Before he was elected president in 1912, Woodrow Wilson had
been
A) Presbyterian minister.
B) state governor.
C)
successful businessman.
D) Progressive Republican.
E) United
States Senator.
B
As governor of New Jersey, Woodrow Wilson established a record
as
A) mild conservative.
B) reactionary.
C) man who
could readily work with Democratic party bosses.
D) social
radical.
E) passionate reformer.
E
In 1912, Woodrow Wilson ran for the presidency on a Democratic
platform that included all of the following except a call for
A)
antitrust legislation.
B) monetary reform.
C) dollar
diplomacy.
D) tariff reductions.
E) support for small business.
C
When Jane Addams placed Teddy Roosevelt's name in nomination for the
presidency in 1912, it
A) demonstrated that the Republican party
supported woman suffrage.
B) ensured Roosevelt's defeat by
William Howard Taft.
C) symbolized the rising political status of
women.
D) showed that Roosevelt had lost touch with public
opinion.
E) demonstrated his concern for international peace.
C
Teddy Roosevelt's New Nationalism
A) pinned its economic faith
on competition and the breakup of large monopolies.
B) opposed
the growth of labor unions.
C) sought to raise tariffs to protect
American industry.
D) supported a broad program of social welfare
and government regulation of business.
E) favored state rather
than federal government activism.
D
Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom
A) advocated social-welfare
programs
B) opposed fragmentation of big industrial
combines
C) favored small enterprise and entrepreneurship
D)
supported minimum wage laws
E) opposed banking and tariff reform
C
The 1912 presidential election was notable because
A) it gave
the voters a clear choice of political and economic
philosophies.
B) personalities were the only issue of the
campaign.
C) it was the first time women had the right to
vote.
D) the Democratic party had split.
E) the Socialists
competed as a serious third party.
A
Match each 1912 presidential candidate below with his political
party.
A. Woodrow Wilson 1. Socialist
B. Theodore Roosevelt
2. Democratic
C. William Howard Taft 3. Republican
D. Eugene
V. Debs 4. Progressive
A) A—1, B—2, C—4, D—3
B) A—1, B—3, C—4, D—2
C) A—4,
B—3, C—2, D—l
D) A—3, B—1, C—2, D—4
E) A—2, B—4, C—3, D—l
E
According to the text, the runaway philosophical winner in the 1912
election was
A) socialism.
B) progressivism.
C)
conservatism.
D) capitalism.
E) feminism.
B
In 1912 Woodrow Wilson became the first __________ elected to the
presidency since the Civil War.
A) person born in the
South
B) Democrat
C) lawyer
D) non—Civil War
veteran
E) Presbyterian.
A
Woodrow Wilson was most comfortable surrounded by
A) military
veterans.
B) Catholics.
C) political professionals.
D)
journalists.
E) academic scholars.
E
Woodrow Wilson's attitude toward the masses can best be described
as
A) open contempt.
B) public support but private
dislike.
C) having faith in them if they were properly
educated.
D) indifference.
E) trust in their natural common sense.
C
Woodrow Wilson's political philosophy included all of the following
except
A) faith in the masses.
B) scorn for the ideal of
self—determination for minority peoples in other countries.
C) a
belief that the president should provide leadership for
Congress.
D) a belief that the president should appeal over the
heads of legislators to the sovereign people.
E) a belief in the
moral essence of politics.
B
As a politician, Woodrow Wilson was
A) clever and agile.
B)
a showman, like Teddy Roosevelt.
C) a man with the common
touch.
D) willing to compromise with his opponents.
E)
inflexible and stubborn.
E
Congress passed the Underwood Tariff because
A) big business
favored its passage.
B) President Wilson aroused public opinion
to support its passage.
C) the general public had been demanding
a higher tariff.
D) the tariff kept the graduated income tax from
being enacted.
E) Wilson gained Western support for tariff reduction.
B
In 1913, Woodrow Wilson broke with a custom dating back to
Jefferson's day when he
A) appointed members of his cabinet
without regard to their party affiliation.
B) appointed a black
man to the Supreme Court.
C) endorsed woman suffrage.
D)
personally delivered his presidential address to Congress.
E)
rode with his defeated predecessor to the inauguration.
D
When Woodrow Wilson became president in 1912, the most serious
shortcoming in the country's financial structure was that the
A)
large banks were scattered too widely around the country.
B) Bank
of the United States had been greatly weakened.
C) banking system
had been overregulated by the federal government.
D) U.S. dollar
was tied to gold.
E) currency was inelastic.
E
When Congress passed the Underwood Tariff Bill in 1913, it intended
the legislation to
A) lower tariff rates.
B) raise tariff
rates.
C) eliminate tariffs as a source of revenue.
D)
essentially maintain the existing tariff schedule.
E) aid
American farmers.
A
The Sixteenth Amendment provided for
A) a personal income
tax.
B) direct election of senators.
C) prohibition.
D)
woman suffrage.
E) abolition of child labor.
A
The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 guaranteed a substantial measure of
public control over the American banking system through the final
authority given to the
A) Secretary of the Treasury.
B)
President of the United States.
C) United States Senate Banking
Committee.
D) locally elected regional banks.
E)
presidentially appointed Federal Reserve Board.
E
The Federal Reserve Act gave the Federal Reserve Board the authority
to
A) issue paper money and increase the amount of money in
circulation.
B) close weak banks.
C) take the U.S. dollar
off the gold standard.
D) collect income taxes directly from
employees' paychecks.
E) establish government—owned public banks.
A
The Clayton Anti—Trust Act
A) held that trade unions fell under
the antimonopoly restraints of the Sherman Anti—Trust Act.
B)
regarded labor as an article of commerce.
C) helped Congress to
control interstate commerce.
D) explicitly legalized strikes and
peaceful picketing.
E) exempted farm cooperatives from antitrust action.
D
Because of the benefits that it conferred on labor, Samuel Gompers
called the _______________ "labor's Magna Charta."
A)
Federal Reserve Act
B) Underwood Tariff Act
C) Clayton
Anti—Trust Act
D) Sixteenth Amendment
E) Workmen's
Compensation Act
C
The first Jew to sit on the United States Supreme Court, appointed by
Woodrow Wilson, was
A) Felix Frankfurter.
B) Arsene
Pujo.
C) Abraham Cahan.
D) Louis D. Brandeis.
E)
Bernard Baruch.
D
Woodrow Wilson showed the limits of his progressivism by
a.
opposing workingmen's compensation.
b. opposing the entry of
women into politics.
c. vetoing the Federal Farm Loan
Act.
d. refusing to appoint the Jewish Louis D. Brandeis to the
Federal Trade Commission.
e. accelerating the segregation of
blacks in the federal bureaucracy.
E
Woodrow Wilson's early efforts to conduct an anti—imperialist U. S.
foreign policy were first undermined when he
A) withdrew support
from American investors in Latin America and China.
B) repealed
the Panama Canal Tolls Act.
C) sent American marines to
Haiti.
D) promised eventual independence to the
Philippines.
E) conducted a buildup of American military forces
in Hawaii.
C
Which term best characterizes Woodrow Wilson's approach to American
foreign policy diplomacy?
A) imperialistic
B)
moralistic
C) realistic
D) balance—of—power
E) isolationist
B
President Woodrow Wilson refused to intervene in the affairs of
Mexico until
A) American business investors demanded
protection.
B) Venustiano Carranza became president of
Mexico.
C) American sailors were arrested in the port of
Tampico.
D) William Randolph Hearst and his newspaper began a
campaign for involvement.
E) Pancho Villa conducted raids into
New Mexico.
C
Before his first term ended, Woodrow Wilson had militarily intervened
in or purchased all of the following countries except
A)
Haiti
B) the Dominican Republic
C) the Virgin
Islands.
D) Cuba.
E) Mexico.
D
Woodrow Wilson's administration refused to extend formal diplomatic
recognition to the government in Mexico headed by
A) Porfirio
Diaz.
B) Venustiano Carranza.
C) Pancho Villa.
D)
Victoriano Huerta.
E) Emiliano Zapata.
D
As World War I began in Europe, the alliance system placed Germany
and Austria—Hungary as leaders of the _______________, while Russia
and France were among the _______________.
A) Central Powers;
Holy Alliance
B) Central Powers; Triple Alliance
C) Allies;
Central Powers
D) Triple Alliance; Central Powers
E) Central
Powers; Allies
E
From 1914 to 1916, trade between the United States and
Britain
A) decreased considerably.
B) violated international
neutrality laws.
C) was carried only on British ships.
D)
was based on weapons shipments.
E) pulled the American economy
out of a recession.
E
With the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the great majority of
Americans
A) earnestly hoped to stay out of the war.
B)
favored entering the war in support of the Allies.
C) supported
the Central Powers.
D) wanted to form a military alliance of
neutral nations.
E) favored U.S. mediation of the conflict.
A
One primary effect of World War I on the United States was that
it
A) opened new markets in Germany and Austria—Hungary.
B)
suffered severe business losses.
C) conducted an immense amount
of trade with the Allies.
D) turned more of its economic activity
toward Latin America and Asia.
E) virtually ended American
international trade.
C
President Wilson insisted that he would hold _______________ to
"strict accountability" for _______________.
A)
Britain; repaying the loans made to it by American bankers
B)
Britain; the disruption of American trade with the European
continent
C) Germany; starting the war
D) Germany; fair
treatment of civilians in Belgium
E) Germany; the loss of
American ships and lives to submarine warfare
E
German submarines began sinking unarmed and unresisting merchant and
passenger ships without warning
A) when the United States entered
the war.
B) in retaliation for the British naval blockade of
Germany.
C) in an effort to keep the United States out of the
war.
D) because international law now allowed this new style of
warfare.
E) in a last—ditch effort to win the war.
B
Which of the following American passenger liners was sunk by German
submarines?
A) Lusitania
B) Arabic
C) Sussex
D)
Titanic
E) None of these was an American ship.
E
The Progressive "Bull Moose" party died when
A) Teddy
Roosevelt refused to run as the party's presidential candidate in
1916.
B) Teddy Roosevelt lost the presidential race in
1916.
C) the United States entered World War I.
D) the
Republican candidate, Charles Evans Hughes, advocated the same
programs as Roosevelt.
E) Woodrow Wilson won over most Bull Moose voters.
A
In the Sussex pledge, Germany promised
A) not to sink passenger
ships.
B) to maintain the territorial integrity of
France.
C) to halt its naval blockade of Britain.
D) to halt
all submarine warfare.
E) not to sink passenger ships without warning.
E
When Woodrow Wilson won reelection in 1916, he received strong
support from the
A) East Coast.
B) working class.
C)
business community.
D) prowar members of both parties.
E)
new women voters.
B