Progressive Politics
What is the term for journalists and others who made an effort to expose societal problems like conditions of the city, child labor, racism, and etc.
muckrakers
What does suffrage mean?
the right to vote
What modern day, two-worded phrase best represents Yellow Journalism?
Fake News
What was the nickname of the regiment in the Spanish-American War that was made up of cowboys, Native Americans, Ivy scholars, athletes, and even future president Teddy Roosevelt?
Rough Riders
Ida B. Wells fought against what two things throughout her life?
Racism and sexism
Who said, "Speak softly and carry a big stick”?
President Teddy Roosevelt
Prohibition began with the ratification of which amendment?
18th Amendment
Who was handpicked by President Roosevelt to be his successor (the next president after him)
William Howard Taft
What was the constitution that the Hawaiian monarchy was basically forced to sign in 1887 nicknamed?
Bayonet Constitution
What was the goal of the Progressive movement?
to make society better for all
Woodrow Wilson
The 19th Amendment gave suffrage to whom?
Women
Pulitzer and Hearst's newspaper companies focused heavily on the sinking of what US ship in 1898 in Cuba?
USS Maine
"This" amendment in the new Cuban Constitution stated that the US controlled Cuba's military involvements and also allowed the US to establish naval bases there.
Platt Amendment
What were the laws that legally segregated Black and White Americans called?
Jim Crow laws
Plessy v. Ferguson established what 3-worded legal doctrine
Separate but equal
What did the 16th Amendment allow the government to do?
implement an income tax
consumer
What was the Poem we read in class that essentially said that American men have a duty to Americanize inferior places?
"The White Man's Burden"
Upton Sinclair wrote "The Jungle", which detailed the horrors of a meat-packing industry in what city?
Chicago
What domestic policy did President Taft continue that President Roosevelt emphasized?
trust-busting
How did the 17th Amendment give more power to the voters?
Voters now elected senators, not state legislatures
Pulitzer and Hearst's newspaper companies focused on creating sympathy for what group of people (think reconcentration camps) in the late 1890s?
People of Cuba/Cuban rebels against Spain
What THREE territories did the US get from Spain according to the Treaty of Paris in 1898?
Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines
Booker T. Washington started the Tuskegee institute. W.E.B. Du Bois helped start "this" orginization, which helped fight for African American Civil Rights.
NAACP