Unit 8 Reading Guide The Progressive and Imperialist Era Name ______Pd ______

Chapter 17 Section 1: 20. Why did Theodore Roosevelt decide to run against Taft in the 1912 election? 1. What were the four primary goals of the progressives? 21. What were the goals of the Progressive Party (“Bull Moose Party”)? 2. What problem did prohibitionist feel was undermining American morals? 22. Who became the president as a result of the Election of 1912? 3. What became, by 1911, the largest women’s group in the nation’s history?

4. Who were the “muckrakers”? Chapter 17 Section 5: 23. What were the major goals of President Woodrow Wilson’s “New Freedom” 5. How much did Henry Ford pay his workforce in the early 1900s? programs? 6. What was “Fighting Bob” LaFollette’s major target of his reforms as governor of 24. What antitrust law, enacted by Congress in 1914, gave the federal gov’t greater Wisconsin? powers to “bust” trusts? 7. What did the 17th Amendment call for? 25. What did the 16th Amendment call for?

Chapter 17 Section 2: 26. Why did President Wilson call for a Federal Reserve System? 8. Who were the co – founders of the National Women Suffrage Association? 27. What did the 19th Amendment call for? 9. Why was the liquor industry opposed to women’s suffrage? 28. Why did World War I bring an end to the Progressive movement? 10. Where (territory or state) did women first win the right to vote?

Chapter 18, Section 1 Chapter 17 Section 3: 29. Who was the leader of the “build a bigger, more powerful navy” movement in 11. Who was the author of The Jungle? the United States after the Civil War? 12. Why was Theodore Roosevelt chosen to be William McKinley’s 30. What territory, purchased from Russia in 1867, was called “Seward’s Icebox?” vice-presidential running mate in 1900? 31. Why did American sugar planters in Hawaii favor annexation by the United 13. What was Theodore Roosevelt’s “Square Deal?” States? 14. Why was Theodore Roosevelt referred to as a “trustbuster”?

15. What was the purpose of the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)? Chapter 18, Section 2 32. Why did the newspaper publishers Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst 16. What two acts of Congress, passed at Teddy Roosevelt’s urging, gave the ICC encourage “yellow journalism” during the Cuban Revolution? the power to regulate railroads? 33. What event (February 15, 1898) led to war between the United States and 17. Why was Theodore Roosevelt seen as the first “Conservationist President?” Spain? 18. What was the purpose of the NAACP? 34. What role did Theodore Roosevelt play during the Spanish-American War?

Chapter 17 Section 4: 35. What three territories did the United States annex at the end of the Spanish– 19. What did William Howard Taft accomplish while president? American War? Chapter 18, Section 4 Chapter 18, Section 3 41. Why did Theodore Roosevelt win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906? 36. Name three reasons the USA wanted to build the Panama Canal. 42. Panama was a province of what South American country prior to winning 37. What was the most important reason for the United States to maintain a strong independence in 1903? political presence in Cuba following the Spanish–American War? 43. Which U.S. president’s “big stick diplomacy” was based on the African proverb, 38. Which former Spanish colonial territory fought a four year war for “Speak softly and carry a big stick? independence against the United States, beginning in 1899? 44. How was the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine a radical change in 39. Explain the Open Door policy concerning trade with China. American foreign policy? 40. What “three beliefs” became the focus of U.S foreign policy in the early 1900s? 45. Which U. S. president used “dollar diplomacy” to deal with Latin America?

46. Why did Woodrow Wilson call Mexico “a government of butchers?”