Give Me Liberty! Ch. 17 & 18 Imperialism

Question 1

The Industrial Workers of the World was open to:

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all of these

Question 2

Writers Alfred Mahan and Frederick Jackson Turner both believed that:

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the U.S. frontier was closed

Question 3

The naturalist and conservationist who founded the Sierra Club was:

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John Muir

Question 4

Which of the following labor unions ROSE in influence during the 1890s?

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American Federation of Labor (AFL)

Question 5

The painting "Cliff Dwellers" by George Bellows reflects the conditions of the:

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working class

Question 6

Booker T. Washington's 1895 speech that urged blacks to adjust to segregation was called the:

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Atlanta Compromise

Question 7

The group of artists who painted urban scenes of every day life were known as the:

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Ashcan School

Question 8

The future President who led the charge up San Juan Hill in Cuba was:

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Theodore Roosevelt

Question 9

The first U.S. territories to give women the right to vote were:

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Utah and Wyoming

Question 10

Foner argues that the Spanish American war established a precedent for American:

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Imperialism

Question 11

The reformer who founded Hull House was:

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Jane Addams

Question 12

The founder of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) was:

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Samuel Gompers

Question 13

"Yellow Journalism" led directly to the:

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Spanish American War

Question 14

Nations involved in "New Imperialism" included each of the following EXCEPT:

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China

Question 15

"The Progressive Era" refers to a time when Americans tried to improve:

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society

Question 16

Despite having more freedom in the Progressive Era, American women still could not:

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Vote

Question 17

Booker T. Washington's most powerful critic and author of The Souls of Black Folk (1903) was:

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W. E. B. DuBois

Question 18

Primary issues of the Progressive Era included all of the following EXCEPT:

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religious tolerance and modernization

Question 19

Justification for imperialism in the 1890s was that it provided non-European peoples with:

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all of these

Question 20

Publishers Joseph Pulitzer and William R. Hearst started a trend known as:

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Yellow Journalism

Question 21

Each of the following was president in the Progressive Era EXCEPT:

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William McKinley

Question 22

The railroad union leader who supported socialism was:

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Eugene Debbs

Question 23

The minister who believed U.S. values should be shared with "inferior races" was

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Josiah Strong

Question 24

Women and Economics (1898) was an influential book by:

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Question 25

Newcomers to the U.S. who were from eastern and southern Europe were known as:

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"new immigrants"

Question 26

The 1911 event that prompted the passage of fire safety codes and factory inspection laws was:

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The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

Question 27

In the Progressive Era, women found more freedom in:

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the workplace

Question 28

During the Spanish American War, the United States annexed:

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Hawai'i

Question 29

The secretary of state who insisted that China open trade with the U.S. was:

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John Hay

Question 30

The court decision that allowed the expulsion of Chinese aliens without due process of law was:

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Fong Yue Ting v. United States (1893)

Question 31

The economic system based on mass production and consumption came to be called:

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Fordism

Question 32

The "Yellow Press" was a leading source of:

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propaganda

Question 33

The 1901 legislation allowing the U.S. to maintain influence in Cuba was the:

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Platt Amendment

Question 34

Most Europeans entered the United States at:

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Ellis Island

Question 35

The president known for anti-trust reforms and regulation was:

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Theodore Roosevelt

Question 36

In the 1890s, how many "new immigrants" arrived in the U.S., despite the prolonged depression?

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3.5 million, 10 million

Question 37

Yellow journalism convinced Americans that the explosion of the Maine was the fault of:

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Spain

Question 38

The U.S.'s economic expansion into Asia was started by:

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a growing demand for trade and goods

Question 39

Until the 1890s, American expansion had taken place on/in the:

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North American continent

Question 40

The three decades in which women enjoyed more independence and opportunities was called the:

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"Women's Era"

Question 41

Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle directly influenced the passage of:

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The Clean Food and Drug Act

Question 42

The age in which European empires "carved up large parts of the world among themselves" was:

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The age of imperialism

Question 43

The use of journalism to expose corruption in American politics and society was known as:

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Muckracking

Question 44

The American Federation of Labor (AFL) mainly represented workers that were:

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all of these

Question 45

The U.S. man-o-war ship that exploded in Havana Harbor was the:

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U.S.S. Maine

Question 46

William McKinley's policy of expansion was most similar to that of:

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James K. Polk

Question 47

Advertisements in the Progressive Era marketed goods to consumers by creating:

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anxiety and invoking exotic images

Question 48

Founded in 1874, the era's largest female organization was the:

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Women's Christian Temperance Union

Question 49

Native-born Americans generally described "new immigrants" as:

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Uncivilized and ignorant

Question 50

The first time that race was used to deny an entire race of people from entering the U.S. was:

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Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

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