Westward Expansion
Law that was meant to indoctrinate Native Americans into "white American culture."
Dawes Act
Journalist who wanted to expose a societal problem with the intent of correcting it
Muckraker
Trade policy in China that was favored by the U.S.
Open door policy
Leader of the American Expeditionary Force
Gen. John J. Pershing
Only man to be both a President of the U.S. and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
William Howard Taft
Dodge City
Wrote the Jungle
Upton Sinclair
Newspaper owner that used Yellow Journalism to inspire the Spanish American War
William Randolph Hearst
Law that establishes a military draft
Selective Service Act of 1917
Progressive Party or Bull Moose
Name for African Americans who moved from the south to the west to farm... toward a "promised land"
Exodusters
Gives women the vote nationwide
19th amendment
Usually a small Latin American country that was heavily influenced by a U.S. business, like a fruit company
Banana Republic
Passenger liner sunk by the German U-boats that killed 1200 people
Luisitania
Populist politician that gave the Cross of Gold speech
William Jennings Bryan
Law that encouraged settlement of the west by providing 140 acres to anyone who would farm it.
Homestead Act
Case that said segregation in public facilities was constitutional so long as they were kept separate but equal.
Plessy v. Furgeson
Area that was dubbed "Seward's Folly"
Alaska
Note that was the catalyst towards U.S. entry into the war
Zimmerman Telegram
Nickname for someone who favored bi-metalism.
Political machine that ran New York City politics at the turn of the century.
Tammany Hall
Law that helped ensure that what people read about in the Jungle was cleaned up
Meat Inspection Act
Country that the United States wrestled Panama away from to build the canal
Columbia
List two of the four main causes of the war
Nationalism, Imperialism, Militarism, Alliance System
Ran the New York Political Machine for twenty years without holding a single elected office
Boss Tweed