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The year the United States became an imperial power on the world stage.
1898
the Sixteenth Amendment gives the Federal Government the power to do this.
Levy income taxes.
Teddy Roosevelt believed that American forests should be...
Conserved for public use.
Links the Atlantic to the Pacific in Central America.
Panama Canal
Strategy used to by the National Woman's Party to get the attention of Woodrow Wilson in the fight for suffrage?
Picketing outside the White House
Amendment which allows for the direct election of US Senators by the People.
Seventeenth Amendment
Mexican revolutionary and guerilla fighter.
Pancho Villa
This US naval vessel was destroyed, beginning the Spanish-American War
USS Maine
US Courts helped Margaret Sanger by doing this.
Declaring that doctors could discuss birth control for women's health purposes.
Political Party of Teddy Roosevelt in 1912
Progressive Party
The fates of Cuba and Puerto Rico after the Spanish-American War.
Cuba achieved independence, Puerto Rico fell under the control of the United States.
Constitutional Amendment passed with the urging of the Women's Christian Temperance Union.
Eighteenth Amendment
Served as US Secretary of State from 1895 to 1905
The primary goal of the Women's Christian Temperance Union
Ban on alcohol
Plessy v. Ferguson ruled that this was legal.
Amendment giving women the right to vote.
Nineteenth Amendment
Foreign trade and investment.
Main reason the Progressive era did not help minorities.
Progressives were still racist.
Susan B. Anthony did this to show the insanity of women not being able to vote.
Illegally voted in New York.
group of US battleships sent on a “good will cruise”
Great White Fleet
The political reform allowing voters to approve or reject laws.
Referendum
Alfred T. Mahan was an influence on American expansionism because...
He helped expand the influence and reach of the US Navy.
Book written by Ida B. Wells
The Red Record
United States and Japan agree to end segregation of Asian children in San Francisco public schools; in return, Japan agreed to limit emigration of its citizens to the United States.
Gentlemen's Agreement
The affect of the Jones Act.
The Philippines would eventually be granted independence.