Foreign Policy
A policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.
What is isolationism?
This region was of particular interest to Western expansionists during the late-19th and early-20th centuries.
What is Asia?
A political movement that champions the interests of the common man against the corruption of the elite.
What is populism?
This agency, itself a subdivision of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, was created in 1906 to manage America's national resources such as timber and grassland.
What is the U.S. Forest Service?
This man was the preeminent Progressive during the early-20th century, enacting many reforms as President at the beginning of his first term in 1912.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
A form of reporting based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration to provoke public interest or excitement.
What is yellow journalism?
A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
What is imperialism?
This ship exploded in Havana harbor on February 15, 1898, sparking the Spanish-American War.
What is the U.S.S. Maine?
This populist and celebrated orator unsuccessfully ran for President as a Democrat in 1896, 1900, and 1908.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
This constitutional amendment was ratified during the Wilson Administration, establishing a federal income tax to fund the expansion of government programs.
What is the 16th Amendment?
Progressivism was strongest on the local and state level in this constituency in the upper Midwest.
What is Wisconsin?
This 17th Amendment was ratified in 1913, overturning the original process for selecting representatives in this body of government.
What is the U.S. Senate?
This term describes foreign policy that utilizes military and economic force to coerce the behavior and interests of other nations.
What is hard power?
In order to bolster its influence in the Pacific, the United States acquired these two territories in 1867 and 1898, respectively.
What are Alaska and Hawaii?
The pejorative term for an investigative journalist who exposes corruption, scandal, or wrongdoing in institutions and society.
What is a muckraker?
This government agency was created after fierce public outcry stirred up by Upton Sinclair's 1906 exposé on the meat-packing industry.
What is the Food and Drug Administration?
This concept was the highest concern for Progressives, and governed which policies to promote throughout the country.
What is "the public interest"?
A relative newcomer to politics before his election in 1912, Woodrow Wilson spent much of his career as an academic at this university.
What is Princeton?
This term describes foreign policy that prefers the use of diplomacy and culture to persuade the behavior and interests of other nations.
What is soft power?
This American Senator and eloquent expansionist from Indiana delivered a speech entitled, "The March of the Flag," at the conclusion of the Spanish-American War.
Who is Albert J. Beveridge?
This government agency was created during the Roosevelt Administration, enabling the executive branch to regulate business and working conditions.
What is the Department of Commerce and Labor?
This federal reform was created during the Wilson Administration to stimulate road construction due to the rising popularity of automobiles.
What is the Federal Highways Act?
This term is used to describe a person or agency in favor of using government power to break apart successful corporations.
What is a trustbuster?
U.S. Navy admiral and historian, Alfred Thayer Mahan, published this important work of military strategy and foreign policy in 1890 during the rise of expansionism.
What is The Influence of Sea Power upon History?
This document was enacted in 1823 to protect the Western Hemisphere from foreign intervention and colonial interest.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
The United States acquired these four territories as a result of its swift and decisive victory over Spain.
What are the Philippines, Guam, Cuba, and Puerto Rico?
This financial institution was created in 1913, providing the U.S. government with a central banking system (and additional influence over the economy) for the first time in nearly a century.
What is the Federal Reserve?
This theory, a form of scientific human engineering that aims to eliminate "undesirable" or "unfit" elements from society, was espoused by many prominent Progressives during the early-20th century.
This social and political campaign was introduced by populists during the mid-19th century, but was adopted by progressives and culminated in the 18th Amendment, ratified in 1919.
What is the Temperance Movement?
A 1904 addition to the Monroe Doctrine stating that the U.S. would intervene as a "last resort" in Latin America against European interest, essentially making the U.S. the "international police force" of the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?