Spanish-American War
Yellow journalism, the sinking of the Maine, sympathy for Cuban rebels, and imperialist motives caused this war.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This term refers to the right to vote.
What is suffrage?
He opened Japan to U.S. trade by displaying American naval power.
Who is Matthew Perry?
This reform program by Theodore Roosevelt aimed to stop the wealthy from taking advantage of the poor.
What was the Square Deal?
This word describes a writer who exposes wrongdoing in government or business.
What is a muckraker?
This was the primary killer of U.S. soldiers in Cuba
What is disease?
This 1910s organization of African American thinkers pushed for immediate civil rights including voting and education.
What was the Niagara Movement?
This Progressive reform allowed citizens to directly elect U.S. Senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
This author exposed the meatpacking industry through his book The Jungle.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This 1906 law strengthened federal oversight by requiring meatpacking plants to undergo inspection.
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
The war earned this nickname because it was short, successful, and achieved U.S. goals quickly.
What is ‘a splendid little war’?
This law gave Congress the power to collect income taxes without restriction.
What is the 16th Amendment?”
This 1906 act gave the ICC the power to set shipping rates for railroads and pipelines.
What is the Hepburn Act?
This term describes efforts to assimilate immigrants so they would become more loyal citizens.
What is Americanization?
This amendment granted women the right to vote in the United States.
What is the 19th Amendment?
African Americans enlisted hoping this war would improve racial equality at home.
What is gaining respect and proving loyalty?
This 1906 law banned the interstate sale of impure food and medicine.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
These newspapers exaggerated stories to boost sales and stir emotion.
What is the Yellow Press?
This journalist exposed government corruption through books and articles for the New York Post.
Who is Lincoln Steffens?
This group was founded in 1913 to protect Jews from discrimination and attacks.
What is the Anti-Defamation League?
The U.S. struggled in April 1898 when 200,000 men enlisted because of shortages of this.
What are supplies, uniforms, weapons, and training facilities?
This immigrant journalist used photography to expose tenement poverty in How the Other Half Lives.
Who is Jacob Riis?
These community-based groups offered loans and legal assistance to Mexican Americans.
What are mutualistas?
This African American journalist devoted her life to fighting lynching and wrote for Memphis Free Speech.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This 1924 act granted U.S. citizenship to all Native Americans born within U.S. borders.
What is the American Indian Citizenship Act of 1924?