Foreign Policy & Imperialism
This foreign policy approach describes a nation that refuses to form alliances or intervene in foreign conflicts beyond its borders.
What is Isolationism?
William Randolph Hearst's famous quote, "You furnish the pictures, I'll furnish the war," illustrates this exaggerated newspaper reporting style.
What is Yellow Journalism?
Late 19th-century industrial leaders who accumulated fortunes through worker exploitation and anticompetitive trusts were called this.
What are Robber Barons?
Fleeing crop failures, poverty, conscription, or religious persecution from one's homeland represents this type of migration factor.
What is a Push Factor?
Upton Sinclair wrote this 1906 muckraking novel to expose worker exploitation, but public outcry led directly to federal food safety reform.
What is The Jungle?
According to naval strategist Alfred T. Mahan, building this key asset was essential for a nation to achieve and project global power.
What is a strong navy?
This Spanish general's policy of forcing Cuban civilians into reconcentration camps led to nearly 400,000 deaths and fueled U.S. intervention.
Who is General Valeriano Weyler?
Andrew Carnegie reduced steel production costs by acquiring raw material suppliers and transport lines, a strategy known as this.
What is Vertical Integration?
Abundant factory jobs, higher wages, and civil liberties in American industrial centers acted as this type of migration factor.
What is a Pull Factor?
Ratified during the Progressive Era, this constitutional amendment provided for the direct election of U.S. Senators by citizens.
What is the 17th Amendment?
In this arrangement, a territory maintains its internal government but relies on a dominant foreign power for military defense and diplomacy.
What is a protectorate?
This intercepted 1898 diplomatic letter insulted President McKinley and severely inflamed anti-Spanish sentiment in America.
What is the De Lôme Letter?
This socio-economic theory misapplied biological natural selection to humans, arguing the rich were naturally superior and the poor deserved poverty.
What is Social Darwinism?
New immigrants frequently settled in these urban enclave neighborhoods because existing residents offered familiar language, support, and jobs.
What are Ethnic Enclaves (or Immigrant Neighborhoods)?
This organization best exemplified the Progressive objective of "Promoting Moral Improvement" through its anti-alcohol campaign.
What is the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)?
This strategy involves intervening in foreign affairs to defend national interests without acquiring new territorial colonies.
What is Internationalism?
Cuban rebel leader José Martí ordered the destruction of these American-owned economic assets to force U.S. involvement in the war.
What are sugar mills (or sugar plantations)?
John D. Rockefeller formed the Standard Oil trust primarily by buying out competing refineries across the same industry level, called this.
What is Horizontal Integration?
With nearly 900,000 immigrants arriving annually from 1900 to 1914, American industrial cities suffered severe shortages of this requirement.
What is housing and municipal services?
To eliminate political machine patronage and run cities efficiently, Progressive reformers introduced these two municipal management models.
What are the City-Manager and Commission forms of government?
Under this security system, member nations pledge that an armed attack against one member is considered an attack against all members.
What is Collective Security?
Although TR and the Rough Riders dominated media headlines at San Juan Hill, crucial combat support was delivered by these U.S. Army units.
Who are African-American troops (Buffalo Soldiers)?
This muckraker published an exhaustive expose of Standard Oil's monopoly tactics, directly spurring its 1911 Supreme Court antitrust breakup.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
Built to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, this megaproject dramatically reduced military and commercial sea travel times.
What is the Panama Canal?
President Theodore Roosevelt established these two landmark federal agencies to inspect and protect public food and drug purity.
What are the FDA and the USDA?