Amendments
This amendment banned alcohol in 1919 and accidentally invented organized crime.
What is the 18th Amendment?
The Three C’s were part of Teddy’s over all deal called
What is the square deal
Upton Sinclair wrote *The Jungle* to promote socialism, but Americans panicked about their dinner instead triggering these two laws.
What are the Pure Food & Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act?
This naturalist camped withTheodore Roosevelt for three nights in Yosemite and walked away with 230 million acres of protected land.
Who is John Muir?
The Treaty of Paris (1898) handed the U.S. Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines ending this short but transformative war.
What is the Spanish-American War (The splendid little war)?
Fourteen years after Prohibition began, Americans had enough. This amendment repealed it.
What is the 21st Amendment?
Hearst screamed "Remember the Maine!" without proof, helping drag the U.S. into war this is what you call that style of reporting.
What is yellow journalism?
TR's three reform goals: Conservation, Consumer Protection, and Control of Corporations go by this catchy name
What are the Three C's?
She co-founded Hull House, won the Nobel Peace Prize, and basically invented the idea of turning poverty data into policy.
Who is Jane Addams?
Congress promised not to annex Cuba with this amendment then turned around and made Cuba a protectorate with the Platt Amendment anyway.
What is the Teller Amendment?
This 1920 amendment gave women the right to vote after 72 years of activism starting at Seneca Falls.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Unlike yellow journalism, this type of reporting used documented facts to expose corruption and actually changed laws.
What is muckraking?
Theodore Roosevelt used this 1890 law like a wrecking ball busting 44 trusts including Northern Securities.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
This naval theorist's 1890 book convinced Theodore Roosevelt and Congress that sea power equaled national greatness and kicked American imperialism into high gear.
Who is Alfred Thayer Mahan?
Founded in 1911, this was the first organization run by and for Native Americans proving the Progressive Era's reforms weren't just for white Americans to define.
What is the Society of American Indians?
This amendment shortened the presidential transition between leaving and new one.
What is the 20th Amendment?
Q:Theodore Roosevelt got Panama its independence from Colombia just so the U.S. could build this.
What is the Panama Canal?
This 1906 law gave the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) power to set railroad rates, taking that power away from the monopolies that had abused it.
What is the Hepburn Act?
This naval theorist's 1890 book convinced Theodore Roosevelt and Congress that sea power equaled national greatness and kicked American imperialism into high gear.
Who is Alfred Thayer Mahan?
This 1901 amendment gave the U.S. the right to intervene in Cuba and locked in Guantánamo Bay showing the gap between American ideals and imperial reality.
What is the Platt Amendment?
These two 1913 amendments made the government more democratic one taxed the wealthy, one let voters pick their senators.
What are the 16th and 17th Amendments?
Secretary of State John Hay's 1899 policy called for equal trading access to China a polite way of saying the U.S. wanted a piece of the action without the cost of formal colonization.
What is the Open Door Policy?
The first federal child labor law (1916), struck down by the Supreme Court in 1918 proving that even good Progressive laws could be killed by the courts.
What is the Keating-Owen Act?
This nurse opened the first birth control clinic in 1916, got arrested for it, and founded what eventually became Planned Parenthood.
Who is Margaret Sanger?
This 1890 massacre of ~300 Lakota Sioux ended armed Native resistance and shows that American imperialism didn't start overseas,it started at home.
What is the Massacre at Wounded Knee?