Urbanization (pt.1)
What is Urbanization
The (rapid) growth of cities
What is it called to have a method of moving large amount of people around areas on fixed routes?
Mass transit
What is a group that controls a political party in a city called?
A Political Machine
What European nation does the U.S. Defeat to take the Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico, and Cuba?
Spain
What person was the leader of the 1st volunteer Calvary in the Spanish American War and helped take control of Santiago de Cuba?
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
What is the ban of the sale of Alcohol called?
Prohibition
Who was president for the Spanish merican War
William McKinley
Extra: (No negative but only first team gets points) What president is the only former president to become a supreme court justice?
William Howard Taft
Who was the youngest man to serve as president?
Teddy Roosevelt
How many Native American Languages are still spoken today?
800+
What were some (at least 2) of the problems the cities faced with mass urbanization?
Lack of clean drinking water, increased crime, increase threat of fire, unsanitary conditions
What philosophy emerged around this time that viewed the poor as less than and not as worthy of life?
Social Darwinism
The Us buying Alaska from Russia in 1867 was called what?
Seward's Folly
What was the ship that sunk in the port of Havanna?
The USS Maine
Who became a chief inspector of Factories in Illioins and helped get the Illinois Factory Act passed?
Florence Kelley
What president had the square Deal?
Teddy Roosevelt
What was Wilson's reforms called?
New Freedom
What is the name of the 2 main acts that helped protect consumers under Teddy Roosevelt?
Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act
What was the low quality housing for mass amount of poeple called?
Tenements
What city first started using streetcars in 1873?
San Francisco
Who ran the Tammany Hall Political Machine?
William Tweed (Boss Tweed)
What now US State was taken over by American Companies and joined the United States as a territory in 1898
Hawaii
What did America get in return for helping Panama get independence?
the Panama Canal
Give the definition of each term:
1. Initiative
2. Referendum
3. Recall
•Initiatives: Bills proposed by the public
•Referendum: Public vote on initiatives
•Recall: Vote to remove a public official from office
What was the 16th Amendment?
The introduction of a graduated income tax
Why was Taft inconsistent on Progressive policies
He decreased taxes but he removed reserved lands and put them into public use.
What was the name of the third party that Teddy Roosevelt started?
Progressive party (or Bull Moose Party)
Who photographed the slums of New York and created the book How the Other Half Lives?
Jacob Riis
What city first started using subways in 1897?
Boston
Who was the political cartoonist who helped expose The Tammany Hall Scandal and was influenced by St. Nicholas when making Santa Claus?
Thomas Nast
What type of Journalism focused on sensationalism and embellished language to cause specific reactions during this time period?
Yellow Journalism
What country did the US force to give Panama Independence?
Columbia
What type of journalism involved exposing corrupt business practices and harsh working conditions?
Muckrakering (journalists are called muckrackers)
Who adopted the gold standard?
William McKinley
What movie was supported by Wilson that is credited with helping restart the KKK?
The Birth of the Nation
What was created to investigate illegal corporate practices under Wilson?
FTC (Federal Trade Commission)
What movement encouraged people to start settlement houses, YMCA, and The Salvation Army
Social Gospel Movement
Chlorination was introduce in 1908 to improve what type of system?
Water Filtration
What is the name of the system of giving people jobs in government after they supported the victories candidate?
Spoils system
What was the name of the type of Diplomacy that Woodrow Wilson enacted as president that did not allow him to work with oppressive governments?
Missionary Diplomacy
What is the type of Diplomacy that involved companies giving loans to local governments to get involved when the debt could not be paid back?
Dollar Diplomacy
What is the 17th Amendment?
Senators are publicly elected
Who are the four progressive presidents?
McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson
Who assassinated William McKinley?
Leon Czolgosz
What were the components of the square deal. (must give ALL 3)
•Conservation of natural resources
•Control of corporations
•Consumer protection