PERIOD 7a STIMULUS MULTIPLE CHOICE PRACTICE
(Note--The concepts are directly from the Curriculum Framework’s Key
Concepts. The targets are Mr. Kujawa’s “student friendly” objectives which
mirror those sub-concepts found under each Key Concept. Refer to “ConceptsContent” for each unit for a complete description of those targets on Mr.
Kujawa’s website found in the tab “Course Materials”.)
Source 1--Political Cartoon, Puck Magazine, March 29, 1882
Railroad magnate Jay Gould uses bowling balls “trickery”, “false reports”, “private
press”, and “general unscrupulousness” to knock down pins labeled “operator”,
“broker”, “banker”, and “inexperience investor”.
01. Which of the following represents a later example of a change advocated by the political
cartoonist? [POL, WXT; Continuity-Change Over Time; Concept 1, Target 2]
a. Raise import duties to reduce foreign competition.
b. Enable corporations to conduct their own affairs.
c. Expand domestic markets through laissez-faire.
d. Require federal monitoring of business practices.
02. The ideas expressed in the political cartoon most directly challenged the prevailing attitude
in the late 1800’s that: [POL, WXT; Contextualization; Concept 1, Target 2]
a. corporate greed dominated the financial landscape.
b. company owners sought fair competition.
c. government regulations stunted economic growth.
d. innovations stimulated business production.
03. Which of the following pieces of legislation most directly altered the behavior as depicted
in the political cartoon? [POL, WXT; Continuity-Change Over Time; Concept 1, Target
2]
a. Pure Food-Drug Act.
c. Federal Trade Act.
b. Elkins Act.
d. Federal Meat Inspection Act.
Source 2--Political Cartoon, “Our Choked Up Home Market”, Puck Magazine, May 6, 1889
04. The ideas expressed by the author were a direct reaction to: [WXT, WOR; Contextualization; Concept 1, Target 1]
a. low import duties.
c. an inability to sell excess goods.
b. high levels of immigration.
d. a reliance on foreign trade.
05. The argument of the political cartoonist most closely parallels which of the following
concepts from the time period? [WXT, WOR; Argumentation; Concept 1, Target 1]
a. Inflation.
b. Laissez-faire.
c. Free trade.
d. Supply and demand.
Source 3--John Muir, The American Forests, 1901
The legitimate demands on the forests that have passed into private ownership, as well
as those in the hands of the government, are increasing every year with the rapid settlement
and up-building of the country, but the methods of lumbering are as yet grossly wasteful. In
most mills only the best portions of the best trees are used, while the ruins are left on the
ground to feed great fires, which kill much of what is left of the less desirable timber, together
with the seedlings, on which the permanence of the forest depends...In their natural condition,
or under wise management, keeping out destructive sheep, preventing fires, selecting the trees
that should be cut for lumber, and preserving the young ones and the shrubs and sod of
herbaceous vegetation, these forests would be a never failing fountain of wealth and beauty.
06. The position taken by the author most directly supports which of the following about TR’s
approach to conservation? [GEO; Interpretation; Concept 1, Target 3]
a. Call for individual state policies for resource management.
b. Balance mineral extraction with habitat preservation.
c. Relax federal restrictions on natural resource development.
d. Allow companies to address environmental concerns.
Source 4--Editorial, Robert M. La Follette, 1917
So far as the masses of men who are killing each other are concerned, the European
war is useless. The multitudes who are dying in the trenches and the millions who are
suffering more agonizing pain at home do not know what it is all about. They are doing their
patriotic duty as they have been told to do it. It is unthinkable that with this awful lesson
before them, the American people are nevertheless today being stampeded into war in blind
thoughtlessness of its awful consequences.
07. The sentiments expressed by the author most clearly show the influence of which of the
following? [WOR; Causation; Concept 3, Target 3]
a. Calls to support the Allied Powers with nonmilitary goods.
b. Demands to protect American interests overseas.
c. Pleas to honoring existing treaties with European countries.
d. Efforts to refrain from becoming involved in foreign conflicts.
Source 5
08. Which of the following developments most immediately led the cartoonist to depict these
events? [WOR; Causation; Concept 3, Target 2]
a. Filipinos revolt against American intervention.
b. Filipino rebellion against Spanish authority.
c. Spanish control of Filipino political systems.
d. American aid on behalf of the Spanish government.
09. The evidence in the political cartoon reflects which of the following concepts the
cartoonist supports? [WOR; Use Of Evidence; Concept 3, Target 1]
a. Self-determination. b. Big stick diplomacy. c. White man’s burden. d. Due process.
Source 6--Anti-Suffrage Newspaper Article, New York, October 1912
The Suffragists’ ideal is a kitchen-less house. The Suffragist keeps writing and speaking
about pots and pans, and denounces housekeeping as degrading. The Suffragists teach women
to revolt against the daily task of tending child and house, and we sadly see the results in the
nation’s poor health and lowered physique. It is the Suffragist theory that women’s sphere in
life should be the same as the man’s. Is it not clear how this hideous feminism is sapping our
vitality as a nation? Is it too much to say that it lies at the root of half the sickness and disease
in our country? There are many wealthy women who support Suffragism, and who do a very
dangerous thing in preaching to working women that housework is degrading. As long as a
working woman keeps her home clean and well tended, she enjoys the high regard of her
neighbors. Yet, now the more weak-minded have been influenced by the Suffragists’ snobbish
preaching. Such feminism is destroying our national character and warping the natural impulses
and beliefs that make a woman’s life such a beautiful work of art.
10. The events described in the excerpt was a continuation of what trend in the late 1800’s?
[NAT, POL; Continuity-Change Over Time; Concept 1, Target 2]
a. Women supporting suffrage for southern blacks.
b. Women opposing the temperance movement.
c. Women becoming politically active.
d. Women embracing traditional social roles.
Source 7--Political Cartoon, Joseph Keppler, “Keeping Tammany’s Boots Shined”, 1882
Hugh Graham—mayor
Richard Croker—political boss, 1886-1901
Patronage boot black (shoe polisher)
11. The ideas expressed in the excerpt most strongly influenced which event in the late 1800’s?
[POL; Periodization; Concept 1, Target 2]
a. Trusts that influence government decisions.
b. Favors offered to immigrants for votes.
c. Special privileges granted to key allies.
d. Illegal activities conducted by Congressmen.
12. Which of the following represents a political change as a result of the action depicted in
the political cartoon? [POL; Continuity-Change Over Time; Concept 1, Target 2]
a. Referendum.
b. Recall.
c. The 17th Amendment.
d. Secret ballot.
Source 8--Photograph, World War I Women In Armament Factory
13. Which of the following pieces of evidence most directly supports the inference depicted in
the photograph? [NAT, WXT; Argumentation; Concept 3, Target 3]
a. Women lacked the skills required to work in munition plants.
b. Women showed they were unworthy of earning equal pay compared to men.
c. Women demonstrated a lack of confidence in handling heavy equipment.
d. Women gained employment in previously male-dominated positions.
Source 9--State Of The Union Speech, Theodore Roosevelt, December 8, 1908
Resistance to every effort for the reform of abuses and for the readjustment of society
to modern industrial conditions represents not true conservatism but an incitement to the
wildest radicalism. I believe in steady efforts to bring about a condition of affairs under which
those who work with hand or with brain, the laborers, the superintendents...shall own a
greater share than at present of the wealth they produce. Corporate finances must be
supervised so as to make it far safer than at present for the person of small means to invest.
There must be a prohibition of child labor, diminution of woman labor, and shortening of
hours of all mechanical labor. There should be a progressive inheritance tax on large fortunes.
Industrial education should be encouraged. As far as possible, we should lighten the burden of
taxation on the average citizen. We should put a premium upon thrift, hard work, and
business energy.
14. The excerpt most directly reflects commentary on conditions prevalent in: [POL, WXT;
Use Of Evidence; Concept 1, Target 3]
a. segregated public accommodations.
c. capitalist ventures.
b. state educational institutions.
d. corrupt political systems.
15. The evidence in the best supports which of the following trends about the role of the
president in the early 1900’s? [POL; Interpretation; Concept 1, Target 3]
a. He should enable states to govern without federal intrusion.
b. He should take an aggressive role in shaping legislation.
c. He should defer to Congress regarding economic issues.
d. He should advocate for laws only when matters worsen.
16. A(n) _____ would most likely support the position taken by TR. [WXT; Interpretation;
Concept 1, Target 2]
a. owner of several resteraunts b. steel worker c. coal company d. car manufacturer
Source 10--Letters Of Theodore Roosevelt, Volume II, Edited By Elting Morrison, Cambridge,
MA: Harvard College, 1951
My dear Dr. Shaw, I enclose purely for your own information, a copy of a letter of
September 5th from our Minister in Columbia. I think it might interest you to see that there
was absolutely not the slightest chance of securing by treaty any more than we endeavored to
secure. The alternatives were to go to Nicaragua, against the advice of the great majority of
competent engineers—some of the competent say that we had better have no canal at this
time that to there—or else take the territory by force without any attempt at getting a treaty.
I cast aside this proposition made at this time to foment the secession of Panama. Whatever
other governments can do, the United States cannot go into the securing by such underhanded
means, the secession. Privately, I freely say to you that I should be delighted if Panama were an
independent State, or if it made itself so at this moment; but for me to say so publicly would
amount to an instigation of revolt, and therefore I cannot say it.
17. The evidence in the excerpt most directly contradicts which of the following turning points
during TR’s presidency? [WOR; Periodization; Concept 3, Targets 1-2]
a. The decision of America to to free Panama from Columbia.
b. The agreement by America to purchase Panama from Columbia.
c. The separate roles America and Columbia took to build a canal in Panama.
d. The joint effort by America and Columbia to construct a canal in Panama.
18. Those who opposed TR’s position as specifically expressed in the excerpt would argue
that: [WOR; Synthesis; Concept 3, Targets 1-2]
a. neutrality trumped interventionism.
c. interventionism trumped neutrality.
b. nationalism superseded isolationism.
d. isolationism superseded nationalism.
Source 11--Hamlin Garland, “Homestead And Its Perilous Trades--Impressions Of A Visit”,
McClure’s Magazine, 1894
The streers of the town were horrible, the buildings were poor, the sidewalks were
sunken, swaying, and full of holes, and the crossings were sharp-edged stones set like rocks in
a river bed. Everywhere the yellow mud of the street la kneaded into a sticky mass, though
which groups of pale, lean men slouched in faded garments, grimy with the soot and grease of
the mills. The town was dirty and unlovely as could well be imagined, and the people were
mainly of the discouraged and sullen type to be found everywhere where labor passes into the
brutalizing stage of severity. Big industries at differing eras have produced squads of tenement
houses far from the central portion of the town, each plant bringing its gangs of foreign laboers
in raw masses to camp down like an army around its shops.
19. The ideas in the excerpt most strongly suggests which of the following about this time
period? [NAT, WXT; Periodization; Concept 1, Target 2]
a. The lack of federal programs heightened class conflict in urban areas.
b. The lure of factory jobs led to squalid conditions in urban areas.
c. The quality of life was compromised by political bosses in urban areas.
d. The arrival of immigrants created ghettoes in urban areas.
20. The problems highlighted in the excerpt most directly led to all of the following EXCEPT
the: [NAT, WXT; Causation; Concept 1, Target 2]
a. exclusion of social welfare services.
c. building of water treatment facilities.
b. accessibility of public transportation.
d. passage of urban building codes.
Source 12--Speech, William Taft, Beverly, MA, October 1, 1912
The truth is that 9/10ths of the people of this country are neither in favor of a poor
man because he is poor, or a rich man because he’s rich. They’re in favor of all of the people
and the extending of an equal protection of the law to all people. They’re in favor of
protecting the rights of the corporation or labor organization, as representing only a number
of people united together for a common and lawful object, exactly as they would protect the
rights of the individual. And on the other hand, they are in favor of protecting the rights of the
individual against the organization, whether of capital or labor, whenever it uses its aggregation
of power for unjust competition or unjust interference with the rights of the less powerful
individual.
21. The sentiments expressed by the author most clearly show the influence of which of the
following? [POL; Causation; Concept 1, Target 3]
a. Congressional action should favor the working classes.
b. Executive decisions should reflect corporate interests.
c. Supreme Court rulings should respect judicial precedence.
d. Federal laws should protect citizens regardless of status.
Source 13--Political Cartoon, 1917
Army Medical Examiner: At Last, The Perfect Soldier
22. The ideas expressed by the author were a direct reaction to those who: [POL, WOR;
Contextualization; Concept 2, Target 3]
a. interfered with recruitment efforts.
b. agreed with conscientious objector status.
c. supported the military draft.
d. disencouraged insubordination in the military.
Source 14--Late 1800’s Political Cartoon
Barbarism, Oppression, Superstition, Ignorance, Vice, Brutality, Cannibalism, Cruelty
23. The conditions shown in the image came about most directly as a result of: [WOR; Use Of
Evidence; Concept 3, Target 2]
a. the construction of modern navies by several nations.
b. an American-British trade agreement.
c. foreign nations raising prices on incoming goods.
d. western countries seeking global markets.
24. Those who advocate the position expressed in the excerpt argued that: [WOR; Synthesis;
Concept 3, Target 2]
a. western countries have a duty to uplift inferior peoples.
b. Great Britain and the United States are uncivilized.
c. conquered peoples are of a higher social status.
d. foreign nations are superior to their imperialist masters.
Source 15--Editorial, World, February 13, 1897
How long is the peasantry of Spain to be drafted away to Cuba to die miserably in a
hopeless war, that Spanish nobles and Spanish offers may get medals and honors? How long
shall old Cuban men and woman and children be murdered by the score, the innocent victims
of Spanish rage against the patriot armies they cannot conquer?
25. One direct long-term effect of the phenomenon described in the excerpt was the United
States: [WOR; Causation; Concept 3, Target 1]
a. sent ambassadors to negotiate peace between Spain and Cuba.
b. assisted the Spanish in quelling a revolt in Cuba.
c. refrained from helping Spain or Cuba in resolving their differences.
d. intervened on behalf of Cuba to remove an oppressive regime.
26. The argument of the author most closely parallels which of the following ideologies from
the time period? [WOR; Argumentation; Concept 3, Target 1]
a. Yellow Journalism. b. White Man’s Burden. c. Social Darwinism. d. Manifest Destiny.
27. The ideas expressed in the excerpt was most directly challenged by those who:
[WOR; Contextualization; Concept 3, Target 2]
a. worked to create missionary schools around the world.
b. preferred to remain neutral in foreign affairs.
c. sought to spread American democracy throughout the globe.
d. desired access to previously denied trade routes.
Source 16--Political Cartoon
28. Which of the following developments by 1912 most closely parallels the trend in the visual?
[POL; Argumentation; Concept 1, Target 2]
a. Liberal Democrats opposed the reforms advocated by their own presidential candidate.
b. Republicans became united in their opposition to the agenda of Democrats.
c. Conservative and liberal Republicans remained at odds over domestic policy.
d. The Democratic Party was conflicted over how to address monopolistic practices.
Source 17--World War 1 Poster
29. The visual best reflects an effort by the federal government to: [WOR; Contextualization;
Concept 3, Target 3]
a. influence the eating habits of citizens.
b. encourage Americans to assist on the home front.
c. starve Germany into submission.
d. shame people to share their meals with the poor.
30. One direct long-term cause for American involvement in World War I was: [WOR;
Causation; Concept 3, Target 3]
a. unrestricted British submarine warfare.
b. the overthrow of the Russian dictatorship.
c. German disrespect for freedom of the seas.
d. French military losses from trench warfare.
Source 18--Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, 1906
31. The working conditions described in the excerpt were most directly caused which of the
following developments by the 1900’s (as in 00 decade)? [WXT; Causation; Concept 1,
Target 2]
a. The strict accountability of business practices.
b. The power wielded by urban political bosses.
c. An activist agenda implemented by Woodrow Wilson.
d. A lack of government industry rules.
32. Which of the following pieces of legislation most directly altered the behavior as
expressed in the excerpt? [POL; Continuity-Change Over Time; Concept 1, Target 2]
a. Pure Food-Drug Act.
c. Federal Trade Act.
b. Elkins Act.
d. Federal Meat Inspection Act.
33. Sinclair’s writing could be used as evidence to support which of the following arguments?
[WXT; Use Of Evidence; Concept 1, Target 2]
a. Progressivism was a grassroots movement led by the working class.
b. Progressivism was a Republican effort to benefit major corporations.
c. Progressivism was a middle-class attempt to make fundamental changes.
d. Progressivism was a conservative cause designed to maintain the status quo.
Source 19--Map
34. One significant cause for American intervention in the affairs of China in the early 1900’s
was which of the following? [WOR; Causation; Concept 3, Target 1]
a. Dollar diplomacy.
c. Missionary diplomacy.
b. Roosevelt Corollary.
d. Open Door policy.
35. The financial commitment of the United States in the Caribbean was a continuation of
_____ in the early 1900’s. [WOR; Continuity-Change Over Time; Concept 3, Target 1]
a. dollar diplomacy
c. missionary diplomacy
b. the Roosevelt Corollary
d. the Open Door policy
36. The map best reflects an effort by the United States to: [WOR; Contextualization;
Concept 3, Target 1]
a. relocate its factories overseas.
c. generate income through tariffs.
b. expand its sphere of influence.
d. secure military bases by force.
37. Based on the visual, _____ would most likely oppose the actions taken by the United
States. [WOR; Contextualization; Concept 3, Target 2]
a. Alfred Mahan b. Theodore Roosevelt c. Emilio Acquinaldo d. Josiah Strong
Source 20--1890’s Political Cartoon, Another Shotgun Wedding, With Neither Party Willing
38. Which of the following pieces of evidence most directly supports the assertion expressed
in the political cartoon? [WOR; Argumentation; Concept 3, Target 2]
a. Americans in Hawaii worked behind the scenes to depose the monarchy.
b. The United States and Hawaii had mutually agreed to annexation.
c. The United States believed democracy must be imported to Hawaii.
d. Americans openly supported a coup d’état to take place in Hawaii.
Source 21--Speech, Mary Lease, Women’s Christian Temperance Union, 1890
Yet, after all our years of toil and privation, dangers and hardships upon the...frontier,
monopoly is taking our homes from us by an infamous system of mortgage foreclosure, the
most infamous that has ever disgraced the statutes of a civilized nation...How did it happen?
The government, at the bid of Wall Street, repudiated its contracts with the people; the
circulating medium was contracted...As Senator Plumb [of Kansas] tells us, ‘Our debts were
increased, while the means to pay them was decreased.’ [A]s grand Senator...Stewart [of
Nevada] puts it, ‘For twenty years the market value of the dollar has gone up and the market
value of labor has gone down, till today the American laborer, in bitterness and wrath, asks
which is the worst: the black slavery that has gone or the white slavery that has come?’”
39. The issues highlighted in the excerpt most directly led to: [POL, WXT; Causation;
Concept 1, Target 2]
a. easier access to credit.
c. an influx of silver coins.
b. higher defaults on loans.
d. debts being paid off quicker.
40. The concerns expressed by the author were a direct reaction to the problems endured by:
[WXT; Contextualization; Causation; Concept 1, Target 2]
a. financiers.
b. entrepreneurs.
c. agriculturists.
d. African Americans.
41. The views of the author best reflect which of the following developments in political
movements of the 1890’s? [POL; Periodization; Concept 1, Target 2]
a. Corporate opposition to laissez-faire policies.
b. Labor union contempt for representative democracy.
c. Rising grassroots challenges to capitalism.
d. Emerging ideological justifications for inequities of wealth.
42. People who agreed with the author’s position would most likely recommend which of the
following solutions? [POL; Synthesis; Concept 1, Target 2]
a. Continuation of the gold standard.
c. Lenient railroad regulations.
b. Direct election of Senators.
d. Federal banking laws.
Source 22--Political Cartoon
Peace Proceedings--Foreign Entanglements--U.S. Senate--Constitutional Rights
43. The sentiments expressed by the political cartoonist most directly contributed to which of
the following? [POL, WOR; Causation; Concept 3, Target 3]
a. Senators opposing self-determination.
b. Senators abandoning isolationism.
c. Senators supporting free trade agreements.
d. Senators upholding the principle of sovereignty.
44. The concerns expressed by the political cartoonist were a direct reaction to: [POL, WOR;
Contextualization; Concept 3, Target 3]
a. American support for the League of Nations.
b. American signing of the Treaty of Versailles.
c. American concerns regarding global disarmament.
d. American opposition to freedom of the seas.
Source 23--The Platt Amendment, 1903
Article I: The Government of Cuba shall never enter into any treaty or other compact
with any foreign powers which will impair or tend to impair the independence of Cuba, nor in
any manner authorize or permit any foreign power or powers to obtain by colonization or for
military or naval purposes, or otherwise, lodgment in or control over any portion of said
island...
Article III: The Government of Cuba consents that the United States may exercise the
right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a
government adequate for the protection of life, property, and individual liberty, and for
discharging the obligations with respect to Cuba imposed by the Treaty of Paris on the United
States, now to be assumed and undertaken by the Government of Cuba...
Article VII: To enable the United States to maintain the independence of Cuba, and to
protect the people thereof, as well as for its own defense, the Government of Cuba will sell
or lease to the United States lands necessary for coaling or naval stations, at certain specified
points, to be agreed upon with the President of the United States.
45. Which of the following was NOT a significant reason for American involvement in Cuba?
[POL, WOR; Causation; Concept 3, Target 1]
a. Humanitarian concerns.
c. Civil unrest.
b. Economic factors.
d. Religious intolerance.
46. The evidence in the excerpt most directly reflects which of the following turning points?
[POL, WOR; Periodization; Concept 3, Target 2]
a. The United States avoided foreign entanglements.
b. The United States endorsed European self-rule.
c. The United States opposed imperialistic endeavors.
d. The United States promoted American exceptionalism.
47. The sentiments expressed in the excerpt are most similar to those expressed in: [POL,
WOR; Comparison; Concept 3, Target 1]
a. Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points.
c. John Hay’s Open Door policy.
b. the Roosevelt Corollary.
d. William Taft’s dollar diplomacy.
Source 24--Press Conference, May 26, 1913
Wilson: Somehow you haven’t gotten hold of it so that the country could take notice.
This town is swarming with lobbyists. That is the most concerted and as
concentrated an effort, I dare say, as has ever been made to influence
governmental legislation by the pressure of private interests.
Question: Do you refer especially to sugar?
Wilson: Sugar, wool—those in particular. Those have the biggest lobbies. Of course,
there are men, perfectly legitimate businessmen, who have come to town in
some ways to represent their interests...but there is a good deal more than
the usual scenery in view.
Question: You mean, Mr. President, there is a corrupt lobby here?
Wilson: I don’t know that they could approach Congress in that way. But there is just
a systematic misrepresentation of the facts and one of these organized
processes by which people—just out of weakness, to please their
friends—will write letters galore about things that they know nothing about.
48. The concerns expressed by the author were a direct response to: [POL, WXT; Contextualization; Concept 1, Target 2]
a. muckrakers.
b. yellow journalists.
c. trusts.
d. political bosses.
49. Which of the following best expresses the rationale for the author’s beliefs? [POL;
Contextualization; Concept 1, Target 32
a. Government officials are prone to scandal.
b. Entrepreneurs have honest intentions.
c. Voters are ignorant and foolish.
d. Reporters are unethical in their practices.
50. Which of the following pieces of legislation most directly altered the behavior as
expressed in the excerpt? [WXT; Continuity-Change Over Time; Concept 1, Target 2]
a. Pure Food-Drug Act.
c. Federal Trade Act.
b. Elkins Act.
d. Federal Meat Inspection Act.
Source 25--Speech, “14 Points”, Woodrow Wilson, January 1918
Absolute freedom of navigation outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war...
Adequate guarantees given and taken that national armanents will be reduced to the
lowest point outside with domestic safety...
A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based
upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty
the interests of the population concerned...
A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the
purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to
great and small states alike...
51. The issues highlighted in the excerpt most directly led Germany after World War I to:
[POL, WOR; Causation; Concept 3, Target 1]
a. refuse to reduce its armed forces.
c. assume partial blame for starting hostilities.
b. maintain control of its territorial claims. d. pay an indemnity to the Allied Powers.
52. “Absolute freedom of navigation...” was most likely written with which related event in the
mind of the author? [POL, WOR; Contextualization; Concept 3, Target 3]
a. A British passenger ship that was sunk in neutral waters.
b. The British drafting sailors from captured American naval ships.
c. An American naval base that suffered an unprovoked attack.
d. An American naval ship that was sunk by a Spanish mine.
53. Conservative Republican opponents of Wilson’s proposal by argued that the League of
Nations would: [POL; Argumentation; Concept 3, Target 3]
a. isolate the United States from postwar global affairs.
b. prevent the United States from seeking war reparations.
c. restrict America’s ability to make its own political decisions.
d. afford Great Britain an expanded role in the League of Nations.
PERIOD 7a SHORT RESPONSE PRACTICE
01. Respond to a), b), and c). [WOR; Causation; Concept 3, Target 3]
a. Explain one cause for American involvement in World War I.
b. Explain another cause for American involvement in World War I.
c. Explain one result of American involvement in World War I.
They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to
war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world
you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no
war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.
02. Use the quotation by Eugene Debs (June 16, 1918) about his opposition to World War I
to respond to a), b), and c). [POL; Causation; Concept 2, Target 3]
a. Explain one reason why the federal government believed Debs’ words was not protected
free speech.
b. Explain another reason why the federal government believed Debs’ words was not
protected free speech.
c. Explain how Debs challenged the federal government’s assertion that his words was
not protected free speech.
03. Respond to a), b), and c). [POL, WOR; Continuity-Change Over Time; Concept 3, Target
5]
a. Explain one example of how American imperialism brought change to its foreign policies
from 1890-1920.
b. Explain another example of how American imperialism brought change to its foreign
policies from 1890-1920.
c. Explain one example of how American imperialism led people to resist those foreign
policies from 1890-1920.
“The unscrupulous rich man who seeks to exploit and oppose those who are less than
well off is in spirit not opposed to, but identical with, the unscrupulous poor man who desires
to plunder and oppress those who are better off...in this age of combination.”
04. Use the quotation from TR (1904) to respond to a), b), and c). [NAT, POL, WXT;
Periodization; Concept 1, Target 3]
a. Explain one specific law signed by TR to address an issue addressed in the quotation.
b. Explain another specific law signed by TR to address another issue addressed in the
quotation.
c. Explain why TR addressed that problem for a) or b).
Let us continue to defend our fatherland till independence is assured, for this is justice.
We shall see at last that the great American Nation will acknowledge the right which is on our
side. That doctrine of the great Monroe, that America is for the Americans, is not forgotten;
just as we affirm that the Philippines is for Filipinos. Some states of the American Union have
arisen in our favor. Especially is the Democratic Party convinced that both victors and
vanquished will lose precious lives. President McKinley is inhuman for having ordered his
military representatives at Manila to seek means to bring about hostilities with the Filipinos.
We have never concealed our aspirations, that we aspire but to independence, that we will
struggle on to obtain it.
05. Use the excerpt from Emilio Aguinaldo (1899) about Progressive era presidents to
respond to a), b), and c). [WOR; Contextualization; Concept 3, Target 2]
a. Explain the point of view of the author.
b. Explain one specific development that led the author to express this point of view.
c. Explain one specific development that would counter the author’s point of view.