Jordan Raheb Ch. 29 Ace Quiz 1.

Wilson won the Democratic presidential nomination in 1912 as the crusading progressive governor of New Jersey. 2. The election result of 1912 displayed a broad public support for progressive reform. 3. Personally, Wilson tended to be rigid in outlook and to look down upon people less educated than himself. 4. Among the beneficiaries of Wilsons progressive reforms were farmers and urban laborers. 5. Despite his initial intentions of staying out of the Mexican Revolution, Wilson nearly ended up fighting a war with Mexico in 1914. 6. General John Pershings invading force was withdrawn from Mexico after the U.S. declared war on Germany in 1917. 7. President Wilson called for a declaration of war on Germany after the sinking of the passenger liner Lusitania. 8. Republican presidential candidate Charles Evans Hughes lost credibility by trying to appeal to both isolationist and interventionist segments of the electorate. 9. Wilson won re-election in 1916 by appealing especially to progressives in the Midwest and the West. 10. The basic contrast between the two progressive candidates was that Roosevelt wanted the government to regulate the economy and promote social welfare, while Wilson wanted to restore economic competition and social equality. 11. The candidate who finished second in both electoral and popular votes in 1912 was former President Theodore Roosevelt. 12. Strong features of the background that Wilson brought to politics were his strong religious upbringing and his skill with both oral and written word. 13. The triple wall of privelage that Wilson came out to reform consisted of the tariffs, banks, and trusts. 14. The Federal Reserve System that Wilson passed through Congress essentially solved the longstanding American problem of regulating the banks and establishing a stable but flexible currency. 15. The fundamental purpose of the Federal Trade Commission was to regulate unfair trade practices, misleading advertising, and the adulteration of consumer products. 16. Woodrow Wilson initially attempted to reverse the foreign policies of Roosevelt and Taft vigorously opposing imperialistic American actions in China and Latin America. 17. Into which of the following Latin American countries did Woodrow Wilson not end up dispatching American troops? Panama 18. One major consequence of the Mexican Revolution of the US. Was a massive migration of displaced Mexicans into the U.S.

19. Wold War I began when Austria-Hungary delivered a harsh ultimatum against its neighbor of Serbia. 20. The threatened war between the U.S. and Mexico in 1914 was avoided by the meditation of the ABC powers, which consisted of Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. 21. One reason that most Americans were hostile to Germany was because of Germanys invasion of neutral Belgium. 22. The primary international law that the submarine regularly violated was that neutral ships had to be stopped, boarded, and searched by warships. 23. The dangerous string that Germany attached to its Sussex pledge to refrain from attacking Allied shipping was that the Allies had to modify what Germany considered an illegal blockage against Germany. 24. Wilsons most effective slogan in the campaign of 1916 was He kept us out of war.