These two laws allowed the government to regulate railroad rates across the nation.
What are the Elkins and Hepburn acts?
100
This muckraker exposed the corrupt practices of the Standard Oil Company and John D. Rockefeller.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
100
This is the name of Taft's foreign policy, which was contrasted with Roosevelt's Big Stick Policy.
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
100
This was the slogan that US supporters and soldiers of the Spanish-American War used, in response to an accident blamed on Spain.
What is Remember the Maine!?
100
This progressive reform movement was led by Jane Addams and set-up community centers to help educate and assist the urban poor.
What is the Settlement House Movement?
200
This law established a bank for banks, which loans money to banks and sets the prime interest rate,
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
200
This progressive reform looked to preserve the wilderness from exploitation, industry, and pollution. Teddy Roosevelt was the foremost proponent of it.
What is conservation?
200
He was the foremost anti-imperialist during the Progressive Era. Unfortunately for him, he never managed to get elected.
Who is William J. Bryan?
200
The US gained four territories from the Spanish-American War, and allowed Cuba and Philippines to become independent, but kept the these remaining two territories:
What are Puerto Rico and Guam?
200
This progressive organization, led by Francis Willard, was a major force in getting the 18th Amendment passed.
What is the WCTU?
300
This progressive law allowed for the direct-election of US Senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
300
This disaster, that claimed the lives of more than 100 female workers in New York in 1911, led to increased concern for workers' safety.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
300
This is a term for sensational and exaggerated news reporting during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. This form of news pushed the US into the Spanish-American War.
What is Yellow Journalism?
300
American businessmen of this industry supported both the Annexation of Hawaii and Spanish-American War in Cuba.
What is sugar industry?
300
This law, passed after the Spanish-American War, allowed the US to intervene in Cuba for any reason.
What is Platt Amendment?
400
This progressive law allowed the government to regulate water usage between states and build dams.
What is National Reclamation Act?
400
While Teddy Roosevelt's progressive policies were known as the "Square Deal," this was the name given to Woodrow Wilson's progressive policies.
What is the New Freedom?
400
This is the term for the policy toward China that was supported by Sec. of State John Hay in 1899 and aimed to increase US trade in China.
What is the Open Door Policy?
400
This was a anti-foreign and anti-trade uprising in China where many American missionaries and businessmen were attacked in 1900.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
400
This Mexican revolutionary led a cross-border raid on New Mexico in 1916 and was the target of the Punitive Expedition into Mexico.
Who is Pancho Villa?
500
This progressive law allowed the government to regulate telephones and telegraph rates and was passed during Taft's presidency.
What is Mann-Elkins Act?
500
This muckraker wrote the book "The Shame of the Cities" in 1904 and exposed corruption in local city politics.
Who is Lincoln Steffens?
500
These two news editors were the foremost proponents of Yellow Journalism during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
Who are Hearst and Pulitzer?
500
US intervention in this country involved the US fighting a guerrilla war against Augusto Sandino and his supporters in favor of a conservative, and pro-United Fruit Company government.
What is Nicaragua?
500
This Spanish diplomatic correspondence, along with the destruction of the USS Maine, was a major cause of the Spanish-American War.