It opened a passage two both major oceans, it opened global trade, provided a source of income for the United States or Panama
100
What group of people living on HAwaii wanted the island annexed?
The plantation owners.
100
What is one way children were affected by the Progressive era?
eliminating Child Labor
100
This president set aside many acres of land and established the National Parks that we still have today
Teddy Roosevelt
200
What was a major economic argument for expansion?
The US needed new markets for its goods
200
What was the first/primary reason for annexing Hawaii?
To use it as a port/naval base to access East Asia
200
What group of individuals saw little to no social action that helped them during the progressive era?
African Americans
200
How was Woodrow Wilson able to win the 1912 election
Taft and Roosevelt split the republican vote
300
Name one country annexed by the US after the Spanish American War
Puerto Rico, Guam, or Philippines
300
Where did the first action of the Spanish-American War take place?
Cuba, explosion of the USS Maine
300
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
The United States investing money in poorer countries (Central and S America) to prevent them from owing other countries $
300
Federal Income Tax
16th Amendment
300
Taft was not viewed as a great President during the P.E., but he did carry on progressive ideals by carrying out this tactic that Teddy Roosevelt was "famous" for
Trust-busting/breaking up big business
400
What country began construction of the Panama Canal but failed to complete it?
France
400
What was an argument used AGAINST Imperialism?
The cost of expansion
400
Who argued for the increase of the US Navy
Alfred T. Mahan
400
Jacob Riis and Upton Sinclair
Muckrakers
400
Upton Sinclair wrote this book which exposed this business
The Jungle, Meatpacking industry
500
What was the central message of the Roosevelt Corollary
The United States would intervene in Central and S. America to prevent crisis
500
What was "The Great White Fleet" and where did they travel to?
The U.S. Navy, they traveled to Japan for trade.
500
What is the belief that English-Speaking Individuals have superior government and civilization?
Anglo Saxonism
500
17th Amendment
Direct Primaries
500
President Wilson created this Act which expanded on Teddy Roosevelt's Sherman Anti-Trust Act