Module 5 Progressives Pt. 1
This name was given to investigative journalists who sought to expose corruption.
What are muckrakers?
He became president after William McKinley was assassinated and was known as a trust buster and an avid conservationist.
Who is Theodore ("TR") Roosevelt?
This U.S. ship mysteriously exploded in Cuba and U.S. journalists blamed Spain and called for war against them.
What is the U.S.S. Maine?
This was the name of the almost two-year long resistance from Chinese rebels against foreign presence in China.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
These were the four underlying causes of WWI.
What are nationalism, imperialism, militarism, and entangling alliances?
This was President Wilson's fourteenth plan, creating an international peace-keeping body to solve world conflicts.
What is the League of Nations?
The powers of direct democracy at the state level where the people can propose legislation, vote on that legislation, and vote to remove elected officials from office are known as these.
What are initiative, referendum, and recall?
This Muckraker famously wrote The Jungle, which became a national bestseller about the horrible conditions of the Chicago meatpacking industry.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This is the name for newspapers that sensationalize the truth in news.
What is yellow journalism?
This U.S. law ended military occupation of Puerto Rico after the Spanish American War and established a pro-U.S. civil government.
What is the Foraker Act?
This was the name given to the U.S. armed forces and volunteer fighters who fought with the Allied forces in Europe., led by John "BlackJack" Pershing
What is the American Expeditionary Force?
These restricted civil liberties at home in the U.S. and mainly targeted immigrants and labor unions.
What are the Espionage and Sedition Acts?
As a labor reformer for women and children, her efforts led to the passing of the Illinois Factory Act in 1893, which prohibited children under the age of 14 to work and for women's work days to be reduced to 8 hours.
Who is Florence Kelley?
This organization was founded in 1909 to fight for African American Civil Rights through the U.S. court system.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
This was the name of the voluntary calvary unit helped win the battles of Kettle Hill and San Juan Hill, which led to the U.S. winning the Spanish American War.
What are the Rough Riders?
This was added to Cuba's constitution that gave the U.S. exclusive rights to intervene militarily in Cuba's economic affairs, establishing Cuba as a semi-independent U.S. protectorate.
What is the Platt Amendment?
Known as the American "Ace of Aces", this U.S. fighter pilot was credited with the most "dog fight" victories in the sky during WWI.
Who is Eddie Rickenbacker?
He was the head of the Committee on Public Information, creating wartime propaganda in the U.S.
Who is George Creel?
She was an investigative journalist that wrote The History of the Standard Oil Company, which exposed John D. Rockefeller as a corrupt industrialist.
Who is Ida B. Tarbell?
This law requires food and pharmaceutical companies to honestly label the ingredients that go into their products.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
This Secretary of State successfully negotiated the U.S. purchase of Alaska from Russia.
Who is William Seward?
This was added to the Monroe Doctrine that claimed the U.S. would use military force if necessary to protect their interests in Latin America.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
These four monarchies made up the Central Powers during WWI.
Who are Germany, Austria-Hungary, The Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria?
These were the "Big Four" nations present at the Paris Peace Conference.
Who are The U.S. (Woodrow Wilson), Great Britain (David Lloyd George), France (Georges Clemenceau), and Italy (Vittorio Orlando).
This was the name of the largest women's organization in the U.S. that fought for women's right to vote.
What is the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)?
These were the four goals of Progressivism.
What are protecting social welfare, promoting moral improvement, creating economic reform, and fostering efficiency?
He led the coup of Queen Liliuokalani and became the first governor of Hawaii.
Who is Sanford P. Dole?
This famous Mexican Nationalist and rebel was chased all over Northern Mexico by the U.S. army after multiple attacks on Americans, but was never caught.
Who is Francisco "Pancho" Villa?
This was Germany's promise to the U.S. to halt unrestricted submarine warfare as long as Britain promises to lift their naval blockade of food and fertilizer.
What is the Sussex Pledge?
This U.S. Senator led the isolationist opposition against Woodrow Wilson, which succeeded in voting NOT to ratify the Treaty of Versailles or join the League of Nations.
Who is Henry Cabot Lodge?