History 1302 Unit 2 Exam Questions
All Answered Correct 2025/2026
Updated.
Social Gospel Movement - Answer Movement led by Washington Gladden - taught religion
and human dignity would help the poor overcome problems of industrialization. Didn't focus on
religion, but on the fact that improved living conditions begot improved morality.
Upton Sinclair - Answer Muckraker who wrote The Jungle - exposing the meat packing
industry
Margaret Sanger - Answer American leader of the movement to legalize birth control during
the early 1900's. As a nurse in the poor sections of New York City, she had seen the suffering
caused by unwanted pregnancy. Founded the first birth control clinic in the U.S. and the
American Birth Control League, which later became Planned Parenthood.
19th Amendment - Answer guaranteed women the constitutional right to vote
Food and Drug Act, 1906 - Answer was a key piece of Progressive Era legislation; purpose
was to protect the public against adulteration of food and from products identified as healthful
without scientific support
New Nationalism - Answer A movement profoundly conditioned by a Western colonial past,
leaning toward authoritarian political organization, and declaring its goal political, economic,
and social equality, and a modern industrial society
Pinchot-Ballinger Affair - Answer Ballinger, who was the Secretary of Interior, opened public
lands in Wyoming, Montana, and Alaska against Roosevelt's conservation policies. Pinchot, who
was the Chief of Forestry, supported former President Roosevelt and demanded that Taft
dismiss Ballinger. Taft, who supported Ballinger, dismissed Pinchot on the basis of
insubordination. This divided the Republican Party.
Bull Moose Party - Answer The Republicans were badly split in the 1912 election, so
Roosevelt broke away forming his own Progressive Party (or Bull Moose Party because he was
"fit as a bull moose..."). His loss led to the election of Democratic nominee Woodrow Wilson,
but he gained more third party votes than ever before.
, 17th Amendment - Answer provided for the direct election of US Senators.
Big Stick Diplomacy - Answer Diplomatic policy developed by T.R, he uses power and
readiness to use military force if necessary.\tIt is a way of intimidating countries without
actually harming them and was the basis of U.S. imperialistic foreign policy.
Missionary Diplomacy - Answer Woodrow Wilson's policy contingent on the belief that it was
America's responsibility and destiny to spread its institutions and values to the far corners of the
globe; also called "moral diplomacy"
Triple Entente - Answer An alliance between Great Britain, France and Russia in the years
before WWI.
Russian Revolution - Answer Initial Rebellion by Cows and Battle of Cowshed
Lusitania - Answer Not a British war ship. Not incorporated into British Navy. Solely engaged
in transportation of passengers, mail, and freight. Ship was completing fifth trip across Atlantic
Ocean
Zimmerman Telegram - Answer telegram sent from Zimmerman to German ambassador for
Mexico
War Industries Board - Answer At the center of the effort to rationalize the economy was the
war industries bond. Was an agency created in July 1917 to coordinate government purchase of
military supplies. Casually organized at first, it stumbled badly until March 1918 when wilson
restructered it and placed it under the control of the wall street financier Bernard Buruch .
Espionage Act - Answer Federal law passed shortly after entrance into WWI, made it a crime
for a person to mail or print information that inspired dissent against the American war effort or
promoted its enemies.
Great Migration, 1916-19 - Answer 1914-1945; mass movement of African Americans from
the South to the North; reasons = jobs, prejudice, crop failures; leads to race riots in the North
General John J. Pershing - Answer was an American general who led troops against "Pancho"
Villa in 1916. He took on the Meuse-Argonne offensive in 1918 which was one of the longest
All Answered Correct 2025/2026
Updated.
Social Gospel Movement - Answer Movement led by Washington Gladden - taught religion
and human dignity would help the poor overcome problems of industrialization. Didn't focus on
religion, but on the fact that improved living conditions begot improved morality.
Upton Sinclair - Answer Muckraker who wrote The Jungle - exposing the meat packing
industry
Margaret Sanger - Answer American leader of the movement to legalize birth control during
the early 1900's. As a nurse in the poor sections of New York City, she had seen the suffering
caused by unwanted pregnancy. Founded the first birth control clinic in the U.S. and the
American Birth Control League, which later became Planned Parenthood.
19th Amendment - Answer guaranteed women the constitutional right to vote
Food and Drug Act, 1906 - Answer was a key piece of Progressive Era legislation; purpose
was to protect the public against adulteration of food and from products identified as healthful
without scientific support
New Nationalism - Answer A movement profoundly conditioned by a Western colonial past,
leaning toward authoritarian political organization, and declaring its goal political, economic,
and social equality, and a modern industrial society
Pinchot-Ballinger Affair - Answer Ballinger, who was the Secretary of Interior, opened public
lands in Wyoming, Montana, and Alaska against Roosevelt's conservation policies. Pinchot, who
was the Chief of Forestry, supported former President Roosevelt and demanded that Taft
dismiss Ballinger. Taft, who supported Ballinger, dismissed Pinchot on the basis of
insubordination. This divided the Republican Party.
Bull Moose Party - Answer The Republicans were badly split in the 1912 election, so
Roosevelt broke away forming his own Progressive Party (or Bull Moose Party because he was
"fit as a bull moose..."). His loss led to the election of Democratic nominee Woodrow Wilson,
but he gained more third party votes than ever before.
, 17th Amendment - Answer provided for the direct election of US Senators.
Big Stick Diplomacy - Answer Diplomatic policy developed by T.R, he uses power and
readiness to use military force if necessary.\tIt is a way of intimidating countries without
actually harming them and was the basis of U.S. imperialistic foreign policy.
Missionary Diplomacy - Answer Woodrow Wilson's policy contingent on the belief that it was
America's responsibility and destiny to spread its institutions and values to the far corners of the
globe; also called "moral diplomacy"
Triple Entente - Answer An alliance between Great Britain, France and Russia in the years
before WWI.
Russian Revolution - Answer Initial Rebellion by Cows and Battle of Cowshed
Lusitania - Answer Not a British war ship. Not incorporated into British Navy. Solely engaged
in transportation of passengers, mail, and freight. Ship was completing fifth trip across Atlantic
Ocean
Zimmerman Telegram - Answer telegram sent from Zimmerman to German ambassador for
Mexico
War Industries Board - Answer At the center of the effort to rationalize the economy was the
war industries bond. Was an agency created in July 1917 to coordinate government purchase of
military supplies. Casually organized at first, it stumbled badly until March 1918 when wilson
restructered it and placed it under the control of the wall street financier Bernard Buruch .
Espionage Act - Answer Federal law passed shortly after entrance into WWI, made it a crime
for a person to mail or print information that inspired dissent against the American war effort or
promoted its enemies.
Great Migration, 1916-19 - Answer 1914-1945; mass movement of African Americans from
the South to the North; reasons = jobs, prejudice, crop failures; leads to race riots in the North
General John J. Pershing - Answer was an American general who led troops against "Pancho"
Villa in 1916. He took on the Meuse-Argonne offensive in 1918 which was one of the longest
