Modern History Abeka ch 16 pt 2 MOH wk 16 | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

What was the compromise of the Gentleman's Agreement?

If the San Francisco school board stopped segregating Japanese immigrants, Japan would control immigrants to the US.

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What did the seventeenth amendment do?

Allowed voters to elect U.S. senators directly instead of the state legislators.

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What did tariff policies have to do with the formation of the Bull Moose Party?

Progressives and T Roosevelt formed it when Taft kept tariffs higher than they wanted.

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Why did Theodore Roosevelt receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906?

For arbitrating between Russia and Japan to end the Russo-Japanese War.

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What did the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) begun in 1914 do?

It could investigate possible unfair trading & force businesses to cease & desist.

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What MAJOR project did the U.S. complete in central America in 1914?

The Panama Canal

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During Wilson's term as president, unrest in Mexico almost caused what?

A war with Mexico when U.S. General Black Jack tried to capture Pancho Villa who had killed Americans.

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Many European powers took control of Chinese ports. Explain the open door policy this resulted in.

This was an agreement started by the US so that each nation wouldn't interfere with trade rights of other nations.

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To prepare for the MAJOR project, the U.S. sent Gorgas to the Canal Zone to do what?

Get rid of mosquitoes which cause tropical fevers such as malaria.

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What did Woodrow Wilson do just a few weeks after his inauguration involving tariffs?

He proposed lowering them and Congress passed the Underwood-Simmons Act.

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How did the idea that man evolved affect many of the antibiblical philosophies?

People thought of humans as animals that weren't created. (No sin, no God to answer to)

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Because of the Underwood-Simmons Act, what would now be the Federal government's main income source?

Income tax because of the 16th Amendment which gave congress power to tax personal income

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Who became president after William Howard Taft and what party was he in?

Woodrow Wilson; Democratic Party

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