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1
Which of the following was not part of Theodore Roosevelt's philosophy of government?
A)The pressure of educated public opinion would eliminate most corporate abuses.
B)He was opposed in principle to economic concentration.
C)He believed the purpose of reform was to protect society against more radical challenges.
D)The federal government (and president) should be a mediator of the public good.
2
Against which monopoly did Roosevelt invoke the Sherman Antitrust Act in 1902, leading to its dissolution in 1904?
A)Standard Oil
B)US Steel
C)General Electric
D)Northern Securities Company
3
How did Roosevelt respond to the 1902 United Mine Workers strike?
A)He sent in federal troops to put down the strike.
B)He sent in federal troops to protect the strikers.
C)He told the operators and miners to accept federal arbitration.
D)He sent in federal troops to seize the mines and resume production.
4
What did Roosevelt call his political agenda during the election of 1904?
A)A "New Deal"
B)A "Fair Deal"
C)A "Square Deal"
D)An "Honest Deal"
5
Who wrote the 1906 novel The Jungle, which helped to mobilize public opinion behind the Meat Inspection Act?
A)Lincoln Steffens
B)Upton Sinclair
C)Theodore Dreiser
D)Louis Brandeis
6
What did the 1902 Newlands Act do?
A)It created the National Park System.
B)It added millions of acres to the national forest system.
C)It opened millions of acres to the logging and timber industry.
D)It provided federal funds for new dams, reservoirs, and canals in the West.
7
What was America's first national park, created in 1872?
A)Yosemite
B)Sequoia
C)Mount Rainier
D)Mesa Verde
8
What controversy pitted John Muir and the Sierra Club against Theodore Roosevelt's chief forester, Gifford Pinchot?
A)Ballinger-Pinchot
B)Hetch Hetchy
C)Mesa Verde
D)Panama
9
Which powerful businessman helped to prop up shaky financial institutions during the Panic of 1907?
A)Andrew Carnegie
B)John D. Rockefeller
C)Cornelius Vanderbilt
D)J.P. Morgan
10
Who did the Democrats run against William Howard Taft in the election of 1908?
A)Alton Parker
B)Woodrow Wilson
C)William Jennings Bryan
D)James Cox
11
Which of the following was one of the Taft administration's few progressive achievements?
A)"Dollar Diplomacy"
B)The Children's Bureau
C)The Payne-Aldrich Tariff
D)The Ballinger-Pinchot Dispute
12
Which candidate in 1912 declared, "We stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord"?
A)Woodrow Wilson
B)William Howard Taft
C)Eugene Debs
D)Theodore Roosevelt
13
For what state had the former college president Woodrow Wilson served as governor?
A)South Carolina
B)Ohio
C)New Jersey
D)Pennsylvania
14
What did Woodrow Wilson's progressive program come to be called?
A)The "New Nationalism"
B)The "Promise of American Life"
C)The "New Fraternity"
D)The "New Freedom"
15
What did the Sixteenth Amendment do?
A)It provided for a graduated income tax.
B)It provided for the direct election of senators.
C)It made illegal the sale and distribution of alcohol.
D)It provided for female suffrage.
16
Which of the following was not legislation passed during the Wilson administration?
A)The Federal Trade Commission Act
B)The Clayton Antitrust Act
C)The Federal Reserve Act
D)The Pure Food and Drug Act
17
Why did Theodore Roosevelt win the Nobel Prize in 1906?
A)For the Roosevelt Corollary
B)For the Panama Canal
C)For the Treaty of Portsmouth
D)For the Open Door Notes
18
What did the "Roosevelt Corollary" declare?
A)The sovereignty of China should be recognized by all nations.
B)Europe should no longer interfere in any way with Latin America.
C)The US had the right to intervene in Latin American nations if necessary.
D)The US was prepared to go to war to protect its economic interests in East Asia.
19
A crisis in what country prompted the articulation of the Roosevelt Corollary?
A)The Dominican Republic
B)China
C)Nicaragua
D)Venezuela
20
In what country did US ally Philippe Bunau-Varilla help organize and finance a separatist revolution so that the Panama Canal could be completed?
A)Nicaragua
B)Costa Rica
C)Colombia
D)Guatemala
21
Who served as Secretary of State in the Taft administration and used "Dollar Diplomacy" to extend American investments in less-developed regions?
A)John Hay
B)Andrew Mellon
C)Charles Evans Hughes
D)Philander C. Knox
22
What US territory did Woodrow Wilson purchase from Denmark during his administration?
A)Guam
B)The Virgin Islands
C)The Midway Islands
D)Samoa
23
Who overthrew the corrupt dictator Porfirio Díaz in the 1910 Mexican Revolution?
A)Victoriano Huerta
B)Venusiano Carranza
C)Tomas Herrén
D)Francisco Madero
24
In what Mexican port were 126 Mexicans and 19 Americans killed in 1914 during a US attempt to seize it?
A)Acapulco
B)Veracruz
C)Tampico
D)Cancun
25
Who did army troops under General John J. Pershing cross into Mexico to apprehend?
A)Pancho Villa
B)Venusiano Carranza
C)Francisco Madero
D)Victoriano Huerta





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