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| The Sherman Anti-trust Act was rendered ineffective after its passages because: |
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| its wording was too vague. |
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| Social Darwinists believe that: |
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| all of these are correct. |
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| America's desire to enter the world stage in the late nineteenth century was prompted by: |
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| The term “yellow press" refers to newspapers and media that emphasize: |
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| politically biased and/or sensationalized news. |
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| In acquiring the right to build a canal across Panama, the U.S.: |
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| helped to facilitate a Panamanian revolution against Colombia. |
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| Progressive Era journalists who investigated poor conditions, fraud, and corruption in the American private and public sectors were known as: |
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| The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded in 1910 to: |
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| restore political and social rights. |
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| During the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan vented their rage against: |
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| Woodrow Wilson decided to go to Europe himself to negotiate the post-war settlement, for all of the following reasons except: |
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| he saw in the war an opportunity to reshape the world in the American image. |
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| In the late nineteenth century, as veterans of the Civil War retired, |
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| a majority of the black and white male population in the North received federal pensions. |
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| Those who called themselves progressives did not agree on what “progressivism” meant. |
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| One of the leading exponents of the Social Gospel was William Graham Sumner. |
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| The secret ballot enhanced the power of the two-party system over the average voter. |
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| W.E.B. Du Bois was highly critical of Booker T. Washington’s philosophy. |
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| The temperance movement was strengthened by World War I. |
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| As part of his Asian diplomacy, President Theodore Roosevelt |
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| All these answers are correct. |
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| The 1904 “Roosevelt Corollary” |
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| stated that the U.S. had a right to intervene in the affairs of neighboring countries. |
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| In order to secure control of the Panama Canal zone, the United States |
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| assisted a revolution in Panama. |
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| The policy idea behind “Dollar Diplomacy” was |
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| to extend investments by the United States in less-developed regions. |
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| In his dealings with Pancho Villa, President Woodrow Wilson |
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| ordered a military expedition into Mexico to capture Villa. |
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| In 1914, the “Triple Entente” consisted of |
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| In 1914, when war erupted in Europe, President Woodrow Wilson |
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| called on the American public to be completely impartial. |
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| As a result of the sinking of the British passenger liner Lusitania, |
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| Germany pledged to the United States it would not repeat such an action. |
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| In January 1917, President Woodrow Wilson, in a speech before Congress, |
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| suggested the creation of the League of Nations in the post-war period. |
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| The so-called Zimmerman telegram |
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| included a proposal for the return of the American Southwest to Mexico. |
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