Period 7 Vocab and People Flashcards
6yaimed to ally altin american behind A and open their markets
big sister policy
reconciliation b.w US and and Eng
great rapprochement
tariff raised the average duty on imports to almost 50%
mckinely tariff
Cuban insurgents who sought freedom from colonial Spanish rule.
insurrectos
battleship to cuba for friendly As to escape if things went wrong
mysteriosly exploded
the maine
proclaimed to world that A had ovrethrown spanish misruling and gave cubans their freedom
teller amendment
volunteer reginemt of cowboys led by colonel leonard wood who helped invade cuba
rough riders
organization established to battle the American annexation of the Philippines as an insular area
anti-imperialist league
gave the puerto ricans a limited degree of popular gov
foraker act
USSC decreed that the const did not alwuas extend with full force to the new windfall
insular cases
treaty between the US and Cuba that attempted to protect Cuba’s independence from foreign intervention
platt amandmen t
dispatched the note to the major world powers
urged tgem to respect certain chinese rights in their spheres of influence
open door note
chinese group murderered foreigners and christians
boxer rebellion
gave us free hand to build and fortify the panama canal
hay-pauncefote treaty
in the event of financial maldeasance by latin a , us would intervene and pay fff debts to keep europe away
roosevelt corollany
pledged japan and A to respect other’s territorial possessions and uphold open door in china
root-takahira agreement
supported missionary work
josiah strong
published The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783, a revolutionary analysis of the importance of naval power
alfred thayer mahan
advocated a “Big Sister” policy of United States domination in Latin America.
james b blaine
tirred up conflict with Great Britain during the Venezuelan Crisis
Richard Olney
hawaiian queen who insisted that native Hawaiians should control the Islands
liliuokalani
spanish general who rounded ip up the population in reconcentrado camps
“butcher” weyler
spanish minister who wrote a letter insulting McKinely
dupuy de lome
U.S. naval commander who defeated the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War
goerge dewey
Filipino leader who first fought against Spain and later led the Philippine insurgency against United States colonial rule.
Emilio Aguinaldo
civil governor in philipines w/ his “little brown brothers”
william h taft
author of the Open Door Notes
John Hay
emphasized how Jesus’ ethical teachings could remedy the problems caused by “Gilded Age” capitalism.
social gospel
ournalists and novelists of the Progressive Era who sought to expose corruption in big business and government
muckrakers
Voters proposing legislation
Initiative
Place lawas on the ballotnl for final approval by thr people
Referendum
Enable voters to remove elected officials
Recall
system that allows voters privacy in marking their ballot choices
Australian ballot
Louis d brandies preloaded ussc to accept thr const of laws protecting protecting women workers
Muller v Oregon
Invalidated ny law establishing a 10 hr work dat for bakers
Lochner v new york
Fines could be imposed on rr that fave rebates and on shippers that accepted them
Elkins act
Preparation of meat shipped bw states would be subject to federal inspection
Meat inspection act of 1906
designed to prevent the aduolteration and mislabeling of foods and pharmaceuticals
Pure Food and Drug act
dam for san frans municipal water supply
hetch hetchy valley
Tafts foreign policy
Gov encouraged Wall Street banks to invesy their surplus money in areas of strategic concern yo us
Dollar diplomacy
Only reduced tariff for some items
Payne Aldrich bill
wilson’s platform in the election of 1912
new freedom
tr’s political platform in the election of 1912
new nationalism
ida turnbell
history of standard oil company
Henry demarest lloyd
exposés of the Standard Oil Company
popular and witty critic of capitalism, as shown by his best known book The Theory of the Leisure Class
thorstein veblen
jacob a riis
how thr other half lives (slums)
Progressive Republican Governor of Wisconsin, this man wrested control from the corporations and gave it back to the people
Robert m la Follette
he oversaw numerous progressive reforms, including the passage of woman suffrage at the state level
hiram w johnson
fought for government regulation to protect working women and children. She was the first female factory inspector
florence kelley
president of Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
frances e wilard
first head of the United States Forest Service
gifford pinchot
Father of the National Parks
john muir
herbert croly
“the promise of the american life”
lowered average tariff rates from about 40 percent to about 27 percent
underwood tariff
created the Federal Reserve System,
federal reserve act
empowered a presdentally apptd commission to turn a searchlight on indsustries engged in interstate commerce
federal trade comission act
lengthened the shermans acts list of illegal business practives
included price discrimination and interlocking directorties
clayton anti trusta ct
A company that owns part or all of the other companies’ stock in order to extend monopoly control
holding company
law that granted assistance to fed civil service people during period of disability
restricted child labor in interstate commerce
workingmens compensation act
established 8hr workda for all interstae commere train employeees
adamson act
a sailors were arrested
mex apologized and freed them
further soured a-mex relationship
tampico incident
germany, austria hungary, turkey, bulgaria
central powers
england, france, japan, italy, russia
allies
granted phillippines territroial status when stabvle gov ciuld be established
jones act
german submarines
uboats
british passenger ship sunk by germans w/ 128 a passengers
luistania
germ goreign tried to tempt mex into an alliance w/ germ by getting back lost land
zimmerman note