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APUSH Unit 7
APUSH Unit 7 Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How was America different from Europe? | Contiguous, sparsely settled, agricultural settlement, will be states |
| How was America similar to Europe? | Sense of mission, war, economic reasons, controversial |
| What were America's impulses towards imperialism? | Economic, power, Christianity, "White Man's Burden" |
| What was the major factor in shift of American foreign policy? | Markets |
| Who were the apostles of expansion? | William Seward, James Blaine, Alfred Mahan |
| What was Mahan's strongest belief? | US needs a navy, coaling stations, and a Panama Canal |
| What was the main source of US military strength during the Spanish-American War? | Navy |
| When did the US acquire the Aleutian Islands? | 1867 |
| When did the US acquire Alaska? | 1867 |
| When did the US take over the Philippines? | 1898 |
| When did the US acquire Guam? | 1898 |
| When did the US acquire Wake? | 1898 |
| When did the US acquire Midway? | 1867 |
| When did the US acquire Hawaii? | 1898 |
| When did the US acquire Samoa? | 1899 |
| When did the US acquire Puerto Rico? | 1898 |
| What were the two driving forces for imperialism? | Capitalism & communism |
| What is capitalism? | Economic system where private individuals and corporations own/control the means of production |
| What is the significance of the Wealth of Nations? | Smith outlined the ideas of capitalism |
| Who wrote the Wealth of Nations? | Adam Smith |
| What were Adam Smith's three ideas on capitalism? | Law of supply and demand, "invisible hand"/competition, motive of profit |
| What is laissez-faire? | Government tried to stay out of economic affairs |
| What happened to the economy in 1900? | There was a shift from laissez-faire capitalism to modified capitalism |
| What is modified capitalism? | Type of capitalism in which individuals and corporations continue to own and control the means of production, but the government regulates business in the public interest and insures social justice for all |
| What are the things that define modified capitalism? | Regulating businesses in the public interest, anti-trust laws to ensure competition and prevent monopolies, social injustice laws |
| What is socialism? | Economic system where the state owns and controls the means of production and operates it in the name/interest of the public |
| What is communism? | Extreme form of socialism in which the state owns and operates almost all of the economy |
| What kind of a political system would a communist nation enforce? | Totalitarian and political dictatorship |
| What were the communist countries after the collapse of the USSR? | China, Vietnam, North Korea, Laos, Cuba |
| What are nations with a democracy and socialist economy called? | Mixed economy/welfare state |
| What do radicals believe? | Total/drastic/immediate change & may use violence |
| What do liberals believe? | Change is necessary but needs to be peaceful; partial change |
| What do conservatives believe? | Defend the ways things are & keep to tradition |
| What do reactionaries believe? | Go back to a "golden age" & may use violence |
| What do the Leftists believe? | Favors it and government regulation |
| What do the Rightists believe? | Opposes change and government regulation of economy |
| How has conservatism changed? | It was first a reaction to the political and economic egalitarianism of America but now is attributed to the growth of federal power and the welfare state |
| How was liberalism changed? | It was an ideology of the emerging middle class of merchants and entrepreneurs, but now advocates religious tolerance, individualism, and self-reliance |
| How did Teddy Roosevelt exhibit liberalism? | Spent government money for the welfare of Americans |
| What was the Progressive Movement? | Movement that attempted to solve the problems created by the urban-industrial society |
| What were the goals of the Progressive Movement? | Expand democracy, regulatin business in public interest, achieving social justice |
| What did progressives believe to be the cure to American democracy? | MORE DEMOCRACY |
| What were the beliefs of the progressives? | Environment is source of evil, government role is postive, people need facts, reliance in experts, stress efficiency, middle path between capitalism and socialism |
| Who were the muckrakers? | Journalists who exposed corruption in the Progressive Era |
| Who were famous muckrakers? | Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell, John Spargok, Upton Sinclair |
| What was the Jungle by Upton Sinclair aimed towards? | Meat Packing Industry |
| What were the examples of reform at the local level? | Panic of 1893' battling the boss and city machines, new form of city government, public utility ownership, housing/fire codes (Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire) |
| What was the Hull House? | Settlement house established by Jane Addams for women and children |
| What were the examples of reform at the state level? | Robert LaFollette & the Wisconsin Idea (lab for reform), extension of democracy |
| How was democracy expanded during the Progressive Era? | Secret ballot, women's suffrage, direct election of senators, direct primary, initiative, referendum, recall |
| What was Mueller vs. Oregon? | Regulate hours women could be required to work to ten hours |
| Who was the leader in the Mueller vs. Oregon case? | Louis Brandeis |
| What is the example of reform at the national level? | Teddy Roosevelt's Square Deal |
| What were examples of the Square Deal? | Northern Securities Case, Coal Strike of 1902, Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act, Newlands Act |
| What did the Northern Securities Case determine? | "good" and "bad" trusts |
| What's the bully pulprit? | Using the power only the president has to communicate with the entire nation in order to get them on board with the new policies |
| What was Taft's foreign policy called? | Dollar Diplomacy |
| What two important things is Taft known for? | The Pinchot-Ballinger affair & the Payne-Aldrich affair |
| What did the Pinchot-Ballinger affair have to do with? | Conservatism |
| What happened in the Election of 1912? | Wilson won the presidency because of the split in the Republican Party - "Bull Moose Party"/"Progressive Party" |
| What was Teddy Roosevelt's platform in the Election of 1912 called and what did it state? | New Nationalism - government policy of regulated monopolies - trusts can exist but the government regulates them |
| What was Wilson's platform in the Election of 1912 called and what did it state? | New Freedom - called for government regulation of competition & the elimination of all trusts and monopolies |
| How would you describe Wilson? | Stubborn, inflexible, moralist |
| What are examples of New Freedom? | Underwood-Simmons Tariff, Federal Reserve Act, Clayton Anti-Trust Act/Magna Carta of Labor, Federal Trade Commission |
| What did Josiah Strong's Our Country state? | America is destined to expand its trade and dominion because the world is to be Christianized and civilized and because Americans are a god-favored race |
| What were the immediate causes of the Spanish-American War? | Sinking of the Maine, DeLome letter |
| What were the general causes of the Spanish-American War? | Cuban nationalism, US expansionism, yellow journalism, need for raw materials |
| Who got control of Panama? | Manuel Noriega |
| Why did the US want to end the rebellion in Cuba? | Cuban insurrections were destroying US owned sugar cane plantations and mills |
| Who was Emilio Aguinaldo? | Led Filipino insurrecton against the Spanish and then the US |
| Where were the Japanese imported and why? | Hawaii to work on plantations |
| When did the Philippines gain independence? | 1946 |
| Why was the queen of Hawaii removed from the throne? | Didn't support the annexation of Hawaii |
| What country did the Gentlemen's Agreement deal with? | Japan |
| Which president opposed imperalism? | Grover Cleveland |
| Which amendment gave the US rights in Cuba? | The Platt Amendment |
| US never supported low wages for women | |
| US favored the Cuban Revolution | |
| Who made up the progressives? | Middle class |
| What was a result of the Spanish-American War? | Hawaii was annexed |
| How did America allow a revolution in Panama? | Parked Great White Fleet near Colombia |
| What attributed to the greatest loss of life in the Spanish-American War? | Disease and bad meat |
| US expansionism did not mean all the states were acquired | |
| What did Mahan believe was the ticket to control the seas? | Navy |
| What was the purpose of the Open Door Policy with China? | Free trade |
| What was in charge of the prohibition of alcohol? | The Women's Christian Temperance Movement |
| Who is associated with the term "brown brothers"? | Taft |
| What was the Roosevelt Corollary? | Trusts that didn't prevent competition could be kept |
| What was the Boxer Rebellion? | Chinese revolt against the Chinese government |
| What was the 16th Amendment? | Income Tax - higher tax to those with higher income (1913) |
| What was the 17th Amendment? | Direct election of senators - increase voters' powers and decreased corruption in the Senate (1913) |
| What was the 18th Amendment? | Prohibition - banned manufacture, sale, and transport of alcoholic beverages (1919) |
| What was the 19th Amendment? | Women's suffrage - women won the right to vote (1920) |
| What are the D's of imperialism? | Diety, destiny, defense, dollars, democracy |
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