Vocabulary
Originated to make railroad scheduling possible
Time zones
When a company eliminates all competition, they control prices, Standard Oil is an example
Monopoly
Founded by WEB Dubois, fought for Civil Rights
NAACP
A vote on legislation proposed through an initiative
referendum
This act made it affordable to purchase weapons from the US to our allies
Journalists who published sensationalized articles revealing corrupt businesses or government practices
Muckrakers
Workers choose not to work in order to force business owners into negotiations
Strike
Group of reformers who believed in improving society through education, reform, and other means
Progressives
Companies concerned with making money, often workers and consumers suffered as a result
Big Business
USA issued this prior to WWI, attempt at isolationism
Declaration of Neutrality
Teddy Roosevelt's movement establishing national parks
Conservation
Citizens suggest legislation by using petitions
Initiative
Founded by Samuel Gompers, first major Union in the US
AFL (American Federation of Labor)
A reform allowing voters to fire an elected official before his or her term is over, special election held where official has to defend his or her position against new candidates
Addition to the Monroe Doctrine, said that if the US could get involved if Latin American nations needed help with debt to European nations
Roosevelt Corollary
A group of workers who pursue better treatment from business owners
Union
Fear of or discrimination against immigrants, feeling of superiority in those born in the US
Nativism
Group of prominent men who believed that American Imperialism was wrong
Anti-Imperialist League
The Economic policy of wealth being equally distributed to all
Communism
Ended the Spanish American War, gave Cuba its independence, the US got the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam
Treaty of Paris 1898
Strong nations take over or exploit weaker nations, usually driven by a need for raw materials and/or new economic markets
Imperialism
Major newspapers in New York City used this to promote the Spanish-American War, stirred up desire for war in Americans
Yellow Journalism
Labor union created by Eugene Debs
American Railway Union
Henry Ford did this with the Ford Model T to cut production prices
Mass Production
Laws that controlled and oppressed African Americans
Jim Crow Laws