Period 7 Flashcards
Yellow journalism
journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and pattract readers; popularized in the late nineteenth century by Jospeh Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. Caused the American people to have false information about the Spanish American war, like sinking of USS Maine. Just a competing for who could have a flashier magazine
Roosevelt corollary
stated that in future cases of debt problems, th US would take over and handle any intervention in Latin America on behalf of Europe. An addition to the Monroe doctrine. US had control of the Western Hemisphere and ensure the other countries didn’t violate US rights.
19th Amendment
Gave women the right to vote in 1920 after a long fight of woman suffragists. Eased tensions caused more equality, America was progressing
Muckrakers
nickname given to young reporters of popular magazines. These magazines spent a lot of money on researching and digging up “muck,” hence the name muckrakers. This name was given to them by Pres. Roosevelt- 1906. These investigative journalists were trying to make the public aware of problems that needed fixing. End laissez faire wanted government to care so they had the people care
Woodrow Wilson
Democratic president 28th president of the United States, known for World War I leadership, created Federal Reserve, Federal Trade Commission, Clayton Antitrust Act, progressive income tax, lower tariffs, women’s suffrage (reluctantly), Treaty of Versailles, sought 14 points post-war plan, League of Nations (but failed to win U.S. ratification), won Nobel Peace Prize
Square deal
Square Deal was President Theodore Roosevelt’s domestic program formed upon three basic ideas: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection. Aimed at helping middle class and attacking bad trusts
Please vs Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), was a landmark United States Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of “separate but equal”.[1] The decision was handed down by a vote of 7 to 1 with the majority opinion written by Justice Henry Billings Brown and the dissent written by Justice John Marshall Harlan.
Commuter of public info
The Committee on Public Information, also known as the CPI or the Creel Committee, was an independent agency of the government of the United States created to influence U.S. public opinion regarding American participation in World War I. It depicted Germans and other enemies on bad terms, and served to censor the press. The committee helped spur up the anti-German feeling in America as well as motivated Americans to support war against Germany once declared.
Booker t Washington
was an African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community. Washington was from the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and became the leading voice of the former slaves and their descendants. They were newly oppressed in the South by disenfranchisement and the Jim Crow discriminatory laws enacted in the post-Reconstruction Southern states in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He called for black progress through education and entrepreneurship, rather than trying to challenge directly the Jim Crow segregation and the disenfranchisement of black voters in the South.
Shank vs US
e Holmes’ claim that Congress could restrict speech if the words “are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create and clear and present danger” when Schenck was convicted for mailing pamphlets urging potential army inductees to resist conscription. decision concerning enforcement of the Espionage Act of 1917
The jungle
The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by Upton Sinclair. Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. Also to show the horrid and lack of health conditions in the meat packing industry. Led to food and drug act and meat inspection act
