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

Question 2 American support for Cuban rebels was fueled by what? Sensational stories published by rival newspapers

Question 3 Efficiency progressives believed that cities should be run by a what? City manager or commissioners

Question 4 Wisconsin became known as the laboratory of democracy because of its what? Support for direct primaries

Question 5 Supporters of annexing the Philippines believed what? The islands would provide the U.S. with a naval base in Asia

Question 6 Socialist believe in what? Government ownership of business

Question 7 As a result of a war between Japan and China in 1894, Japan acquired what? Territory in Manchuria

Question 8 In 1898 President McKinley sent the battleship Maine to Havana to do what? Evacuate Americans if necessary

Question 9 Theodore Roosevelt warned Taft that tariff reform would do what? Divide the Republican Party

Question 10 When the U.S. assumed the responsibility for collecting customs tariffs in the Dominican Republic, it was applying what? The Roosevelt Corollary

Question 11 The Underwood Tariff Act included a provision for what? Levying an income tax

Question 12 What happens in direct primaries? All party members vote for a candidate to run in the general election

Question 13 Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for negotiating peace where? Between Russia & Japan

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

Question 15 The Constitution originally specified that, in each state, U.S. senators would be elected by The legislature of each state

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

Question 17 The Payne-Aldrich Tariff did what? Cut tariffs hardly at all

Question 18 The Hawaiian monarchy was overthrown by who? Group of planters supported by U.S. Marines

Question 19 President Millard Fillmore sent a naval expedition to Japan to do what? Force Japan to trade with the U.S.

Question 20 Progressives had a strong faith in what? Science & technology

Question 21 Theodore Roosevelt became President when? McKinley was assassinated

Question 22 President Wilsons peace plan was known as the what? Fourteen Points

Question 23 Secretary of State James G. Blaine led efforts to do what? Expand American influence into Latin America

Question 24 The U.S. caused an economic crisis in Cuba by doing what? Passing a tariff on sugar

Question 25 To prevent strikes from disrupting the war effort, the government established what? National War Labor Board

Question 26 Wilson believed lower tariffs rates would lead American companies to do what? Improve products and lower prices

Question 27 The Platt Amendment effectively made Cuba into an American what? Protectorate

Question 28 In the late 1800s, support grew in the U.S. for building a large modern navy to do what? Defend American interests

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

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

Question 31 The Treaty of Paris, which formally ended the Spanish- American War, granted independence to what nation? Cuba

Question 32 Tragedy at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company led to what? Building codes requiring fire escapes

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

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

Question 35 Through scientific management, a company could become efficient by Breaking tasks down into small parts and using standardized tools

Question 36 Theodore Roosevelt was chosen as McKinley's running mate in the 1900 election because why? Status as a war hero

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

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

Question 39 Alice Pauls strategy alarmed many in the suffrage movement because she wanted to do what? Use protests to force suffrage

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

Question 41 The purpose of the Open Door Policy was to Ensure trading rights with China

Question 42 The Philippines are now what? An independent country