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New underwater weapon that threatened neutral shipping.
What is a submarine or U-boat?
100
A largely middle-class movement that aimed to use the power of government to correct the economic and social problems of industrialism.
What is progressivism?
100
The coalition of powers -- led by Britain, France, and Russia -- that opposed Germany and its supporting nations in WWI.
What are the Allied powers?
100
Popular journalists who used publicity to expose corruption and attack abuses of power in business and government.
Who are the muckrakers?
100
WWI alliance headed by Germany and Austria-Hungary.
What are the Central powers?
200
Four-footed symbol of Roosevelt's Progressive third party in 1912.
What is the Bull Moose?
200
A fourth political party, led by a former labor union leader, that garnered nearly a million votes in 1912.
What is the Socialist Party?
200
Small European nation in which an Austro-Hungarian heir was killed, leading to the outbreak of World War I.
What is Serbia?
200
Large British passenger liner whose sinking in 1915 prompted some Americans to call for war against Germany.
What is the Lusitania?
200
Troubled Caribbean island nation where a president's murder led Wilson to send in the marines and assume American control of the police and finances.
What is Haiti?
300
Mexican revolutionary whose assaults on American citizens and territory provoked a U.S. expedition into Mexico.
Who is Pancho Villa?
300
Powerful corporation broken up by a Taft-initiated antitrust suit in 1911.
What is the Standard Oil Company?
300
Generally unsuccessful Taft foreign policy in which government attempted to encourage overseas business ventures.
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
300
Progressive measure that required U.S. senators to be elected directly by the people rather than by state legislatures.
What is the 17th Amendment?
300
Roosevelt's policy of having the federal government promote the public interest by dealing evenhandedly with both labor and business.
What is the Square Deal?
400
Progressive proposal to allow votes to bypass state legislatures and propose legislation themselves.
What is initiative?
400
Wilson's political philosophy of restoring democracy through trust-busting and economic competition.
What is New Freedom?
400
Germany's highly conditional agreement in 1916 not to sink passenger and merchant vessels without warning.
What is the Sussex pledge?
400
Wilsonian law that tried to curb business monopoly while encouraging labor and agricultural organization.
What is the Clayton Anti-Trust Act?
400
Progressive device that would enable voters to remove corrupt or ineffective officials from office.
What is recall?
500
Effective railroad-regulation law of 1906 that greatly strengthened the Interstate Commerce Commission.
What is the Hepburn Act?
500
The most influential of the state-level progressive governors and a presidential aspirant in 1912.
Who is Robert La Follette?
500
Upton Sinclair's novel that inspired proconsumer federal laws regulating meat, food, and drugs.
What is "The Jungle?"
500
Pro-conservation federal officer whose dismissal by Taft angered Roosevelt progressives.
Who is Gifford Pinchot?
500
A twelve-member agency appointed by the president to oversee the banking system under a new federal law of 1913.
What is the Federal Reserve Board?