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US History STAAR Test Exam Questions and Answers 100% Solved 5. What was the effect of the "clear and present danger" ruling established in Schenck v. United States (1919)? a. placing limits on constitutional freedoms b. decreasing the president's powers during wartime c. limiting the hours w...

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5. What was the effect of the "clear and present danger" ruling established

in Schenck v. United States (1919)?

a. placing limits on constitutional freedoms

b. decreasing the president's powers during wartime

c. limiting the hours women could work in industry

d. upholding the right of states to regulate child labor - ✔✔a. placing

limits on constitutional freedoms

Read the following excerpt. This excerpt is a part of which document? The

government of Cuba will sell or lease to the

United States lands necessary for coaling or naval stations at certain

specific points to be agreed upon with the

President of the United States.

a. the de Lome letter

b. the Platt Amendment

c. the Roosevelt Corollary

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d. the Treaty of Ghent - ✔✔b. the Platt Amendment

In 1899, the United States urged other nations to allow free trade in China.

This approach to dealing with China was

known as the

a. Monroe Doctrine

b. Open Door Policy

c. Teller Amendment

d. Roosevelt Corollary - ✔✔b. Open Door Policy

The Spanish American War

a. was a long, drawn out war

b. required the United States to make concessions to the Spanish

c. required Cuba to negotiate with the Philippines

d. was short and successful for the United States - ✔✔d. was short and

successful for the United States

Which of the following newspaper headlines best illustrates the practice of

yellow journalism in 1898?

a. "266 Killed in USS Maine Accident"

b. "USS Maine Sinks in Havana Harbor"

c. "USS Maine Destroyed by Spanish Treachery"

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d. "Investigators Search for Cause of USS Maine Explosion" - ✔✔c.

"USS Maine Destroyed by Spanish Treachery"

9. An important result of the Spanish American War of 1898 was that the

United States

a. acquired territories in Asia

b. became a world power with an overseas empire

c. improved its relations with Germany

d. lost interest in Latin American affairs - ✔✔b. became a world power

with an overseas empire

10. During the 1890s, Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst used

yellow journalism to generate public support for

the

a. presidential candidacy of William McKinley

b. goals of workers in the Pullman strike

c. Spanish American War

d. election of Populist Party candidates - ✔✔c. Spanish American War

11. The annexation of Hawaii, the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe

Doctrine, and Dollar Diplomacy are all associated with

United States effort to

a. isolate itself from international problems

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b. meet the demands of antiwar movements

c. expand its power and influence in certain regions of the world

d. implement policies of global cooperation throughout Asia - ✔✔c.

expand its power and influence in certain regions of the world

13. The chief reason the United States built the Panama Canal was to

a. promote an isolationist foreign policy

b. close the Western Hemisphere to new European colonization

c. prevent the spread of communism

d. reduce travel time for commercial and military shipping - ✔✔d. reduce

travel time for commercial and military shipping

2. What was a major reason the United States entered WW I?

a. Japanese occupation of Manchuria

b. Foreign troops had landed on American soil

c. Austro-Hungarian Empire had invaded Belgium

d. Germany had resumed unrestricted submarine warfare - ✔✔d.

Germany had resumed unrestricted submarine warfare

Between the 1890s and the start of World War I, the United States

expanded its access to overseas markets and raw

materials through the policy of

a. containment

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