US History II - Chapter 19-20

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Hull-House, a settlement house, opens in Chicago

1889

The Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed

1894

The Cuban insurrection breaks out against Spanish rule.

1895

The U. S. Battleship Maine explodes in Havana harbor

1898

The U. S. Senate ratifies the Treaty of Paris

1899

Filipino insurgents resist U. S. Domination

1899-1902

An international alliance quells the Boxer Rebellion.

1900

President Theodore Roosevelt attempts to arbitrate the coal strike; the Justice Department breaks up the Northern Securities Company.

1902

Congress passes the Elkins Act.

1903

Panamanians revolt against Colombia

1903

The Russo-Japanese war begins

1905

Congress passes the meat inspection Act and the pure food and drug act; Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is published.

1906

The Great White fleet begins to circumnavigate the globe in a demonstration of America's ride to world power status

1907

William Taft is inaugurated president.

1909

The Triangle Shirtwaist Company fore occurs.

1911

Congress passes the Federal Reserve Act.

1913

The Panama Canal opens

1914

The Philippines received their independence from the United States in what year?

1946

as america developed industrially, it needed access to all of the following raw materials except

Aluminum

James Hosmer and John Fiske justified American imperialism by stressing

Anglo-Saxon superiority.

"Yellow journalism" was the term applied to the popular newspapers that

Carried sensational stories about events in Cuba

A system of governance in which a trained administrator was appointed to run a city was called a

City-manager plan

Under president Roosevelt, Gifford Pinchot directed programs related to the

Conservation of natural resources

One characteristic of Wilson's progressivism was

Discrimination against blacks

Which of the following groups did not fight in the War of 1898?

Dominicans

Which of the following was not part of the "good government" movement of the Progressive era?

Ending segregated schools

Which of the following was not a goal of late 19th century progressives?

Equality for minorities

Alice Paul was arrested for opening the first birth control center in the United States.

False

As a white southerner, Woodrow Wilson was especially sensitive to the rights and needs of black Americans.

False

As president, Theodore Roosevelt preferred achieving reform through congressional action.

False

At the end of the nineteenth century, a very small percentage of women earned income from working either within or outside of the home.

False

By 1920, both Cuba and the Philippines had gained complete independence from the United States

False

Cuba had been controlled by Spain for only a decade in 1898.

False

In 1887, the United States bought Alaska from Britain for $7.2 Million

False

In 1912, the Progressive party nominated Robert M. La Follette for president.

False

The Federal Reserve system came into existence during president William Howard Tafts administration

False

The role of city manager was developed to make local government more democratic

False

Theodore Roosevelt worked with logging companies to set aside federal lands for "sustainable harvesting" of wood.

False

The open door policy described America's approach to Cuba after 1900.

False.

The progressives' emphasis on efficiency drew on the ideas of

Frederick W. Taylor

Whites on the Hawaiian Islands were referred to as

Haoles

Which statement about the Women's Christian Temperance Union is correct?

It was the largest women's group in the nation with 300.000 members

The concept of socialism is most associated with

Karl Marx

What is the name of the US battleship that famously sank in Havana Harbor in 1898?

Maine

An early and major American victory in the Spanish-American War occurred at

Manila Bay

The group of journalists who drew attention to the abuses in society and published them in stories were known collectively as

Muckrakers

The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire spurred interest in laws to

Protect workers from accidents

The Meat Inspection Act and the Hepburn Act are examples of progressive federal action to

Regulate business activity

The Hawaiian ruler Queen Liliuokalani tried to do what in the early 1890's?

Restrict the growing power of America in the islands

The ______________________ in foreign policy asserted the United States' right to intervene in Latin American nation to prevent others from doing so.

Roosevelt Corollary

In the 1890's, anti-imperialists included

Samuel Gompers, Andrew Carnegie, and William James

Which is true of the 1912 presidential election?

The Socialist candidate, Eugene V. Debs, polled almost a million votes.

"Sewards Folly" involved

The purchase of Alaska

Wilson's definition of progressivism applied to ____ only

The white

"Big-Stick" diplomacy refers to

Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy

The United States and the Philippines were at war with each other for how many years at the turn of the 19th century?

Three years

Alfred Thayer Mahan was a leading advocate of American sea power and imperialism.

True

American missionaries saw America's expansion as divinely ordained to convert the heathens and Catholics to Protestant Christianity.

True

Emilio Aguinaldo at first sides George Dewey against the Spanish in the Philippines.

True

Even before the Spanish-American War, the Cubans traded more with the United States than with Spain.

True

In the Spanish-American War, Commodore George Dewey won a major victory against Spain in the Phillipines.

True

In the Spanish-American war, more American armed forces personnel died from disease than combat

True

Many progressive reformers were motivated by a concern for the poor and outcast that was founded in religious understanding.

True

Settlement houses, such as Hull House in Chicago, were urban community centers designed to help the poor.

True

The 1912 election was significant because it brought southerners back into influential positions in national affairs.

True

The Hawaiian Revolution was supported by American planters in the islands.

True

The Underwood-Simmons Tariff of 1913 sought to lower consumer prices and restore competition.

True

The Women's Christian Temperance Union emerged in part from concern by Protestant women about the influence of alcohol on family life.

True

The creation of the direct primary was a reform of the progressive era.

True

Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle helped bring about regulation of the meat packing industry.

True

The states that adopted universal women's suffrage before 1917 were in the

West

During the Progressive Era, the U.S. Supreme Court

agreed to a ten-hour workday for men and women

The Sixteenth Amendment to the constitution provided for

an income tax

In the case against the Northern Securities Company, Theodore Roosevelt sought to

break up a major railroad company

Put the following events in the correct chronological order.

de Lôme letter, sinking of the Maine, Teller Amendment, battles around Santiago

The Clayton Anti-Trust act attempted to regulate trusts by

defining monopolistic actions.

Around 1916, Wilson renewed his support for progressive reforms because

he needed to build a coalition for reelection.

The impulse for reform in the Progressive Era began

over concerns about the impact of industrialization and rapid urbanization in the late nineteenth century.

All of the following forces supported late 19th century imperialism except

racial equality

Frederick Winslow Taylor and the gospel of efficiency is best associated with which concept

scientific management

The Seventeenth Amendment

stated that U.S. senators should be popularly elected rather than chosen by their state.

Which of the following was not a method adopted during the Progressive Era to improve government?

term limits

Albert J. Beveridge, Henry Cabot Lodge, and Theodore Roosevelt agreed on

the benefits of obtaining overseas possessions

the term sewards folly applies to

the united states acquisition of alaska in 1867

To conserve the nation's natural resources, Theodore Roosevelt wanted to

use federal power to lead the way.

Many of the reforms pushed by the Populists

were implemented by the progressives


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