Progressivism & Populism
This political movement of farmers sought government reforms such as regulation of railroads and coinage of silver.
What is the Populist Party?
This amendment granted women the right to vote in the United States.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This organization formed after the Springfield Race Riots with the goal of ending racial discrimination.
What is the NAACP?
This president earned the nickname “trustbuster” by breaking up powerful monopolies.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
He opened trade with Japan using a display of naval power known as “gunboat diplomacy.”
Who is Commodore Matthew Perry?
These reformers of the early 1900s worked to expose problems in society and pushed for government action.
Who were the Progressives?
This western state was the first to grant women full voting rights.
What is Wyoming?
He argued African Americans should achieve equality through vocational training and economic progress.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
During this 1902 event, the president personally intervened in a labor dispute for the first time ever.
What was the Pennsylvania Coal Strike?
This event involved American planters overthrowing Queen Liliʻuokalani.
What was the overthrow of Hawaii?
These were writers who exposed corruption in society and earned a nickname based on “digging up dirt."
Who were the Muckrakers?
NAWSA used peaceful state-by-state campaigning, while this woman pushed for marches, hunger strikes, and picketing.
Who is Alice Paul?
He argued African Americans should demand immediate civil rights and pursue higher education.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
This 1906 act strengthened the ICC and allowed the government to set maximum railroad rates.
What is the Hepburn Act?
The U.S. wanted to prevent European powers from interfering in this hemisphere.
What is the Western Hemisphere?
Progressives wanted to make democracy more responsive by adding initiatives, referendums, and this third reform.
What is the recall?
Women pushed for suffrage because they believed voting would help them win reforms in these areas of their lives. (3 answers)
What are workplace, social, and political rights?
These riots in Illinois shocked the nation and helped lead to the formation of the NAACP.
What were the Springfield Race Riots?
This president was handpicked by Roosevelt as his successor but later disappointed him.
Who is William Howard Taft?
Three reasons the U.S. turned into an imperialist nation: economic interests, military strength, and this belief in cultural superiority.
What is Cultural Beliefs?
This fire led Progressives to push for workplace safety laws, fire codes, and building requirements.
What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
This was the reason western states granted women voting rights earlier than eastern states.
What is to reward frontier women for their contributions?
Many minority groups formed organizations to fight discrimination. Mexican Americans created this type of association for mutual support.
What is a mutualista?
Wilson’s progressive policies included creating this system to regulate banking and stabilize the economy.
What is the Federal Reserve System?
This treaty ended the Spanish-American War and gave the U.S. control of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1898)?