Midterm Exam American History II

1899 rebellion in Beijing, China started by a secret society of Chinese who opposed the "foreign devils". The rebellion was ended by British troops

• Chinese Jay Rebellion
• Open Door Rebellion
• Chinese Boxer Rebellion
• Kaingzu Rebellion

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Which foreign policy principle is reflected that the United States has the right to act as the "policeman of the Western Hemisphere" and intervene in the internal affairs of Latin American countries?

• Good Neighbor policy
• Open Door policy
• Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
• Marshall Plan

This American organization was opposed to the U.S. becoming an empire.

• Anti-nationalist league

• Anti-immigration league

• Anti-imperialist league

• Anti-internationalist league

Alfred T. Mahan argued:

• to become an empire, the US needed to acquire naval bases and strengthen its naval power
• the burden of the white man is to support and uplift non-whites
• imperialism was not democratic and engaging in it would be hypocritical
• the nation's economic needs could be satisfied from within as the US should avoid risking itself in foreign entanglements

 What ensured that Cuba would remain tied to the United States?

• Roosevelt Corollary
• Foraker Act
• Anglo-Saxonism
• Platt Amendment

Teddy Roosevelt' s foreign policy of showing military might is called-

• Dollar Diplomacy

• Moral Diplomacy

• Armed Diplomacy

• Big Stick Diplomacy

In 1920, after decades of activism for women′s suffrage, women gained the right to vote with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. To what extent did this event affect the future of women′s rights in the United States?

• No impact—the movement for full women′s rights came to a conclusion with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.

• Minimally—most women quit pursuing full rights since they were content with the vote.

• Moderately—a minority of activists continued working for full rights after ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.

• Greatly—women have since pursued full rights in the workplace, home, and community

Question 9. How did World War II affect the workforce in the United States?

• Prisoners were released early to support the war industries.

• Unemployment rates rose to unprecedented levels in U.S. history

• Workers′ wages and salaries were reduced to help fund essentials for the military.

• Women filled vacancies in the workforce created by the transition of men to military service.

In 1906, Upton Sinclair wrote the novel The Jungle, which was based on the living and working conditions of immigrants. Sinclair focused on workers’ low wages as well as the unsanitary meatpacking conditions present in many of America′s factories. In 1906, partly due to The Jungle, Congress passed the Meat Inspection Act.

Question 11. How did Upton Sinclair’s novel, The Jungle, influence the role of the federal government?

• The federal government outlawed unsafe working conditions in factories

• The federal government lost its power to regulate interstate affairs.

• The federal government began regulating the food industry

• The federal government established labor unions

Even the poorest can be made to see this, and to agree that great sums gathered by some of their fellow-citizens and spent for public purposes, from which the masses reap the principal benefit, are more valuable to them than if scattered among them through the course of many years in trifling amounts.

--“The Gospel of Wealth” by Andrew Carnegie, 1889

Question 13. Which principle summarizes Carnegie’s philosophy as expressed in the excerpt?

• Investment income should be used to support charities.

• Wealth should be reinvested into expansive public works

• Venture capital should be provided to entrepreneurs

• Business profits should be taxed at higher rates