2nd Marking Period Study Guide

Question 1

What were the goals of the kkk?

Answer 1

Intimidating the blacks and undermining them politically

Question 2

What group was the greatest political beneficiary of the backlash against president Cleveland? In the 1894 midterm elections

Answer 2

The republicans

Question 3

What did the billion dollar congress do to dispose of over expenditures.

Answer 3

Expand pensions for civil war veterans

Question 4

When Grover Cleveland was president, his hands off support of government gained the support of what group of people?

Answer 4

Business people

Question 5

How did the courts ingeniously interpret the fourteenth amendment to benefit corporations?

Answer 5

Avoid corporate regulations by the states.

Question 6

The Sherman’s anti trust act was first primarily used to curb the power of what group?

Answer 6

Labor unions.

Question 7

What group of people were most affected by the new Industrial Age?

Answer 7

Women

Question 8

How did the Knights of labor believe they could preserve republican traditions and institutions from corrupt monopolists?

Answer 8

By strengthening the economic and political independence of workers

Question 9

What services and activities did settlement houses such as hull house engage in?

Answer 9

Instructions in socialism.(cultural activities, child care, and instructions in English

Question 10

How did religious modernists deal with Christianity and Darwinism?

Answer 10

Carefully

Question 11

What did Henry George believe should happen with unearned windfall profits of those who did not work for them?

Answer 11

They should be taxed at a 100% rate by the government.

Question 12

What was the main argument presented by advocates of women’s suffrage in 1900?

Answer 12

Argued that the vote would enable women to extend their roles as mothers and homemakers to the public world.

Question 13

What skill demonstrated by Indians often defeated US soldiers during conflicts?

Answer 13

Horseback riding

Question 14

Who was the author of a century of dishonor?

Answer 14

Helen hunt Jackson

Question 15

What three wild frontier towns were where the three major cattle trails form Texas ended?

Answer 15

Abilene, Kansas; Ogallala, Nebraska; and Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Question 16

What was one of the greatest problems faced by settlers on the Great Plains in the 1870’s?

Answer 16

The scarcity of water.

Question 17

How was the border disputes between Venezuela and Britain settled?

Answer 17

Arbitration of the Venezuelan and British claims.

Question 18

For what reasons did Americans favor providing aid to the Cuban revolutionaries?

Answer 18

All but belief that Spain’s control of Cuba violated the anti colonial provisions of the Monroe doctrine.

Question 19

How were American soldiers received after invading Puerto Rico during the Spanish American war?

Answer 19

Most of the population greeted the invaders as liberating heroes.

Question 20

At the time what was the most controversial event associate with the Spanish American war?

Answer 20

Acquisitions of the Philippines

Question 21

What did the war fought by Americans in the Philippines against the phillipinos cause the Americans to use

Answer 21

Resulted in torture and atrocities committed on both sides

Question 22

How was president Mckinley’s policy of benevolent assimilation in the Philippines received by their people?

Answer 22

Was not appreciated by the Filipinos

Question 23

What was the United States response to the boxer rebellion?

Answer 23

Abandon it’s General principles on non entanglement and non engagement on overseas conflict

Question 24

Be able to identify characteristics that would describe teddy Roosevelt.

Answer 24

Progressive but willing to compromise.

Question 25

Why did teddy Roosevelt become Nicole into the peace settlement for the Russo-Japanese war?

Answer 25

When Japan secretly asked him to help

Question 26

Why did president Roosevelt organize a conference in port smith New Hampshire?

Answer 26

To mediate a conclusion to the Russo Japanese war

Question 27

What did Japan gain as a result of the russo Japanese war

Answer 27

Japan won territorial concession of Sakhalin island.

Question 28

What were Andrew johnsons views of the freedman’s bureau.

Answer 28

A meddlesome agency that should be killed.

Question 29

How did the muckrakers signify much about the nature of the progressive reform movement?

Answer 29

They sought not to overthrow capitalism but to cleanse it with democratic control.

Question 30

How did the case of Lochener V. New York represent a setback for progressives and labor advocates?

Answer 30

It declared a law limiting work to 10-hours a day unconstitutional

Question 31

What did teddy Roosevelt believe about trusts?

Answer 31

They were here to stay with their efficient means of production

Question 32

Which conservation legislation did teddy Roosevelt signore under?

Answer 32

Newlands act

Question 33

How would teddy Roosevelt be most accurately described as a politician?

Answer 33

A middle of the road reformer.

Question 34

The Supreme Court’s rule of reason in restraint of trade cases was handed down in a case involving what company?

Answer 34

Standard oil

Question 35

What type of political record did Woodrow Wilson establish as governor of New Jersey?

Answer 35

A passionate and stubborn reformer

Question 36

In 1912 Wilson became the first __________Elected to presidency since the civil war

Answer 36

Southern born man

Question 37

What type of people was Wilson most comfortable when surrounded by?

Answer 37

Academic scholars

Question 38

How would Wilson he described as a politician?

Answer 38

Stubborn and inflexible

Question 39

Why did congress pass the underwood tariff?

Answer 39

To lower tariff rates

Question 40

What did the 16th amendment provide for?

Answer 40

A personal income tax

Question 41

What did Samuel Gompers call labors mangacarta?

Answer 41

Clayton anti trust act

Question 42

What first undermined Wilson’s early efforts to conduct a non imperialistic foreign policy?

Answer 42

He sent American marines to Haiti.

Question 43

President Wilson refused to intervene in the affairs of Mexico until what happened?

Answer 43

American sailors were arrested in the port of Tampico.

Question 44

Before his first term ended, Wilson had ordered american troops to intervene in what country?

Answer 44

Cuba, the Virgin Islands, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic.

Question 45

How did Wilson persuade the American people to enter World War One?

Answer 45

He pledged to make me war “a war to end all wars” and to make the world safe for democracy.

Question 46

Where did most of the money rise to finance World War One come from?

Answer 46

Voluntary bonds

Question 47

What were the different methods used by the United States to support the war effort?

Answer 47

All but use government power to regulate the economy.

Question 48

What did most Americans believe would not be necessary when the United States enter the war in 1917?

Answer 48

To send a large American army into Europe.

Question 49

Where in congress did the most reliable support for Wilson’s position on the League of Nations come from?

Answer 49

The democrats

Question 50

What was the major weakness of the League of Nations?

Answer 50

The United States wasn’t apart of it