US History II - Chapter 19-20
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
