Progressive Presidents
What is one area that all Progressive Presidents lacked in improving?
Civil Rights
What is the name of the political party that Teddy Roosevelt founded?
Bull Moose
Who believed in "Big Stick Diplomacy?"
Theodore Roosevelt
Name 3 of the 4 places the US annexed after the Spanish-American war.
Philippines, Guam, Cuba, Puerto Rico
Which Amendment to the Constitution made income tax legal?
16th
Taft's foreign policy of encouraging US investment in other countries
Dollar Diplomacy
What would a journalist who uncovers and exposes corruption, scandal, or other wrongdoings be called?
Muckraker
What was the opposing view to imperialism? (other than anti-imperialism)
Isolationism
Why did the United States need the Panama Canal?
Efficiency: Without it ships would have to sail all the way around South America
Imperialistic reasons: Easier access to Pacific Islands and Asia (if leaving from the East Cost)
Economic Reasons: We will save money and make money from its use
What does the ICC stand for?
Interstate Commerce Commission
What are the 3 C's to Teddy Roosevelt's Square Deal?
Conservation (of natural resources), Corporate Law, Consumer Protection
One tension of the progressive era was between government by experts and government by ___________?
Popular democratic participation
"The use of religion to promote democracy and humanitarianism" was called ________ Diplomacy, whose policy was this?
Missionary Diplomacy, Wilson
What was the main economic factor to annexing Hawaii?
Sugar plantations
What did the 17th Amendment do?
Allowed for the direct election of senators
The New Nationalism belonged to which president? Where did it want the power to go?
Teddy Roosevelt, the Federal Government/Executive Branch
What was the Northern Securities Company and what happened to them?
They were a railroad trust that was dissolved when the Supreme Court found them in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act
Supremacy of the Seas, building a strong navy, bases in the Caribbean, taking Hawaii, building the Panama Canal, obtaining more land were all part of whose thesis?
Mahan
Why was there a Filipino Rebellion against the United States?
Because the United States freed them from Spanish occupation, but then were just occupied again by the United States and they wanted freedom.
What is the Federal Reserve (Fed)
A (private) National Banking System that regulates interest rates and influences the money supply
Wilson used the Underwood-Simmons Act (an extension to an amendment) to do what?
Establish a progressive (or graduated) income tax
Name 3 acts that regulated business (corporate law) or furthered consumer protections
Sherman/Clayton Antitrust Act, Elkins Act, Hepburn Act, Federal Reserve Act, Meat inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act, Adamson Act, Keating-Owen Act
Other than the Panic of 1893, what was the main economic cause to American imperialism?
U.S. wanted access to (natural) resources, global competition, and foreign markets
Describe the Open Door Policy in China
All nations would have equal access to trade within China, preventing one power from monopolizing trade within their "sphere of influence." Maintained China's territorial integrity amidst growing foreign intervention and division of the country into areas controlled by different powers, also protecting American economic interests.
What was the name of the unpopular tariff that was the result of the compromise for the vastly unpopular Dingley Tariff
Payne-Aldrich Tariff