quiz 2

What was the reason for the Russo-Japanese War?

Russian expansion into Manchuria

Who was the first Governor General of the Philippines?

William Howard Taft

The Sixteenth Amendment authorized Congress to enact which of the following measures?

a federal income tax

Which of the following factors did Margaret Sanger believe to be the main cause of poverty?

a lack of family planning

What best describes the Social Gospel?

a religious movement emphasizing the Church's responsibility to help poor and marginalized

According to the lesson, which of the following is the most important group of Americans that by-in-large did NOT benefit from the Progressive movement?

african american

William Howard Taft became the first President to also hold which of the following positions in the Federal government?

chief justice of the supreme court

The Spanish American War began because of a colonial revolt on the island of

cuba

Which group of people were often the first Americans to come into contact with other cultures?

diplomats

What was the foreign policy of President Taft in relation to the Caribbean and Latin American nations?

dollar diplomacy

What was the most influential motivation in promoting American imperialism?

economic

Who was the Filipino rebel leader against the Spanish and later against the Americans?

emilio aguinaldo

Muckrakers were the most influential Progressive voices in which of the following industries?

food and drug industries

Taft infuriated Roosevelt and Republican Progressives when he fired which of the following individuals who was serving as head of the U.S. Division of Forestry?

gifford pinchot

Because of its importance as a naval base in the Pacific, President McKinley and Congress annexed what territory in July 1898?

hawaii

How did President Grover Cleveland react to the attempt to annex the Hawaiian islands?

he appologized to the queen and called for the provisional government to dissolve

How did Roosevelt finally resolve the 1902 Coal Strike?

he threatened to send federal troops to run the private mines in the workers absence

The American predisposition to expansion can be traced to

its origins in european expansion

Though the People's Party dissolved in the late 1890s, their political philosophies still held influence. Which of the following became the most influential Populist goal in the progressive era?

limiting corruption in government

Investigative journalists who exposed corruption and ill treatment of the working poor were known by which of the following terms?

muckrakers

What did Wilson call his progressive party platform in the Election of 1912?

new freedom

The _______________ ________________ restricted Cuban diplomacy and made them promise not to borrow money from European nations.

platt amendment

According to the lesson, which of the following best describes the main cause of the failure of Roosevelt's Progressive Party?

professional politicians distanced themselves from the radical wing of the party

Which of the following best describes the main provision of the Nineteenth Amendment?

promised women's voting rights

What best describes the reason why Taft won the Republican nomination over Roosevelt in 1912?

taft had more support of mainline republicans who controlled state conventions

What issues marked Wilson's first major piece of legislation after he became President?

tariff reform

The Election of 1900 guaranteed what?

that American would be an imperial nation

The idea that a nation had a responsibility to bring a better way of life to other ethnic groups was popularly referred to as

the "white man's burden"

U.S. foreign policy in Latin America in the 1890s sent the message that

the US was an authority over latin america

Resistance to foreign powers and the Open Door policy resulted in a Chinese revolt called

the boxer rebellion

What describes the main division between the Republican and Democratic Party platforms in the Election of 1908?

the democrats wanted a lower tariff

Which of the following best describes the meaning of the term eugenics?

the effort to reduce the number of "unfit" people in society by reducing the number of children born to "undesirable" parents

What event in February 1898 convinced most Americans that the nation should go to war with Spain?

the explosion of the USS maine

What gave the Interstate Commerce Commission the power to set maximum freight rates, a reform long wished for among western farmers?

the hepburn act of 1906

What events inspired new city and state laws regulating working conditions in factories?

the triangle shirtwaist fire of 1911

Historians have called which of the following the first "modern President?"

theodore roosevelt

What was NOT a goal of the United States in relation to Latin America?

they wanted to eliminate totalitarian regimes in the region

American economic actions in Hawaii protected the rights and power of

white planters

America developed the most aggressive foreign policy since the days of John Quincy Adams under which Secretary of State?

william h. seward

What was the most interventionist President in history, in spite of his statements that he would not be?

woodrow wilson