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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.

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