APUSH Period 7 Check

“Article X says that every member of the League, and that means every great fighting power in the world, … solemnly engages to respect and preserve … the territorial integrity and existing political independence of the other members of the League. If you do that, you have absolutely stopped ambitious and aggressive war.”

Woodrow Wilson’s statement above was made in justification of his

• decision to send troops to northern Russia and Siberia after the Bolshevik Revolution

• insistence on “open treaties, openly arrived at”

• opposition to the resolution on racial equality put forward at the Paris peace negotiations by the Japanese delegation

• refusal to accept the “reservations” proposed by Henry Cabot Lodge in the Senate debate over ratification of the Treaty of Versailles

African American migration to the urban North during the First World War was due primarily to

• racially integrated residential neighborhoods in Northern cities

• increased educational opportunities resulting from affirmative-action programs

• recruitment efforts by labor unions

• expanded job opportunities in Northern factories

• encouragement by White Protestant churches in the North

In the late nineteenth century, all of the following encouraged American jingoism EXCEPT

• yellow journalism

• the New Navy policy of Alfred Thayer Mahan and Theodore Roosevelt

• the example of European imperialism

• the flooding of American markets by foreign producers

• Social Darwinism

Many anti-imperialists opposed the annexation of the Philippines in 1898 because they believed that

• the Philippines should be returned to Spain

• United States colonialism in the Philippines was incompatible with the American belief in self-determination

• Philippine agriculture would be competing with United States agriculture

• the Philippine government was planning an alliance with Mexico

“Now, we can see a new world coming into view....In the words of Winston Churchill, a world order in which ‘the principles of justice and fair play protect the weak against the strong....’ A world where the United Nations...is poised to fulfill the historic vision of its founders. A world in which freedom and respect for human rights find a home among all nations. The Gulf War put this new world to its first test. And my fellow Americans, we passed that test.”

President George H. W. Bush, address to Congress, March 6, 1991

• the ideas expressed by President George Washington in his 1796 Farewell Address

• President James K. Polk’s support for Manifest Destiny in the 1840s

• the ideas expressed by President Woodrow Wilson during and after the First World War

• President Ronald Reagan’s support for reinvigoration of anticommunism in the 1980s

Which of the following most directly led to the circumstances illustrated by the image?

• The United States victory in the Spanish-American War

• The Supreme Court ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson

• The United States contributions to the Allied victory in the First World War

• The ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution

Which of the following best characterizes the conservationist approach to the environment that emerged in the Progressive Era?

• Designation of national parks and forests for recreation and managed use

• Use of federal money to clean up polluted industrial sites

• Passage of legislation banning the use of pesticides in agriculture

• Passage of legislation to ensure clean air and waterways

Around 1920, the number of children aged 10 to 15 in the industrial workforce began to decline for which of the following reasons?

• Introduction of the minimum wage made child labor uneconomical.

• The American birth rate declined, thus reducing the number of children available to work.

• Factory owners advocated state child labor laws.

• States began to require children to attend school until a certain age and to limit the ages at which they could be employed.

Between 1890 and 1910, the United States most strongly pursued a foreign policy promoting

• isolationism in world affairs

• close military alliances with Great Britain and France

• a sphere of influence in Africa

• commercial involvement in both Latin America and eastern Asia

• a campaign to slow the spread of socialism in eastern Europe

The United States home front during the First World War was marked by an increase in all of the following EXCEPT

• tax rates on individuals and estates

• government regulation of fuel, food, and transportation

• employment opportunities for African Americans and Mexican Americans

• participation of women in factory work, government service, and volunteer work

• support of individual liberties by the Supreme Court