WWI Practice

The explosion of the USS Maine and practice of Yellow Journalism played a significant role in the

• Public’s support for the Spanish American War

• Creation of the Open Door Policy

• Acquisition of Florida

• Purchase of Alaska

A goal of President Theodore Roosevelt’s Big Stick policy and President Taft’s Dollar Diplomacy toward Latin America was to

• Join Western Hemisphere nations in a military alliance

• Protect American economic and political interests

• Encourage foreign nations to establish colonies

• Protect democracy in Latin America

Which headline best illustrates the concept of imperialism

• “The Supreme Court bans segregation in public schools”

• “President McKinley announces U.S annexation of the Philippines”

• “The League of Nations is formed”

• “President Roosevelt meets with the Japanese and Russian leaders at Portsmouth”

As a result of the Spanish American war, the United States saw the need to build the Panama Canal because

• Spanish opposition to the canal had ended

• New American colonies had been acquired in Africa

• The United States navy could then move more quickly between oceans

• United States railroads could not transport enough manufactured goods

At the beginning of World War I, President Wilson followed a traditional United States foreign policy by

• Refusing to permit trade with either side in the conflict

• Declaring American neutrality

• Establishing a military presence on the Chinese mainland

• Requesting an immediate declaration of war against Germany as a result of unrestricted submarine warfare

The United States found it difficult to remain neutral during the first three years of World War I because

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

• Listen to United States newspapers that encouraged a policy of imperialist expansion

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

• The warring powers interfere with the United States right to freedom of the seas

The “clear and present danger” ruling of the Supreme Court in Schenck v United States illustrates the continuing conflict between

• Free speech and governmental authority

• The use of search warrants and the rights of the accused

• State powers and Federal powers

• Religious freedom and separation of church and state

What was a primary reason for the Great Migration of African Americans to northern cities during World War I

• Job opportunities were available in northern factories

• Jim Crow laws in the south had been repealed

• Voting rights laws had been passed in northern states

• The federal government had guaranteed an end to discrimination

 President Wilson’s Fourteen Points were proposed during World War I primarily to

• Define postwar objective for the United States

• Outline military strategies for the United States

• Convince other nations to join the United Nations

• Strengthen the United States policy of isolationism

The right of US ships to trade with any country without being attacked

• Freedom of the seas

• Lusitania

• Zimmerman Telegram

• Allied Powers