Industrialization
Novels, books, newspapers, photography, and illustration (cartoons) are examples of tools used by which group during the late 1800s to early 1900s
What were the Muckrakers?
a refusal to work organized by a body of employees as a form of protest
What is a Strike?
Woodrow Wilson, William Howard Taft, and Teddy Roosevelt
Who are the progressive presidents?
The conflict that ended with US territorial gains of the Philippines, Hawaii, and Guam
What is the Spanish-American War?
a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
What is "Imperialism"?
This famous political cartoonist was a critic of government corruption which was often the subject of his work
Who is Thomas Nast?
An organized group of workers who come together to make decisions about the work environment, including negotiations for wages and working conditions.
What are Labor Unions?
The President who doubled the amount of national parks in the U.S.
Who was "Theodore Roosevelt"?
This document declared the Americas closed to further European colonization.
What was the "Monroe Doctrine"?
When a company has exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service
What is a "Monopoly"?
A system that promotes corruption and allows businesses to control government by getting candidates elected for their own benefit
What is a political machine?
The process in which employers negotiate with labor unions about hours, wages, and other working conditions
What is Collective Bargaining?
This progressive group brought attention to racial inequality by using the courts to fight grandfather clauses
What is the NAACP?
an extreme nationalist, a person who strongly identifies with a country or nation and believes his or her country or nation is superior to all others
What is a "Jingoist"?
Journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration
What is Yellow Journalism?
a series of workers and machines in a factory by which a succession of identical items is progressively assembled.
What is the Assembly Line?
1886 labor related protest in Chicago which ended in deadly violence
What is the Haymarket Riot?
A national banking system with 12 district banks supervised by a federal reserve board - designed to provide stability and flexibility to the US financial system
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
Used "Dollar Diplomacy" to drive private financial investment in China and Central America believing it would lead to greater stability & promote US business interests
Who is William Howard Taft?
Allowed Americans to vote directly for U.S. senators instead of having state legislatures vote for them
What is the Seventeenth Amendment?
The lenient government policies that left private businesses without regulation
Laissez-faire
Labor union that organized skilled workers in a specific trade and made specific demands rather than seeking broad changes
What is the American Federation of Labor?
a bill originating with the people rather than lawmakers
What is an initiative?
This required Cuba to agree to never sign a treaty with a foreign power that impaired its independence, to permit the U.S. to intervene in Cuba’s affairs to preserve its independence and to maintain law and order, and to allow the U.S. to maintain naval bases in Cuba
What is the Platt Amendment?
A group who opposed the United States annexing the Philippines and believed that overseas expansion went against the American ideal of the right to self-government.
What was the American Anti-Imperialist League?