Unit 19: Paper 3 (HL) — History of the Americas
Topic 19.9: The development of modern nations (1865–1929) Questions
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In which year was the United States transcontinental railroad completed, linking the Atlantic and Pacific coasts?
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Choose the term used to describe Theodore Roosevelt's policy of curbing trusts and regulating business on behalf of ordinary citizens.
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What was a major consequence of railroad and settler expansion for Plains indigenous nations in the United States?
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Compare and contrast the methods used by Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois to advance the position of African Americans in the early twentieth century.
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Choose the approximate growth in Mexico's rail network during Porfirio Díaz's rule (1876–1911).
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Choose the approximate period during which the Great Migration saw over a million African Americans move from the rural South to northern cities.
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Which US reform movement of roughly the 1890s to 1920s aimed to address problems created by industrialization, such as child labour and unsafe factories?
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Which foreign power financed most of Argentina's railroad network built between the 1870s and 1900s?
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Evaluate the impact of railroad construction on the economic development of two countries of the Americas between 1865 and 1929.
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Examine the causes and consequences of urbanization in the Americas between 1865 and 1929.
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Choose the year in which the US Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson that racial segregation was constitutional under 'separate but equal'.
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To what extent did economic modernization between 1865 and 1929 create dependency rather than development in the Americas?
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Examine the successes and failures of Theodore Roosevelt's domestic policies as US president (1901–1909).
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Compare and contrast the causes of railroad construction in two countries of the Americas between 1865 and 1929.
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Evaluate the impact of Sir Wilfrid Laurier's economic policies on Canada's development between 1896 and 1911.
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Discuss the impact of immigration on the economic and social development of the Americas between 1865 and 1929.
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Discuss the view that Porfirio Díaz's rule (1876–1911) modernized Mexico's economy at the cost of its people.
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Examine the impact of westward expansion on indigenous peoples in the Americas between 1865 and 1929.
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To what extent did Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) shape the social and legal conditions of African Americans in the southern United States?
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Evaluate the importance of ideology in justifying economic and territorial expansion in the Americas between 1865 and 1929.
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