Compare and contrast the goals, means, leadership, and accomplishments of the late nineteenth-century national labor organizations: National Labor Union, Knights of Labor, and American Federation of Labor. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER The NLU’s goal was social reform achieved by replacing industrial capitalism with producer cooperatives. The NLU failed under its visionary […]
The Watergate scandal began with a break-in at the A) Pentagon. B) offices of the Committee to Re-elect the President. C) offices of the Democratic National Committee. D) Oval Office. ANSWER C
In the Treaty of Paris that completed the Spanish-American War, the United States took possession of all the following EXCEPT A) Philippines. B) Puerto Rico. C) Hawaii. D) Guam. ANSWER C
Those who favored United States annexation of the Philippines argued that the islands were A) a vital stepping stone to opening the China market to American business. B) a fertile field of opportunity for Protestant missionaries. C) strategically located for America’s naval power in the Pacific. D) All of the above. ANSWER D
During the 1970s, congressional investigators discovered that the CIA had A) illegally infiltrated domestic dissident groups. B) violated the civil liberties of individual American citizens. C) been involved in plots to assassinate foreign leaders. D) All of the above. ANSWER D
Who was the leader of the Philippine Insurrection? A) Dupuy de L me B) Queen Liliuokalani C) Valeriano Weyler D) Emilio Aguinaldo ANSWER D
Most “birds of passage” who immigrated to America A) were men and women over forty years of age. B) wanted to farm and own land in America. C) moved to America’s cities. D) looked for jobs with high rates of upward mobility. ANSWER C
The purity forces in late nineteenth-century America did NOT favor A) censoring nudity in the arts. B) raising the age of sexual consent to 18. C) laws against pornography. D) widespread distribution of birth control information. ANSWER D
The text authors describe the 1920s as a time in which “a society in transition debated which of its traditional values to preserve and which to modify or abandon”. Identify at least three traditional values that were preserved in the twenties and three that were modified or abandoned. ANSWER Among the three traditional values […]
Explain why the national experiment in prohibition and the anti-smoking campaign in the 1920s ultimately failed. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Consider: the underfunded and lax enforcement of the law; the high profitability of illegal bootlegging; the general unpopularity of prohibition in specific areas (like large cities); the public’s exhaustion with crusades […]
