Statistics for HST203 - U.S. History Midterm Exam

SPRING TERM 2003

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Question #80 Statistics:

All of the following contributed to the onset of the Great Depression EXCEPT for

Offered 61 times

Correct 35 times or 57%

Partially correct 35 times or 57%

Unanswered 0 times or 0%

Frequency

Choice

Percent

35

rising prices of consumer goods.

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†57%

7

unequal distribution of income.

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†11%

5

increased productivity.

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†8%

14

stagnant wages.

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†23%

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Question #190 Statistics:

During World War I, American labor unions

Offered 61 times

Correct 20 times or 32%

Partially correct 20 times or 32%

Unanswered 0 times or 0%

Frequency

Choice

Percent

20

benefited from their close association with the government in mobilizing the economy.

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†33%

18

abstained from involvement in labor disputes in the interest of wartime unity.

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†30%

13

lost membership as a result of the successful open shop movement led by business.

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†21%

10

endured government raids on their headquarters in the search for subversive material.

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†16%

Question #270 Statistics:

Which feature of late 19th/early 20th Century Imperialism is SIMILAR to that of mid-19th century Manifest Destiny?

Offered 61 times

Correct 34 times or 55%

Partially correct 34 times or 55%

Unanswered 0 times or 0%

Frequency

Choice

Percent

4

most territory involved was non-contiguous to the U.S.

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†7%

34

Americans believe that expansion was a God-given right.

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†56%

3

new territories would attract little settlement by American people.

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†5%

1

newly acquired lands would not become states.

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†2%

19

all of the above are similar features.

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†31%

Question #340 Statistics:

Which is NOT considered a cause for WWI?

Offered 61 times

Correct 31 times or 50%

Partially correct 31 times or 50%

Unanswered 0 times or 0%

Frequency

Choice

Percent

14

imperialism

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†23%

31

nativism

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†51%

2

militarism

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†3%

5

entangling alliances

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†8%

9

nationalism

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†15%

Question #350 Statistics:

Which of the following terms is NOT correctly associated with the definition of American 'nativism' (Presented in class by your instructor, according to historian John Higham in his book Strangers in the Land)? In other words, how do we define what America IS and what America IS NOT?

Offered 61 times

Correct 31 times or 50%

Partially correct 31 times or 50%

Unanswered 0 times or 0%

Frequency

Choice

Percent

1

anti-Catholic

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†2%

31

militaristic

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†51%

7

racial

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†11%

2

anti-radical

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†3%

20

all are correctly associated

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†33%

Question #390 Statistics:

Which of the following terms is INACCURATELY defined and related to the events of WWI?

Offered 61 times

Correct 25 times or 40%

Partially correct 25 times or 40%

Unanswered 0 times or 0%

Frequency

Choice

Percent

7

General John J. Pershing - leader of the American Expeditiary Force in Europe

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†11%

19

conscription - the draft of able bodied individuals into the armed forces

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†31%

7

Western Front - the battle front which was characterized by trench warfare and 'lack' of great movement

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†11%

25

armistice - in warfare, the unconditional surrender of one country to another

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†41%

3

Eastern Front - Russia signed the Treaty of Brest Litovsk in 1917 with Germany

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†5%

Question #500 Statistics:

The wartime Committee on Public Information

Offered 61 times

Correct 27 times or 44%

Partially correct 27 times or 44%

Unanswered 0 times or 0%

Frequency

Choice

Percent

13

saw to it that the American people were protected in their basic freedoms by emphasizing the Bill of Rights in war-time propaganda

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†21%

27

kept war-time fever at a high pitch, with scant regard for constitutional guarantees

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†44%

1

was prosecuted by George Creel for violating civil liberties.

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†2%

9

confined itself to the basic facts rather than overt propaganda and discouraged journalists from stirring anti-Communist feelings.

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†15%

11

enforced the Espionage Act.

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†18%

Question #510 Statistics:

Which of the following was NOT considered a criticism of FDR's New Deal from the Left?

Offered 61 times

Correct 26 times or 42%

Partially correct 26 times or 42%

Unanswered 0 times or 0%

Frequency

Choice

Percent

3

Huey Long's Share Our Wealth program of economic redistribution

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†5%

26

GOP Conservatives and Big business complaints in the New Deal's bureaucratic 'make work' programs

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†43%

7

Charles Coughlin's plan to nationalize the country's banks

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†11%

6

Francis Townshend's Plan to give federal money each month to retired people over 60 years of age

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†10%

19

all of the above are criticisms by the Left

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†31%

Question #590 Statistics:

Which of the above quotes are the words of Pro-Imperialist minded Alfred Thayer Mahan?

Offered 61 times

Correct 28 times or 45%

Partially correct 28 times or 45%

Unanswered 0 times or 0%

Frequency

Choice

Percent

10

1

†

†16%

8

2

†

†13%

28

3

†

†46%

13

4

†

†21%

2

none of the quotes are his

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†3%

Question #660 Statistics:

Considering the spectrum of the 1920's, with modernism on one side and fundamentalism on the other, which of the following terms is out of place?

Offered 61 times

Correct 23 times or 37%

Partially correct 23 times or 37%

Unanswered 1 times or 1%

Frequency

Choice

Percent

21

rural

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†34%

3

traditional

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†5%

6

literal interpretation of the Bible

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†10%

7

conservative

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†11%

23

Darwinian science

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†38%

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Question #680 Statistics:

According to the video, the 'Wisconsin Idea', promoted by Progressive Governor Bob LaFollette was a way of

Offered 61 times

Correct 29 times or 47%

Partially correct 29 times or 47%

Unanswered 0 times or 0%

Frequency

Choice

Percent

18

strengthening direct democracy with direct primaries and other political reforms.

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†30%

9

controlling large industries.

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†15%

2

protecting state forests and watersheds.

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†3%

29

applying academic scholarship and theory to the needs of people.

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†48%

3

taking away some of the power of the new, white collar class of professionals

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†5%

Question #720 Statistics:

According to the video on Imperialism, the greatest American debate over the consequences of the Spanish-American War involved

Offered 61 times

Correct 28 times or 45%

Partially correct 28 times or 45%

Unanswered 0 times or 0%

Frequency

Choice

Percent

23

Cuba

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†38%

1

a potential treaty with Japan.

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†2%

1

a working alliance with England

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†2%

28

the Philippines

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†46%

8

building the Panama Canal.

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†13%

Question #850 Statistics:

Hoover had a reputation for being uncompassionate even before the onset of the Depression.

Offered 61 times

Correct 51 times or 83%

Partially correct 51 times or 83%

Unanswered 0 times or 0%

Frequency

Choice

Percent

10

True

†

†16%

51

False

†

†84%

Question #890 Statistics:

At Versailles following the Great War, Georges Clemenceau of France remarked that Wilson's 14 Points 'bored him. Why God Almighty has only ten!!!'

Offered 61 times

Correct 53 times or 86%

Partially correct 53 times or 86%

Unanswered 0 times or 0%

Frequency

Choice

Percent

53

True

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†87%

8

False

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†13%

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