19-20-21

Question 1

Muckrakers

Answer 1

journalists who exposed political machines and monopolies

Question 2

Ida Tarbell

Question 3

Upton Sinclair’s book

Answer 3

Wrote the Jungle, which raised awareness about the lack of hygiene, safety and lies in the sausage industry. Outraged the public and showed them what was going on behind the scenes

Question 4

Jane Addams

Answer 4

Started social work as a profession, created the Settlement house Movement starting with the Hull House

Question 5

Hill House

Answer 5

taught immigrants English, how to write a resume and other important life skills so they could survive in but also help America.

Question 6

Commission plan & City manager plan

Answer 6

basically makes a board so that political machines will have a harder time taking over, and also hires people who are not from where they are governing / are not politicians to make sure they actually like their job and are not biased.

Question 7

Worker’s compensation

Answer 7

If you are hurt in the workplace, you get compensation and stuff. Also graduated income taxes

Question 8

Margaret Sanger

Answer 8

Preached that women would only be able to be equal if they had access to birth control, which was banned at the time

Question 9

19th Amendment

Answer 9

gave women the right to vote

Question 10

“The New Nationalism” by TR

Answer 10

1. graduated income and inheritance tax
2. new national program for worker’s compensation
3. stronger regulation of child labor
4. stronger regulation of big business
   VERY similar to Wisconsin’s plans

Question 11

Federal Reserve System

Answer 11

Allowed the government to control some of the economy with a central bank. Also, did not back money with gold or silver so it is all based on faith in the currency

Question 12

Sherman Antitrust Act

Answer 12

Older and didn’t really work

Question 13

Clayton Antitrust Act

Answer 13

Supports antitrust organizations
Creates specific rules to prevent monopoly creation, ex. price dumping is outlawed
this is much more specific and easier to regulate

Question 14

Federal Trade Commission Act

Answer 14

Businesses and politicians will work together to understand how far is to far

Question 15

Keating Owen Act

Answer 15

Bans child labor for businesses that practice interstate trade.

Question 16

Panama Canal

Question 17

Foreign Policies of Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson

Answer 17

Roosevelt: for power
Taft: for money (Dollar Diplomacy)
Wilson: for morals

Question 18

Causes of the Spanish War

Answer 18

Cuban revolt against Spain and their horrible treatment got American Sympathy
Yellow journalism increased this
Rumors that Spain had sunk the U.S.S. Maine
DeLome Letter (from a Spanish diplomat) said bad things about the president, Americans were mad
Spain had a death grip around its remaining colonies

Question 19

Problems after the Spanish War

Answer 19

Technically a short and “splendid little war”
however the Philippines war is much worse and follows this one
US soldiers had been in very poor conditions, disease was rampant, their clothes were wool in tropical heat, they were eating food older than them
but in the Treaty of Paris we gained Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines so yippee!
Platt Amendment says that the US won’t “own” Cuba but will have influence

Question 20

Anti-imperialists

Answer 20

People who think Americans should be for self-determination and independence like in the beginning
but were also racist and thought Filipinos would take jobs away from Americans

Question 21

U.S. Acquisition of Hawai’i

Answer 21

Sugar farmers in Hawai’i want to sell to the mainland US without Tariffs- they overthrow their Queen and ask to be annexed even though she was super chill and they would regret it later

Question 22

The Philippines War

Answer 22

a long and brutal Guerilla War in the jungle
heavy casualties on both sides, prisoners were executed which was a big no no
it was often unclear who was the enemy, since Guerillas often hid with civilians, and some civilians were helpful or hated the US so you could never tell
Eventually the US wins - the people are promised that they will get their independence eventually, but the US will “modernize” them and get economic stakes there first
Filipinos got more education and infrastructure, and we got major bases and raw materials.

Question 23

Emilio Aginaldo

Answer 23

leader of Filipino insurgents- goal was independence. Eventually he was captured and that is around when the war ended

Question 24

Zimmerman telegram

Answer 24

you know this pooks

Question 25

U-Boats

Answer 25

• Unrestricted U-boat warfare: Germany was playing dirty
• we were too though and the Lusitania (a luxury boat with civilians) was sunk, but it turns out it was smuggling things to Britain too
• Germany says they’ll cool down for a bit

Question 26

Select Service Act

Answer 26

Allows men to be drafted if necessary

Question 27

Espionage and Sedition Acts

Answer 27

Restricted free speech during wartime and also clamped down on German-Americans

Question 28

Scheck v. United States

Answer 28

“Clear and Present danger rule”: speaking out against the draft is putting yourself and others in danger in wartime

Question 29

Henry Cabot Lodge

Answer 29

HATED Wilson- friends with Roosevelt
When the treaty of Versailles comes around, he makes it extra difficult for the Senate to ratify it (it eventually gets through but Wilson is worked to the bone to do that)

Question 30

Wilson’s 14 points

Answer 30

freedom of seas, no secret treaties, free trade, reduction of araments
Proposed the League of Nations, overall had a very chill approach

Question 31

Paris Peace Conference

Answer 31

Imposed lots of reparations on Germany
Created the League of Nations and Treaty of Versailles.