test # 2 Flashcards
progressivism
progressing through 1900-1920
- direct democracy - secret ballot, direct primaries, initiative, referendum, and recall
- increasing government efficiency - city commission, and city manager
- advocating government intervention - trust busting, gas and water system
secret ballots
a ballot in which votes are cast in secret
Direct primaries
the nomination of a party’s candidate by popular vote
initiative
voters initiate legislation by presenting petitions to their legislature that require the ledges straighter’s to consider some action
Referendum
Allows the people to vote yes or no in a regular election to determine whether a law should be in enacted or rejected
Recall
Loaders petition to hold a special election deciding whether to remove an elected official from office voters can also vote to recall specific legislation or even judicial decisions
Trust busting
Breaking up monopolies and trusts and restoring competition to the marketplace
Gas and water socialism
Control of utilities such as gas and water companies by city or state governments
16th amendment
Allowed for the income tax
17th amendment
Direct election for US senators before this they became elected by their buddies in office
18th amendment
Prohibition it band the manufacturing selling and transportation of alcoholic beverages
19th amendment
Granted woman suffrage for the right to vote
Susan B Anthony
Lead a lot of movements to start woman suffrage and a lot of rights for women however she died 14 years before the amendment was taken place
Mcrackers
Writers who through books and magazine articles exposed abuse and correction
Square deal
Women receiving fair treatment and equal opportunity
Hepburn act
Strengthen the interstate commerce commission’s ability to set rates for railroads and also made provisions for a standard bookkeeping system that made it easier to compare and break your late fees rates it also made the railroad company go to sue the government and suing the government suing the company
Pure food and drug act
Outlawed the interstate sale of food and drugs and also required on his labeling of products
Meet inspection act
Made the department of agriculture to oversee the preparation and packaging of meat
The jungle
Written by Upton St. Clair to dispose the horrific working conditions of factory workers
Conservation
Conserve natural resources Like State Park
Jim Crow laws
This required for segregation it’s segregated everything
Please v. Ferguson
A case which should clear that separate but equal facilities for both blacks and whites was actually constitutional
Booker T. Washington
An outstanding black leader also said if blacks better themselves economically than the lights had to address them
W EB boys and the NAACP
Argued that blacks cannot improve themselves in the world without improving their equal participation and political process he also formed the national Association for the advancement of colored people this file legal battles on behalf of blacks
Panama Canal
Linked the Atlantic and Pacific and made it easier to sail through took 10 years
Roosevelt Polaroid
Added to the Monro doctrine Roosevelt added that asked Mr. pink
Route Takahara agreement
Both powers pledge to respect each other’s territorial claims this is with Japan and America
Dollar diplomacy
And investment of American dollars in foreign countries
The progressive party new nationalism
This party was a strong as a bowl mousse they ran on the poor form of new nationalism which is strong federal regulation of business
New freedom
This was Wilson’s campaign motto
Underwood tariff act
The first genuine tariff reforms the Civil War it slashed overall rates by about a third from what they had been it also made up for the loss of tariff revenue by adopting the first income tax
Federal Reserve act
Divided the nation into 12 banking districts each served by a private regional Federal Reserve Bank
Clayton antitrust act
Legalize practices such as strikes picketing and boycotts
Federal Trade Commission act
This was a board of five men authorized to help define and halt unfair business practices
Henry ford
Made the car easier and faster and cheaper to get two people and more efficient using the assembly line
Wright brothers Orval and Wilbur
Were the first to keep a controlled sustained flight
Yellow fever
Horrible disease that the medical advancements helped stop
Progressive education
Improved education by providing educators aimed at improving and relating burning to the child’s interests
Modernism
Applied Darwinism to Christianity and ended up with a system of belief that was completely anti-Christian
Social Gospel
Modernism apply the evolutionary aspect of progressivism to religion
Central Powers and Allied powers
The Central Powers or Germany and Austria and the Allied powers were Russia Great Britain and France
Poncho via
Hey did Americans and burn down many things
Blackjack Persian
Try to hunt down Poncho via book couldn’t find him
Lusitania
This made people mad bc it was only a passenger ship that the Germans sank
Sussex pledge
Said that Wilson will break all diplomatic ties with Germany and go to war against them
Unrestricted submarine warfare
All ships in the war zone will be sick without warning
Zimmerman telegram
Germans try to get the Spanish to fight the Americans but the Americans interceded it and got mad
Selective service act
Drafted all men from 18 to 45 years old
Food administration
Led by Herbert Hoover to conserve food to send over to the soldiers for the war effort
Dough boy
Soldier
Espionage and sedition acts
Outlawed spying and trash talking on America
Schenk v. U.S.
Allowed Congress to limit free-speech during wartime
14 points
Proposed freedom of the seas open diplomacy and self determination among the people A central Europe the 14th plan was a league of Nations
League of Nations
Would prevent a reoccurrence of the events that ignited the 1914 to flagger ration it hope to turn the war into crusade for Americans and to use the olive branch of the 14 points as a wedge between the battle weary German people and their warlords
Chateau Thierry and belle su wood
It’s fights during World War I
Argon offensive
Was one of the costliest military campaigns in American history 1 1/4 million US troops fought for six weeks they suffered 117000 casualties including 26000 killed in action
Armistice
On the 11th day of the 11th hour of the 11th month in the 11th minute it was signed and the war was over in 1918
The big four
David George of Great Britain Vittorio Orlando of Italy George Clemenceau Fronce and Woodrow Wilson of the United States
Treaty of Versailles
Germans paid for everything this treaty made the Germans take all the blame and pay for all of the debt
War guilt clause
Stated that the german nation was responsible for the war
Reparation payments
Made German pay $30 billion to cover the cost of the war
The main reasons for why World War I started
1: militarism the military runs the country try to get the biggest army
2: alliances
3: imperialism one people group will over another people group
4: nationalism lots of pride in your country
US five reasons for going to war
1: Unrestricted submarine warfare
2: US ties to Britain and France
3: Zimmerman telegram
4: Allied propaganda Britain told us how Germany is a horrible country
5: The US tries to maintain balance of power
Presidents 19 through 28
Rutherford B Hayes James a Garfield Chester a Arthur Grover Cleveland Benjamin Harrison Grover Cleveland William McKinley Theodore Roosevelt William H Taft Woodrow Wilson
Evaluate progressivism impact in our country
The good examples are we got pure food and better service from gas and water utilities and greater participation in the political process
The bad examples was a lot of power for the government and kept increasing they thought whoever was in powered would make the best decisions because man is basically good and they would never be selfish or anything like that they thought they could always improve they also believed False solutions to man’s problems they thought that through education improving living conditions and providing more equal political and economic opportunity they could solve man’s difficulties instead of going to God
Describe US foreign-policy in the progressive era
Dollar diplomacy it is putting US dollars into foreign countries and affairs
Big stick diplomacy speak softly and carry a big stick you will go far
Americans morality America sets the moral standard for each other country to follow
