Unit 2: Retake

Question 1

What did James G. Blaine believe in while he was in office?

Answer 1

Establishing more foreign markets (trade) was essential for America’s long-term economic health

Question 2

What were the negotiations between America and Latin America?

Answer 2

It stressed Pan-Americanism, which built up trade between countries in the Western Hemisphere via reciprocity agreements with the aim of removing some European shares of Latin American markets

Question 3

An 1975 reciprocity agreement with Hawaii:

Answer 3

Increased American influence over the Hawaiian government

Question 4

What was the American involvement in Cuba and the Philippines?

Answer 4

Began with many if the sane objectives but ultimately ended with he two countries being controlled in different ways by the United States

Question 5

The first target go Theodore Roosevelt’s “trust busting” surely pleased:

Answer 5

Farmers who had supported the politicizing of the Grange and the resulting Populist Movement

Question 6

Theodore Roosevelt got angry with William Howard Taft for:

Answer 6

Compromising with the conservative wing of the Republican Party as illustrated by the inclusion of the Commerce Court per the Mann-Elkins Act

Question 7

Muckrakers like Ida Tarwell were:

Answer 7

Investigative journalists who exposed unfair or corrupt practices in industry and government

Question 8

During the Progressive Era, immigration to the United States:

Answer 8

From Southeastern European countries significantly increased