Progressives
Roosevelt and Wilson
Imperialism Part 1
Imperialism Part 2
100
Their sensational investigative reports uncovered a wide range of ills afflicting America in the early 1900s.
Who are muckrakers?
100
The name of Woodrow Wilson's plan for his presidency.
What is the New Freedom?
100
Define imperialism.
What is the policy by which strong nations extend their political, military, and economic control over weaker territories?
100
These were the two main pieces of land the U.S. acquired after the Spanish-American War.
What is Cuba and the Philippines?
200
Two big problems the progressives tried to fix.
What is government reform/corruption, workers rights, minority and women's rights, education, etc.
200
Roosevelt broke up large monopolies, also known by this name.
What is a trust?
200
To boost readership some newspapers pasted sensational headlines and pictures on their front pages.
What is Yellow Press or Yellow Journalism?
200
This was the main type of warfare the Filipino insurgents used against U.S. troops.
What is guerrilla warfare?
300
This amendment granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
300
This commission monitors business practices that might lead to a monopoly.
What is the Federal Trade Commission?
300
This was the belief that life consists of a competitive struggle in which only the fittest survive.
What is Social Darwinism?
300
Roosevelt's foreign policy that depended on a strong military to achieve America's goals.
What is "big stick" diplomacy?
400
Name one organization that was created at this time to help minorities fight or face discrimination.
What is Niagara Movement-denounced the idea of gradual progress, Urban League-focused on the plight and struggle of poorer African American workers, NAACP-aimed to help AA be "physically free from peonage [forced, low-paid labor], mentally free from ignorance, politically free from disfranchisement, and socially free from insult." Anti-Defamation League-defend Jews and others against physical and verbal attacks, false statements, and "to secure justice and fair treatments to all citizens alike." Mutualistas-Mexican American groups that made loans and provided legal assistance. Society of American Indians.
400
This act banned the interstate shipment of impure food and the mislabeling of food and drugs...our food is also monitored to make sure people are not hurt by dangerous substances or dishonest labels.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
400
A number of countries at this time tried to carve out areas in which they maintained privileged access to trade.
What is a sphere of influence?
400
This restricted the rights of newly independent Cubans and effectively brought the island within the U.S. sphere of influence. This Amendment granted the U.S. the "right to intervene" to preserve order in Cuba and the right to lease naval stations.
What is the Platt Amendment?
500
This Progressive plan for reform was based on following the Bible's teachings about charity and justice to make a "kingdom of God" on Earth.
What is the Social Gospel?
500
This system, still in place today, helps protect the American economy from having too much money end up in the hands of one person, bank, or region.
What is the Federal Reserve Board/Act?
500
This was a form of aggressive nationalism and could also be defined as EXTREME patriotism.
What is jingoism?
500
The reason President Roosevelt won a Nobel Peace Prize.
What is he helped convince the Russians and Japanese to sign a peace treaty which ended the Russ-Japanese War?
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