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Q:
What was the platform of the Progressive party?
A) a six-day work week
B) abolition of child labor
C) federal accident and old age insurance
D) All of the above.
Q:
Which of the following was NOT a part of the early development of the NAACP?
A) W.E.B. Du Bois became editor of the organization's journal, The Crisis.
B) Du Bois's Niagara Movement merged with the NAACP in 1910.
C) The organization sought to promote reform from within the political system.
D) Only blacks took part in the organization.
Q:
All of the following statements are true about Jane Addams and her racial response to the progressive movement EXCEPT:
A) She struggled with the racist attitudes of her day.
B) She founded a black settlement house in Chicago.
C) She supported the founding of the NAACP.
D) She adopted black children into her own family.
Q:
How did Roosevelt respond to the Brownsville riot?
A) He lambasted the military for mistreatment of black troops.
B) He ordered the black troops dishonorably discharged.
C) He had white military officers arrested.
D) He ordered the dishonorable discharge of white officers.
Q:
All of the following statements are true about Ginford Pinchot EXCEPT:
A) He was considered the most important conservationist in the country.
B) He advocated logging.
C) He advocated fire control.
D) He advocated allocating lands to Indian tribes.
Q:
All of the following statements are true about the Newlands Act EXCEPT:
A) Roosevelt enthusiastically supported the Act.
B) The Newlands Act set aside proceeds from the sale of public lands to pay for state conservation measures.
C) It helped big farmers the most.
D) It gave land to Native American tribes.
Q:
The presidential candidate of the Progressive party in 1912 was
A) Robert M. La Follette.
B) William Howard Taft.
C) Woodrow Wilson.
D) Theodore Roosevelt.
Q:
President Taft angered many Progressives with his
A) regulation of foods and drugs.
B) curbing Speaker Cannon's powers.
C) policies on tariff and conservation.
D) opposition to municipal reform.
Q:
For blacks, the progressive era
A) coincided with the years of greatest segregation in the South.
B) meant strong support from the executive branch.
C) brought a second Reconstruction.
D) brought an end to segregation.
Q:
An issue of particular importance to Theodore Roosevelt was
A) civil service reform.
B) woman suffrage.
C) creation of a federal reserve system.
D) the space race.
Q:
The novelist whose work helped encourage passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act was
A) William Dean Howells.
B) Lincoln Steffens.
C) Eugene Debs.
D) Upton Sinclair.
Q:
In the anthracite strike of 1902, Theodore Roosevelt
A) created public sympathy for the mine owners.
B) saw his role as that of a mediator.
C) supported use of the strike to achieve the workers' goals.
D) showed that he would follow the policies of McKinley.
Q:
As a leader during the progressive era, Theodore Roosevelt
A) acted very cautiously and quietly.
B) opposed conservation programs.
C) believed that government regulation of business was undesirable.
D) was the first president to support social reform.
Q:
In Wisconsin, the progressive reform movement
A) failed to pass any significant regulatory legislation.
B) failed to achieve many of its goals.
C) was led by Woodrow Wilson.
D) was led by Robert La Follette, a model Progressive governor.
Q:
In 1902, the state of Maryland
A) enacted the most advanced safety laws in the nation.
B) restricted women's labor.
C) passed the first workers' compensation act.
D) provided a model government for other states to imitate.
Q:
At the state and local levels, progressive reformers usually called for
A) greater direct participation of the voters in the political process.
B) inflationary economic policies.
C) less regulation of railroads to encourage economic development.
D) programs that benefited the working classes.
Q:
During the progressive era, those who wanted to reform the American city
A) supported essentially the same goals as the social welfare reformers.
B) tried to limit the power of city bosses.
C) generally supported working-class values.
D) generally opposed the commission form of city government.
Q:
The chief aim of municipal reform during the progressive era was to
A) implement the single tax.
B) encourage immigrants to maintain their ethnic traditions in order to make the city a more interesting place to live.
C) modernize the city to benefit the business and professional classes.
D) achieve social justice.
Q:
The Industrial Labor Relations Commission, created in 1912,
A) suggested unions be declared illegal.
B) criticized labor for demanding too many reforms.
C) defended workers' right to organize.
D) generally ruled that employers were blameless in industrial accidents.
Q:
In their effort to organize American workers during the progressive era, the International Workers of the World
A) stressed the use of the investigative committee to publicize the problems that workers faced.
B) welcomed all workers, regardless of skill, race, or gender.
C) relied mostly on political solutions that emphasized protective labor legislation.
D) adopted the philosophy of Samuel Gompers.
Q:
As a result of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire of 1911,
A) no official action was taken by either the city, state, or federal governments.
B) New York state abolished labor by children under 14 years of age.
C) the federal government passed a law preventing child labor.
D) New York City fined the company's owners a substantial amount of money.
Q:
The American Federation of Labor
A) was most successful among coal miners, railroad workers, and the building trades.
B) attempted to organize unskilled workers.
C) was generally favored in decisions by the federal courts.
D) embraced socialistic principles.
Q:
During the progressive era, trade unions in the United States
A) found it increasingly easy to cooperate with management.
B) increased in membership.
C) almost always succeeded in their strike efforts.
D) enjoyed increasing support from decisions of the Supreme Court.
Q:
A key figure in applying the principles of scientific management to industrial work was
A) Frederick Taylor.
B) Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
C) Samuel Gompers.
D) Jane Addams.
Q:
Progressive-era reformers, in their efforts to aid the working class,
A) generally supported the use of the strike.
B) generally opposed the organization of unions to achieve labor's goals.
C) generally cooperated closely with labor leaders.
D) frequently had little understanding of working-class life.
Q:
In their crusade to improve the conditions of the poor in America, the social justice progressives
A) encouraged movie-going as a form of entertainment.
B) effectively ended prostitution.
C) generally supported prohibition of alcohol consumption.
D) recognized the necessity of brothels.
Q:
According to John Dewey, American education should
A) train talented students for national leadership.
B) differentiate between native and non-native students.
C) be subject-oriented rather than child-centered.
D) be child-centered rather than subject-oriented.
Q:
In the case of Muller v.Oregon, the Supreme Court determined that laws limiting the number of hours women could work were constitutional because
A) such laws already applied to men.
B) women should have more time with their children.
C) the Constitution clearly permitted such laws.
D) women were weaker than men.
Q:
A leader in the crusade against child labor was
A) Andrew Carnegie.
B) Florence Kelley.
C) Lincoln Steffens.
D) Boss Tweed.
Q:
The muckrakers were important in the progressive movement because they
A) subverted the democratic system.
B) generally opposed social reform.
C) defended the American system against criticism.
D) publicized what they believed were the problems in American society.
Q:
In general, social justice progressives
A) rejected Dewey's educational concepts.
B) showed little concern for urban housing problems.
C) believed most vice was determined by genetics.
D) stressed the importance of environment in shaping character.
Q:
An early twentieth-century professional woman committed to solving the social problems of American society was
A) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
B) Frances Kellor.
C) Geraldine Ferraro.
D) Madonna.
Q:
In 1906, the United States invaded _______ and ________ in Central America.
Q:
When President McKinley was assassinated in 1900, a total of ________ American presidents had been killed since 1860.
Q:
The Philippines gained independence from American colonial control in the year ________.
Q:
American critics of the war in the Philippines, known as ________, condemned wartime atrocities on Filipino civilians.
Q:
During the first year of the war in the Philippines, over ___________ civilians were killed by American forces.
Q:
The person who led the insurrection against American control of the Philippines was ________.
Q:
Evaluate the usefulness of political cartoons as historical sources, from cartoons of "Boss" Tweed to Theodore Roosevelt.
Q:
Discuss U.S. relations with Japan and Europe during the Theodore Roosevelt administration.
Q:
Discuss the major developments in U.S. relations with the Latin American countries during the Theodore Roosevelt administration.
Q:
Discuss the basic ideas that influenced Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy philosophy.
Q:
Discuss the issue of imperialism as a factor in the election of 1900 and explain the policy that the United States eventually adopted for governing the territories it controlled outside the limits of the continental United States.
Q:
Contrast the arguments of those individuals who supported U.S. control of the Philippine Islands after the end of the Spanish-American War with the arguments of those who opposed American acquisition of the Philippines.
Q:
Discuss the factors that led to the U.S. decision to declare war against Spain in 1898.
Q:
Discuss the philosophy of those individuals who, in the late nineteenth century, believed that the United States should seek national glory and greatness in world affairs.
Q:
Explain how profits, piety, and politics affected American foreign policy in the late nineteenth century.
Q:
Discuss American efforts to expand into the Pacific Ocean area prior to the outbreak of the Spanish-American War.
Q:
Discuss the concept of the United States as a model society for other countries and explain how that concept affected American foreign policy in the late nineteenth century.
Q:
While the United States fought a colonial war in the Philippines, Great Britain fought a colonial war in southern Africa.
Q:
Roosevelt made friendship with Spain a cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy.
Q:
In the Root-Takahira Agreement of 1908, the United States received reassurances from Japan of American control of the Philippines.
Q:
In 1904, the Japanese began the Russo-Japanese war that resulted in victory against Russia.
Q:
A rivalry developed between Japan and the United States over Cuba.
Q:
In 1905, Chinese nationalists at home rioted and demanded a more just U.S. immigration policy.
Q:
Barriers and riots fully prevented the Chinese from immigrating to the United States.
Q:
The United States annexed Hawaii in 1898, and the Philippines in 1899.
Q:
Throughout the nineteenth century, American relations with China were restricted to minor but profitable trade.
Q:
Deaths among American soldiers during the Spanish-American War were greater from disease than from battle casualties.
Q:
During the depression of the 1890s, American manufacturing production steadily increased.
Q:
White sugar planters, with the help of U.S. gunboats and marines, staged a coup against Hawaii's Queen Lilioukalani in 1893.
Q:
As part of his expansionist program, Secretary of State Seward purchased Alaska from Russia.
Q:
Throughout its history, the United States has tried to influence other countries by passively and patiently setting a good example for them.
Q:
Until 1902, the United States kept Cuba under a
A) military governor.
B) naval blockade.
C) reservation system.
D) communist system.
Q:
In 1906, the United States intervened in which two of the following nations in Latin America?
A) Mexico and El Salvador
B) Guatemala and Nicaragua
C) Costa Rica and Chile
D) Venezuela and Peru
Q:
Which of these American presidents later pursued a Roosevelt-like policy of intervention in Latin America?
A) Ronald Reagan
B) George Herbert Walker Bush
C) George W. Bush
D) All of the above.
Q:
In 1914, relations between Germany and Great Britain led to
A) World War I.
B) World War II.
C) the Venezuelan crisis.
D) a 10-year peace.
Q:
All of the following statements describe the relationship between the United States and Germany EXCEPT:
A) Roosevelt attempted to make the German leadership think that the United States supported Germany.
B) The Kaiser thought that Roosevelt was pro-German.
C) The United States was alarmed over growing German power across the globe.
D) The two nations went to war over Mexico in 1900.
Q:
The second note of Secretary of State Hay's Open Door policy with China addressed
A) Japan's invasion of China.
B) Russian movement into Manchuria.
C) German movement into Poland.
D) British movement into Australia.
Q:
Which of the following does NOT characterize Chinese views of the United States in 1900?
A) disdain
B) curiosity
C) a place of racial equality
D) suspicion
Q:
Which of the following does NOT characterize U.S. views of the Chinese people in 1900?
A) immoral
B) generous
C) backward
D) exotic
Q:
Which of the following nations forced treaties on China in the late 1800s?
A) Britain
B) France
C) Germany
D) All of the above.
Q:
In the "insular cases," the Supreme Court determined that
A) Congress had no right to restrict the freedom of any group controlled by the United States.
B) Congress could treat some people under American control differently than it treated others.
C) Hawaiians and Puerto Ricans would enjoy the full rights of American citizenship, but not Filipinos.
D) all people living under American control would enjoy the same rights and privileges.
Q:
Acquisition of the Philippine Islands by the United States
A) encountered little opposition in the United States Senate.
B) resulted in immediate independence for the islands.
C) was generally supported by the Filipinos.
D) led to guerrilla warfare against American control.
Q:
The major argument used by those opposed to the annexation of the Philippines was that
A) it was un-Christian to have colonies.
B) it would retard America's economic growth.
C) the Filipinos did not want American rule.
D) it contradicted American ideals.
Q:
American acquisition of the colonies after the Spanish-American War
A) was opposed by President McKinley for racist reasons.
B) led to considerable controversy over the policy.
C) rested on purely idealistic motives.
D) faced little opposition among Americans.
Q:
During the Spanish-American War, the United States
A) attacked Japan.
B) defeated Spain relatively easily.
C) faced a major military challenge.
D) lost most of the battles against the Spanish navy.
Q:
Theodore Roosevelt's attitude concerning war with Spain in 1898 was to
A) advise McKinley to avoid war at all costs.
B) urge caution in U.S. relations with Spain.
C) promote war with Spain.
D) rescind the secretary of navy's message ordering Admiral Dewey to sail his fleet to the Philippine Islands.
Q:
An important event influencing the U.S. decision to declare war with Spain in 1898 was the
A) sinking of the battleship Maine.
B) Zimmermann Note.
C) Democratic victory in the mid-term election of 1898.
D) Republican defeat in the election of 1896.
E) sinking of the luxury liner Lusitania.
Q:
A fundamental cause of the Spanish-American War was
A) the American public's concern for the Cuban people.
B) Theodore Roosevelt's actions as assistant secretary of the navy.
C) publication of the de Lme letter by Mexico.
D) the heroic actions of the Cuban rebels.
E) the role of France in Cuba.