1. History Test 02 Fall 2006

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3. Question 01 Definition: An African American leader of an antilynching campaign. Ida Wells Barnett

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

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9. Question 06 Definition: Theodore Roosevelt’s approach to treating capital and labor on an equal basis? The Square Deal

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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.

13. Question 10 Definition: Progressive governor and senator from Wisconsin. Robert La Follette

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15. 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

16. 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.

17. Question 13 Definition: Ratified in 1913, this amendment made income tax constitutional. 16 th Amendment

18. 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? [Answer on next frame]

19. 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.

20. 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

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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

23. 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

24. 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

25. Question 10 Definition: President Wilson’s peace program, which included freedom of the seas, free trade, and more open diplomacy? Fourteen Points

26. Question 20 How did World War I end? Germany asking for a negotiated peace

27. From the video, One Woman One Vote

28. Question 21 Where did the women’s suffrage movement begin? Seneca Falls, NY

29. Question 21 Who was the Quaker woman from Rochester who became the movement’s second leader? Susan B. Anthony

30. Question 23 For the women’s suffrage movement, what group was considered the hidden enemy? women who did not support suffrage

31. Question 24 Who was Sojourner Truth? A former slave from New York who became a spokesperson for the women’s movement.

32. Question 25 What industry opposed women’s suffrage in Colorado? liquor industry