FBI History Midterm UPDATED Study
Guide QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Early History - CORRECT ANSWERS Federalism
1789 - CORRECT ANSWERS Authorization of the office of the attorney
general
Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 - CORRECT ANSWERS railroad rates
were regulated
New Administrative Structure - CORRECT ANSWERS temporarily
hired private detectives; Pinkerton Detective Agency; Secret Service started
with 11 agents
1903 - CORRECT ANSWERS new laws banning anarchists from living
in the U.S.
President Roosevelt and Attorney general Charles Bonaparte - CORRECT
ANSWERS organize on autonomous investigative service
1908 - CORRECT ANSWERS forbade services and unsuccessful
funding for a "small detective force"; Bureau of Investigation was created in
July
Who was the chief of the BOI? - CORRECT ANSWERS Stanley W.
Finch
, What was the Attorney general responsible for? - CORRECT ANSWERS
ensuring that agents would not stray beyond their law enforcement
mission to monitor personal and political conduct
1909 - CORRECT ANSWERS Attorney General George W. Wickersham
1910 - CORRECT ANSWERS Congress enacted the White Slave Traffic
Act
1919 - CORRECT ANSWERS Motor Vehicle Theft Act
First Years - CORRECT ANSWERS received limited training, white-
collar cases and civil rights cases, few national security cases
1914-1919 - CORRECT ANSWERS WWI; congress passed Espionage
act and Sabotage act which gave Bureau of Investigation responsibility
Espionage - CORRECT ANSWERS to convey information to interfere
with armed forces; spying
J. Edgar Hoover - CORRECT ANSWERS The director of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation; investigated and harassed alleged radicals.
Sedition Act of 1918 - CORRECT ANSWERS added to the Espionage
Act to cover "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the
American form of government, the Constitution, the flag, or the armed forces.
When did General Palmer create the GID? - CORRECT ANSWERS
1919
Guide QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Early History - CORRECT ANSWERS Federalism
1789 - CORRECT ANSWERS Authorization of the office of the attorney
general
Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 - CORRECT ANSWERS railroad rates
were regulated
New Administrative Structure - CORRECT ANSWERS temporarily
hired private detectives; Pinkerton Detective Agency; Secret Service started
with 11 agents
1903 - CORRECT ANSWERS new laws banning anarchists from living
in the U.S.
President Roosevelt and Attorney general Charles Bonaparte - CORRECT
ANSWERS organize on autonomous investigative service
1908 - CORRECT ANSWERS forbade services and unsuccessful
funding for a "small detective force"; Bureau of Investigation was created in
July
Who was the chief of the BOI? - CORRECT ANSWERS Stanley W.
Finch
, What was the Attorney general responsible for? - CORRECT ANSWERS
ensuring that agents would not stray beyond their law enforcement
mission to monitor personal and political conduct
1909 - CORRECT ANSWERS Attorney General George W. Wickersham
1910 - CORRECT ANSWERS Congress enacted the White Slave Traffic
Act
1919 - CORRECT ANSWERS Motor Vehicle Theft Act
First Years - CORRECT ANSWERS received limited training, white-
collar cases and civil rights cases, few national security cases
1914-1919 - CORRECT ANSWERS WWI; congress passed Espionage
act and Sabotage act which gave Bureau of Investigation responsibility
Espionage - CORRECT ANSWERS to convey information to interfere
with armed forces; spying
J. Edgar Hoover - CORRECT ANSWERS The director of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation; investigated and harassed alleged radicals.
Sedition Act of 1918 - CORRECT ANSWERS added to the Espionage
Act to cover "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the
American form of government, the Constitution, the flag, or the armed forces.
When did General Palmer create the GID? - CORRECT ANSWERS
1919
