Progressive Era
Head of the Progressive/Bull Moose Party
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Name of Roosevelt's Spanish American War recruits
What are the Rough Riders?
The official name of the American troops that fought in Europe in WWI
What are the American Expeditionary Forces?
Young women of the 1920 who were seen as rebellious and unconventional.
What are flappers?
This building project in Latin America was engineered by President Roosevelt through a separation of a country from Columbia.
What is the Panama Canal?
Term for journalists who brought to light social issues of the time
What are muckrakers?
Addition to the Monroe doctrine allowing the US to act as "Policemen" in South America
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
Two major events that brought the US into the war
What is the sinking of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman telegram?
This was a group of artists and writers who were "disillusioned and directionless" postwar.
What are the lost generation?
Supreme Court case that ruled that it is ok to limit free speech if it showed a "clear and present danger"
What is Schenck v. United States?
Progressive president who later went on to become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Who was William Taft?
Letter (that becomes policy) to European powers that were dividing up China declaring that American trade would not be restricted in China.
What is Open Door Policy?
The document set forth multiple goals for post war peace. (Double points if you can also name the organization that came out of the last goal.)
What is the 14 Points?
Double: What is the League of Nations?
This boom of Jazz, music, creativity and celebration of culture happened in a New York City borough.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The goal of many Americans in the early 1920s and President Harding's campaign slogan in 1920.
What is a return to normalcy?
Socialist presidential candidate thrown in jail for his views but who managed over 1 million votes without campaigning.
Who is Eugene V Debs?
Type of diplomacy favored by Taft that involved investing (instead of police power) in foreign nations
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
Acts that made it illegal to protest the war and allowed for deportation of dissidents
What are the Espionage and Sedition acts?
Court case that was an example of Science v Religion
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
The four candidates in the Election of 1912. Double for their order from least to most progressive.
Who were Taft, Roosevelt, Wilson, Debs?
These three amendments (of four) were passed during President Wilson's terms in office. Be sure to include what each was for.
What are 16th (income tax), 17th (direct election of Senators), 18th (prohibition) and 19th (women's suffrage)?
The two direct reasons why America joined the Spanish American War.
What was the sinking of the USS Maine and yellow journalism?
What is the Meuse–Argonne offensive?
Prohibition was an amendment that came from this early Progressive movement and was supported by women's groups.
What is the temperance movement?
Pact signed by most nations in the world in 1928; condemned wars of aggression
What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact?