APUSH Ch. 20-22 – Flashcards
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The Interstate Commerce Commission was established in 1887 to
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Regulate the railroads
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Passage of the Pendleton Act in 1883 indicated
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Both parties recognized a need to professionalize government service
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Discontented farmers aimed their harshest criticism against
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Railroads
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The largest women's organization in the world in the late 19th century was
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The Woman's Christian Temperance Union
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Supporters of the new People's Party founded in 1890 called themselves
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Populists
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Eugene V. Debs was a
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Socialist
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The social Gospel movement was a/an
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Attempt to apply Christian ideals to social ills
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The Columbian Exposition of 1893, in Chicago, very clearly emphasized the principle
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White supremacy
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Alfred Thayer Mahan helped define American policy in the 1880's with his work about the influence of THIS on history:
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Sea Power
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The aquisition of the Philippines by the United States
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Resulted in a four-year war of conquest by the Americans
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A major reason why Progressive women like Jane Addams turned to settlement work was
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Dissatisfication with the choices that society offered them
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In exchange for votes, machine politicians offered their constituents
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Jobs
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Many businessmen supported prohibition because
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Closing saloons would increase the productivity of the worker
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Progressive reformers believed the primary purpose of public education was to
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Assimilate new immigrants
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Radicals and bohemians were attracted to live in:
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Greenwich Village, New Jersey
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The following immigrant group worked predominantly in the ready-to-wear garmentindustry:
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Jewish Immigrants
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The American federation of Labor organized the following:
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Skilled Labor
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Margaret Sanger and other birth control because
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They wanted to advance sexual freedom for middle-class women and to protect poor working women
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W.E.B DuBois represented the first effort to encourage African Americans to recognize
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African American culture is a source of communal strength and should be preserved
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Roosevelt had a so-called gentlemen's agreement over the issue of racism with what foreign nation?
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Japan
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The Roosevelt Corollary was issued because
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Roosevelt wanted to prevent armed European intervention in South America
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William Howard Taft's Central American policy depended on
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Dollars and Guns
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Woodrow Wilson believed that U.S. economic expansion should be accompanied by
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Democratic principles and Christianity
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As president, William H. Taft advocated a foreign policy that emphasized
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Economic links with foreign policies
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Which one of the following was NOT an immediate response of President Wilson after the Lusitania and Sussex incidents
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He got pledge from Germany to visit or warn vessels before attack
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The Zimmerman note was a coded message proposing an alliance between Germany and
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Mexico
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All of the following were major themes of the Creel Commitee EXCEPT:
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The Germans had rights and goals that must be considered
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The following best describes the military experience for African American soldiers:
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Humiliation, racism, and violence
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The War Indstries Board (WIB) had all of the following authorities EXCEPT:
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Nationalizing railroads
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The most important and long-lasting economic legacy of WWI was
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A Nationalized industrial base
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The following governmental tools were used during WWI to destroy radical labor unions such as the IWW:
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The Espionage Act
