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Progressivism Quiz Flashcards

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Big Stick Diplomacy

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Theodore Roosevelt’s policy
Aggressive foreign policy backed by a constant threat of force.
- US Navy and battleships were the “big stick”

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Panama Canal

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US negotiated with Colombia and helped Panama break away
- Hay Pauncefote Treaty & Hay Bauna Varilla Treaty
- Enabled US to become a “two ocean world power”

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Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

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  • US will help if any foreign country has an issue with a nation in North or South America
  • Neighboring nations did NOT like it
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Moroccan Crisis

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  • Pedicaras affair
  • Example of not bluffing
  • US threatened all to get one man back, who then went back to Greece
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Algeciras Conference of 1905

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Pushed WWI back a few years

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Yellow Peril

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Japanese school boy crisis in San Fran, solved by Gentleman’s Agreement

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The Great White Fleet

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  • US battleships were painted white & taken on a “goodwill/peace tour” around the world
  • Roosevelt was showing off his new navy
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Taft’s Dollar Diplomacy

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  • Every US ambassador is a salesman of US business
  • The more the US in integrated into other nations, the better it is for both
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Why did Roosevelt not like Taft?

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Was not like him with foreign policy, environment, business, etc.

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Goals for Progressives (3)

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  • Make political life more democratic
  • Make economic life fairer & competitive
  • Make social life moral & just
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Biggest threats to Progressivism (3)

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  • Corrupt political machines
  • Big business
  • Inequity in the distribution of wealth
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Progressive reforms

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  • Child labor laws
  • women labor laws (60 hr limit in 1903)
  • Industrial insurance (workmen’s comp)
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Progressive Constitutional amendments

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16th - income tax
17th - Direct election of Senators
18th - Prohibition
19th - Women’s suffrage

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Famous Progressives (5)

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  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • William Howard Taft
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • Hiram Johnson
  • Robert Lafollete
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The Square Deal

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Theodore Roosevelt’s plan to provide economic & political stability
- Coal Strike of 1902
- Conservation Program
- Northern Securities Case
- Meat Inspection Act

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Conservation Program

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From Theodore Roosevelt
- National Parks, monuments, forests, etc.

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Muckrakers

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Investigate journalists who helped build support for progressive causes
- Exposed corruption and scandal
- Theodore Roosevelt hated them bc they were always focused on the negative
- Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle”

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Jane Addams’ Hull House

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Settlement house that also served as a center for social reform
- provided educational & social opportunities for working-class, poor, and immigrant women and their children

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National Association of Colored Women (NACW)

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Organization of Black local women’s clubs
- Designed to help relieve suffering among poor Black people, defend Black women, etc.

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Muller v. Oregon

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Upheld Oregon law establishing a 10-hour workday for women

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National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)

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Contributed to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment

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National Woman’s Party (NWP)

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Led by Alice Paul
- More aggressive tactics than NAWSA
- Picketed the White House
- Promoted hunger strikes
- Engaged in mass protests
- Unsuccessfully pushed for the Equal Rights Amendment

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Nineteenth Amendment

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Gave women the right to vote
- Passed in 1919, ratified in 1920

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Booker T. Washington

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Urged Black people to remain in the South, accept racial segregation, concentrate on moral & ethical development, and stay out of politics.

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Ida Wells

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Muckraker who condemned the lynchings of African Americans

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WEB DuBois

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African American racial activist who co-founded the NAACP.

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

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Founded by WEB DuBois, Ida Wells, & Jane Addams to fight for racial equality

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Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)

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An organization founded to push the prohibition movement under the leadership of Frances Willard

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Eighteenth Amendment

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Banned the production and sale of alcoholic beverages. Reformers argued the grain saved and soldiers saved from intoxication would help us win the war.

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Margaret Sanger

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Leading advocate for birth control
- One of her reasons was eugenics

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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

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Industrial fire that killed 146 workers
- Led to stricter regulations & the Bureau of Fire Protection

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Robert LaFollette

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Progressive governor of Wisconsin who wanted to improve the performance & accountability of state government

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Seventeenth Amendment

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Requires US Senators to be elected by popular vote instead of chosen by state reps
- aimed to remove the influence of money

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The Elkins Act

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Outlawed railroad rebates, protecting smaller businesses & shippers from paying higher prices

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The Jungle

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A book by muckraker Upton Sinclair that told of the working conditions & unsanitary practices in the Chicago meatpacking department
- Led Roosevelt to pass the Meat Inspection Act

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Meat Inspection Act

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Standards passed by Congress after the publication of the book “The Jungle”

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Pure Food & Drug Act

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Prevented the manufacturing, sale, & transportation of harmful foods & drugs

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Payne-Aldrich Tariff

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Passed by Taft, it raised duties on imports
- Made progressives angry

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Progressive Party/”Bull-Moose Party”

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Political party formed by Roosevelt in 1912
- Split the Republican vote, allowing WIlson to win
- Promoted income tax, 8-hour workday, labor unions, women’s suffrage, & an end to child labor

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New Nationalism

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Agenda used by Roosevelt for his 1912 campaign
- Increased regulation of large corporations
- More active role for president
- Using federal govt to expand social justice

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New Freedom

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Wilson’s alternative to Roosevelt’s New Nationalism
- Limited-style government
- Did not embrace social reform, including women’s suffrage & child labor elimination

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Sixteenth Amendment

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Provided a legal basis for a graduated income tax

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Clayton Antitrust Act

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Strengthened the Sherman Antitrust Act under Wilson

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Adamson Act

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Established an 8-hour workday for interstate railway workers
Due to WWI

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Keating-Owen Act

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Aimed to ban child labor in firms that engaged in interstate commerce
- Deemed unconstitutional by Supreme Court

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William Howard Taft

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  • Payne-Aldrich Treaty
  • Trust Busting
  • Conservationist
  • Dollar Diplomacy
  • Mediation, not Big Stick
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Woodrow Wilson

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Wanted:
- A lower tariff
- A new system of banking and credit (The Federal Reserve Act)
- Better regulation of business (Clayton Antitrust Act)

  • Adamson Act
  • Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
    TROUBLES WITH MEXICO (Pancho Villa)
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Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

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Germany
- Lusitania, Arabic, & Sussex

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Sussex Pledge

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Germany agreed to an ultimatum from the US with some conditions, Wilson accepted and ignored the conditions

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Two direct causes of the US entering the war

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1) Unrestricted submarine warfare
2) Zimmerman Telegraph - Germany trying to bring Mexico into the war

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Wilson’s 14 points

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Some were popular, some were not
- League of Nations!!

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Schenck v. United States

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Freedom of speech can be taken away when there is a “clear and present danger”
- Told women to wait for the right to vote bc the war was more important right now

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