Pottsville Area High School
AP US History
Unit Six (1896 – 1919) Study Guide
Mr. Kempsey
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President McKinley used the Open Door notes to promote American interests in (Place):
The anti-imperialists who opposed US annexation of the Philippines included all of the following
except (Names):
In his novel, Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser depicted the lives of (subject):
An important event in spectator sports occurred in 1903 (baseball) when:
The subject of D.W. Griffith’s film, The Birth of a Nation, was the:
In his book, The Jungle, Upton Sinclair described the (subject):
From 1898 - 1902, American soldiers fought a war in (Place):
In his book, The Shame of the Cities, Lincoln Steffens criticized the (subject):
All of the following women were active in reforms during the Progressive Era except:
“If a man continually blusters…a big stick will not save him from trouble; and neither will
speaking softly avail if back of the softness there does not lie strength…” This idea is most
closely associated with the diplomatic position of…
According to the Roosevelt Corollary, the US government was empowered to (US foreign policy):
In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt presided over a conference at Portsmouth, NH which
mediated a dispute between (Nobel Prize):
The people called “muckrakers” by Theodore Roosevelt were:
All of the following “Progressive Era” amendments were added to the Constitution except:
In 1902, President Roosevelt intervened in a coal strike by:
The Meat inspection Act of 1906 was enacted shortly after the (Cause):
All of the following describe President Roosevelt’s approach to the environment (laws and
executive orders) except he:
The diplomacy of President Taft is associated most closely with (Name):
According to Theodore Roosevelt, the doctrine of the “New Nationalism” (1912 Platform) meant
that:
All of the following were “progressive” (voting and law making) reforms except the:
In the Lansing-Ishii Agreement of 1917, Japan:
All of the following wrote muckraking articles except:
The early 20th century school of artists who realistically portrayed American life was the:
In 1912 Woodrow Wilson was the favorite choice of the:
Richard Ballinger was criticized by Gifford Pinchot for:
President McKinley may have taken the US into war with Spain because he:
The US went to war with Spain because of:
All the following became territories of the US immediately after the Spanish-American War
except:
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The Platt Amendment, enacted shortly after the Spanish-American war, made Cuba:
In the Gentlemen’s Agreement:
The Open Door Policy was designed to :
The US “right to intervene” in the Western Hemisphere was stated in the:
President Woodrow Wilson’s Mexican Policy was a good example of (Foreign Policy):
The Insular Cases, following the Spanish-American War stated that:
The four constitutional amendments (Numbers) initiated during the Progressive period were
the:
Many of the articles written by muckrakers appeared in (magazines):
The muckrakers wrote about all of the following matters (topics) except:
All of the following were considered progressive presidents except:
In 1909, African Americans and whites together founded an organization(Niagara Movement)
to fight in the court system for African Americans’ political and civil rights called the:
The Progressives borrowed all of the following ideas from the Populists (platform) except the:
The Hepburn and Mann-Elkins Acts gave (the government) more control over:
The Niagara Movement in the early 20th century called for:
A leader for women’s rights during the second decade of the 20th century was:
“Today we have one of the three great ocean possessions of the globe located at the most
commanding commercial, naval, or military points in the eastern seas, within hail of India,
shoulder to shoulder with China, richer in its own resources than any equal body of land on the
entire globe, and peopled by a race which civilization demands shall be improved.” These words
of Albert Beveridge’s refer to our desire to obtain:
By 1917, the US controlled all of the following areas in the Caribbean except:
“We hold, with Abraham Lincoln, that ‘no man is good enough to govern another man without
that man’s consent. When the white man governs himself, that is self-government, but when he
governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than – government - that is
despotism.’” These words are found in the platform of the:
“To enable the US to maintain the independence of Cuba, and to protect the people thereof, as
well as for its own defense, the government of Cuba will sell or lease to the US lands necessary
for coaling or naval stations at certain specified points to be agreed upon with the President of
the US…” These words can be found in the:
Two days before the US declared war on Spain, the latter (Spain)…
“When our opponents are unable to defend their position by argument, they fall back upon the
assertion that it is destiny and insist that we must submit to it, no matter how much it violates
our moral precepts and our principles of government.” In this statement William Jennings Bryan
is discussing America’s:
“There is a widespread conviction in the minds of the American people that the great
corporations known as trusts are in certain of their features and tendencies hurtful to the
general welfare. This…is based upon sincere conviction that combination and concentration
should be, not prohibited, but supervised and within reasonable limits controlled; and in my
judgment this conviction is right.” These are sentiments of:
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“…it once more shows what McKinley is, weak and a bidder for the admiration of the crowd,
besides being a would-be politician (politicastro) who tries to leave a door open behind himself
while keeping on good terms with the jingoes of his party.” These critical words were written by:
Walter Reed discovered a cure for:
Labor Unions liked the Clayton Anti-Trust Act because it:
Woodrow Wilson broke with precedent by:
Under the Federal Reserve Act, the Federal Reserve Banks (purpose) were to make:
In the 1912 election (results):
The Speaker of the House of Representatives (House Speaker Joseph Cannon) in 1911 lost the
power to:
The Bull Moose Party of 1912 (Platform) looked forward to:
“The wise custom which limits the president to two terms regards the substance and not the
form, and under no circumstances will I be a candidate for or accept another nomination.”
These words were spoken, perhaps in haste, by:
Theodore Roosevelt’s approach to trusts was based on the assumption that:
Theodore Roosevelt’s greatest contribution to the conservation cause was his:
Most of the loans to the Allies by the US during the Great War were used to make purchases
from:
“Our motive will not be revenge or the victorious assertion of the physical might of the nation,
but only the vindication of right, of human right, of which we are only a single champion.” These
words by Woodrow Wilson form part of his:
“It must stand forth, as the sinking of the Lusitania did, as so singularly tragical and unjustifiable
as to constitute a truly terrible example of the inhumanity of submarine warfare…” President
Wilson voiced these words in connection with the sinking of the:
The US protested all of the following British actions during World War I except:
The National Defense Act (1916) during World War I provided for:
The well-known figure rejected as a division leader for the American Expeditionary Force during
World War I was:
(Tax) Rates increased during World War I on:
All these groups were persecuted (Nativism) during World War I except the:
All of the following countries were still in the Great War in 1918 except:
In Schenck v. US, the Supreme Court:
In order to mobilize all sectors of the economy during World War I, Woodrow Wilson created
the:
The Treaty of Versailles (Terms):
The Lodge Reservations (Treaty of Versailles/League of Nations):
The US declared war on the Central Powers for all the following reasons except:
George Creel’s Office of Public Information (Purpose):
In 1916, the US again invaded Mexico over (Reason):
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One of the reasons that Woodrow Wilson was re-elected in 1916 was that he promised to:
All of the following were American heroes of World War I except:
American Forces participated in all of the following battles except: