Progressive Era & Reforms
This term describes journalists, writers, and photographers who exposed social, economic, and political corruption during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
What are muckrakers?
This foreign policy involves a stronger nation extending its political, economic, or military power to control weaker territories or nations.
What is imperialism?
This German naval policy, which involved sinking merchant and passenger ships without warning, was a primary factor that drove the United States to abandon neutrality and join the Allied Powers.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
This revolutionary manufacturing technique was popularized by Henry Ford, making the Model T automobile affordable to everyday Americans.
What is the assembly line?
Using flash photography, this muckraking journalist published How the Other Half Lives, exposing the squalid living conditions of New York City's tenement slums.
Who was Jacob Riis?
Ratified in 1920, this constitutional amendment finally granted American women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This policy update announced that the United States would act as an "international police power" in the Western Hemisphere to protect Latin American nations from European intervention.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary (to the Monroe Doctrine)?
Intercepted by British intelligence, this secret German proposal encouraged Mexico to attack the United States in exchange for reclaiming lost lands like Texas and Arizona.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram (or Zimmerman Note)?
This term described young women of the 1920s who challenged traditional social norms by wearing shorter dresses, cutting their hair into bobs, and visiting speakeasies.
What are flappers?
This pioneering female muckraker wrote a scathing expose detailing the ruthless, monopolistic business tactics of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company.
Who was Ida Tarbell?
President Roosevelt's domestic policy that every individual deserved an equal opportunity to succeed, "...every man, big or small, rich or poor..."
What is the Square Deal?
This massive engineering project, completed by the United States in 1914, linked the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to significantly speed up trade and military movement.
What is the Panama Canal?
Acronym for the crazy causes of World War I.
(Daily Double: List what each letter of the acronym stands for)
Answer: What is M.A.N.I.A.?
Daily Double Answer: Militarism, Alliances, Nationalism, Imperialism, Assassination
This large-scale demographic movement involved millions of African Americans leaving the Jim Crow South for northern and midwestern industrial cities to escape racial violence and find factory jobs.
What is the Great Migration?
Author who exposed the meat industry by writing The Jungle, Mr. Ossit's favortie book to read to his classes before they go to lunch.
Who was Upton Sinclair?
Prompted directly by Upton Sinclair's stomach-churning descriptions of meat packing in his novel The Jungle, this 1906 law forced factories to label ingredients truthfully and banned contaminated food.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act (also accept Meat Inspection Act)?
This sensational style of newspaper reporting used exaggerated headlines and shocking stories to influence public opinion, directly helping spark the Spanish-American War in 1898.
What is yellow journalism?
Woodrow Wilson's plan to ensure peace forever after the end of WWI/
What is the Fourteen Points of Peace?
This massive cultural, artistic, and literary movement in New York City during the 1920s celebrated African American heritage and introduced jazz music to a broader public.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Handpicked by Roosevelt, he became President and continued trustbusting so much that he got stuck in the bathtub.
Who was William Howard Taft?
The Three C's to Teddy Roosevelt. (Need all three)
What are conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protections?
Announced by Secretary of State John Hay in 1899, this policy declared that all nations should have equal trading rights in China, rather than dividing the country into exclusive colonies.
What is the Open Door Policy?
This international peacekeeping organization was proposed in Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points, though the United States ultimately refused to join it.
What is the League of Nations?
This amendment to the Constitution led to a major social experiment of the 1920s banned alcohol, but promoted people like Al Capone.
What was the 18th Amendment?
This African American journalist, activist, and muckraker risked her life to publish exposes exposing the horrors of racial lynching and segregation in the Jim Crow South.
Who is Ida B. Wells?