Exit Ticket: Imperialism and WW1

The Populist and the Progressive movements were similar in their approaches to reform in that both

• promoted the use of violent strikes and protests against big business organizations

• opposed the strict laissez-faire attitudes of the federal government

• lobbied for immediate social and economic equality for African Americans

• supported the return of powers to the state government

A primary function of the Federal Reserve System is to

• prevent abuses in stock market trading

• insure savings account deposits in member banks

• preserve a competition in business

• provide a stable supply of money and credit

The purpose of the ​ (a)   was to prevent ​ (b)   from creating colonies in the ​ (c)  

• Monroe Doctrine
• European countries
• Western Hemisphere
• Roosevelt Corallary
• Great Britain
• Anti-Immigration Act of 1913
• United States territory
• Communists

Between the 1890s and the start of World War I, the United States expanded its access to overseas markets and raw materials through the policy of

• containment

• imperialism

• rationism

• isolationism

Which of these responses do not support the theory of imperialism?

​ (a)  

​ (b)  

• The United States engaging in isolationism
• The United States should respect self-governance
• The United States competes economically
• The US should spread its religious ideas
• Land is needed to expand our raw materials
• Presence in Cuba deters intervention

During the 1890s, Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst used yellow journalism to generate public support for the

• presidential candidacy of William McKinley

• goals of workers in the Pullman strike

• Spanish American War

• election of Populist Party candidates

Following World War I, the United States Senate refused to ratify the Treaty of

Versailles primarily because the treaty

• failed to include most of President Wilson’s 14 Points

• did not punish Germany for starting the war

• contained provisions that might lead the US into foreign conflicts

• made no provisions for reduction of military weapons

A major purpose of President Wilson’s Fourteen Points (1918) was to

• ask Congress to enter World War I

• set goals for achieving peace after World War I

• provide an aid program for the rebuilding of war-torn nations

• retaliate for the sinking of the Lusitania

Match the following countries in WW1 with their reason for entering the conflict:

• Ties with the Allied Powers and the Zimmerman Telegram

• Austria-Hungary

• Defends Serbia but leaves the war early after a revolution

• Great Britain

• An ally of Russia who invokes their support

• United States

• Assassination of their Archduke

• Russia

• Defends itself after a threat of invasion from Austria-Hungary

• Serbia

"The success of American soldiers during World War 1 was largely credited to his leadership, and he returned to the United States as a true hero." This statement was made by a speaker attending the funeral of -

• Woodrow Wilson

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Lyndon B. Johnson