The Progressive Era
Women's Suffrage
Presidents' Foreign Policies
Imperialism or Nah?
Spanish-American War
100
This is a journalist whose goal was to expose the social and political ills of American society.
What is a muckraker?
100
This Constitutional Amendment provided for women's suffrage in 1920.
What is the 19th Amendment?
100
This is the country where President Roosevelt provided for the building of a canal between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
What is Panama?
100
U.S. Marines and American planters overthrew which island's Queen in 1893?
What is Hawaii?
100
The Spanish-American War was fought over this Caribbean island.
What is Cuba?
200
What was the result of Muller v. Oregon?
Established 10-hour work day for women
200
This region of the United States was the first to grant women their suffrage.
What is the West?
200
President McKinley's Open Door Policy tried to convince a certain country to give the U.S. an equal chance at opening up trade. Which country was this?
What is China?
200
This presidential document argued that the U.S. should act as an "police force" that intervenes in nearby nations' issues.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
200
This amendment to the Treaty of Paris set up a U.S. military base in Cuba.
What is the Platt Amendment?
300
This is event that caused the feud between Roosevelt and Taft, leading Roosevelt to form his own "Bull Moose" Party.
What is the Ballinger-Pinchot Affair?
300
Name two famous women's suffrage leaders and the group(s) they were associated with.
Carrie Chapman Catt - NAWSA Susan B. Anthony - NAWSA Alice Paul - National Women's Party
300
Which president's foreign policy tried to create economic stability abroad for the benefit of U.S. commercial interests?
Who is William Howard Taft?
300
This person argued that a great nation needs a great navy and overseas bases.
Who is Alfred Thayer Mahan?
300
These three lands were acquired by the U.S. as a result of the Spanish-American War.
What is Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico?
400
Name two muckrakers, the name of their book, and the issue(s) they exposed.
Jacob Riis - How the Other Half Lived - Urban poverty Upton Sinclair - The Jungle - Unethical practices in meatpacking industry Lincoln Steffens - Shame of the Cities - political machines
400
What other Progressive movements was Florence Kelley active in (besides suffrage)?
What is prohibiting child labor and limiting women's work hours?
400
Name the four "imperialist" presidents and their foreign policies.
McKinley - Open Door Roosevelt - Big Stick Taft - Dollar Diplomacy Wilson - Moral Diplomacy
400
Name two arguments against imperialism
Militarism All men, regardless of race, should be treated equally Goes against the spirit of the Declaration of Independence America's got its own issues to deal with
400
Name two reasons why the U.S. decided to get involved in the situation between Cuba and Spain?
Explosion of the U.S.S. Maine Spanish Reconcentration Camps Desire for territory and natural resources in Cuba
500
Name three pieces of Progressive legislation (i.e. laws, amendments, Supreme Court cases, etc.) and what they did.
Answers vary :P
500
What is the difference between the methods used by NAWSA and the National Women's Party to achieve women's suffrage?
NAWSA - careful, state-by-state; ladylike National Women's Party - aggressive; picketing and hunger strikes; unladylike
500
What was the goal of Roosevelt's "Great White Fleet"?
To impress other countries with America's superiority and sweet navy.
500
Name two arguments in favor of imperialism (gaining new territories).
Brings American "civilization" to "savage" peoples More markets to sell American goods Spreading democracy (Wilson) Helping other lands with their "issues" (Roosevelt)
500
What role did American newspapers play in getting the U.S. involved in the Spanish-American War?
Riled up the public, convinced people that Spain attacked us
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