Progressive Era 1
As part of Progressive reforms, this allows voters to remove elected officials from office before their term ends.
Recall
“I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit its stomach.”
This author said this after writing The Jungle.
Upton Sinclair
List two barriers to voting that still existed for African Americans during and after the Progressive Era.
Completed in 1914, this U.S.-engineered waterway connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, reflecting Theodore Roosevelt’s commitment to expanding American influence and global trade.
The Panama Canal
Critics of American imperialism argued that annexing territories like the Philippines violated this core principle of the nation’s government.
Democracy / self-governance
This, ratified in 1920, gave women the right to vote.
19th amendment
This movement, supported by Theodore Roosevelt, aimed to protect natural resources, create national parks, and protect the environment.
Conservation
This Supreme Court decision upheld the constitutionality of segregation laws.
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Called the U.S.’s “police power” in Latin America, this 1904 policy allowed the United States to intervene in countries to prevent European involvement or disorder.
The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
After the United States annexed this country following the Spanish-American War, its people fought a brutal war against U.S. rule from 1899 to 1902.
The Philippines
This process allows voters to propose a law and vote on it directly, bypassing the legislature.
Initiative
Journalists and writers who exposed corruption in business and government, inspiring reforms during the Progressive Era, were nicknamed this.
Muckrakers
These state and local laws enforced racial segregation in public places after Reconstruction.
Jim Crow laws
The U.S. declared war on Spain in part to support this Caribbean island’s fight for independence.
Cuba
He said “Speak softly, and carry a big stick; you will go far."
President Theodore Roosevelt
Passed in 1913, this allowed Americans to vote directly for U.S. senators.
17th amendment
True or False: Progressives wanted to reduce the size and power of the federal government.
FALSE!
Founded in 1909, this organization aimed to fight for African American civil rights and challenge segregation and discrimination.
The NAACP
This American battleship exploded in Havana Harbor in 1898, fueling public anger against Spain and helping push the United States into war.
The USS Maine
In 1903, the U.S. backed a rebellion in this country’s territory to create Panama, securing control for the canal, an action often criticized as aggressive and imperialistic.
Colombia
This muckraking journalist exposed the unfair practices of Standard Oil in the early 1900s.
List one of the founders of the NAACP.
W.E.B. DuBois, Ida B. Wells
There are MANY others but you don't need to know them for this class.
What territories did the US gain as a result of the Spanish American War?
Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines
This muckraker photographer and journalist exposed the horrible living conditions in New York City tenements in his book How the Other Half Lives.
Jacob Riis