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He believed in the use of American military strength as part of his "Big Stick Diplomacy"
Who is Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt?
Connecting the Atlantic to the Pacific... America took control of this piece of land.
What is (the Isthmus of) Panama?
This "thing" was Teddy Roosevelt's belief that businesses, workers, and consumers all deserved fair and honest treatment.
What is the Square Deal?
After reading Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle", Teddy Roosevelt led the passage of this law to regulate the sale of unsafe foods to Americans.
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
This was the name for a member of the social and political movement in the early 1900s who was committed to improving conditions in American life.
What is a Progressive?
During the Spanish American War, most of the fighting took place here.
Where is Cuba?
These "things" restricted children under the age of 14 holding jobs and dramatically increased school enrollment.
What are Child Labor Laws?
The explosion of this ship was a front-page topic for the "yellow papers" in New York.
What is the USS Maine?
This famous trust-busting president brought more than 90 lawsuits against monopolies and big businesses, including Standard Oil.
Who is William Taft?
This was the place that Secretary Hays demanded an "Open Door" to during the early 1900s.
Where is China?
This "thing" was the racist idea that it was America's responsibility to conquer people and places around the world in order to "civilize" people to be more like America.
What is the White Man's Burden?
What is Moral Diplomacy?
This progressive President was the creator of the U.S. Federal Reserve System
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Teddy Roosevelt was a strong believer in preservation, leading him to create these places.
What are National Parks, National Forests, or National Monuments?
This "thing" was opposed by populists, who wanted to mint silver to increase the money supply.
What is The Gold Standard?
A target of progressives: illegal combinations of businesses, sometimes known as a trust, were also known as this.
What is a Monopoly?
This Admiral in the U.S. Navy scored the first Major victory for the United States in the Spanish American War.
This "Banana Republic" was a key ally of the United Fruit Company and the U.S. during the presidency of William Howard Taft.
Where is Guatemala?
This "thing" was left in the Cuban constitution and permitted the U.S. to intervene in the country whenever it wanted, as well as buy land for military bases.
What is the Platt Amendment?
This, along with Typhoid and Yellow Fever, was a top cause of death during the Spanish American War... not Spanish bullets.
What is Malaria?