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What was the idea behind trust-busting?
What is Roosevelt wanted to break up trusts, but made a distinction between regulating "good trusts" which through efficiency and low prices dominated to a market and breaking up "bad trusts" which harmed the public and stifled competition
100
What was the Great Migration?
What is the movement of African Americans from the south to the north due to the influx in factory jobs due to the war
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Who were the two main groups involved in WWI
Who are the Central and Allied Powers
100
Match the three Progressive presidents with their foreign policy.
What is Theodore Roosevelt = Big Stick Policy W.H. Taft = Dollar Diplomacy Woodrow Wilson = Moral Diplomacy
100
What 1925 court case demonstrated opposition between fundamental Christianity and scientific modernism?
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial
200
What was the Square Deal
What is the economic policy by Roosevelt that favored fair relationships between companies and workers
200
"The Jungle" facilitated the passage of which two regulatory acts
What are the Pure Food and Drug act and the Meat Inspection Act
200
What caused the U.S. to become involved in WWI?
What is the Zimmerman Telegram
200
In the election of 1912 who ran ran and what were their parties
Who is T. Roosevelt (P), Taft (R), Wilson (D), and E. Debs (S)
200
The U.S. bought and completed the Panama Canal under which president? And what was it?
Who is Theodore Roosevelt and what it a way to have a quicker passage to the Pacific from the Atlantic and vice versa
300
What were the effects of the Fordney-McCumber Tariff (1922)?
What is the tariff rose rates on imported goods in hopes that domestic manufacturing would prosper, which prevented foreign trade and hampered the economy of Europe
300
What did the image of flappers represent in the 1920s for women?
What is the reinforced idea that women now had more freedom and became a sign of changing morals
300
What were the 14 points and who came up with them?
What is a 1918 series of proposals in which Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after WWI where he advocated for the League of Nations (both failed)
300
What were the two extensions to the Monroe Doctrine and what did they do?
What is the Platt Amendment (added to the new Cuban constitution authorized U.S. intervention in Cuba to protect its interests) and the Roosevelt Corollary ( stating that the United States has the right to protect its economic interests in South And Central America by using military force)
300
Who were the the lost generations?
Who are a group of writers in the 1920s who shared the belief that they were lost in a greedy, materialistic world that lacked moral values; often fled to Europe
400
Define the difference between New Freedom vs. New Nationalism
What is New Freedom was Wilson's slogan to improve the banking system, lower tariffs, and breaking up of monopolies, to give small businesses the freedom to compete vs. New Nationalism which was Roosevelt's policy that favored government intervention in order to assure social justice
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What were the goals of the NAACP?
What are abolish segregation and discrimination, oppose racism, and gain civil rights
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What were the causes of U.S. involvement in the "splendid little war"?
"Splendid Little War" = Span. Amer. War What are the yellow press, the sinking of Maine in the Havana harbor, and dissatisfied with Spain's response to Cuban and American demands
400
What were the amendments passed in the Progressive Era? What did each do?
What is 16th = 1913, gave Congress the power to tax income. 17th = 1913, direct election of U.S. Senators by voters at large 18th = 1919, outlawed the sale, manufacture, or transport of alcoholic beverages 19th = 1920, granted women the vote
400
What was the Teapot Dome Scandal and under which president did it occur?
What is a government scandal involving a former U.S. Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921 under W.G. Harding
500
How did the idea and trend of tariffs change from 1900s-1920s?
What is with the Democrats in the 1900s they aspired to lower tariffs (Payne-Aldrich and Underwood-Simmons) to the Republicans who raised them (Fordney-McCumber)
500
Which two acts resulted from the Red Scare and define them
What is the Espionage Act (1917, law that set heavy fines and long prison terms for helping the enemy) and Sedition Act (1918, law that made it a crime for citizens to publicly discredit the federal leaders)
500
What was the Philippine American War and who won?
What is a guerrilla warfare that Filipino insurgents, led by Emilio Aguinaldo, fought because America did not recognize their independence; fought to quell Filipino resistance for American control of the Philippine Islands; Filipino guerrilla soldiers finally gave up when Emilio was captured
500
Which three proposals essentially allowed Progressives to force state politicians to obey the citizens and increase the power of the electorate (two were originally proposed in 1892 with the Omaha Platform)? Define them.
What is initiative (let voters tell the legislature to consider a bill), referendum (let voters enact a law or give opinions on a measure), and recall (let voters remove an official from office)
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What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and what were the effects?
What is the worst workplace disaster in New York until 9/11 led to legislation requiring improved factory safety standards and helped spur the growth of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union