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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -​Herbert Hoover

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The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 guaranteed a substantial measure of public control over the American banking and currency system through the great authority given to


A) the secretary of the treasury.
B) the House and the Senate.
C) banking shareholders.
D) regional Federal Reserve banks.
E) the presidentially appointed Federal Reserve Board.

F) C) and E)
G) None of the above

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Eugene V. Debs

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -​Henry Cabot Lodge

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Venustiano Carranza

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In 1913, Woodrow Wilson broke with a custom dating back to Jefferson's day when he


A) stopped having formal cabinet meetings.
B) appointed a black man to the Supreme Court.
C) endorsed woman suffrage.
D) personally delivered his presidential State of the Union address to Congress.
E) failed to write a presidential State of the Union address to be read by a clerk to Congress.

F) A) and C)
G) C) and D)

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Why did President Wilson have such difficulty getting his own allies at the Paris Peace Conference to accept the principles of the Fourteen Points? To what extent did the Treaty of Versailles embody the principles of the Fourteen Points?

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President Wilson faced difficulty in get...

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -​Schenck v. United States (1919)

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​Each of the following multiple choice questions has multiple correct responses. Select the correct responses for each of the following questions. -Among the major targets of the wartime Espionage and Sedition Acts were


A) the American Federation of Labor.
B) Samuel Gompers.
C) the Industrial Workers of the World.
D) Eugene V.Debs.
E) German Americans.

F) A) and E)
G) B) and D)

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Summarize President Wilson's Fourteen Points. Which were substantially attained as a result of American participation in World War I? Which were not? Why? Which political leaders in America and Europe bear the greatest responsibility for the failure to attain the most critically important of Wilson's Fourteen Points concerning peace, collective security, democracy, and self-determination?

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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; ship damage and destruction to neutral countries other than the United States.
D) Germany; fair treatment of civilians in Belgium
E) Germany; the loss of American ships and American lives to submarine warfare

F) A) and E)
G) C) and D)

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Locate the following places by reference number on the map: ​Europe and the Ottoman Empire during World War I, 1914-1917 -____ Locate the Black Sea.

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -​Nineteenth Amendment

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Woodrow Wilson

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The two major battles of World War I in which United States forces engaged the Central Powers in 1918 were


A) Ypres and the Ardennes Forest.
B) Verdun and the Somme.
C) Gallipoli and Locarno.
D) Jutland and Trafalgar.
E) St.Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.

F) None of the above
G) D) and E)

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For German military strategists, the entry of the United States into the war in April 1917 meant that


A) they would no longer be able to use their submarine weapon effectively.
B) they would have to defeat France and Britain before a large American force arrived in Europe.
C) they would have to seek an immediate cessation of hostilities and peace treaty with Russia.
D) the war would become one of swift movements rather than stalemated trench warfare.
E) they would have to switch from an offensive to a defensive strategy.

F) B) and D)
G) A) and C)

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Difficulties in Mexico in the early 20th century affected the U.S. by .


A) interfering with trade relations.
B) encouraging massive migration of Mexicans across the border.
C) providing an investment opportunity for U.S.corporations.
D) provoking a full-fledged shooting war between Mexico and the United States.
E) None of these choices are correct.

F) A) and B)
G) All of the above

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The central provisions of the Clayton Anti-Trust Act


A) included trade unions under the antimonopoly provisions of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
B) declared that no single corporation could control more than 75 percent of a given industry.
C) established minimum wage rates for goods produced in interstate commerce.
D) outlawed corporate interlocking directorates and price discrimination against different purchasers.
E) weakened regulations against interlocking directorates and private discrimination against different purchasers.

F) None of the above
G) B) and D)

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​Prosecutions under the Espionage Act (1917) and the Sedition Act (1918) can be characterized in the following ways except


A) antiwar socialists and labor leaders were visibly targeted.
B) 1,900 Americans were prosecuted under these laws.
C) the laws meant that any criticism of the government could be censored and punished.
D) the Supreme Court ultimately ruled that they were unconstitutional violations of freedom of speech and association.
E) after the war, President Harding issued pardons to many of those prosecuted, including labor leader Eugene Debs.

F) A) and B)
G) C) and D)

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Charles Evans Hughes

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