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Choose 1 of the following question/topic and answer it thoroughly: 1. Trace Theodore Roosevelt’s climb to the presidency of the United States and explain why he was such an appealing vice presidential candidate in 1900. or 2. Discuss the issue of conservation and what President Theodore Roosevelt did to promote this important issue. or 3. Describe the economic mobilization on the American home front. or 4. Describe the meaning and the significance of the Harlem Renaissance. or 5. Discuss the various causes of the stock market crash, paying particular attention to government policies that helped bring on the crash.

negotiated an agreement with Japan concerning the future of Korea

wrote the Jungle, and exposed the meat packing industry

In the 1920s, many investors bought stocks on margin – that is, with borrowed funds. 

elected vice president in 1900, then president, bully pulpit, used the muckrakers to get his policies through

The papers of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst helped invent what came to be known as “yellow journalism.”

Henry Cabot Lodge was one of the biggest supporters of the League of Nations.

As a result of the Scopes trial:

The Zimmerman telegram, sent to the Mexican government from the White House, was intercepted by the Germans.

The Roaring Twenties pitted a cosmopolitan, urban America against the values of an insular, rural America.