Chapter 9 Review
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How did the Progressive Movement emerge?
How did the Progressive Movement influence American society?
What were the main goals of the Progressive Movement?
What was the “social consciousness “of the Progressive Movement?
Who were the early Progressives?
What were the important reforms promoted by the Progressive movement? List them by
categories. Which ones are still enforced today?
Who were the Progressive Presidents and what was their impact in regards to reform?
Explain the importance of the Square Deal?
Explain how the Teddy Roosevelt utilized federal powers to foster change?
Explain the influence of the Muckrakers, how did they help to foster change? Why?
In what way did Progressives offer an alternative to socialism, anarchism or Communism?
How did Wilson’s New Freedom differ from that of Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal?
What were the primary group(s) that Progressives targeted? How did the Anti-Trust Laws help
make this change?
How did women gain the reforms and freedoms during the Progressive Movement?
Chapter 10
1. What is the definition of Imperialism?
2. What were the origins of the Spanish American War?
3. “Remember the Main, and the Hell with Spain” Please explain what this means and how it
influenced Americans?
4. Why were American divided over American Imperial expansion?
5. Explain the immediate causes of the Spanish American War?
6. Where did the American Colonial interest expand?
7. How did the Platt Amendment and Teller Amendments differ?
8. Chart American Territorial gains and the American interactions with these territories?
9. Explain the importance of “spheres of influence” and how did it connect to the Boxer Rebellion and
Open Door Policy?
10. How did the Roosevelt Corollary enhance the Monroe Doctrine?
11. Define: Walk softly and carry a bid stick? Who utilized this policy? why?
12. Explain the importance of the US building the Panama Canal?
Chapter 11
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List and explain the origins of World War 1.
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Explain the Sussex Pledge? Why did Wilson threaten the cut diplomatic ties with Germany?
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What was the final event that brought us to World War 1?
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What was the American response to the start of World War 1?
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How did the Zimmerman note, and the Lusitania ship sinking help aid the U.S. entry in the war?
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In times of war, laws were passed that took away free speech, please describe which laws were
enacted in 1917 and 1918 to protect the US at home.
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Did the Schenck case create a clear danger for the U.S.? why?
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How did the technology of war change? What were the methods of fighting in World War 1?
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Where there any American that objected to the war? Why?
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How did American lives change at home due to the war?
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What new methods were used to sell the war to the American people?
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After the US enters into the war how did propaganda help inflame prejudice and suspicion?
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What was the great migration? What social changes help spirit Southern blacks to move
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What In what ways did Wilson’s Fourteen Points represent American values?
What were the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles?
Why did the League of Nations and the Treaty of Versailles propel Americans into further
isolation after World War1?