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Question 1

• In the late 1880s, Europeans were looking
  overseas for places to sell their products
  because why?
• Tariffs had reduced trade among industrialized
  countries

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Question 2

• American support for Cuban rebels was fueled by
  what?
• Sensational stories published by rival newspapers

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Question 3

• Efficiency progressives believed that cities
  should be run by a what?
• City manager or commissioners

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Question 4

• Wisconsin became known as the laboratory of
  democracy because of its what?
• Support for direct primaries

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Question 5

• Supporters of annexing the Philippines believed
  what?
• The islands would provide the U.S. with a naval
  base in Asia

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Question 6

• Socialist believe in what?
• Government ownership of business

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Question 7

• As a result of a war between Japan and China in
  1894, Japan acquired what?
• Territory in Manchuria

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Question 8

• In 1898 President McKinley sent the battleship
  Maine to Havana to do what?
• Evacuate Americans if necessary

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Question 9

• Theodore Roosevelt warned Taft that tariff reform
  would do what?
• Divide the Republican Party

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Question 10

• When the U.S. assumed the responsibility for
  collecting customs tariffs in the Dominican
  Republic, it was applying what?
• The Roosevelt Corollary

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Question 11

• The Underwood Tariff Act included a provision for
  what?
• Levying an income tax

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Question 12

• What happens in direct primaries?
• All party members vote for a candidate to run in
  the general election

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Question 13

• Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize in
  1906 for negotiating peace where?
• Between Russia Japan

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Question 14

• At the first Pan-American Conference, the U.S.
  wanted Latin American delegates to agree to
  customs union, which would do what?
• Require nations to reduce their tariffs

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Question 15

• The Constitution originally specified that, in
  each state, U.S. senators would be elected by
• The legislature of each state

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Question 16

• U.S. Steel would allow the government to look at
  its account books and records and in exchange the
  government would do what?
• Allow the company to correct problems privately
  without going to court

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Question 17

• The Payne-Aldrich Tariff did what?
• Cut tariffs hardly at all

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Question 18

• The Hawaiian monarchy was overthrown by who?
• Group of planters supported by U.S. Marines

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Question 19

• President Millard Fillmore sent a naval
  expedition to Japan to do what?
• Force Japan to trade with the U.S.

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Question 20

• Progressives had a strong faith in what?
• Science technology

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Question 21

• Theodore Roosevelt became President when?
• McKinley was assassinated

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Question 22

• President Wilsons peace plan was known as the
  what?
• Fourteen Points

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Question 23

• Secretary of State James G. Blaine led efforts
  to do what?
• Expand American influence into Latin America

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Question 24

• The U.S. caused an economic crisis in Cuba by
  doing what?
• Passing a tariff on sugar

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Question 25

• To prevent strikes from disrupting the war
  effort, the government established what?
• National War Labor Board

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Question 26

• Wilson believed lower tariffs rates would lead
  American companies to do what?
• Improve products and lower prices

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Question 27

• The Platt Amendment effectively made Cuba into an
  American what?
• Protectorate

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Question 28

• In the late 1800s, support grew in the U.S. for
  building a large modern navy to do what?
• Defend American interests

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Question 29

• Roosevelt believed that Taft's focus on breaking
  up trusts would do what?
• Destroy the system of cooperation and regulation
  Roosevelt had arranged

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Question 30

• The laissez-faire argument for the best way to
  preserve public land was to do what?
• Sell it to lumber companies, who would conserve
  it as a source of profits

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Question 31

• The Treaty of Paris, which formally ended the
  Spanish-American War, granted independence to
  what nation?
• Cuba

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Question 32

• Tragedy at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company led to
  what?
• Building codes requiring fire escapes

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Question 33

• Theodore Roosevelt viewed the coal miners strike
  against mine owners in 1902 as an example of
  what?
• Groups pursuing their private interests at the
  expense of the nation

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Question 34

• By the late 1800s, growth of investment
  opportunities in western Europe had slowed
  because why?
• Most of the industries that Europes economy
  needed had been built

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Question 35

• Through scientific management, a company could
  become efficient by
• Breaking tasks down into small parts and using
  standardized tools

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Question 36

• Theodore Roosevelt was chosen as McKinley's
  running mate in the 1900 election because why?
• Status as a war hero

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Question 37

• Theodore Roosevelt tried to win the Republican
  nomination from Taft in the 1912 election because
  he believed that Taft did what?
• Had failed to live up to progressive ideals

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Question 38

• By 1920 the ICC had move away from its original
  purpose and had started doing what?
• Setting rates to help ensure railroads profits

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Question 39

• Alice Pauls strategy alarmed many in the
  suffrage movement because she wanted to do what?
• Use protests to force suffrage

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Question 40

• In the Northern Securities v. the U.S. case, the
  Supreme Court ruled that Northern securities did
  what?
• Violated the Sherman Anti trust Act

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Question 41

• The purpose of the Open Door Policy was to
• Ensure trading rights with China

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Question 42

• The Philippines are now what?
• An independent country