Urbanization, Immigration, and Political Reforms in the Late 19th Century

Question 1

Fought against New York’s corrupt Tammany Hall

Answer 1

Governor Grover Cleveland

Question 2

Used by President Grover Cleveland to challenge corrupt big business

Answer 2

Tariff Reform

Question 3

Signed by President Cleveland in 1887

Answer 3

Interstate Commerce Commission Act

Question 4

Prohibited European intervention in the Western Hemisphere in 1823

Answer 4

Monroe Doctrine

Question 5

Prohibited European intervention in the Western Hemisphere in 1823

Answer 5

Monroe Doctrine

Question 6

Justified US intervention in Latin American nations

Answer 6

Roosevelt Corollary

Question 7

Announced by Secretary of State John Hay in 1899 for China

Answer 7

Open Door Policy

Question 8

Established by Roosevelt to regulate corporations

Answer 8

Bureau of Corporations

Question 9

Socialist who polled almost 900,000 votes in 1912

Answer 9

Eugene Debs

Question 10

From 8 million to 30 million between 1865 and 1900

Answer 10

Urban Population Growth

Question 11

Southern and Eastern Europeans in northern industrial cities

Answer 11

New Immigrants

Question 12

Six to eight stories tall, lacking elevators, fresh air, and natural light

Answer 12

Tenement Apartment Buildings

Question 13

Tried to restore ‘Hawaii for the Hawaiians’ in 1891

Answer 13

Queen Liliuokalani

Question 14

Sank on Feb 15, 1898, killing 266 men

Answer 14

U.S.S. Maine

Question 15

Revolt of nationalist Chinese against foreign involvement in China in 1900

Answer 15

Boxer Rebellion

Question 16

Leader in the crusade against child labor

Answer 16

Florence Kelley

Question 17

Spearheaded by the Womens Christian Temperance Union in the 1880s and 1890s

Answer 17

Anti-Liquor Movement

Question 18

146 women died in the flames due to lack of fire escapes

Answer 18

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

Question 19

Upton Sinclair’s account of working in a filthy Chicago meatpacking plant (1906)

Answer 19

The Jungle

Question 20

Invited to the White House by Roosevelt in 1901

Answer 20

Booker T. Washington

Question 21

Reversed many of Roosevelt’s conservation policies

Answer 21

President Taft

Question 22

What were the alliances before World War 1?

Answer 22

Russia and Serbia, Germany and Austria-Hungary, Turkey and Bulgaria-Central Powers, France and Russia and Britain- Allied Powers.

Question 23

Where did the Allied and Central Powers battle each other?

Answer 23

On the Western Front.

Question 24

What was the Zimmermann Telegram?

Answer 24

A message from German foreign minister Arthur Zimmerman to the ambassador, offering Mexico lost territory if it allied with Germany against the United States.

Question 25

What was the Espionage Act?

Answer 25

A law that provided penalties for interfering with military recruitment.

Question 26

What date did 1.2 Million American Soldiers fight towards Sedan France?

Answer 26

September 1918

Question 27

What were the Fourteen Points?

Answer 27

Principles outlined by Wilson for the postwar peace settlement.

Question 28

When was the peace treaty signed at Versailles?

Answer 28

June 28th, 1919.