Progressive Reforms 1
This provided for the direct election of senators.
17th amendment
These writers investigated corruption and unsafe conditions to push the government to act.
Muckrakers
These laws enforced segregation.
Jim Crow laws
After the Spanish-American War, the U.S. took control of this island nation, whose people then fought a bloody war against American colonization.
The Philippines
This was the main reason the U.S. wanted the Panama Canal was that it allowed faster travel between these two oceans.
Atlantic and Pacific
True or False: Progressives wanted to reduce the size and power of the federal government.
FALSE!
This Progressive reform allows citizens to propose laws directly.
Initiative
This Supreme Court case upheld the constitutionality of segregation.
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
This U.S. policy, announced in 1823, was creating to keep Europe out of Latin America.
The Monroe Doctrine
The sinking of this ship in Havana Harbor helped push the U.S. into war with Spain in 1898.
The USS Maine
She founded Hull House to help immigrants and the urban poor.
Jane Addams
Progressives supported this process that lets voters remove elected officials from office before their term ends.
Recall
This organization was founded in 1909 to fight segregation and discrimination.
NAACP (National Assoc. for the Advancement of Colored People)
This president’s “Big Stick” diplomacy emphasized negotiating peacefully while showing off the U.S. military power.
Theodore Roosevelt
List one of the key founders of the NAACP.
W.E.B. DuBois, Ida B. Wells
Theodore Roosevelt supported national parks and land preservation as part of this reform movement.
Conservation
Ratified in 1920, this gave women the right to vote.
19th amendment
The 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson established this legal doctrine justifying racial segregation in public facilities.
Separate but equal
What territories did the US gain as a result of the Spanish-American War?
Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines
Roosevelt justified sending troops to Latin America under this policy, claiming the U.S. could act as “an international police power.”
The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
These three Progressive Era reforms increased direct democracy by giving more power to voters.
Initiative, referendum, and recall
This muckraker shined a light on slums and poverty in NYC with his camera and pen.
Jacob Riis
What was the NAACP’s primary method for challenging segregation and discrimination?
The legal system / courts
The U.S. helped Panama gain independence from this country to secure rights to build the canal.
Colombia
Muckraker Ida Tarbell exposed the unfair practices of this oil monopoly.
Standard Oil