Quiz 2

Question 0

White Man’s Burden

Answer 0

The spreading of American values to non-white people (the uncivilized)

Question 1

Reasons for expansion

Answer 1

Profits, patriotism, piety, and politics/public opinion

Question 2

Yellow Journalism

Answer 2

journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration, led to war with Spain

Question 3

USS Maine

Answer 3

Thought to have been sunk by Spaniards, leads to support of war; but really the gun room was too close to the boiler

Question 4

Teller Amendment

Answer 4

a joint resolution of the US Congress, enacted on April 20, 1898, in reply to McKinley’s War Message; placed a condition on US military’s presence in Cuba

Question 5

Treaty of Paris 1898

Answer 5

Ratified in February, 1899, ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the US; gave US temporary control of Cuba and permanent control over Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines

Question 6

Insular Cases 1904

Answer 6

Addressed status of new territories and ruled the constitution did not follow the flag

Question 7

Open Door Notes/Policy

Answer 7

Proposed free trade in China and supported territorial integrity in China

Question 8

William McKinley

Answer 8

Won election of 1900, supported imperialism

Question 9

Roosevelt Corollary 1904

Answer 9

Extinction of Monroe Doctrine, discouraged European expansion in the Western Hemisphere; US are policemen of the Western Hemisphere

Question 10

Panama Canal 1904

Answer 10

Helps military and shipping of goods

Question 11

Great White Fleet (1907-1909)

Answer 11

US Navy goes on goodwill tour, gets name from ship being white (in peace), shows the world improvements to Navy, tells Japan were in peace but if needed well be back in black (war)

Question 12

League of Nations

Answer 12

Last point to Wilson’s 14 points, association of nations to plan for a peace covenant to stop war, it could handle problems that a peace treaty couldn’t, ended WWI

Question 13

Automobiles/Radios (Consumer Economy)

Answer 13

Came about in the Roaring Twenties, good for the government because money was circulating without government help

Question 14

The Great Depression

Answer 14

Stock market crash of 1929, didn’t become great until 1931, people looking for government help, structural weaknesses caused this

Question 15

Scopes Trial

Answer 15

Scopes vs. Tennessee, substitute teacher accused of violating Tennessee’s Butler Act which made it illegal to teach human evolution in state funded schools

Question 16

Harlem Renaussance

Answer 16

Cultural movement that spanned through the 1920s (New Negro Movement)

Question 17

The New Deal

Answer 17

Relief, reform, recovery

Question 18

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Answer 18

Jobs program, give people income and increase purchase power

Question 20

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

Answer 20

Deal with poverty and give economic development

Question 21

Dollar Diplomacy

Answer 21

Taft, gave loans to developing nations in exchange for greater American influence

Question 22

Moral Diplomacy

Answer 22

Wilson, objected gunboat and dollar diplomacy, set moral example in world affairs

Question 23

Neutrality Proclamation

Answer 23

August 1914, US not taking sides in WWI, trade with Allied and Central Powers

Question 24

Zimmerman Telegram

Answer 24

decoded message from Germany to Mexico wanting to form alliance against the US to win land back, Mexico says no, telegram goes public

Question 25

War Industries Board

Answer 25

makes sure war material was produced in the US, set production cost, allocate raw materials, and pushed for labor unions

Question 26

Committee on Public Information

Answer 26

led by George Creel, didn't tell people what to think, just gave facts, encouraged newspapers to get approval before publishing, sent pro-war speakers to speak

Question 27

Prohibition (Eighteenth Amendment)

Answer 27

government mandated production of alcohol, done locally first and then nation wide with amendment

Question 28

Schenck v. United States (1919)

Answer 28

president of socialist party convicted of selling goods against the draft, uses free speech amendment against court (where free speech vs plausible speech comes in)

Question 29

Eighteenth Amendment

Answer 29

prohibition of alcoholic in the US by declaring the production, transportation, and sale of alcohol illegal

Question 30

Alice Paul (Nineteenth Amendment)

Answer 30

woman who fought for amendment, pass amendment to let women vote, went on hunger strikes, picket strike at white house, "safer democracy" but half the population don't vote

Question 31

Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929

Answer 31

created a farm board to stabilize crop prices

Question 32

Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1930

Answer 32

worst thing government could do, made tariff war worse, passed because congress wanted it

Question 33

Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)

Answer 33

going back to banking system, put more money in circulation

Question 34

Bonus Army

Answer 34

summer 1932, composed of 31,000 WWI veterans, demanding government pay war bonus in '32 instead of waiting to pay it in '45, vets camped out in Hooverville, government sent federal troops to attack veterans, made US want any democrat over best republican

Question 35

Charles Coughlin

Answer 35

Catholic priest in Detroit, raised find for his church by radio broadcast, soon went national, 4 million listeners; more money in circulation, more spending, better economy

Question 36

Francis Townsend

Answer 36

California doctor, old age resolving pension: give $200 a month the people over 60, $ had to be spent in that month, help economy

Question 37

Huey Long

Answer 37

Louisiana governor, sent to congress in 1932, best known for his Share Our Wealth program, created in 1934 under the motto "Every Man a King," set net asset tax

Question 38

National Labor Regulation Act

Answer 38

Known as the Wagner Act, required companies to recognize unions and to accept collective bargaining

Question 39

Social Security Act

Answer 39

Most important of new deal programs, created old age pension, unemployment insurance, and basic welfare, everyone had to do it

Question 40

Court Packing Plan

Answer 40

Plan where Roosevelt can add 6 people of his choice to the court, no one likes plan, fails