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Homework #s 17-28 (120 points), due Thursday March, 16th, 2017
Use your notes to answer the following questions. Make sure your answers are in complete sentences. Answers should be written in
BLUE OR BLACK PEN on a separate piece of paper (Or you can type them!).
I. Progressive rule the Day
1. What were four major problems that existed in American cities in 1900?
2. Define the term Progressive Era/ Progressive Movement.
3. Compare the Progressive Era to the Second Great Awakening. Identify at least two similarities.
4. Identify 3 major goals of the Progressive Era.
5. Define the ideals of the Social Gospel movement and identify one other person besides Walter Rauschenbusch
6. Define the term Social reformer.
7. Identify three accomplishments of Jane Addams.
8. Who was Jacob Riis? Why was he so important?
9. How did Florence Kelley’s National Consumer League attempt to help workers.
10. Describe 3 major ideals of John Dewey (yep that’s coming from your book or the internet)
11. Identify the impact of Margaret Sanger.
12. Define the term muckraker. Who came up with the term?
13. DESCRIBE two examples of Muckrakers BESIDES Upton Sinclair.
14. You have two sentences to describe the major impact of Upton Sinclair. GO.
15. For each of the following politicians, discuss the major impact that they had during the Progressive Era:
A. President Roosevelt
B. President Taft
C. President Wilson
D. Robert Lafollette
16. Describe what each of the four Progressive Amendments accomplished, while also describing the reform movement that was
behind the amendment.
17. Identify the following terms and at least one leader for the following groups: NWSA, NAWSA, and the NWP. (hint they all deal with
women’s suffrage)
18. Identify two ways that the Interstate Commerce Act was strengthened during the Progressive Era
19. Identify one way that the Sherman Anti-Trust Act was strengthened during the Progressive Era
20. Discuss the difference between the commission and city management type of municipal reforms.
21. Initiative, referendum, recall. Define them and discuss what they all have in common.
22. Why was the election of 1912 so important? What major issues were present? Compare it to one other election in our country’s
history.
II. The United States spreads it’s “imperialist wings.”
23. Describe the foreign policy of imperialism.
24. Describe three motives for United States imperialism during the late 19th/early 20th centuries.
25. Describe the impact of the Turner’s Thesis and Mahan’s Influence of Sea Power on American imperialism.
26. How did Matthew Perry “open” Japan to trading with the United States in 1854?
27. Discuss the impact of the Treaty of Kanagawa.
28. Why was the purchase of Alaska originally called “Seward’s Folly?” Were Americans right or wrong to say this about Alaska?
29. Was the purchase of Alaska an example of imperialism? Explain your answer.
30. Define the term “open door policy.” (PS it has nothing to do with immigration)
31. How did the United States factor into the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 in China?
36. Describe the role of Sanford Dole and President Grover Cleveland in American revolt in Hawaii that eventually led to its
annexation.
37. Why did many Americans begin to sympathize with the Cubans towards the late 1890s?
38. How did Yellow Journalism
39. Explain two major causes for the Spanish American War.
40. Describe two major effects of the Spanish American War.
41. Define the Teller and Platt Amendments.
42. How did President Roosevelt’s corollary to the Monroe Doctrine change our relationship with Latin America? Was it for the better
or the worse?
43. Describe Roosevelt’s Big Stick Policy. What is another name for this policy?
44. How did President Taft and President Wilson change Roosevelt’s idea of Gun Boat Diplomacy?
45. Identify three treaties that dealt with the United States attempting to build the Panama Canal.
46. Identify two events besides the Zimmerman Telegram that worsened relations between the United States and M
Mexico.
III. “Over there!” The US and WWI
46. Describe the most important thing to remember about the United States and World War I!!!!
47. Discuss THREE REASONS why the United States entered WWI.
48. What did President Wilson state was the goal for United States in WWI?
49. What did President Wilson come up with at the end of WWI? List some of his points.
50. Evaluate the impact of the American Expeditionary Force on the war effort for the Allies.
51. Identify Henry Cabot Lodge and the Irreconcilables.
52. Why didn’t the United States sign the Treaty of Versailles? What is this an example of?
53. Describe the importance of the Committee of Public Information, War Industries Board, and the US Food
Administration
54. Define the Espionage and Sedition Acts.
55. Describe the importance of the Schenck v the United States.
56. How did WWI influence the lives of African Americans, Women and Organized Labor?
57. What happens to the powers of the Government during wartime? What happens to citizen’s rights?
58. What does every American foreign policy have in common?