from quizlet chapters 21-24
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| 1145004577 | Explain what Jane Addams and the other reformers who lived at Hull House hoped to accomplish. | Help her immigrant neighbors, offer an opportunity for educated women to find meaningful work. Launched campaigns to improve housing, end child labor, fund playgrounds, mediate between labor and management, lobby for laws that protect workers, aid the urban poor. | 0 | |
| 1145004578 | Identify the general goals that characterized the Progressive movement. | Transition from personal action to political activism. Government intervention to guarantee a more equitable society. | 1 | |
| 1145004579 | Discuss how Progressive reformers sought to attack the problems in the cities. | Founded settlement houses (bridged distance between classes), professed a new christian social gospel, campaigned against vice (prostitution) and crime in the name of social purity. | 2 | |
| 1145004580 | Compare the meaning of "social gospel" with "gospel of wealth". | Social gospel- christians have a responsibility to reform society as well as individuals. Encouraged people to put christ's teachings to work in their daily lives by actively promoting social justice. Gospel of wealth- wealth garnered from earthly success should be used for good works. Wealthy should serve as stewards and act in the best interests of society as a whole. | 3 | |
| 1145004581 | List the contributions of the WTUL to the Triangle Shirtwaist Company strike of 1909-1910. | Provided volunteers for the picket lines, posted more than 29000 in bail, protested police brutality, organized a parade of ten thousand strikers, took part in the arbitration conference, appealed for funds, generated publicity for the strike. | 4 | |
| 1145004582 | Explain Teddy Roosevelt's trust policy and how he enforced it. | Roosevelt used the Sherman Antitrust Act, which had been severely weakened by a conservative Supreme Court, to go after some of the nation's largest corporations, including Northern Securities Company, which held a monopoly on railroad traffic in the Northwest. | 5 | |
| 1145004583 | List the legislative accomplishments of Roosevelt's second term. | Hepburn act to increase power of the ICC, wanted railroad regulation, conserved natural resources, muckraking provided enormous help in securing progressive legislation. Passed a pure food and drug bill, pure food and drug act and peat inspection act. | 6 | |
| 1145004584 | Discuss how the U.S. acquired the rights to build the Panama Canal. | 10 million and 250000 annual, at the prompting of a group of new york investors, the panamanians staged an uprising, and with unseemly haste the US government recognized the new government within 14 hours. They accepted. | 7 | |
| 1145004585 | Describe William Howard Taft's foreign policy. | extended us influence abroad. Dollar diplomacy championed commercial goals rather than the strategic aims roosevelt had pursued. | 8 | |
| 1145004586 | Identify the Wilson administration's domestic legislative priorities. | Special priveledges to none. Reflected the interests of his small business constituency. | 9 | |
| 1145004587 | Discuss the leadership and the goals of the Niagara Movement. | Calling for universal male suffrage, civil rights, and leadership by a black individual elite. Founded the national association for the advancement of colored people. | 10 | |
| 1145004588 | Identify Woodrow Wilson's belief(s) concerning the U.S.'s role in international affairs. | He believed that the U.S. had a moral duty to champion national self-determination, peaceful free trade, & political conquest, no dominion. But as President, Wilson revealed he was ready as any American president to apply military solutions to problems of foreign policy. | 11 | |
| 1145004589 | Name the Mexican rebel leader who eluded capture by the U.S. Army. | Francisco "Pancho" Villa | 12 | |
| 1145004590 | List the members of the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente (the "Allies"). | alliance- germany, austria-hungry, italy. entente- great britain, france, russia. | 13 | |
| 1145004591 | Discuss Wilson's policy of American neutrality at the beginning of World War I. | Wilson said U.S. would remain neutral & continue normal relations w/ warring nations. "free ships made free goods." | 14 | |
| 1145004592 | Describe how German "unrestricted submarine warfare" violated "traditional" rules of war. | Unlike surface warships that could harmlessly stop freighters and prevent them from entering a war zone, submarines relied on surprising and sinking their quarry. | 15 | |
| 1145004593 | Explain why the U.S. entered World War I. | Protested german blockade of great britain but accepted great britain's blockade on germany meant that the us was supplying the allies with weapons. When the allies ran out of money they asked for loans, america gave loans. germany couldnt afford the neutral shipping and decided to use submarines to attack any ship without warning. | 16 | |
| 1145004594 | Discuss how the Wilson administration managed the war effort. | Wilson launched a campaign to foster patriotism. The campaign included the creation of a government agency to promote official propaganda, indoctrination in the schools, & parades, rallies & films. | 17 | |
| 1145004595 | Describe the consequences of wartime mobilization for America's workers. | Mobilization helped propel the crusages of women suffrage & prohibition to sucess. Progressives channeled industrial & agricultural production into the war effort. | 18 | |
| 1145004596 | Discuss the wartime contributions of women at home and on the battle front. | Battle front - More than $25,000 women served in France. About 1/2 were nurses. Others drove ambulances; ran canteens for Salvation army, Red Cross, & YMCA; worked w/ French civilization in devasted areas; acted as telephone operators & war correspondents Home - More jobs opened to women, Tens or thousands of women found work in defense plants as welders, metal workers & heavy machine operators. More jobs opened up to black women besides (domestics) Number of women clerks doubled, Most dramatic advance for women came in the political arena. | 19 | |
| 1145004597 | Discuss the wartime role of the Committee on Public Information. | Suppress criticism of the war, celebrate successes on the battlefields and in the factories, posters, pamphlets, cartoons. made fun of german soldiers. | 20 | |
| 1145004598 | Show how the map of Europe changed as a result of World War I. | Portions of austria-hungry were ceded to italy, poland, and romania, and the remainder was reassembled into austria, hungry, czechoslavakia, and yugoslavia. | 21 | |
| 1145004599 | Discuss Senate opposition to membership in the League of Nations. | Feared it would jeopardize the nation's ability to act independently. | 22 |
