US History Gilded Age/Imperialism/Progressivism Test

Question 1

Fought to decrease the power of big business in the election of 1896 and made the "Cross of Gold" speech.

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William Jennings Bryan

Question 2

President that opposed social welfare, supported smaller government, legalized strikes, and reformed the banking system

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Woodrow Wilson

Question 3

U.S. foreign relations were damaged by President Woodrow Wilson&#x27;s intervention in

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Mexico

Question 4

Progressive Amendment that allows people to directly elect senators

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17th Amendment

Question 5

Free market government economic policies led to immense wealth for business owners but poor conditions for workers.

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Laissez-Faire

Question 6

Progressive Amendment that prohibits alcohol

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18th Amendment

Question 7

African American leader who taught acceptance and to concentrate on elevating themselves through hard work.

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Booker T. Washington

Question 8

The ___________ of 1890 was the first measure passed by Congress to prohibit monopolies.

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Sherman Antitrust Act

Question 9

Progressive Amendment allowing Congress to levy an income tax

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16th Amendment

Question 10

Fought first in Cuba & then in the Philippines and helps create the image of the United States as an empire.

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Spanish-American War

Question 11

Midwest based political party who supported silver coinage, graduated income tax, and government ownership of railroads

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Populists

Question 12

Nez Perce leader who fled to Canada instead of reservations, but US troops forced them back to reservations.

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Chief Joseph

Question 13

Used "Vertical Integration" to control every step of the steel-making process.

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Andrew Carnegie

Question 14

During the Depression of 1893 ________ loaned the government money as Gold drained from the treasury

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JP Morgan

Question 15

Created Standard Oil and used “Horizontal Integration,” buying out or controlling a majority of stock in competitors

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John D. Rockefeller

Question 16

Progressive Amendment that gave women suffrage (the right to vote)

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19th Amendment

Question 17

Reform movement to outlaw consumption of alcohol which plagued urban poor communities led largely by women

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Temperance

Question 18

Violent labor protest was more the product of industrialization and changing ideas of property and employee rights

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The Homestead Strike

Question 19

Transferred millions from steamboats to railroads, created big domestic markets & made true westward expansion possible

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Cornelius Vanderbilt

Question 20

Coined the term "Gilded Age." By this, he meant that the period was glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath.

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Mark Twain

Question 21

U.S. would handle any “necessary” intervention in Latin America on behalf of Europe, keeping the Monroe Doctrine intact

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The Roosevelt Corollary

Question 22

Jacob Riis (1890) photojournalism documenting the conditions of New York City slums

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How the Other Half Lives

Question 23

The economic and political domination of a strong nation over weaker nations

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Imperialism

Question 24

Fought in the Spanish-American War and became an anti-trust president after an assassination

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Theodore Roosevelt

Question 25

Sioux medicine man, chief, and political leader of his tribe at the time of the Custer massacre during the Sioux War

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Sitting Bull

Question 26

Promoted assimilation: dissolved tribes as legal entities & eliminated tribal ownership of land. Granted 160 acres.

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Dawes Severalty Act

Question 27

Henry George book on the maldistribution of wealth that helped him almost become mayor of New York City

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Progress and Poverty

Question 28

The winner of the 1896 Presidential election. Proponent of big business, big cities, & financial conservatism.

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William McKinley

Question 29

What did progressives think needed to play a more active role in solving society&#x27;s problems?

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the government

Question 30

Through scientific management, a company could become efficient by

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breaking tasks down into small parts and using standardized tools.

Question 31

President that said "speak softly, but carry a big stick". Fought with the "Rough Riders" in the Spanish American War.

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Teddy Roosevelt

Question 32

A movement of mostly middle class men and women who were convinced society could no longer afford to be laissez-faire.

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Progressivism

Question 33

President that used Dollar Diplomacy in Latin America and busted the most trusts

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William Taft

Question 34

Investigative journalists trying to bring public attention to societal problems that needed to be fixed.

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Muckraking

Question 35

“Survival of the fittest” mindset applied to society though more influenced by classical economists

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Social Darwinism

Question 36

Explosion was blamed on the Spanish starting the Spanish-American War. Yellow journalists used this event for war.

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USS Maine

Question 37

Supporters annexing the Philippines after the Spanish-American War believed that

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the islands would provide the United States with a naval base.

Question 38

Led revolt against both Spain & later the United States

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Emilio Aguinaldo

Question 39

Held that state-mandated segregation laws did not violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

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Plessy v. Fergusson

Question 40

Teddy Roosevelt led movement to set aside national forests & made plans to irrigate the arid west

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Conservationism

US History Gilded Age/Imperialism/Progressivism Test

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