Imperialism
Group opposed to the annexation of the Philippines. Included: Jane Addams, Andrew Carnegie, Samuel Gompers and Mark Twain.
What is the Anti Imperialist League?
Process through which voters can remove elected officials. One of several state level Progressive reforms.
What is "recall"?
Who is Henry Cabot Lodge?
Won the presidency in 1916 with the slogan "He Kept Us out of War."
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Nickname for the daily press published by William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer.
What is Yellow Journalism?
Waterway constructed in Central America after the ratification of the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty in 1903.
What is the Panama Canal?
John Muir differed from Gifford Pinchot and Teddy Roosevelt in that he was this type of environmentalist.
What is a preservationist?
Government agency established to mobilize domestic support for the war effort, led by George Creel.
What is the Committee on Public Information?
Woodrow Wilson supported the creation of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to regulate this monopolistic economic entity.
What are Trusts?
Colony purchased from Spain for $20 million dollars, eventually granted an elected legislature under the Jones Act.
What is The Philippines?
Policy extended by the Roosevelt Corollary. According to Roosevelt, a logical extension of this earlier policy was for the United States to act as "policeman" of the Western Hemipshere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Muckraker who wrote The Shame of the Cities and was editor of McClure's Magazine.
Who is Lincoln Steffens?
Supreme Court case that established the "clear and present danger" principle related to the restriction of civil liberties during wartime.
What is Schenk v U.S.?
Presidential candidate for the Socialist Party in 1920. Campaigned from prison after being convicted for violating the Espionage Act.
Who is Eugene V. Debs?
Nickname given to the 1st Volunteer Cavalry of the Spanish American War. This regiment featured former Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Theodore Roosevelt.
What is the "Rough Riders"?
Policy meant to guarantee access to China for American investment and commercial interests.
What is the "Open Door" policy?
Progressive writer who believed African Americans should pursue immediate and full equality.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
Article of the Treaty of Versailles that outlined the creation of the League of Nations.
What is Article X?
As president, Teddy Roosevelt intervened and mediated a labor stoppage on behalf of workers in this industry.
What is the coal industry?
The origin of this mosquito borne illness was discovered during the Spanish American War.
What is Yellow Fever?
Series of Supreme Court rulings that said "the Constitution does not follow the flag."
What are the Insular cases?
NAWSA advocated for a state by state expansion of this right.
What is Women's suffrage?
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This speech given by Teddy Roosevelt in 1910 laid out his vision for progressive reforms and split the Republican Party.
What is the New Nationalism Speech?
Spanish general who used re-concentration camps to isolate Cuban civilians from revolutionary armies.
Who is Valeriano Weyler?