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Ch 20 21 Apush
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| journalist; exposed Rockefeller and his unfair business practices and the monopoly of Standard Oil; wrote articles that were later compiled into a book called The History of the Standard Oil Company | Ida Tarbell |
| photographer; showed Americans the reality of big city living; especially for the poor immigrants | Jacob Riis |
| wanted to expose the unfair treatment of immigrants but ended up exposing the meat packing industry | Upton Sinclair |
| focused on labor and union issues; wrote articles to show Americans the struggle of the workers and their fight against employers | Ray Stannard Baker |
| worked to expose what was going on in factories as well as working conditions for children; The Bitter Cry of Children | John Spargo |
| his issue was big city political corruption; he wanted to show Americans the state of their politics and get them angry; his articles later became a book called The Shame of the Cities | Linclon Steffens |
| focused on machine politics and southern race issues; political cartoon artist | Thomas Nast |
| founded the Hull House | Jane Adams |
| a NYC nurse who influenced to educate the poor on birth control when a poor immigrant patient died from a bad abortion | Margaret Sanger |
| progressive politician who experienced political machine corruption and worked to bring back republican ideals to politics and | Robert LaFollete |
| called African Americans to not be so defiant; he also advocated learning a skill | Brooker T. Washington |
| was critical of Washington; thought that the accomodistic way was not going to find success | W.E.B. Dubois |
| became president after McKinley’s assassination; was a member of the Republican Party although he was a progressive; he was also a conservatist was willing to expand the power of the president | Theodore Roosevelt |
| was Roosevelt’s hand-picked successor to the presidency; followed laws strictly; was a conservative republican who supported tariffs | William Howard Taft |
| US Chief Forester involved in the Pinchot-Ballinger affair; was fired by Taft for insubordination after making public charges against Richard Ballinger | Gifford Pinchot |
| Secretary of the Interior; involved in the Pinchot-Ballinger affair; was accused by Pinchot of transferring land in Alaska to a company | Richard Ballinger |
| was elected in 1912 when the Republican Party was split | Woodrow Wilson |
| believed that to become a strong imperial world power, the US needs to build up its navy and take control of the seas | Alfred Mahan |
| queen of Hawaii that was overthrown when the US annexed Hawaii | Queen Liliuokalni |
| Secretary of State who purchased Alaska from Russia | William Seward |
| Spanish general sent to Cuba to deal with the rebellion; set up concentration camps to try to get them to remain loyal | General Weyler |
| Spanish minister to the US who wrote a letter to a friend calling McKinley a weak president | Enrique DeLane |
| made an amendment to the constitution saying that the US would not annex Cuba after the Spanish-American war | Henry Teller |
| one of the leaders of the rough riders with Teddy Roosevelt | Leonard Wood |
| leader of the American forces in the Philippines | George Dewey |
| people who are communicating with the public and exposing the corruption in society | Muckraker |
| community centers in poor neighborhoods | Settlement houses |
| beliefs that women should be equal to men in all areas of life; rejected the idea that men and women occupied separate spheres | Feminism |
| voters choose candidates for elections, not the political party leaders; reduced the power and influence of machine leaders | Direct primary |
| bill originated by the public (petition), rather than legislature, to be placed in the ballot | Initiative |
| voters then vote directly on a bill | Referendum |
| voters can remove officials from office by forcing him into an election before his term is up | Recall |
| there was a fire at a garment factory and workers could not escape; initiated the New York labor legislation on fire hazards, unsafe machines, and wages and hours for working women and children | The Triangle Fire |
| the idea of unions and politicians working together to improve conditions for workers | Urban Liberalism |
| a racist film that showed reconstruction south as a struggle between the freedmen and the heroic KKK | Birth of a Nation |
| calling for equal rights for African Americans | The Niagara Movement |
| the National Association for the Advancement for Colored People | NAACP |
| gave the federal government the power to break up trusts and monopolies | Sherman Anti-Trust Act |
| their job was to regulate trade with within the United States | Interstate Commerce Commission |
| prohibited discriminatory railroad rates | Elkins Act |
| allowed the ICC to establish maximum rates and set price ceilings | Hepburn Railway Act |
| gave the federal government the power to inspect factories that were putting out food products to stop the sale of unsafe food | Pure Food and Drug Act, Meat Inspection Act; Food and Drug Administration |
| this is what Roosevelt called his campaign; he promised he would intervene on behalf of the ordinary American to make sure that he got a fair deal | The Square Deal |
| Gifford Pinchot accused Richard Ballinger of illegally transferring land in Alaska to a company; charges against Ballinger were nullified by Taft’s investigation and Pinchot was fired by Taft | Pinchot-Ballinger Affair |
| Roosevelt’s new plan for the 1912 election; the government would be the “steward of the public welfare”; they would take care of the people | New Nationalism |
| when the Republican Party chose to run Taft instead of Roosevelt he created this party which ultimately split the republicans and gave the Democrats the election; also called the Progressive Party | Bull Moose Party |
| Wilson’s reform program; felt that America should be free from government control; called for strict rules for maintaining competition in the economy | New Freedom |
| brought down tariffs; purpose was to spur economic competition, reduce prices | Underwood Tariff of 1913 |
| strengthened the Sherman-Antitrust Act and made it more specific | Federal Reserve Act of 1913 |
| government agency created in 1914; purpose was to protect economic competition, therefore protect consumers | Federal Trade Commission |
| term to describe the US at the end of the 1800s; era of materialism and greed | Gilded Age |
| when one nation uses its power to control or influence another nation | Imperialism |
| a country that agrees to certain obligations in order to receive protection from another | Protectorate |
| intense patriotism that favored the idea of using the military | Jingoism |
| Enrique Dupuy wrote a letter calling McKinley a weak president; it was stolen by Cuban rebels and sent to Hearst who published it in The Journal | De Lome’s Letter |
| was stationed off the coast of Cuba when it mysteriously exploded | USS Maine |
| said that the US would not be annexing Cuba after the Spanish-American War | The Teller Amendment |
| Cuba was given their independence and the US gained territory from Spain including Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines | Treaty of Paris 1898 |
| the way Roosevelt dealt with foreign nations; | Big Stick Diplomacy |
| allowed the US to interfere with Cuban affairs if necessary; provided that Cuba could not make any other treaty with another nation that might impair its independence | The Platt Amendment |
| an addition to the Monroe doctrine that said the US would act as international policemen; upheld that the Western Hemisphere is closed to colonization | The Roosevelt Corollary |
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