The shift in population from rural to urban, aided by the growth of industrial work in cities.
What is urbanization?
100
Banking, trusts, and tariffs - demonized by Wilson.
What is the Triple Wall of Privilege?
100
Keep this colony from Spain and other European nations. Provide stable government to the natives. Acquiring sugar producing plantations.
What are reasons for acquiring the Philippines?
100
Paper money was once backed by this; A term for gold and silver.
What is specie?
100
American union leader; one of the founding members of the IWW. He launched several failed presidential candidacies as the leader of the Socialist Party of America.
Who is Eugene V. Debs?
200
This placed a ban on all new immigrants from China.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
200
TR's Progressive Party platform in the 1912 election. Called for government regulation of big business and unions, women's suffrage, and more social welfare programs.
What is New Nationalism?
200
Dec. 1904 - The US will intervene in the affairs of Latin America whenever necessary to prevent European nations from stepping in.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
200
Supporters of paper money formed this political party and were able to elect 14 members to Congress in 1878, but ultimately died out once the national economy recovered.
What is the Greenback Party?
200
A shrewd business man who began manufacturing steel in Pittsburgh in the 1870s. His company would eventually bear his name and, by 1900, be at the top of the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
300
Falling crop prices, high interest rates, and unfair storage and transport costs.
What are problems faced by farmers?
300
Strengthened the Sherman Anti-Trust Act for breaking up monopolies. It also established that unions are not to be prosecuted as trusts since labor is not a commodity.
What is the Clayton Anti-Trust Act?
300
A successful, bloodless revolt against Columbia set up this US-backed nation in Latin America. Their first task as a nation was to sign a treaty to build this modern marvel.
What is the Panama Canal?
300
Congress passed this in 1914, issuing Federal Reserve Notes (dollar bills) through the federally regulated banking system.
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
300
Business tycoon who founded the Standard Oil Trust which came to control 90% of the oil refinery business.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
400
Horse-drawn street cars replaced by electric trolleys, elevated railroads, and subways. Massive steel bridges.
What are improvements in urban transportation?
400
This movement was behind many ideas of the Progressives and would also inspire many Depression-Era reforms.
What is Populism?
400
In an attempt to encourage the purchase of domestic goods, this was enacted. However, it backfired when foreign countries followed suit and limited the market for American goods abroad.
What is the protective tariff?
400
In 1913, this substantially lowered tariffs for the first time in 50 years while introducing a graduated income tax rate from 1-6% to make up the difference.
What is the Underwood Tariff?
400
The leader of the Philippine rebel army.
Who is Emilio Aguinaldo?
500
The 1893 idea that the frontier experience in America provided inventive and practical approaches to problems.
What is the Turner Thesis?
500
Wilson's Democratic Party platform in the 1912 election. Called for a limit to big business as well as big government. Aims to end corruption through reform and support small business.
What is New Freedom?
500
The idea that it is the responsibility of westerners to civilize and protect "primitive" cultures by way of colonization.
What is the White Man's Burden?
500
Deficit spending to increase investment, create jobs, and initiate economic growth; "Priming the Pump"
What is Keynesian economics?
500
As the gold reserve ran low in the last decade of the Nineteenth Century, President Cleveland turned to this Wall Street banker to borrow $65mil in gold to support the dollar.