Midterm Exam American History II

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

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Chinese Boxer 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?

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Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

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

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Anti-imperialist league

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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

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to become an empire, the US needed to acquire naval bases and strengthen its naval power

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What ensured that Cuba would remain tied to the United States? Options: Roosevelt Corollary, Foraker Act, Anglo-Saxonism, Platt Amendment

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Platt Amendment

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

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Big Stick Diplomacy

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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?

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

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

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

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

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The federal government began regulating the food industry.

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

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Wealth should be reinvested into expansive public works