Unit 8 Reading Guide The Progressive and Imperialist Era
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Chapter 17 Section 1:
1. What were the four primary goals of the progressives?
2.
What problem did prohibitionist feel was undermining American morals?
3.
What became, by 1911, the largest women’s group in the nation’s history?
4.
Who were the “muckrakers”?
5.
How much did Henry Ford pay his workforce in the early 1900s?
6.
What was “Fighting Bob” LaFollette’s major target of his reforms as governor of
Wisconsin?
7.
What did the 17th Amendment call for?
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20. Why did Theodore Roosevelt decide to run against Taft in the 1912 election?
21. What were the goals of the Progressive Party (“Bull Moose Party”)?
22. Who became the president as a result of the Election of 1912?
Chapter 17 Section 5:
23. What were the major goals of President Woodrow Wilson’s “New Freedom”
programs?
24. What antitrust law, enacted by Congress in 1914, gave the federal gov’t greater
powers to “bust” trusts?
25. What did the 16th Amendment call for?
Chapter 17 Section 2:
8. Who were the co – founders of the National Women Suffrage Association?
9.
Why was the liquor industry opposed to women’s suffrage?
26. Why did President Wilson call for a Federal Reserve System?
27. What did the 19th Amendment call for?
28. Why did World War I bring an end to the Progressive movement?
10. Where (territory or state) did women first win the right to vote?
Chapter 17 Section 3:
11. Who was the author of The Jungle?
12. Why was Theodore Roosevelt chosen to be William McKinley’s
vice-presidential running mate in 1900?
13. What was Theodore Roosevelt’s “Square Deal?”
Chapter 18, Section 1
29. Who was the leader of the “build a bigger, more powerful navy” movement in
the United States after the Civil War?
30. What territory, purchased from Russia in 1867, was called “Seward’s Icebox?”
31. Why did American sugar planters in Hawaii favor annexation by the United
States?
14. Why was Theodore Roosevelt referred to as a “trustbuster”?
15. What was the purpose of the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)?
16. What two acts of Congress, passed at Teddy Roosevelt’s urging, gave the ICC
the power to regulate railroads?
17. Why was Theodore Roosevelt seen as the first “Conservationist President?”
18. What was the purpose of the NAACP?
Chapter 18, Section 2
32. Why did the newspaper publishers Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst
encourage “yellow journalism” during the Cuban Revolution?
33. What event (February 15, 1898) led to war between the United States and
Spain?
34. What role did Theodore Roosevelt play during the Spanish-American War?
Chapter 17 Section 4:
19. What did William Howard Taft accomplish while president?
35. What three territories did the United States annex at the end of the Spanish–
American War?
Chapter 18, Section 3
36. Name three reasons the USA wanted to build the Panama Canal.
37. What was the most important reason for the United States to maintain a strong
political presence in Cuba following the Spanish–American War?
38. Which former Spanish colonial territory fought a four year war for
independence against the United States, beginning in 1899?
39. Explain the Open Door policy concerning trade with China.
40. What “three beliefs” became the focus of U.S foreign policy in the early 1900s?
Chapter 18, Section 4
41. Why did Theodore Roosevelt win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906?
42. Panama was a province of what South American country prior to winning
independence in 1903?
43. Which U.S. president’s “big stick diplomacy” was based on the African proverb,
“Speak softly and carry a big stick?
44. How was the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine a radical change in
American foreign policy?
45. Which U. S. president used “dollar diplomacy” to deal with Latin America?
46. Why did Woodrow Wilson call Mexico “a government of butchers?”