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- 1The Progressive EraA time of political and economic reform
- 2Role of Journalism in the Progressive EraMade injustices known to the people
- 3MuckrakersThose who stirred up the discussion for reform
- 4Ida TarbellThe History of Standard Oil
Discussed ruthless business tactics - 5Settlement HouseJane Adams
Assisted immigrant assimilation - 6John DeweyBroad based curriculum for public schools
Maximizes ones unique talents - 719th AmendmentAllowed women's suffrage
- 8SuffrageRight to vote
- 9Temperance MovementReform limit to alcohol abuse
- 10Booker T. WashingtonTuskegee Institute
Trade school for African Americans - 11W. E. B. Du Bois NAACPOrganization for total equality for African Americans
- 12Anti-Defamation LeagueProtect Jewish Americans
- 13Social GospelChristian principles that serve to guide American reforms
- 14Theodore RooseveltChildhood
Harvard
NY Board of the police commissioners
Spanish American war hero
Created the Rough riders (volunteer cavalry)
NY Governor
Mckinley's VP - 15Theodore Roosevelt's Reforms (Square Deals)Meat Packing Industry
Child Labor
Women's Rights
Monopolies
Government Corruption
Natural Resources (Parks) - 16Sherman Anti-trust ActOutlawed unreasonable business tactics
- 17The Election of 1908Taft vs Bryan
Taft (R) defeats Bryan (D)
Secretary of War when with Theodore Roosevelt
Taft did not follow all of TR's policies as expected - 18Election of 1912Taft vs Wilson vs T. Roosevelt
Wilson won because the Republican vote was split - 1916th Amendment1913
Congress shall have the power to collect "graduated" taxes on incomes - 20The Influence of Sea Power upon HistoryAlfred T. Mayans book that said the stronger the navy, the stronger the country
- 21The Great White FleetAmerican naval tour around the world
- 22ImperialismA country tries to increase its landholdings
- 23Yellow PressSensationalize news with agenda
- 24The USS MainShip that was sunk in Cuba that sparked the Spanish American war
- 25The Spanish American WarApril 1898- August 1898
"A Splendid Little War" - 26The Treaty of Paris 1898Ends Spanish American War
America got Cuba, Philippines, Puerto Rico, And Guam - 27IsolationismDesire not to expand territorially
- 28Annexation of HawaiiOverthrew the queen for business desires
- 29Boxer RebellionPolitical Rebellion in china from a Chinese sect
- 30Russo- Japanese WarT.R. receives Nobel Piece prize to end war
- 31Theodor Roosevelt's "Gentlemen's Agreement" with JapanNo Asian segregation in US schools
- 32Foracker ActCivil government established in Puerto Rico
US appoints the governor and half of the legislature - 33Platt AmendmentUS may have naval stations in Cuba and the right to intervene in Cuban affairs
- 34Panama CanalUS Role
Assist with Panamas independence - 35Roosevelt's CorollaryUpdate the Monroe Doctrine
- 36Dollar DiplomacyRafts idea to use economics more that military pressure
- 37Allied PowersFrance
England
Belgium
Russia
(Italy) - 38Central PowersGermany
Austria-Hungary
Ottoman Empire (Turkey)
(Italy) - 39WWIIJuly 1914- November 11, 1918
- 40LusistaniaBritish passenger ship sunk by German u-boats
- 41April 1917US declares war on Germany
- 42Espionage ActNO Anti-War act
- 43Sacco and VanzettiWere both executed with weak evidence as anarchists for killing 2 men near Boston
- 44Central Poweres8 million died
- 45Palmer Raids1920 raids and arrests of those though to be radicals
- 46Warren Harding and The Election of 1920Republican against the League of Nations
McKinley
Roosevelt
Taft
Wilson
Harding
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