History Test 02

Fall 2006

Chapter 19

Question 01

• Definition: An African American leader of an antilynching campaign.

• Ida Wells Barnett

Question 02• A strike spawned by conditions where the

industrialist built a town for workers but charged them 10% more than the market average. When this industrialist laid off workers and lowered wages he did not reduce rents. This strike spread to other areas of the economy in 1894.

• The Pullman Strike

Question 03

• Definition: A spokesman for blacks in the 1890's who argued that African Americans should emphasize hard work and personal development rather than rebelling against their conditions.

• Booker T. Washington

Question 04• A reason that the two major parties began

a process which ultimately resulted in both switching philosophical positions between the end of the Civil War and the end of the Cold War?

• The influx of European immigrants with different views of social

obligations into the Democratic Party

Question 05

• Why did America really go to war with Spain after the explosion which occurred on the U.S.S. Maine?

• American businessmen sought both the natural resources of Cuba

and a marketplace so near the United States

Chapter 20

Question 06

• Definition: Theodore Roosevelt’s approach to treating capital and labor on an equal basis?

• The Square Deal

Question 07

• What was one of the most glaring deficiencies of the Progressive movement and also the Progressive Party?

• Why it dealt with addressing injustices in the workplace, the

movement did not extend its reforms to Blacks

Question 08

• Definition: Passage of the Hepburn Act in 1906 gave this commission the power to establish maximum rates and to review the accounts and records of the railroads.

• Interstate Commerce Commission

Question 09

• Why were some newspapers who innovated investigative journalism called “the Yellow Press”?

• They were independent newspaper publishers who printed their

newspapers on cheap yellowish paper.

Question 10

• Definition: Progressive governor and senator from Wisconsin.

• Robert La Follette

Chapter 21

Question 11

• Definition: A phrase used to describe Secretary of State Philander C. Knox’s Foreign policy under President Taft, which focused on expanding American investments abroad, especially in Latin America and China.

• dollar diplomacy

Question 12• The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire was a tragedy

which cost 146 worker’s lives when many of the victims jumped five stories to their deaths rather than being burned to death. What was the lesson of this tragedy?

• Employers had to be forced by law to take profit-reducing precautions

to protect the lives of their workers.

Question 13

• Definition: Ratified in 1913, this amendment made income tax constitutional.

• 16th Amendment

Question 14

• President Woodrow Wilson was a complex person who reflected both the strengths and the weaknesses of the Progressive movement. Which option below best describes President Wilson’s personal strengths and failings?

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Question 14-Answer

• He believe that government should help

the average man; he believed America

should be moral in its foreign policy, but he

was a racist who reversed the few minor

reforms Roosevelt had initiated for African

Americans.

Question 15• Why was there a dramatic increase in the

number of Mexicans into the American Southwest 1911-1914, the region of the United States that had once been part of Mexico?

• There was a revolution in Mexico

Chapter 22

Question 16

• Definition: A massive movement of blacks leaving the South for cities in the North that began slowly in 1910 and accelerated between 1914 and 1920. During this time, more than 600,000 African Americans left the South.

• The Great Migration

Question 17• Definition: Living in Greenwich Village,

New York City, she saw women suffering from disease and poverty because of the large number of children they bore. In 1914 she coined the term “birth control” and began publishing a periodical called Woman Rebel.

• Margaret Sanger

Question 18

• What happened to President Wilson which impacted upon his ability to campaign for the League of Nations?

• He suffered a near-fatal stroke

Question 10

• Definition: President Wilson’s peace program, which included freedom of the seas, free trade, and more open diplomacy?

• Fourteen Points

Question 20

• How did World War I end?

• Germany asking for a negotiated peace

From the video, One Woman One Vote

Question 21

• Where did the women’s suffrage movement begin?

• Seneca Falls, NY

Question 21

• Who was the Quaker woman from Rochester who became the movement’s second leader?

• Susan B. Anthony

Question 23

• For the women’s suffrage movement, what group was considered the hidden enemy?

• women who did not support suffrage

Question 24

• Who was Sojourner Truth?

• A former slave from New York who became a spokesperson for the women’s movement.

Question 25

• What industry opposed women’s suffrage in Colorado?

• liquor industry