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Answer each of the following questions with 150 words. Below is the site you would use to answer the questions:

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1. Why were railroads so important to America’s second industrial revolution? What events demonstrate their influence on society and politics, as well as the economy?

2. Discuss Booker T. Washington.  What was his mission? Discuss how changes in politics, economics, social factors, and the spread of violence affected the situation of Blacks in the New South.

3. Define Imperialism. Discuss ideas and interests motivated the United States to create an empire in the late nineteenth century?

4. Discuss the Spanish-American War and its impact on American Expansionism.  Discuss the Chinese Exclusion Act.

5. Discuss Progressivism and Identify the main groups and ideas that drove the Progressive movements. How did reformers of this period approach the problems of industrial society?

6. Discuss immigration to the U.S. during the Progressive era.  How did immigrants adjust to life in America?  What institutions or activities became important to their adjustment, and why?

7. What is Women’s Suffrage? Discuss Theodore Roosevelt, the creation of the Pure Food & Drug Act, and the Conservation Movement.

8. Discuss the Monroe Doctrine & Roosevelt Corollary. How did these doctrines affect U.S. relations with European nations and those in the Western Hemisphere? Discuss the Panama Canal and its impact on U.S. foreign policy.