Progressivism & Imperialism

Question 1

Why did the United States support Panama's rebellion against Colombia?

Accepted Answer

to build an American-owned canal across Panama

Question 2

The Rough Riders was a

Accepted Answer

volunteer regiment made up of college athletes and western cowboys.

Question 3

Why was the right to vote so important to many of the woman at the Seneca Falls Convention?

Accepted Answer

Power to make laws was the right which all other rights could be secured

Question 4

In 1899, the United States urged other nations to allow free trade in China. This approach to dealing with China was

Accepted Answer

Open Door Policy

Question 5

"Cuba will sell or lease to the United States lands necessary for coaling or naval stations." This is from what?

Accepted Answer

The Platt Amendment

Question 6

Which foreign policy does Roosevelt state the U.S. will use to protect American interests in the Western Hemisphere?

Accepted Answer

Big Stick Policy

Question 7

How did Presidents Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson work to protect the environment?

Accepted Answer

by setting aside land for national parks

Question 8

In 1907, Teddy Roosevelt sent this to circumnavigate the globe in order to demonstrate the growing US military power

Accepted Answer

Great White Fleet

Question 9

The passage of the _____________ allowed for women’s suffrage for the first time nationally!

Accepted Answer

19th Amendment

Question 10

Created the central banking authority of the United States that may make loans to commercial banks

Accepted Answer

Federal Reserve Act

Question 11

Theodore Roosevelt decided to run for a third term as president and created the ____, which was the Progressive Party

Accepted Answer

Bull Moose Party

Question 12

What is Yellow Journalism?

Accepted Answer

Sensationalism and exaggerations of the truth

Question 13

Booker T. Washington differed from Du Bois in that he believed the key to winning full social and political rights was

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Mass protest, challenge, and resistance

Question 14

Which hard-line political activist during the Progressive Era would have been associated with the Niagara Movement?

Accepted Answer

WEB Du Bois

Question 15

In the Roosevelt Corollary, President Roosevelt asserts that the United States has the right to

Accepted Answer

Involve itself in the domestic affairs of Latin American countries.

Question 16

What effect did the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 have on medicine manufacturers?

Accepted Answer

required the product be tested and approved by the FDA

Question 17

Which foreign policy tool did the U.S. government use to acquire Oregon Territory from Great Britain?

Accepted Answer

diplomacy

Question 18

Which of the following was not acquired as a result of the Spanish American War?

Accepted Answer

Hawaii

Question 19

Who were the advocates of prohibition?

Accepted Answer

Protestant churches & Women's Christian Temperance Union

Question 20

Which of these progressive reforms was designed to give voters more power to choose candidates for public office?

Accepted Answer

direct primary

Question 21

What foreign policy approach was used by the United States from 1890-1917?

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Question 22

What was NOT one of the ways in which progressives improved conditions in the workplace?

Accepted Answer

limiting the number of hours men could work per week

Question 23

Who wrote The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 (1890)?

Accepted Answer

Alfred T. Mahan

Question 24

What prompted the Boxer Rebellion in 1900?

Accepted Answer

Chinese nationalists

Question 25

Which election reform did progressives advocate in order to return power to the people?

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Question 26

Taft advocates for what

Accepted Answer

Dollar Diplomacy

Question 27

What was the name of the U.S. Navy Ship that was blown up in the Havana Harbor?

Accepted Answer

USS Maine

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