have succeeded in spreading to the rest of
31) In February, 1917, the
A) Ludendorf
B) Hindenburg
C) Nogales D) Zimmermann
32) In their greatest engagement of the
war, in September, 1918, despite the heavy loss of 120,000 casualties, American
troops won the
A)
C)
33) The basic reason why the U.S. Senate
failed to ratify the Versailles Treaty was the 33) ______
A) refusal of both Woodrow
Wilson and Henry Cabot Lodge to compromise.
B) failure
of the Treaty to include a
C) uncompromising
opposition of the "irreconcilables."
D) conflict
between the treaty and the Monroe Doctrine.
34) According to your text, many Americans
favored neutrality during the Great War because 34) ______
A) over
two-thirds of all Americans were either first or second generation immigrants.
B) Americans traditionally
feared entanglement in European affairs.
C) they
did not care which side won.
D) they
believed the Allies were going to win the war within the first six months.
35) In 1916,
A)
C) Nicaragua. D)
36) The former mining engineer and head of
the Belgian Relief Commission, whom
A) William
C) Frank P. Walsh. D) William G. McAdoo.
37) Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points
included 37) ______
A) industrial
development of the
B) freedom
for all colonies.
C) world
disarmament.
D) freedom
of the seas.
38) The American Expeditionary Force was
commanded by General 38) ______
A) Arthur MacArthur. B) John J. Pershing.
C) Peyton C. March. D) Newton D. Baker.
39)
A) Fourteen
Points. B) Lodge Reservations.
C) League of Nations. D)
40) When the United States entered the
Great War, from a military point of view, the country was 40) ______
A) lacking
both a standing army and navy.
B) extremely
well prepared.
C) fairly
well prepared.
D) poorly
prepared.
41) The peace settlement reached at the
A)
C) Meuse-Argonne D)
42) During the Great War, the federal
government asked citizens to 42) ______
A) increase
domestic food consumption.
B) invest
in the stock market.
C) buy
"Victory" and "
D) avoid
traveling between major cities.
43) American attitudes towards the two
sides in the Great War were most influenced by 43) ______
A) conflicts
over freedom of the seas.
B) German propaganda.
C) Wilson's militarism.
D) British propaganda.
44) As a wartime leader,
A) forceful
and inspiring.
B) totally
unwilling to have government regulate the economy.
C) too
idealistic and unrealistic.
D) lucky
that
45) Georges Clemenceau, David Lloyd
George, and Vittorio Orlando were 45) ______
A) jailed
for criticizing the war in
B) the
first three presidents of the
C) the
commanding generals of the French, English, and Italian armies.
D) members
of the so-called Big Four at the Paris Peace Conference.
46) This future American political leader
commanded an artillery battalion in
A) Franklin D. Roosevelt B) Harry S. Truman
C) Dwight D. Eisenhower D) Thomas E. Dewey
47) The 1920s saw immense changes in
popular culture because of the two new technologies of 47) ______
A) microphones
and typewriters. B) phonographs
and televisions.
C) telephones
and telegraphs. D) motion
pictures and radios.
48) During the 1920s blacks experienced 48) ______
A) increasing
integration in smaller northern towns.
B) optimism
based on gains in civil rights.
C) decreasing
militancy and activism.
D) discrimination
and concentration in northern ghettos.
49) According to your text, the most
horrible example of the social malaise of the 1920s, was the 49) ______
A) campaign
for birth control.
B) revival
of the Ku Klux Klan.
C) intimidation
of the "Red Scare."
D) popularity
of religious fundamentalism.
50) During the 1920s, how were immigrants from
southern and eastern
A) They found it much easier
to immigrate.
B) There was a larger quota
for them than they could use.
C) They found it much more
difficult to immigrate.
D) They continued to
immigrate at the same rate as from 1900 to 1914.
51) One of the worst blows to women's
rights during the 1920s was the51)
______
A) Supreme Court's Muller v.
B) Child Labor Amendment to
the Constitution.
C) Sheppard-Towner Act.
D) Supreme Court's Adkins v.
Children's Hospital decision.
52) During the 1920s, the ___________ industry had the
single most important impact on the nation's booming economy. 52) ______
A) housing
B) automobile
C) steel
D) motion picture
53)
A) Gertrude Stein. B) Ezra Pound.
C) H. L. Mencken. D) David Danbom.
54) According to your text, the literature
of the 1920s reflected the 54) ______
A) disillusionment
of the intellectuals.
B) hopeful
experimentation of the progressives.
C) romantic
innocence of an earlier age.
D) liberal
faith in the basic goodness and reasonableness of people.
55) The expatriate novelist Ernest
Hemingway 55) ______
A) had
a verbose, rather uncontrolled style which had almost no influence on other
writers.
B) was most famous for his
Pulitzer prize winning novel, This Side of Paradise.
C) portrayed
a world of rootless desperation, amorality, and outrage at life's
meaninglessness.
D) was
the least talented of the many American expatriates who gained some fame in
this era.
56) "I would never go back again to nurse
women's ailing bodies while their miseries were as vast as the stars. I was now finished with superficial cures. . .I resolved that women should have knowledge of
contraception. They have every right to
know about their own bodies. I would strike outhorizontalI would
scream from the housetops. I
would tell the world what was going on in the lives of these poor women. I would be heard. No matter what it should cost. I would be heard . . ." The above author was 56) ______
A) Carrie
Chapman Catt. B) Alice Paul.
C) Margaret Sanger. D) Jane Addams.
57) The 1925
A) teaching
evolution in the public schools.
B) promoting
free speech.
C) halting
cruelty to animals.
D) limiting
freedom of religion.
58) What was the effect of the Great War upon the
American economy from 1914 to 1916? 58)
______
A) Because of
B) Trade with the Allies
almost quadrupled to $3.2 billion a year, while that with the Central Powers
almost disappeared.
C) Because of
D) Trade with the Central
Powers almost quadrupled to $3.2 billion a year, while that with the Allies
fell to a trickle.
59) At the outbreak of the Great War in
1914, the Allied Powers included 59)
______
A) the
B)
C)
D)
60) The leader of the Republican
opposition in the Senate to
A) Henry Cabot Lodge. B) Newton D. Baker.
C) Warren G. Harding. D) William G. McAdoo.
61) President Wilson's basic approach to
foreign relations was that he 61)
______
A) favored
aggressive military expansion by
B) feared
and despised foreign nations.
C) wanted
to spread the gospel of American democracy to enlighten the unfortunate and
ignorant.
D) thought
the "Open Door" policy and the
62) The Great War was precipitated by the 62) ______
A) inability
of the French and the Germans to reach a peaceful settlement in their dispute
over control of the Alsace-Lorraine region.
B) Austrians launching a
massive offensive across
C) French invading
D) assassination
of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, by a
Serbian nationalist.
63) "If such a deplorable situation should
arise, the Imperial German Government can readily appreciate that the
Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial
German Government to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval
authorities and to take any steps it might be necessary . . . to safeguard
American lives and property and to secure to American citizens the full
enjoyment of their acknowledged rights on the high seas. . ." The author's topic was the 63) ______
A) German navy's blockade
with its surface fleet of English shipping.
B) shelling
of English cities by German battleships.
C) U-boat attacks on merchant
ships without warning.
D) impressment of German-American citizens by the German
navy.
64) The symbol of the "lost
generation" and the author of The Great Gatsby was 64) ______
A) Henry Adams. B) Carl Sandburg.
C) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
D) Ezra Pound.
65) The infamous gangster who grabbed
wealth and power in
A) Al Capone. B) Pretty Boy Floyd.
C) Machine Gun Kelly. D)
66) The major effect of advertising on radio
was 66) ______
A) production
of programs of little intellectual content or controversy, aimed at the lowest
tastes.
B) an
overnight mushrooming of the number of stations.
C) so
devastating that the Federal Communications Commission was forced to step in
and regulate advertising.
D) limited
because early advertising was so unsophisticated.
67) During the 1920s, American sports were
67) ______
A) extraordinarily
popular.
B) still
regionally based.
C) relatively
unaffected by the influence of radio and advertising.
D) torn
by conflicts about the influence of money in amateur sports.
68) A major factor in the collapse of the
Ku Klux Klan in the late 1920s was the 68)
______
A) condemnation
of it by Protestant churches.
B) federal
crack-down on its violence.
C) growing
public awareness of its cruelty.
D) increase
in rural prosperity.
69) Jazz was the music of the 1920s
because it 69) ______
A) fit
in easily with the prevailing "Tin Pan Alley" tradition.
B) required little
sophistication to play or enjoy.
C) emphasized
structure and order at a time when many people felt their lives were out of
control.
D) expressed
many people's desire to break with tradition and throw off conventional
restraints.
70) During the Great War, mere criticism of the
government became cause for arrest and imprisonment under the __________ Act. 70) ______
A) Americanism B) Trading-with-the-Enemies
C) Espionage D) Sedition
71) The first significant talking movie
was 71) ______
A) Father of the Bride.
B) The Jazz Singer.
C) Birth of a Nation. D) The Great Train Robbery.
72) The greatest film star of his era, who
won fame as a sad little tramp, was 72)
______
A) Harold Lloyd. B) Groucho Marx.
C) Charlie Chaplin. D) Buster Keaton.
73) The chief counsel for the defendant,
John T. Scopes, in the famous "Monkey Trial" was 73) ______
A) William
C) Clarence Darrow. D) Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
74) In May 1927, the first solo non-stop
flight from
A) Charles Lindbergh. B) Wilbur Wright.
C) Malcolm Lockheed. D) John B. Rae.
75) "A spirit of libertinism is abroad among
our youth. There is little or no respect
for parents and superiors in many of our homes and schools and churches. There is. . .a bold
and brazen defiance of decency and modesty in dress and speech and
conduct." The above author was a75) ______
A) leftwing
advocate of "free-love" and birth control in the progressive era.
B) machine
politician lamenting the settlement house movement.
C) conservative
critic of the "flaming youth" of the 1920s.
D)
76) The Sacco-Vanzetti case graphically
demonstrated that American justice had little sympathy towards 76) ______
A) radicals
and aliens. B) Native Americans.
C) religious
fundamentalism. D) Catholics.
77) It would be accurate to say that Henry
Ford 77) ______
A) realized
mass production could make a car cheap enough for the average consumer.
B) demonstrated
the value of a college degree in engineering in directing an industry which was
rapidly changing.
C) was
a great inventor.
D) campaigned
against ignorance and anti-Semitism.
78) The leader of the Universal Negro
Improvement Association, whose slogan was "Back to
A) Langston Hughes. B) Booker T. Washington.
C) Marcus Garvey. D) W. E. B. Du Bois.
79) The flourishing of black literature,
theatre, and music during the twenties was known as the 79) ______
A) Pan-African Renaissance.
B)
C) Black Power Movement.
D) Back to
80) The prohibition movement was most strongly
supported by __________ Americans. 80)
______
A) urban
B) rural
C) working-class
D) immigrant
ESSAY. Write your
answer on a separate sheet of paper.
81) Summarize the causes, major events, and
results of the Spanish-American War.
82) Summarize
83) The 1920s is sometimes seen as a golden age
of sports and popular culture. Do you
agree or disagree? Support your point of
view with evidence from trends, developments, and major figures.
84) Explain why Americans were neutral at the
beginning of the Great War and why they abandoned that policy. Summarize American involvement in the Great
War and explain why
85) Who comprised the "lost
generation"? Describe their common
characteristics as well as the achievements of some of the major figures.
86) Describe the major technological and economic trends which transformed American society in the 1920s. Describe the leading figures and their accomplishments.