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Question 1In the late 1880s, Europeans
were looking overseas for places to sell their products
because why?
Tariffs had reduced trade among industrialized
countries
Question 2 American support for Cuban
rebels was fueled by what?
Sensational stories published by rival newspapers
Question 3Efficiency progressives
believed that cities should be run by a what?
City manager or commissioners
Question 4Wisconsin became known as the laboratory of democracy
because of its what?
Support for direct primaries
Question 5Supporters of annexing the Philippines believed what?
The islands would provide the U.S. with a naval base in
Asia
Question 6Socialist believe in what?
Government ownership of business
Question 7As a result of a war between
Japan and China in 1894, Japan acquired what?
Territory in Manchuria
Question 8In 1898 President McKinley sent the battleship Maine to
Havana to do what?
Evacuate Americans if necessary
Question 9Theodore Roosevelt warned Taft that tariff reform would
do what?
Divide the Republican Party
Question 10When the U.S. assumed the responsibility for collecting
customs tariffs in the Dominican Republic, it was applying what?
The Roosevelt Corollary
Question 11The Underwood Tariff Act
included a provision for what?
Levying an income tax
Question 12What happens in direct
primaries?
All party members vote for a candidate to run in the
general election
Question 13Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for negotiating
peace where?
Between Russia & Japan
Question 14At the first Pan-American Conference, the
U.S. wanted Latin American delegates to agree to customs union, which would
do what?
Require nations to reduce their tariffs
Question 15The Constitution originally
specified that, in each state, U.S. senators would be
elected by
The legislature of each state
Question 16U.S. Steel would allow the government
to look at its account books and records and in exchange the government would do what?
Allow the company to correct problems privately without going to court
Question 17The Payne-Aldrich Tariff did
what?
Cut tariffs hardly at all
Question 18The Hawaiian monarchy was
overthrown by who?
Group of planters supported by U.S. Marines
Question 19President Millard Fillmore sent a naval expedition to
Japan to do what?
Force Japan to trade with the U.S.
Question 20Progressives had a strong faith
in what?
Science & technology
Question 21Theodore Roosevelt became
President when?
McKinley was assassinated
Question 22President Wilson’s peace
plan was known as the what?
Fourteen Points
Question 23Secretary of State James G.
Blaine led efforts to do what?
Expand American influence into Latin America
Question 24The U.S. caused an
economic crisis in Cuba by doing what?
Passing a tariff on sugar
Question 25To prevent strikes from
disrupting the war effort, the government established
what?
National War Labor Board
Question 26Wilson believed lower tariffs rates would lead American
companies to do what?
Improve products and lower prices
Question 27The Platt Amendment
effectively made Cuba into an American what?
Protectorate
Question 28In the late 1800s, support
grew in the U.S. for building a large modern navy to do
what?
Defend American interests
Question 29Roosevelt believed that Taft's
focus on breaking up trusts would do what?
Destroy the system of cooperation and regulation
Roosevelt had arranged
Question 30The laissez-faire argument for
the best way to preserve public land was to do what?
Sell it to lumber companies, who would conserve it as a
source of profits
Question 31The Treaty of Paris, which formally ended the Spanish-
American War, granted independence to what
nation?
Cuba
Question 32Tragedy at the Triangle
Shirtwaist Company led to what?
Building codes requiring fire escapes
Question 33Theodore Roosevelt viewed
the coal miners strike against mine owners in 1902
as an example of what?Groups pursuing their private
interests at the expense of the nation
Question 34By the late 1800s, growth of investment opportunities in western Europe had slowed
because why?Most of the industries that Europe’s economy needed
had been built
Question 35Through scientific management,
a company could become efficient by
Breaking tasks down into small parts and using standardized
tools
Question 36Theodore Roosevelt was
chosen as McKinley's running mate in the 1900 election because why?
Status as a war hero
Question 37Theodore Roosevelt tried to win the Republican nomination from Taft in
the 1912 election because he believed that Taft did what?
Had failed to live up to progressive ideals
Question 38By 1920 the ICC had move
away from its original purpose and had started
doing what?Setting rates to help ensure
railroads’ profits
Question 39Alice Paul’s strategy alarmed many in the suffrage movement because
she wanted to do what?
Use protests to force suffrage
Question 40In the Northern Securities v.
the U.S. case, the Supreme Court ruled that Northern
securities did what?
Violated the Sherman Anti trust Act
Question 41The purpose of the Open
Door Policy was to
Ensure trading rights with China
Question 42The Philippines are now what?
An independent country