Key Terms
This policy was meant to keep China open to trade for all nations
What is the Open Door Policy?
These newspaper tycoons are most associated with the concept of "yellow journalism."
Who are William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer?
To break up larger monopolies
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
Lead America into the Spanish-American War
Who is William McKinley?
This was the main goal of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).
What was to ban alcohol?
The primary goal of muckrakers.
What is to expose societal issues?
This country paid $20 million to Spain for the Philipines.
What is the United States?
Investing in Latin America
This progressive president's policy was called "New Freedom."
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Stricter labor laws and safety regulations were issued after this famous fire in 1911.
A fair deal for ALL Americans.
What is Square Deal?
This military unit earned particular distinction in the war.
Who are the Rough Riders?
Natural selection and survival of the fittest
This progressive president broke up monopolies and Standard Oil.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This organization was founded in 1909 to advocate for civil rights for African Americans.
What was the NAACP?
The main focus of the suffrage movement during the Progressive Era?
What is women's right to vote.
This Amendment (not to the Constitution) passed after the Spanish-American War.
An addition to the Monroe Doctrine that made the U.S. the "police force" of the Western Hemisphere
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
This progressive president was Teddy Roosevelt's handpicked successor.
Who is William Taft?
This U.S. Constitutional Amendment granted women the right to vote.
What was the 19th Amendment?
This policy was most associated with Roosevelt's approach to foreign relations.
What is the Big Stick Policy?
This was a direct trigger of the outbreak of the Spanish-American War.
What is the explosion of the USS Maine?
Waterway built by the U.S. to connect the Caribbean and the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Panama Canal?
This progressive president once got stuck in the White House bathtub because he was extremely overweight!
Who is William H. Taft?
This book sparked a federal investigation of the meatpacking industry.
What was The Jungle?