American History 2 (Online) Ch. 19-20
For a $10 million down payment, the Roosevelt administration arranged the use in perpetuity of
The Panama Canal.
President Taft won office because
he was supported by Roosevelt.
Prominent American anti-imperialists at the end of the 19th century include all of the following except
William Seward.
Which political party ran as a third party in the 1912 election?
?
By the 1890s, the largest ethnic population in Hawaii was
Asians.
In 1899, the United States divided control of the Samoa Islands with
Germany.
Which of the following statements regarding Theodore Roosevelt is untrue?
He had no interest in politics before running for the vice presidency.
What was the progressive approach to social problems?
Investigate, educate, legislate
The concept of socialism is most associated with
Karl Marx.
The ______________________ in foreign policy asserted the United States' right to intervene in Latin American nation to prevent others from doing so.
Roosevelt Corollary
The father of the muckrakers, and their style of writing, could be considered
Samuel McClure.
Which of the following was not a method adopted during the Progressive Era to improve government?
Term limits
What incident set off the Taft-Roosevelt feud?
The Ballinger-Pinchot controversy
Which of the following statements regarding the consequences of the War of 1898 is most accurate?
The war boosted American self-confidence and reinforced racist attitudes.
What book brought to light the abuses in the United States meatpacking industry in the early 20th century?
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
_____________________ is a sensationalist style of newspaper reporting that appeared during the Spanish-American War (War of 1898).
Yellow journalism
As America developed industrially, it needed access to all of the following raw materials except
aluminum.
Americans at the turn of the century generally felt safe because of all of the following reasons except
atomic technology.
The biggest stumbling block to progressivism during the Progressive Era was
big business.
President Theodore Roosevelt accomplished the majority of his progressive agenda
by convincing Congress to pass legislation.
