JEOPARDY!

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JEOPARDY!
Ch. 27 Imperialism
Ch. 28/29 Progressive Era
Ch. 30 - World War I
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• 1. Which of these was not a "muckraker"?
• Ezra Pound
• Lincoln Steffens
• Upton Sinclair
• Ida M. Tarbell

• Which form of municipal government
• took root in Galveston, Texas, in 1900?
• Commission type
• City manager
• Mayor-council
• Interlocking directorate

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• 3. Josiah Strong did which of the following
• Advocated American intervention to collect
  customs in the Dominican Republic.
• Said the United States was ordained by God to
  spread its Christian teachings worldwide.
• Argued the anti-imperialist position regarding
  the Philippines.
• Wrote The Influence of Sea Power Upon History.

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• After the attack on the Sussex, Germany
• Warned that it would hold the Allies to "strict
  accountability" for interference with German
  shipping.
• Occupied Belgium and the Netherlands.
• Invited Mexico to join the Central Powers.
• Promised that merchant ships would not be sunk
  without warning and providing for the safety of
  noncombatants

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• In Muller v. Oregon, the Supreme Court
• Upheld a maximum ten-hour day for working women
  in Oregon.
• Forbade Oregon from regulating the wages of
  working women.
• Sanctioned freedom of contract in employment.
• Held a series of state social welfare laws to be
  unconstitutional.

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• 6. Who claimed that "no nation can become a world
  power without a powerful navy"?
• Dupuy de Lome
• Emilio Aguinaldo
• Alfred T. Mahan
• Josiah Strong

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• When he called for "peace without victory" in
  World War I, Wilson
• Endorsed the concept of a "no-win" war.
• Was seeking the backing of antiwar elements in
  America.
• Felt that only a peace among equals, not a treaty
  between the victor and the vanquished, could
  endure.
• Acknowledged the Allies' lack of preparedness to
  fight the Central Powers.

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• 8. The Bureau of Corporations was superseded by
  the
• Department of Commerce and Labor.
• Federal Reserve Board.
• Internal Revenue Service.
• Federal Trade Commission.

• 9. Most supportive of the Clayton Antitrust Act
  were
• Farmers.
• Labor unions.
• Corporations.
• Conservationists

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• 10. Which of these statements regarding American
  interest in Hawaii is false?
• Hawaii became a territory during Cleveland's
  administration.
• In 1893 a revolt resulted in the overthrow of
  Queen Liliuokalani.
• The United States was instrumental in permitting
  a group of sugar growers to establish a Hawaiian
  republic.
• Hawaii did not become a state until 1959.

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• 11. To finance World War I, the United States
  relied on all of the following except
• Higher income taxes.
• Sale of war bonds.
• Excess profits and inheritance taxes.
• Temporary national sales taxes

• 12. Who served as director of the Committee on
  Public Information?
• Herbert Hoover
• William Gibbs McAdoo
• William Howard Taft
• George Creel

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• 13. Who was the first president to side with
  org- anized labor in a dispute with management?
• William McKinley
• Theodore Roosevelt
• William Howard Taft
• Woodrow Wilson

• 14. Funds for the Newlands Act came from
• The income tax.
• Corporation taxes.
• Recreational user fees.
• Revenues earmarked from the sale of
  public lands in the West

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• 15. Where is San Juan Hill located?
• Santiago, Chile
• Santiago, Cuba
• Manila
• San Juan, Puerto Rico

• From the treaty ending the Spanish-American
  War, the United States acquired all of the
  following except
• a. Guam
• b. Philippines
• c. Cuba
• d. Puerto Rico.

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• 17. Prior to assuming command of the American
  Expeditionary Force, General Pershing had
• Directed the conscription of troops.
• Handled relief efforts in France.
• Sought to capture the Mexican bandit Pancho
  Villa.
• Opposed the use of black troops in the military.

• 18. Which of the following was not among the 14
  Points?
• Open diplomacy
• Reducing armaments
• Ending tariff barriers
• Returning Alsace-Lorraine to Italy

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• Taft split the Republican party into "Old Guard"
  and "progressive" wings by his actions in all of
  the following except
• a. A bitter dispute over conservation of
  natural resources
• b. Credentials dispute at the 1912
  Republican convention
• c. Payne-Aldrich Tariff
• d. Mine safety legislation

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• Anti-imperialists objected to annexation
• of the Philippines for all of these reasons
  except
• Inconsistency with the Teller Amendment.
• The need for naval bases and coaling stations in
  the Far East.
• To consider the Filipinos as colonists would
  violate the spirit of the Declaration of
  Independence.
• The Aguinaldo revolt proved that the Filipinos
  did not desire American occupation.

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• Those desiring changes in the Paris peace
  treaty were the
• a. Reservationists
• b. Isolationists.
• c. Irreconcilables.
• d. Internationalists

• 22. In the Zimmermann telegram, Germany
• Apologized for the sinking of the Lusitania.
• Declared war on France.
• Proposed an alliance with Mexico against the
  United States.
• Announced the resumption of unrestricted
  submarine warfare

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• 23. Which of these statements regarding the
  election of 1912 is false?
• Taft won the Republican nomination but lost the
  primaries.
• The Democratic nominee was chosen on the 46th
  ballot.
• The Progressive party candidate polled no
  electoral votes.
• The winner polled less than a majority of the
  popular vote.

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• 24. What military governor supervised the
  rebuilding of Cuba after the Spanish- American
  War?
• William Howard Taft c. George Dewey
• b. Leonard Wood d. Elihu Root

• 25. The Foraker Act did which of the following?
• Allowed America to build a future canal across
  Nicaragua.
• Established a limited civil government in Puerto
  Rico.
• Required American traders to respect "spheres of
  influence" in China.
• Renounced American interests in occupying Cuba

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• 28. What lone black took the leading role in the
  formation of the NAACP?
• Carter Woodson
• William E. B. Du Bois
• William Monroe Trotter
• Booker T. Washington

• 29. The New Freedom did not include
• Establishment of the Food and Drug
  Administration.
• Federal Trade Commission.
• Underwood Tariff.
• Clayton Antitrust Act.

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• 30. Dollar diplomacy" refers to
• Construction of an interoceanic canal to assist
  world trade.
• Encouragement of American trade and investments
  in such areas as Latin America and the Far East.
• European investment in American finance.
• Maintaining the right of transit across Panama

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• 31. The Democrats won the 1916 election because
• The Republicans lost their majority party status.
• Wilson's supporters skillfully used the theme "He
  Kept Us Out of War.
• Wilson's snub of Progressive Hiram Johnson helped
  the Democrats to win California.
• The Republicans failed to take advantage of
  Wilson's failed Mexican policy.

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• 32. Who instituted the direct primary?
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
• Woodrow Wilson
• William Howard Taft

• 33. Immediately before becoming vice- pres.,
  Theodore Roosevelt had served as
• Assistant secretary of the navy.
• Mayor of New York City.
• U.S. senator.
• Governor of New York

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• 34. Theodore Roosevelt's critics accused him of
  trying to annex what country when he took over
  its customs house in 1903?
• Cuba c. Venezuela
• Dominican Republic d. Puerto Rico

• San Francisco became the subject of inter-
• national attention in 1906 because of its policy
  of
• Banning the importation of Hawaiian sugar.
• Passing a resolution against the Open Door
  Policy.
• Segregating Asian school children.
• Recruiting Chinese laborers.

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• 36. Eugene Debs was imprisoned for
• Violating the Sedition Act.
• Failure to pay income taxes.
• Corruption in his union.
• Wartime profiteering.

• 37. Which agency fixed prices for war materials
  and determined what manufacturers could use and
  to whom deliveries could be made?
• United States Peace Commission
• National War Labor Board
• War Industries Board
• Office of Price Administration

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• 26. Postwar strikes inadvertently helped to
  produce what future president?
• Warren G. Harding
• Calvin Coolidge
• Herbert C. Hoover
• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• 27. Attorney General Mitchell Palmer
• Believed that terrorists and revolutionaries were
  a threat to America in the postwar years.
• Wrote the Covenant of the League of Nations.
• Was the 1920 Democratic presidential nominee.
• Fought the growing power of organized labor