APUSH - Progressives & Imperialism

“Today the United States is practically sovereign on this continent and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition.”

--Secretary of State Richard Olney, note to Great Britain, 1895

Q: The quote above is an interpretation of:

• Big Stick Diplomacy

• The Monroe Doctrine

• Missionary Diplomacy

• Good Neighbor Policy

“Chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society, may in America, as elsewhere, ultimately require intervention by some civilized nation, and in the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrongdoing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power.”

Q: The foreign policy statement above came to be known as

• Dollar diplomacy

• the Open Door Policy

• The Roosevelt Corollary

• the Pendleton Civil Service Act

“We have pacified some thousands of the islanders and buried them; destroyed their fields; burned their villages, and turned their widows and orphans out-of-doors; subjugated the remaining ten millions by Benevolent assimilation. … And so, by these Providences of God – and the phrase is the government’s, not mine – we are a World Power.”

Q: The statement above was most probably made in reference to United States policy in the:

• opening of Japan.

• acquisition of Puerto Rico and Cuba.

• annexation of the Hawaiian islands.

• occupation of the Philippines.

Q: A key goal of the Progressive movement was to:

• eliminate class differences in the United States.

• use gov't power to regulate industrial production and labor conditions.

• transform the U.S. into an agrarian republic.

• bring about racial integration in public accommodations.

Q: Although Progressive Era reformers held different opinions about many issues of the day, they shared a belief in...

• the capacity of trained professionals to find rational, scientific solutions to society’s problems.

• the creation of a classless society.

• an ideal society based on shared ownership through voluntary organizations rather than increasing government power.

• the creation of an organization to promote international peace.

Q: Around 1920, the number of children aged 10 to 15 in the industrial workforce began to decline for which of the following reasons?

• States began to require children to attend school until a certain age and to limit the ages at which they could be employed.

• The American birth rate declined, thus reducing the number of children available to work.

• Introduction of the minimum wage made child labor uneconomical.

• The Supreme Court sustained laws barring the interstate sale of goods produced by child labor.

Q: Between 1890 and 1910, the United States most strongly pursued a foreign policy promoting...

• isolationism in world affairs.

• a sphere of influence in Africa.

• commercial involvement in both Latin America and eastern Asia.

• close military alliances with Great Britain and France.

Q: Constitutional amendments enacted during the Progressive Era concerned all of the following EXCEPT:

• imposition of an income tax.

• imposition of poll taxes.

• extension of suffrage to women.

• prohibition of the sale of alcoholic beverages.

• procedures for electing United States senators.

Q: During the presidency of William H. Taft, United States policy in Latin America was driven primarily by...

• the administration’s desire to benefit from European colonial inroads in the region.

• Congress’ determination to ameliorate the hostility engendered by Theodore Roosevelt’s Big Stick policy.

• concern for the development of democracy and the protection of civil rights in the region.

• concern for United States economic and strategic interests in the region.

Q: In its report for 1890, the United States Census Bureau indicated that...

• industrialization was closing the gap in wealth between rich and poor.

• infant mortality was no longer a serious problem.

• the United States had more Catholics than Protestants.

• the American frontier could no longer be distinguished from settled areas.