HISTORY TEST

Question 1

What Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?

Answer 1

The deadliest industrial disaster in the history of New York City, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history.

Question 2

What was the Progressive Era and when did it take place?

Answer 2

a period in the late 19th century and early 20th century where widespread social activism and political reform focused on defeating corruption and monopolies.

Question 3

Progressives wanted to reform government by

Answer 3

making it more efficient and responsive to the people

Question 4

What was the most important reason the Progressive movement lost power?

Answer 4

International problems became more important than national reforms.

Question 5

Which two goals of the Progressive movement had the strongest support from churches?

Answer 5

protecting social welfare and promoting moral improvement

Question 6

Pearl Harbor

Answer 6

Naval port in Hawaii

Question 7

American businessman who became president of the new government of Hawaii after the queen was pushed out.

Answer 7

Sanford B. Dole

Question 8

The Hawaiian queen who was forced out of power by a revolution started by American business interests.

Answer 8

Queen Liliuokalani

Question 9

The practice of strong countries taking economic, political and military power over weaker countries.

Answer 9

imperialism

Question 10

The treaty that ended the Spanish – American War

Answer 10

Treaty of Paris (1898)

Question 11

Reporting in newspapers and magazines that exaggerates the news in order to make it more exciting.

Answer 11

yellow journalism

Question 12

Fighting unit led by Theodore Roosevelt in Cuba.

Answer 12

Rough Riders

Question 13

Political activists who worked for Cuban independence

Answer 13

Jose Marti

Question 14

U.S. warship that exploded in a Cuban harbor in 1898

Answer 14

USS Maine

Question 15

What were at least two factors that fueled American imperialism

Answer 15

desire for military strength, thirst for new markets

Question 16

What were at least two roots of American Imperialism?

Answer 16

Political and Economic.

Question 17

How did Hawaiians lose control of their lands?

Answer 17

By 1900, thousands of foreign laborers (Japan, Portugal, China, Philippines) outnumbered the Hawaiians three to one.

Question 18

Why did American business interests not want Queen Liliuokalani to take over after the death of her brother, the Hawaiian king in 1891?

Answer 18

She wanted a new Constitution for her people and would have given voting power back to ordinary Hawaiians.

Question 19

What was one event that led Americans to call for war against Spain?

Answer 19

Publication of the de Lome letter criticizing McKinley for being a weak president by a Spanish official.

Question 20

What three territories did the United States get from the war with Spain?

Answer 20

Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines

Question 21

As a result of the Spanish American War, which territory did U.S. pay Spain $20 million?

Answer 21

Philippines

Question 22

When the United States went to war with Spain on April 1898, where did the first battle take place?

Answer 22

Philippines

Question 23

Which U.S. President volunteered as a member of the Rough Riders, to help win an important battle in San Juan Hill, Cuba?

Answer 23

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 24

The U.S. government paid $7.2 million for this territory from Russia in 1867.

Answer 24

Alaska

Question 25

Provisions in the Cuban constitution that gave the U.S. broad rights in that country.

Answer 25

Platt Amendment

Question 26

Message sent by John Hay to other countries to protect U.S. trading rights in China.

Answer 26

Open Door notes

Question 27

Chinese rebellion against Western influence in the 1900s.

Answer 27

Boxer Rebellion

Question 28

What did the U.S. do to protect business interests in Cuba?

Answer 28

U.S. insisted that the Cuban government add the Platt Amendment that would give the U.S. special privileges and limit Cuba’s rights in dealing with other countries.

Question 29

Why did the Filipino Nationalist, Emilio Aguinaldo, feel betrayed by the United States?

Answer 29

Aguinaldo believed the U.S. when they were promised independence if the Filipinos helped U.S. fight against Spain but turned around and annexed the Philippine islands instead at the end of the Spanish - American War.

Question 30

Why did Secretary of State John Hay issue the Open Door notes?

Answer 30

The U.S. wanted other countries to know that the U.S. wanted to trade with China. The statement in the policy called for China’s ports to remain open and for China to remain independent.

Question 31

A channel across Central America, between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, opened in 1914.

Answer 31

Panama Canal

Question 32

Roosevelt’s 1904 extension of the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. has the right to protect its economic interests in South and Central America by using military force.

Answer 32

Roosevelt Corollary

Question 33

The policy of intervening in other countries to protect U.S. business interests.

Answer 33

dollar diplomacy

Question 34

Francisco “Pancho” Villa

Answer 34

Mexican revolutionary.

Question 35

There were ways that Roosevelt used U.S. power in other countries. Choose the statement that does NOT belong.
a. When Colombia did not allow U.S. access to build the Panama Canal, the U.S. convinced the Panamanians they would help Panama gain independence from Colombia, and in turn, the U.S. would be allowed to finish build the Panama Canal.
b. Roosevelt used U.S. influence to help settle the Russo-Japanese War.
c. Roosevelt used the “missionary diplomacy” to mean that the U.S. could not officially recognize governments that were oppressive, undemocratic, or opposed to U.S. business intersts.

Answer 35

c. Roosevelt used the “missionary diplomacy” to mean that the U.S. could not officially recognize governments that were oppressive, undemocratic, or opposed to U.S. business intersts.

Question 36

A country that is partly controlled by another, stronger country.

Answer 36

protectorate