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The Progressive Era & Imperialism Study Guide
CHAPTER 17 & 18 of "The Americans" by McDougal Littell
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11th Grade
01/31/2010

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WHAT ARE THE FOUR GOALS OF THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT?
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PROTECTING SOCIAL WELFARE, PROMOTING MORAL MOVEMENT, CREATING ECONOMIC REFORM, CORRECT INJUSTICES ARE THE GOALS FOR WHAT MOVEMENT?
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WHO ARE MUCKRAKERS?
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WHAT IS A NAME GIVEN TO JOURNALISTS WHO WRITE ABOUT THE CORRUPT SIDE OF BUSINESS AND PUBLIC LIFE?
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WHAT IS AN INITIATIVE?
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WHAT IS A BILL ORIGINATED BY THE PEOPLE RATHER THAN LAWMAKERS?
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IN THE MID 1800S, WHAT DID WOMEN WORK PRIMARILY AS?
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IN THE MID 1800S, WHO WORKED PRIMARILY AS MANUFACTURERS; PEOPLE WHO WORKED IN OFFICES, STORES, CLASSROOMS; BOOK-KEEPERS; STENOGRPAHERS; SERVANTS; AND ACTIVISTS?
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WHAT WOMEN WERE MOST ACTIVE IN THE WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT?
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WHAT MOVEMENT WAS SUSAN B. ANTHONY, ELIZABETH CODY STANTON, LUCY STONE, AND JULIA WARD HOWE MOST ACTIVE IN?
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WHAT WAS THE IMPORTANCE OF THE BOOK "THE JUNGLE" ?
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WHAT EXPOSED THE SICKENING CONDITIONS OF MEATPACKING?
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WHO WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO USE THE PRESIDENCY AS A "BULLY PULPIT" AND WHAT DID THAT MEAN?
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PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO USE SOMETHING THAT INFLUENCED THE NEWS AND MEDIA AND SHAPE LEGISLATION; WHAT WAS IT?
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WHAT WAS THE PURE FOOD AND DRUG ACT?
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WHAT ACT HALTED THE SALE OF CONTAMINATED FOODS AND MEDICINES AND CALLED FOR TRUTH IN LABELING?
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WHAT WAS THE PRIMARY GOAL OF THE NAACP?
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WHICH GROUP AIMED FOR FULL EQUALITY AMONG THE RACES?
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WHO RAN IN THE ELECTION 1912? AND WHO WAS LEAST PLEASING TO REFORMERS?
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WHICH ELECTION DID THESE MEN (ROOSEVELT, TAFT, DEBS, AND WILSON) RAN IN? WHO WAS TAFT LEAST PLEASING TO?
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WHAT WERE THE RESULTS OF THE ASSEMBLY LINE?
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WHAT SPED UP PRODUCTION?
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WHAT WERE THE GOALS OF PROHIBITIONISTS?
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TO BAN ALCOHOL AND TO ENCOURAGE IMMIGRANTS AND POOR CITY DWELLERS TO UPLIFT THEMSELVES BY IMPROVING MORAL BEHAVIOR ARE THE GOALS FOR WHOM?
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WHAT FACTORS STIMULATED U.S. IMPERIALISM?
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DESIRES FOR MILITARY STRENGTH, THIRST FOR NEW MARKETS, BELIEF IN CULTURAL SUPERIORITY STIMULATED WHAT?
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WHAT COUNTRY BECAME PART OF THE U.S. IN 1917?
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WHEN DID CUBA BECAME PART OF THE U.S. ?
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WHY DID THEODORE ROOSEVELT WIN THE 1906 NOBLE PEACE PRIZE?
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WHO HAD SUCCESSFUL EFFORTS IN NEGOTIATING THE TREATY OF PORTSMOUTH AND WHAT DID HE EARN?
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WHAT CONFLICT DID THE U.S. MILITARY AVOID INVOLVEMENT IN?
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WHO AVOIDED INVOLVEMENT IN THE RUSSO JAPANESE WAR?
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WHAT IS THE PLATT AMENDMENT?
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WHAT STATED THAT CUBA COULD NOT MAKE TREATIES THAT MIGHT LIMIT ITS INDEPENDENCE OR PERMIT A FOREIGN POWER TO CONTROL ANY PART OF ITS COUNTRY; THE U.S. RESERVED THE RIGHT TO INTERVENE; CUBA WAS NOT ALLOWED TO GO INTO DEBT; THE U.S. COULD BUY OR LEASE LAND ON THE ISLAND FOR NAVAL STATIONS AND REFUELING STATIONS, AND ALL OF THE ABOVE SHOULD BE INCLUDED BECAUSE IT PROTECTED AMERICAN BUSINESS?
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WHAT WAS THE ROOSEVELT COROLLARY?
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WHAT IS AN EXTENSION OF MONROE DOCTRINE (1904) THAT CLAIMED RIGHT TO PROTECT ITS ECONOMIC INTERESTS BY MEANS OF MILITARY INTERVENTION?
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WHAT WAS THE DE LOME LETTER?
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(FEBRUARY 1898) WHAT WAS THE NAME GIVEN TO THE PIECE OF WRITING ENRIQUE DUPEY DE LOME WROTE CRITICIZING THE PRESIDENT?
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WHAT WAS THE TREATY OF PARIS 1898?
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WHAT ENDED THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR AND CAUSED SPAIN TO FREE CUBA, TURN OVER THE ISLANDS OF GUAM AND PUERTO RICO TO THE U.S., SELL THE PHILIPPINES FOR $20 MILLION?
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WHAT WAS THE OPEN DOOR POLICY DESIGNED TO FURTHER?
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WHAT PAVED THE WAY FOR GREATER AMERICAN INFLUENCE IN ASIA?
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WHO WERE THE IMPERIALISTS POWERS OF THE LATE 1800S?
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WHAT WAS THE U.S., FRANCE, BRITAIN, GERMANY, AND JAPAN CONSIDERED AS IN THE LATE 1800S?
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WHAT DID THE U.S. GAIN CONTROL OF AFTER THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR?
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WHEN DID THE U.S. GAIN CONTROL OF CUBA, GUAM, PUERTO RICO, AND THE PHILIPPINES?
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WHAT WAS THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S APPROACH FOR FOREIGN POLICY ("SPEAK SOFTLY AND CARRY A BIG STICK") ?
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TO NOT WANT TO BE INVOLVED IF NOT NEEDED WAS THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S APPROACH FOR WHICH POLICY?
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