I'm a progressive
I spent my life working for women's suffrage. I'm even on a dollar coin!
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
The ability of citizens to make an elected official run for office before his term is up.
What is a recall?
Journalism that exaggerates the news. It was used effectively to gain American support for the war against Spain.
What is Yellow Journalism?
The Spanish American War was fought between which two countries?
What is Spain and America?
This was added to Cuba's new constitution that allowed the U.S. to retain influence over Cuba.
What is the Platt Amendment?
I wrote a novel, The Jungle, about how the sausage was really made.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
Legislation that stopped the sale of contaminated foods and medicine. (we hope)
The Pure Food and Drug Act
Name of Teddy Roosevelt's progressive reforms.
What is the Square Deal?
This incident in Havana harbor led to a declaration of war by the U.S.
What is the U.S.S. Maine blowing up?
This act prohibited companies from buying stock in other companies if the purchase creates a monopoly.
What is the Clayton Anti-Trust Act?
I was a trust-busting President. I was also formed the Rough Riders to go fight in Cuba.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
A bill proposed by citizens of a state instead of lawmakers.
What is an initiative?
A really big ditch that was dug through the isthmus of Panama that connected the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
This was the name of Teddy Roosevelt's calvary unit during the war.
Who are the Rough Riders?
This country became a protectorate of the U.S. after the Spanish-American War.
What is Cuba?
I won the election in 1912 and started a program called the New Freedom.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This a is a vote on an initiative.
What is a referendum?
Investigative journalists that exposed corruption in American businesses and politics.
What were muckrakers?
The Treaty of Paris gave the U.S. what new territories?
What are the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam?
This was the rallying cry for Americans to go to war with Spain.
What was "Remember the Maine"?
I founded the NAACP, an organization that wanted equality for all races.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
This stated that the manufacture and distribution of alcohol was illegal.
What is Prohibition?
A country's policy of extending influence and control over weaker nations.
What is imperialism?
This land was bought by William Seward in 1867. Later it became a state!
What is Alaska?
This allowed for the direct election of U.S. senators.
What is the 17th amendment?
This amendment to the Constitution created a federal income tax.
What is the 16th amendment?
This was an extension of the Monroe Doctrine that told Europe to stay out of Latin America.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
What two islands were involved in the Spanish American War?
Cuba and the Philippines?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
Name one muckraker we discussed in this unit
Who was Upton Sinclair?
this man was president during the war
Who was William Mckinley?
Name 4 presidents we covered in these two chapters.
Who are William McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson?
Name one "yellow journalist" during the war.
Who was William Randolph Hearst?
this was the policy of the U.S. guaranteeing loans to foreign countries made by U.S. businesses
What is dollar diplomacy?