Maryville HIST122 Week 3 Quiz Latest 2022

Question 1 This Progressive politician became president in 1901 when William McKinley was assassinated.

Teddy Roosevelt

 Woodrow Wilson

 Chester A. Arthur

 Benjamin Harrison

Question 2This individual wanted to bring rational, science based standards to the management of labor.

Frederick Taylor

 Dean Loomey

 William Bryan

 Charles Hodge

Question 3What was Roosevelt’s “Square Deal?”

A promise to preserve individualism by using the tools of government to restrain the worst practices of industrial America

 A program in which Roosevelt helped the working poor by opening up federally sponsored soup kitchens

 A new agency opened up in the federal government that was supposed to make sure that industry followed the latest scientific discoveries in order to make production as efficient as possible

 A socialist reform package

Question 4What was Woodrow Wilson’s campaign platform in 1912?

New Deal

 New Frontier

 New Freedom

 New Nationalism

Question 5The sinking of this ship encouraged many Americans to call for war against Germany in 1915.

The Susquehanna

 The Titanic

 The Lusitania

 The Chesapeake

Question 6 Why were Progressives generally opposed to the Payne-Aldrich Tariff?

They thought that the tariff showed that Congress had been taken over by industrial lobbyists. Congress—they believed—were wiling to hurt American consumers in order to help wealthy industrialists

 They thought the tariff would hurt American workers because they would lose access to steel

 They thought the US should be promoting democracy overseas

 They thought it was wrong to support Apartheid government in South Africa

Question 7 What did Woodrow Wilson say he wanted in his declaration of war message to Congress in 1917?

 To utterly destroy Germany and replace it with 5 separately governed principalities

 To contain communism where it already existed

 To allow for national self-determination in Europe

 To erase fascism from the European continent

Question 8What was the Zimmerman Telegram?

A message sent from the US ambassador to the United Kingdom denouncing unrestricted submarine warfare

 A secret message sent to Mexico by Germany in an attempt to make Mexico an ally of Germany

 A popular dance performed when audiences heard ragtime music

 A popular anti-war play performed in 1917

Question 9This movie inspired the revitalization of the Ku Klux Klan.

Gone with the Wind

 Journey to the Moon

 Metropolis

 Birth of a Nation

Question 10Who was Margaret Foley?

 The first woman to serve as Secretary of Labor under the Roosevelt administration

 The inventor of peanut butter

 A journalist who wrote about the political uses of lynching

 A working class Irish immigrant who had been involved in labor politics in Boston