Progressive Era and Imperialsim

Who told the artist Frederick Remington, "You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war"?

• William Randolph Hearst
• William McKinley
• Teddy Roosevelt

What law was passed in 1906 to ensure accurate and truthful labeling of foods and medicines?

• Clayton Antitrust Act
• Pure Food & Drug Act
• Elkins Act

William McKinley ordered the U.S.S. Maine into Havana’s harbor in order to

• threaten Spanish settlements in the Phillippines
• protect U.S. citizens and investments in Cuba
• start a war with Spain by invading their territory

The device which allows a group of citizens to draft a bill and send it to the legislature to be voted on is called

• the 18th amendment
• an initiative
• a primary

Which of the following did NOT play a key role in bringing on the Spanish-American War?

• the annexation of Hawaii
• Yellow Journalism
• The sinking of the U.S.S. Maine

Which president’s election marked the beginning of the Progressive Era?

• Theodore Roosevelt
• David Barnes
• William McKinley
• James Monroe

In the early 1900s, the progressives’ work to expand democracy led to which of the following?

• The Sixth Amendment, which guarantees a speedy trial
• The Twenty-first Amendment, which repealed Prohibition
• The Seventeenth Amendment, which allowed for direct election of senators
• The Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery 

Yellow journalists such as Hearst and Pulitzer blamed who for blowing up The U.S.S. Maine?

• Spanish Terrorists
• Cubans
• American Soldiers

Teddy Roosevelt’s approach to foreign policy was “Speak _____ and carry a big ______”.

• hard, name
• softly, stick
• loudly, bat

The new territories gained because of imperialism affected the U.S. by

• satisfying the complaints of anti-imperialists
• providing strategic naval bases and new opportunities for trade
• leading the U.S. into permanent alliances with European countries