The Imperialism Debate
This policy, established by a diplomatic note from Secretary of State John Hay, asked imperial powers to maintain equal trading rights in China.
What is the Open Door Policy?
Sensationalist reporting by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, which actively promoted war fever in the US, was known by this colorful name.
What is the Yellow Press (or Yellow Journalism)?
Theodore Roosevelt's aggressive expansionist foreign policy was summarized by his famous motto to "speak softly and carry" this.
What is a Big Stick?
President Theodore Roosevelt gave this nickname to the investigative journalists who exposed corruption in business and politics.
What are Muckrakers?
In the 1912 election, Theodore Roosevelt broke away from the Republicans to run for president under this new progressive third party.
What is the Bull Moose Party?
American isolationists argued that taking control of the Philippines violated this founding document's principles by depriving people of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Congress declared war on Spain in 1898 but included this amendment, stating the US had no intention of taking political control of Cuba.
What is the Teller Amendment?
To build the Panama Canal, Roosevelt supported a revolt against this South American country, which had previously refused to let the US build the canal.
What is Colombia?
Ida Tarbell and Henry Demarest Lloyd both wrote shocking exposés attacking the corruption and greed of this massive oil monopoly.
What is the Standard Oil Company?
To stop political machines from intimidating voters, all states adopted this system of private voting, first pioneered in Massachusetts, by 1910.
What is the Australian (or secret) ballot?
This secret society of Chinese Nationalists attacked foreign settlements and murdered Christian missionaries before being crushed by US and international troops.
Who are the Boxers (or the Boxer Rebellion)?
Teddy Roosevelt gave up his position as assistant secretary of the navy to lead this volunteer cavalry unit in a famous charge up San Juan Hill.
Who are the Rough Riders
In 1904, Teddy Roosevelt added this "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, declaring that the US would intervene in Latin American countries to collect debts owed to European powers.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
This photojournalist's 1890 book, How the Other Half Lives, exposed the terrible conditions of life in urban tenements
Who is Jacob Riis?
Progressives complained that state legislatures choosing Congressmen made it a "millionaire's club," leading to this amendment, which allowed for the direct election of US Senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
The debate over imperialism was largely a conflict between expansionists who wanted global power, and isolationists who wanted to maintain the precedent of this 1820s policy protecting the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
While the Teller Amendment promised Cuban independence, the US forced Cuba to accept this 1901 amendment, which allowed the US to interfere in Cuban affairs and maintain a permanent naval base at Guantanamo Bay.
What is the Platt Amendment?
William Howard Taft relied more on investor dollars than the navy, utilizing a policy known as this to support US enterprise abroad.
What is Dollar Democracy?
Upton Sinclair wrote this powerful novel to portray the difficult life of immigrants, but it famously resulted in public outrage over the terrible sanitation in meatpacking plants.
What is The Jungle?
This process allowed citizens to vote directly on proposed bills on their ballots.
What is the referendum
Before the imperialism debates of the 1890s, Secretary of State William H. Seward expanded US territory by annexing the Midway Islands and purchasing this massive territory from Russia.
What is Alaska?
Secretary of State John Hay called the Spanish-American War a "splendid little war" because it started with George Dewey destroying the Spanish fleet in this location, over 9,000 miles from Cuba.
What are the Philippines?
To ease tensions over segregated schools in California, Roosevelt and Japan reached this secret 1907 arrangement to restrict Japanese emigration to the US.
What is the Gentlemen's Agreement?
The public demand for government regulation stirred up by The Jungle led directly to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act and this other 1906 regulatory act
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
This trio of state-level democratic reforms allowed voters to compel legislatures to consider bills, vote on proposed laws directly, and remove corrupt politicians from office.
What are the initiative, referendum and recall?