Pottsville Area High School
AP US History
Unit Seven (1890 – 1919) Study Guide
Mr. Kempsey
They advertised “potted chicken,”— the things that went into the mixture were tripe, and the
fat of pork, and beef suet, and hearts of beef, and finally the waste ends of veal, when they
had any. They put these up in several grades, and sold them at several prices; but the
contents of the cans all came out of the same hopper….they bought up all the old rancid
butter left over in the grocery-stores of a continent, and ”oxidized" it by a forced-air process,
to take away the odor, rechurned it with skim-milk, and sold it in bricks in the cities!... The
workers in each of them [meat-packing industries] had their own peculiar diseases.
-Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, 1905
I believe in providing for direct nominations by the people, including therein direct
presidential primaries for the election of delegates to the national nominating conventions. . .
. I believe in the election of United States senators by direct vote. Just as actual experience
convinced our people that presidents should be elected (as they are now in practice, although
not in theory) by direct vote of the people instead of by indirect vote through an
untrammeled electoral college, so actual experience has convinced us that senators should be
elected by direct vote of the people instead of indirectly through the various legislatures.
-Speech by Theodore Roosevelt, February 1912
XIV. A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the
purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity
to great and small states alike.
In regard to these essential rectifications of wrong and assertions of right we feel
ourselves to be intimate partners of all the governments and peoples associated together
against the Imperialists. We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We
stand together until the end.
-Woodrow Wilson, “Speech on the Fourteen Points,” 1918
"As the early years at Hull House show, female participation in that area of reform grew
out of a set of needs and values peculiar to middle-class women in the late nineteenth
and early twentieth century. Settlement workers did not set out to become reformers.
They were rather women trying to fulfill existing social expectations for self-sacrificing
female service while at the same time satisfying their need for public recognition,
authority and independence. In the process of attempting to weave together a life of
service and professional accomplishment, they became reformers as the wider world
defined them."
-Robyn Muncy, historian, Creating a Female
Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935,
published 1991
Excepting only Yosemite, Hetch Hetchy is the most attractive and wonderful valley within the
bounds of the great Yosemite National Park and the best of all the camp grounds. People are
now flocking to it in ever-increasing numbers for health and recreation of body and mind.
Though the walls are less sublime in height than those of Yosemite, its groves, gardens, and
broad, spacious meadows are more beautiful and picturesque… Last year in October I visited
the valley with Mr. William Keith, the artist. He wandered about from view to view,
enchanted, made thirty-eight sketches, and enthusiastically declared that in varied
picturesque beauty Hetch Hetchy greatly surpassed Yosemite. It is one of God's best gifts and
ought to be faithfully guarded.
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John Muir, Century Magazine, 1909
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The anti-imperialists who opposed US annexation of the Philippines included all of the following
except:
The subject of D.W. Griffith’s film, The Birth of a Nation, was the:
In his book, The Shame of the Cities, Lincoln Steffens criticized the:
According to the Roosevelt Corollary, the US government was empowered to:
In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt presided over a conference at Portsmouth, NH which
mediated a dispute between:
All of the following “Progressive Era” amendments were added to the Constitution except:
In 1902, President Roosevelt intervened in a coal strike by:
The diplomacy of President Taft is associated most closely with:
According to Theodore Roosevelt, the doctrine of the “New Nationalism” meant that:
The early 20th century school of artists who realistically portrayed American life was the:
The US went to war with Spain because of:
All the following became territories of the US immediately after the Spanish-American War except:
The Open Door Policy was designed to:
The Progressives borrowed all of the following ideas from the Populists except the:
The Niagara Movement in the early 20th century called for:
A leader for women’s rights during the second decade of the 20th century was:
“Today we have one of the three great ocean possessions of the globe located at the most
commanding commercial, naval, or military points in the eastern seas, within hail of India, shoulder
to shoulder with China, richer in its own resources than any equal body of land on the entire globe,
and peopled by a race which civilization demands shall be improved.” These words of Albert
Beveridge’s refer to our desire to obtain:
By 1917, the US controlled all of the following areas in the Caribbean except:
“We hold, with Abraham Lincoln, that ‘no man is good enough to govern another man without that
man’s consent. When the white man governs himself, that is self-government, but when he governs
himself and also governs another man, that is more than – government - that is despotism.’” These
words are found in the platform of the:
“To enable the US to maintain the independence of Cuba, and to protect the people thereof, as well
as for its own defense, the government of Cuba will sell or lease to the US lands necessary for
coaling or naval stations at certain specified points to be agreed upon with the President of the
US…” These words can be found in the:
“There is a widespread conviction in the minds of the American people that the great corporations
known as trusts are in certain of their features and tendencies hurtful to the general welfare.
This…is based upon sincere conviction that combination and concentration should be, not
prohibited, but supervised and within reasonable limits controlled; and in my judgment this
conviction is right.” These are sentiments of:
“…it once more shows what McKinley is, weak and a bidder for the admiration of the crowd,
besides being a would-be politician (politicastro) who tries to leave a door open behind himself
while keeping on good terms with the jingoes of his party.” These critical words were written by:
Under the Federal Reserve Act, the Federal Reserve Banks were to make:
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In the 1912 election:
“The wise custom which limits the president to two terms regards the substance and not the form,
and under no circumstances will I be a candidate for or accept another nomination.” These words
were spoken, perhaps in haste, by:
Most of the loans to the Allies by the US during the Great War were used to make purchases from:
The US protested all of the following British actions during World War I except:
In Schenck v. US, the Supreme Court:
In order to mobilize all sectors of the economy during World War I, Woodrow Wilson created the:
The Treaty of Versailles:
The Lodge Reservations: