U.S History Regents Review

Which United States foreign policy stated that European powers should no longer expect to establish colonies in the Western Hemisphere?

Monroe Doctrine

Which act of Congress gave President Roosevelt the authority that he demonstrates in this cartoon?

Sherman Antitrust Act

In the late 1800s, which idea was used most often to justify the elimination of business competition?

Social Darwinism

Which argument did President Abraham Lincoln use against the secession of the Southern States?

The government was a union of people and not of states.

Why did construction of the Panama Canal become more important to the United States after the Spanish-American War?

The navy needed a faster way to move ships between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

The Supreme Court decision in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) affected civil rights in the United States by

approving racial segregation in public facilities

During the late 1800s, major improvements to a nationwide system of trade were made with the

completion of transcontinental railroads

In the early 1900s, Progressives succeeded in strengthening federal control over the money supply by

creating the Federal Reserve System

Poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses were used in the South after 1890 to

deny suffrage rights to African Americans

In 1906, the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act were passed in an attempt to

ensure the safety of American consumers

Jacob Riis, in How the Other Half Lives, and Lincoln Steffens, in The Shame of the Cities, contributed to reform movements in the United States by

exposing poverty and corruption

The Roosevelt Corollary (1904) to the Monroe Doctrine proclaimed the right of the United States to

intervene in the internal affairs of Latin American nations

In the 1890s, the main goal of those who supported United States imperialism was to

obtain overseas markets and naval bases

In the early 20th century, muckrakers were able to influence American society mainly by

organizing demonstrations in large cities

One way in which the Progressive movement of the early 1900s and the women's rights movement of the 1960s are similar is that each resulted in

passage of reform legislation

The "separate but equal" doctrine established by the Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) upheld the legality of

racial segregation in public facilities

The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 was passed in an attempt to

regulate the amount of money in circulation

The practice of yellow journalism most directly influenced the

start of the Spanish-American War

During the late 1800s, the idea of Social Darwinism was used to explain the

success or failure of businesses

The federal government responded to the railroad strikes of 1877 and the Pullman strike of 1894 by

using military force against the workers