Question 1(25 points)

(HC)

Using the excerpt and image, answer a, b, and c.

"One popular way of thinking, however, was to attribute imperialism to determinism of some sort: the hand of God, the instinct of race, the laws of Darwinism, the force of Economics and tradeanything but reasonable decision. Though many Americans deemed willing to surrender to imperialist policies, few would admit that they did so because they wanted to."Blum, Schlesinger, Jr. et al., fromThe National Experience: A History of the United States.Sixth Ed. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985

St. Louis's Object Lesson to Anti-Expansionists

Library of Congress [LC-DIG-ppmsca-25733]

a. Briefly explain how the idea of U.S. territorial expansion relates to the views expressed in the text excerpt.

b. Briefly explain how the idea of U.S. territorial expansion relates to the views expressed in the cartoon.

c. Briefly explain ONE event or idea from the period 18901905 that could be used to support or refute the views expressed in the documents.

(25 points)

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Question 2(25 points)

(HC)

Using the excerpt, answer a, b, and c.

"To the Senate and House of Representatives:

The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life ... As a nation we not only enjoy a wonderful measure of present prosperity but if this prosperity is used aright it is an earnest of future success such as no other nation will have. The reward of foresight for this nation is great and easily foretold. But there must be the look ahead, there must be a realization of the fact that to waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed."Theodore Roosevelt, from his Seventh Annual Message to Congress, 1907

a. Briefly explain how the text excerpt reflects the ideals of the Progressive Movement.

b. Briefly explain ONE development or event of the period 19001920 that supports your explanation.

c. Briefly explain ONE different development or event of the period 19001920 that also reflects the ideals of the Progressive Movement.

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Question 3(25 points)

(HC)

Using the excerpt, answer a, b, and c.

"I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier" 1915 song by Alfred Bryan and Al Piantadosi

"Ten million soldiers to the war have gone,

Who may never return again.

Ten million mothers' hearts must break

For the ones who died in vain.

Head bowed down in sorrow in her lonely years,

I heard a mother murmur thro' her tears:

I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier,

I brought him up to be my pride and joy,

Who dares to put a musket on his shoulder,

To shoot some other mother's darling boy?

Let nations arbitrate their future troubles,

It's time to lay the sword and gun away,

There'd be no war today

If mothers all would say,

I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier."

a. Briefly explain the point of view about U.S. entry into World War I expressed by the author.

b. Briefly explain ONE development in the period 19141917 that could be used to support the point of view expressed by the author.

c. Briefly explain ONE development in the period 19141917 that could be used to challenge the point of view expressed by the author.

(25 points)

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Question 4(25 points)

(HC)

Using the image, answer a, b, and c.

Public Domain

a. Briefly explain how the advertisement reflects changes in American society in the 1920s.

b. Briefly explain a SECOND example of how the advertisement reflects changes in American society in the 1920s.

c. Briefly explain ONE example of American society in the 1920s that contradicts the impression presented in the advertisement.