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In addition to military oversight, the United States also exerted its power by overseeing the financial dealings of countries in the Caribbean.

While the United States was active in the Caribbean Islands and Central America, it didn't interfere in the affairs of countries in South America.

The United States gained
control over territories in the Caribbean through leases, seizures, and purchases.

America aided in the acquisition of crucial territory from Colombia in order to facilitate the construction of the Panama Canal.

Why did World War I transform Western civilization so profoundly?

a) The bitter war between the peaceful neighbors of Germany, France, and Britain shook the popular conceptions of politics deeply.
b) Since a vast majority of victims were civilians, the war forever changed public perceptions on the acceptability of military conflict.
c) As a global conflict between socialist nations on the one hand and monarchies on the other, the war signaled the ideological divisions of the twentieth century.
d) The war generated an economic boom in Europe and the United States that marked the beginning of the so-called Roaring Twenties.
e) 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.

e) 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.

Why were Americans divided over the outbreak of the Great War?

a) The American public wanted to join the conflict, but Congress remained opposed to any intervention.
b) Irish-Americans and Russian Jews resented Allied powers Great Britain and Russia, and some American reformers lobbied against the war in the name of social justice and peace.
c) Some Americans welcomed the military buildup that would accompany American involvement; others worried about large tax increases.
d) Democrats hoped to shore up support for Wilson's reelection as a "war president," while Republicans objected to "foreign entanglements."
e) Republicans hoped to gain new territory in Eastern Europe while Democrats wanted to focus energies at home.

b) Irish-Americans and Russian Jews resented Allied powers Great Britain and Russia, and some American reformers lobbied against the war in the name of social justice and peace.

Zimmermann Telegram:

a) helped assure Americans that Germany was not a threat.
b) clarified British war aims.
c) outlined the German plan for an attack on the United States by Mexico.
d) outlined the British plan for an attack on the United States by Mexico.
e) outlined the Fourteen Points

c) outlined the German plan for an attack on the United States by Mexico.

Wilson's Fourteen Points included all of the following principles EXCEPT:

a) an end to colonization.
b) self-determination for all nations.
c) freedom of the seas.
d) open diplomacy.
e) free trade.

a) an end to colonization.

How did the Committee on Public Information present its message to encourage Americans to remain loyal and support the war effort?

a) The Creel Committee often relied on veiled threats.
b) The CPI frequently invoked the alien and sedition acts.
c) The CPI rhetoric commonly tried to pit immigrants against native-born Americans.
d) The CPI packaged its appeals in the language of social cooperation and an expanded democracy.
e) The Creel Committee combined its patriotic appeals with advertisements on special bargains for household goods.

d) The CPI packaged its appeals in the language of social cooperation and an expanded democracy.

Which of the following is NOT an accurate statement about Eugene V. Debs?

a) He cited abolitionists in defense of Americans' freedom to dissent.
b) His arrest for violation of the Espionage Act was the result of an anti-war speech.
c) His prison sentence was commuted by President Wilson before his stroke.
d) He ran for president while in prison and received 900,000 votes.
e) He was sentenced to ten years in prison.

c) His prison sentence was commuted by President Wilson before his stroke.

The Espionage Act (1917) and the Sedition Act (1918):

a) were the first federal restrictions on free speech since 1798.
b) drew mostly from similar language in state law.
c) came after strong public calls for a more "defensible democracy."
d) copied similar legislation from Germany, Russia, and the Ottoman Empire.
e) were put on the books but never applied.

a) were the first federal restrictions on free speech since 1798.

Eugenics is the:

a) study of the supposed mental characteristics of different races.
b) movement toward colonization in Africa by blacks from the United States.
c) practice of using poison gas by the Germans during World War I.
d) socialist strategy of infiltrating labor unions in the United States.
e) genetic modification of human behavior.

a) study of the supposed mental characteristics of different races.

During World War I, Americans reacted to German-Americans and Germans in all of the following ways EXCEPT:

a) in Iowa, the governor required that all oral communication be done in English
b) "hamburger" was changed to "liberty sandwich."
c) the director of the Boston Symphony was interned for playing the works of German composers.
d) the teaching of foreign languages was restricted in many states.
e) the federal government barred German immigration to the United States.

e) the federal government barred German immigration to the United States.

During his presidency, Woodrow Wilson:

a) dismissed numerous black federal employees.
b) banned the showing of the movie Birth of a Nation at the White House.
c) outlawed discrimination in federal agencies.
d) appointed several black judges.
e) built on his civil rights record as governor of Virginia.

a) dismissed numerous black federal employees.

The Tulsa riot, where 300 African-Americans were killed:

a) occurred after black sharecroppers went on strike and attacked white "scabs."
b) was opposed by police and National Guardsmen, who came to the defense of black victims.
c) began after black veterans tried to prevent the lynching of a young black man.
d) came to an end quickly, after local black and white leaders united to stop the violence.
e) occurred with minimal damage to the city.

c) began after black veterans tried to prevent the lynching of a young black man.

In response to the Russian Revolution that led to the creation of the communist Soviet Union, the United States:

a) diplomatically recognized the Soviet Union.
b) aided supporters of communist rule in the Soviet Union during a civil war in 1918.
c) invited the Soviet Union to the Versailles peace conference.
d) pursued a policy of anticommunism that would remain throughout the twentieth century.
e) invited Vladimir Lenin, the head of the Soviet Union, to the United States.

d) pursued a policy of anticommunism that would remain throughout the twentieth century.

Which statement about the Red Scare is FALSE?

a) Officials believed that labor strikes were connected to the Russian Revolution.
b) The government deported hundreds of immigrant radicals.
c) It propelled J. Edgar Hoover's career as an anticommunist government agent.
d) It resulted in a wave of sympathy for persecuted workers.
e) It all but destroyed the IWW and the Socialist Party.

d) It resulted in a wave of sympathy for persecuted workers.

Although Roosevelt had invited Booker T. Washington to dine with him at the White House, he still felt blacks were "wholly unfit for the suffrage."

a) True
b) False

a) True

World War I opened thousands of industrial jobs to black laborers for the first time, inspiring a large-scale migration from South to North called the Great Migration.

a) True
b) False

a) True

The Roosevelt Corollary claimed for the United States the right to exercise an international police power in the Western Hemisphere.

a) True
b) False

a) True

The Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I was a fair document that all but guaranteed future peace in Europe.

a) True
b) False

b) False

Woodrow Wilson issued the Fourteen Points in January 1918, which established the agenda for the peace conference that followed World War I.

a) True
b) False

a) True