US Imperialism
Progressive Reforms
People
Wars
Terms
100
These people who were for imperialism thought we needed to do what to become a world super power.
What is dominate the seas and control world markets?
100
This made monopolies illegal.
What is Sherman Anti Trust Act
100
This man started the Tuskegee institute, taught practical trade skills to African American men, and advocated slow progress toward equality.
Who is Booker T Washington?
100
This "Splendid Little War" took place in Cuba.
What is the Spanish/American War?
100
Teddy Roosevelt coined this nick name for journalists like Jacob Riis and Upton Sinclair who exposed the dark side of US industrialism.
What is muckrakers?
200
These are the countries the US took control of during this period.
What are Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Guam, The Phillipines
200
This made for more sanitary conditions in meat packing plants.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906.
200
This woman campaigned against mob violence towards African Americans in the South.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
200
This war was very important to US imperial interests. The US annexed these islands and put some of the people there in concentration camps during the war.
What is the War in the Philippines.
200
This is the name of the party Teddy Roosevelt founded, which was also called the "Bull Moose Party".
What is the progressive party?
300
These people thought Imperialism was not compatible with democracy.
Who are the anti-imperialists
300
These people fought for women to have the right to vote -- it passed in 1920.
Who are suffragists/or suffragettes
300
This man was president; he led a group of soldiers called "rough riders" into the Spanish American war; he also was very into conserving our national wildlife.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
300
This type of Journalism was credited with getting the war started in Spain because it exaggerated the evils of Spain, loosely based on truth, and influenced public opinion.
What is yellow journalism?
300
This is the goal of progressive reforms.
What is attempts to solve problems that had increased during the early years of the 20th century - corruption/poverty/greed/
400
This anti-imperialist amendment state the US could not annex Cuba after the war.
What is the Teller Amendment?
400
Thee 18th amendment pushed through by the "temperance" movement prohibited what substance?
What is alcohol
400
This man advocated college education for African American men; he advocated fighting for equality now.
Who is W.E.B. Dubois?
400
This ship exploded in the harbor of Cuba and was the final straw before the US invaded Cuba to fight Spain.
What is the USS Maine?
400
This is the island that eastern European immigrants arrived at in NYC looking for the "American Dream."
What is Ellis Island?
500
The congress passed the Platt amendment saying the US could have a military base and the right to intervene with military might in what country that we had a war with Spain in.
What is Cuba?
500
This factory fire helped NYC legislators push through some laws forcing factories to follow safety regulations.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
500
This guy wrote a book called "How the Other Half Lives" It showed the horrible living conditions of immigrants in tenements in the cities.
Who is Jacob Riis?
500
This addition to an old doctrine said that if European countries tried to mess with countries in the west, the US could go in and use our military to kick them out.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?
500
This word means the limit -- used to limit the number of immigrants from specific areas.
What is quotas?