US history 2 midterm proctored test chapter 19, 20

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The name of Theodore Roosevelt's party in the 1912 election:

Bull Moose Progressive Party

The Boxer Rebellion took place in:

China

In order to acquire the Canal Zone, the United States supported Panama's revolt against:

Colombia

The Spanish-American War was fought mainly in

Cuba and the Philippines

Woodrow Wilson sought to reform banking through the:

Federal Reserve Act

Founded the WCTU:

Frances Elizabeth Willard

Influential American businessmen established lucrative sugar and fruit plantations in:

Hawaii

The Rough Riders are usually associated with the Battle of:

Manilla Bay

She infiltrated a mental asylum in order to document patient neglect and abuse

Nellie Bly

Woodrow Wilson's platform as president was called the

New Freedom

The originator of the "Wisconsin idea" of efficient government was:

Robert M. La Follette

A major difference between Theodore Roosevelt and the presidents of the Gilded Age was

Roosevelt was much more aggressive in his use of presidential powers

The United States purchased Alaska from:

Russia

A major factor in Woodrow Wilson's victory in the 1912 presidential campaign was the fact that:

Taft and Roosevelt split the Republican vote

The title of the novel that described the terrible conditions of the meat-packing industry was

The Jungle

"Big Stick Diplomacy" is associated with:

Theodore Roosevelt

The phrase "Square Deal" is associated with:

Theodore Roosevelt

Which candidate was shot during the 1912 presidential campaign?

Theodore Roosevelt

Who became president after the sudden death of William McKinley in 1901?

Theodore Roosevelt

Who wrote The Jungle?

Upton Sinclair

The influential minister who help launch the social gospel movement:

Walter Rauschenbusch

Who was Theodore Roosevelt's handpicked successor in 1908?

William Howard Taft

Democratic presidential candidate in 1896 and 1900.

William McKinley

Leon Czolgosz assassinated:

William McKinley

Who was president during the Spanish-American War?

William McKinley

Theodore Roosevelt's close friend Gifford Pinchot was

a forestry expert and leading conservationist

Woodrow Wilson was:

a professor and college president

To reward Theodore Roosevelt for his vigorous campaigning on behalf of William McKinley in 1896, the new president appointed Roosevelt:

assistant secretary of the navy

Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Carrie Chapman Catt all were involved in the:

feminist movement

Theodore Roosevelt was the first president to use his authority to settle a labor dispute:

in the coal industry

By the end of the Spanish-American War:

more American soldiers died from disease than battle

The de Lôme letter:

referred to President McKinley as a weak and cowardly leader

In the election of 1900, the McKinley-Roosevelt ticket campaigned on a platform that:

supported American territorial acquisitions following the Spanish-American war

When the United States and Colombia could not agree on a price for the Canal Zone:

the United States lent support to a separatist rebellion in the Colombian province of Panama

American in the late nineteenth century was stimulated by all of the following EXCEPT:

the desire to Christianize Africa and Asia

A major reason that the U.S. annexed the Philippines despite anti-imperialist opposition in the U.S. was because:

the islands were located very close to China and China's potential markets

Why did Theodore Roosevelt send the "Great White Fleet" on a world tour between 1907 and 1909?

to demonstrate that the U.S. had arrived as a world power

During the Spanish-American War, Theodore Roosevelt:

took part in the land fighting in Cuba


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