Old Stuff 1
What was the primary cause that helped bring about the 2nd Industrial Revolution?
Electrification
Describe the policy of laissez-faire?
The government allows the market and businesses establish the quantity available and the prices for goods
What is a Tariff?
Tax on imported goods
Name a political reform championed by the Progressives
Recall Elections, Direct Primary Elections, The Commission System, Referendum, Initiatives, Women's Suffrage, Anti-trust
Type of sensational, biased, and often false reporting for the sake of attracting readers.
Yellow Journalism
The ideas that God and history had selected America to expand its boundaries over the continent of North America was known as
Manifest Destiny
The philosophy helped the robber barons justify their fortunes as compared to the troubles experienced by working class people in America:
Social Darwinism
Crusading journalists who exposed and uncovered the corruption in society.
Muckrakers
What did the 16th Amendment do?
Established an income tax
Pan-Americanism is the belief that...
The United States and Latin America should work together
If you were a southerner that supported the Republican party during Reconstruction which nickname would your Democratic neighbors refer to you as?
Scalawag
What was the primary purpose of the Reconstruction period following the Civil War?
To rebuild the southern economy and society
Which of the following is best defined as the actions used by one nation to exercise political or economical control over a smaller or weaker nation?
Imperialism
What new third political party did Theodore Roosevelt create?
Bull Moose Party
What did people believe America needed to build up to avoid being shut out of foreign markets?
Navy and naval bases
What was the Homestead Act, and what did it provide?
Any head of household could live on, improve and farm the land and eventually own it, at little cost.
What was created to help poor people by offering practical aid, medical aid, and religious counseling.
YMCA, Salvation Army , Settlement Houses
The right of citizens to place a measure or issue before the voters or the legislature for approval.
Initiative
What President was warned to stay away from (tariffs out of fear of splitting the Republican Party?
To which amendment does the following excerpt belong?
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
16th Amendment
To which amendment does the following excerpt belong?
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
14th Amendment
The Populist Party appealed primarily to which of the following constituencies?
small farmers in geographically isolated regions
Which Progressive Era muckraker’s book led to the passage of the Meat Inspection Act?
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
What allowed the various leaseholders in China to trade freely with each other's sphere of influence in China?
Open Door Policy
What impact did the Spanish-American War have on the military and political status of the United States?
The war was a decisive victory that helped propel the United Status on to the world stage.