Progressive Era Vocab and People to Know

Question 1

Social Darwinism

Answer 1

Theories that use biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology and politics

Question 2

Muckraker

Answer 2

Investigative reporter who sought to make public the ills of society during the Gilded Age

Question 3

Square Deal

Answer 3

Nickname for Teddy Roosevelt’s agenda as president which included trust-busting and giving all Americans a “square” or fair deal

Question 4

Suffrage

Answer 4

The right to vote-what women were looking for during the Progressive Era

Question 5

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Answer 5

1890 law that broke up the massive monopolies that dominated key industries

Question 6

Dollar Diplomacy

Answer 6

William Howard Taft’s policy of investing in Latin America so that it would become a market and region of allies to the US

Question 7

Big Stick Policy

Answer 7

Roosevelt’s famed policy of working with others with the threat of a powerful military to back up our plans

Question 8

Open Door Policy

Answer 8

Policy proposed by Sec. of State John Hay to keep China open to trade for all nations

Question 9

Yellow Journalism

Answer 9

sensationalist headlines and stories in newspapers meant to sell copies rather than tell the truth

Question 10

Roosevelt Corollary

Answer 10

Roosevelt’s addition to the Monroe Doctrine that made the US the “police force” of the West. Hem.

Question 11

The Panama Canal

Answer 11

Waterway built by the US to connect the Caribbean and the Pacific Ocean

Question 12

Theodore Roosevelt

Answer 12

-His “big stick” foreign policy was to threaten intervention
-The “Roosevelt Corollary” made the US the police of the western hemisphere
-Trust buster of monopolies
-Set aside land for parks

Question 13

William H. Taft

Answer 13

-His “Dollar Diplomacy” foreign policy was to invest in Latin America
-Not as progressive as TR had hoped
-Later Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

Question 14

Woodrow Wilson

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-Tried to keep US out of WW1
-His “new freedom” policy called for domestic reforms
-Moral diplomacy of only supporting nations with moral beliefs like the US’s
-His 14 points and league of nations sought world peace

Question 15

Jane Addams

Answer 15

-Progressive social reformer and activist
-Founder of hull house in Chicago
-Provided aid to poor working-class families
-Nobel peace prize winner

Question 16

Eugene Debs

Answer 16

-Socialist labor leader
-Co-founder of the industrial workers of the world
-5-time candidate for president by the Socialist Party

Question 17

Ida Tarbell

Answer 17

-Muckraking reporter -investigates Rockefeller and standard oil
-Wrote 19-part magazine expose of standard oil
-Revealed unfair business practices and tactics
-Spurred the Sherman anti-trust act and breaking up of standard oil

Question 18

Susan B. Anthony

Answer 18

-Most famous supporter of women’s suffrage and women’s rights in the US
-Founded the American Equal Rights Association, which campaigned for equal rights for both women and Black people
-Founded the national woman suffrage association

Question 19

Upton Sinclair

Answer 19

-Wrote the jungle
-Exposed unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry
-Spurred the pure food and drug act

Question 20

Liliukalani

Answer 20

-Last queen of Hawaii
-Opposed US intervention and taking of her country
-Powerless to stop powerful and wealthy American businessmen
-Wrote “Aloha O’e”-and anthem for Hawaii