assignment 2:
NAME: ____________________
Using your textbook, answer the following either True or False:
1. _____The United States purchased Alaska from Great Britain.
2. _____Alfred Thayer Mahan wrote The Influence of Sea Power upon History.
3. _____Social Darwinist ideas justified policies of imperial expansion.
4. _____The papers of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst helped invent what came to be known as “green journalism.”
5. _____In an act of terrorism, Spaniards in Cuba blew up the battleship Maine.
6. _____Theodore Roosevelt helped lead the Rough Riders in the Cuban campaign of the Spanish-American War.
7. _____The treaty that ended the Spanish-American War and gave the United States the Philippines narrowly passed the U.S. Senate.
8. _____The United States agreed to pay $10 million plus $250,000 a year for the Panama Canal Zone.
9. _____A French company dug a canal part of the way through Panama in the 1880s.
10. _____Many Progressive reformers were motivated by conservative religious beliefs.
11. _____Progressives generally believed government should not interfere with big business.
12. _____Theodore Roosevelt gave Muckrakers their name.
13. _____The popular election of senators required a constitutional amendment.
14. _____The phrase “Square Deal” is associated with Theodore Roosevelt.
15. _____William H. Taft achieved the most significant tariff reduction of any progressive president.
16. _____Many of the most prominent progressives endorsed Roosevelt’s bid to be the first president representing a third party, the “Bull Moose” Progressive party.
17. _____Wilson was a weak president who trusted Congress to adopt the proper policies.
18. _____The Underwood-Simmons bill created the first regular federal income tax.
19. _____General Pershing’s incursion into Mexico resulted in the defeat and capture of Pancho Villa.
20. _____Many immigrant groups in the United States supported the Central Powers in World War I.
21. _____In the presidential election of 1916, Republicans used the slogan “He kept us out of war” to discredit Wilson.
22. _____The Zimmermann telegram, sent to the Mexican government from the White House, was intercepted by the Germans.
23. _____In March 1917, German submarines sank five U..S. merchant vessels in the North Atlantic.
24. _____Women in “war work” were usually able to keep their jobs after the war.
25. _____Because of their belief in “freedom of the seas,” the British allowed Americans to trade with Germany.
Extra Credit
A. _____Between 1875 and 1890, sugar from Hawaii could enter the United States duty-free.
B. _____McKinley was reelected in 1900 despite losing the popular vote to William Jennings Bryan.
C. _____Theodore Roosevelt considered the Federal Trade Commission to be the cornerstone of his anti-trust program.
D. _____President Wilson suffered a temporarily incapacitating stroke in France while negotiating the Treaty of Versailles.
E. _____Henry Cabot Lodge led the Senate Republicans, who demanded amendments to the Treaty of Versailles.
Using your textbook, answer the following either True or False:
1. _____The United States purchased Alaska from Great Britain.
2. _____Alfred Thayer Mahan wrote The Influence of Sea Power upon History.
3. _____Social Darwinist ideas justified policies of imperial expansion.
4. _____The papers of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst helped invent what came to be known as “green journalism.”
5. _____In an act of terrorism, Spaniards in Cuba blew up the battleship Maine.
6. _____Theodore Roosevelt helped lead the Rough Riders in the Cuban campaign of the Spanish-American War.
7. _____The treaty that ended the Spanish-American War and gave the United States the Philippines narrowly passed the U.S. Senate.
8. _____The United States agreed to pay $10 million plus $250,000 a year for the Panama Canal Zone.
9. _____A French company dug a canal part of the way through Panama in the 1880s.
10. _____Many Progressive reformers were motivated by conservative religious beliefs.
11. _____Progressives generally believed government should not interfere with big business.
12. _____Theodore Roosevelt gave Muckrakers their name.
13. _____The popular election of senators required a constitutional amendment.
14. _____The phrase “Square Deal” is associated with Theodore Roosevelt.
15. _____William H. Taft achieved the most significant tariff reduction of any progressive president.
16. _____Many of the most prominent progressives endorsed Roosevelt’s bid to be the first president representing a third party, the “Bull Moose” Progressive party.
17. _____Wilson was a weak president who trusted Congress to adopt the proper policies.
18. _____The Underwood-Simmons bill created the first regular federal income tax.
19. _____General Pershing’s incursion into Mexico resulted in the defeat and capture of Pancho Villa.
20. _____Many immigrant groups in the United States supported the Central Powers in World War I.
21. _____In the presidential election of 1916, Republicans used the slogan “He kept us out of war” to discredit Wilson.
22. _____The Zimmermann telegram, sent to the Mexican government from the White House, was intercepted by the Germans.
23. _____In March 1917, German submarines sank five U..S. merchant vessels in the North Atlantic.
24. _____Women in “war work” were usually able to keep their jobs after the war.
25. _____Because of their belief in “freedom of the seas,” the British allowed Americans to trade with Germany.
Extra Credit
A. _____Between 1875 and 1890, sugar from Hawaii could enter the United States duty-free.
B. _____McKinley was reelected in 1900 despite losing the popular vote to William Jennings Bryan.
C. _____Theodore Roosevelt considered the Federal Trade Commission to be the cornerstone of his anti-trust program.
D. _____President Wilson suffered a temporarily incapacitating stroke in France while negotiating the Treaty of Versailles.
E. _____Henry Cabot Lodge led the Senate Republicans, who demanded amendments to the Treaty of Versailles.
