The Progressive Presidents
First "Progressive President" from 1901-1909
Theodore Roosevelt
Name for journalists who exposed social, political and economic problems (often scandals) during the Progressive Era
Muckrakers
Theodore Roosevelt
Thin layer of gold that conceals ordinary metals beneath the surface
Gilding
Roosevelt is famous for a "corollary" to this 1823 "Doctrine" of U.S. foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere
The Monroe Doctrine
Second Progressive President from 1909-1913
William Howard Taft
Progressive Journalist who wrote "The History of the Standard Oil Company" (1904)
Ida Tarbell
Former Spanish colony; an island chain in Southeast Asia acquired by the U.S. in 1902
The Philippines
Famous American co-author of the novel that gave the name to the "Gilded Age"; wrote Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Nation that Theodore Roosevelt bought or took land from to build a canal in Central America to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
Panama
Year of the famous Presidential Election during which Theodore Roosevelt ran as the Progressive Party Candidate against a Republican, a Democrat, and a Socialist
1912
Progressive leader who opened Hull House in 1889 as a settlement house to assist newly arrived immigrants
Jane Addams
Caribbean nation that fought for independence from Spain during the Spanish-American war; current sight of the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
Cuba
"Integration" practiced by Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust to buy out all of his competitors
Horizontal Integration
The U.S. Navy
Last of the three Progressive Presidents - He was President from 1913-1921.
Woodrow Wilson
Progressive Era sociologist and civil rights activist who helped found the NAACP to fight for racial equality.
Year of the Spanish-American War
1898
Lochner case theory that employers and employees should be free to negotiate wages and hours without government regulation
Freedom of Contract
Theodore Roosevelt said to Speak softly and carry this object to articulate his foreign policy
A Big Stick
Least "Progressive" of the Progressive Presidents
William Howard Taft
Author of "The Jungle" (1906) - a novel that exposed horrors of the meatpacking industry in Chicago
Upton Sinclair
In addition to naval bases in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, a small island that the U.S. acquired from Spain as a result of the War
Guam
"Integration" practiced by Carnegie to control all phases manufacture, distribution, and sale of steel
Vertical Inegration
Russia and Japan