Period 7 (1890 - 1945) Flashcards
March on Washington (1894)
- Ohio populist Jacob Coxey
- marched on WA, demanded that the gov. create jobs for unemployed
Progressive Issues
- Campaign & Voter fraud: patronage, donations
- Labor issues, especially with women and children
- Monopolies & Trusts
- Consumer protection
- Civil Rights
- preservation & conservation
- initiative, referendum, recall
- direct primary elections
Muckraking
- investigative journalism
- Exposed fraud, corruption, waste, child labor, public health, prostitution, alcohol, etc
Square Deal
- Corporate regulation, consumer protection, conservation of natural resources
Anthracite Coal Mine Strike (1902)
- 1st time federal forces side with laborers over Capitalist owners
- Leads to Dept. of Commerce & Labor
Elkins Act (1903)
- stop rebates to companies that shipped large quantities
- strengthen ICC
Hepburn Act (1906)
- fixed just & reasonable rates
Effects of Upton Sinclair The Jungle
- Meat Inspection Act of 1906
- Pure Food & Drug Act (FDA)
Newlands Act (1902)
- 150 acres of natural reserve
- TR
Booker T. Washington
- Conservative
- Work hard
- rights will come gradually
WEB DuBois
- more radical
- outspoken
- demanded immediate rights & education
16th Amendment
Graduated Income Tax
Manns-Elkins Act (1910)
Regulation of railroad and telacom
The Niagara Movement
- Black civil rights movement
- equal economic & educational standing
- suffrage
- WEB DuBois
- Great Migration
- NAACP
Taft’s main goal in presidency was
trustbusting!
Triple Wall of Privilege
- Woodrow Wilson
- Trusts, banking, & tariffs
- Federal Reserve Board / Act
- Clayton Antitrust Act
- Federal Trade Commission
Federal Reserve Act (1914)
establish economic stability in US by introducing a central bank to oversee monetary policy
Clayton Antitrust Act (1914)
Defines unethical business
Federal Trade Commission (1914)
- regulate monopolies
- eliminate unfair competition
- prevent use of unfair business practices
Womens Trade Union League / National Consumers League
- Florence Kelly
- told which businesses had good practices with women and child laborers
Muller v. Oregon (1908)
protected women factory workers by limiting them to 10 hr day “bc they were weaker than men”
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Large group of immigrant women working at the top floor of a shirtwaist factory. Fire broke out, but they couldn’t escape due to terrible working conditions, so they had to jump or burn to their deaths
Who revived the women’s suffrage movement in the 1890s
Carrie Chapman Catt
Alice Paul
- National Women’s Party (1917)
- Focused on DC
- 1st to picket White House
Turner’s Thesis (1893)
We have colonized as much as we can on this continent, so now we will become imperialistic
Causes for US imperialism
- growth in population, wealth, production
- Expand or explode
- Manufacturing needs overseas market & resources
- Missionaries
- Yellow Journalists glorified foreign exploits
- Social Darwinism
- Growth of Navy
Josiah Strong
- Our Country: Its Possible Future & Its Present Crisis
- missionary
- White, Anglo-Saxon race is pinnacle of human evolution and therefore fittest to survive
- Imperialism is a Christian duty
Yellow journalists
Pulitzer & Hearst
Alfred Mahan
- huge imperialist
- advocated for growth of Navy
- Influence Of Sea Power In History
McKinley Stance on Imperialism
Pro
Teddy stance on imperialism
pro
Mark Twain stance on imperialism
against
carnegie stance on imperialism
against
gompers stance on imperialism
against
william j. bryan stance on imperialism
against
Seward’s Folly (1867)
Sec of State Wm. Seward buys Alaska from Russia, originally seemed like bad deal but eventually realized the gold & silver capabilities
Monroe Doctrine (1823)
Tells European powers not to come over here to colonize or face our wrath
Who annexed Hawaii?
McKinley in 1900
Causes of the Spanish American War
- needed their sugar
- yellow journalists wrote about how horribly the Spanish were treating native Cubans
- Jingoism
- Cuban nationalists revolt in 1895, sabotaged plantations, Gen. Weyler sent to put down rebellion
- DeLome letter (letter bashing McKinley)
- Sinking of the Maine by the alleged Spanish
Teller Amendment (1898)
US won’t annex Cuba, just help them win their independence. Cubans don’t get citizen rights
- Platt Amendment later added: before US troops are withdrawn from Cuba, they can’t have treaties, debt, and have to let US Naval base at Guantanomo Bay
TR’s Rough Riders
Volunteer Calvary led by Teddy
Treaty of Paris (1898)
- recognizes Cuban independence
- US gets Puerto Rico & Guam, buys Philippines (controversial)
Insular Cases
rules that islanders newly acquired don’t have US rights
Open Door Note
- Tells Euro powers to leave China alone or face our wrath
- Held onto US’s Asian market
Boxer Rebellion
A Chinese secret society raised up to drive all foreigners from China
Hay-Beanu-Varilla Treaty (1903)
Gives US canal zone territory