Multiple Choice
Located in the Pacific Ocean, this Spanish colony's rebels were assisted in their war against the Spanish by the Americans during the Spanish-American War, but then fought a war against the Americans when they refused to accept the nation's independence.
The Philippines
What were three major changes during the Progressive Era to how politics worked?
Primaries
Before the Progressive Era, political parties, would choose who their political party's candidates were.
After the Progressive Era, regular members of political parties would vote to decide who their candidate would be.
Referendums
Before the Progressive Era, laws needed to be written and passed by elected assemblies.
After the Progressive Era, laws could be passed as part of a vote during an election.
Direct Elections
Before the Progressive Era, Senators would be appointed by state assemblies
After the Progressive Era, they were directly elected.
What are four ways Theodore Roosevelt expanded American power abroad?
He proposed the “Roosevelt Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine, which stated that the United States had a right to intervene in affairs in the Americas.
He negotiated a peace agreement between the Japanese and Russians, ending the Russo-Japanese War.
He sent the Great White Fleet around the world, showing off American naval power and defusing a potential war with Japan.
He started the construction of the Panama Canal, which resulted in American trade thriving and the American Navy travelling more easily from the Atlantic to Pacific and back.
How did the role of the U.S. government, at home and abroad, change during the Progressive Era?
AT HOME:
The government was considered more reliable and honest, which allowed its role to expand.
Reforms that expanded democracy like referendums, primaries, and universal suffrage prevented corruption.
There was increased power to the presidency mainly because of Theodore Roosevelt.
The government was now expected to regulate industrial capitalism.
ABROAD:
The US was now a world superpower and owned an empire, meaning that the military needed to be larger and more professional to protect their empire
It also made the President more powerful as well
Located in Central America, this nation became independent when the United States assisted its rebels through the use of Gunboat Diplomacy. The United States assisted its rebels so they could build a canal through the nation, which they successfully did in 1914.
Panama
What were three strategies used by suffragettes, and why was each effective?
Cross-issue organization - making connections between different organizations
it would encourage a ton of more women to fight for suffrage
Local policy change - trying to get women’s suffrage on a state-by-state level
It was effective because it was able to show that if women's suffrage was implemented there would not be major problems
Direct action - Marches, petitions, or “civil disobedience” intended to draw the attention of Americans to the issue of women’s suffrage
It was effective because it forced disinterested Americans to take a side and this helped force the government to act on the issue
Located in Central America, this nation was invaded by the United States during its revolution due to an attack on a Americans by one of its rebels, Pancho Villa. The expedition was unsuccessful, and nearly resulted in a war.
Mexico
What is the primary cause of the Spanish-American War, and what were three results of the Spanish-American War?
The primary cause of the Spanish-American War was the explosion of the U.S. battleship Maine in Cuba, which was blamed on the Spanish.
Three results of the Spanish-American War:
The United States was a world superpower, capable of easily defeating weaker nations and deploying its military across the globe, and would be able to easily achieve imperialist dreams.
The United States now needed to care about events in the wider world and take actions there in order to protect their new empire from potential enemies.
A small number of soldiers, equipped with machine guns, could stand against a much larger enemy, and potentially hold them off.
Located in the Caribbean, this Spanish colony was home to an ongoing rebellion against the Spanish, which involved the Spanish putting many of the colony's citizens in internment camps. This led to the United States deploying the USS Maine there, but following that ship's destruction, the Spanish-American War broke out.
Cuba
What are five ways that the Progressive Era attempted to change unregulated industrial capitalism?
The FDA and ICC, would make it safer for people buying products from companies and safer for workers working for those companies.
Those encouraged by the religious ideals of the Third Great Awakening, would oppose Social Darwinism and Eugenics, and seek to change unregulated industrial capitalism.
Otherwise known as "scientific management", Taylorism was aimed to regulate labor productivity inside industrial capitalism.
Socialism, believes that the economy should be owned and regulated by the community as a whole, and “sewer socialists” moved to restrict and regulate industrial capitalism.
Cleanliness and modern medicine aimed to limit the impact unregulated industrial capitalism had on human health.
Located in the Caribbean, this Spanish colony was annexed by the United States following the Spanish-American War, and remains a U.S. Territory to this day, possessing neither independence nor full status as a state.
Puerto Rico
What are four things Teddy Roosevelt did to promote Progressive causes?
Roosevelt was a conservationist who wanted to protect nature and founded America’s National Park System.
When the Coal Strike of 1902 occurred under his presidency, Roosevelt negotiated between the mine owners and the mine workers, when the mine owners refused to negotiate, he sided with the workers.
Roosevelt was a trustbuster, seeking to break up “bad trusts”, like the Standard Oil Company.
Roosevelt used “muckrakers” to find problems, then created regulatory agencies like the FDA to solve them.