Topics Covered in Unit 2 Test (US History)

Question 1

Takeover of Hawaii

Answer 1

US didn’t want Europe to have Hawaii, Hawaii could be used as a refueling station to get to Asia, could also be used for sugar plantations

Question 2

Yellow Journalism

Answer 2

Overexagerrating stories to seel more papers

Question 3

Teller Amendment

Answer 3

An amendment to the US declaration of war against Spain that said the US would not establish permanent control over Cuba

Question 4

Open Door Policy

Answer 4

called for the protection of equal privileges for all countries trading with China and for the support of Chinese territorial and administrative integrity.

Question 5

Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine

Answer 5

The nations of the Western Hemisphere not open to colonization by European powers, but that the United States had the responsibility to preserve order and protect life and property in those countries.

Question 6

Roosevelt and the Gentleman’s Agreement

Answer 6

Roosevelt would stop segregation in San Francisco Japanese - American schools in exchange for Japan not giving out passports to get to the US.

Question 7

Alfred Thayer Mahan

Answer 7

Wrote The Influence of Sea Power on History and made everyone want to have a bigger navy

Question 8

Acquiring the Panama Canal

Answer 8

Roosevelt said that the US would help Panama win freedom from Colombia if Panama gave them the land for the Panama Canal

Question 9

Goals of Progressivism

Answer 9

Civil service reform, getting rid of corruption and trusts/monopolies, expanding rights

Question 10

Conservationism

Answer 10

Wanted to conserve natural resources so formed national parks and controlled the usage of resources

Question 11

Roosevelt Administration

Answer 11

Avoided labor strikes, promoted conservationism, if you weren’t an American he didn’t care about you, negotiated the Panama canal

Question 12

Taft Administration

Answer 12

Roosevelt handpicked Taft,

Question 13

Queen Lilioukani

Answer 13

Last queen of Hawaii, was overthrown by the Americans when they annexed Hawaii

Question 14

Purpose of the US Federal Reserve

Answer 14

Managing U.S. monetary policy, regulating bank holding companies and other member banks, and monitoring systemic risk in the financial system.

Question 15

Louis Brandeis

Answer 15

A lawyer that exposed corruption in the Ballinger-Pinchot Affair, fought railroad trusts, and defended laws restricting women’s working hours.

Question 16

Democratic Reforms

Answer 16

Initiative - sign a petition and get something on the ballot
Recall - sign a petition and fire an elected official
Referendum - a question added by the general public to the ballot to be voted on

Question 17

Election of 1912

Answer 17

Roosevelt, Taft, and Woodrow wilson ran but Roosevelt ran as a third party and split the republican vote so woodrow wilson won

Question 18

Graduated income taxes

Answer 18

Taxes increase the bigger income you make

Question 19

WW1 Propaganda

Answer 19

Overexagerrated events to make people join the army or buy war bonds

Question 20

US early neutrality

Answer 20

When WW1 started the US was originally neutral and tried to stay that way

Question 21

Sinking of the Lusitania

Answer 21

The Lusitania was a passenger ship that was sunk by Germans as part of the unresticted submarine warfare, often cited as the reason why the US entered WW1 but the US actually entered two years after it

Question 22

schenck v US

Answer 22

Schenck distributed pamphlets about avoiding the war draft and was charged under the Espionage Act which was then declared to not be in conflict with the First Amendment

Question 23

Zimmerman Telegram

Answer 23

Telegram that was sent from Germany to Mexico that said that Germany would make the US give land back to MExico if Mexico would invade US to keep them occupied.

Question 24

Wilson’s 14 points

Answer 24

In the speech, Wilson directly addressed what he perceived as the causes for the world war by calling for the abolition of secret treaties, a reduction in armaments, an adjustment in colonial claims in the interests of both native peoples and colonists, and freedom of the seas

Question 25

Espionage and Sedition Acts

Answer 25

Acts that prohibited any criticism of anything to do with the war effort

Question 26

Eugene Debs during WW1

Answer 26

Convicted under the sedition act and was sentenced to 10 years in prison, ran for president in jail for it.

Question 27

Causes of WW1

Answer 27

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary by the serbs which led to Russia to protecting the Serbs and Germany to protect Austria hungary and then all the rest of the countries got drawn in through mutual defense treaties until it was a whole world war thing.