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This president boasted in a campaign for reelection thats he worked in the anthracite coal strike to provide everyone with a "square deal."
Who is President Theodore Roosevelt?
This social worker opened "Hull House," a settlement house that helped to spawn the movement of the same name.
Who is Jane Addams?
This former (and last) monarch of Hawaii resisted American expansion, only to relinquish her authority after 2 years.
Who is Queen Liliʻuokalani?
This term refers to journalists who were committed to "scraping," or exposing scandal, corruption, and injustice to the public view.
What is "Muckrackers?"
The sinking of this ship led to heightened tensions between the U.S. and Spain, eventually being something that led to the Spanish-American War.
What is The Maine?
This president supported his decision to keep the Philippines under American control by saying that the Filipinos were "unfit for self-government."
Who is former President William McKinley?
This muckracker shed light on Standard Oil through an enormous study that was posted first in magazines, and then as a two-volume book in 1904.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
This former President tried to avoid starting a war with Spain, despite the feelings of some of the people in his administration, including a then Assistant Secretary to the Navy, Theodore Roosevelt.
Who was President William McKinley?
This movement aimed to eliminate alcohol from daily American life, was supported by organizations like the WCTU, and ended up with the passage of the 18th amendment?
What is the Temperance Movement?
This island along with Guam was ceded to the U.S. by Spain after the Spanish-American War, had a thriving sugarcane industry, and was declared a U.S. territory in 1917.
What is Puerto-Rico?
This man referred to the Spanish-American War as, "A Splendid Little War."
Who is John Hay?
This former president was first the governor of New Jersey, and sought to reform his state to change its position from the "mother of trusts," showing a key example of reforms taking place at the state level.
Who is President Woodrow Wilson?
Who mentioned the "closing of the frontier," which influenced America into embracing it's imperialist desires to gain resources abroad.
Who is Frederick Jackson Turner?
This movement in American society wished to gain women equal representation in society, being supported by organizations like NAWSA and resulted in the ratification of the 19th amendment in 1920.
What is the Women's Suffrage Movement?
This law passed by Republicans in 1900 confirmed the nation's commitment to the Gold Standard, putting an end to the "Free-Silver Movement."
What is the Currency Act of 1900/Gold Standard Act of 1900?
"...if we are to consider her as a citizen, as a member of a great nation, she must have the same rights as all other members."
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
This man opposed the philosophy spoken by Booker T. Washington, and believed that black people should actively fight for their civil rights instead of patiently waiting for them to be given to them.
Who is W. E. B. Du Bois?
This man served as the leader of the Filipino resistance against America, and was later captured and urged his resistance to stop fighting.
Who is Emilio Aguinaldo?
This term describes former President Wilson's philosophy on economic regulation, and opposed Roosevelt's previously stated "New Nationalism," policy.
What is Wilson's "New Freedom," policy?
This meeting was organized in an effort to bridge the U.S. with the Latin American market, which attracted delegates from 9 nations in an effort to expand American influence?
What is the Pan American Congress?
"There is no human right to the status of barbarism."
Who is John W. Burgess?
This figure became the leading candidate in the Socialist Party of America, receiving nearly 1 million ballots in the 1912 election.
Who is Eugene V. Debs?
This man's thesis stated how countries with sea power were the great nations of history, and that the United States being bounded by two oceans, would rest its greatness on its naval strength.
Who is Alfred Thayer Mahan?
This term referred to a philosophy prioritizing social justice, held by people who valued an egalitarian society and support for the poor and oppressed.
What is the Social Gospel?
This event began as a nationalist effort to combat western influence in China, leading to a joint-imperialist effort to put it down and save western spheres of influence.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?