Imperialism
The Progressive Era
WILD
Imperialism Vocab
Progressive Vocab
100

This is the belief that your culture is superior, or better than, other cultures.

What is ethnocentrism?

100

This was the right women received in 1920 after fighting for it for decades.

What is the right to vote?

100

This is the subject that Mr. E's wife teaches.

What is "science?"

100

This vocab word means "when one country takes control of another country either with force or through economic or political domination."

What is imperialism?

100

This vocab word means "an early 1900s movement focused on stopping corruption, limiting corporate power, and supporting middle/lower class Americans."

What is Progressivism?

200

This one of the "three G's" of imperialism would lead an imperial country to take over a weaker country for its natural resources like rubber, tropical fruit, or oil.

What is gold?

200

This was what Teddy Roosevelt believed was the only thing that could control and fight big business.

What is government?

200

This is how Manifest Destiny and US Imperialism are similar.

What is "in both, the US is expanding and taking more territory and control from local peoples?"

200

This vocab word means "the act of adding land to a country, usually by force."

What is annexation?

200

This vocab word means "the right to vote in political elections."

What is suffrage?

300

This one of the "three G's" of imperialism would lead an imperial country to take over a weaker country so it could build a naval base for its boats on the smaller country's coast.

What is glory?

300

These were journalists who investigated and reported on the problems affecting the US.

What are muckrakers?

300

This was the reason Teddy Roosevelt was nicknamed the "Trust Buster."

What is "he used the Anti-Trust Act to break up monopolies/trusts?"

300

This vocab word means "a government’s strategy about how to deal with other nations."

What is foreign policy?

300

This vocab word means "to make changes to a country’s policies or organizations."

What is reform?

400

This one of the "three G's" of imperialism would lead an imperial country to take over a weaker country so that the stranger country could spread its cultural values that it believes are better than the weaker country's values.

What is god?

400

This amendment to the US constitution gave women the right to vote.

What is the 19th Amendment?

400

If an African American in the Progressive era thought that the best way to get equal rights was to delay fighting for civil rights and instead focus on getting a good job to show that they could be economically successful, they would be following the beliefs of this civil rights leader.

Who is Booker T. Washington?

400

This vocab word means "a foreign policy where your country gets involved in other countries’ business."

What is interventionism?

400

This vocab word means "when a single company owns enough of an industry to determine a price themselves."

What is monopoly?

500

This was the reason the Panama Canal was and is still so important to the United States and its businesses.

What is "it significantly cuts down shipping time and length for products shipped by sea?"

500

The Progressives wanted to, and eventually successfully did, outlaw this popular drug in the US.

What is alcohol?

500

If an African American in the Progressive era thought that the best way to get equal rights was to get the best education possible and demand civil rights immediately, they would be following the beliefs of this civil rights leader.

Who is W.E.B. DuBois?

500

This vocab word means "a foreign policy where your country stays out of other countries’ business."

What is isolationism?

500

BONUS VOCAB: Define "manifest destiny."

What is the belief that the US was destined to expand West to spread democracy and capitalism?

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