AP US History Unit 7.1 Review

All of the following were true of the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine EXCEPT

• it was a brazen policy of “preventive intervention.”
• in the event of future financial malfeasance by Latin American nations, the U.S. would intervene, take over the customs-houses, pay off the debts, and keep troublesome Europeans on the far side of the Atlantic.
• it meant that no outsiders could intervene forcefully in Latin American political and economic affairs, including the United States.
• this new brandishing of the Roosevelt Corollary’s big stick in the Caribbean materialized in 1905, when the U.S. took over the management of tariff collections in the Dominican Republic.

The Platt Amendment’s restrictive political and economic provisions applied to

• the Federal Reserve system.
• interstate commerce in banking.
• the Spanish-American War appropriations bill.
• the Cuban constitution.

All of the following were true of the Muckrakers EXCEPT

• beginning about 1902, the exposing of evil became a flourishing industry among American publishers.
• a group of aggressive ten-and fifteen-cent popular magazines surged to the front.
• waging fierce circulation wars, magazines dug deep for the dirt that the public loved to hate.
• President Roosevelt branded the magazines “muckrakers” in 1906 because he was impressed by their exemplary zeal.

All of the following were true of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union EXCEPT

• it was a feisty women’s organization that led the crusade against liquor during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
• it never worked in concert with the mostly male-led Anti-Saloon League. 
• both the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League perfected the techniques of single-issue, pressure-group politics.
• it was the largest organization of women in the world.

All of the following were true of the Meat Inspection Act EXCEPT

• it decreed that the preparation of meat shipped over state lines would be subject to federal inspection.
• its Congressional passage was unconnected to the descriptions of the Chicago meat packing industry revealed in the novel The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.
• the largest packers accepted it as an opportunity to drive their smaller, fly-by-night competitors out of business.
• meat packers and producers could receive the government’s seal of approval on their exports.

The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was

• passed over President Roosevelt’s veto.
• enthusiastically supported by the patent medicine industry.
• struck down by the Supreme Court.
• designed to prevent the adulteration and mislabeling of foods and pharmaceuticals.

All of the following were true of the Underwood Tariff EXCEPT

• it provided for a substantial increase of tariff rates.
• a swarm of lobbyists descended on the Senate seeking to water down the bill.
• President Wilson issued a combative message to the citizenry, urging them to contact their elected representatives to maintain the provisions of the tariff legislation he favored.
• Congress enacted a graduated income tax, beginning with a modest levy on incomes over $3,000.

All of the following were true of the Federal Trade Commission Act EXCEPT

• it was part of Wilson’s attempt to attack the “triple wall of privilege.”
• it empowered a presidentially appointed commission to turn a searchlight on industries engaged in interstate commerce.
• the commissioners were expected to crush monopoly at the source by rooting out unfair trade practices.
• the law prevented the commission from investigating certain practices, including unlawful competition, false advertising, mislabeling, adulteration, and bribery.

The Clayton Anti-Trust Act did all of the following EXCEPT it

• lengthened the shopworn Sherman Act’s list of business practices that were deemed objectionable.
• failed to prohibit price discrimination and interlocking directorates.
• conferred long-overdue benefits on labor.
• exempted labor and agricultural organizations from antitrust prosecution, while explicitly legalizing strikes and peaceful picketing.

All of the following were true of the Lusitania EXCEPT

• it was torpedoed and sank off the coast of Ireland on May 7, 1915.
• it was carrying forty-two hundred cases of small-arms ammunition, a fact the Germans used to justify the sinking.
• President Wilson was reluctant to take a disunited country to war over the Lusitania incident.
• the Midwestern United States seethed with sentiment to declare war on Germany, but the eastern United States showed a strong distaste for initiating hostilities.