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| The Credit Mobilier scandal involved ____ |
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| railroad construction kickbacks |
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| The "Billion-Dollar Congress" quickly disposed of rising government surpluses by _____ |
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| expanding pensions for Civil War veterans |
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| A major factor in the shift in American foreign policy toward imperialism in the late nineteenth century was _______ |
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| the need for overseas markets for increased industrial and agricultural production |
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| The Pendleton Act required appointees to public office to ______ |
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| take a competitive examination |
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| The battleship Maine was sunk by _____ |
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| The US gained a virtual right of intervention in Cuba in the _____ |
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| America's initial Open Door policy was essentially an argument to promote _______ |
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| The rise of the Populist Party was a result of the plight of the ______ |
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| JP Morgan bailed out the US government in 1895 when he loaned them $_____ |
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| Lincoln Steffens in his series of articles entitled "The Shame of the Cities", _______ |
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unmasked the corrupt alliance between big business and municipal government
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| To regain the power that the people had lost to the "interests," progressive advocated all of the following except _____ |
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| As part of his reform program, Teddy Roosevelt advocated all of the following except _____ |
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Teddy Roosevelt helped to end the 1902 strike in the coal mines by
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| threatening to seize the mines to and to operate them with federal troops |
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| The Elkins and Hepburn act dealt with the subject of ______ |
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| The real purpose of Teddy Roosevelt's assault on trusts was to _______ |
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| prove that the government, not private business, ruled the country |
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| In 1912, Woodrow Wilson ran for presidency on a Democratic platform that included all of the following except a call for _____ |
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| In 1913, Woodrow Wilson broke with a custom dating back to Jefferson's day when he ________ |
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| personally delivered his presidential address to Congress |
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| Woodrow Wilson's early efforts to conduct anti-imperialistic U.S. foreign policy were forst undermined when he _____ |
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| sent American marines to Haiti |
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| When Congress passed the Underwood Tariff Bill in 1913, it intended the legislation to ____ |
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| President Wilson broke diplomatic relations with Germany when ________ |
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| Germany announced that it would wage unrestricted submarine warfare in the Atlantic |
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| The Zimmerman note involved a proposed secret agreement between ________ |
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| Woodrow Wilson's ultimate goal at the Paris Peace Conference was to ____ |
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| establish the League of Nations |
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| Who was finally most responsible for the senate defeat of the Treaty of Versailles |
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| The 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact _______ |
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| outlawed war as a offensive national policy |
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| Americans major foreign-policy problem in the 1920's was addressed by the Dawes Plan, which _______ |
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| provided a solution to the tangle of war-debt and war-reparations payments |
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| The Bonus Army marched on Washington D.C. in 1932 to demand ________ |
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| immediate full payment of bonus payments promised to WWI veterans |
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| President Hoover's approach to the Great Depression was to _______ |
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| offer federal assistance to businesses and banks but not individuals |
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| Which of the following was NOT an underlying cause of the Great Depression |
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| the effects of World War I |
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| Which of the following is NOT associated with Hoover's ideology in regards to addressing the problems created by the collapse of the economy in 1929? |
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