Final Exam B Review Part 2

Which group founded by W.E.B. Du Bois worked to guarantee equal rights for African Americans as listed in the Reconstruction Amendments?

• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

• Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

• Committee of Racial Equality (CORE)

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

What was the purpose of these reforms?

• Reducing government’s influence in the economy

• Expanding participation in the political process

• Giving more power to political parties

• Increasing federal control over the states

Which war was depicted by the political cartoon above?

• Civil War

• World War I

• Spanish-American War

• World War II

Newspaper headlines like the one above contributed to which of the following:

• The capture of terrorists

• The selection of Theodore Roosevelt as President

• The attack by the US on Manila Bay

• The declaration of war against Spain by the United States

Roosevelt adopted the following policy with Latin American nations:

• Open Door Policy

• Big Stick Diplomacy

• Dollar Diplomacy

• Moral Diplomacy

The Roosevelt Corollary changed the Monroe Doctrine because: 

• The United States could intervene in Europe when necessary

• Great Britain gained access to Canada and the Pacific Ocean

• The United States could intervene in Latin American nations when necessary

• The Spanish-American War gave Cuba and Puerto Rico to the United States

At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, most Americans believed that

• Sending direct aid to Russia was necessary and desirable

• The government should immediately declare war against Germany

• The government should be more concerned with conditions in the Far East than with events in Europe.

• Their country should stay out of the war

From 1914 to 1916, as World War I raged in Europe, American were unable to “Remain neutral in thought as well as action” mainly because

• The warring powers interfered with the United States right to freedom of the seas through unrestricted submarine warfare

• United States membership in military alliances required the nation to fight

• United States newspapers encouraged a policy of imperialist expansion

• President Woodrow Wilson supported the war aims of Germany and Austria-Hungary.

“On the first February, we intend to begin submarine warfare unrestricted. In spite of this it is our intention to keep neutral the United States of America.”

 -Arthur Zimmerman, January 19, 1917

 

Which of the following does this excerpt support as the primary cause of the US declaration of War in April 1917?

• Germany’s did not violations of US neutral rights

• Pro-British intelligence and propaganda

• Germany’s violations of US neutral rights

• Germany’s violation of the Monroe Doctrine

The Espionage Act (1917) and the Sedition Act (1918) were used by President Wilson’s administration during World War I to

• Discourage congressional support for the war effort

• Silence critics of the war effort

• Place German Americans in internment camps

• Remove Communists from government positions