20th Century US History Exam (

The taking of the Philippines does not violate the principles of the Declaration of Independence, but will spread them among a people who have never known liberty and who in a few years will be unwilling to leave the shelter of the American flag. …The form of government natural to the Asiatic has always been despotism. … [T]o abandon those islands is to leave them to anarchy, [and] to short-lived military dictatorships. …— Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, March 1900
I wanted the American eagle to go screaming into the Pacific. It seemed tiresome and tame for it to content itself with the Rockies. Why not spread its wings over the Philippines, I asked myself? And I thought it would be a real good thing to do. … But I have thought some more, since then, and I have read carefully the treaty of Paris, and I have seen that we do not intend to free, but to subjugate the people of the Philippines. We have gone there to conquer, not to redeem. … And so I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.— Mark Twain, October 1900
Lodge and Twain disagreed about ??—

•  the nature of Asian governments
• whether the United States should annex the Philippines
• the treaty of Paris
•  whether to free the Filipino population

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

• Freed slaves in the Confederate states
•  Freed slaves in the entire United States
• Gave African Americans the right to vote
• Gave African Americans full civil rights

 After the war, who believed that the Confederate states should be punished for secession?

• Abraham Lincoln
• Radical Republicans
• Stephan Douglas
• Copperheads

What is the name for the laws that limited the rights of African Americans in the post-Civil War South?

• Antitrust laws
• Civil Rights Act
•  Jim Crow laws
• Voting Rights Act

The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is about —

• women's suffrage
• prohibition
• slavery
• Senate elections

Poor labor conditions led late nineteenth century workers to organize —

• marches on Washington
• lynch mobs
• commissions
• unions

A nineteenth century innovation that changed America's industries and skyline was —

• the automobile
• the Bessemer process
• the telegraph
•  the steam boiler furnace

One major incentive for the westward movement after the Civil War was —

• The Homestead Act of 1862
• The Immigration Restriction Act
• The Clayton Antitrust Act
• Roosevelt's "Square Deal"

What was the name of Woodrow Wilson's plan for peace?

• The Treaty of Versailles
• The Zimmermann Note
• The League of Nations
• The Fourteen Points

President Taft's dollar diplomacy called for —

• U.S. colonies in China
• U.S. investments in Latin America
• equal trading rights in China
• a waterway through Panama