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Unit 8
Progressives and Imperialism
Question | Answer |
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Progressive movement | time of reform incorporating positive government involvement |
Teddy Roosevelt | hero of the Spanish American War and Republican President 1901-1909 |
William McKinley | President who was assassinated in September 1901 |
What caused the Spanish American War | war hawks, imperialism desires, sympathy for the Cubans, yellow journalism, & explosion of the Maine |
What was the spark that started the Spanish American War | Explosion of the battleship Maine |
General Weyler | Brutal Spanish general known as "The Butcher" |
Who blew up the Maine? | The Spanish! No, although they were blamed, it was an internal explosion |
volunteer cavalry unit led by T. Roosevelt | Rough Riders |
Admiral who became a hero due to destruction of the Spanish fleet in the Philippines | Dewey |
territory US acquired as a result of the Spanish American War | Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines |
yellow journalism | news reporting that is sensationalized and exaggerated to sell papers |
muckraker | those who exposed the corruption, poverty, crime, and waste of American life |
The Jungle | Book by Upton Sinclair designed to increase sympathy for the immigrant workers in Chicago's meat packing plant |
Bull Moose | Teddy Roosevelt's political party when he ran for President in 1912 against Taft and Wilson |
recall | removing officials before their term in office expires |
initiative | citizens propose legislation directly |
referendum | right of citizens to accept or reject measures passed by state legislatures |
direct primary | choice of political candidates in the hands of the people |
17th amendment | addition to the US Constitution allowing for the direct election of US Senators |
Pure Food and Drug Act | law enacted in 1906 thanks to the book The Jungle |
Carrie Chapman Catt | President of the National American Woman's Suffrage Association |
Alice Paul | led the picket at the White House, was jailed, and went on a hunger strike to bring attention to the need for women's suffrage |
Susan B. Anthony amendment | 19th amendment to the US Constitution in 1920 allowing women the right to vote |
Why did so many people die when Titanic sank? | not enough life boats, life boats not filled to capacity, freezing water temps, help was too far away |
New laws created as a result of the Titanic disaster | life boat space for all, life boat drills, international ice patrol created, ships must maintain 24 hour radio watch |
Jacob Riis | photojournalist and progressive whose book, How the Other Half Lives, helped create the Tenement Inspection Act |
William Howard Taft | President of the US, was very unhappy, however, after his term in office, he became a very successful Supreme Court Justice |
Platt Amendment | allowed the US to intervene in Cuban affairs and establish a permanent naval base on the island |