Vocabulary
Complete control over a product or service
Monopoly
Crowded apartment buildings with poor sanitation, safety, and lack of comfort
Tenement Housing
What was a major reason US entered WW!
Overthrow the Czar
Protect Latin America
Freedom of the Seas
break up the Allies
Freedom of the Seas
_____ Era was a reform movement from 1900-1920 that worked to correct abuses in American Society.
Progressive
Who said: "Wilderness areas and their resources should be protected for the public good."
Teddy Roosevelt on Conservation
Was a place in NY Harbor which required immigrants to undergo a physical exam before entering the US
Ellis Island
Laws that segregated public facilities after the Civil War
Jim Crow Laws
After WWI, opposition to the 14 Points was based on?
US must join League of Nations and risk losing some of it's sovereignty.
What was the goal of Jane Addams and the settlement house movement?
help improve life of people (mostly women) living in the poor city neighborhoods.
The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine declared that the US
would view European interference in the Americas as a threat to national interest of the US
Organization formed in 1910 by WEB DuBois to advance the cause of African Americans by fighting for equal rights.
NAACP
Community center organized to provide various services to immigrants and women
Settlement Houses
Wilson's 14 points intended to
prevent international tensions leading to war
Muckrakers contributed to the rise of Progressivism by
exposing corruption in business and government
Yellow Journalist created support for the Spanish American War by writing articles about the sinking of what battleship in Havana Harbor?
USS MAINE
Nation's central banking system, established in 1913, which has successfully regulated the supply of money in the US.
Federal Reserve
Wrote a book called How the Other Half Lives that explained the harsh living conditions in NYC tenements.
Jacob Riis
lower tariffs
improve relations with Asia
not signing disarmament agreements
refusal to join League of Nations
refusal to join League of Nations
Jane Addams, Ida Tarbell, and Booker T. Washington illustrate that reform movements have
a variety of methods to achieve goals
depend on religion
rely on federal government
promote women's suffrage as its main goal
refusal to join League of Nations
the policy of extending rule of foreign country or land for political, social, and economic reasons
Imperialism
Journalist who uncovered wrongdoings on the part of politicians and corporations
Muckrakers
was a type of journalism that emphasized sensational stories of crime and scandal to increase newspaper sales
Yellow Journalism
What are the MAIN causes of WWI
Militarism
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism
Reformers of the Progressive Era sough to reduce corruption by adding the 17th Amendment that provided for
The direct election of US Senators
created a shorter route between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans
Panama Canal