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Unit 2
Some like vocab or sumthin like that.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| President Teddy Roosevelt’s 1904 reform program was called the | Square deal |
| Progressives came to regard one state as the center of reform and its governor as the leading progressive. The most progressive state and governor were | Wisconsin/Robert La Follett. |
| The recall and direct primary were Progressive Era political reforms designed to weaken | Political Parties |
| While Progressivism led to many reforms, it | failed to address racial discrimination. |
| In the late 1800s, a group of Christian reformers started a movement that acquired the name of the Social Gospel. One organization that demonstrated the principles of this movement was the | Salvation Army |
| How did the Roosevelt administration react to Colombia’s refusal to allow the construction of a canal across the Isthmus of Panama? | by aiding Panama in declaring independence from Colombia |
| During the fighting of the Spanish-American War | more American fighting men died of disease than were killed in action. |
| In 1895, which country experienced a border dispute that nearly resulted in war between the United States and Great Britain? | Venezuela |
| The newspaper magnate who famously told one of his Cuban reporters, "You furnish the pictures, and I'll furnish the war," was | William Randolph Hearst |
| Prior to its annexation by the United States in 1898, Hawaii | had witnessed a revolution staged by American planters. |
| The group of crusading journalists of the late 1800s and early 1900s who attacked corruption in business and government were called | Mucrackers |
| Which reform advocate was most responsible for establishing the social work profession in the United States? | Jane Adams |
| In the 1890s, Jacob Riis | reported on the living conditions of the urban poor to encourage improvements. |
| The goal of the settlement house movement was | to help immigrant families adapt to the language and customs of their new country. |
| Which U.S. President of the Progressive Era was most involved in conservationism? | Theodore Roosevelt |
| In the 1890s, the interest in American expansion overseas was motivated in part by | fears that domestic natural resources would soon be in limited supply. |
| Later evidence related to the explosion that sank the Maine suggested the likely cause was an | accident in the engine room |
| Most of the territory that the United States acquired in the 1890s was in the | Pacific Ocean |
| In 1900, the Chinese Boxer Rebellion was directed at | all foreigners in China. |
| The president who became the most powerful symbol of the reform impulse at the national level was | Theodore Roosevelt |
| The prohibition of alcohol in the United States resulted in what unforeseen consequence? | Organized crime grew and made enforcing the legislation difficult |
| In the election of 1912, Teddy Roosevelt | lost the Republican nomination and ran as a third-party candidate |
| Prior to the adoption of the secret ballot, voter ballots were printed and distributed by | the political parties |
| Which of the following statements regarding the Spanish-American War is FALSE? | U.S. Army soldiers were well-equipped and supplied. |
| The author who called on the United States to increase its naval forces in his book, The Influence of Sea Power upon History, was | Alfred T. Mahan. |
| Regarding Samoa, the American Navy had a particular interest in the natural harbor at | Pago Pago |
| The black leader who became the chief spokesman for the new civil rights movement and who helped to found the Niagara movement and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was | W.E.B. Du Bois |
| President Theodore Roosevelt defined "civilized" and "uncivilized" nations on the basis of | both race and economic development |
| The 1904 "Roosevelt Corollary" | stated that the U.S. had the right to intervene in the affairs of neighboring countries |
| What was the goal of the Niagara Movement founded in 1906 by W.E.B. DuBois? | to end segregation of the races |
| President Woodrow Wilson supported the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, which | created a national banking system that was regulated by the federal reserve board |
| The U.S. war effort in Cuba suffered from all of the following problems except | lack of popular support |
| The German government believed that the sinking of the Lusitania was a legitimate act because the ship was | carrying munitions to Great Britain |
| As a result of the sinking of the British passenger liner Lusitania, | Germany pledged to the United States it would not repeat such an action. |
| Before World War I, the Triple Alliance consisted of | Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Italy |
| Which of the following men was not a member of the Big Four? | Lenin of Russia |
| Regarding the Treaty of Versailles, the United States Senate decided in 1919 to | Not ratify it. |
| The African-American intellectual movement that drew from African culture to illustrate the richness of their heritage was called | The Harlem Renaissance |
| For what reason did advertising become more common in American media in the 1920s? | Goods were being mass-produced on levels never seen before |
| So-called “pink-collar” jobs included all the following, except | teachers |
| The revived Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s opposed | all of the above |
| The United States truly became a consumer society during the 1920s, which meant that Americans | bought things both for their needs and their pleasures |
| Many Americans became outraged at Germany after it began to | engage in submarine warfare. |
| The Fourteen Points included all of the following provisions except | the rights of the individual. |
| The Zimmermann telegram stirred up anti-German sentiment in the United States because it revealed German plans to | return to Mexico her lost provinces in the American Southwest in exchange for a Mexican declaration of war on the United States. |
| In 1914, when war erupted in Europe, President Woodrow Wilson | called on the American public to be completely impartial. |
| Although John T. Scopes was convicted in the 1927 Scopes trial, modernists won a major victory when | Scopes’s attorney tricked William Jennings Bryan into admitting that not all religious dogma was subject to a single interpretation. |
| The traditional backlash against the modern, secular culture of the New Era resulted in all of the following movements except | agrarianism |
| Which cities experienced the greatest population increase due to the growth in popularity of the automobile? | Detroit and Los Angeles |
| Even though women were granted suffrage in 1920, their political influence was limited because | the political parties were dominated by males. |
| During World War I, the United States government primarily financed the war through | public bond sales and new taxes. |
| For what reason did most of the opponents of the League of Nations believe that the United States should not join it? | It would increase U.S. involvement in its allies’ affairs. |
| In May 1917, Wilson authorized the draft of young men into the military by signing the | Selective Service Act |
| What was Wilson’s campaign slogan at the 1916 Democratic National Convention? | “He kept us out of the war!” |
| President Calvin Coolidge | was described as silent and puritanical. |
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Keagan Jackson