To justify American intervention in the Venezuala boundary dispute
with Britain, Secretary of State .....
Monroe Doctrine
In Response to the Boxer Rebellion, The US
Abandoned its general principles of nonentanglement and
noninvolvement in overseas conflict....
The "yellow press" of William Randolph Hearst and Joseph
Pulitzer promoted overseas expansionism as
a opportunity for manly adventure and excitement
American Military success during hte Spanish-American war came mainly from
its navy
Besides panama, the route seriously considered as hte location for a
canal between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans was
Nicaragua
A major Factor in the shift for American foreign policy toward the
imperialism in the late nineteenth century was
the need for overseas markets for increased industrial and
agricultural production
A major weakness of Spain the Spanish-American war was
the antiquated and overmatched vessels in its navy
The Farmers alliance was formed to
break the railroads strangling grip on the farmers
The real "safety valve" in the late nineteenth century was
the western city
The US's governments outlawing the Indian Sun(Ghost) Dance in....
Battle Of Wounded Knee
The Homestead Act
was a drastic departure from previous federal public land policy
Financially, American grain and cotton farmers suffered severely from
railroad land sales and loans to immigrant farmers
The enormous mineral wealth taken from he mining frontier
helped finance the Civil War
Match Each Indian Chief below with his trile
A-3, B-4, C-2, D-1
In several states, farmers helped to pass the "granger
Laws" which
regulated railroad rates
A major problem faced by settlers on the Great Plains in he 1870s was
the scarcity of water
Arrange the following events in chronological order
A,B,C,D
The federal reserve act gave the US government the authority to
expand or contract the amount of money in circulation
Woodrow Wilson's political philosophy included all of the following except
the necessity of bargaining and compromise in politics
The teapot dome scandal of harding's administration resulted in the
conviction and imprisonment of his secretary...
the interior
the intended beneficiaries of the mcnary-haugen bill were
farmers
the 1932 stimson doctrine
declared that the united states would not recognize any territorial
acquisition achieved by force of...
the hawley smoot tariff of 1930...
deepened the worldwide depression
president warren g. harding encouraged american diplomats to seek
comprehensive diplomatic agreements and...
East Asia
in 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact
outlawed war as a solution to international rivalry
because the US raised its tariffs in the 1920s
all of these
in the cause of Adkins v. Children's Hospital, the Supreme Court
reversed its own earlier ruling that
federal law could provide special legal protections for women
in 1931, Japan invaded and occupied
the chinese province of manchuria
America's european allies argued that they should not have to repay
loans that the US made to them during...
They had paid a much heavier price in lost lives, so it was only fair
for the US to write off the debt.
Job Opportunities for women in the 1920s
tended to cluster in a few low-paying fields
Jazz music was developed by
african americans
Henry Ford's contribution to the automatic industry as
the assembly-line production of standardized vehicles
Generally, the immagration quota system adopted in the 1920s tended
to descriminate against
southern and eastern europeans
Cultural philosophers and intellectuals, Horace Kallen and Randolph
Bourne, are best known for the defense of
internationalism and cultural pluralism
Match each literary figure below with the correct work.
a-1, b-4, ,c-2, d-3
anti-redism and antiforeignism were reflected in a notorious case,
______ and ______ were convicted in 1921 of the murder of a
massachusetts ...
Sacco, Vanzetti
Buying stock "on margin" meant
making only a small down payment
a significant cloud that hung over the prosperity of he 1920s was
the large accumulation of consumer debt
after the Scopes"Monkey Trial
fundamentalist religion remained a vibrant force in American
spiritual life
the compromise of 1877 resulted in
the withdrawal of federal troops from the south and end of reconstruction
in the 1896 case of plessy v. ferguson the supreme court ruled that
seperate but equal" facilities were constitutional
As a result of the Civil War,
waste, extravagance, speculation, and graft reduced the moral stature
of the republic
As a solution to the panic or depression of 1873, debtors suggested
an inflationary policy based on "greenback" money
with the passage of the pendleton act, politions increasingly sought
money from
big corporations
under Benjamin Harrison and other administrations of the late
nineteenth century, the center of political initiative and power was...
congress
the major campaign issue of the 1888 presidential election was
tariff policy
the legal codes that established the system of segregation
were called jim crow laws
labor unrest in the 1870s and 1880s resulted in
the use of federal troops to quell strikesq
during the gilded age, the democrats and republicans
had few significant differences over political or economic policies