11/5 U.S History exam part 1

Question 1

Patronage

Answer 1

giving gov’t jobs to people who had helped the candidate get elected (aka the “spoils system”)

Question 2

Melting Pot

Answer 2

diverse society, Cultural assimilation, Americanization
Melting pot means a mixture of people of different cultures and races who blended together by abandoning their native languages and customs.

Question 3

Emilio Aguinaldo

Answer 3

a Filipinos’ rebel leader who against the Treaty of Paris, which called for American annexation of the Philippines.

Question 4

William Tweed

Answer 4

leader of New York City’s corrupt Tammany Hall political organization during the 1860s and early 1870s

Question 5

Jose Martin

Answer 5

led a Cuban revolution against Spain in 1895 with hopes of U.S. intervention.

Question 6

Yellow journalism

Answer 6

sensational style of newspaper writing that exaggerated the facts and enraged readers and deepened sympathies. The circulation war between William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer.

Question 7

Muckraking

Answer 7

reform-minded journalists in the Progressive Era. Journalists who wrote about the corrupt side of business and public life in mass-circulation magazines during the early 20th century

Question 8

Dollar diplomacy

Answer 8

U.S. policy of using its economic power to exert influence over other countries

Question 9

Protectorate

Answer 9

a country whose affairs are partially controlled by a stronger power

Question 10

Imperialism

Answer 10

the policy in which stronger nations extend their economic, political, or military control over weaker territories

Question 11

Progressivism

Answer 11

a movement to return control of government to the people to restore economic opportunity and correct injustices in American life.

Question 12

Square Deal

Answer 12

Teddy Roosevelt’s program of reforms

Question 13

Nativism

Answer 13

refers to policies that favor the interests of the native population of a country over the interests of immigrants.

Question 14

Angel Island

Answer 14

the other immigration station ( San Francisco Bay-East Coast) in the U.S from 1910 to 1940 which mostly inspected Asians -mostly Chinese- entering the United States. Processing at Angel Island was harsher and longer.

Question 15

Ellis Island

Answer 15

the chief immigration station (New York Harbour-West Coast) in the United States from 1892 to 1924 which mostly inspected European immigrants entering the U.S.

Question 16

Sanford Dole

Answer 16

An American businessman who overthrow Hawaiian Government.